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Speaker 1: Kelly Ubray Junior in your Sixers uniform costume for the
Speaker 1: first time. Great to see you. You are an individual
Speaker 1: very clearly right. You have this free spirited nature. Why
Speaker 1: is that individuality so important to you?
Speaker 3: Because I think that that's what makes me me. I
Speaker 3: like to be different than everybody else, and yeah, I just.
Speaker 4: Want to be myself.
Speaker 3: I don't ever want to change or alter who I
Speaker 3: am as a person just because of my circumstances or
Speaker 3: who's around me.
Speaker 4: So just try to be myself unapologetically.
Speaker 1: You had a career year last year in Charlotte. Why
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia seventy six Ers.
Speaker 3: I controlled a lot of my free agency, you know,
Speaker 3: whether it was me declining a lot of things and
Speaker 3: me kind of just figuring out my life.
Speaker 4: That was all me. So you know, people don't understand
Speaker 4: that part.
Speaker 3: But this is where God wanted me to be, and
Speaker 3: like that, I felt as if this is where I
Speaker 3: deserve to be because they wanted me here.
Speaker 2: What was that decision making process?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: Because I love to talk about this.
Speaker 1: People think that NBA players are so larger than life
Speaker 1: and different, and in a lot of.
Speaker 2: Ways you are.
Speaker 1: But in some ways you're people that have to choose
Speaker 1: between different jobs and moving to different cities.
Speaker 2: How do you make those big life decisions.
Speaker 3: Well, you know they're made for you fifty percent of
Speaker 3: the way. But like at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: you know, I choose to do this, and you know,
Speaker 3: this is what I've been doing with my life. So
Speaker 3: when you put it in that perspective, now that I
Speaker 3: have a family and I'm not just myself as a
Speaker 3: young bachelor's like, you have to pretty much weigh a
Speaker 3: lot of options and make decisions not just for you,
Speaker 3: but for your family and everybody else around you, because
Speaker 3: without them supporting me, I wouldn't be here.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: Everybody's handling things as far as moving and getting everything done, man,
Speaker 3: So it's really hard on everybody, not just the player.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it just kind of just got to take
Speaker 3: it as it comes, man, and not try to force
Speaker 3: anything but just let it flow.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Nick Ner, Yeah, he's a big topic today.
Speaker 1: The new head coach seventy six ers. What are your
Speaker 1: impressions of him so far and what made you want
Speaker 1: to play for him?
Speaker 3: Man, I just respect him so much just from being
Speaker 3: on opposing teams and how he gets his guys ready
Speaker 3: for war every single night, and how he just has
Speaker 3: his culture set up. Every organization that you know he's
Speaker 3: coached at, he's had a culture and that's very rare,
Speaker 3: you know, being on a couple of teams in my
Speaker 3: career so far, like culture is the biggest thing because
Speaker 3: that's the foundation of you know, how you arrive in
Speaker 3: the gym or into.
Speaker 4: A new city.
Speaker 3: And Coach Nurse is very well spoken, very respectable, and
Speaker 3: you know, he just knows the game and he knows
Speaker 3: how to win. So those are just things that check
Speaker 3: off all the boxes as a coach that I would love.
Speaker 4: To play for and you know, I'm.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to it many many years from now when
Speaker 1: you retire. How do you want to be remembered by
Speaker 1: your teammates, by people you worked with, by fans?
Speaker 2: What do you want people to remember about Kelly Oubrey
Speaker 2: That I'm.
Speaker 4: A hard worker, a great guy, and I have a
Speaker 4: genuine heart.
Speaker 3: And you know, I don't put on any facades around
Speaker 3: people on myself, I just want to be known for
Speaker 3: being myself and inspiring people to be themselves as well,
Speaker 3: because I feel like it's a lot of smoke and
Speaker 3: mirrors and a lot of things can get you know,
Speaker 3: unsaid or you know, you have to put on the
Speaker 3: mask every day. But at the end of the day, like,
Speaker 3: we're human beings and I just want people to remember
Speaker 3: me as a human being.
Speaker 1: You have a history of friendship with Tobias Harris, if
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken. How exciting is it to get to
Speaker 1: play with him now?
Speaker 3: It's really exciting, man. It's a blessing to be here,
Speaker 3: to be able to see him such a cool dude,
Speaker 3: Like he just very relaxed and chill, and he makes
Speaker 3: you feel that same energy, you know, and you know,
Speaker 3: us being kind of like brothers in a sense for
Speaker 3: a very long time, it's really cool to kind of,
Speaker 3: you know, go through what we've gone through in our
Speaker 3: tenure and just to be on the same team and
Speaker 3: the same side.
