WEBVTT - Jeremiah Fears Shares His Dunk Contest Requirements, His NBA Draft Night, & Beating Mike & UD 1on1 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.200 The media is crazy. They really creative. I wasn't even 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:06.400 thinking about the zero. I started seeing in the comments 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:10.680 and Instagram like, dang, that is hard, and damn. I'm like, man, 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:43.519 I'm gonna just keep carrying it on. 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:31.520 Love. 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.320 Welcome back to the Oh Jesus, this is a playmaker 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:51.479 original presenter by Draft Kings Haslam. 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:53.080 Why are you coming about my whole name? 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:57.600 Because today we are being professionally. We got a great 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:58.240 one in the building. 0:00:58.280 --> 0:00:59.840 We do that, a great one. It's gonna be a 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:01.000 good Yeah. 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:02.800 Buddy, I'm a little bit biased. 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.039 You a lot more biased. But I love when we 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.600 have young fellas home because you know, I demographic is 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:14.080 thirty five and up. So wea it. We get them 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:16.440 ThunderCats on the set we got we got to make 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:17.360 sure we maxed somebody. 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.960 You feel me, rook a ud. Just give you a 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.560 little context. Now, seventh pick in the NBA draft was 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:24.360 that two weeks ago. 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:29.000 Now, Coke for I was watching watching I saw run 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:29.399 it Down. 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.480 Came in there and dominated the SEC at Oklahoma as 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:36.120 a little baby Thundercat just turned eighteen. 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:38.920 Mm hmm, missed them days. 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.280 Yeah, it was like forty four years ago. For your coke. 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:43.880 That's okay. If it was forty four for me, it 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:44.679 was forty six for you. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:46.920 Gonna be hey, listen, hot take, gonna be the best 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.320 player in this draft class. How about that? Jeremiah Fears 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:50.600 gez bro. 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:55.840 Thank you, sir. I'm gonna open up with the first question. Okay, 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.160 how was it working out with him busting his as? 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:02.160 Because I saw the videos? What's not? Let me finish 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.240 what was his Was it realistic or was it like 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.640 dummy defense? And it was kind of easy for you? 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:09.639 I understand, like that's the o G and you don't 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:10.480 want to be disrespectful. 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.760 It was like work, Yeah, it was, you know it was. 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:15.800 It was a little bit of both, a little dummy 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.079 defense at first. Have to take it easy on mine. 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.440 Want to put none of my moves that that will 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:20.880 make you hear. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.480 I was, I was, listen, I have a scout reporter. 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.560 I was, okay, okay, So if I ever have to go, 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:32.000 I get paid to defense. I understand what that was. 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.400 I'm gonna just take it easy. I know y'all getting 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.520 y'all getting to that point. I don't want to that's right. 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:43.040 Take listen, I already I had one one mind one 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:44.560 thing in my mind the whole time was I didn't 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:45.799 want to roll up in the draft in the green 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.239 room on one of them scooters. I was playing a 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:50.400 little hands on Harry defense. 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:51.760 I've been on one of them scooters before. 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:52.880 I teach offense. 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.640 Yeah, you offense, you do, but you can't win with 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:56.400 our defense. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:58.040 That what you keep saying. 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.680 It's the truth. And most young and especially with the Pelicans, 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:03.519 he's gonna have to play some defense. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:05.720 You know that Green, Willy Green. 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:07.520 You know they got to play some defense over there. 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.960 Will wait from my hold up, hold up, before we 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.000 get going on this, guess who is his summer league? 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:16.760 Coaches, don't don't say, bru. 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:19.919 You can't get away from you now. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.760 So listen, I need to understand because it's so much 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.280 going on for you kids out nowadays. You have the NL, 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.359 you have different opportunities. Jumping the porter afterwards, wow Wow. 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:35.320 It was just an overall great experience. The coaching coaching 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.800 staff was great. They reached out and they just feel 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:39.920 like they had the best interest for me, and they 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:41.800 told me they was gonna come in let me basically 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:43.840 give me opportunity to kind of show what I'm capable of. 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:45.720 So I feel like it was a great. 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.640 Decision for me, And as soon as they told me that, 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:48.960 I kind of committed on the spot. 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:50.760 Okay, sounded like me when I went to the floor. 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.440 Let me tell you something, you do you really smart? 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.520 Kind of o G gangster move on their part to 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.600 dominate the euybl was supposed to senior in high school. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.600 He's like, nah, talk about that. 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.440 Now we get okay, now we're getting down to he ain't. 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.600 Gonna sen no, no, no, nobody, no no. That's why 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:11.320 he's That's why so talk about that though, because I 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.240 think it's important people see like you went and play 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:14.680 the uy b al and it's like, yo, dad, I'm 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:16.160 out to talk about that for a little bit. 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:20.760 Yeah, y B was It was great Nike, it was. 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:22.600 It was a great over experience. 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.520 I just feel like it was time for me to 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:30.120 move up to a higher level just for my body. 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:32.920 I just doing everything I can't basically get my body 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.240 ready for the next level. And I feel like the 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.320 high school didn't have the tools you need. So I 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:40.040 feel like reclassing that was definitely gonna help. 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:43.640 Me the game in college as well. You understand your 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:47.400 time time it was you know what, highn't really give 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.880 me what y'all just stay right there. 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:51.479 We had the tools in high school. 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.080 So I'm like, I know that college for sure, they 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.520 gonna they got people coming from the NBA every single 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.760 year coming down just trying to help us to get 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:01.680 to that that NBA level. So Oklahoma, they told me 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.480 they got NBA coaching staff, NBA personally in the weight 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:05.040 room as well. 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:08.159 So once they told me that I committed, I got there. 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.200 As soon as I got there, I tapped into the 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.200 weight room, and I mean he helped me a lot. 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.600 Just from when I first got there to when I left. 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.360 My body already looks a lot different. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.479 So I'm fascinated by this. So no, no senior, no 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.120 basketball for your high school senior. 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:27.560 Just what is none of them was a junior coming 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:31.400 up to be a senior and just said I'm a reclassing. Okay, 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.240 So he didn't go to senior he went to college. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.000 So he went to what it was supposed to be 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:36.120 a senior in college. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.320 Up, yes, okay, so that he didn't have to do 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:39.719 a senior year. Yes, and he was able to go 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.080 straight to guess, so it was a junior in college. 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:42.960 Yeah, he was a. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.360 Senior of high school in college in the freshman year. 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:49.400 Yeah, and guess what he did at SEC. 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.200 By the way, get people at home, the best conference 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.800 by far far. It comes to basketball and football for show. 0:05:57.960 --> 0:05:59.520 Might want to throw baseball in that. I'm not sure. 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.159 No, no, we yeah, baseball too, yeah, every every yeah, baseball. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:06.880 This is a legit. But he goes so yeah. So 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:11.320 basically senior high school, decides to go to Oklahoma, goes 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.320 out there, then average about seventeen to have eighteen points 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:16.080 a game, leads Oklahoma to the tournament which had been 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:17.279 in a hot minute. 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.040 It was about good four years. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.720 Was that a family decision? Like? Did you have to? Because 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.680 I couldn't walk. I couldn't tell him. You know what, Mama, 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:26.520 I'm just gonna pass on my senior year. Don't worry 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:27.360 about that. 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:28.440 I got you, I see you. 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:34.120 Conversation. I'll be bad conversation. You know, I'm just gonna 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:35.080 pass on this right now. 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:35.760 Man. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.280 It was it was definitely crazy. I told my mom 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.120 and she was she a fit. 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.160 I remember she was angry. She like, Jamia, are you 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.880 sure you wouldn't do this? Like my yes? And then 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:47.200 my dad was he was on board. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.240 I was always Yeah, he was always on he was 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.520 on board whatever. I told me, like, come on, let's 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.960 do it. And my mom was like, now, I kind 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:56.120 of want you to go to Prime. I want you 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.520 to enjoy a senior year out there. Still do what 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:03.000 you do. Just have fun and joy senior year. I'm like, Manna, 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.040 I want to go to college. So I just really 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.840 had to convince her. Once I convinced her, it was 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:10.320 it was good from there. And then I kind of 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.080 had to finish up some school work in the summer. 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.200 I ended up finishing right before we had to come back. 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.360 It was around August, so I missed the whole summer 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.040 workouts for Oklahoma, and then I ended up coming right 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:23.040 before school started. 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.480 I watched a game yesterday too, By the way. 