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Speaker 1: So the first question you asked everybody when you first

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Speaker 2: The first person that got me was Glenn Rice. Right.

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Speaker 3: The man put me on the block. It was like

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Speaker 2: I was supposed to be guarding Dale Curry. And then

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Speaker 3: A switch off, and you know, I'm trying to figure

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Speaker 3: and I was a liability all season long because I'm

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Speaker 3: playing against guys that in college, you stand next to

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Speaker 2: He's not gonna shoot it right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you get to the league and you

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Speaker 3: try that, you oh, you don't really. Dell Curry had

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Speaker 3: the ball up like that, and I was just in

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Speaker 3: put your hand up. He didn't even.

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Speaker 2: Bit his leg nothing, just right from there, hut right

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Speaker 3: And I was like and then I looked at the

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Speaker 2: I was like, obviously guarded man.

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Speaker 4: Glenn Right had that high art.

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Speaker 1: He usually have that ball up high, so you could

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Speaker 1: it was hard to block his shadow blocker or even

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Speaker 2: And he was strong at hell too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm telling you I couldn't deny the ball and

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Speaker 3: he was gonna get his six. He He's gonna get

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Speaker 3: the ball where he wanted it. When I got to lead,

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Speaker 3: you know the same.

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Speaker 2: I still say. Now, good defense better offense.

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Speaker 3: And you don't realize that until you play in the NBA,

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Speaker 3: because you can play perfect defense in the NBA and

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Speaker 3: the guy is still gonna score on you no matter what.

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Speaker 2: Yo, yo yo.

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Speaker 5: We live on location. It's all Florida today. Everybody Florida,

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Speaker 5: shouty Florida, Florida, Florida.

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Speaker 2: Me and d Miles is right here in Orlando.

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Speaker 5: Central Florida City beautiful and we got Hall of Famer, Hall.

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Speaker 2: Of Famer Darren said.

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Speaker 5: Jesus Shuttle words there, I said, the top three point

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Speaker 5: first the original member of Jordan's brand team.

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Speaker 2: Jesus.

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Speaker 4: He got Gay.

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Speaker 2: Allen in the building with a baby. What's up, man,

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Speaker 2: We appreciate you pulling up on us.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 2: This is super dope. Man.

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Speaker 3: Thank y'all for having me. I've been watching y'all for

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Speaker 3: a long time. Now you got the great self. Thanks

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Speaker 3: for having me on. Yes sir, yes, sir.

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Speaker 1: When we first got to the league, I think this

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Speaker 4: Like when we first got to the league.

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Speaker 1: You was with the Milwaukee Bucks and y'all had to

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Speaker 1: remember when we got to the Lake, I felt like that

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Speaker 1: I feel like y'all team was built to play against

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Speaker 1: Talking about like anytime that y'all shot shot the ball,

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Speaker 3: Well, it was unfortunate because we should have stayed together

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Speaker 3: We had such a great chemistry. When we added him

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Speaker 2: It was like that mighty different. It slowed us down.

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Speaker 3: And then, you know we prior to that, previous years

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Speaker 3: everybody had input into the game. You know, the way

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Speaker 3: we play similar, you know, teams to plan now, but

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Speaker 2: We just situated around it.

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Speaker 3: We knew like we got threes off offensive rebounds, knew

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Speaker 3: I think it was Portland during the year, so you're right,

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Speaker 3: Like we beat the Lakers twice that year, but then

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Speaker 2: Just from going back from that.

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Speaker 3: Because no way should the league determine the outcome of

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Speaker 3: And that right there was a story for us. But

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Speaker 5: Take me back to South Carolina. So you was an

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Speaker 3: Well, so I was born in California, and then I

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Speaker 2: So when I was thirteen, I moved to South Carolina.

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Speaker 2: And I have to say, you.

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Speaker 2: I mean it was.

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Speaker 3: But as a thirteen year old kid, you figure it out.

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Speaker 5: When did you first began playing ball? Like, was it

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Speaker 1: What year did you know that, like, man, I'm one

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Speaker 1: of the country's best. I'm not just only the best

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Speaker 1: in South Carolina, I'm one of the best in the country.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I ever got to that realization because

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Speaker 3: And I think something like that for our kids to

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Speaker 2: Work to do.

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Speaker 3: You know, this little dude right here now you can

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Speaker 2: Dudes like you're like, yo, let me show you you you.

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Speaker 3: Still, let me show you see what blood did last

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Speaker 1: We used to look at stats in the papers that

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Speaker 5: When I went to ABC camp first, we get there

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Speaker 5: these dudes. It was like, I mean, little Greedy Daniels

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Speaker 5: to his court. This man six take six' nine coming

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Speaker 2: Something But i'm, like what is going? On like? This

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Speaker 5: World was like WHEN i got back to the CRIT

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Speaker 2: Do so that camp definitely did that for.

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Speaker 3: ME i, think what you, know the exposure is so

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Speaker 3: you saw the lighter than the, tunnel LIKE i.

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Speaker 1: Saw what you, Walk, yeah you saw what you like

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Speaker 1: my Nightcamp WHEN i went my sophomore year AND i

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Speaker 1: Seen corey, MCGHETTY i Seen Ryan rush And cooley old,

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Speaker 1: Stuff i'm, like, man they, like, yeah that's the number,

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Speaker 2: World i'm, LIKE i want to be like, them, different phone, positive.

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Speaker 4: Different i'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: Man they were just looking like the, man and it

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Speaker 1: level with. Them Then i'm watching them, play watching cute they'll,

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Speaker 1: whether you want to compete for, Something you're gonna take it.

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Speaker 4: Seriously this just a game to.

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Speaker 3: You but here's the problem when you see, that because you,

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Speaker 2: Go so they don't have to work.

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Speaker 3: Anymore but because what they did was they put that

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Speaker 2: This is on my. Mind but did those kids that are,

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Speaker 3: Getting all the smoke at that, age they don't have

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Speaker 2: More Because i'm at the.

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Speaker 3: Top ALL i gotta do is just keep killing these

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Speaker 3: ones that don't get. Better those the one end up

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Speaker 3: choosing the wrong school and then all of a, sudden

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Speaker 3: you don't hear about no. More and we you, know

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Speaker 3: somebody like myself BECAUSE i was ranking top twenty five

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Speaker 3: it didn't matter. ME i was, Like i'm gonna go

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Speaker 3: i can have, Fun, like, YEAH i want to be

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Speaker 3: playing THE, nba BUT i was thinking about jumping higher

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Speaker 3: and be getting better shooting because now BECAUSE i have

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Speaker 3: a kid on my team, NOW i asked another day

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Speaker 3: what their goals were BECAUSE i want them to put

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Speaker 3: people hear, them they help them accomplish those. Goals and

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Speaker 3: if you straight from that, path somebody's there to remind.

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Speaker 3: You remember when you told me this what you're feeling.

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Speaker 2: At how is it coaching your kids? Team is? That

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Speaker 2: how was that for?

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Speaker 3: You, well you know when you go to watch your

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Speaker 3: the stand And i'm watching them this year and they were,

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Speaker 3: like no, effort you, know just doing silly. THINGS i

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Speaker 3: yelling at him and telling me to people because it's

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Speaker 3: like it's, like, dude, go you, know because he the

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Speaker 2: Run you, Know i'm, like, run go get easy. Bucket

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Speaker 3: A couple of, Practices i'd come there and be there

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Speaker 3: before the practice without step on the coaches Told so

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Speaker 3: when seas an end that day where you, know the

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Speaker 3: coach asked, me he, said you want to create AN aau,

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Speaker 3: SAID i thought about, it AND i, said, yeah, YEAH i

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Speaker 3: really would because there's so much that they need to.

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Speaker 3: Learn so my, philosophy you, know behind teaching these kids

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Speaker 2: Get them to, compete you, know every single.

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Speaker 3: Practice you, know that's WHAT i want to see because

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Speaker 3: they're at a private, school so they're they're void of.

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Speaker 3: Adversity you, know for the most, part most of our

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Speaker 3: kids grow up in nice. Home they have swimming. Pools

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Speaker 3: they think every kid lives that. Way but the three

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Speaker 3: of us we grew up.

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Speaker 2: Differently you.

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Speaker 3: Know we grew up with so little and that's what

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Speaker 3: created us to fight and scratch and.

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Speaker 2: Claw you.

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Speaker 3: Know we were Like i'm not going to, start you,

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Speaker 3: know right and now, yeah now they don't have that.

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Speaker 3: Adversity so when the ball comes off the.

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Speaker 2: RIM i got.

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Speaker 3: Kids on this team THAT i coached that look at

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Speaker 3: the ball, bounce you, know trying to teach them. That you,

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Speaker 3: know some of the best players in the world were

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Speaker 3: great rebounders and made The hall Of fame because of.

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Speaker 2: It, yes rebounding is a. Talent you.

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Speaker 3: Know my son has a fire AND i love, that

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Speaker 3: SO i could work with. Him he's gotten better over

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Speaker 3: the last two, years and he continues to get. Better

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Speaker 3: but it's trying to get all of them to play

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Speaker 3: at that same level all the. Time so every DRILL

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Speaker 3: i do in practice is about. Competing like some kids

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Speaker 3: we play against want to do this worse than they

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Speaker 3: want to breathe, Right and these kids don't feel that,

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Speaker 3: way and so trying to give them that adversity and

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Speaker 3: that conflict in their. Minds they play, basketball so they

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Speaker 3: when they go out, there they. Fight when you get

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Speaker 3: to doing those. Things like my son one time he

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Speaker 3: Season so he turns the ball over trying to drill

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Speaker 3: his left handing. Strong the guy still doesn't go in another.

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Speaker 3: Direction he like knocks it back and the ball knocks

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Speaker 3: loose and it rolls to have. Port he crawls on

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Speaker 3: all fours and he beat the guy running to the,

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Speaker 3: the guy and he was hot like he. Was he

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Speaker 3: turned in the, hole but he was so mad that

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Speaker 3: he lost the. Ball AND i told him after the.

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Speaker 3: GAME i was, like, man look BECAUSE i criticized him

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Speaker 3: first and everything he did. Wrong AND i, said but

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Speaker 3: that play that you made to have. Court if any

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Speaker 3: college coach In america saw you make that, play they're

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Speaker 3: gonna SAY i want that guy on my. Team he

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Speaker 3: was already pissed off and upset because they.

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Speaker 2: Lost they got.

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Speaker 3: Beat but then WHEN i said, THAT i looked in

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Speaker 3: because it was something that stuck with him that he

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Speaker 3: REALIZED i see you on both both. ENDS i wouldn't

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Speaker 3: let you know when you you made, mistakes but more,

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Speaker 3: IMPORTANTLY i want you to see.

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Speaker 2: The work that you're putting in. Difference, yeah see your.

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Speaker 1: Accomplishment what you what you did. RIGHT i was telling

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Speaker 1: my son the same, thing like you're supposed to. Play

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Speaker 1: he played key minutes in the game because the other

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Speaker 1: two big men was hurt AND i was, like through

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Speaker 1: four minutes at the end of the, game they needed,

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Speaker 1: that they needed that out of you helped the team.

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Speaker 1: Out they needed that they was playing the right. Way

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Speaker 1: they won the fire Trow you hadn't even been. Playing

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Speaker 1: that's team.

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Speaker 4: Ball.

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Speaker 2: Yeah but the other thing, too because we had to

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Speaker 3: Way you, know when it's a blowout either, way whether

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Speaker 2: game you're, like, man this is a.

441
00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,199
Speaker 3: BULLSHIT i don't want to go in a game like

442
00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:20,159
Speaker 3: this is where you now have to show the coach

443
00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,159
Speaker 3: that you deserve more, minutes, yeah that you can run his,

444
00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,359
Speaker 3: offense that you can play, defense and or too often

445
00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:30,199
Speaker 3: kids look at that garbage time as. Disrespects you, know

446
00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,440
Speaker 3: they want to play when everybody else is out. There,

447
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,959
Speaker 3: no like you got to you got to get this,

448
00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:36,159
Speaker 3: Now like this.

449
00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:37,000
Speaker 2: Is my, time my.

450
00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,040
Speaker 1: MOMENT i told my, son it's been a guy been

451
00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:41,680
Speaker 1: on my team since fourth grade and he never.

452
00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:42,720
Speaker 4: Played but he was.

453
00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:46,760
Speaker 1: On my team since elementary school alway through high school

454
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,680
Speaker 1: and he only played in. Blowouts but he was committed

455
00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:52,199
Speaker 1: to the, team good, teammate he played on the.

456
00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:53,800
Speaker 4: Team that's just what it's.

457
00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,160
Speaker 3: About i'm gonna use, that But i'm gonna say it

458
00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:01,880
Speaker 3: was my. Team is that because sometimes you need lessons

459
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,399
Speaker 3: like that to be able to tell. Them because the

460
00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:07,119
Speaker 3: stories that we have far too often is you know

461
00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:08,879
Speaker 3: how you your, parents you said WHEN i was your,

462
00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,080
Speaker 3: age us to we used to walk to school two,

463
00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:15,960
Speaker 3: miles three. Miles but trying to take them back down

464
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,520
Speaker 3: their pathway to show them the adversity that we, had.

465
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:20,840
Speaker 2: You, know every single.

466
00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,200
Speaker 3: Day because here's the thing that we THAT i see

467
00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,960
Speaker 3: the most of that that drives me insane the minutes

468
00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:32,159
Speaker 3: a minute practice over or even during. Practice you, KNOW

469
00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:33,600
Speaker 3: i let them go get some. Water you, know these

470
00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:40,960
Speaker 3: dudes in The bingo. MINE i gave him the water.

471
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:43,639
Speaker 3: Break they, went y'all know you know how it was

472
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:45,560
Speaker 3: at The Paul you when you get a water, break

473
00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,960
Speaker 3: you go run to the cooler and you grab. Water

474
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,800
Speaker 3: you run back to the court like you don't go

475
00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,399
Speaker 3: over there and start swapping stories and talking about what you.

476
00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,600
Speaker 3: Did these dudes were sitting on, them they sat, down

477
00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,720
Speaker 3: pick their. PHONE i blew the. WHISTID i was, like,

478
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,600
Speaker 3: YO i say ain't social, Hour like you get some,

479
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:03,360
Speaker 3: water you come right.

480
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,879
Speaker 1: Back AND i was just as All american game and

481
00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:09,560
Speaker 1: gave him a water break from the.

482
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,560
Speaker 4: Practice these guys just rant and all them grabbed their.

483
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,680
Speaker 1: Phone bobby got on the ass so, bad, like, man

484
00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:16,400
Speaker 1: y'all don't want.

485
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,000
Speaker 4: This y'all can't quote.

486
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:25,280
Speaker 1: This if a water break is phone Tam, Yeah.

487
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,840
Speaker 2: AND i tell them WHEN i, PLAYED i have a cell.

488
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:29,639
Speaker 3: Phone everybody knew WHERE i, was so y'all know how

489
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:30,399
Speaker 3: it was in the locker.

490
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,040
Speaker 2: Room if that phone, rang that was a.

491
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,280
Speaker 4: Fine so when.

492
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 3: The phone, rang, like, man who the hell is calling

493
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:38,480
Speaker 3: me during the meeting and then everybody was like that

494
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:38,760
Speaker 3: ain't my.

495
00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:42,280
Speaker 2: Phone that ain't. Me and that's WHAT i.

496
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:45,320
Speaker 3: Tell the, kids like you got to, prioritize don't let

497
00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,560
Speaker 3: that phone distract. You and you, know your bed is

498
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,480
Speaker 3: your enemy right. Now you rely on that bed and

499
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,080
Speaker 3: you want to stay in the, bed that's your. Enemy

500
00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,160
Speaker 3: that's what's going to prevent you, from you, know maximizing

501
00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:01,320
Speaker 3: your greatest potential and realizing who you really can because.

502
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 2: Sleep is great when you need to, heal but when

503
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 2: you got to get, up you got to get. Up like.

504
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,360
Speaker 5: That speaking speaking of oho. Ho before you get, THERE

505
00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 5: i gotta asking. This i'm trying to figure this. Out

506
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,639
Speaker 5: it's only one explanation how a high school kid that

507
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:21,159
Speaker 5: worked At Ryan steakhouse got the nickname Candy. Man it

508
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,400
Speaker 5: could have only been because the sweet jump, shot, RIGHT

509
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 5: i was, it you called?

510
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 2: It you called?

511
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:25,719
Speaker 4: It.

512
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:28,879
Speaker 3: Yeah and when the season, STARTED i was working At

513
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,199
Speaker 3: ryan's AND i was watched this and so once the season,

514
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 3: STARTED i can only work one day at night.

515
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 2: BECAUSE i had practice and then we had, games and

516
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 2: that Was.

517
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,800
Speaker 3: WEDNESDAY i worked one night a week On, wednesdays AND

518
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:45,160
Speaker 3: i made twenty one dollars and you, know twenty one

519
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,440
Speaker 3: dollars as a senior in high. School back, THEN i

520
00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 3: had my lunch, money you, know a little gassing a

521
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 3: little on the.

522
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 2: Petrol it stretch stretch for every.

523
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 4: Penny that's, yeah that.

524
00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:02,159
Speaker 3: STRETCH i hell that twenty one dollars and working for

525
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 3: it gave me even greater appreciation for.

526
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 2: It so but, yeah that's what it came.

527
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,920
Speaker 3: From because you, know my announcer at the, time he,

528
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,600
Speaker 3: SAID i wanted to figure out nicknamed you because you

529
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,439
Speaker 3: just you, know everything you do is so sweet on the,

530
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 3: court and your jump shot of sweet and that's where

531
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 3: it ended up coming From. Candyman so they rolled that.

532
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 3: Out we want to stay challenged that year and THEN

533
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 3: i tried to hide from it WHEN i got to

534
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,440
Speaker 3: college because you, know you want to you want to

535
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:27,280
Speaker 3: start over on the.

536
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 2: Whole you know why they call you came. In don't

537
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:31,880
Speaker 2: worry about, that.

538
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:33,879
Speaker 4: You.

539
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 3: Know you know it's like like when these kids come

540
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 3: from high school into college and where all their all star,

541
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 3: gear you, know like this is you, know look at.

542
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,119
Speaker 3: Me you KNOW i got the McDonald's this AND i

543
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,880
Speaker 3: got young. Father, yeah don't put that to the. Side,

544
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 3: yeah could.

545
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 1: Have been anybody except for you can to somebody else

546
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:55,640
Speaker 1: almost get.

547
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,640
Speaker 2: You, Yeah ALABAMA i committed.

548
00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 3: To that was my first visit AND i had such

549
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 3: a good, time and you, know the, coach the assistant

550
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:06,640
Speaker 3: coach pressured.

551
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:06,679
Speaker 2: Me into the.

552
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 3: Commitment you, know pulled into a parking lot before he

553
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,360
Speaker 3: dropped me, off and you, know he kind of attacked

554
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 3: me and said, that you, KNOW i need to make

555
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 3: a responsible. Decision alabama is the place and IF i

556
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 3: don't choose, NOW i got other people that will. Choose

557
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,199
Speaker 3: by the time you leave, here the spot will be.

558
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 3: Gone SO i, said, yes to. HIM i had a good.

559
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 3: Time and then WHEN i got, BACK i had a

560
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 3: coach that, said, Listen alabama might be the place for,

561
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 3: you but you won't know if you were right or

562
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 3: wrong if you don't take these. Visits and SO i

563
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 3: went to the first. Visit that was my first. Visit

564
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 3: and so THEN i went To yukon AND i was, like,

565
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:45,399
Speaker 3: man LIKE i Love. Yukon but THEN i KNEW i

566
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 3: Love yukon more THAN i Loved. Alabama and one of

567
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 3: the differences Was alabama we had to sneak into a

568
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 3: football game and THAT yu kind of sat at the

569
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 3: fifty yard, line you, know and think about, that like

570
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 3: they took care of me and you kind AND i

571
00:25:58,280 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 3: said to, MYSELF i was, LIKE i want to be

572
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 3: at school that's oriented towards, basketball not, football where they're

573
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:07,400
Speaker 3: gonna make sure that they make you the top priority budget,

574
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 3: wise you, know, travel just the look of the.

575
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,959
Speaker 2: Program and you. Know my third visit Was kentucky just

576
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 2: to SEE i went to U. K, yeah AND i

577
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 2: went to THE uk.

578
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 4: Too.

579
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 2: Yeah.

580
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 3: Kentucky kentucky is like almost you're almost they almost they.

581
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 2: Feel like the league that the.

582
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:32,720
Speaker 5: LEAD i was, like, man what's going all.

583
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 3: Around listen WHEN i went to The Midnight madness AND

584
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:37,919
Speaker 3: i walked on the court and they start chanting my

585
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 3: name AND i started looking at they called them talking to,

586
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 3: me And i'm sitting there, thinking.

587
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 2: NO i ain't that good, yet that? Good like you

588
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 2: call them mind chanting my?

589
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 3: Name and they done got somebody in the, crowd like

590
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,679
Speaker 3: y'all got a megaphone and, like, okay now we got

591
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 3: allen come. In see they got the student body and

592
00:26:56,080 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 3: the alumni on the payroll metaphorically because they know when

593
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 3: the cruit, comes they let that they let tell them

594
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 3: we go in for all ours and you know you

595
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 3: might be you, know seventy five in the, country but

596
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 3: you come to Visit, Kentucky we're gonna make you feel

597
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 3: like you belong, here.

598
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 2: Regardless double.

599
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 5: One that's how it was WHEN i was TO i

600
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 5: don't know wherever said this like Out like WHEN i

601
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 5: went TO. kNs i went for you, know the same,

602
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 5: Thing Midnight, madness and, man you walk, IN i think.

603
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:29,120
Speaker 2: It was, Me Jeff, Boshie Joe, prisabella.

604
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 5: And jeron rush all on the same. Visit now you

605
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 5: magice going In alla Fall Field house On Midnight madness

606
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 5: in the whole. Building you know how they do the

607
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 5: rock chalk J. Hall they did the rock Chalk jayhawk

608
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,640
Speaker 5: and then they SAID q reach.

609
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 2: BOY i was in that thing, like oh, shit like

610
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 2: the Whole i'm talking.

611
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 5: About, boy that was one of the craziest CHILLS i ever,

612
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 5: Got like that whole building they did that for all of.

613
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,679
Speaker 2: US i was, Like, yo this is.

614
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 5: Crazy like that was the one visit that, like if

615
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 5: it wasn't for my coach and my parents and everybody

616
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 5: telling me like listen when we sat, down like you're

617
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 5: not committing on no, VISITS i don't care, What you're

618
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 5: gonna always come.

619
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 2: Home we're gonna collect ourself.

620
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 5: Smart if it wasn't for that and me agreeing to

621
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 5: that and from this, OUTSET i had committed on that.

622
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 2: VISIT i remember sitting.