Speaker 4: It's going to be really fun. But at the end
Speaker 4: of the day, man, we're.
Speaker 3: Here for a job, and I think we both understand that,
Speaker 3: and we both put in the work.
Speaker 4: And you know, to do so.
Speaker 1: Logistically speaking, Tobias has now been in Philly for a
Speaker 1: long time. He knows all the best spots, coffee restaurants,
Speaker 1: where you shot up, who you need for different things.
Speaker 2: Has he been helpful in the transition.
Speaker 3: I've been kind of just taking it slowly, letting everything
Speaker 3: kind of come to me. Asking a person and a
Speaker 3: lot of our messages, a lot of our communication was
Speaker 3: through texts and seeing each other on the road. But
Speaker 3: now that I'm here, man, I'm gonna pick his brain
Speaker 3: and yeah, he'll he'll have to give me the whole list.
Speaker 4: And run down all right.
Speaker 1: So let's imagine, and this is something I did with
Speaker 1: the guys last year before here. Yet, let's imagine that
Speaker 1: you can construct your dream dinner table. So sharp left
Speaker 1: out of the basketball, come right right, dream dinner table.
Speaker 1: Anybody dead or alive? You get four invites? Who's sitting
Speaker 1: at the table with you?
Speaker 3: One Bruce Lee, two Michael Jordan, three Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 4: Four prints.
Speaker 2: That's for it.
Speaker 4: How many said that was quick? Yeah, I'm gonna go
Speaker 4: with those four.
Speaker 2: Care to elaborate on any of those?
Speaker 3: Well, Michael Kobe using going to debate on who's better,
Speaker 3: and you know, who worked harder things, who won more?
Speaker 4: Wh but you need to be.
Speaker 3: Around that type of stuff in order to for that
Speaker 3: to be contagious. Right, Bruce Lee is gonna talk about,
Speaker 3: you know, being water and flowing and you know, just
Speaker 3: letting everything come to you and not forcing anything, And Princess,
Speaker 3: we're gonna just talk spirituality and rhythm and music.
Speaker 4: So I think that's my dream for for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for sharing, Thanks for having me appreciate you.
Speaker 1: All right, Rapid Fire, you have to trade closets with
Speaker 1: one of your teammates for the whole season.
Speaker 2: Whose closet are you taking on?
Speaker 4: Whose closet am I taking on? That's tough. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: go with PJS. That's like them all right there? You
Speaker 4: know straight up?
Speaker 2: Whose closet would at least like to inherit?
Speaker 4: JoJo's That would be size seven X drowning.
Speaker 2: Yeah. If you have to pick a teammate to babysit,
Speaker 2: who would it be?
Speaker 4: Hmm, that's a great question.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Anthony Melton though, because we played
Speaker 3: together in Phoenix and I don't have to worry about him.
Speaker 4: He's a great kid.
Speaker 1: If you had to trust someone to cook you a
Speaker 1: three course meal, who would you let cook.
Speaker 4: Oh my geeesh, I don't know. Man. Shoot, that's a
Speaker 4: good one. That's a good one.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have to go with Daniel House because he
Speaker 3: has a million kids and like he has to be
Speaker 3: able to feed them.
Speaker 4: So I know he could cook something, at least a
Speaker 4: mac and cheese something.
Speaker 1: So, sticking with the food theme, if you guys all
Speaker 1: had to take over his weight staff in a restaurant
Speaker 1: for the night, who do you think would get the
Speaker 1: most tips?
Speaker 3: Me?
Speaker 1: If you had to pick a roommate, Let's say the
Speaker 1: NBA implemented a roommate policy, we're cutting back in the budget. Man,
Speaker 1: you had to pick a roommate for the season, who
Speaker 1: would you pick?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with the Anthony Meldon again. Man's funny guy, great,
Speaker 3: great dude, you know, and you know, wait into the
Speaker 3: same stuff, so that'd be cool.
Speaker 1: Let's say you guys had superpowers for five hours. Who
Speaker 1: would solve the most rimes? Kelly me, Who do you
Speaker 1: think has the most unread texts?
Speaker 4: Probably I would say Joel Embiid He don't talk to nobody.
Speaker 2: Who do you think would make the best NFL quarterback?
Speaker 4: Sir Tyrese Maxie who.
Speaker 1: Do you think would be the best poet Kelly Bridge.
Speaker 1: If you had to pick a double's tennis partner, who
Speaker 1: would you play with?
Speaker 3: Oh, that's a great question. Who's agile? I'll play fart.
Speaker 3: I just feel like, you know, coming from Europe and hit.
Speaker 3: They bleed tennis and stuff, so I'll go home.
Speaker 1: The Apocalypse hits. Who survives the longest? Me Kelly Junior,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.