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Speaker 1: Hey there. Welcome to Grown Up with Emily, a lingo

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Speaker 1: kids podcast. It helps kids discover how to be whatever

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Speaker 1: they want to be. Hey, Winson, can you get that

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Speaker 1: microscope for me? Winston Winson? Are you did you fall asleep?

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Speaker 1: Standing up?

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Speaker 2: Hey? Hey, Rigson Woods to get eat all the chocolate

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Speaker 2: because it's his birthday. Ritson? Oh what? Sorry about that, Emily,

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Speaker 2: I must have dozed off.

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Speaker 1: We're in the middle of an experiment and you were sleeping.

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Speaker 3: I was having the most amazing dream about gobbling up

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Speaker 3: all the chocolate in the world.

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Speaker 2: Do we have any chocolate, Emily, or candy? So I

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Speaker 2: could really go for a piece of chocolate cake?

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Speaker 1: No wonder you're so tired, Whinson. You've got to eat better.

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Speaker 1: Certain foods will make you sleepy after a while, and

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Speaker 1: you know candy's not good for you. Ugh.

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Speaker 3: Well, if I can't have any treats, can we at

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Speaker 3: least take a break.

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Speaker 2: We've been working all day and I need to move.

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Speaker 2: I got the wiggles.

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Speaker 1: I've got an idea. Why don't we take a break

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Speaker 1: and head down to the community center. They've got a

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Speaker 1: basketball court inside, so we can shoot some hoops and

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Speaker 1: loosen up a bit.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, that'd be awesome. But I got to warn you.

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Speaker 2: I'm a pretty good shot.

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Speaker 3: I can pivot and dribble and alley oop with the

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Speaker 3: best of them.

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Speaker 1: You're on, let's play some basketball.

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Speaker 2: Only ten seconds left of the clock.

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Speaker 1: He jukes, looky, you move, I'm gonna block you, Winston,

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Speaker 1: He fakes, He sores.

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Speaker 4: Any shoots from downtown, any scores, Wow, just in time,

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Speaker 4: and the crowd goes world.

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Speaker 1: That was incredible, Winson, great.

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Speaker 2: Job, thanks, Emily.

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Speaker 3: And I'm only a little I have a breath. Well,

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Speaker 3: I really got to exercise more. The players make it

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Speaker 3: look so easy.

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Speaker 1: Of course they do. They run and shoot and dribble

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Speaker 1: for hours a day. It's their job.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that does sound awesome, but it must take

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Speaker 3: a lot of work and talent.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't even know where to start.

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Speaker 1: Why don't we go into the break room and get

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Speaker 1: a drink of water. Come on, take a seat and

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Speaker 1: catch your breath. I'll get us some drinks from the

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Speaker 1: vending machine.

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Speaker 2: No way. Check it out. There's a show on TV

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Speaker 2: with Byron.

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Speaker 1: Scott, the NBA star Byron Scott, He's an amazing basketball player.

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Speaker 1: He went on to be an even more amazing coach

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Speaker 1: for a lot of professional basketball teams.

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Speaker 3: Hey, maybe we can get some tips from him while

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Speaker 3: we take a breather, couldn't you turn it up, Emily?

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Speaker 1: Sure, let's hear what he has to say.

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Speaker 5: My name is Byron Scott. I live in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 5: I am a professional basketball player and coach. I used

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Speaker 5: to play for the Los Angeles Lakers for a number

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Speaker 5: of years. I won three championships and really had a

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Speaker 5: good time doing it. I think the most athletic treatment

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Speaker 5: that I'm most proud of is winning a championship. When

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Speaker 5: you win a championship in the NBA, you are the

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Speaker 5: best team in the world, and that's saying something. And

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Speaker 5: for me, beating the Celtics in Boston in nineteen eighty

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Speaker 5: five was twofold number one. It was our first championship

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Speaker 5: of mine, i should say, and it was the first

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Speaker 5: time a Laker basketball team has ever beaten the Celtics

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Speaker 5: in a seven game series. So it was a great

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Speaker 5: feeling to accomplish that, and to get the monkey off

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Speaker 5: of Will Chamberlain, J. West, Elgin Baylors and all those

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Speaker 1: Vincent before you were born. He won three championships when

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Speaker 1: he played for the LA Lakers, and then he went