623
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 5: THAT i was like WHEN i was talking To roy Woods,

624
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 5: man he was, like, yeah so he was trying to

625
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,159
Speaker 5: figure out how Close I'M i. THINK i told that,

626
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,919
Speaker 5: MAN i was like ninety eight percent, sure Like i'm,

627
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 5: Ready i'm just not doing it BECAUSE i can't do

628
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 5: it right, Now LIKE i had to get home and collect.

629
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 5: Myself but, like you're, right you get to some of

630
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 5: that stuff and it'd be like for a seventeen.

631
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 2: Year old, kid it was.

632
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 5: Overwhelming, Boy hey kids is ALMOST i WAS i was.

633
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 2: DISCLOSED i ain't gonna. Lie, well just two things that

634
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 2: that kids have to think.

635
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 3: About AND i tell you, know every young person, this

636
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 3: if you, can you, know get away from home so

637
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 3: you figure out who you are and you have to

638
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 3: work to get home or your parents have to work

639
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 3: to get to, you so you you have to learn

640
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 3: to rely on other. People but we're asking seventeen year

641
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 3: old kids to make a decision on where they should

642
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 3: be for the rest of their. Lives and that's the you,

643
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 3: know LIKE i, said he got a, game that's the hardest,

644
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 3: decision you, know or they, said it's the hardest decision

645
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 3: you're ever going to make in your, life because how

646
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 3: do you know what's good for you four years down

647
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 3: the line or eight to ten years down the. Line

648
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 3: you make decisions for the, moment like where your girlfriend,

649
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 3: is being close to, home a school that's good that

650
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 3: made it to the tournament at that, moment but there's

651
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 3: so many more bigger questions at the, time like what

652
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 3: is my playing time going to look?

653
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 2: Like CAN i fit in with this? Group of.

654
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 3: Guys is the coach going to be there for a

655
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 3: long time and is he going to push me to

656
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 3: be my? Best that's the thing about The yukon With,

657
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 3: calhoun he said he was the only one that didn't

658
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 3: guarantee me playing. Time he, said, listen if you work for,

659
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 3: it you, know we're going to put you in a

660
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 3: situation where you can grow and you can get better

661
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 3: and you can achieve some of the goal of you

662
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 3: in your. Life but we're not going to give you.

663
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 3: Anything but other coaches told, Me i'll make you AN nba.

664
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 3: PLAYER i know that you ain't gonna make. IT i

665
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 3: gotta do, it and you got to Hire and so

666
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 3: that's the thing that we had to get these young boys, understand,

667
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 3: like don't make these prisoner of the moment, decisions you,

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Speaker 3: know because those decisions don't. Aige, well you, know who

669
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 3: you are in ten years from now is gonna be totally.

670
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 3: Different so one of my biggest regrets is what my major.

671
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 3: WAS i majored in, communications LIKE i would truly would

672
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 3: have done like, architecture, engineering landscape, management something like, that

673
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 3: Because i've always appreciated you know yourself, now, yeah, yeah

674
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 3: back then you don't, know and so they do us

675
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 3: a disservice because they throw us in something real fast

676
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 3: just to appease us and get us. Playing and you,

677
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 3: know just you guys probably don't. Notice but Like i'm

678
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 3: in class right, now like my, semester just end it

679
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 3: BECAUSE i got four more classes TIL i get my.

680
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 3: Degree and you, know Now i'm seeing you, know from this,

681
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 3: angle you know how hugely important it is to do

682
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 3: something that you, like that you. Love so when you get,

683
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 3: done you have a degree that you could take and,

684
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 3: say you know, What i'm going to start my own

685
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 3: company BECAUSE i have an education in, engineering SO i

686
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 3: can you, know you don't get further in.

687
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 4: Education you see how much more you can.

688
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 3: Accomplish, yeah it's fascinating now with online learning because you

689
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 3: can you can take you can right. Now you can Go,

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Speaker 3: phoenix you, Know Southern New, hampshire you, Know DePaul and

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Speaker 3: could be like about saving an. Environment like there's so

693
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 3: much information out. There and here's the thing about us as.

694
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 3: Athletes we're very knowledgeable.

695
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 2: On the game of. Basketball you.

696
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 3: Know one of the things that we the issues that

697
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 3: we dealt with over this past year was With Black

698
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 3: Lives matter, movement you, know all these inequities that have

699
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 3: taken place in our.

700
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 2: Government with the.

701
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Speaker 3: ELECTION i was taking a twenty twenty elections class as

702
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 3: the election was, happening so very. Informative but what happens

703
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 3: is is when this whole thing happened between us And,

704
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 3: china we wanted to only say then that we want

705
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 3: to only take basketball. Questions you, know we weren't skilled

706
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 3: and proven enough to handle that because we didn't have the.

707
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 3: Information but then the same, token we were telling people

708
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 3: that we were more than just basketball players and it's

709
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 3: not just shut up and. Dribble so this is where

710
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 3: we have to educate ourselves on issues of, government issues of,

711
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 3: community issues of world affairs because we do have involvement

712
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 3: in all of those. Things and so as a basketball,

713
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 3: player we don't get further. Education like you, know you

714
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 3: know you've been on the bus how many times guys

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Speaker 3: don't read and, Better but we know the shit out

716
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 3: of picking rolls and fast breaks and paying the breaking

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00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 3: down a game. Film but we have to continue to,

718
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 3: read pay attention to current, events world, events local, events

719
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 3: and figure out how that can help. Us because the

720
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 3: more you become better as a. Person that's when you

721
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 3: become a better, athlete you, know because you can, think you,

722
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 3: know your conflict resolution it. Grows so when you do

723
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 3: go through things on the, court you learn how to

724
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 3: be more, diplomatic you learn when.

725
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 2: To, attack when to.

726
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 3: Retreat but that's dealing with a lot of things off

727
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 3: the court as, Well so you got to practice that.

728
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 2: Stuff just like.

729
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 3: Shooting you got to practice those relationship building situations off the,

730
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Speaker 3: court so they do help you in.

731
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: Court what do you think about the guys like, now like

732
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: the guys in today's, game that's really speaking out more

733
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: telling their, feelings telling them about stuff that bothers them

734
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: about the world or what's going on that we used

735
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: to do back in the day when we, was you,

736
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: know playing in the.

737
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 3: League, yeah and that's exactly to the point THAT i

738
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 3: was just saying that they have to be educated on

739
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 3: the subject.

740
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 2: Matter you, know ALL i can.

741
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Speaker 3: Say is humanity always needs to prevail and people always

742
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 3: need to take care of each. Other but the most important,

743
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 3: thing like AS i sit here as AN nba, player

744
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 3: AND i get paid a lot of, money WHEN i

745
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 3: go to play a game of, basketball my job is

746
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 3: to come to work every single day and honor the

747
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 3: money that has been given to, me support my, family

748
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,720
Speaker 3: show up with my, teammates being ambassaard to the, league

749
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 3: to the, team to the CITY i play. On so

750
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 3: at no point can you sit back and, say, OH

751
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 3: i don't feel like playing, today or too much stuff

752
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 3: is going on around the. World i'm not focused on.

753
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 3: Basketball you, know when you watch a, game when you

754
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 3: flip THE tv, on one thing that the, fans you,

755
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 3: know people who follow the game do not understand have

756
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 3: a grasp, of is what it took for us to

757
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 3: get to that moment WHEN tv came, on you see

758
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 3: your favorite team or players run out of.

759
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 2: That tunnel onto that.

760
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 3: Court like it's so much that goes into, it from

761
00:34:56,200 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 3: dealing with family matters to getting, treatment to practicing to

762
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 3: warming up to you, know arguments in the locker room

763
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 3: like to, meetings like you, know it's so. Much but

764
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 3: then the minute you run on the, floor you got

765
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 3: to put that aside and go who slight.

766
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Speaker 4: Up The Big?

767
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,879
Speaker 1: East you now you a yukon you in The Big

768
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Speaker 1: east and The Big east it's hit us you got

769
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Speaker 1: ai and Killdle John wallace like you got got? It

770
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 1: is so you you really got to prove yourself in

771
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 1: one of the toughest conference in college. Basketball how was

772
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 1: the conference in The Big east in your first? Year

773
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: is coming into that type of conference of the history.

774
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,760
Speaker 3: Of oh WHEN i, Left WHEN i Left South, carolina

775
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 3: one of the reasons for me going To connecticut was

776
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 3: because of The Big, east BECAUSE i had an opportunity

777
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:46,240
Speaker 3: to play in all the big cities and play primetime.

778
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Speaker 3: Basketball Big Big east was On Big, Monday Syracuse, Georgetown like.

779
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:56,720
Speaker 4: Man all, y'all all y'all got every week after, Practice

780
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 4: i'm in That joe.

781
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 3: List like my first biggie game was Against Seaton hall

782
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Speaker 3: and we played at The. Meadowlands now we're about two

783
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 3: and a half hours from stores To Seaton, hall but

784
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Speaker 3: we crossed over To Georgia Washington, bridge so we don't

785
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 3: go right Into. Manhattan in The manhattan we go over

786
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 3: and AS i was an eighteen year old kid AND

787
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,839
Speaker 3: i was looking out the, window the whole turn at

788
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 3: the city had. Before this to me was, like you,

789
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 3: Know i'm coming from YOUR mtv Raps New York. Undercover

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00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 3: like everything about the, city like all rap at the

791
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Speaker 3: time was coming From New, York like.

792
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 2: ALL i, mean it was.

793
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 3: CRAZY i was looking at this like that's it right,

794
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,760
Speaker 3: there and THEN i put it on hot ninety. SEVEN

795
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 3: i caught it From New, jersey you, know in my hotel,

796
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 3: room AND i just looked out the window the whole.

797
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 2: Time and to, me it gave me the dream to

798
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 2: go out and do something.

799
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 3: More is the opportunities are coming From South carolina and

800
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 3: Now i'm In New York, city, right you, know playing

801
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 3: my First biggies. Game Like i'm, like this is what

802
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 3: this is what your dreams are made, of, right be able.

803
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 2: To be in this.

804
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 3: Position and SO i think coming from that first year At,

805
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 3: yukon Like gothum had us waking up at five thirty

806
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 3: in the morning lifting, weights like running three miles around the.

807
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 3: Campus like Every, saturday we had to run this heel

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00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 3: and you, know we had to run ten.

809
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 2: Times it was like the hill was like up and,

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00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 2: down it was a mile and it was. Hell AND

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00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 2: i had never worked as hard before in my.

812
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 3: Life we had these, tests these lack acid build up,

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00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 3: tests Like i'm doing. Stuffing you, know as a, KID

814
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,320
Speaker 3: i was physically, capable BUT i was pushing my limits

815
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 3: AND i loved it BECAUSE i was doing things That

816
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 3: i'd never done, before AND i.

817
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 2: Was, growing you, KNOW i was, growing and every day

818
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 2: was a new.

819
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 3: Challenge the one thing THAT i said to myself in

820
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 3: my dorm room WAS i wasn't going to drink AND

821
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,240
Speaker 3: i was going to hang out because this is, tough

822
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 3: burning in at both ends at one one playing, around

823
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 3: and you, KNOW i had guys THAT i remember the

824
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 3: next day we'd have practice at six in the. Morning

825
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 3: guys be all drinking and they couldn't hack. It And

826
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 3: i'll be over, there. Duncan and so what happened was

827
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,280
Speaker 3: once we got into the. SEASON i remember the first

828
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 3: game of the, year we played Against Towson state In.

829
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 3: Pennsylvania and the second game of the year we Played

830
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 3: virginia And Howard dean Remember Harold. Dean Harl dean was

831
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 3: a point guard And harold AND I i had known each

832
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 3: other over the, years just you, know through through the.

833
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 3: Circuit and so after the game we're. Talking we beat

834
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 3: them by twenty and you, KNOW i was the leading

835
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 3: sport out the first time my name was On Sports

836
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 3: center and you, know your name's up, there and then

837
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,400
Speaker 3: said you let the team was gorn And harold said to.

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00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:52,879
Speaker 3: Me he's, like, man, y'all he, said y'all look. Tough

839
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 3: what y'all, Doing like y'all running and pressing like. That

840
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 3: like that was the first TIME i realized all the

841
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 3: work that we put in in preseason and was paying

842
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 3: off because these dudes couldn't keep up with, us and

843
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 3: we were so, conditioned like we ran hard like it was,

844
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 3: drilling running run from drill to drill like it was

845
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 3: A it was a military. Mindset and so ONCE i

846
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 3: got into a, game every, TIME i didn't worry about

847
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 3: whether or NOT i could play basketball or WHETHER i

848
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 3: was gonna be good enough.

849
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 2: BECAUSE i was so.

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00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 3: PREPARED i shot at, nauseum like you, know working on

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00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 3: running in, Transition like ONCE i got out, there it

852
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 3: was like throw the ball, up we were.

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00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 2: Gone was scoring in transition around the.

854
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 3: Basket SO i never ever questioned my skill BECAUSE i

855
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 3: KNEW i was putting to work.

856
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 5: In how was it for you in ninety five ninety

857
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 5: six in college you Win Big East player of The

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00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:45,320
Speaker 5: year with all of those different H ai, Kittles John

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00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 5: whyle was the name of. You, like you Win Big

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00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 5: East player The? Year how was that for you that?

861
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 5: Year you, know WHEN i.

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00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 3: Think back on, It i'm truly fortunate to say THAT

863
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 3: i wanted with that as simbil as of talent because you,

864
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 3: know you Had Felipe, Lopez yeah, Yeah Danie, abrams uh yeah,

865
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:10,839
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00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 3: you still don't forget you Had Lawrence poetry And. Mowten oh,

867
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 3: yeah you, know so guys like that like we. Had

868
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 3: there was so much individual talent and it made for you,

869
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:27,680
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00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 2: Watch it made for exciting.

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00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:33,400
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Speaker 3: Big german and it Was i'm telling you it was

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00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,120
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Speaker 3: through uh down what street is? That It's, BROADWAY i

876
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,360
Speaker 3: think In New york where the guard is. ON i

877
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 3: remember seeing our names up on The, marquee you, know you,

878
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 3: Know Ray allen Versus Allen. Iverson AND i was sitting there,

879
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 3: THINKING i was, like, man like NORMALLY i would, panic

880
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 3: BUT i know what to do, HERE i, know you,

881
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 3: know just just play. Basketball like it's not LIKE i

882
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 3: got to give a speech on on rocket.

883
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 2: Science you, KNOW i know how to do What i'm

884
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 2: about to.

885
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:13,839
Speaker 3: Do so sometimes you just got to block it out

886
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 3: because you, know we Had carrie AND i had some

887
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 3: huge battles we.

888
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 2: Played we had.

889
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 3: One game In connecticut Where Big monday we were supposed to,

890
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 3: play but we had a, snowstorm so it got moved To,

891
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 3: tuesday and you, know they weren't gonna put another game,

892
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 3: on and everybody.

893
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 2: Wanted to see it because we.

894
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 3: Were like one and two in the country at the,

895
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 3: time and but they just had they just had a.

896
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:41,320
Speaker 3: Roster AND i, appreciated you, know carries and skill because

897
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:45,799
Speaker 3: that's one of the. Ideas AND i teaching you, know

898
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 3: my kids this, kids when they see another kid in the,

899
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 3: playground that's, dope they go in the other direction because they're.

900
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 2: Afraid of that and they want to go to the court.

901
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 4: Where they're the best, way they. Superior, yeah And i'm, like.

902
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:08,919
Speaker 2: Go to the. Dudes go to that. Dude, yeah you get.

903
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 3: There AND i remind everybody About Jay kid And Gary

904
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 3: payton and How gary used to beat up On jay

905
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 3: and If jay wanted to, play he had to buckle

906
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 3: up and play. Ball and so that's HOW i felt

907
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 3: about The Big. East kerry was there A i was,

908
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 3: There like WHEN i played against, them it wasn't just you,

909
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 3: KNOW i want to, win but it's this is not

910
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 3: a matchup between the both of, us but our.

911
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 2: Teams you, KNOW i think we.

912
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 3: Probably had, seven seven or eight teams in THE uh

913
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 3: in the dance that year because everybody was. Hooping everybody

914
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 3: was and right then it's like you, learn like when

915
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:49,919
Speaker 3: the team, wins everybody receives some type of reward or

916
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 3: a great benefit from the success of that end of that.

917
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 3: Team you, know we we Had Darn shepherd got, Drafted

918
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 3: Travis knight got. Drafted, Uh Donny marshall got, Drafted Honie. Marshall,

919
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 3: yeah you, know that's that's. It SO i learned early

920
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 3: like let's win and then the chipping gonna fallward they

921
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 3: fall and.

922
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 5: Man shout out To carrie Kentles. Man no hot, socks, baby.

923
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,319
Speaker 2: Hot. Socks yeah he had.

924
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 5: Me and THEN i remember when he used to wear

925
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 5: the one last sock and no another, one like had

926
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 5: a swag back in the, day real.

927
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,879
Speaker 1: Tough my favorite draft class is the ninety six y'all

928
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 1: boys had a special and to look back on it

929
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: now since you were tired to look back on it

930
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 1: and just to see all them hit.

931
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 4: Us, yeah, YEAH i had on y'all draft.

932
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 1: Class how is that to just be a part of

933
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: the probably the best draft class ever.

934
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 5: To Be, yeah you, know, arguably you know it's a little,

935
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 5: argument but y'all to be part of that argument is.

936
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 3: Dope well, Yeah And i've always looked at eighty four

937
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 3: AND i, thought you, know how amazing that that class was.

938
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 3: There AS i started to look at eighty fourd AND

939
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 3: i looked at at ninety six top to, bottom, yeah

940
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,439
Speaker 3: top the, bottom and and BUT i don't even throw

941
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 3: something out there that needs. Recordgnition It's Ben. Wallace Ben

942
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 3: wallace didn't get.

943
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 5: DRAFTED i, said he got acknowledgement in the little thing

944
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 5: though like he obviously back then it was he wasn't

945
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 5: in the, picture which none of.

946
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 3: That but, yeah, yeah But Ben wallace is he was

947
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:17,359
Speaker 3: just announced for The hall Of.

948
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 4: Fame.

949
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 3: Yeah the fact that he had such an impact in

950
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 3: the time that he, played based on where he came,

951
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 3: from speaks volumes to you know that that, class you,

952
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 3: know those freshmen coming into our rookies coming into THE

953
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 3: nba that, year you, know you you when you talk

954
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 3: top to, Bottom Derek fisher has five, Rings Eve nash

955
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 3: has two.

956
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 2: MVPs ai has THE.

957
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 3: Mvp you, know we Have Callas All stars And, olympians

958
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 3: uh and Now hall Of. Famers so it certainly produced a.

959
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,319
Speaker 3: Lot and the interesting thing too IS i don't know

960
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:54,319
Speaker 3: if you guys ever done, this but just go back

961
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 3: and look at your draft class and look at the

962
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 3: one before and look at the one, after and you

963
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 3: remember all these players and guys you look up, to

964
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 3: and then what you realize is each draft class only

965
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:07,280
Speaker 3: has like two or three players that you remember remember

966
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 3: like that put in. Work some guys you remember their,

967
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 3: names you might have remembered them in college or.

968
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 2: Whatever but guys that actually put it in the.

969
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 3: Work you, Know, yes it's only there's only like two to,

970
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 3: three you, know real guys per. Class so when you

971
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 3: talk about a class that produces so Many hall Of, famers,

972
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 3: LIKE i don't, know you, KNOW i could take credit

973
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 3: for it ALL i, want BECAUSE i was a part of.

974
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 3: It BUT i did my, part you, know because the

975
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 3: thing that drove me crazy AND i told, THIS i

976
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 3: wrote this to my. BOOK i wrote a book three years.

977
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 3: Ago it is called from The. Outside AND i always

978
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 3: used to say This slam. Magazine you know on the

979
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 3: cover that on the inside of that that cover they

980
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 3: had the accolades of most likely to WIN mvp win

981
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 3: championships and my name was nowhere but one spot and

982
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 3: it said most likely lead to fade into. Obscurity, Yeah

983
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:08,919
Speaker 3: and so you, know, me being a somewhat well read young,

984
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 3: MAN i was, LIKE i THINK i know what obscurity,

985
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 3: means but let.

986
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:12,919
Speaker 2: Me look look.

987
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 3: Sure and for the first four or five years of my,

988
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 3: CAREER i did not want to do any interviews With

989
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:24,840
Speaker 3: slam because it kissed me off so much, that you,

990
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 3: know y'all kind of rote me, off like all this

991
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 3: that you could have, said and you you, SAID i

992
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 3: but the truth be. Told after, THAT i realized that

993
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 3: that's what we. Need that's WHAT i needed at the,

994
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,839
Speaker 3: time because you, know you you you. Motivation, yeah back

995
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 3: to what we're talking. About high, school you get, them

996
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 3: you get comfortable and think that you made it and

997
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 3: then things are going to be easy from here on.

998
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 3: Out that's when you. Slip you, know you can't get.

999
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 3: Comfortable you, know you get, comfortable and then all of a,

1000
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 3: sudden that's when your skill sets start to. Diminish that

1001
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 3: adversity is what all of our children, need because you,

1002
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 3: know all these kids was, like, Man i'm gonna make

1003
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 3: every team that didn't pick. Me, hey the fact that

1004
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 3: you got drafted nineteenth might be the reason that you

1005
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 3: became AN mvp or An All star or An.

1006
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 4: Olympians you went to a team that can help instead

1007
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:13,879
Speaker 4: of a young.

1008
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 3: Team, yeah and if you got drafted number, four that

1009
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:20,720
Speaker 3: might have sent you into a different lectory that wouldn't

1010
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 3: allowed you to accompisence at your college because you came

1011
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 3: in with the with the cool man, struck you, know

1012
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:27,959
Speaker 3: and you've seen a lot of players do, that so.

1013
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 2: And you're one of those.

1014
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 5: Guys just you, KNOW i just was watching your draft class, documentary,

1015
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:38,880
Speaker 5: right and so seeing that it showed me, one you,

1016
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 5: know one of the few other sides of when you're

1017
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 5: actually at the draft and you're getting drafted And i'm

1018
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 5: watching you when you were a guy who got drafted

1019
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:48,719
Speaker 5: to a team you didn't work out for what got,

1020
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 5: traded and it was like your experience didn't seem just like,

1021
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 5: Hey i'm joyous something like it was kind of like

1022
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 5: seemed like, confusion Like i'm trying to figure what the

1023
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 5: hell is going, on figure it out and what's what's

1024
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 5: really going? On so, like walk me through your your draft.

1025
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 5: Experience like you obviously you got to walk across that

1026
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:10,440
Speaker 5: stage to Shake david, sternhand which we all dreamed, of

1027
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 5: but yours came with a caveat because even in that,

1028
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,400
Speaker 5: moment you really didn't understand what was going on because

1029
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 5: you didn't work out for this team and all of

1030
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 5: these different things were going.

1031
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 2: On so take me through your draft.

1032
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 3: Experience that, Year philly had the first, pick Then, Toronto, Vancouver, Milwaukee, Minnesota.

