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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Murphy and I am pumped for you all
Speaker 1: to hear this interview. It is a very special guest,
Speaker 1: new Delaware Blue Coats Assistant general manager and Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers scout Jamir Nelson. He joins myself and Bluecoats
Speaker 1: Ambassador of Basketball Joe Richmond, and you'll hear the rundown
Speaker 1: of topics that we cover with Jamir in just a
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Speaker 1: Here's our interview with Jamir Nelson and we are pleased
Speaker 1: to be joined by Jamir Nelson. You don't need to
Speaker 1: know the bio, but we'll give you some brief stuff anyway,
Speaker 1: you probably already know it at Saint Joe's University, legend
Speaker 1: Saint Joseph's University, then a fourteen year NBA veteran and
Speaker 1: now Philadelphia seventy six Ers scout and of course the
Speaker 1: assistant general manager announced recently of the Delaware Blue Coats.
Speaker 1: As we record this in the middle of November, coming
Speaker 1: fresh off the announcement, Jamir, welcome and thanks for coming on.
Speaker 1: How does that new job title? How's that been sync
Speaker 1: in for you? Um? Every time I hear it, it it
Speaker 1: sounds weird, um, but it's cool. I mean, I'm fortunate
Speaker 1: to be able to uh work work under some guys
Speaker 1: who have a lot of knowledge and a lot of
Speaker 1: success uh in the office Elton, Daryl doc Um. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of other guys, um, that are on
Speaker 1: a team that that you know, have been helping me
Speaker 1: through the process that you know, I really appreciate. And Joe,
Speaker 1: I know, we're really excited to bring Jamir on board.
Speaker 1: It's huge news for the Sixers organization as a whole.
Speaker 1: It's it's huge news for the whole Tristate area. What's up, Jamir, Yes,
Speaker 1: Sir oh Man, I never correct you, Matt, but I
Speaker 1: had you left one thing off. He is chester Chester
Speaker 1: Chester legend, Clippers baby all day long. Yeah, I skipped
Speaker 1: right ahead to college. But of course chester Chester native
Speaker 1: Jamir Nelson quick rundown for our listeners of the podcast
Speaker 1: and anybody that might be watching on YouTube Delaware Bluecoats
Speaker 1: on YouTube if you're listening right now on the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers podcast Network, We're gonna talk about Jamir's new role
Speaker 1: with the Sixers and the Blue Coats. We'll get into
Speaker 1: some of his story playing career, and then we'll hit
Speaker 1: some final questions random things in our at the Buzzer segment.
Speaker 1: But we're really excited for this episode. So Jamir, first,
Speaker 1: before we dive too deep, explain a little bit more
Speaker 1: about your new role and what the day to day
Speaker 1: is going to be like for you. Well, it's it's
Speaker 1: still a little up in the air. I mean, trying
Speaker 1: to figure out all the rules and regulations that's gonna
Speaker 1: go on, you know so far. I mean, just especially
Speaker 1: with the G League. I mean the NBA you know,
Speaker 1: historically goes first and then the G League normally goes
Speaker 1: a month or so later, so hopefully we get everything
Speaker 1: rolling with the upcoming draft and free agency and then
Speaker 1: we start focusing a little more on the G League Bluecoats. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, I'm gonna being involved in the UM.