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:27.520 Man, it was a good game, had a good game. 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.600 I watched the game. I don't know why they go 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:31.640 under and picking rolls on you man. 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.840 I don't know. Yeah, they're gonna have to stop. 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:39.120 That was going the God damn, why was you going? 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:40.880 Hey, coach, gonna be mad. 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.720 But I love your patience, decision making was good. I 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.120 love all that you the real one I watched. I 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:47.680 watched the game. 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:49.520 It'll be a cold blood killing too, for sure. 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:49.960 For sure. 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.640 I know Mom had hesitance, was a little hesitant at 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.600 the beginning. But on draft now you could see how 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.280 proud she was. Bro Like, that's one thing on this 0:07:58.320 --> 0:07:59.800 side of the field, be on the aging side of 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.480 and the sacrifices the parents make, and the fact that 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.720 he had the balls to reclass and do what he did. 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.680 But on on draft night, Mama was I mean, dad 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.440 was nervous to but Mama was super proud. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:11.600 Man. 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.080 It was also she was excited, but like you said, 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:14.760 she was nervous. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:19.040 Uh, after they call my name, she was just she 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.080 wanted to cry, but she kind of knew the cameras 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:22.720 was on her, so she like kind of head it 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:23.320 in a little bit. 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:25.800 And then to have the party, she ended up like 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.120 finally let the tears. 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.840 Yeah, after the party the tears. 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:34.600 So is it safe to say your mama's boy, It's okay. 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.200 I'm a little bit of both, Yeah, yeah, a little 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:37.640 bit of both. 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.120 I wouldn't say I'm too much of mama's boy. I'm 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:41.760 a dad boy as well. 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.240 So fifty fifty attitude. 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:46.319 Attitude. 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.040 Now, my dad notionaliant, so I get a little bit 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:49.640 of that from him. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:51.400 Coach, I'm gonna tell you that was funny, man, And 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.120 you do you really appreciate this? And I feel like 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.400 I'm interviewing you right now. But young fella here is 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.280 like the nicest dude, the humble dude right now on 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.880 that court. Here be an asshole now, yeah, as he 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.480 should be. No here asshole friends. Yeah, if I give 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:05.760 you one. 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.559 Piece of advice, don't help nobody up. If he fall 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:09.959 on the ground, let his ask it up or let 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.240 his team help him up. No, don't be helping. No, 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.160 you're not out there for that. After the game we 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:15.960 could just shake hands and talk. Man, I'm not out 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.400 here to be helping you up. Guess what, every time 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.199 he follow you got to get up. That take energy. 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.120 That's my for forty eight minutes. If you got to 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.679 have to get up fifteen times, why would you help 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:28.320 him up? I slapped you. Go over to help somebody up, 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.720 I help him up get up on his own. 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.280 Yeah, y'a colpeeding you. You don't want to be helping 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:35.040 the opposing team. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:35.520 Keep that. 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:36.800 Don't lose, thatshole. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:38.240 Yeah, you lose, you lose that, you lose. 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.720 It gets it gets me going to washing asshole. 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:42.559 So let me ask you a question being on the 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.840 other side as an agent, when you're sitting in that 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:47.959 green room or whatever that situation, because I ain't never 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.200 been there, undrafted, by the way, undrafted, I ain't never 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.400 been in the green room. Know what, Like Mike can 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:53.000 tell me about it. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.200 We will, We'll tell you about it. We'll actually tell 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:56.360 you about it that after you asked this question. 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:58.839 So, when you're sitting in that green room with him, 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.640 you're getting phone call from different players, You're getting phone 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.160 calls from different organizations. When you finally get to call 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.079 that the organization is gonna pick your player, you tell 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.120 them right away. Yeah, okay, I didn't know. I thought 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:10.800 you might wait for. 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.079 What happened. What happens though, is like literally and when 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.360 you're in the green room you wouldn't know this because 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:17.520 you were undrafted. 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:18.240 But yeah, I wouldn't. 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:23.160 What happened. What happens that those cameras come over there 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.320 on the table and they tell the story before we 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:25.720 even know. 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.640 Yeah, before y'all even know, the cameras has already told us. 