1033
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 3: Boston they projected me as a top four. Pick SO

1034
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:37,360
Speaker 3: i went To, PHILLY i worked out with, them but

1035
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,360
Speaker 3: they were gonna PICK. Ai that was a wasted. TRIP

1036
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:43,839
Speaker 3: i went To. TORONTO i met With Isaiah, thomas who

1037
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 3: was THE Gm director of The player president at the,

1038
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 3: time AND i just had to meet with. HIM i

1039
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 3: didn't have to work out. ANYTHING i went To. Vancouver

1040
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 3: that was my hardest. Workout they put you through agilly, training, lifting, shooting.

1041
00:48:56,680 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 3: Everything and so day before the draft out IN la

1042
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:02,799
Speaker 3: and they called me In minnesota wanted to meet with,

1043
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 3: me AND i was, like why AM i going To.

1044
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 3: Minnesota milwaukee was probably one of the hardest ones BECAUSE

1045
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,280
Speaker 3: i landed In. Chicago there was. Weather you, Know chicago

1046
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 3: is not the place to fly into in the. Summertime

1047
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 3: it's always something some weather coming. IN i had to

1048
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:20,839
Speaker 3: play With Chris robinson one on one he had just,

1049
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 3: finished and THEN i had to Play Mike Dunn leedy

1050
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 3: one on, one and SO i didn't know What i'm

1051
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 3: playing this old? Guy what AM i supposed to be doing? Here,

1052
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 3: Like i'm playing this guy that he's trying to turn

1053
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:33,360
Speaker 3: If i'm good or. NOT i had a great meeting

1054
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:36,879
Speaker 3: with the owner, there and then so COME i went

1055
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 3: TO la to do some interviews and Then i'm flying

1056
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 3: back to meet my family In New york And minnesota, says,

1057
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 3: hey we love to meet with you before.

1058
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 2: Draft AND i was, like, no thank. You so come.

1059
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,279
Speaker 3: DRAFT i was, like so all the teams that want

1060
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 3: me or see. ME i figured THAT i was going

1061
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 3: To milwaukee before the. DRAFT i leave my hotel red

1062
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 3: hour back and mL carr calls me, says, listen if

1063
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 3: you slipped to, six we're going to take you with our.

1064
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 3: PICK i was, like, okay, COOL i need to go To.

1065
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 3: BOSTON i was, LIKE i don't know the chances that

1066
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 3: are so come to fourth pick When minnesota Or milwaukee Picked.

1067
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 3: STEPHAN i knew That milwaukee was high on me and

1068
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,719
Speaker 3: they Picked, stephan SO i was, Like i'm going To.

1069
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:21,839
Speaker 2: Boston right.

1070
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 3: In the minute The minnesota pick comes, up the cameras

1071
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 3: come to, me And i'm. Confused i'm, like why are they?

1072
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:32,319
Speaker 3: Coming why are they picking? Me LIKE i Don't and

1073
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 3: THEN i knew they Had Ji, ryder so why are

1074
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 3: they picking me at the two? Spot WHICH i didn't

1075
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 3: know THAT i was being used in the trade which

1076
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 3: ended up getting In Andrew, lane you, know and myself

1077
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,799
Speaker 3: in the two player spot For Stephan. Marlberry that's Why

1078
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 3: milwaukee took them off the, table because they knew how

1079
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 3: Bad minnesota wanted Step so you learn those things later

1080
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:58,319
Speaker 3: on after you've gone through it and you understand the

1081
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:01,440
Speaker 3: business side of. It AND i WISH i knew it

1082
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 3: then SO i could have enjoyed the process. More it's

1083
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 3: just it's such A we've been on such an incredible,

1084
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 3: journey and you, know to be here on the other

1085
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 3: side of it and to be able to talk about

1086
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 3: it and share our, stories you, know between you, MYSELF

1087
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 3: i THINK i can speak for both of you when

1088
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,359
Speaker 3: WHEN i, say AND i tell all the kids, this

1089
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 3: that all of my dreams have come true and that

1090
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:29,759
Speaker 3: right there is an amazing feeling to. Have, NOW i

1091
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 3: still continue to dream AND i can continue to have

1092
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 3: aspiration to do other. Things but as a, kid you,

1093
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:38,320
Speaker 3: know the things That i've done up to this, point

1094
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:40,719
Speaker 3: like where everything and more THAN i could ever.

1095
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 5: IMAGINE i think that too is another thing that you,

1096
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 5: know not at the outset or not at the, start

1097
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 5: but you, know and doing this, podcast that's something That

1098
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 5: i've That i've learned about about. Myself you, know about

1099
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 5: both of us, actually you know that that we are

1100
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 5: examples for not only you, know players that have played

1101
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 5: in the, league or guys you know behind, us young

1102
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 5: guys coming, up or just kids in. General that life

1103
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:07,880
Speaker 5: ain't gonna always be. Perfect life wasn't perfect for me Or.

1104
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 5: Black and you know What i'm. Saying we and both

1105
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 5: been through the. Ring i'm sure you've been through your

1106
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 5: ups and, downs regardless of how much, fame status accollade.

1107
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 5: Anything we all humans and we you, know we go

1108
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:20,880
Speaker 5: through what we go through and were not. Perfect BUT

1109
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 5: i feel like you know me and D males with this,

1110
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 5: part you and your life is the example of everything you,

1111
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 5: accomplished like we walking examples of regardless of what you go.

1112
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:33,799
Speaker 5: Through like you, said if you, persevere you continue on

1113
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 5: that you could get to the other side of it

1114
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,399
Speaker 5: and do what you want to. Do But lord, knows

1115
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 5: we don't look like what we've been. Through and it's

1116
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:42,400
Speaker 5: like it's a blessing for us to be able to

1117
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,400
Speaker 5: be here and do all of these things that we're

1118
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 5: able to, do sit here and talk to we sitting

1119
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 5: here talking To jesus shuttles work right.

1120
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 2: Now i'm gonna.

1121
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 5: Keep saying that because this is like you know What i'm,

1122
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,320
Speaker 5: Saying LIKE i don't care what nobody. Say don't retro

1123
00:52:55,480 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 5: thirteens is The jesus shutter work them To, denzels feel

1124
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:04,840
Speaker 5: me them to them that, day, Y'all like you know

1125
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 5: What i'm, Saying like you know What i'm, Saying like

1126
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 5: you identified with the culture in the way that some

1127
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 5: people can't no matter what, Happened like you know What i'm,

1128
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 5: Saying like you being in that movie was like.

1129
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 2: What he got a?

1130
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,719
Speaker 5: Game like when that, drop, bro you LIKE i don't

1131
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:23,319
Speaker 5: Need like what was that like for you to? Be

1132
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 5: like did you even know going, well you. Couldn't it's

1133
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 5: no way going into the movie you knew that it

1134
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 5: would become what it's, become and mean what it's meant

1135
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:33,759
Speaker 5: to the culture and all, That but just what was

1136
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 5: your feelings.

1137
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 2: When you got to call? It, Hey, Spike lee want

1138
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 2: you to be in the?

1139
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 4: Movie right with Tenzl.

1140
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 2: WASHINGTON i didn't know any of that leading up to.

1141
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 3: Him and it started because we're playing in the garden

1142
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:51,719
Speaker 3: early to See Alan houston killing me, too, well, yeah,

1143
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:52,880
Speaker 3: yeah they.

1144
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 2: Don't people. Don't nobody never one of the colds big,

1145
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:08,399
Speaker 2: man that's all that jump shot was. Water, yeah so

1146
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 2: he's killing.

1147
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 3: Me he might have fourteen or fifteen a, half and you,

1148
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 3: Know spike's, like you're gonna Guard alan to night what

1149
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 3: you're gonna? Do and so the end of the, season you,

1150
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 3: Know allan probably had like eight or, nine wasn't doing

1151
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 3: what he did before The spike was over there trying,

1152
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,319
Speaker 3: to you, know get my. ATTENTION i was ignoring him

1153
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 3: BECAUSE i thought he was going to go in on,

1154
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 3: me and then he finally got my. Attention he told,

1155
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 3: me he, Said, Hey i'm shooting this movie when you're season,

1156
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:34,799
Speaker 3: though would come audition AND i was, like bet, SO

1157
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 3: i gave him my. INFORMATION i was just In, connecticut

1158
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 3: SO i drove in like you, know every, week AND

1159
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:41,879
Speaker 3: i started doing these.

1160
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:44,319
Speaker 2: Auditions AND i remember the first AUDITION i.

1161
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:48,760
Speaker 3: DID i did with the Cole Ari parker and then

1162
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 3: like we had to do.

1163
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 2: These love scenes and THEN i did a love scene

1164
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 2: With Sally. Richardson SO i was coming in AND i was, like, oh.

1165
00:54:57,040 --> 00:55:03,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1166
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 2: Yeah because they're auditioning for the role Of. Lolah So

1167
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:08,439
Speaker 2: i'm over here and that's before anybody is anybody and.

1168
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:17,839
Speaker 3: You just, yeah we're doing kissing scenes and. Stuff so

1169
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 3: the third TIME i come, In denzel's.

1170
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:26,719
Speaker 2: There what's that? Like you, KNOW i guess when you come, from.

1171
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:27,759
Speaker 3: You, know being in THE nba and you're around all

1172
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 3: these Other i've been Around Michael jordan's so that that

1173
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 3: or right there when, yeah you've been around that ar,

1174
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 3: so so it's no. Different you, know you've been around

1175
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 3: people and seeing celebrities come to you play so, so

1176
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:55,759
Speaker 3: but he comes to, room he's got this.

1177
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:57,719
Speaker 2: AFFRO i don't you, KNOW i don't really have an

1178
00:55:57,800 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 2: understanding of what's going on or what's.

1179
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 3: On and so we start doing talking and he's so.

1180
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:06,320
Speaker 3: Great one of THE i think one of the greatest

1181
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 3: attributes a person can have a part of their character

1182
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:14,359
Speaker 3: is to allow other people to feel comfortable around, them

1183
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 3: to disarm a, person and that's How denzel. Is that's

1184
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 3: how he was because he, immediately you, know start talking

1185
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,800
Speaker 3: about basketball and shooting the ball and just talking about

1186
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 3: my game and asking pitting me in questions and it

1187
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 3: was never about. Him and so he gave me a,

1188
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:33,759
Speaker 3: Place he gave me a space to be able to

1189
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:35,359
Speaker 3: have a voice and the talk to. Him and it

1190
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:37,840
Speaker 3: wasn't like you, know some people you get to and

1191
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:39,680
Speaker 3: they start talking and you can tell they don't want

1192
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 3: to listen to you or nothing that you're talking about.

1193
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 3: Whatsoever and that's fine, too but you know the people

1194
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:47,239
Speaker 3: that are your type of. People and Then dell From

1195
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 3: Jump street was that guy that always we'd be sitting

1196
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:53,759
Speaker 3: on the set and then he'll start talking about and he's, LIKE,

1197
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 3: yo tell me about About Big. Dog What's Big dog?

1198
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 3: Like and we're about to shoot a scene and we're talking.

1199
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 3: Basketball SO i had to acting. Coach my acting coach is,

1200
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 3: like you got to stop talking to. Him, yeah she

1201
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 3: wanted me to be in character because in this, Scene

1202
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 3: i'm supposed to be mad at, Him so she didn't

1203
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:14,279
Speaker 3: THINK i could have a conversation with him and then

1204
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:17,360
Speaker 3: to be mad at. HIM i was, LIKE i know

1205
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 3: how to, compartmentalize like you, know and that was him.

1206
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:22,920
Speaker 3: Too he would sit there and he would be talking

1207
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:24,920
Speaker 3: and all of a, sudden he was gone the minute

1208
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 3: the camera was. ROLLING i equated he in spiked to

1209
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 3: a great point guard because what they would do is

1210
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 3: they would put you in a situation And spike would

1211
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 3: do it real.

1212
00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:34,800
Speaker 2: Fast he would ask them for.

1213
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:37,439
Speaker 3: Certain things and he expects you to hit, it and

1214
00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 3: But denzel would just throw it at. YOU i had

1215
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 3: one of the one of the funniest guys on the

1216
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 3: set With Roger, Runner Beer, spith Big, willie you, know light,

1217
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 3: skin do right.

1218
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:54,440
Speaker 2: Thing he was in character the whole time was.

1219
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 3: SET i mean we'd be sitting down having lunch and

1220
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 3: he'd come over there doing lines if we'd be sitting

1221
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:06,480
Speaker 3: there eating and HE i mean he didn't he never left.

1222
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 3: Characters and so what you find out like from all

1223
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 3: the people on, set like everybody is different in their acting.

1224
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:18,320
Speaker 3: Styles and so for me that helped guide me because you,

1225
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 3: know the first scene and check us.

1226
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 2: Out we had a we had a Brand.

1227
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 3: Jordan the meeting in In soho on the morning we

1228
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 3: had because we were talking about a bunch of gear

1229
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:30,960
Speaker 3: and how to do this and. That whether it was ninety.

1230
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:35,160
Speaker 3: Seven So finley was, there Then babon was. THERE i

1231
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:40,160
Speaker 3: Think derek and was. There and So spike asked. Me he, Said,

1232
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:45,920
Speaker 3: hey we're shooting this scene In Coney islands tonight and

1233
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 3: we need more. Players ask the guys if they want

1234
00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:50,919
Speaker 3: to come down super. Scene SO i told these, DUDES i, Said,

1235
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 3: Yo i'm doing this. Movie if y'all want to be

1236
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:55,920
Speaker 3: in a, movie come down with the Scene. Coney you

1237
00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:57,920
Speaker 3: know when guys here, that the person's, like oh, Man i'm,

1238
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 3: Good i'm. Good Michael finley seen The money movie come.

1239
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 3: Out he, Said, man why you ain't tell?

1240
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 2: ME i, SAID i did tell.

1241
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 4: You, yeah.

1242
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:13,560
Speaker 3: Yeah But Ben baker he came And Ben baker was

1243
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 3: In you hear him in the over the. Scene they

1244
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 3: call him Big man and we're running and down the.

1245
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:18,440
Speaker 3: Floor it's about three in the, morning we're shooting On

1246
00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 3: Coney island and he's the funny thing With then he

1247
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 3: told me he goes. Man when the movie came out,

1248
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 3: Like i'm telling everybody That i'm in the. Movie SO

1249
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 3: i get to the. Theater we're running, late AND i

1250
00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:32,439
Speaker 3: get in there AND i watched them the whole, time

1251
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 3: AND i didn't never see my, part and so he called.

1252
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 3: Me he's, like, MAN i ain't in the. MOVIE i was,

1253
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 3: like you are in the.

1254
00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:37,960
Speaker 2: Movie you're in the.

1255
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 3: Beginning so he brings some people to the movie and

1256
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 3: he's in the, beginning but he missed his part because

1257
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 3: it's the opening. Scene so we played, basketball we were

1258
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:52,000
Speaker 3: in the. Projects it. Was it was every single. Day

1259
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:56,560
Speaker 3: it gave me a greater appreciation movies from long. Hours,

1260
00:59:56,720 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 3: yeah every time we would shoot these. Scenes it Was

1261
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 3: it was interesting because the people that work on the,

1262
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 3: movie like do, lighting, continuity like all these different. Positions

1263
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:08,920
Speaker 3: they come up to me and, say how did you

1264
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 3: learn how to do all that? Stuff because they know

1265
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:14,160
Speaker 3: nothing about THE. Nba they ASSUMED i was an, actor,

1266
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:17,960
Speaker 3: right so they were, like how did you learn how

1267
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:19,960
Speaker 3: to do all this? STUFF i was like just just

1268
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:23,160
Speaker 3: over the, YEARS i just you, know taught. Myself and

1269
01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 3: in a lot of times the pressure was on me

1270
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:29,360
Speaker 3: because midday and at, night from lunch to, dinner there

1271
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:32,840
Speaker 3: was craft, services so there was always. Food we only

1272
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:36,959
Speaker 3: got to eat WHEN i finished the. Scene so they're

1273
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:39,640
Speaker 3: waiting for me to knock the scene out so we can.

1274
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 2: Go So i'm over. Here everybody's, Like, herry your ass,

1275
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 2: up do your.

1276
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 3: Thing we didn't, eat so so it was it was.

1277
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 2: CERTAINLY i really enjoyed. IT i loved.

1278
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:52,640
Speaker 3: IT i was sad THAT i did one other, movie

1279
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:53,880
Speaker 3: BUT i hadn't been able to do anything.

1280
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 2: ELSE i mean.

1281
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 3: Timing, uh you, KNOW i still have an agent that

1282
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,360
Speaker 3: brings me scripts AND i read stuff BECAUSE i love

1283
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 3: to to do more movies in the next couple of.

1284
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:06,840
Speaker 3: Years because Remember Sammarl, Jackson Marian, freeman they started late

1285
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:09,480
Speaker 3: in there. There, YEAH i Think Marian freeman was like

1286
01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:11,000
Speaker 3: in his fifties when he first got it.

1287
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:13,439
Speaker 4: Role see that dude. Too.

1288
01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah so you, know you, guys you haven't your

1289
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:20,520
Speaker 3: agent like tell, them you, know because you, Remember hollywood

1290
01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:23,160
Speaker 3: is about. Casting you find a look that they're going,

1291
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:25,640
Speaker 3: for and you, know Like common is doing a lot

1292
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 3: of stuff now and with movies AND, tv so it's.

1293
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:32,080
Speaker 5: You, know black you, know black. Deer you, know he

1294
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:34,919
Speaker 5: didn't been in a few. Movies it up and doing

1295
01:01:34,920 --> 01:01:36,880
Speaker 5: his thing we'd have been on. Shows i'd have been

1296
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:38,800
Speaker 5: out a little bit with. Her you, know we got

1297
01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:41,160
Speaker 5: a Little but that was awful seeing you on the.

1298
01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:41,480
Speaker 4: Screen.

1299
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 1: Man LIKE i said that, MOVIE i watched that movie

1300
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:45,680
Speaker 1: so much BECAUSE i felt LIKE i related to. It

1301
01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 1: it was like it was my. Life it was you,

1302
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:51,000
Speaker 1: know like from the, colleges from like. Everything it just

1303
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 1: felt like the people around just like it was like my.

1304
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:56,880
Speaker 5: Story then you had time, out time, out time.

1305
01:01:56,920 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 2: Out let me let the time. OUT i would be.

1306
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:03,960
Speaker 5: Remissed for myself and for the fans is, listening we need.

1307
01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:08,640
Speaker 2: To know the big you college visit with Rig?

1308
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 5: Fox was there was there any parallels in real life

1309
01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 5: or any of, yo but you said you can'd took

1310
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 5: care of?

1311
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 2: You was there was? It did you have a Rig

1312
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:20,000
Speaker 2: fox on that visit taking care of?

1313
01:02:20,040 --> 01:02:24,000
Speaker 3: You UNFORTUNATELY i did, Not but we you AND i

1314
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:28,240
Speaker 3: know and other guys know that that, is you, know

1315
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:30,600
Speaker 3: part of the, program like we dealt with that can.

1316
01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:35,080
Speaker 2: Be, yeah it didn't happen to. ME i think. That you,

1317
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:36,840
Speaker 2: know at the, TIME i wasn't a big enough.

1318
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:39,880
Speaker 3: Recruit but you, know coaches tell these, guys you know

1319
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:42,440
Speaker 3: you've seen it in a couple of, programs like a

1320
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:45,800
Speaker 3: couple of coaches got fired because they, had you, know

1321
01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 3: prostitution on their campus to try to Get Gira cruz

1322
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:52,720
Speaker 3: to come to their. School so that's that's the. Thing

1323
01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:55,280
Speaker 3: when When spike AND i went over the script and pre,

1324
01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 3: production we went through this whole. Thing we talked about,

1325
01:02:57,920 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 3: everything uh that a young guy can.

1326
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:03,880
Speaker 2: Experience we took it to in every.

1327
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:08,600
Speaker 3: Angle we exacerbated so people understood at a an extreme

1328
01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:11,360
Speaker 3: level of what you. Face some guys it's, agents some

1329
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:14,960
Speaker 3: guys it's the. Girlfriends sometimes it's the. Relatives sometimes it's

1330
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 3: the high school. Coach sometimes just the brother or. Sister

1331
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:21,560
Speaker 3: in this, case For, jesus it was all those.

1332
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:22,120
Speaker 2: Things.

1333
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:25,480
Speaker 5: Yeah so in filming those, takes was it a lot

1334
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 5: of takes you mold particular scenes or.

1335
01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:29,680
Speaker 2: You was just one shot shout and you got up

1336
01:03:29,680 --> 01:03:37,680
Speaker 2: out of scene saying in the dorm room saying that

1337
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:43,480
Speaker 2: took eight. Hours, wow that's. Why.

1338
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:48,280
Speaker 5: Wow i'm just, saying, man we got get people think

1339
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:49,480
Speaker 5: WHAT i know people want.

1340
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:49,800
Speaker 2: To know about.

1341
01:03:49,800 --> 01:03:52,360
Speaker 5: That ever SINCE i ever saw that, movie that's All

1342
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:54,520
Speaker 5: i've been never wanting to, say, like, man, BOY i

1343
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:57,240
Speaker 5: know that ship shooting that movie scene was Just christy

1344
01:03:57,360 --> 01:03:58,280
Speaker 5: like just being.

1345
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:01,200
Speaker 2: You a young, dude like, please like that was.

1346
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 5: CRAZY i remember seeing this And i'm, like this.

1347
01:04:05,560 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 2: Is, well let me back you. Up let me back you.

1348
01:04:07,920 --> 01:04:10,400
Speaker 3: Up so What spike did was normally on, set you

1349
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:12,320
Speaker 3: have AN a camera and you have A b camera

1350
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:16,160
Speaker 3: and and so around the set there's all these monitors

1351
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:17,640
Speaker 3: so you can see what's happening on the. Set so

1352
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:20,880
Speaker 3: what he did was he closed the set so nobody could.

1353
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:24,120
Speaker 3: See you can only. Hear and then there was only

1354
01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:27,240
Speaker 3: one camera and he was he was another room watching

1355
01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:30,440
Speaker 3: from that one. Camera and then he gave me the.

1356
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:32,600
Speaker 3: Option he gave me. This it was like a, strap

1357
01:04:32,680 --> 01:04:39,160
Speaker 3: like a, jockstrap he. SAID i, asked that's right, Up,

1358
01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:46,960
Speaker 3: yeah we is this about to go? Down like, okay,

1359
01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:47,960
Speaker 3: yeah look at.

1360
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:50,720
Speaker 2: Me and he, Said he's, like, listen whatever you guys,

1361
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:54,400
Speaker 2: do it's might be the greatest moment in The.

1362
01:04:55,040 --> 01:05:00,240
Speaker 3: Yeah so SO i we started seeing and then we're

1363
01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:03,200
Speaker 3: just sitting there and it was all like we didn't.

1364
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:04,080
Speaker 2: You, know we acted.

1365
01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 3: It you, know it was great just and in the

1366
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 3: scene we got what we needed to get to.

1367
01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 4: Show the, visual WHICH i needed to show.