Speaker 1: You know, looks like I'm gonna be heavily involved in
Speaker 1: in the day to day and administrative and you know,
Speaker 1: making some decisions with the roster and certain things with
Speaker 1: the blue clothing as well with the Sixers. I mean, um,
Speaker 1: every everything I do is gonna be a learning experience. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, UM, you know some things, I know, some
Speaker 1: things I don't. I'm going into it as if I
Speaker 1: don't know anything, so I can learn as much as
Speaker 1: I can, you know, UM, coming into a very humble
Speaker 1: and and very appreciative of the opportunity. So UM, I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to it. Man. It's gonna be fun, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a great challenge and a great opportunity
Speaker 1: and Joe and an exciting offseason for the Sixers and
Speaker 1: big things ahead, uh for this franchise. And I'm excited
Speaker 1: because it kind of flows right in. You're looking at
Speaker 1: him scouting for the Sixers with and he's right with
Speaker 1: there with Elton, which is a laid back guy, because
Speaker 1: Jamie is like a real laid back guy, unassuming like
Speaker 1: if then he's right there with Matt Lily as a
Speaker 1: sistant general made another laid bad guy look like like
Speaker 1: like yo, this guy, and so you can see that
Speaker 1: their personalities is going to hit it off right from
Speaker 1: the back. And Jamir speaking of seventy six years, GM
Speaker 1: Elton Brand, what has your relationship been like with him,
Speaker 1: not only over the years, but then kind of as
Speaker 1: this has all come about as well. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: interesting how things transpired. Um, you know, Elina myself, we've
Speaker 1: we've been we were cording, you know, when we played
Speaker 1: against each other. UM, probably put him in you know
Speaker 1: a couple of picking rolls and blew by him a
Speaker 1: couple of times. Probably black my shadow coach or whatever.
Speaker 1: But you know, over the last couple of years, you know,
Speaker 1: the last few years of his career, we worked out together. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we we we um developed a bond, a
Speaker 1: relationship and the friendship and over and just continue to
Speaker 1: to to to grow that over the last few years
Speaker 1: after he got done playing, Um, you know, bounce questions
Speaker 1: off him about the front office he would, you know,
Speaker 1: try to help me and put point me in the
Speaker 1: direction I wanted to be in. Um. You know, we
Speaker 1: had a couple of different UM, couple cups of coffee,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple couple you know, bites to eat. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, basketball is a brotherhood, man, It's
Speaker 1: it's it's like a big fraternity where you know, you
Speaker 1: you develop their relationship with guys and that trust and
Speaker 1: you know they want to help each other. So he's
Speaker 1: a guy that wanted to help me and put me
Speaker 1: in the right direction. And you know, logistically, it just
Speaker 1: made sense for me to um, you know, take him
Speaker 1: up on his offer this year rather than somebody else.
Speaker 1: I had other offers, but opportunities. But who who like
Speaker 1: Like what organization is better than the Sixers to start with?
Speaker 1: For me? Um? Great and the Blue Coats. You know,
Speaker 1: the six is great. Rids are great young talent pieces
Speaker 1: and you can you can see everything's fall into place
Speaker 1: piece by piece like a puzzle of force. And Joe,
Speaker 1: I want you to jump in on Elton and maybe
Speaker 1: even touch on when he was the Blue Coats GM,
Speaker 1: because you've been around the Blue Coats for a while yourself.
Speaker 1: But before we go back to Joe Jamir, what what
Speaker 1: promise do you see with the organization as a whole,
Speaker 1: the Sixers in particular, like what promise around this franchise?
Speaker 1: Obviously Joel and b Ben Simmons and the list goes on. Well,
Speaker 1: you you see the moves that that has been made
Speaker 1: in the front office. So let it tell you right there,
Speaker 1: they're focused on winning, um and and it's not it's
Speaker 1: not saying like, oh, we're gonna win thirty forty games,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to build a championship caliber team. You know, um,
Speaker 1: you have two really good or great pieces in Joel
Speaker 1: and then and some other good ones around. So you know,
Speaker 1: like I'm new to it. Um. You know, I would
Speaker 1: be foolish to say, you know, we're gonna do this,
Speaker 1: or we're gonna do that, or we need to do
Speaker 1: this and need to do that. But my job is
Speaker 1: to get or gather as much intel as possible as
Speaker 1: needed as a scout, um given to the guys that
Speaker 1: are higher up that's above my prip thay grade, and
Speaker 1: you know, allowing them to make the decisions and support that.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think we're in a good spot
Speaker 1: in terms of the roster in terms of the talent.
Speaker 1: Like I said, some things may may need to be tweaked, um,
Speaker 1: whether it's the style of play, whether it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: personnel or anything like that. But for the most part,
Speaker 1: I think we're in a good spot. Wow, I'm listen.
