Speaker 1: I'm Parie, I'm Shake Milton. You listen to the seventy
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Speaker 1: your podcasts. Welcome back to seventy Sixers Insiders. I'm Matt
Speaker 1: Murphy along with Lauren Rosen, and we're really looking forward
Speaker 1: to this upcoming set of interviews with seventy Sixers players
Speaker 1: ahead of the postseason. But Lauren, we've got a handful
Speaker 1: of this year's team that sat down with us recently
Speaker 1: and I think shed some light on who these guys are,
Speaker 1: learned a little more about some returners, some new players
Speaker 1: to the team, and just kind of give you that
Speaker 1: extra motivation to route them on for what should be
Speaker 1: a fun NBA playoffs. It was our utmost desire to
Speaker 1: sort of help you guys, our core group of Sixers fans,
Speaker 1: just to know some of your favorite players better or
Speaker 1: maybe make some of the players you're aware of into
Speaker 1: your favorites. And it was really fun to sit down
Speaker 1: talk some off court life things, some on court life things,
Speaker 1: and just get to know these guys a little better.
Speaker 1: So at today, I know you talked to Shake and Paul.
Speaker 1: We're going to hear from them. What do people need
Speaker 1: to know before they listen to this one? Well, they
Speaker 1: were not interviewed together. It was two separate one on ones,
Speaker 1: and they're both unique in their own way of the interviews.
Speaker 1: And we do have another set of or another podcast
Speaker 1: episode that will be multiple players, but those two were
Speaker 1: interviewed together with you, so we won't say who that
Speaker 1: is yet, but these were separate interviews. And obviously Paul
Speaker 1: Reid is it's always interesting to hear from and Shake
Speaker 1: I think is more thoughtful than people realize, and he's
Speaker 1: been around longer than people realize, one of the longest
Speaker 1: tenured Sixers, and both of these guys are very introspective,
Speaker 1: so I think there's it kind of makes sense that
Speaker 1: they're together. Let's do it. Paul read first, and then Shake.
Speaker 1: Milton six nine friend to Paul, University the Mud to
Speaker 1: sew you. Paul read from Orlando, Florida. When you retire,
Speaker 1: which we know is not imminent, what do you want
Speaker 1: people to say about you? I want people to say
Speaker 1: that he is one of the best players to ever
Speaker 1: play the game. I want people to say that he's
Speaker 1: great human being, you know, off the court as well
Speaker 1: as on the court. I want to do is that
Speaker 1: just gives back to his community and really, you know,
Speaker 1: changes people lives. What are some things you're good at
Speaker 1: off the court? You want me to be honest? Sure,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm good at everything. What was your
Speaker 1: childhood like? Uh? Childhood was cool. You know. I grew up.
Speaker 1: I got all sisters, so I used to spend a
Speaker 1: lot of time with my cousins. You know, my boy
Speaker 1: cousins used to hang out all the time, wrestle. You
Speaker 1: used to play football, play basketball, and then I used
Speaker 1: to I was outside kids. How used to say, outside,
Speaker 1: you know, playing all day long. Do you have a
Speaker 1: memorable fork in the road in your life? A decision
Speaker 1: you had to make where the outcome could be different.
Speaker 1: What would have happened if you had gone the other way?
Speaker 1: Does anything come to mind? Whether it was Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like if I took all my college visits instead
Speaker 1: of just choosing three, I think you know, that would
Speaker 1: have man in teresting. What do you think would have happened?
Speaker 1: We'll just had more options, you know, and then I
Speaker 1: would have got to see, like what I what else
Speaker 1: I was capable of. What is the best advice you've
Speaker 1: ever received? The best advice I ever received was the best.
Speaker 1: Don't rest, the best, don't rest? I like it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite gift that you've gotten for someone else?
Speaker 1: My favorite gift that I got for somebody else. I
Speaker 1: got my mom a house. I think that's that's my
Speaker 1: greatest gift so far. What's the favorite thing you've bought
Speaker 1: for yourself? My angie, what's the most regular thing about you,
Speaker 1: the most normal thing that you do, or the most
Speaker 1: normal thing about your life. I watched I watched TV.