1368
01:05:11,360 --> 01:05:13,560
Speaker 2: What we wanted everybody to. See and. Understand but what

1369
01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:17,520
Speaker 2: was fascinating was WHEN i walked off, set man the

1370
01:05:21,520 --> 01:05:24,920
Speaker 2: audio said, that, man my, brother my, brother.

1371
01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:35,960
Speaker 5: My. Man this is WHAT i wanted to go back

1372
01:05:36,040 --> 01:05:38,439
Speaker 5: as before we moved on from the he got gaged

1373
01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:40,720
Speaker 5: because this was a big part of my whole life and.

1374
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:42,800
Speaker 2: Upbringing, like at what point did.

1375
01:05:42,680 --> 01:05:45,400
Speaker 5: You realize that it had that type of an impact

1376
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:48,440
Speaker 5: on the culture and it was the cultural pheenom that

1377
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:51,920
Speaker 5: it was because, literally like you, said y'all took it

1378
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:56,560
Speaker 5: to the extremes with, everything but like everything in that, movie,

1379
01:05:57,480 --> 01:06:00,880
Speaker 5: somewhere on some, level on some ending, spectrum it was

1380
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:03,720
Speaker 5: truth that that was birth from you know What i'm.

1381
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:04,680
Speaker 2: SAYING i think that's.

1382
01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:08,360
Speaker 5: Why the culture really relates to it because so many

1383
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:11,040
Speaker 5: of us grew up in different neighborhoods and we got

1384
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:14,560
Speaker 5: the big willies justlike the dudes just looking.

1385
01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:16,760
Speaker 2: Out or whatever you want to call. It then you got.

1386
01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:20,440
Speaker 5: Girls then you got different type of agents or street

1387
01:06:20,440 --> 01:06:23,040
Speaker 5: agents that when you become good they want to get by.

1388
01:06:23,120 --> 01:06:27,240
Speaker 5: You you got different family members friends that want to try

1389
01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:29,919
Speaker 5: and expose all those different. Things so at what point

1390
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:33,840
Speaker 5: did you, see, like, damn this really touched our, people

1391
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:37,160
Speaker 5: like we relate with this us, like and WHEN i

1392
01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:40,600
Speaker 5: say our, PEOPLE i mean like the basketball, players the

1393
01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:42,760
Speaker 5: five thousand of us have made it to the. League

1394
01:06:42,840 --> 01:06:45,680
Speaker 5: like all of us on some level have dealt with

1395
01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:47,840
Speaker 5: all of those things that you dealt with in that.

1396
01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:51,680
Speaker 5: Movie and that's what those ideas and those whole motives come.

1397
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:53,000
Speaker 2: From like at what point.

1398
01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:55,600
Speaker 5: Did you feel, Like, yo this is bigger THAN i

1399
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:56,720
Speaker 5: thought it was ever gonna.

1400
01:06:56,720 --> 01:07:02,240
Speaker 2: BE i don't know IF i ever understood the magnitude

1401
01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:03,520
Speaker 2: of uh he got.

1402
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:08,480
Speaker 3: GAME i remember going into we were playing In milwaukee

1403
01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:11,160
Speaker 3: that next year and when we ran out on the,

1404
01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:15,320
Speaker 3: floor they played the theme song AND i was, Like,

1405
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:18,800
Speaker 3: yo that's, dope like just to run out to, it

1406
01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:21,960
Speaker 3: BECAUSE i felt like it was a moment of recognition

1407
01:07:22,040 --> 01:07:24,360
Speaker 3: that they were showing and it wasn't, like you, know

1408
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:26,040
Speaker 3: normally In milwaukee.

1409
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:27,240
Speaker 2: They used to Play laverne And shirley when we used

1410
01:07:27,240 --> 01:07:27,880
Speaker 2: to run, out.

1411
01:07:30,640 --> 01:07:34,200
Speaker 3: But they played, that and every DAY i get Called,

1412
01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:36,360
Speaker 3: jesus SO i, knew.

1413
01:07:36,440 --> 01:07:38,360
Speaker 2: Like, listen that's one of the cold.

1414
01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:43,920
Speaker 1: The history of the game Is jesus. First it's like

1415
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:47,080
Speaker 1: that go down in the history of the game top five.

1416
01:07:47,280 --> 01:07:51,240
Speaker 3: Definitely, Yeah and no matter WHERE i go Whether i'm

1417
01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:54,640
Speaker 3: in this, country around the, world people always call Me.

1418
01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 2: Jesus and you, know at first it, was you, know you're.

1419
01:07:58,440 --> 01:08:02,760
Speaker 3: You're, LIKE i played some golf With Olfanso ribero and you,

1420
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:05,480
Speaker 3: know people walking aroundton all the time and he's like

1421
01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:10,360
Speaker 3: Names alfonso and so for, me at, first you, know

1422
01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:12,320
Speaker 3: it was like trying to get used to people call Me.

1423
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:14,360
Speaker 3: JESUS i wouldn't answer to. It but now it's like

1424
01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:18,000
Speaker 3: it's just one of those things that it's cemented in.

1425
01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:22,360
Speaker 2: Stone now it truly. Is you, know it's like one.

1426
01:08:22,320 --> 01:08:26,960
Speaker 3: Of those films that when you revisit the, nineties it'll

1427
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:30,559
Speaker 3: be something that for, us you, know, athletes it'll be

1428
01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:34,240
Speaker 3: something that will always kind of speak to the times

1429
01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 3: of which we grew.

1430
01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:38,400
Speaker 5: Up, yeah it's definitely one of those joints for me

1431
01:08:38,479 --> 01:08:41,559
Speaker 5: because LIKE i feel like anybody who see that, movie

1432
01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:44,720
Speaker 5: anybody is the top athlete or. ANYE i don't care

1433
01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:49,840
Speaker 5: whether it's, basketball, football, baseball whatever it, is Like jesus

1434
01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:53,280
Speaker 5: shuttleworthsus that, athlete especially in today's game with all of

1435
01:08:53,280 --> 01:08:56,240
Speaker 5: this damn social media and these guys getting a million

1436
01:08:56,320 --> 01:08:59,559
Speaker 5: followers before every one of them kids Are jesus Show

1437
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:00,679
Speaker 5: worth they are.

1438
01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:02,959
Speaker 2: Being pulled and tugged in a.

1439
01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:07,280
Speaker 5: Billion different, directions taunted with, money, fame or whatever you

1440
01:09:07,400 --> 01:09:09,600
Speaker 5: think before they even get. There and that's exactly what

1441
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:12,040
Speaker 5: like when you're getting taken to the agent. House and

1442
01:09:12,080 --> 01:09:14,599
Speaker 5: then everybody didn't dealt with, that whether it was being

1443
01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:17,840
Speaker 5: sent jewelry at your dorm or being sent, money or

1444
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:21,759
Speaker 5: being offered money and by a relative or a friend

1445
01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:24,080
Speaker 5: or you, know a teammate or whatever it may, be

1446
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:25,320
Speaker 5: we allay experienced.

1447
01:09:25,400 --> 01:09:26,240
Speaker 2: That that's what made.

1448
01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:29,320
Speaker 5: THAT i feel, like that's what made that movie, so you,

1449
01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:33,040
Speaker 5: know so relatable to everybody because you, know earlier like

1450
01:09:33,200 --> 01:09:35,559
Speaker 5: not so. Much, WELL i can't speak on what's going on,

1451
01:09:35,560 --> 01:09:38,519
Speaker 5: now BUT i know in them nineties and them early two,

1452
01:09:38,560 --> 01:09:41,040
Speaker 5: thousands that's when it was like in them eighties two you,

1453
01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:43,720
Speaker 5: know that's when it was like people was paying like

1454
01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:44,479
Speaker 5: they way it.

1455
01:09:44,520 --> 01:09:47,360
Speaker 2: Was everything was going crazy with being given.

1456
01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:49,000
Speaker 5: This and, that and it was like that shit was

1457
01:09:49,080 --> 01:09:52,519
Speaker 5: just like, yo this movie Like Spike lee and the

1458
01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:53,960
Speaker 5: timing of that, shit it was so.

1459
01:09:54,200 --> 01:09:57,000
Speaker 2: Dope everybody is hooping right, now gotta feel.

1460
01:09:57,040 --> 01:09:59,160
Speaker 4: This they're laugh of. Me it definitely.

1461
01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:02,479
Speaker 2: DID i watched it and we do uh he AND.

1462
01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:05,479
Speaker 3: I i See spike at least uh once a year

1463
01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:09,080
Speaker 3: in the, summer and we always talk about doing a

1464
01:10:09,120 --> 01:10:14,959
Speaker 3: sequel because there's so much subject matter pertaining to young,

1465
01:10:15,120 --> 01:10:18,000
Speaker 3: kids young, girls uh you, know.

1466
01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:21,920
Speaker 2: Hoopers and LIKE i said, earlier like movies tell.

1467
01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:25,519
Speaker 3: The story of the, time and who better to continue

1468
01:10:25,520 --> 01:10:26,519
Speaker 3: to tell that story Than?

1469
01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:28,880
Speaker 2: Spike what is it going to be a She got?

1470
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:31,240
Speaker 2: Game well we tussled with that a little.

1471
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:35,000
Speaker 3: Bit but again AND i say THAT i haven't said

1472
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:37,160
Speaker 3: to you guys, yet but what you've gone.

1473
01:10:36,880 --> 01:10:38,880
Speaker 2: Through what you've experienced in your, life you got to

1474
01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:42,360
Speaker 2: write a. BOOK i have one soon. TIME i won't.

1475
01:10:42,439 --> 01:10:47,479
Speaker 3: Whate so what happens is is since we played in,

1476
01:10:47,520 --> 01:10:51,479
Speaker 3: this in this this walk of, life we have people

1477
01:10:51,520 --> 01:10:56,800
Speaker 3: that cover our our, lives you, know beat, writers, journalists

1478
01:10:56,800 --> 01:11:00,680
Speaker 3: and they tell stories about who we. Are and you

1479
01:11:00,760 --> 01:11:02,880
Speaker 3: ever read a story somebody tells about, You it's not.

1480
01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:06,280
Speaker 3: True you, know they say some things from their. Perspective

1481
01:11:06,400 --> 01:11:09,519
Speaker 3: and so what happens is when you write a, Book

1482
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:11,200
Speaker 3: because even WHEN i wrote my, BOOK i had to

1483
01:11:11,240 --> 01:11:13,640
Speaker 3: tell this guy That i'm writing with that you, know

1484
01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:16,280
Speaker 3: certain things happened over what did and what didn't?

1485
01:11:16,320 --> 01:11:20,120
Speaker 2: Happen and you, know they they will switch the story.

1486
01:11:20,120 --> 01:11:26,559
Speaker 3: Around, secondly movies get transformed from. Books and then when

1487
01:11:26,640 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 3: movies about us become part of the, mainstream that gives you,

1488
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:35,880
Speaker 3: know black actors', roles black actors get. Roles then young

1489
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:40,800
Speaker 3: black children have the opportunity to see people In, america you, know,

1490
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:43,800
Speaker 3: thriving not always you, know being a pimp or a

1491
01:11:43,960 --> 01:11:46,120
Speaker 3: slave or a, prostitute or.

1492
01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:48,840
Speaker 2: A drug dealer or gang.

1493
01:11:48,880 --> 01:11:54,280
Speaker 3: Member those are the stereotypes that have been ways heavily

1494
01:11:54,439 --> 01:11:59,719
Speaker 3: on who we are as. People but we have, doctors, lawyers, fireman, teacher,

1495
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:01,600
Speaker 3: professors you, know all walks of.

1496
01:12:01,600 --> 01:12:04,360
Speaker 2: Life, so but the more we write, books the more.

1497
01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:08,800
Speaker 3: We get people like us rolls and so it's IMPORTANT

1498
01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:11,280
Speaker 3: u to put books out there because kids need.

1499
01:12:11,439 --> 01:12:13,920
Speaker 2: Inspiration and you, know all.

1500
01:12:13,760 --> 01:12:15,720
Speaker 3: These stories that we talked, about it's great to be

1501
01:12:15,760 --> 01:12:18,839
Speaker 3: able to read them and kind of take a journey

1502
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:19,200
Speaker 3: through your.

1503
01:12:19,240 --> 01:12:22,639
Speaker 2: Life your life is like a museum. Now, yeah, yeah.

1504
01:12:22,560 --> 01:12:25,840
Speaker 5: So my, my me And, Black SO I Spike lee's

1505
01:12:25,880 --> 01:12:28,040
Speaker 5: story where we felt like we was in he got

1506
01:12:28,160 --> 01:12:30,560
Speaker 5: game right fast.

1507
01:12:30,240 --> 01:12:34,599
Speaker 2: Forward to what was AFTER i after our rookie. Year

1508
01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:35,080
Speaker 2: you know What i'm.

1509
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:38,519
Speaker 5: Saying me And black And miles here we get the phone, call, say,

1510
01:12:38,640 --> 01:12:41,360
Speaker 5: Yo Jordan brand want to shoot a commercial with you

1511
01:12:41,479 --> 01:12:46,519
Speaker 5: and your boy and guess who's gonna Direct Spike lee crazy,

1512
01:12:47,479 --> 01:12:50,559
Speaker 5: Outside like, well they they about to fly us The

1513
01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:54,280
Speaker 5: New York city and we about to do A Jordan brand.

1514
01:12:54,280 --> 01:12:55,920
Speaker 2: Commercial like just.

1515
01:12:55,840 --> 01:12:58,760
Speaker 5: A little between, You me And black and the rest

1516
01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:02,080
Speaker 5: of the world listening The jordan's seventeens that came out

1517
01:13:02,080 --> 01:13:02,240
Speaker 5: in the.

1518
01:13:02,280 --> 01:13:05,400
Speaker 2: Briefcase me and D miles personally.

1519
01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:07,559
Speaker 5: Feel like those are THE D males and THE Q Ridge,

1520
01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:09,720
Speaker 5: george because that was our.

1521
01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:15,920
Speaker 2: Commercial we did the commercials for. Up it was the

1522
01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:19,040
Speaker 2: Old School, guru The, guru The Old school. Joint we

1523
01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:21,519
Speaker 2: was in the, church got us in the church and

1524
01:13:21,720 --> 01:13:24,760
Speaker 2: we were In. Brooklyn UH.

1525
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:27,000
Speaker 4: I did one but.

1526
01:13:28,640 --> 01:13:28,800
Speaker 2: One.

1527
01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:32,000
Speaker 5: Together this was The jordan's seventeens with the strap and all.

1528
01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:33,840
Speaker 5: That like those to this day that came in the,

1529
01:13:33,920 --> 01:13:36,800
Speaker 5: Briefcase like we get people adding us and tweeting, us

1530
01:13:36,960 --> 01:13:41,639
Speaker 5: like people use the briefcases. Tattoo they put their tattoo

1531
01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:43,719
Speaker 5: gun and then they put their clippers in. There different

1532
01:13:43,720 --> 01:13:46,840
Speaker 5: people use, it but like those shoes right, There like

1533
01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:49,040
Speaker 5: that was our moment where we felt like we're on

1534
01:13:49,120 --> 01:13:51,160
Speaker 5: top of the world, like, bro like you talking about

1535
01:13:51,200 --> 01:13:55,519
Speaker 5: some young kids at nineteen twenty years old flying out

1536
01:13:55,560 --> 01:13:57,400
Speaker 5: to do a. Video first of, all we're doing A

1537
01:13:57,479 --> 01:14:00,880
Speaker 5: Jordan brand. Video jordan is our. Eyes he got us

1538
01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:04,120
Speaker 5: doing a. Video then we're doing spike leads directed up

1539
01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:07,760
Speaker 5: like get. There we got a damn trailer and all

1540
01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:09,479
Speaker 5: this and he had a, trailer had my own, trade

1541
01:14:09,520 --> 01:14:12,479
Speaker 5: were like you like every single thing was like as

1542
01:14:12,520 --> 01:14:15,280
Speaker 5: big as it gets for we were, like, damn like

1543
01:14:15,880 --> 01:14:18,840
Speaker 5: this is. It and when them shoes, dropped like these

1544
01:14:18,880 --> 01:14:22,360
Speaker 5: our shoes you y'all would see them seventeens like that

1545
01:14:22,520 --> 01:14:24,599
Speaker 5: was our one moment in the, sun like.

1546
01:14:24,479 --> 01:14:27,320
Speaker 4: With that, ship like they had our picture in there

1547
01:14:27,400 --> 01:14:28,960
Speaker 4: with the. Shoes we was like.

1548
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:35,519
Speaker 1: That was the dope ass moment the world stopped When

1549
01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:38,439
Speaker 1: jordan said we was gonna be On Jordan, brand be

1550
01:14:38,560 --> 01:14:40,840
Speaker 1: on there with you and like the whole squad that

1551
01:14:40,880 --> 01:14:43,640
Speaker 1: they already had before we, Came like how was it

1552
01:14:43,680 --> 01:14:45,600
Speaker 1: for you when you found out you was gonna be

1553
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:49,080
Speaker 1: On Jordan brand and you was gonna be Representing Jordan's.

1554
01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:50,880
Speaker 5: And, wait you was the you was you were the

1555
01:14:51,040 --> 01:14:54,559
Speaker 5: original original, member, right you was The you're the original number.

1556
01:14:54,560 --> 01:14:55,679
Speaker 2: ONE i WAS i.

1557
01:14:55,680 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 3: Was that can only be one, first you, know if

1558
01:14:59,080 --> 01:15:01,160
Speaker 3: there was, nothing it was. Nothing they were talking about.

1559
01:15:01,160 --> 01:15:03,000
Speaker 3: It so when they mentioned it to, ME i didn't

1560
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:06,120
Speaker 3: know what it was. Like it, wasn't you, know something

1561
01:15:06,160 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 3: that we had ever seen before BECAUSE i had always Worn,

1562
01:15:10,160 --> 01:15:13,000
Speaker 3: Nike so you, KNOW i was, Like i'm gonna Wear.

1563
01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:16,280
Speaker 3: Nike nike's gonna be our brother, company uh To. Jordan

1564
01:15:16,360 --> 01:15:18,240
Speaker 3: So i'm all for. It i'm down there, this you,

1565
01:15:18,280 --> 01:15:19,800
Speaker 3: Know george's doing. THAT i want to be a part of.

1566
01:15:19,840 --> 01:15:21,920
Speaker 3: It and you, know just from where we are today

1567
01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:26,639
Speaker 3: is so much has grown and come, out like from its.

1568
01:15:26,680 --> 01:15:28,880
Speaker 4: Beautiful it's, Beautiful.

1569
01:15:28,600 --> 01:15:34,120
Speaker 3: Yeah Like, Paris Saint jerman. Overseas you know how he.

1570
01:15:34,200 --> 01:15:37,240
Speaker 3: COLLABORATES i did a two years. AGO i went to

1571
01:15:37,640 --> 01:15:42,360
Speaker 3: a sneaker con in In. DUBAI i did it on

1572
01:15:42,439 --> 01:15:42,920
Speaker 3: behalf of.

1573
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:44,880
Speaker 2: Brand, jordans AND i remember seeing.

1574
01:15:44,920 --> 01:15:49,080
Speaker 3: THAT i, mean it's incredible to go to The Middle

1575
01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:52,160
Speaker 3: east and see shoes that you had on your feet

1576
01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:56,719
Speaker 3: on display because the some sneaker head you, know collected.

1577
01:15:56,760 --> 01:15:59,519
Speaker 3: Them and then you see the, collaborations you, know the

1578
01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:04,640
Speaker 3: different designers that that Build supreme and and And zach Was,

1579
01:16:04,800 --> 01:16:07,840
Speaker 3: Zappla LIKE i got a chance to meet a lot

1580
01:16:07,840 --> 01:16:12,080
Speaker 3: of those people and they're COLLABORATING U. P.

1581
01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:14,720
Speaker 2: S N. Y just where it's come.

1582
01:16:14,800 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 3: From, like that's WHAT i love About nike And george

1583
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:21,320
Speaker 3: is that you know they've always had their pulse you,

1584
01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:24,479
Speaker 3: know on the, streets on the. Culture, yeah giving people

1585
01:16:24,479 --> 01:16:27,600
Speaker 3: the platform to be able to enhance the brand and

1586
01:16:27,640 --> 01:16:29,440
Speaker 3: that you, know that's.

1587
01:16:29,040 --> 01:16:31,400
Speaker 2: All you hope Was. America you, know we Know america

1588
01:16:31,400 --> 01:16:32,559
Speaker 2: as landed the free home of the.

1589
01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:36,040
Speaker 3: Brave we've had a lot of, inequities, uh you know

1590
01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:39,240
Speaker 3: for a long, time but when people do it, right you,

1591
01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:43,320
Speaker 3: realize like the diversity is what makes this great country

1592
01:16:43,520 --> 01:16:47,280
Speaker 3: incredible because you, know, black, brown, white you.

1593
01:16:47,160 --> 01:16:49,280
Speaker 2: Know, Asian, jewish you, Know.

1594
01:16:49,400 --> 01:16:53,519
Speaker 3: Muslim like that's the most fascinating thing in the world

1595
01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:56,720
Speaker 3: when people come together and you have a commonality in

1596
01:16:57,000 --> 01:16:59,439
Speaker 3: tennishes and sneakers and how.

1597
01:16:59,400 --> 01:17:01,479
Speaker 1: You used to feel than you when you get them

1598
01:17:01,600 --> 01:17:04,200
Speaker 1: doings and you used to get them exclusive parent you,

1599
01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:07,599
Speaker 1: know you, things you got them things on and you know.

1600
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:10,320
Speaker 4: IT'S abc or it's one of THEM tv games and

1601
01:17:10,800 --> 01:17:11,080
Speaker 4: you know.

1602
01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:14,000
Speaker 1: Everybody is talking about these, Shoes like how does it

1603
01:17:14,040 --> 01:17:16,280
Speaker 1: feel that when you used to have them exclusives on

1604
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:18,400
Speaker 1: and you get out there and, play it feels like

1605
01:17:18,439 --> 01:17:19,160
Speaker 1: you completed the.

1606
01:17:19,240 --> 01:17:19,679
Speaker 4: Uniforms.

1607
01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:22,719
Speaker 3: YEAH i mean it's fascinating to me to watch guys

1608
01:17:22,720 --> 01:17:28,160
Speaker 3: now that don't keep the same color. Patterns, yeah you

1609
01:17:28,280 --> 01:17:30,400
Speaker 3: add a little something to, it but you keep. It you,

1610
01:17:30,400 --> 01:17:33,960
Speaker 3: know it's just keep. It keep your colors, right colors,

1611
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:36,360
Speaker 3: right don't throw something. Else you, KNOW i might accent

1612
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:40,760
Speaker 3: a void color or, pain but you keep them base color.

1613
01:17:40,880 --> 01:17:45,519
Speaker 3: RIGHT i just remember when social media became, big when

1614
01:17:45,720 --> 01:17:48,360
Speaker 3: when this stuff, started When bible was a, thing LIKE

1615
01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:51,920
Speaker 3: i would, be you, know wearing, shoes and then that's

1616
01:17:51,960 --> 01:17:55,360
Speaker 3: all they talked about after the game was that on my.