Speaker 1: I'm a Man Nelson fan. I'm sorry. I'm like you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the hype one up in the here,
Speaker 1: y'all gonna be all professional, y'all. What in fact, like
Speaker 1: you ain't sitting here, But this is this is amazing
Speaker 1: because you know, you talk Matt talks about the young
Speaker 1: and and and the piece that we need. But I'm
Speaker 1: just going back to who you are as a person,
Speaker 1: jahmyor who you are as that leader. You know you've
Speaker 1: done it at so many levels at high Saint Joe's
Speaker 1: in the NBA. Is amazing that we picked the right guy,
Speaker 1: or you chose us, whatever the case may be, to
Speaker 1: do these dual things that you're about to do scout
Speaker 1: and assistant GM because that's who you were on the
Speaker 1: floor seeing things, seeing things developed. And this is amazing
Speaker 1: how the G League is all about development. So talk
Speaker 1: to that piece about the young pieces that the things
Speaker 1: that you can bring to those young because you know,
Speaker 1: it's a different generation of guard, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And there's a different generation of how they play. But
Speaker 1: you've seen it on so many levels, in so many
Speaker 1: different aspects. Touch on that part, JA man, about what
Speaker 1: you can see in that player that was like you
Speaker 1: when you know you had all these naysayers of this.
Speaker 1: That the third because that's what that G league is about,
Speaker 1: the guy that's still hungry trying to get there. Just
Speaker 1: talk about that and what you bring to those players
Speaker 1: when you're go in that room and you can talk
Speaker 1: to them on that on that level. Well, I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I'm fairly young. I'm still not I'm not too far
Speaker 1: removed from the game. So and it helps for me
Speaker 1: to have a son that's a sophomore in college, So
Speaker 1: I'm able to adapt to different things in the environment
Speaker 1: that some of these younger players are going through. Um.
Speaker 1: They probably won't go through a situation that I haven't
Speaker 1: been through. UM, so I can help in terms of that.
Speaker 1: I can also, um, you know, when when it comes
Speaker 1: to working out, you know my work ethic it kind
Speaker 1: of speaks for self, so I can kind of push
Speaker 1: them in that direction. It's just so many different directions.
Speaker 1: I think I can help um with with the development
Speaker 1: of a G League player and in the roster um.
Speaker 1: You know, my main my main focus is, like I said,
Speaker 1: to be myself. Uh be who I've been leading, and
Speaker 1: bring my knowledge to the organization. Uh and and and
Speaker 1: let those guys use me, use me in a productive
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Speaker 1: dot org. Jamir, We do want to go down memory
Speaker 1: lane a little bit from your playing career. I know
Speaker 1: we don't need to touch on each one of your
Speaker 1: fourteen NBA seasons or anything like that, or the college
Speaker 1: career too in too much detail. But before we transition
Speaker 1: to your playing career, my last thing is just about
Speaker 1: the homecoming and the reaction. So it's it's Philadelphia, it's
Speaker 1: the seventy six ers. What has the response to your
Speaker 1: new position and the announcement been like? And who are
Speaker 1: the messages and calls coming from I mean, I you know,
Speaker 1: when when it kind of like, I guess it broke
Speaker 1: when you know, on social media Instagram and Twitter or
Speaker 1: whatever else it says sources said, you know, jamir Nels
Speaker 1: is going to be and I got a bunch of
Speaker 1: texts and if it's true, congratulations, blah blah blah. I
Speaker 1: shouldn't say a couple. I got about three or four
Speaker 1: hundred texts. My wife was like. My wife was like,
Speaker 1: I don't even know that many people. And I guess
Speaker 1: I didn't realize they had to many people on my
Speaker 1: phone that had my number. Um, but it's you know,
Speaker 1: it was you know, it was hard warming man, just
Speaker 1: to get the support or no, you still have that
Speaker 1: support even though you're not a player. Um. A lot
Speaker 1: of people say when when when you're done playing, the
Speaker 1: phone stop ringing. My phone has never stopped ringing. So, UM,
Speaker 1: it's been. It's been. It's been a fun uh a
Speaker 1: few weeks and and and just knowing, like I said,
Speaker 1: to have that love and uh, to have the support
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, it's it's it's it's different.