Speaker 1: I like your watch a light and filic shows Hulu
Speaker 1: all that. We talk about how there's three types of
Speaker 1: days in the NBA, a game day, a travel day,
Speaker 1: and an off day. So what's something that you look
Speaker 1: forward to first on a game day? But I look
Speaker 1: forward to here on a game day, it's the game,
Speaker 1: you know, have a geet up about that. What do
Speaker 1: you look forward to on travel days? On travel days,
Speaker 1: are we looking forward to just making it to the
Speaker 1: hotel room and kind of just sitting down and relaxing,
Speaker 1: you know, once I make it, even though we don't
Speaker 1: always get to do that. What do you look forward
Speaker 1: to on off days. On our days, I look forward
Speaker 1: to getting in the gym. How players know kind of
Speaker 1: what's being said about them. What do you think is
Speaker 1: something that the public has correct about you? What are
Speaker 1: they write about Probably like our player has got like
Speaker 1: a lot of free time. We'll be having free time
Speaker 1: for so so you individually, what do you think is
Speaker 1: something that maybe is misunderstood about you by the public.
Speaker 1: I don't really know what the public think about me,
Speaker 1: So it's like I don't know how to answer that
Speaker 1: question fairly. What's your favorite or most memorable sporting event
Speaker 1: that you've been to as a fan? Um? I went
Speaker 1: to WWE match recently. You know, it's kind of lit.
Speaker 1: I think that's most numberable memorable so far. What's the
Speaker 1: most important relationship you have in your life? My relationship
Speaker 1: with God for sure. How do you nurture that relationship? Oh,
Speaker 1: I just make sure that you know I thank God
Speaker 1: every day. Yeah, I try to make them proud every day.
Speaker 1: You can share a meal with anyone in the world.
Speaker 1: Who is it with and what are you having to eat?
Speaker 1: I might have to choose Michael Jordan, Are you're gonna
Speaker 1: we definitely eating State awesome. Do you have any questions
Speaker 1: for me? Uh? What made you start doing a podcast?
Speaker 1: So in college I just started doing something actually about hockey.
Speaker 1: I knew I wanted to work in sports, but I
Speaker 1: wasn't sure if it would be on the business side.
Speaker 1: And then I started doing broadcasting and really loved it.
Speaker 1: So okay, stuck with it from freshman's sophomore year of college.
Speaker 1: That was up. It was up. Uh. We got another
Speaker 1: question for you. If you could change one thing about
Speaker 1: your podcast, who would it be. We would love to
Speaker 1: hear from you guys more often. Lauren and I do
Speaker 1: a lot of episodes together. Um, but I think the
Speaker 1: fans really enjoy hearing you guys. Okay, okay, probably what
Speaker 1: I would say. Starting a guard six six two twenty
Speaker 1: from the great state of Oklahoma. Shake the girl goes crazy.
Speaker 1: All right, we know you're a great basketball player. What
Speaker 1: else are you great at? Um? I think I'm just
Speaker 1: great at just living life, man, You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: It just great at waking up, getting some sun, simple things, reading, observing, um,
Speaker 1: being present. Let's see it. The favorite gift that you've
Speaker 1: gotten for someone else gone for someone else, maybe like
Speaker 1: just like a little piece of art that kind of
Speaker 1: is like an inside joke or something like that. I
Speaker 1: feel like I would say that, Yeah, what's your favorite
Speaker 1: gift that you've gotten for yourself that I've gotten for myself.
Speaker 1: I got a really cool fish tank that I bought
Speaker 1: for myself, So that was probably like the most expensive
Speaker 1: thing I've spent NBA money on. I love it. What's
Speaker 1: the most regular thing about shake Milton? Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like everything. I'm a real regular guy, chilled, netflix,
Speaker 1: like to sing in the shower, that type of stuff.
Speaker 1: We talk about the three types of days in the NBA,
Speaker 1: A game day, a travel day, and off day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's something that you look forward to on each? Starting
Speaker 1: with a game day. On a game day, I look
Speaker 1: forward to competing in front of the amazing fans. What
Speaker 1: do you look forward to on a travel day? Travel day?
Speaker 1: I would say spending time with the guys on the plane.
Speaker 1: Off day, off day, not seeing anybody, and staying in
Speaker 1: bed all day. What's something about life on the road
Speaker 1: during some of these longer trips that would surprise people.
Speaker 1: I would say just the amount of times you're getting
Speaker 1: into a city at like three to four am and
Speaker 1: you're not even really sure what city or in At
Speaker 1: some points when it comes to like the public's perception
Speaker 1: of you as a player or as a person, even,
Speaker 1: what do you think something that they have correct about you?
Speaker 1: That I have good music taste? What's something that you
Speaker 1: think is misunderstood about you that everybody thinks I'm just
Speaker 1: so quiet, Like, yeah, I'm I'm laid back and calm,
Speaker 1: but I feel like everybody in my circle will be
Speaker 1: telling me to shut up, you know, more than anything else.