1617
01:17:55,439 --> 01:17:59,080
Speaker 2: Feet AND i was, like, wow this this is a real.

1618
01:17:59,160 --> 01:18:02,200
Speaker 3: Thing like there's a culture out there that exists That

1619
01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:04,639
Speaker 3: i'm a part of that you, know follows.

1620
01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:07,599
Speaker 2: This this is this is. Legit and you know.

1621
01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:10,559
Speaker 4: That was our. Generation we was following.

1622
01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:12,439
Speaker 1: It when we got in and he accepted, us we

1623
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:13,880
Speaker 1: like we part of this bomb.

1624
01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:18,400
Speaker 5: Squad oh SO i get asked a, lot just like you,

1625
01:18:18,400 --> 01:18:21,040
Speaker 5: say when The internet and the social media, STARTED i

1626
01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:23,160
Speaker 5: get asked a, lot like Because i'm one of the

1627
01:18:24,040 --> 01:18:26,720
Speaker 5: long Time jordan and was, like man who got the.

1628
01:18:26,760 --> 01:18:29,880
Speaker 5: Best the only person THAT i really deferred to and,

1629
01:18:29,960 --> 01:18:34,160
Speaker 5: say you know had a better pe game than me is.

1630
01:18:34,240 --> 01:18:37,920
Speaker 5: You and that becomes because of the longevity you had,

1631
01:18:38,040 --> 01:18:40,680
Speaker 5: Championship you had the long playoff runs and you know

1632
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:44,439
Speaker 5: how they plan for that for. Us SO i missed

1633
01:18:44,439 --> 01:18:46,680
Speaker 5: that in LA i ain't getting no playoff. Runs and

1634
01:18:46,680 --> 01:18:48,360
Speaker 5: THAT i got it In. MIAMI i MEAN i got

1635
01:18:48,400 --> 01:18:50,479
Speaker 5: it In. PHOENIX i got it In miami and then

1636
01:18:50,520 --> 01:18:52,000
Speaker 5: In New. York Like New york is one of my

1637
01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:54,280
Speaker 5: ille stretches because that was like at the peak of

1638
01:18:54,400 --> 01:18:56,719
Speaker 5: peas and it was like it was a different color.

1639
01:18:56,800 --> 01:18:58,880
Speaker 5: Like and that's the main REASON i say that, you

1640
01:18:59,479 --> 01:19:03,799
Speaker 5: me and you had some of the illesspees going because

1641
01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:07,960
Speaker 5: of our longevity with the, brand and then our teams

1642
01:19:07,960 --> 01:19:11,400
Speaker 5: were so far from the original colors that they were used.

1643
01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:15,280
Speaker 5: To you can get them them greens and them yellows With,

1644
01:19:15,439 --> 01:19:18,400
Speaker 5: seattle and then the greens In boston and then even

1645
01:19:18,439 --> 01:19:21,000
Speaker 5: with the, gold the yellow and red and black In

1646
01:19:21,080 --> 01:19:23,880
Speaker 5: miami BECAUSE i had some ignorant stuff my one year

1647
01:19:23,880 --> 01:19:27,360
Speaker 5: In miami, Too so it's like that. Flavor and THEN

1648
01:19:27,400 --> 01:19:29,800
Speaker 5: i Say bibby was like a close right there Because

1649
01:19:29,800 --> 01:19:32,799
Speaker 5: bibby had The purples And, sacramento, yeah and The atlantic

1650
01:19:32,880 --> 01:19:33,280
Speaker 5: colors and.

1651
01:19:33,320 --> 01:19:34,760
Speaker 2: Stuff so he was right.

1652
01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:37,320
Speaker 5: There but like the Long jefty, cause like, bro when

1653
01:19:37,360 --> 01:19:40,400
Speaker 5: they gave you the rain game, joints them elevens and,

1654
01:19:40,439 --> 01:19:42,200
Speaker 5: them SH i, say hold.

1655
01:19:41,920 --> 01:19:43,559
Speaker 2: ON i, say shut the damn.

1656
01:19:43,720 --> 01:19:47,720
Speaker 5: DOOR i, say you got ignorant when your ass had

1657
01:19:47,800 --> 01:19:48,479
Speaker 5: to shoot around.

1658
01:19:48,600 --> 01:19:53,280
Speaker 2: MISMATCH i, said ill HAD i tied damn.

1659
01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:56,719
Speaker 3: Man at the inn at the end and that right, now,

1660
01:19:58,240 --> 01:20:01,000
Speaker 3: listen they created packed me with them.

1661
01:20:01,040 --> 01:20:07,600
Speaker 2: SHOES i remember all the, mismatch the elevens in the, nines.

1662
01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:12,439
Speaker 3: You, know the way the Way we're fortunate because we

1663
01:20:12,560 --> 01:20:16,400
Speaker 3: had you, know to your, point we were able, to you,

1664
01:20:16,400 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 3: know have. Longevity SO i spanned you, know a couple

1665
01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:23,880
Speaker 3: of different generations playing in two decades and then having

1666
01:20:24,360 --> 01:20:27,519
Speaker 3: the different. Colors but then you, know later on playing

1667
01:20:28,240 --> 01:20:31,879
Speaker 3: you Know PRIMETIME. Tv you know you got The Christmas

1668
01:20:31,880 --> 01:20:36,760
Speaker 3: games all, yeah you got all the games that are poignant,

1669
01:20:36,880 --> 01:20:39,240
Speaker 3: MOMENTS nba moments From All Star.

1670
01:20:39,400 --> 01:20:42,439
Speaker 2: Games, yeah The olympics play two thousand.

1671
01:20:42,560 --> 01:20:45,320
Speaker 3: Nights they had to construct something That AND i told

1672
01:20:45,360 --> 01:20:47,680
Speaker 3: me WHEN i WHEN i got the three point record In,

1673
01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:51,720
Speaker 3: BOSTON i told, them you know when they stopped me at.

1674
01:20:51,720 --> 01:20:54,800
Speaker 3: THIRTEEN i, listen it was like the day, before AND

1675
01:20:54,880 --> 01:20:57,439
Speaker 3: i was pleading with. THEM i, SAID i need you

1676
01:20:57,640 --> 01:21:00,920
Speaker 3: to make these thirteens for. ME i need you to

1677
01:21:00,920 --> 01:21:02,720
Speaker 3: make them for me BECAUSE i can't just break this

1678
01:21:02,840 --> 01:21:04,439
Speaker 3: record and not have something special on my.

1679
01:21:04,479 --> 01:21:07,559
Speaker 2: Feet you, know this is going to always be a

1680
01:21:07,600 --> 01:21:10,679
Speaker 2: moment that Is are these the sugar?

1681
01:21:10,760 --> 01:21:10,880
Speaker 4: Right?

1682
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:14,160
Speaker 2: Thirteen, yeah so it's.

1683
01:21:14,240 --> 01:21:17,760
Speaker 3: Hard, YES i had them shoes, on but listen how

1684
01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:21,200
Speaker 3: they got to. Me they, countered the countered the shoes

1685
01:21:21,240 --> 01:21:24,040
Speaker 3: to me by, playing and they got to me right

1686
01:21:24,080 --> 01:21:28,400
Speaker 3: before the, game and they made a mocked tub on the,

1687
01:21:28,439 --> 01:21:32,639
Speaker 3: green which means it was, written you know In. Arabic

1688
01:21:32,920 --> 01:21:37,320
Speaker 3: so you, know that's What jordan did for. Us they

1689
01:21:37,360 --> 01:21:40,000
Speaker 3: made sure that we had our player. Exclusives they made

1690
01:21:40,040 --> 01:21:43,000
Speaker 3: sure that it was something that was special to. Us

1691
01:21:43,240 --> 01:21:45,599
Speaker 3: they wanted us to know and the people around us

1692
01:21:45,640 --> 01:21:48,120
Speaker 3: they supported. Us and those kids are going to buy those.

1693
01:21:48,120 --> 01:21:52,640
Speaker 1: SHOES i was AT Nba juniors In, orlando like a

1694
01:21:52,760 --> 01:21:54,519
Speaker 1: year or so. AGO i went to THE Nba. Jr

1695
01:21:54,600 --> 01:21:56,720
Speaker 1: your mom was. There we were sitting there watching the,

1696
01:21:56,760 --> 01:22:00,280
Speaker 1: game watching the championship game and just laughing and. She's

1697
01:22:00,880 --> 01:22:03,880
Speaker 1: she nudged. Me she, Said, hey SO i know you

1698
01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:07,479
Speaker 1: was With. Jordan's what do y'all do with all these?

1699
01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:08,760
Speaker 4: Shoes? Like where do they?

1700
01:22:08,840 --> 01:22:10,519
Speaker 2: Go? Like what do y'all?

1701
01:22:10,520 --> 01:22:12,280
Speaker 1: Do he, Said Because i'm having the problem with my.

1702
01:22:12,320 --> 01:22:14,559
Speaker 1: Son got all these shoes and you don't know where

1703
01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:16,720
Speaker 1: to put? Them so what do you do with all

1704
01:22:16,760 --> 01:22:18,280
Speaker 1: these shoes and all this? Stuff you can?

1705
01:22:18,400 --> 01:22:18,599
Speaker 4: Lect?

1706
01:22:19,160 --> 01:22:23,160
Speaker 3: Listen you, KNOW i THINK i never owned a pair Of.

1707
01:22:23,240 --> 01:22:26,080
Speaker 3: Jordan's WHEN i was growing, up my favorites were the

1708
01:22:26,120 --> 01:22:29,519
Speaker 3: Fire Red. Force you can ask a kid what their

1709
01:22:29,560 --> 01:22:33,759
Speaker 3: Favorite jordan, is you can basically guess their age because

1710
01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:35,400
Speaker 3: how we grow, up you.

1711
01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:37,559
Speaker 2: Know LIKE i remember playing With, Beasley Michael.

1712
01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:41,160
Speaker 3: Beasley he was, like, Yeah bees was like my Favorite

1713
01:22:41,200 --> 01:22:43,920
Speaker 3: jeordan is the Sixteen joe sixteens.

1714
01:22:43,360 --> 01:22:45,720
Speaker 2: All day long as young ass like, you like.

1715
01:22:49,240 --> 01:22:53,559
Speaker 3: We were playing in the league in, sixteen like the.

1716
01:22:53,640 --> 01:22:56,160
Speaker 3: Fours BECAUSE i was growing up AND i did, him

1717
01:22:56,240 --> 01:22:58,000
Speaker 3: and THEN i remember the kids in the. Neighborhood it

1718
01:22:58,120 --> 01:22:59,960
Speaker 3: just it takes us back to a time and place

1719
01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:04,160
Speaker 3: and so NOW i, actually BEFORE i got on you,

1720
01:23:04,200 --> 01:23:06,240
Speaker 3: GUYS i opened up about four or five boxes of,

1721
01:23:06,280 --> 01:23:10,280
Speaker 3: shoes and it's fascinating to be able to, see you,

1722
01:23:10,320 --> 01:23:13,280
Speaker 3: know the evolution of the shoes and you, know. Directionality

1723
01:23:13,439 --> 01:23:16,519
Speaker 3: i'm astounded that they continue to come over new and different.

1724
01:23:16,520 --> 01:23:21,200
Speaker 3: Ideas but we are still ambassadors to the shoe. Game

1725
01:23:21,280 --> 01:23:25,160
Speaker 3: we are sneaker. Heads we are What jordan hopes that

1726
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:28,040
Speaker 3: we would be embodied the spirit of his shoe and his.

1727
01:23:28,160 --> 01:23:31,280
Speaker 3: Legacy so WHAT i do IS i always try to

1728
01:23:31,320 --> 01:23:33,680
Speaker 3: keep that in. Mind and, whenever WHENEVER i get a

1729
01:23:33,720 --> 01:23:36,880
Speaker 3: box of, SHOES i you, know guys that wear shoes like,

1730
01:23:36,920 --> 01:23:39,400
Speaker 3: ME i make sure they have. Some but you, know

1731
01:23:39,479 --> 01:23:42,760
Speaker 3: for the most, PART i, collect you, KNOW i, continue you,

1732
01:23:42,800 --> 01:23:43,519
Speaker 3: know because with.

1733
01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:46,639
Speaker 4: You if you collected, them you the all time.

1734
01:23:46,720 --> 01:23:53,040
Speaker 1: Collector BECAUSE i can just, imagine and.

1735
01:23:53,040 --> 01:23:55,599
Speaker 3: You, KNOW i gotta be careful BECAUSE i give away stuff,

1736
01:23:55,600 --> 01:23:58,280
Speaker 3: Too SO i GOTTA i gotta be careful WHAT i give,

1737
01:23:58,320 --> 01:24:02,840
Speaker 3: away because there's some shoes HANDLE i guarantee you, like

1738
01:24:03,680 --> 01:24:07,200
Speaker 3: IF i put a pair of, shoes a certain pair

1739
01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:10,640
Speaker 3: of shoes on, AUCTION i could get you, know at

1740
01:24:10,760 --> 01:24:14,559
Speaker 3: least thirty FIFTY i think THAT i THINK i would

1741
01:24:14,560 --> 01:24:16,000
Speaker 3: get raised thousand and four a pair of.

1742
01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:18,559
Speaker 5: SHOES i got a couple of pair of you probably got,

1743
01:24:18,560 --> 01:24:22,960
Speaker 5: them dumb MILLION i. GOT i got two pairs in

1744
01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:24,720
Speaker 5: particulars off the top of my, HEAD i can think

1745
01:24:24,800 --> 01:24:26,920
Speaker 5: cause out and saw for over thirty thousand on the.

1746
01:24:26,920 --> 01:24:31,000
Speaker 5: Internet the eminem fours and then the not the low

1747
01:24:31,120 --> 01:24:33,080
Speaker 5: cut but the mid Cut.

1748
01:24:32,920 --> 01:24:34,839
Speaker 2: Dereck jeter eleven swayed.

1749
01:24:35,040 --> 01:24:39,080
Speaker 5: Joints, yeah with the two on the back because the

1750
01:24:39,120 --> 01:24:43,880
Speaker 5: mid the low cut everybody got, apparently but the mids

1751
01:24:44,320 --> 01:24:44,720
Speaker 5: those go.

1752
01:24:44,880 --> 01:24:46,320
Speaker 2: Crazy AND i got a pair of both of.

1753
01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:48,280
Speaker 5: Them SHIPS i ain't like that's Why i'm, Said i'm

1754
01:24:48,280 --> 01:24:50,840
Speaker 5: not no sneaker, head BUT i just you, know WHATEVER i,

1755
01:24:50,920 --> 01:24:51,240
Speaker 5: GOT i.

1756
01:24:51,320 --> 01:24:54,519
Speaker 1: Get, Yeah like what you think about the new generation

1757
01:24:54,640 --> 01:24:57,599
Speaker 1: Of jordan, players and two of them players is From Saint.

1758
01:24:57,600 --> 01:25:02,160
Speaker 1: Louis you know my whole, Boys Bradley bill And Jason.

1759
01:25:02,160 --> 01:25:06,120
Speaker 1: Tatum but you Got Zaion, williams you Got Russell westbrook still.

1760
01:25:06,160 --> 01:25:08,400
Speaker 1: Representing you got Uh and he picked a lot of

1761
01:25:08,560 --> 01:25:11,599
Speaker 1: W nba. Players uh he picked some W nba PLAYER

1762
01:25:11,600 --> 01:25:14,240
Speaker 1: i think it Was Tia cooper and Uh NURSE i

1763
01:25:14,320 --> 01:25:17,040
Speaker 1: think she played For uh, yes, yes she played for

1764
01:25:17,080 --> 01:25:20,400
Speaker 1: the Sports now like just how the brand is evolving

1765
01:25:20,479 --> 01:25:23,519
Speaker 1: and got this new young talent of elite players to

1766
01:25:23,560 --> 01:25:25,960
Speaker 1: move to the next generation And zai just came out

1767
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:28,560
Speaker 1: with his new shoe Under, Jordan so how's that to

1768
01:25:28,600 --> 01:25:31,200
Speaker 1: see the next generation to push the brand even.

1769
01:25:31,240 --> 01:25:34,280
Speaker 3: Further, again we talked a little bit about it, earlier

1770
01:25:34,280 --> 01:25:38,720
Speaker 3: but it's so important to try to, educate you, know

1771
01:25:38,760 --> 01:25:41,080
Speaker 3: these guys because they're gonna fall in our lap at

1772
01:25:41,120 --> 01:25:44,000
Speaker 3: some point in their. Life you, know you become, retired

1773
01:25:44,800 --> 01:25:47,120
Speaker 3: but while you're in that, position you know what you

1774
01:25:47,160 --> 01:25:50,400
Speaker 3: can do with that position to really take the brand

1775
01:25:50,439 --> 01:25:53,040
Speaker 3: to the next. Level because we we actually helped grow

1776
01:25:53,400 --> 01:25:56,479
Speaker 3: the brand to what it is. Today, yeah and uh

1777
01:25:56,600 --> 01:25:59,880
Speaker 3: and certainly THE. Nba so we have to do everything

1778
01:25:59,880 --> 01:26:03,360
Speaker 3: we can to give those young fellows a soft. Landing you,

1779
01:26:03,400 --> 01:26:06,200
Speaker 3: Know brad AND i talk whenever he's you, know he'll

1780
01:26:06,200 --> 01:26:08,720
Speaker 3: call me from time to time and we'll have a,

1781
01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:14,200
Speaker 3: conversation and THEN i try to give them space to ask,

1782
01:26:14,360 --> 01:26:18,840
Speaker 3: questions to seek. Advice that's the most important thing that

1783
01:26:18,880 --> 01:26:20,679
Speaker 3: we could do now in the space that that we're.

1784
01:26:20,680 --> 01:26:24,600
Speaker 3: In and BECAUSE i always had older heads THAT i

1785
01:26:24,640 --> 01:26:27,439
Speaker 3: could talk, to because sometimes you can't talk to guys

1786
01:26:27,479 --> 01:26:29,840
Speaker 3: on your team they don't, understand or even your coach

1787
01:26:30,439 --> 01:26:33,120
Speaker 3: or even family. Members so to have somebody who's been,

1788
01:26:33,160 --> 01:26:35,400
Speaker 3: through what you what you've been through to be able

1789
01:26:35,520 --> 01:26:38,400
Speaker 3: to you, know ask questions and then help you deal

1790
01:26:38,439 --> 01:26:40,400
Speaker 3: with things on your. Team bet are you, know super

1791
01:26:40,479 --> 01:26:43,200
Speaker 3: important and that's something that's.

1792
01:26:43,040 --> 01:26:47,240
Speaker 2: The role that we can play for those those young

1793
01:26:47,280 --> 01:26:48,280
Speaker 2: people in this role.

1794
01:26:48,360 --> 01:26:51,360
Speaker 3: NOW i just hope that they're humble enough to accept

1795
01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:54,240
Speaker 3: who we are and what we've been. Through because you,

1796
01:26:54,280 --> 01:26:58,160
Speaker 3: know it's not always apples and. Oranges you, know things

1797
01:26:58,280 --> 01:27:01,559
Speaker 3: you should hit the fan at some point where it's,

1798
01:27:01,600 --> 01:27:05,439
Speaker 3: okay like you know, something whatever's happened to you ten years,

1799
01:27:05,479 --> 01:27:07,880
Speaker 3: ago it ain't happened to you, now but it's happened

1800
01:27:07,880 --> 01:27:10,519
Speaker 3: to somebody, else and you, know bad shit continue to,

1801
01:27:10,520 --> 01:27:13,639
Speaker 3: happen will. Always it's how you respond to it which

1802
01:27:14,360 --> 01:27:18,240
Speaker 3: makes you who you. Are and SO i just my

1803
01:27:18,360 --> 01:27:21,320
Speaker 3: dreams for them would be just to use the platform and,

1804
01:27:21,479 --> 01:27:23,920
Speaker 3: really if you think about WHAT mj did for the,

1805
01:27:23,960 --> 01:27:27,360
Speaker 3: game just take that and grow it and continue to

1806
01:27:27,400 --> 01:27:29,920
Speaker 3: grow it so the people behind them can.

1807
01:27:29,960 --> 01:27:32,960
Speaker 1: Benefit WHEN i got on the preseason, team WHEN i

1808
01:27:33,040 --> 01:27:35,120
Speaker 1: came out To, boston man LIKE i never had a

1809
01:27:35,160 --> 01:27:38,840
Speaker 1: teammate like you're A hall Of, Famer like any day

1810
01:27:38,880 --> 01:27:41,360
Speaker 1: you could just SAY i quit And i'm. Good you

1811
01:27:41,439 --> 01:27:44,160
Speaker 1: just won a, championship and the man we preseason and,

1812
01:27:44,200 --> 01:27:46,400
Speaker 1: man you two hours.

1813
01:27:46,040 --> 01:27:46,840
Speaker 4: Before the first.

1814
01:27:46,880 --> 01:27:49,920
Speaker 1: Bus you know What i'm, Saying like we getting to

1815
01:27:49,960 --> 01:27:52,760
Speaker 1: the gym on the first, bus you already soaking with

1816
01:27:53,600 --> 01:27:55,559
Speaker 1: and like in your shooting mode and in your. STUFF

1817
01:27:55,600 --> 01:27:57,720
Speaker 1: i never are the ten YEARS i, PLAYED i never

1818
01:27:57,800 --> 01:28:00,600
Speaker 1: had a teammate THAT i seen like.

1819
01:28:00,680 --> 01:28:01,519
Speaker 4: That AND i feel like.

1820
01:28:01,560 --> 01:28:04,160
Speaker 1: This, platform these the stories that you know they need

1821
01:28:04,160 --> 01:28:06,600
Speaker 1: to hear and see. That, like, man, man you was

1822
01:28:06,640 --> 01:28:08,639
Speaker 1: A hall Of famer out the, Gate LIKE i, said

1823
01:28:08,640 --> 01:28:10,280
Speaker 1: you could have quit any, day and you're doing it

1824
01:28:10,360 --> 01:28:13,759
Speaker 1: during pre season like The seeds didn't haven't even started.

1825
01:28:13,880 --> 01:28:16,400
Speaker 3: Yet you know the, phrase if you stay, ready you

1826
01:28:16,400 --> 01:28:18,479
Speaker 3: never have to get. Ready that's kind of WHAT i

1827
01:28:18,520 --> 01:28:21,880
Speaker 3: subscribed to my whole career because you put yourself in

1828
01:28:21,880 --> 01:28:25,519
Speaker 3: a situation where in first when you get, drafted has

1829
01:28:25,560 --> 01:28:28,000
Speaker 3: a huge impact on, you because whether you have older

1830
01:28:28,040 --> 01:28:30,960
Speaker 3: players that teach you the, ropes and for, ME i

1831
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:35,520
Speaker 3: HAD i Had Elliott, Perry Michael, Curry armagilliam.

1832
01:28:35,360 --> 01:28:35,880
Speaker 4: Got rest Of.