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.040 Then you get the call exactly right, then you tell cool. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:34.600 So if he didn't tell you that, if you ain't 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:38.080 getting call about three more picks his ass. You ain't 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:43.720 get that called a bureau job to do. It's like 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:45.520 you got a job to do. He can't sell you 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.800 if you don't get buckets, and that can't do nothing 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:49.240 for you if he ain't doing his job and you 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:53.640 can't get paid. I'm telling nothing as an agent. Tell this, no, 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.640 let me tell something's agent. A lot of agents like 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.480 to give us advice, but they work for you. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:00.839 Well what I already told them now. 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.000 I ain't just like to give us advice because we players. Yeah, 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.000 just know that. That's what makes me. They work for you. 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.000 Keep in the back of my head, tell. 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.000 Me I get it you by agent, you're an advisor 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.720 for me, know what I'm saying. But you always remember 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:15.520 that with your agent you're dead ass, right though. Yeah, 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:17.160 it's true. A lot of young fellas you come into 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.559 this situation eighteen nineteen years old. You signed with a 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.959 forty five year white man. It's something like that. No, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:28.120 no disrespect, I am a forty five You signed forty 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:29.720 five your wife, But all of a sudden he starts 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.200 telling you how to do this and that and the third. 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:32.680 At the end of the day, like I get it. 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.160 Some of these things are good. But some of these 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.080 things you need to learn on your own. Some of 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:37.439 these steps you need to take on your own. You 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:38.720 need to fall, you need to get up, you need 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:39.280 to understand. 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:40.360 I disagree a little at though. 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.360 No, listen, some of these things you do need to 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:43.040 learn on your own. 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:44.840 No, you do. But but at the end of the day, 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.280 what you got to interview hearing a second. But what 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:49.720 you gotta do is you gotta take experiences from people 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:51.560 that have lived it too, right, Like, that's that's what 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.760 makes my situation over here being a little bit different. Yes, 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.720 I'm the same way, I'm for you at the same time, 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:58.720 my responsibility and role. One of the things that I 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:00.560 think you guys saw value is the fact that I 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.679 lived it. So the stuff is like, at the end 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:04.160 of the day, I'm with you the other forty five 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:05.760 year olda man. Yeah, I wouldn't liten to either. 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:10.520 Yeah, hey, anyway, let's go back to this. 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.680 So we talked about how mom and dad were and 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.880 how excited they were on draft night. But you need 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:21.120 just a little backstory. He came. I met him a 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.640 couple of years ago, coming to summer leagues and watching 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:27.080 summer leagues, and so just talk about like he was 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.199 so locked in even as a well he's such a 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.480 young kid now, but like fifteen sixteen years old, he's 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.160 watching He's like, yo, I can't wait to be out there. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.079 That's whereas mine was. Then, talk about all that stuff 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.640 that kind of went into between summer league going and 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:42.440 playing a zy compass, skipping your senior year, and then 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:44.720 excitement for you because you put I mean, obviously family 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.360 and everyone's sacrifices, but you put a lot of stuff 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:47.680 into this. 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:47.880 Man. 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:49.000 You're a grinder and a worker. 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:49.160 Man. 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.320 Talk about the kind of the enjoyment of hearing your 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.480 name called on draft night with all that stuff going 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:53.839 into it. 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.600 And it was crazy, definitely one of those things you'll 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:01.400 never forget, just in all the kind of hard work 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.040 you put in and all the workouts, all the early 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:07.240 mornings or the late nights, all the phone calls, the 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.240 checking the latest rankings and stuff like that. It's like 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.280 it was crazy. So hearing your name called is something 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.000 that you will never forget, and it's something that will 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.280 kind of motivate you to like keep going, like it's 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.640 only the beginning and you don't want to just get 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:22.680 there and then the next two years you out of there. 