Speaker 1: What's the most memorable sporting event that you've been to
Speaker 1: as a fan? As a fan? Ooh dang, that's a
Speaker 1: good question. I remember when I was little, my pops
Speaker 1: used to take us to the Texas Longhorn game. So
Speaker 1: we went to one in Oklahoma State with like the
Speaker 1: second half in Sean came out and ran like eighty
Speaker 1: yards for a touchdown, So that was really cool. Who's
Speaker 1: the most important relationship that you have in your life
Speaker 1: and how do you nurture it? I would say my mom.
Speaker 1: She's amazing. She makes it really easy. I don't really
Speaker 1: have to nurture it, just call her and say, hey,
Speaker 1: talk about whatever. For sure. When you retire, what do
Speaker 1: you want people to say about you. I want to
Speaker 1: people to say that he was a great player. He
Speaker 1: was very passionate about the craft and everything that came
Speaker 1: with it, and above all else, he was just a
Speaker 1: real one, A solid dude. Do you have a memorable
Speaker 1: fork in the road in your life and like, what
Speaker 1: would have happened if you had made one decision versus
Speaker 1: the other? Ah Man, I feel like that's just been
Speaker 1: my life. I could just there's plenty of them, but
Speaker 1: uh not specifically. You can share a meal with anyone
Speaker 1: in the world. Who's at your table and what are
Speaker 1: you eating? I can share a meal with anyone in
Speaker 1: the world. I would share a meal. I don't know. Dang,
Speaker 1: that's a good question. Like they have to be alive
Speaker 1: right now, doesn't have to be anybody, Dang, you know what.
Speaker 1: Never mind, I would just share a meal with Muhammad
Speaker 1: Ali probably, and what would we be eating. I think
Speaker 1: he has a strict diet. Probably some some some seafood.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody that was Paul Reid and Shake Milton.
Speaker 1: I'm Lauren Rosen with Matt Murphy. Really cool to sort
Speaker 1: of reflect on Shake Milton's development. You mentioned one of
Speaker 1: the longest ten yared sixers. Shake talked a lot about
Speaker 1: shameless plug on The Big Niang Theory, which is our
Speaker 1: other podcast within the seventy six ers podcast network. Check
Speaker 1: that out because that episode came out this week as well.
Speaker 1: But Shake talked about the growth journey that he's had,
Speaker 1: going from someone who was emotionally a little bit manipulated
Speaker 1: by the moment and by how things were going for
Speaker 1: him on the court early in his career and has
Speaker 1: arrived in a place where he can be really comfortable
Speaker 1: with whatever comes and be in a position where if
Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxie, James Harden, and Joel Embiad are all out,
Speaker 1: he can rise to the occasion as he did this
Speaker 1: year in Orlando over Thanksgiving and be the team's leading scorer.
Speaker 1: Or he can find his spots as a scorer off
Speaker 1: the bench, as a sharer off the bench, and do
Speaker 1: so with a mindset that remains consistent. And I've been
Speaker 1: so impressed with Shake's growth development the person he's become.
Speaker 1: It sounds cheesy, but it's been to delight for me
Speaker 1: to watch Shake's growth and Shake's journey and then to
Speaker 1: hear him talk about it too. So always a pleasure
Speaker 1: to learn more about Shake. Shake wanted everyone to know
Speaker 1: that he's not as quiet as he seems or as
Speaker 1: he maybe gives off, which I think we've we've learned
Speaker 1: to be true, and we've also learned that he can
Speaker 1: be a bucket at times when he needs to. And
Speaker 1: he started his career in a similar way that Paul
Speaker 1: Reid did with the two way contract, and Paul's was
Speaker 1: I think shorter lived maybe the two way, But in
Speaker 1: either case, the start of your NBA career a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure on you when you get a chance, are
Speaker 1: you able to showcase what you can do at the
Speaker 1: NBA level in limited minutes. These guys kind of went
Speaker 1: through similar paths, and I think for Shake to have
Speaker 1: kind of come through to the other side and for
Speaker 1: Paul to have stepped up to the plate and kind
Speaker 1: of answered the bell at every turn, like go to
Speaker 1: the g League, win MVP, shoot the ball really well there,
Speaker 1: come to the NBA. Backup Joel Embid at times and
Speaker 1: do well in a lot of those games that you
Speaker 1: have have some of your best NBA games if you're
Speaker 1: Paul Read against guys like Nicola Yokich. Sometimes if you
Speaker 1: look at certain instances, but two guys that had similar
Speaker 1: starts to their careers, and I think that two fan
Speaker 1: favorites in a lot of ways, so and having good,
Speaker 1: good seasons and both in the minutes they get really
Speaker 1: take advantage of it. So it was great to hear
Speaker 1: from both of these guys heading into the playoffs and
Speaker 1: learn more about them because we don't always get a
Speaker 1: chance to hear about some off court topics. So when
Speaker 1: it's their time to shine, now you know a little
Speaker 1: bit more about their personalities. Paul is sort of bursting
Speaker 1: with personality and has become a fan favorite because of
Speaker 1: his personality and what he does show. And then we've
Speaker 1: talked about it with Shake. He knows that he's a
Speaker 1: little bit more reserved, a little bit more demure. But
Speaker 1: when you do hear from him, when you do learn
Speaker 1: about him, when he will show you a little bit
Speaker 1: more of who he is. He's one of the most interesting, thoughtful,
Speaker 1: funny guys that I've sort of had the pleasure to
Speaker 1: work with. So you mentioned the parallels between them. Neither
Speaker 1: of them has been given a single minute in this
Speaker 1: league in the course of their careers, but they've earned
Speaker 1: many minutes now and it's cool and got to be
Speaker 1: cool to continue looking back on where they started. So
Speaker 1: before we got into this conversation, I didn't really compare
Speaker 1: them to each other as much as we're doing right now.