1833
01:28:35,960 --> 01:28:43,160
Speaker 3: Soul, Yeah Johnny, Newman, Baker Sherman douglas like them, guys you,

1834
01:28:43,200 --> 01:28:44,920
Speaker 3: know they were no. Frills it would just go out

1835
01:28:44,920 --> 01:28:47,559
Speaker 3: there and. Play and you, Know Johnny newman was a

1836
01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:51,880
Speaker 3: great restore for me because this man came student and

1837
01:28:51,920 --> 01:28:53,360
Speaker 3: booted to every.

1838
01:28:53,120 --> 01:28:55,639
Speaker 2: Game and you, know he didn't.

1839
01:28:55,640 --> 01:28:58,400
Speaker 3: Compromise he came he loves my, job and that's WHERE

1840
01:28:58,560 --> 01:28:59,920
Speaker 3: i picked that up from with. Him and it was

1841
01:29:00,040 --> 01:29:03,000
Speaker 3: different back. Then but With elliott And Michael, curry we

1842
01:29:03,080 --> 01:29:05,800
Speaker 3: shot before every. Game you, know my first, YEAR i

1843
01:29:05,800 --> 01:29:07,360
Speaker 3: didn't have a, routine and THEN i got with those

1844
01:29:07,439 --> 01:29:10,160
Speaker 3: dudes and we would we come over, early and then

1845
01:29:10,160 --> 01:29:13,320
Speaker 3: eventually they get traded, away and you, know my career

1846
01:29:13,439 --> 01:29:15,880
Speaker 3: was like it was like life In. Milwaukee you know

1847
01:29:16,080 --> 01:29:18,679
Speaker 3: the singer, song and everybody started disappearing and they get,

1848
01:29:18,720 --> 01:29:21,360
Speaker 3: old and that's kind OF i.

1849
01:29:21,400 --> 01:29:22,639
Speaker 2: Was and THEN i was the last man.

1850
01:29:22,720 --> 01:29:25,760
Speaker 3: Standing and THEN i developed routines WHERE i had one

1851
01:29:25,800 --> 01:29:27,760
Speaker 3: person with, me or a coach or a ball kid

1852
01:29:27,800 --> 01:29:31,680
Speaker 3: from another. Team and the thing that always scared me

1853
01:29:31,960 --> 01:29:36,120
Speaker 3: was not being able to perform or do your. Job

1854
01:29:36,920 --> 01:29:39,640
Speaker 3: SO i was my biggest, critic and THEN i was

1855
01:29:39,920 --> 01:29:44,439
Speaker 3: my hardest strength coach or teacher or coach because WHEN

1856
01:29:44,479 --> 01:29:46,080
Speaker 3: i was in there working, OUT i knew HOW i

1857
01:29:46,080 --> 01:29:49,120
Speaker 3: needed to push. Myself so WHEN i did get into.

1858
01:29:49,200 --> 01:29:53,040
Speaker 3: GAMES i was so comfortable at all. ANGLES i was comfortable.

1859
01:29:53,040 --> 01:29:57,160
Speaker 3: EVERYWHERE i never you, know fatigue makes cowardies of us.

1860
01:29:57,200 --> 01:29:59,960
Speaker 3: All so the minute you get, tired you just had

1861
01:30:00,280 --> 01:30:04,480
Speaker 3: that you have that much of a less lift.

1862
01:30:04,280 --> 01:30:04,840
Speaker 2: On your jump.

1863
01:30:04,880 --> 01:30:08,360
Speaker 3: Side and SO i was in constant search of trying

1864
01:30:08,400 --> 01:30:11,639
Speaker 3: to keep that, lift you, know the same every time

1865
01:30:11,720 --> 01:30:13,599
Speaker 3: to my release point was at the same. Point SO

1866
01:30:13,760 --> 01:30:16,920
Speaker 3: i had to make myself as uncomfortable AS i could

1867
01:30:17,040 --> 01:30:19,680
Speaker 3: every single, time you, know on the back to, back you,

1868
01:30:19,680 --> 01:30:21,479
Speaker 3: know times WHEN i had a week, off like it

1869
01:30:21,560 --> 01:30:24,559
Speaker 3: was always trying to constantly find that that comfort level

1870
01:30:24,560 --> 01:30:25,639
Speaker 3: WHICH i was always.

1871
01:30:25,720 --> 01:30:27,559
Speaker 2: Uncomfortable SO i always tried to push.

1872
01:30:27,600 --> 01:30:30,160
Speaker 5: Myself and what year do you what you say you

1873
01:30:30,240 --> 01:30:32,840
Speaker 5: started the routine of being that, early because for, ME

1874
01:30:33,280 --> 01:30:36,439
Speaker 5: i would SAY i saw YOU i was IN. La

1875
01:30:36,560 --> 01:30:39,680
Speaker 5: this had to be a, year probably toward the end

1876
01:30:39,760 --> 01:30:42,240
Speaker 5: of year, two BUT i, know definitely my whole third

1877
01:30:42,320 --> 01:30:46,040
Speaker 5: year and. BEYOND i CAN'T i remember showing up to

1878
01:30:46,080 --> 01:30:49,080
Speaker 5: The Stables. Center whatever TIME i got, THERE i was

1879
01:30:49,320 --> 01:30:52,240
Speaker 5: probably before most of my. Teammates but you was out

1880
01:30:52,280 --> 01:30:54,639
Speaker 5: there like kind of like with. Dcing you was already

1881
01:30:54,680 --> 01:30:56,280
Speaker 5: you know What i'm, Saying you was an immediate. Workout

1882
01:30:56,280 --> 01:30:58,240
Speaker 5: WHEN i come walking after you was In. Seattle Then

1883
01:30:58,320 --> 01:31:01,200
Speaker 5: i'm come walking. Down i'm, like, damn, LIKE i, remember

1884
01:31:01,360 --> 01:31:03,120
Speaker 5: you know how some of the crew be around doing

1885
01:31:03,120 --> 01:31:03,600
Speaker 5: stuff on the.

1886
01:31:03,600 --> 01:31:05,519
Speaker 2: CARS i, say, yo, MAN i say how long how

1887
01:31:05,560 --> 01:31:06,160
Speaker 2: Long ray be?

1888
01:31:06,280 --> 01:31:08,200
Speaker 5: Here they, like, SHIT i don't, Know i've Been i've

1889
01:31:08,200 --> 01:31:10,360
Speaker 5: been doing this for about thirty forty five. Minutes and

1890
01:31:10,360 --> 01:31:13,160
Speaker 5: he was here BEFORE i started doing, This And i'm, like, damn,

1891
01:31:13,680 --> 01:31:15,640
Speaker 5: like you know What i'm. SAYING i was, like AND

1892
01:31:15,680 --> 01:31:19,720
Speaker 5: i remember asking asking one of the, coaches no matter of,

1893
01:31:19,720 --> 01:31:21,600
Speaker 5: fact wasn't one of the COACH i remember asking.

1894
01:31:21,400 --> 01:31:22,920
Speaker 2: Danzen, mason who played with?

1895
01:31:23,000 --> 01:31:25,879
Speaker 5: You and THEN i remember Asking Mishard lewis Because rashawe

1896
01:31:25,920 --> 01:31:28,959
Speaker 5: was my. Boy i'm Asking, seart, like, man what time.

1897
01:31:28,840 --> 01:31:29,559
Speaker 2: Right begins to?

1898
01:31:29,680 --> 01:31:31,600
Speaker 5: Gym he was, like, Man ray asked you because you

1899
01:31:31,640 --> 01:31:33,720
Speaker 5: know sometimes he told me sometimes he would work with,

1900
01:31:33,760 --> 01:31:35,920
Speaker 5: you but like sometimes you you be there too early for.

1901
01:31:36,000 --> 01:31:38,920
Speaker 5: Him And i'm, LIKE i started coming, early, RIGHT i

1902
01:31:39,080 --> 01:31:41,160
Speaker 5: douinely don't Think i'll probably come deserves. You BUT i

1903
01:31:41,200 --> 01:31:43,240
Speaker 5: did that shit for the rest of my. CAREER i was, there.

1904
01:31:43,280 --> 01:31:44,519
Speaker 5: MAN i used to be there BECAUSE i used to

1905
01:31:44,520 --> 01:31:47,759
Speaker 5: want to get there before everybody else had a, shoot

1906
01:31:47,800 --> 01:31:49,240
Speaker 5: SO i could just get my shit out the way

1907
01:31:49,200 --> 01:31:51,679
Speaker 5: and nobody's balls knocking out in and now it ain't nothing.

1908
01:31:51,760 --> 01:31:54,160
Speaker 5: HAPPENED i can really get through my thing and then be.

1909
01:31:54,240 --> 01:31:56,240
Speaker 5: Done i'd be there when when you know the dance

1910
01:31:56,280 --> 01:31:58,640
Speaker 5: team there they going through the little dunk. Stuff some

1911
01:31:58,680 --> 01:32:00,479
Speaker 5: of the dunk people get out the way getting, on

1912
01:32:00,520 --> 01:32:02,640
Speaker 5: And i'm about to do my stuff real, quick SO

1913
01:32:02,680 --> 01:32:04,040
Speaker 5: i could be out of there and THEN i can

1914
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:06,920
Speaker 5: kind of relax and do just chill WHEN i you,

1915
01:32:06,960 --> 01:32:08,320
Speaker 5: KNOW i like to talk a. Lot i'm sitting in

1916
01:32:08,320 --> 01:32:10,519
Speaker 5: the locker room talking to everybody by the time they get,

1917
01:32:10,520 --> 01:32:12,519
Speaker 5: there But i'm already done my. SHIT i started doing

1918
01:32:12,520 --> 01:32:14,800
Speaker 5: that like second third AFTER i saw you doing.

1919
01:32:14,800 --> 01:32:17,479
Speaker 3: It you, SEE i was getting there before the dunk

1920
01:32:17,520 --> 01:32:22,800
Speaker 3: squad and cheerleaders BECAUSE i figured, out, like, YEAH i

1921
01:32:22,840 --> 01:32:26,640
Speaker 3: figured out like HOW i needed to be to get you,

1922
01:32:26,640 --> 01:32:30,439
Speaker 3: know the WORK i need to put in, in you,

1923
01:32:30,439 --> 01:32:32,960
Speaker 3: know based on one TIME i, ate you, know WHETHER

1924
01:32:32,960 --> 01:32:34,880
Speaker 3: i was home on the, road and THEN i can

1925
01:32:34,920 --> 01:32:37,920
Speaker 3: get get my massage work, afterwards and THEN i can

1926
01:32:37,960 --> 01:32:41,160
Speaker 3: stretch and then because the whole the whole idea is

1927
01:32:41,439 --> 01:32:44,480
Speaker 3: obviously you don't want to exhaust, yourself but put yourself

1928
01:32:44,560 --> 01:32:49,960
Speaker 3: through a workout where you get a sweat that is on.

1929
01:32:50,080 --> 01:32:52,200
Speaker 3: Parallels so when you go into a, game your body

1930
01:32:52,240 --> 01:32:55,120
Speaker 3: has already been. There, yeah your heart is already. Conditioned

1931
01:32:55,960 --> 01:32:59,880
Speaker 3: and so WHEN i was In, SEATTLE i noticed because you,

1932
01:32:59,920 --> 01:33:01,920
Speaker 3: know when you get traded to a, team like you,

1933
01:33:01,960 --> 01:33:03,760
Speaker 3: know bruhs be looking at you on this on this

1934
01:33:03,840 --> 01:33:06,160
Speaker 3: side of, it at the corner of the eye to

1935
01:33:06,200 --> 01:33:08,640
Speaker 3: try to figure, out, like who is this, dude, like you,

1936
01:33:08,680 --> 01:33:12,200
Speaker 3: know because they knew or heard about WHO i was

1937
01:33:12,320 --> 01:33:15,320
Speaker 3: and when my my routine. Was but they're, like why

1938
01:33:15,360 --> 01:33:17,960
Speaker 3: Why milwaukee traded? Him so That i'm feeling everybody watching.

1939
01:33:17,960 --> 01:33:20,640
Speaker 3: Me and Then richard he would start coming in and

1940
01:33:20,680 --> 01:33:23,439
Speaker 3: he started seeing, it and he was, like, MAN i

1941
01:33:23,479 --> 01:33:26,120
Speaker 3: need to start doing this, ship you, KNOW i need

1942
01:33:26,120 --> 01:33:27,200
Speaker 3: to start you, know putting.

1943
01:33:27,240 --> 01:33:30,040
Speaker 2: In and then WHAT i started knowing and my.

1944
01:33:30,120 --> 01:33:34,320
Speaker 3: Routine started giving other people their routine BECAUSE i understood

1945
01:33:34,720 --> 01:33:38,080
Speaker 3: what it takes to be, consistent you, know because consistency

1946
01:33:38,120 --> 01:33:40,400
Speaker 3: is the number one key to being. Great you, know

1947
01:33:41,080 --> 01:33:43,720
Speaker 3: if you show up somewhere for ten, years you, know

1948
01:33:44,200 --> 01:33:49,560
Speaker 3: the inner workings of your, office your, workplace or whatever or,

1949
01:33:49,760 --> 01:33:52,320
Speaker 3: yeah you, know.

1950
01:33:52,720 --> 01:33:57,240
Speaker 2: Yeah they're, like go GET d, MILES d miles here

1951
01:33:57,320 --> 01:33:57,720
Speaker 2: doing this and.

1952
01:33:57,800 --> 01:34:01,320
Speaker 3: That and so what it does is it it trendsforms

1953
01:34:01,320 --> 01:34:04,200
Speaker 3: because now when it's time to sign those, checks they

1954
01:34:04,280 --> 01:34:07,639
Speaker 3: got to pay who's the most valuable ones who make

1955
01:34:07,720 --> 01:34:12,720
Speaker 3: the operation go and who is not. Expendable and you,

1956
01:34:12,720 --> 01:34:15,479
Speaker 3: know for, ME i become everybody else's a routine because

1957
01:34:15,520 --> 01:34:18,840
Speaker 3: now they, know like, Clockwork i'm going to be, there

1958
01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:21,479
Speaker 3: good game or bad. GAME i always say the number

1959
01:34:21,520 --> 01:34:25,160
Speaker 3: one key to being great is being. Available and when

1960
01:34:25,160 --> 01:34:28,040
Speaker 3: you think about the most consistent thing that we as

1961
01:34:28,080 --> 01:34:31,680
Speaker 3: people have in our, life the most consistent, thing the

1962
01:34:31,760 --> 01:34:35,280
Speaker 3: thing that we see every single day is the. Sun

1963
01:34:35,640 --> 01:34:39,320
Speaker 3: think about. That the sun comes up every single. Day you,

1964
01:34:39,360 --> 01:34:41,839
Speaker 3: know depending on the summer and the, winter it'll, change

1965
01:34:42,200 --> 01:34:44,519
Speaker 3: the time will, move but it always comes. Up we've

1966
01:34:44,520 --> 01:34:47,400
Speaker 3: never questioned whether the sun comes. Up and the sun

1967
01:34:47,439 --> 01:34:50,479
Speaker 3: provides so much for. Us but imagine if one day

1968
01:34:50,520 --> 01:34:52,800
Speaker 3: the sun doesn't come. Up you know it's going to

1969
01:34:52,880 --> 01:34:54,479
Speaker 3: send a lot of people in the, panic and then

1970
01:34:54,600 --> 01:34:55,880
Speaker 3: you know a lot of shit will happen in the.

1971
01:34:55,920 --> 01:34:58,080
Speaker 3: World but we have faith that it's gonna come up

1972
01:34:58,120 --> 01:35:00,599
Speaker 3: every single. Day so if you, can if you can

1973
01:35:00,760 --> 01:35:05,200
Speaker 3: connect yourself to that consistency every single, day to be

1974
01:35:06,400 --> 01:35:09,960
Speaker 3: similar to that son in your, workplace you, know whether

1975
01:35:09,960 --> 01:35:13,439
Speaker 3: you're playing a sport or the, job, like people start

1976
01:35:13,479 --> 01:35:16,800
Speaker 3: to depend on that son to you, know plant, flowers

1977
01:35:16,880 --> 01:35:20,599
Speaker 3: to do your, work to cut the, grass to whatever

1978
01:35:20,600 --> 01:35:22,200
Speaker 3: it may. Be you depend on that and when they

1979
01:35:22,240 --> 01:35:27,280
Speaker 3: see your, consistency it gives them a breadth of experience

1980
01:35:27,520 --> 01:35:31,879
Speaker 3: of consistency for. Themselves that allows them to realize their greatness,

1981
01:35:31,880 --> 01:35:34,280
Speaker 3: too because now they see what it looked, like but

1982
01:35:34,360 --> 01:35:37,600
Speaker 3: there's nothing there for them early then they're just kind of.

1983
01:35:37,600 --> 01:35:42,240
Speaker 3: WAESOME i think With early it helped him realize BECAUSE

1984
01:35:42,240 --> 01:35:45,120
Speaker 3: i always said he can be one of the best

1985
01:35:45,120 --> 01:35:49,160
Speaker 3: players in THE, nba And, richard he knew who he

1986
01:35:49,280 --> 01:35:52,840
Speaker 3: wasn't and he worked itself into an incredible player and

1987
01:35:53,120 --> 01:35:56,439
Speaker 3: signed a huge contract and had a great. Career AND

1988
01:35:56,640 --> 01:35:59,960
Speaker 3: i like to think a lot of me being around

1989
01:36:00,160 --> 01:36:03,080
Speaker 3: him affected him in such a way that gave him

1990
01:36:03,800 --> 01:36:07,840
Speaker 3: that foundation so he can grow and becoming An All star.

1991
01:36:07,880 --> 01:36:09,960
Speaker 1: Player oh, YEAH i gotta speak on that BECAUSE i

1992
01:36:10,040 --> 01:36:12,080
Speaker 1: was in that conference With poislan and y'all used to

1993
01:36:12,160 --> 01:36:15,560
Speaker 1: KICK i ass all the. Time but, uh just For

1994
01:36:15,640 --> 01:36:18,360
Speaker 1: Shan lewis, man just like how he, was how he

1995
01:36:18,400 --> 01:36:20,759
Speaker 1: played this, game and you could tell he was so much,

1996
01:36:21,439 --> 01:36:23,080
Speaker 1: better you know What i'm. Saying AND i feel like

1997
01:36:23,120 --> 01:36:25,879
Speaker 1: he mest so well with you because you was. Absolute

1998
01:36:25,960 --> 01:36:29,160
Speaker 1: you came To seattle and you gave that spark that you,

1999
01:36:29,200 --> 01:36:31,920
Speaker 1: KNOW gp didn't leave after they did they, thing but

2000
01:36:31,960 --> 01:36:33,920
Speaker 1: you gave that spark and y'all start making the playoffs

2001
01:36:33,960 --> 01:36:36,640
Speaker 1: And Rashan lewis stepped a big time and LIKE i,

2002
01:36:36,640 --> 01:36:39,160
Speaker 1: say me guarding, HIM i can see it in this

2003
01:36:39,320 --> 01:36:41,920
Speaker 1: game how he just his level of, play like he

2004
01:36:42,000 --> 01:36:43,160
Speaker 1: knew where to be at at all.

2005
01:36:43,280 --> 01:36:45,599
Speaker 4: Times his spacing was always.

2006
01:36:45,680 --> 01:36:48,040
Speaker 1: Well he like you, say he never did nothing out

2007
01:36:48,040 --> 01:36:50,680
Speaker 1: of body that he don't do and he always was

2008
01:36:50,720 --> 01:36:51,560
Speaker 1: a complimentary.

2009
01:36:51,600 --> 01:36:54,479
Speaker 5: Player and, listen, people both of these, Boys ray and

2010
01:36:54,560 --> 01:36:57,640
Speaker 5: rash took times on my. Ass those were In japan Or.

2011
01:36:57,720 --> 01:37:03,280
Speaker 5: China what was saying we was we was In, China.

2012
01:37:03,479 --> 01:37:06,559
Speaker 3: China, Man BUT i wasn't PAY i wasn't on that

2013
01:37:06,600 --> 01:37:09,599
Speaker 3: trip BECAUSE i actually had. SURGERY i had a bone

2014
01:37:09,600 --> 01:37:11,880
Speaker 3: spur breakoff into my, ankle SO i missed the first

2015
01:37:11,920 --> 01:37:14,360
Speaker 3: twenty game of the season that. Year gave y'all fifty.

2016
01:37:14,400 --> 01:37:15,880
Speaker 3: One you know you hit.

2017
01:37:15,960 --> 01:37:17,920
Speaker 5: US i thought you hit us from maybe you hit

2018
01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:19,360
Speaker 5: us for something. Else, No, NO.

2019
01:37:19,400 --> 01:37:22,360
Speaker 2: I think that WAS i think that Was ramanovich played well.

2020
01:37:22,400 --> 01:37:26,719
Speaker 5: Too he somebody else in the first game hit like thirty,

2021
01:37:26,800 --> 01:37:32,759
Speaker 5: something BECAUSE i, REMEMBER i, remember no Except Murray. Flip

2022
01:37:32,960 --> 01:37:36,720
Speaker 5: it Was. Flip that's what Was philly Slipp. Man he look,

2023
01:37:37,200 --> 01:37:39,680
Speaker 5: look first game he lit us up for thirty or.

2024
01:37:39,720 --> 01:37:44,080
Speaker 5: Forty then came next game hit fifty. One only Reason

2025
01:37:44,160 --> 01:37:47,479
Speaker 5: i'm bringing this up because CLEARLY i wasn't a victim

2026
01:37:47,520 --> 01:37:47,920
Speaker 5: in all of.

2027
01:37:47,960 --> 01:37:48,519
Speaker 2: THIS i.

2028
01:37:48,640 --> 01:37:51,240
Speaker 5: WASN'T i wasn't ready to guy guard neither one of,

2029
01:37:51,320 --> 01:37:53,439
Speaker 5: them SO i could, say we bring this, up but

2030
01:37:53,520 --> 01:37:57,960
Speaker 5: it definitely. Happened i'm, like, oh, man BECAUSE i remember, saying, like,

2031
01:37:57,960 --> 01:37:59,879
Speaker 5: well we the, Message we sent it to the leaguas

2032
01:37:59,880 --> 01:38:02,439
Speaker 5: you anybody come get forty fifty on.

2033
01:38:02,520 --> 01:38:06,599
Speaker 3: That, yeah, hey you definitely you got to create some

2034
01:38:06,760 --> 01:38:08,519
Speaker 3: better defensive momentum for us.

2035
01:38:08,560 --> 01:38:08,840
Speaker 2: Today that.

2036
01:38:09,360 --> 01:38:12,120
Speaker 5: Shot, YEAH i wasn't see back. THEN i wasn't in that.

2037
01:38:12,200 --> 01:38:14,320
Speaker 5: MODE i wasn't trying to really do all, that. MAN

2038
01:38:14,360 --> 01:38:16,200
Speaker 5: i was trying, to you, know stay out the way

2039
01:38:16,240 --> 01:38:17,719
Speaker 5: and get. Buckets, yeah every Shot.