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.000 So just continue to keep putting in and work. Listening 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:26.840 to the people that's been doing it for a long 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:32.520 time still, guys like Brian and them playing so obviously 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.240 going to play against them, and then afterwards probably could 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.320 ask them a couple of questions like, yeah, what you 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.320 think I could kind of do better or what you 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.920 think can kind of helped me in certain situations, And 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:47.400 just the overall college and high school high school experience, 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.160 it was. It was crazy, and then it's getting my 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.600 senior year. Sometimes I still think back, like, man, I'm 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.840 supposed to be in college right now, I'm playing. 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:57.160 A homies to prime you going to the draft? 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:02.320 Yeah, it was. It was definitely crazy, and just trying 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:03.160 to live in the moment. 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.240 You don't you don't get to go through this again 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.600 and you don't get to hear your name called another time. 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:11.079 So just enjoying everything and trying to take everything day 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:12.200 by day and step by step. 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:14.800 I think one thing you need is to touch on 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.960 there like he talked about, which is great awareness to have. Man, 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:19.880 it's not about getting there, it's about staying there. Yes, 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:21.600 that man over there played twenty years, you know what 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.400 I mean, like and picking those guys' brains and understanding 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.120 like what it takes because he and I and I 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:28.320 don't know what he can tell you, and I can 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.480 say the same thing. I've seen a lot of talented 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.840 walk through that door that locked room us that are 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.160 drafted really really high, and it took me a week 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.480 to figure out they ain't gonna be here long. Yeah, 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:40.880 But then you'll see another dude that was either undrafted, 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.400 second round or even lottery picks that come in and 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:47.440 you see the professionalism, the habits, routines, like identifying those 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:50.000 things early as a vet once you started getting like 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:53.960 seven eight years and understand it. After draft night, you 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:55.800 see those guys in the next month, after Summer League, 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:57.600 they walk through. Within a week, you can tell if 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.960 they're gonna be here. Yes, yes, So keep that mindset 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.160 because that's the biggest thing, right It's not about getting there. 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.480 It's great being the seventh pick, but we got to 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:06.680 do now. And I told you this th other day, it's 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.280 gonna go fast. Every day you prove yourself, you prove 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.000 yourself to be the seventh pick. Then after you win 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:12.720 Rookie of Year, so you're gonna prove yourself while you're 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:14.160 a rookie of the Year. Then they're gonna be a 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.000 big ass contract and you got to prove that. But 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.000 you got to understand the process is the best part. 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:19.800 You do touch on that and I love the process 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:21.360 and the best part about it because you got to 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.640 understand you got drafted number seven, and it's always like me, 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:28.200 yeah that you didn't get drafted. That's looking for opportunity. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.280 I guess after the summer league right now, Yes, the 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.520 issuer league right now, looking for an opportunity. You know 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.200 what I'm saying, Just I guess to make his name 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.040 against a guy like yourself. I guess a guy like 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.440 Cooper Flagg, I guess all these other guys. It's always 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.440 a guy like me. So you're not playing against you, 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.800 your your your opponents, you're playing against yourself. You got 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:45.520 to stand it for yourself and you hold yourself to 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.320 a standard that has nothing to do with nobody else. 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.520 Before the coach tayl you play like you didn't already 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.320 tell yourself that ten times. You know what I'm saying. 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.560 He shouldn't have to tell you nothing. But I think 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.320 your mentality and you can correct me if I'm wrong, 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.920 because everything I'm hearing about Mike, I'm listening to what 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:03.240 he's saying, and you're beyond your your years mentally. You 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:07.000 got mental fortitwo your mentality and everything. Is that a 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.320 Chicago thing? Because when I look back at the guys 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:10.840 that came out of Chicago and the guys that had 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:12.360 the opportunity to play with and the guys that I, 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.800 you know, competed against that's from Chicago, they all had 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.800 that toughness, that mental toughness. They've had the physical toughness too, 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:19.840 but they all had that mental toughness. When I think 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.240 about d Wade and I think about Bobby Simmons, and 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.440 we talk about d Rose and we talk about you know, 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.040 the grandfather over there locking up. You know what I'm saying, Like, 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.720 it's just a list of Chicago guys and it all 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.880 got that mental toughness, Like what y'all water, what's in 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.640 the water in Chicago? I got it. I got that 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:38.760 mental toughness. Man. 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.560