Speaker 1: It just so happened that their interviews are paired together.
Speaker 1: But maybe there was more reason behind that subconsciously, because
Speaker 1: they're both multi year players in college at schools that
Speaker 1: weren't top end of their conferences, Guys that developed into
Speaker 1: pro prospects as their college careers moved along, developed into
Speaker 1: MBA rotation players as their young NBA careers have moved along.
Speaker 1: So I really like talking more about those similarities that
Speaker 1: they bring. And in the just to close the loop
Speaker 1: on the G League reference I made about Paul, I
Speaker 1: still hold a grudge that Shake didn't win any G
Speaker 1: League awards his first year, which also happened to be
Speaker 1: my first year in A nineteen, because he averaged like
Speaker 1: twenty four points a game as a rookie in the
Speaker 1: G League and he didn't get anything for it, whereas
Speaker 1: justice for shape. So I'm gonna keep pointing that out.
Speaker 1: Maybe I think he met all the game played minimums
Speaker 1: and all that, but I could be wrong on that.
Speaker 1: I think he was just snubbed. I choose to believe
Speaker 1: that he was snubbed, and I choose to bring it
Speaker 1: up multiple times, and Paul did earn the MVP hardware.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're still carrying a torch for shake Shake
Speaker 1: being robbed of G League, the remarkable all rookie teams.
Speaker 1: No, no no, he didn't make any of them. You should
Speaker 1: die on that hill. It's a good one. I'll die
Speaker 1: there with you. We talk about it a lot, but
Speaker 1: young players, when they come into good teams, it's so
Speaker 1: much harder to carve out a niche for yourself and
Speaker 1: shake again. Like we've said, one of the longest tenured
Speaker 1: sixers at this point, but has only been with the
Speaker 1: team while they've been good. So fighting and clawing for
Speaker 1: your minutes in high stakes scenarios. Both of them have
Speaker 1: had to show up in the playoffs before, which hopefully
Speaker 1: can prove well as we talk about the regular season
Speaker 1: winding down and the two of them very much jockeying
Speaker 1: for playoff positioning and minutes in those situations. But it
Speaker 1: won't be the first big moment in the playoffs for
Speaker 1: either of them when that moment comes, So looking forward
Speaker 1: to seeing how they perform this postseason and beyond. Pat Murphy,
Speaker 1: thanks us all, yeah, thank you. I hope people enjoyed it,
Speaker 1: and a similar line of questioning for the other sixers
Speaker 1: coming up. So hopefully you learn a thing or two
Speaker 1: about the players as people because they and they have
Speaker 1: dogs as pets. They had they you know, they're tired
Speaker 1: sometimes after road trips, and it was good to just
Speaker 1: shed a little bit more light on that. So thank
Speaker 1: you all. They're humans and they're awesome. Just like all
Speaker 1: of you listeners to give us your feedback, We're always
Speaker 1: open to it. At Matt Underscore, Mr bo four, at
Speaker 1: Lauren m Rosen. Our dms are always open. Let us
Speaker 1: know what questions you want us to ask in these
Speaker 1: types of sit down, say in the future, and we
Speaker 1: can't wait to share the rest of the series with
Speaker 1: you guys. See you next time.