2040
01:38:17,840 --> 01:38:20,360
Speaker 1: Lewis LIKE i think coming From seattle going To, orlando

2041
01:38:20,479 --> 01:38:23,400
Speaker 1: he still had that, momentum like he just turned to

2042
01:38:23,439 --> 01:38:24,639
Speaker 1: a good, player a solid.

2043
01:38:24,640 --> 01:38:28,280
Speaker 5: Player what was your what did your routine consist? Of

2044
01:38:28,520 --> 01:38:30,640
Speaker 5: like you was taking all of, it you know What i'm.

2045
01:38:30,640 --> 01:38:32,760
Speaker 5: Saying you was comfortable in every. Shot like what was

2046
01:38:32,840 --> 01:38:34,920
Speaker 5: your Regular, like you know What i'm, Saying what was

2047
01:38:34,920 --> 01:38:36,439
Speaker 5: the regular routine for?

2048
01:38:36,520 --> 01:38:41,080
Speaker 3: You, WELL i MEAN i started shooting free. Throws that was,

2049
01:38:41,080 --> 01:38:44,439
Speaker 3: always you, know the. Baseline WHENEVER i felt LIKE i

2050
01:38:44,520 --> 01:38:46,439
Speaker 3: was losing my release was, OFF i just go to

2051
01:38:46,479 --> 01:38:48,599
Speaker 3: the free throw. Line like the YEAR i wanted three point,

2052
01:38:48,600 --> 01:38:51,080
Speaker 3: CONTEST i shot free throws before the, game just to

2053
01:38:51,120 --> 01:38:53,960
Speaker 3: work on that. Release the shooting part is just your,

2054
01:38:54,040 --> 01:38:56,160
Speaker 3: lift and that's something that you gotta get those lagers ready.

2055
01:38:56,160 --> 01:38:57,040
Speaker 2: For so that's.

2056
01:38:56,920 --> 01:39:01,280
Speaker 3: WHY i would always shoot five from the, baseline from the,

2057
01:39:01,320 --> 01:39:03,320
Speaker 3: corner from the top of the, key and then on

2058
01:39:03,360 --> 01:39:07,120
Speaker 3: the other, side and THEN i would do the same

2059
01:39:07,160 --> 01:39:09,080
Speaker 3: thing from the three point. LINE i would shoot, five

2060
01:39:09,160 --> 01:39:12,320
Speaker 3: BUT i would ALSO i would shoot ten. Altogether BUT

2061
01:39:12,360 --> 01:39:17,840
Speaker 3: i would run to half court back into you know those,

2062
01:39:17,880 --> 01:39:20,679
Speaker 3: spots and then WHAT i would do IS i would

2063
01:39:20,760 --> 01:39:23,720
Speaker 3: run underneath the basket BECAUSE i wanted to always work

2064
01:39:23,760 --> 01:39:26,800
Speaker 3: on my footwork coming from every different angle and then

2065
01:39:26,880 --> 01:39:30,000
Speaker 3: run in, transition and and THEN i would get on

2066
01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:31,679
Speaker 3: my knees and jump up and have a guy throwing

2067
01:39:31,680 --> 01:39:33,360
Speaker 3: the ball and shoot because NOW i had to work

2068
01:39:33,360 --> 01:39:36,840
Speaker 3: on getting lyft from a. STANDSTILL i had. TO i

2069
01:39:36,880 --> 01:39:40,439
Speaker 3: was trying to learn teach my body how to create

2070
01:39:40,479 --> 01:39:43,479
Speaker 3: its own momentum to get its. Lift it's one thing

2071
01:39:43,479 --> 01:39:45,720
Speaker 3: to be running, transition you, jump that's, easy but to

2072
01:39:45,720 --> 01:39:48,960
Speaker 3: be able to create the momentum as you have no

2073
01:39:49,160 --> 01:39:51,880
Speaker 3: energy or any inertia going, forward you got to just

2074
01:39:52,400 --> 01:39:54,920
Speaker 3: kind of create it with your. Body so that that's

2075
01:39:54,960 --> 01:39:56,960
Speaker 3: WHAT I that was the baseline for WHAT i would.

2076
01:39:56,960 --> 01:39:59,080
Speaker 3: Do and then SOMETIMES i would start off at all

2077
01:39:59,120 --> 01:40:01,360
Speaker 3: the way at at the inline and run all the

2078
01:40:01,360 --> 01:40:03,920
Speaker 3: way into my, shots BUT i had to make five every.

2079
01:40:03,960 --> 01:40:06,120
Speaker 3: Time and THEN i would do my pick and roll

2080
01:40:06,120 --> 01:40:08,120
Speaker 3: stuff top of the key and on the, elbows you,

2081
01:40:08,160 --> 01:40:09,840
Speaker 3: know coach of guard, me And i'd come, OFF i get

2082
01:40:09,880 --> 01:40:11,960
Speaker 3: into the middle and THEN i would do my post.

2083
01:40:12,040 --> 01:40:15,360
Speaker 3: Ups everything THAT i did covered every side of the.

2084
01:40:15,520 --> 01:40:18,479
Speaker 3: Court so the thing THAT i, learned AND i learned

2085
01:40:18,479 --> 01:40:21,480
Speaker 3: this through my, injury was Since i'm, RIGHT i, Dominant

2086
01:40:21,560 --> 01:40:24,880
Speaker 3: i'm quicker getting the ball, off you, know going over

2087
01:40:24,920 --> 01:40:26,600
Speaker 3: my right, shoulder because ALL i have to do is

2088
01:40:26,680 --> 01:40:27,120
Speaker 3: glance at the.

2089
01:40:27,160 --> 01:40:28,080
Speaker 2: Basket but on.

2090
01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:31,160
Speaker 3: The on the other SIDE i have to DO i

2091
01:40:31,200 --> 01:40:32,640
Speaker 3: have to turn all the way around and get back

2092
01:40:32,680 --> 01:40:36,519
Speaker 3: to my right. Eye SO i had to work get my,

2093
01:40:36,520 --> 01:40:40,320
Speaker 3: footwork and that is the, key is your footwork. Everywhere

2094
01:40:40,320 --> 01:40:43,439
Speaker 3: AND i always show, kids like when the balls come,

2095
01:40:43,479 --> 01:40:45,360
Speaker 3: in my lower body's already turned into the. Shot my

2096
01:40:45,360 --> 01:40:47,920
Speaker 3: body might be opened towards the, ball but my lower

2097
01:40:48,000 --> 01:40:52,000
Speaker 3: body is facing at the. Basket so ONCE i, go

2098
01:40:52,120 --> 01:40:54,080
Speaker 3: it's up and down the. Ball it's just being transported

2099
01:40:54,120 --> 01:40:55,960
Speaker 3: up in the air to that. Spot so it's learned

2100
01:40:56,000 --> 01:40:58,880
Speaker 3: HOW i had to teach myself how to relocate the

2101
01:40:58,920 --> 01:41:01,639
Speaker 3: ball from different positions on my, body you, know bring

2102
01:41:01,640 --> 01:41:04,040
Speaker 3: it from over here to then, here from over here to,

2103
01:41:04,120 --> 01:41:06,760
Speaker 3: here and from down. Here because you, know guys guard you.

2104
01:41:06,800 --> 01:41:08,760
Speaker 3: DIFFERENTLY i could bring the ball over here and still

2105
01:41:08,760 --> 01:41:11,400
Speaker 3: get to that, spot jump and create. Them so those

2106
01:41:11,400 --> 01:41:14,200
Speaker 3: are the things THAT i was working on every single,

2107
01:41:14,280 --> 01:41:18,080
Speaker 3: day like trying to relocate the ball and get comfortable doing,

2108
01:41:18,120 --> 01:41:20,000
Speaker 3: it and then being able to shoot free throws and

2109
01:41:20,960 --> 01:41:23,400
Speaker 3: here's the, thing and you guys know. This free throws

2110
01:41:23,520 --> 01:41:27,519
Speaker 3: are very. Emotional like when you get to the free throw,

2111
01:41:27,560 --> 01:41:30,280
Speaker 3: line you to think about it as much as you.

2112
01:41:30,280 --> 01:41:31,960
Speaker 3: Know when we were not in the, LEAGUE i, say,

2113
01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:34,160
Speaker 3: man them guys make too much money missing free. Throws

2114
01:41:34,200 --> 01:41:36,519
Speaker 3: but what happens is is you get knocked on your.

2115
01:41:36,520 --> 01:41:41,400
Speaker 3: Ass you're pissed, off somebody just fouled. You you're down to,

2116
01:41:42,439 --> 01:41:45,320
Speaker 3: uh you ain't getting the. Ball coach just put you

2117
01:41:45,360 --> 01:41:46,920
Speaker 3: in the. Game you ain't touch the, ball and you

2118
01:41:46,920 --> 01:41:49,679
Speaker 3: get found like all those emotions going into a free

2119
01:41:49,680 --> 01:41:52,800
Speaker 3: throw in your. MIND a, Right so now you have

2120
01:41:52,880 --> 01:41:54,720
Speaker 3: to go through this routine and shoot free. Throws you

2121
01:41:54,800 --> 01:41:58,120
Speaker 3: got to calm yourself down and then they, Stop, yeah

2122
01:41:58,439 --> 01:42:01,760
Speaker 3: it's not going to. Shoot and what happens is people's,

2123
01:42:02,160 --> 01:42:05,519
Speaker 3: uh heart rhythm gets the best of them because they're

2124
01:42:05,560 --> 01:42:08,559
Speaker 3: they're they're allowing whatever's going on in their mind to

2125
01:42:08,640 --> 01:42:11,040
Speaker 3: affect their. Heart now it's, like you miss free throws

2126
01:42:11,080 --> 01:42:14,599
Speaker 3: because you didn't calm that heart. Down and so what

2127
01:42:14,640 --> 01:42:16,519
Speaker 3: do you? Do how do you change? That is you

2128
01:42:16,520 --> 01:42:19,120
Speaker 3: you have to shoot emotional free throws when you're in.

2129
01:42:19,160 --> 01:42:22,760
Speaker 3: Practice so every Time i'm, running you, know every time

2130
01:42:22,840 --> 01:42:25,720
Speaker 3: after practice is the free throw. Game it's something that

2131
01:42:25,840 --> 01:42:29,760
Speaker 3: makes me unnerved or, unrattled and THEN i go shoot

2132
01:42:29,760 --> 01:42:32,720
Speaker 3: free throws because that's the only way to make it

2133
01:42:32,800 --> 01:42:35,680
Speaker 3: similar to the game situation.

2134
01:42:35,479 --> 01:42:38,800
Speaker 1: THAT i, Say like when you hit the championship shot With,

2135
01:42:38,840 --> 01:42:42,799
Speaker 1: MIAMI i couldn't understand how you could backpedal that, quick

2136
01:42:43,400 --> 01:42:46,160
Speaker 1: catch the, ball get your lift and everything and shoot

2137
01:42:46,200 --> 01:42:46,920
Speaker 1: it like.

2138
01:42:47,120 --> 01:42:50,040
Speaker 4: That i'm talking about like it's just just like.

2139
01:42:50,160 --> 01:42:52,200
Speaker 1: That AND i was, like how did he get that?

2140
01:42:52,280 --> 01:42:53,880
Speaker 1: Off how do was that a? Three how did he

2141
01:42:53,920 --> 01:42:55,080
Speaker 1: do he not step on the?

2142
01:42:55,160 --> 01:42:56,080
Speaker 2: Line first of?

2143
01:42:56,120 --> 01:43:00,200
Speaker 4: All anything but all that hard, work you.

2144
01:43:00,160 --> 01:43:02,320
Speaker 5: Know What i'm, Saying that's what you can't understand that

2145
01:43:02,320 --> 01:43:04,920
Speaker 5: because you're not a shooter like Us Black.

2146
01:43:05,479 --> 01:43:08,360
Speaker 2: Like that's. Why that's the first reason why you can't understand.

2147
01:43:08,400 --> 01:43:08,880
Speaker 2: That but the.

2148
01:43:08,960 --> 01:43:12,559
Speaker 5: Second reason is all working everything he said about his.

2149
01:43:12,680 --> 01:43:15,799
Speaker 5: Routine the first reason was, LIKE i, know he seemed

2150
01:43:15,800 --> 01:43:17,800
Speaker 5: like he was talking to foreign. Language he talking about

2151
01:43:17,800 --> 01:43:20,240
Speaker 5: all this shooting and releasing and legs and. Everything you,

2152
01:43:20,240 --> 01:43:23,280
Speaker 5: know he just dunk on people in blacks. Shots this ain't,

2153
01:43:23,280 --> 01:43:25,640
Speaker 5: way you know What i'm, Saying this is how you

2154
01:43:25,680 --> 01:43:26,960
Speaker 5: do me when it's time talking about.

2155
01:43:26,960 --> 01:43:29,320
Speaker 2: Defensive he came from. There you know What i'm. Saying

2156
01:43:29,360 --> 01:43:31,600
Speaker 2: we won three point, competitions me and. You we be

2157
01:43:31,680 --> 01:43:34,040
Speaker 2: won this between two of.

2158
01:43:34,120 --> 01:43:34,559
Speaker 4: Us know.

2159
01:43:36,400 --> 01:43:38,320
Speaker 2: The minds on our side of me and on This,

2160
01:43:38,760 --> 01:43:39,400
Speaker 2: well let's.

2161
01:43:39,160 --> 01:43:41,599
Speaker 1: Talk about my Favorite Ray allen the dunk And Ray

2162
01:43:41,640 --> 01:43:42,200
Speaker 1: allen then.

2163
01:43:42,800 --> 01:43:43,960
Speaker 4: Reality they used to be.

2164
01:43:43,960 --> 01:43:46,240
Speaker 1: Dunking on them folks left and, right hanging on the.

2165
01:43:46,360 --> 01:43:51,040
Speaker 5: Rail i'm about. Yo he did that In miami when

2166
01:43:51,040 --> 01:43:53,240
Speaker 5: he was the older. Rest so which one are you talking? About?

2167
01:43:53,600 --> 01:43:55,439
Speaker 4: About you know them years What i'm talking.

2168
01:43:55,439 --> 01:43:57,360
Speaker 1: About it was Ship, City i'm talking about.

2169
01:43:57,400 --> 01:44:00,320
Speaker 5: Everybody, yeah all lights when he was In new he

2170
01:44:00,439 --> 01:44:04,400
Speaker 5: was swinging around and with his. Legs, so which one

2171
01:44:04,560 --> 01:44:07,160
Speaker 5: is your favorite drunk call that you have had in your?

2172
01:44:07,160 --> 01:44:09,519
Speaker 1: Career because you got a lot of, Them you got

2173
01:44:09,560 --> 01:44:10,120
Speaker 1: a lot of good.

2174
01:44:10,120 --> 01:44:12,559
Speaker 2: Ones, yeah BECAUSE i snuck a lot of. Dudes you.

2175
01:44:12,600 --> 01:44:15,479
Speaker 3: KNOW i think one of my favorites was the one

2176
01:44:15,520 --> 01:44:21,799
Speaker 3: Against orlando is the playoffs and and Uh Daryl armstrong

2177
01:44:21,880 --> 01:44:24,479
Speaker 3: was guarding, me and you, know he got caught behind

2178
01:44:24,520 --> 01:44:27,320
Speaker 3: me AND i was all downhill from. There and the

2179
01:44:27,400 --> 01:44:30,400
Speaker 3: interesting thing is is we were down too in the.

2180
01:44:30,439 --> 01:44:33,360
Speaker 3: Playoffs this WAS i think it Was game three In

2181
01:44:33,520 --> 01:44:38,320
Speaker 3: orlando and T mac fouled me and refs to the call,

2182
01:44:38,439 --> 01:44:39,960
Speaker 3: foul and THEN i would have made the free. Throw

2183
01:44:39,960 --> 01:44:42,360
Speaker 3: in the game, OVER i think we lost and went the.

2184
01:44:42,360 --> 01:44:44,720
Speaker 3: Overtime we, lost and we ended up winning the next.

2185
01:44:44,760 --> 01:44:48,320
Speaker 3: Game but you know those, games you know when you

2186
01:44:48,360 --> 01:44:52,800
Speaker 3: think about time and, score time of, year you, know

2187
01:44:52,800 --> 01:44:56,519
Speaker 3: whether regular season the, Playoffs like that's when it seems

2188
01:44:56,560 --> 01:44:58,519
Speaker 3: like it matters more because he got you see the

2189
01:44:58,600 --> 01:45:03,040
Speaker 3: real you, should real dude show, up the real dudes show,

2190
01:45:03,120 --> 01:45:05,200
Speaker 3: Up like it ain't none of this just shooting.

2191
01:45:04,840 --> 01:45:07,759
Speaker 2: Balls and you, know, No i'm talking about a guy.

2192
01:45:07,640 --> 01:45:10,400
Speaker 3: That knows how to get a, bucket like because the

2193
01:45:10,439 --> 01:45:13,120
Speaker 3: three point ball is, great and you, know the game

2194
01:45:13,240 --> 01:45:15,720
Speaker 3: is different, today BUT i still want to SEE i

2195
01:45:15,760 --> 01:45:19,479
Speaker 3: want to see these dudes that were like craftsmen at the,

2196
01:45:19,520 --> 01:45:21,840
Speaker 3: game like come off and pick and roll and take a,

2197
01:45:21,840 --> 01:45:23,559
Speaker 3: shot and every time you couldn't stop.

2198
01:45:23,360 --> 01:45:23,960
Speaker 4: Them and you.

2199
01:45:25,160 --> 01:45:29,120
Speaker 2: Curl rain's Game like now we ain't seeing no.

2200
01:45:29,280 --> 01:45:34,439
Speaker 3: Curling we don't see you, know mid rain shot, punk

2201
01:45:34,479 --> 01:45:35,840
Speaker 3: fake and get to the middle and.

2202
01:45:37,439 --> 01:45:38,320
Speaker 2: We don't see none of. That.

2203
01:45:38,400 --> 01:45:40,080
Speaker 3: Now i'm, like this is the part of the game

2204
01:45:40,160 --> 01:45:43,400
Speaker 3: THAT i, LIKE i missed because WHEN i first got to,

2205
01:45:43,560 --> 01:45:47,200
Speaker 3: league like it was it was a chore to figure

2206
01:45:47,200 --> 01:45:51,040
Speaker 3: out what each person could do from a skill, set you,

2207
01:45:51,080 --> 01:45:55,800
Speaker 3: know and nowadays it just doesn't exist. Anymore so When

2208
01:45:55,800 --> 01:45:58,800
Speaker 3: i'm looking back at my, Career i'm thinking, about, LIKE

2209
01:45:58,880 --> 01:46:01,200
Speaker 3: i love the game and its, entirety to be able

2210
01:46:01,200 --> 01:46:03,000
Speaker 3: to come down the lane and dunk on, somebody to

2211
01:46:03,040 --> 01:46:05,840
Speaker 3: shoot a, three to shoot the, range to shoot a

2212
01:46:05,920 --> 01:46:08,760
Speaker 3: left hand lay, up going eeath the, basket, like there's

2213
01:46:08,840 --> 01:46:10,880
Speaker 3: so much more to the. Game AND i think even

2214
01:46:11,120 --> 01:46:15,400
Speaker 3: the coaches are also at fault because they preach threes

2215
01:46:15,439 --> 01:46:18,360
Speaker 3: of more than, twos WHICH i get, it BUT i

2216
01:46:18,400 --> 01:46:21,639
Speaker 3: hate to see hump faking they step sideways.

2217
01:46:21,080 --> 01:46:22,439
Speaker 2: Or step backward the.

2218
01:46:22,479 --> 01:46:25,120
Speaker 3: Three i'm, like, man just get there and get the easy,

2219
01:46:25,160 --> 01:46:27,800
Speaker 3: one because the shooting percentages are terrible these days with

2220
01:46:27,840 --> 01:46:28,160
Speaker 3: the three.

2221
01:46:28,200 --> 01:46:29,479
Speaker 4: Pointers, yeah they getting them.

2222
01:46:29,560 --> 01:46:33,000
Speaker 5: UP i think that's Why i've always is still. Doing

2223
01:46:33,240 --> 01:46:37,599
Speaker 5: i'm a big fan of Like Mellow DeMar duroz and

2224
01:46:37,760 --> 01:46:41,120
Speaker 5: even LIKE. Kd clay because like as much as like

2225
01:46:41,160 --> 01:46:43,639
Speaker 5: you could, SAY kd And clay shoot, threes but they

2226
01:46:44,160 --> 01:46:46,640
Speaker 5: they get to their sweet spots and the rest of

2227
01:46:46,680 --> 01:46:49,920
Speaker 5: Them Tomar jamarrow and Then kawhi To, kawhi they be

2228
01:46:49,960 --> 01:46:51,400
Speaker 5: trying to talk about, like, man.

2229
01:46:51,240 --> 01:46:52,839
Speaker 2: Please he live in the gravy.

2230
01:46:52,880 --> 01:46:57,920
Speaker 3: Space that's why that's Why toronto, won Exactly. Toronto you

2231
01:46:57,960 --> 01:47:01,000
Speaker 3: know every other team you know that year was you,

2232
01:47:01,040 --> 01:47:06,040
Speaker 3: Know houston was doing The Golden. State milwaukee they lived

2233
01:47:06,080 --> 01:47:09,599
Speaker 3: and died by the three and them dudes were pumped

2234
01:47:09,600 --> 01:47:11,240
Speaker 3: faking getting into the paint taking that.

2235
01:47:11,280 --> 01:47:14,200
Speaker 2: Too, yeah was scoring in the.

2236
01:47:14,240 --> 01:47:18,200
Speaker 3: Painting Van vleiet was shooting, threes but he was getting

2237
01:47:18,200 --> 01:47:18,400
Speaker 3: to the.

2238
01:47:18,400 --> 01:47:18,920
Speaker 2: Hole he was.

2239
01:47:18,960 --> 01:47:19,640
Speaker 4: Attacking he was.

2240
01:47:19,680 --> 01:47:23,439
Speaker 3: Creating, yeah what's the other, KID i can't remember his, Name,

2241
01:47:25,680 --> 01:47:30,799
Speaker 3: no Not, Kyle kyle Struggled powell, normal he was shooting,

2242
01:47:30,800 --> 01:47:32,880
Speaker 3: threes but he was still into that.

2243
01:47:32,920 --> 01:47:34,439
Speaker 4: Bucket get into that bucket.

2244
01:47:34,479 --> 01:47:38,120
Speaker 3: Too When kyle, struggled he struggled because he was relying

2245
01:47:38,160 --> 01:47:40,560
Speaker 3: on a three. Pointer you, know he wasn't getting to

2246
01:47:40,600 --> 01:47:44,080
Speaker 3: a mid rains, game which was giving. Him, yeah build

2247
01:47:44,120 --> 01:47:47,720
Speaker 3: your rhythm, First like that's the biggest thing about, offenses you.