Speaker 1: It's a differ. It's in a different way because now
Speaker 1: I got people call and say, can you get me
Speaker 1: a job? Um, but but it's it's to be expected.
Speaker 1: And and and um, I'm ready for the challenge, man,
Speaker 1: And and I'm ready to do good things and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, basically make the people that are proud of me,
Speaker 1: I'll make them proud of even more proud of me.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. And and a quick one on Saint Joe's
Speaker 1: I mean, you you talk about it, your story career
Speaker 1: there all the time, and it's that two thousand and
Speaker 1: four season, the perfect regular season twenty seven and oh yeah,
Speaker 1: just a quick one. What sticks out in your mind
Speaker 1: from that tournament run. I'm always intrigued by players that
Speaker 1: have gone on an NCAA tournament run, um that experience, Like,
Speaker 1: what what are the top things that stand out to
Speaker 1: you on or off the court from that time period. Well?
Speaker 1: The two things is how close we were as a
Speaker 1: as a group. I Mean, it wasn't like we were up.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't have any money, huse, so you
Speaker 1: can't hang out and do things you can do like
Speaker 1: in an NBA. UM, but we were close. You know,
Speaker 1: we did a lot of things together. We did, you know,
Speaker 1: things that we can afford together. We we hung in there.
Speaker 1: We fed off each other energy on and off the
Speaker 1: floor and on the court. Um, I you know, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe one other team that I can say this about.
Speaker 1: Everybody knew their role and that's what made it so Uh,
Speaker 1: that's what made it so successful and and so fun.
Speaker 1: And when people say that it was a fun team
Speaker 1: to watch, and that's that's that's why. Because they knew myself, Delonte,
Speaker 1: we're gonna shoot all the balls. Um, you know, Dwayne
Speaker 1: Jones who who's in the organization, uh, you know, and
Speaker 1: John Bryan who was an organization that they were gonna
Speaker 1: get all the rebounds and do all the dirty work defensively.
Speaker 1: And everybody accepted it. Were like so it wasn't like
Speaker 1: you know, I can just give you one story. Delonte
Speaker 1: didn't play and we were playing Xavier. This was my
Speaker 1: junior year and Delonte didn't play. He had a bad ankle.
Speaker 1: And what happened was I was tired. Dwayne Jones came
Speaker 1: to me and said, you have to shoot the ball
Speaker 1: every time, and I was cramping. They were picking me.
Speaker 1: It was almost like the flu game for Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: They were carrying me back and forth. I ended up
Speaker 1: taking thirty fourth shots, you know what I'm saying, And
Speaker 1: that was the most I've ever taken. And I you know,
Speaker 1: in college, I probably wanted to take fifteen and seventeen shots,
Speaker 1: and I doubled it and they were fine with the results.
Speaker 1: Offen the rebound, they were like, come getting the ball,
Speaker 1: Come get I'm like, Joe, I'm tramping um. But they knew. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I felt like we all had like I
Speaker 1: played a role, but in that particular situation, they felt
Speaker 1: like I was the only guy that can help win
Speaker 1: win us the game. We can't close. We end up losing.
Speaker 1: But that just that's just the testament of who we
Speaker 1: were as a team and who those guys were um
Speaker 1: as teammates, Joe. I mean, we talked about players making
Speaker 1: the transition from playing too, in this case the front office,
Speaker 1: and a career like Jamir is to draw off of
Speaker 1: not only those college experiences, but fourteen years in the
Speaker 1: NBA as well. He's got quite the well to to
Speaker 1: pull from in this new role. I mean, well, for
Speaker 1: those that really know Jamir, I mean, and you knew
Speaker 1: that Chester, that's that, that's that DNA and him. You
Speaker 1: talk about the Zane Shawls of the world, the Solos
Speaker 1: of the world, the Rad Carlson world, the poo evans
Speaker 1: Is of the world, Guys that came and guys that
Speaker 1: you were weird, guys that you looked up to, Guys
Speaker 1: that looked up to you, and for you to carry
Speaker 1: that tradition on. But all that he's talking about, it's
Speaker 1: really I want to say, outside or you're probably your parents,
Speaker 1: was probably one man that shaped a lot in your life.