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Speaker 1: on to be an even more amazing coach for a

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Speaker 1: lot of professional basketball teams. Back in the nineteen eighties,

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Speaker 1: Byron was part of a great basketball team called the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers won seventeen championship titles between

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Speaker 1: nineteen forty nine and twenty twenty, which is pretty impressive,

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Speaker 1: and the team has also been home to some of

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Speaker 1: the best basketball players in the NBA like Kobe Bryant,

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Speaker 1: Magic John and Kareem Abdul Jabbar, not to mention Byron

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Speaker 1: Scott Today, Byron's sixty two years old and he retired

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Speaker 1: a while ago. But you know what, Byron started out

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Speaker 5: Well, you know what, how I became a professional basketball

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Speaker 5: my mom and dad were coming upstairs and I had

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Speaker 5: just won my first trophy, and my mom and dad

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Speaker 5: my mom asked me what was I going to do

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Speaker 5: when I grew up, and I said, I'm gonna be

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Speaker 5: something that I knew I had an opportunity to accomplish,

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Speaker 5: but I didn't know what it took to get there

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Speaker 5: at that particular time. I was only twelve, and I

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Speaker 5: found out later it takes a lot of dedication, a

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Speaker 5: lot of hard work, a lot of effort, but it

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Speaker 5: also take some luck. But I think without the hard work,

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Speaker 5: you have no chance of being successful. So for me,

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Speaker 5: I just knew at twelve that I was going to

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Speaker 3: Whoa So Byron knew what he wanted to do when

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Speaker 3: he was only twelve, that's pretty crazy.

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Speaker 1: Yep, he had a dream and he really went for it.

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Speaker 1: But even though he knew what he wanted to do

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Speaker 1: when he was really young, it still took a lot

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Speaker 1: of work to get there. Like you said, do you.

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Speaker 2: Think he just started shooting hoops every day to practice.

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Speaker 1: Shooting hoops, eating well, exercising, learning how to work with

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Speaker 3: Hey, maybe we can get some tips from him while

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Speaker 3: we take a breather.

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Speaker 1: Sure.

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Speaker 5: So, there are a number of different skills you need

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Speaker 5: in basketball. You need to be able to shoot the ball.

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Speaker 5: You need to really be able to handle the ball

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Speaker 5: pretty well. You have to be able to be a

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Speaker 5: pretty good passer. If you're a good defensive player, you

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Speaker 5: got a chance to be a great player in this league.

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Speaker 5: And if you're tall and you're a great rebounder, you

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Speaker 5: you can be a very good basketball player in the NBA.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So if I want to make it as a

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Speaker 3: an amazing shooter, which obviously I am, and a great rebounder.

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Speaker 2: What's a rebounder, Emily.

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Speaker 1: It's a player who grabs a ball after the other

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm super fast and sneaky. I think I have

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Speaker 3: what it takes to be a pro basketball player. You

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Speaker 3: saw my skills out on the court, right, Emily. I

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Speaker 3: guess I have some growing to do, though. Byron said

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Speaker 3: it's important to be tall and.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's definitely more to being a professional basketball player

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Speaker 1: than just being tall, and you've still got plenty of

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Speaker 1: time to grow, Winston. But a lot of kids who

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Speaker 1: want to play professional ball do start pretty young. In America,

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Speaker 1: kids can join a basketball team as early as the

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Speaker 1: second grade, and when they get to be thirteen or

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Speaker 1: fourteen years old, some practice up to twenty hours a week.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that is a lot of practice, isn't it, Emily,

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Speaker 3: It sure is.

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Speaker 1: But practice is just one part of an athlete's daily routine.

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Speaker 5: So practice days just regular days. That was pretty much

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Speaker 5: my routine. Game days was get up in the morning,

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Speaker 5: Would sit there, have my pregame meal, watch TV. Go

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Speaker 5: I had a big fish tank. I would sit by

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Speaker 5: Then I would get in the car and I would

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Speaker 5: an hour and a half, be forty game, get an arena,

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Speaker 5: So that was kind of my day, just my regular

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Speaker 5: day after practice. Danielafobians got as a coach totally different.

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Speaker 5: You wake up at four or five in the morning.