Speaker 1: And if you can't touch on a coach Pikett, can
Speaker 1: you talk about that a little bit? So coach you
Speaker 1: know he was. He was a father figure to me
Speaker 1: on and off the court. You know, Betimes, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I have to stay over his house for days at
Speaker 1: a time, and uh and it wasn't even like something
Speaker 1: was going on in my house where I couldn't stay
Speaker 1: or anything like that. I was really comfortable. That's just
Speaker 1: who he was. He accepted me as a as as
Speaker 1: you know, as as a person and as a as
Speaker 1: a young man. You know, he helped Roomy, he helped
Speaker 1: Um I do a lot of different situations. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I I honestly say it wasn't a coach Pikett man,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be where I'm at now.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a guy who, um you're talking about
Speaker 1: helping the community. He was a guy who who saw
Speaker 1: me as at a young age. I probably was like,
Speaker 1: man if I had to guess ten, eleven, twelve years old,
Speaker 1: and he recognized me then and was like followed me
Speaker 1: and wanted me to do well, um and put me
Speaker 1: in as in a situation in high school as a
Speaker 1: player to be successful. I could have played varcity as
Speaker 1: a freshman, but he, you know, he was like, look,
Speaker 1: you know, play play JV you know if you want
Speaker 1: suit up for some varsity games. We wanted to develop.
Speaker 1: Then the next year came, you know, he had actual
Speaker 1: playing for me and and and you know at worked,
Speaker 1: you know got you know, I wish he was still
Speaker 1: here to see, uh what's going right now? But not
Speaker 1: necessarily just me. Just so many different things going on
Speaker 1: in Cheston on a positive that you know, he probably
Speaker 1: had his hands in it and probably helped out with
Speaker 1: that that people don't even realize or no. And I
Speaker 1: think that's that part of you, is what you're going
Speaker 1: to see as you start working way around these players, Um,
Speaker 1: coming to the blue coach, that youngness and those things
Speaker 1: that you can tell that place, like be patient. It's
Speaker 1: okay like you said, you could have went to play varsity,
Speaker 1: but he said, and you can be that person. You've
Speaker 1: lived it. It's not something that you heard. And I
Speaker 1: think that's what you're going to bring to the table
Speaker 1: more than anything. Yeah, and you know, the world we
Speaker 1: live in right now is fast, noisiest all over the place,
Speaker 1: social media and a lot of young a lot of
Speaker 1: young players or young people in general. Um, they want
Speaker 1: instant gratification because I can post the picture and get
Speaker 1: instant lights or people to uh validate how you know,
Speaker 1: how how my work ethic is and stuff like that
Speaker 1: right away. Where when I was growing up it was
Speaker 1: it was more about just relaxed with your time. Like
Speaker 1: you said, I come from a city where we're guard heavy.
Speaker 1: You just you name a bunch of guards that came out.
Speaker 1: I mean you didn't even name like a core of them,
Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying, Like you just I
Speaker 1: had guys in front of me. So you have to
Speaker 1: be patient. You have to be patient, you have to
Speaker 1: be uh and you also also have to be confident.
Speaker 1: And that's the one thing that grown up a Chester
Speaker 1: is known for me is helped me with my confidence.
Speaker 1: So before we get to our final few questions at
Speaker 1: the buzzer and squeeze a couple more in, I just
Speaker 1: want to talk about the transition and when you started
Speaker 1: thinking about it, because I've I've heard and read that
Speaker 1: you said towards the end of your playing career that
Speaker 1: you kind of acknowledge that you might have to bounce
Speaker 1: around a little bit to a few different teams. When
Speaker 1: did you start thinking about your post playing career and
Speaker 1: what you wanted to do. Probably around my tenth year.
Speaker 1: You make it, You make it to ten years, You're
Speaker 1: very fortunate. I mean, you make it to seven five,
Speaker 1: you're very fortunate. So make when I got to ten,
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, was my goal honestly to get to
Speaker 1: ten and then you know, figure it out from there.
Speaker 1: And then I got to ten, I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: my body feels good. My body felt better at ten
Speaker 1: did it did at five? So I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: I can get the fifteen. And then I started bouncing
Speaker 1: around a little bit. I'm like, all right, I don't
Speaker 1: want to deal with this. My family, you know, putt
Speaker 1: my family through the Ringer Um. You know, my last
Speaker 1: few years they lived back in the Pennsylvania area without me,
Speaker 1: and I was in Denver. So that took a toll
Speaker 1: on me and took a toll on us. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it just it just was you know, I've always thought
Speaker 1: about that, just didn't know. Like I told somebody the
Speaker 1: other day, you played fourteen years in the NBA, then
Speaker 1: you say, all right, now, what do I want to
Speaker 1: do when I grow up? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So it's like, all right, now, what's next? Um, Whether
Speaker 1: whether you set financially or not, you still have to
Speaker 1: do something. I'm a competitor. I love to compete. That
Speaker 1: that's the one thing that people don't realize about athletes, Like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do something that's competitive, whether it's another sport,
Speaker 1: whether it's a business world, We're gonna do something where
Speaker 1: we continue to uphold and and to quench that thirst
Speaker 1: of the competitive drive. So for me, I went back
Speaker 1: and forth with coaching. Opportunities presented themselves right away, front
Speaker 1: office right away, and I just didn't know what was
Speaker 1: right for me. And I've always I've always been a
Speaker 1: guy when I had to make a decision about college, um, contracts,
Speaker 1: you know, different things. I go with my gut um
Speaker 1: And again here we go Elton, Hey, man, what's going
Speaker 1: on here? Doing blah blah blah. And you know, he's like,
Speaker 1: look what you're thinking. And I'm like, well, what you're thinking?
Speaker 1: So make a long story. Sure, I know it's getting
Speaker 1: a long, but I was like, look, you know I heard,
Speaker 1: I heard what. You know, the job title was in
Speaker 1: the description. I was like, that's it, That's what I
Speaker 1: want to do. Um and and and I'm here now man, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, hold on back. Talk about competing and competitive.
Speaker 1: I want to know, like Ai crossing Joy and that
Speaker 1: was his moment. When was your moment when you got
Speaker 1: in the NBA said yo, I can do this. This
Speaker 1: is this is it? Like the games that number of
Speaker 1: vis It was probably the first time I made the playoffs. Um.
Speaker 1: It was against Detroit and I had a really good series.
Speaker 1: We ended up getting swept. Um. You know, looking back
Speaker 1: on it, it's just they were just that much better
Speaker 1: than this. We were gonna get swept no matter what.
Speaker 1: But I kind of showed, like, you know, um, who
Speaker 1: I was as a player in the NBA then. And
Speaker 1: I remember like Chauncey Billups coming up to me and
Speaker 1: ripped and just telling me like yo, like this is
Speaker 1: your team. Take it over. Um, you know, nothing against
Speaker 1: like anybody else, like Dwider those guys, but they were like,
Speaker 1: look this, we see it in you. You got it.
Speaker 1: You know, just work and you know I would have
Speaker 1: talks with Kobe and you know, talk to him and
Speaker 1: that was his message, just work your butt off and
Speaker 1: let the sas fallard. They mean and and and that
Speaker 1: that was my moment right there when when I when
Speaker 1: I made it to the playoffs that first year, we
Speaker 1: like we got swept. But it's not like I was like,
Speaker 1: oh man, I arrived. It was like, all right, I
Speaker 1: gotta get my stuff together. These guys really think I
Speaker 1: can do it, So I'm gonna I'm gonna live up
Speaker 1: to it. I'm gonna work harder. And that's when I
Speaker 1: kind of started to Um, I've always had a really
Speaker 1: good work ethic, but I took it to a different
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Speaker 1: Joe can squeeze one in before we get you out
Speaker 1: of here. But these are the app buzzer questions, just
Speaker 1: some fun random things. The first one is travel. I
Speaker 1: always ask everybody that played or coach or whatever favorite
Speaker 1: road city to visit outside of your home city. And
Speaker 1: why I love Chicago. I mean, I like Chicago. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm a I'm a I'm a people watcher.