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Speaker 5: I would go get a workout in just to kind

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Speaker 5: probably about nine o'clock, meet with my coaches, go over

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Speaker 5: to a particular team that we're playing, go over the

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Speaker 5: game plan. At ten thirty, go back to the floor,

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Speaker 5: start shoot around. Get our guys ready. When shoot around

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Speaker 5: about twelve o'clock. From twelve to twelve forty five. Coach

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Speaker 5: go back into the office, watch the tape again, make

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Speaker 5: as a player, I would have a pregame meal. I

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Speaker 5: a half hours before the games, one last check to

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Speaker 5: make sure the things that we talked about doing against

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Speaker 5: and also make adjustments on if it doesn't work, what

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Speaker 5: do I have to go back to? What's my backup plan?

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Speaker 3: Why do you think Byron wanted to become a coach

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Speaker 3: after being a player, Emily, Well.

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Speaker 1: After being a player for so long, he understood all

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Speaker 3: Going from shooting hoops to when he was a kid,

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Speaker 3: to winning championships in the NBA to coaching his own team.

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Speaker 2: That's super cool. Byron must have been really confident to

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Speaker 2: get so far. But do you think he was ever

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Speaker 2: nervous Emily Hmmm, let's listen.

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Speaker 1: In and find out. Byron talking about the first time

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Speaker 1: he played in the NBA, way before he was a coach.

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Speaker 5: My first time on a professional basketball court was a

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Speaker 5: the Lakers. I had two days of practice and we

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Speaker 5: were playing against the Boston Celtics in a preseason game.

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Speaker 5: And I can remember, you know, getting into the game

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Speaker 5: being as nervous as all because it's my first time

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Speaker 5: being in a professional basketball game. But once the balls

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Speaker 5: start going up and down the floor, I forgot all

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Speaker 5: about the people and everything else, and just you know,

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Speaker 1: See Winston. Even pros like Byron Scott get nervous from

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Speaker 1: time to time, but that didn't stop him from achieving

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Speaker 3: He was unstoppable, Emily, And you know, sometimes I get

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Speaker 5: I really find I was say ninety percent of my

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Speaker 2: He told me.

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Speaker 2: Emily, Why did Byron's dad have to work so hard?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 1: Because Byron came from a working class family. They didn't

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Speaker 3: Oh so Byron's dad was kind of like Byron's own

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Speaker 1: You're not wrong. Mentors are very important no matter what

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Speaker 2: Mentor what's a mentor?

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Speaker 1: Mentors are people who teach you and help you and

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Speaker 2: Oh, like a role model?

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Speaker 1: Exactly?

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Speaker 5: Do I have a role model or a mentor? I

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Speaker 5: basketball dad was Jerry Wes was my other, A role model,

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Speaker 5: most people know is called the Logo because of his

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Speaker 1: Did you hear that? Winston Jerry West, another amazing NBA

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Speaker 1: West Virginia, by the way, was Byron's mentor and helped

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Speaker 3: You know, if I had someone to help me do

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Speaker 2: Man, I'd be unstoppable.

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Speaker 3: It'd be like having a fairy godmother around to grant

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Speaker 1: Well, it wouldn't go that far.

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Speaker 3: What do you mean, first his dad and then Jerry West.

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Speaker 3: It seems like Byron had a lot of help.

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Speaker 1: Maybe so but that doesn't mean it was just easy, breezy.

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Speaker 2: Do you think Byron ever messed up? Sometimes?

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Speaker 1: Sure, we all do. But when we fail, we move

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Speaker 5: If I ever failed at my job or anything else,

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Speaker 5: absolutely lots of times, pretty much in life, sometimes you

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Speaker 5: got knocked down probably about five or six times. I

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Speaker 5: you get hired to be fired as a coach. So yes,

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Speaker 5: I failed numerous of times, but I've gotten right back up,

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Speaker 5: and I've tried even harder, and I've been more probably

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Speaker 3: So even someone as awesome as Byron Scott drops the

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Speaker 2: That kind of makes me feel less nervous about trying

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Speaker 1: That's great, Wenson. Let's hear what he has to say next.

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Speaker 5: What am I looking forward to next is just enjoying

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Speaker 2: I sure hope I have a lot to be proud

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Speaker 1: Just like there's no doubt in my mind that you

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Speaker 1: you're older. Thanks so much for joining our chat with

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