Speaker 1: So I like to go to restaurant and got really
Speaker 1: good restaurants normally. Normally I'm not like a VIP person,
Speaker 1: so I see that at the bar eat a lot
Speaker 1: of times I would go by myself. Uh uh. So
Speaker 1: you know, for me, I'm five eleven three quarters, so
Speaker 1: I can get away with sitting somewhere and people not
Speaker 1: actually like looking at me like, oh, that's a big person.
Speaker 1: He must be a basketball player. I would always get like,
Speaker 1: I know you from somewhere, and I'd be like, nope,
Speaker 1: she's drinking, but yeah, probably Chicago because of that. Joe,
Speaker 1: you got one, all right? How did it feel? From
Speaker 1: the movie? Just right when Common said Dwhite Howard, let
Speaker 1: you board your men? No, i'mould give it to us.
Speaker 1: You know what. What's funny about that? I was supposed
Speaker 1: to be in the movie, but that's the year I
Speaker 1: had UM. I had shoulder surgery, so I was rehabbing,
Speaker 1: so I was trying to get them to get me
Speaker 1: a place in that area. I wasn't I wasn't big
Speaker 1: time enough as an actor to say, Hey, I need
Speaker 1: a trail, I need a gym. They like, They're like,
Speaker 1: not really gonna use your name. I was like cool,
Speaker 1: you know, but it was cool though. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: to have you know my name in the movie, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny. I just got my agent called
Speaker 1: me about a month ago. It's like, can um uh?
Speaker 1: You asked me if um Family Guide if they can
Speaker 1: use me in the skit? Of course, so funny because
Speaker 1: El was in that movie. Yep. So when I heard
Speaker 1: your name, I was like wow. And and when we're
Speaker 1: doing this, I was like, wow, what a coincidence that
Speaker 1: would have been if you would have actually been in
Speaker 1: the movie. And El was the one that Latifa went
Speaker 1: to to be in condition. I was like wow, I
Speaker 1: was But I'm glad that they did use your day
Speaker 1: because I was like, yes, yes, yes, yeah. Now I'm
Speaker 1: being a family guy too. Um from the All Star
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna show a clip of with me
Speaker 1: sitting on a bench or something like that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I mean that was It's cool.
Speaker 1: It was cool. Like from It's more for like my
Speaker 1: kids to be like, oh my dad name like I mean,
Speaker 1: they're probably at the age now where they really don't care,
Speaker 1: but that's awesome. Last one, favorite hobby when you have
Speaker 1: some downtime or you can give multiple things that you
Speaker 1: like to do when you have some free time. I'm
Speaker 1: mainly I'm mainly, uh in a supporter of my kids.
Speaker 1: I mean my wife. I just you know, whatever I can,
Speaker 1: whatever I can do them to lighten the load for
Speaker 1: my wife and that driver crazy um and support my
Speaker 1: kids and whatever they're doing. But for myself individually, I
Speaker 1: love the cook I mean I watched the Cooking Show.
Speaker 1: Like a lot of people don't, I watch cooking shows
Speaker 1: like all the time. Like when I say all the time,
Speaker 1: it's like I I probably watch more cooking shows than
Speaker 1: I do sports. Um, So I love to, like you know,
Speaker 1: throw it down in the kitchen. Like I said, I
Speaker 1: love I love restouries. I love to eat. I work
Speaker 1: out to eat, so you know, whatever I do in
Speaker 1: the gym and so I won't get fat because I
Speaker 1: know I'm gonna eat something bad. What's the best thing
Speaker 1: that you make? Um, I don't know, man, I mean,
Speaker 1: I you know, I'm not trying to like, you know,
Speaker 1: toot my own hornor anything like that. But I feel
Speaker 1: like I can make a lot of different things good.
Speaker 1: I'm not like specializing like one thing, and I don't
Speaker 1: I don't follow ingredients. But when I watched the cooking shows,
Speaker 1: I get ideas and they want I'm in the kitchen,
Speaker 1: it was like this is uh they come out and
Speaker 1: I don't use like ingredients and stuff like that. I
Speaker 1: just I'm like, oh this tastes good with this that taste,
Speaker 1: and you know, my kids like, can you make it
Speaker 1: the next time? Like, I don't even know what I did,
Speaker 1: but I try to even this cooking mirror his game
Speaker 1: everything you like, I don't spend the one thing I
Speaker 1: do a little bit of anything. It like I don't
Speaker 1: know I did it, but I knew I did it
Speaker 1: real real quick. Derrek Jones, Tyreek Evans. Uh, come on,
Speaker 1: who am I missing? How is Jefferson? Who's the next
Speaker 1: one coming out of Chester? Man? Come on, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I mean for think about this, right. You got Dwayne
Speaker 1: Jones too, right? Yeah, okay, yeah, mister Wayne, myself, Dwayne Rande,
Speaker 1: Derek Jones. That's four pros, right and Tyrek and ty Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you're talking about forty thousand people. You got four
Speaker 1: or five pros come out of one city. Yes, you know,
Speaker 1: per population, like that's that's pretty amazing. So even if
Speaker 1: we hopefully we do, but even if we don't, you
Speaker 1: gotta throw throw Kevin Jones in there too as a
Speaker 1: football player, a couple other guys professionals. You know, it's
Speaker 1: the market. We have a bunch of professional athletes coming
Speaker 1: from a city that only has forty thousand people. Um so,
Speaker 1: and then you're talking about other guys, um who who
Speaker 1: grew up in Chester but then moved to different places
Speaker 1: that may have become professional or making. You know, some
Speaker 1: of them I can't talk about because you men say
Speaker 1: it might be draft probably. You know, you still got
Speaker 1: the best of the Best Grammy award within the John
Speaker 1: Little Beats got Little Beats, I mean really different positive
Speaker 1: people in Chester. I mean, you know, I have somebody
Speaker 1: really close to me who Um, you know these stories
Speaker 1: right here aren't talked about enough. Um, just moved to
Speaker 1: Urlando and this is more realistic than being a professional athlete.
Speaker 1: Just moved to Orlando. Um, you know, got got a
Speaker 1: really really good job offer. Um, if I had to guess,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't count people pockets, but they're probably
Speaker 1: making over a half million dollars um. And that's that's
Speaker 1: in the workfield. So it's a lot of positive a
Speaker 1: lot a lot of positivity coming out of Chester that
Speaker 1: that's not talked about. Um, that needs to be brought
Speaker 1: to light. Well, this was so much fun, a lot
Speaker 1: of good stuff. And if if a major takeaway for
Speaker 1: some fans, maybe six Ers fans, was Elton and all
Speaker 1: of our conversation about you and Elton figuring out what
Speaker 1: you wanted to do. Was it gonna be coaching, was
Speaker 1: it gonna be a front office path? People forget Jamir.
Speaker 1: You broadcast a Blue Coats game last season at the
Speaker 1: G League Showcase. So you went from broadcasting a blue
Speaker 1: Coats game, so now you're the blue Coats assistant general
Speaker 1: manager in just about a year. Yeah, I hope, I
Speaker 1: hope I didn't say too many bad things. I mean
Speaker 1: I could. I did some college games. I was a
Speaker 1: little critical, and the Saint Joel's fans they got all me.
Speaker 1: We got to pull the tape Butler, Saint Jose and
Speaker 1: Butler fans hated me for a couple of weeks. But whatever,
Speaker 1: we'll pull the tape on the Blue Coats game that
Speaker 1: you did. But thanks again for spending some time with us.
Speaker 1: We're looking forward to this next step for you and
Speaker 1: it was a lot of fun. Thanks again to New
Speaker 1: Delaware Blue Coats assistant general manager and Philadelphia seventy six
Speaker 1: ers scout Jimir Nelson for my partner Joe Richmond, the
Speaker 1: Bluecoats ambassador of basketball. I'm Matt Murphy. Until next time,
Speaker 1: take it or leave it at the coat check.