2248
01:47:47,720 --> 01:47:49,599
Speaker 2: KNOW i know you could shoot a three.

2249
01:47:49,439 --> 01:47:51,280
Speaker 3: Early like run, off pick and roll and see how

2250
01:47:51,280 --> 01:47:53,519
Speaker 3: they're gonna guard, it and then throw a pocket pass

2251
01:47:53,720 --> 01:47:57,559
Speaker 3: or swing it to the the weak side. Guard that's

2252
01:47:57,640 --> 01:47:59,559
Speaker 3: rolling and see if you can get that defense shift

2253
01:47:59,560 --> 01:48:01,120
Speaker 3: and you attack and from there get easy lay, up

2254
01:48:01,160 --> 01:48:03,360
Speaker 3: maybe a, foul go to the freak, line like when

2255
01:48:03,360 --> 01:48:05,320
Speaker 3: you can get your offense started like, that it takes

2256
01:48:05,320 --> 01:48:06,759
Speaker 3: so much pressure off the individual.

2257
01:48:06,800 --> 01:48:11,559
Speaker 1: Players, uh let's talk about this mad, Scientist Danny james

2258
01:48:11,600 --> 01:48:15,000
Speaker 1: that created this big. Three and not only did they

2259
01:48:15,040 --> 01:48:18,200
Speaker 1: created this big, three y'all got tossed in the shuffle

2260
01:48:18,240 --> 01:48:20,560
Speaker 1: of The lakers and The celtics.

2261
01:48:21,160 --> 01:48:23,120
Speaker 4: History how is that to be a part of? That

2262
01:48:23,240 --> 01:48:23,680
Speaker 4: go through that?

2263
01:48:23,840 --> 01:48:27,439
Speaker 1: SEASON i heard y'all training camp was crazy that. Year

2264
01:48:27,479 --> 01:48:30,840
Speaker 1: once y'all got, there y'all had to go. Overseas just

2265
01:48:30,880 --> 01:48:33,880
Speaker 1: going through that whole year and meeting The lakers With

2266
01:48:34,000 --> 01:48:36,200
Speaker 1: Kobe bryant at the end of the, year and you,

2267
01:48:36,240 --> 01:48:38,320
Speaker 1: know winning that, championship just explaining to us that whole

2268
01:48:38,400 --> 01:48:39,799
Speaker 1: year in that, process well.

2269
01:48:39,720 --> 01:48:42,240
Speaker 2: Being did you hear about the trade going from sea

2270
01:48:42,280 --> 01:48:42,640
Speaker 2: out of The.

2271
01:48:42,680 --> 01:48:45,840
Speaker 3: Boston, WELL i was excited because we had got the

2272
01:48:45,920 --> 01:48:48,000
Speaker 3: number two. Pick that was a year The celtics should

2273
01:48:48,000 --> 01:48:50,240
Speaker 3: have got it because they had the worst. Record sonics

2274
01:48:50,320 --> 01:48:52,960
Speaker 3: ended up getting the number two, pick Which porkland was

2275
01:48:53,000 --> 01:48:55,200
Speaker 3: going number. One where they're gonna Pick Greg oden and

2276
01:48:55,200 --> 01:49:00,760
Speaker 3: THEN kd number. Two cool Me richard AND kd like

2277
01:49:00,800 --> 01:49:01,320
Speaker 3: we're on our.

2278
01:49:01,320 --> 01:49:02,640
Speaker 2: Way that was the.

2279
01:49:02,720 --> 01:49:05,840
Speaker 3: Lottery so then the, draft they comes up sitting in

2280
01:49:05,880 --> 01:49:08,280
Speaker 3: the room and then first pick goes and all of a,

2281
01:49:08,280 --> 01:49:12,320
Speaker 3: SUDDEN i see potential. Trade they Picked Kevin durant and

2282
01:49:12,360 --> 01:49:14,960
Speaker 3: then all of a, SUDDEN i see potential trade and

2283
01:49:15,080 --> 01:49:19,320
Speaker 3: Said seattle gets and then it had like seven players

2284
01:49:19,960 --> 01:49:24,800
Speaker 3: Like Delonte west while Deserbiak Alan ray like two other.

2285
01:49:24,800 --> 01:49:27,080
Speaker 3: PLAYERS i REMEMBER i was, like, Oh i'm so. Gone,

2286
01:49:27,680 --> 01:49:29,439
Speaker 3: yeah When boston gives up that, MUCH.

2287
01:49:29,280 --> 01:49:30,400
Speaker 2: I was, Like i'm. Out i'm.

2288
01:49:30,479 --> 01:49:33,760
Speaker 3: Gone and SO i had mixed emotion BECAUSE i was, like,

2289
01:49:33,920 --> 01:49:37,120
Speaker 3: damn you Bring kadie. In we're about to be doing

2290
01:49:37,160 --> 01:49:39,640
Speaker 3: some special and you, know at the time is Just

2291
01:49:39,800 --> 01:49:43,439
Speaker 3: paul there and then THEN i. Come but at the same,

2292
01:49:43,479 --> 01:49:45,120
Speaker 3: TIME i was excited BECAUSE i was going back to

2293
01:49:45,120 --> 01:49:49,040
Speaker 3: The East, coast you, Know so Now i'm getting. Excited,

2294
01:49:49,080 --> 01:49:51,439
Speaker 3: obviously we had to fill our house and. Move people

2295
01:49:51,479 --> 01:49:53,479
Speaker 3: don't understand that part of, It like you got to

2296
01:49:54,200 --> 01:49:56,599
Speaker 3: you haul all this and then move across the country

2297
01:49:56,600 --> 01:49:57,799
Speaker 3: and find the home.

2298
01:49:57,640 --> 01:49:57,960
Speaker 2: And all this.

2299
01:49:58,000 --> 01:50:01,520
Speaker 5: Stuff if your kids got good, friends it don't matter.

2300
01:50:02,320 --> 01:50:05,320
Speaker 3: So before so that, summer you, KNOW i was talking

2301
01:50:05,320 --> 01:50:07,000
Speaker 3: To danny and the thing THAT i appreciated the most

2302
01:50:07,040 --> 01:50:10,240
Speaker 3: about him was the man was asking me about different

2303
01:50:10,280 --> 01:50:14,080
Speaker 3: players around the, league something GM's hadn't done in making.

2304
01:50:14,000 --> 01:50:16,160
Speaker 2: Moves like they'll talk about, players but we want he

2305
01:50:16,200 --> 01:50:16,960
Speaker 2: wants to make another.

2306
01:50:17,000 --> 01:50:20,280
Speaker 3: Move and then he tells me that he potentially had

2307
01:50:20,320 --> 01:50:22,200
Speaker 3: a deal on the table and he's thinking about Bringing

2308
01:50:22,280 --> 01:50:24,760
Speaker 3: Kevin gardennight in and WHAT i thought about, it AND

2309
01:50:24,800 --> 01:50:25,240
Speaker 3: i was like.

2310
01:50:25,800 --> 01:50:32,240
Speaker 2: That puts us. Immediately so it, happened.

2311
01:50:31,880 --> 01:50:35,120
Speaker 3: And then you, know we we you, know added a

2312
01:50:35,120 --> 01:50:35,679
Speaker 3: couple of different.

2313
01:50:35,680 --> 01:50:39,000
Speaker 2: Players James posey And brown came in the.

2314
01:50:41,240 --> 01:50:44,439
Speaker 3: Right the training camp we we we were. Playing we

2315
01:50:44,439 --> 01:50:47,839
Speaker 3: were going To rome In england that year In, london

2316
01:50:48,640 --> 01:50:52,720
Speaker 3: and it was probably the best thing for us as a.

2317
01:50:52,760 --> 01:50:56,320
Speaker 3: Team and mind, YOU i just had surgery at the

2318
01:50:56,400 --> 01:50:58,559
Speaker 3: end of the, season SO i wasn't supposed to go

2319
01:50:58,560 --> 01:51:01,880
Speaker 3: in the training. Camp BUT i had. SURGERY i come and.

2320
01:51:01,920 --> 01:51:03,920
Speaker 3: Trained there's no WAY i wasn't going to training. Camp

2321
01:51:03,960 --> 01:51:07,160
Speaker 3: and it was together for that Training, YEAH i, mean

2322
01:51:07,200 --> 01:51:08,160
Speaker 3: we were, competing going.

2323
01:51:08,240 --> 01:51:10,679
Speaker 2: Hard it was LIKE i remember seeing Y'ALL NBA.

2324
01:51:10,880 --> 01:51:14,200
Speaker 5: Tv You, RAY i Mean paul AND kg sitting Over

2325
01:51:14,240 --> 01:51:16,800
Speaker 5: i'm talking about oversee y'all sitting there sipping tea and

2326
01:51:16,840 --> 01:51:17,679
Speaker 5: ship y'all getting.

2327
01:51:17,680 --> 01:51:18,559
Speaker 2: INTERVIEWED i remember.

2328
01:51:18,600 --> 01:51:20,880
Speaker 3: That, yeah we used to sit see because we were

2329
01:51:20,880 --> 01:51:23,200
Speaker 3: on on The East coast, time so at night time

2330
01:51:23,800 --> 01:51:25,840
Speaker 3: we couldn't go to, sleep so we would be up

2331
01:51:25,920 --> 01:51:28,759
Speaker 3: sitting at the hotel. Talking we walked down the, street

2332
01:51:28,920 --> 01:51:32,719
Speaker 3: so it was the. Best LIKE i truly believe every,

2333
01:51:32,840 --> 01:51:35,679
Speaker 3: team you, know WHEN i first got into the, LEAGUE

2334
01:51:35,680 --> 01:51:37,720
Speaker 3: i thought of the paintment and the. Ask but when

2335
01:51:38,240 --> 01:51:42,040
Speaker 3: As i've gotten, older every team should go somewhere for

2336
01:51:42,120 --> 01:51:45,160
Speaker 3: training camp because what happens you you go, Home you

2337
01:51:45,240 --> 01:51:48,600
Speaker 3: around your, family you don't. Bond and the more you

2338
01:51:48,720 --> 01:51:51,800
Speaker 3: around each, other the more you eat, together the more

2339
01:51:51,880 --> 01:51:55,280
Speaker 3: you you know Might, yeah like training camp shouldn't be

2340
01:51:55,360 --> 01:52:01,519
Speaker 3: about running suicides ands and riding stationary bike it's. Now

2341
01:52:01,520 --> 01:52:05,160
Speaker 3: it should be about, meshing like getting together and being

2342
01:52:05,200 --> 01:52:08,800
Speaker 3: around guys and you, know talking philosophy of the game and,

2343
01:52:08,920 --> 01:52:11,840
Speaker 3: yeah you're gonna you're gonna do some. Conditioning but if

2344
01:52:11,840 --> 01:52:14,519
Speaker 3: you're a coach that is only thinking about playing Till.

2345
01:52:14,400 --> 01:52:17,559
Speaker 2: April then you, know be my. Guest run these guys

2346
01:52:17,560 --> 01:52:17,760
Speaker 2: to the.

2347
01:52:17,840 --> 01:52:20,559
Speaker 3: Ragety but if you plan on playing To, june then

2348
01:52:21,000 --> 01:52:22,400
Speaker 3: it's not about getting the shape right.

2349
01:52:22,439 --> 01:52:24,840
Speaker 2: Now what you're talking about is so.

2350
01:52:25,240 --> 01:52:29,200
Speaker 5: Undervalue that's why it's only very few teams really get

2351
01:52:29,280 --> 01:52:31,360
Speaker 5: what you're. Saying that's why you did is still In

2352
01:52:31,479 --> 01:52:34,920
Speaker 5: miami and he's doing what he's doing because they get it.

2353
01:52:35,520 --> 01:52:39,479
Speaker 5: Right i'm telling, you like teams do not understand what that.

2354
01:52:39,680 --> 01:52:41,960
Speaker 5: Brings you, know you WATCH tv and you watch some

2355
01:52:42,000 --> 01:52:44,200
Speaker 5: of these. Shows you hear, like you don't need to

2356
01:52:44,200 --> 01:52:47,320
Speaker 5: be together to win a. Championship LIKE i hear, you

2357
01:52:47,960 --> 01:52:51,280
Speaker 5: it's not impossible to win when everybody ain't, buddy. Buddy

2358
01:52:51,760 --> 01:52:53,840
Speaker 5: but you go look back at the teams that really

2359
01:52:53,880 --> 01:52:56,439
Speaker 5: wont and them people didn't. Matter they rocked with each, other,

2360
01:52:56,479 --> 01:52:58,840
Speaker 5: bro they put that time. In i'm not saying that

2361
01:52:58,960 --> 01:53:01,400
Speaker 5: you can't show me a team to, where, oh this

2362
01:53:01,439 --> 01:53:03,880
Speaker 5: person didn't like that, person they still want LIKE i get. It,

2363
01:53:04,000 --> 01:53:06,599
Speaker 5: yeah that happens every once in a. While but the

2364
01:53:06,640 --> 01:53:10,320
Speaker 5: majority of teams that win Championships i'm talking about forget

2365
01:53:10,360 --> 01:53:14,200
Speaker 5: basketball sports across the. Board them boys got a, Bond

2366
01:53:14,560 --> 01:53:17,360
Speaker 5: they built a bond. Somewhere it came from. Somewhere they

2367
01:53:17,360 --> 01:53:20,040
Speaker 5: didn't just like, like, NAH i get. It sometimes you

2368
01:53:20,160 --> 01:53:23,080
Speaker 5: got talent of assholes, commession it could, work but not

2369
01:53:23,600 --> 01:53:25,559
Speaker 5: the majority of the. Time the majority of the time

2370
01:53:25,600 --> 01:53:27,360
Speaker 5: that like you, said that shit is built in training.

2371
01:53:27,400 --> 01:53:30,040
Speaker 5: Camp that shit is built in times that people don't

2372
01:53:30,080 --> 01:53:32,640
Speaker 5: see we coming together to. Eat we come together at

2373
01:53:32,680 --> 01:53:34,120
Speaker 5: the end of the night to talk when we got a.

2374
01:53:34,160 --> 01:53:35,800
Speaker 5: Price all, right, Man i'm gonna get a, Besides i'm

2375
01:53:35,800 --> 01:53:37,680
Speaker 5: gonna do, this and then we're gonna play. Cards at this,

2376
01:53:37,760 --> 01:53:40,960
Speaker 5: time we're gonna. Eat at this, time it's Us and

2377
01:53:41,000 --> 01:53:43,479
Speaker 5: that's when you really get to find out what this person,

2378
01:53:43,520 --> 01:53:45,680
Speaker 5: about what your teammate, about and how they rock and

2379
01:53:45,720 --> 01:53:49,160
Speaker 5: y'all make that bond and that people underestimate undervalue. That,

2380
01:53:49,280 --> 01:53:50,640
Speaker 5: man that's a huge part of.

2381
01:53:50,680 --> 01:53:53,720
Speaker 3: It and what, happens what happens from that is you

2382
01:53:53,800 --> 01:54:01,800
Speaker 3: build a, protocol a safety protocol so when or if

2383
01:54:01,800 --> 01:54:06,800
Speaker 3: they possibly go, sideways you know how to get that.

2384
01:54:06,920 --> 01:54:08,800
Speaker 3: Back because if you play cards.

2385
01:54:08,479 --> 01:54:10,519
Speaker 2: Regularly when you, lose, yo y'all meet in the. Room

2386
01:54:10,600 --> 01:54:13,599
Speaker 2: let's play some. Cards on the, plane you play. Cards

2387
01:54:14,080 --> 01:54:16,160
Speaker 2: so when you, lose you play cards and you sit

2388
01:54:16,200 --> 01:54:17,160
Speaker 2: there and you hash it.

2389
01:54:17,160 --> 01:54:19,519
Speaker 3: Out like the teams that don't talk and they splinter.

2390
01:54:19,720 --> 01:54:21,920
Speaker 3: Away those are the ones that they go home and they.

2391
01:54:21,840 --> 01:54:23,960
Speaker 5: Go because they go home and they talk them to

2392
01:54:24,080 --> 01:54:26,840
Speaker 5: their best friends and they. Cousins and you already know

2393
01:54:26,920 --> 01:54:30,080
Speaker 5: we all everybody's sitting. Here this is not A this

2394
01:54:30,200 --> 01:54:32,840
Speaker 5: is not me trying to talk about people's family and.

2395
01:54:32,880 --> 01:54:36,360
Speaker 5: Friends it's a it's a it's just how it is

2396
01:54:37,040 --> 01:54:39,600
Speaker 5: they with. Us, YEAH i didn't have to tell some

2397
01:54:39,680 --> 01:54:41,280
Speaker 5: of my closest, friends closest.

2398
01:54:41,280 --> 01:54:42,240
Speaker 2: Family, hey be.

2399
01:54:42,320 --> 01:54:44,960
Speaker 5: Cool you don't know what you're talking about because you're

2400
01:54:45,000 --> 01:54:47,600
Speaker 5: not in this locker. Room AND i get. It you

2401
01:54:48,000 --> 01:54:50,920
Speaker 5: love and you support and you went. Me you want

2402
01:54:50,960 --> 01:54:54,240
Speaker 5: me to. Win what you're wrong right? Now you know

2403
01:54:54,480 --> 01:54:56,880
Speaker 5: you're talking about the coach the wrong. Way you talking

2404
01:54:56,880 --> 01:54:59,640
Speaker 5: about my teammates the wrong. Way y'all don't know what's going.

2405
01:54:59,680 --> 01:55:02,320
Speaker 5: On they just speaking out a really love for you

2406
01:55:02,360 --> 01:55:04,120
Speaker 5: and trying to be on your side and console.

2407
01:55:04,160 --> 01:55:05,800
Speaker 2: You and that's not always the right.

2408
01:55:05,840 --> 01:55:08,920
Speaker 5: Thing but that's WHAT i appreciated about my shit and

2409
01:55:08,960 --> 01:55:10,760
Speaker 5: our ship the way we. Came AND i think that's

2410
01:55:10,800 --> 01:55:14,200
Speaker 5: why when you look at it like, me D Miles Corey,

2411
01:55:14,600 --> 01:55:16,800
Speaker 5: keon we as solid as it come to this day

2412
01:55:16,880 --> 01:55:19,320
Speaker 5: because of those like brothers because we all experienced the

2413
01:55:19,360 --> 01:55:22,640
Speaker 5: same thing in real time where people experience that on their,

2414
01:55:22,720 --> 01:55:24,560
Speaker 5: own and it's it's a difference, when like you, say

2415
01:55:24,600 --> 01:55:27,040
Speaker 5: when you that's how teams get tight and friendships get

2416
01:55:27,160 --> 01:55:28,720
Speaker 5: bonded because of that.

2417
01:55:28,800 --> 01:55:33,240
Speaker 1: Stuff when y'all falling a big, three like, everybody it was,

2418
01:55:33,240 --> 01:55:37,040
Speaker 1: like y'all already run. Champions they kind of figured like

2419
01:55:37,160 --> 01:55:40,120
Speaker 1: y'all was gonna go and you know with, that, yeah

2420
01:55:40,200 --> 01:55:42,000
Speaker 1: the falling a big, three but you still gotta win,

2421
01:55:42,040 --> 01:55:44,400
Speaker 1: it you know What i'm. Saying so like teams was

2422
01:55:44,400 --> 01:55:46,600
Speaker 1: coming at y'all head and, then LIKE i, said you

2423
01:55:46,640 --> 01:55:48,400
Speaker 1: get to the end and you get to The. Lakers

2424
01:55:48,800 --> 01:55:50,640
Speaker 1: just go through that process of that season or that

2425
01:55:50,760 --> 01:55:54,560
Speaker 1: playoffs of playing the teams and y'all jeling and they're

2426
01:55:54,560 --> 01:55:57,080
Speaker 1: getting to click it in the playoffs and y'all really

2427
01:55:57,160 --> 01:55:57,440
Speaker 1: go on the.

2428
01:55:57,560 --> 01:56:01,440
Speaker 3: Run the most important thing about that team was we

2429
01:56:01,520 --> 01:56:06,640
Speaker 3: had had success, individually but nothing great team. Wise the

2430
01:56:06,680 --> 01:56:10,880
Speaker 3: only person that had been that won Was posed In.

2431
01:56:11,040 --> 01:56:11,520
Speaker 2: Miami.

2432
01:56:11,880 --> 01:56:16,600
Speaker 3: Miami, yeah so nobody really knew what it, took and

2433
01:56:16,680 --> 01:56:20,160
Speaker 3: so we were willing to sacrifice all year, long less,

2434
01:56:20,200 --> 01:56:21,360
Speaker 3: minutes less.

2435
01:56:21,200 --> 01:56:21,960
Speaker 2: Shots but we.

2436
01:56:22,040 --> 01:56:23,640
Speaker 4: Won y'all buy it To doc.

2437
01:56:23,960 --> 01:56:27,000
Speaker 3: One And doc wasn't trying To he wasn't trying to

2438
01:56:27,000 --> 01:56:29,000
Speaker 3: beat it out of us, Either like you guys gotta

2439
01:56:29,760 --> 01:56:31,080
Speaker 3: work out and be in the best of.

2440
01:56:31,120 --> 01:56:33,800
Speaker 2: Shape long we we did so.

2441
01:56:33,920 --> 01:56:36,320
Speaker 3: Much we had such individual, pride guys with the gym

2442
01:56:36,360 --> 01:56:38,920
Speaker 3: work it, out you, Know and that was all the,

2443
01:56:38,960 --> 01:56:41,480
Speaker 3: Difference like he didn't have to you, know you feel

2444
01:56:41,480 --> 01:56:43,720
Speaker 3: like an independent, contractor like you just you, Know there's

2445
01:56:43,760 --> 01:56:46,440
Speaker 3: some days we'd have a game On monday on the,

2446
01:56:46,520 --> 01:56:51,200
Speaker 3: road and then we wouldn't have practice On, tuesday and

2447
01:56:51,200 --> 01:56:53,640
Speaker 3: then he would have a shoot around On wednesday before the.

2448
01:56:53,680 --> 01:56:55,240
Speaker 3: Game SO i had a whole day and a half

2449
01:56:55,240 --> 01:56:57,800
Speaker 3: WHERE i didn't have to see, nobody SO i. Could you,

2450
01:56:57,800 --> 01:56:59,440
Speaker 3: Know i'd come to the gym on my, own do

2451
01:56:59,480 --> 01:57:02,960
Speaker 3: WHATEVER i need to. Do BUT i was able to to.

2452
01:57:03,160 --> 01:57:06,800
Speaker 3: Rest like no Coach i've ever played with had that much.

2453
01:57:06,920 --> 01:57:09,440
Speaker 4: COMFORT i never had a training camp AS i.

2454
01:57:09,480 --> 01:57:11,520
Speaker 1: Had WHEN i came out there With, DOCTOR i was, like,

2455
01:57:11,560 --> 01:57:14,080
Speaker 1: man we ain't coming, back like we didn''t do nothing,

2456
01:57:14,080 --> 01:57:17,360
Speaker 1: Today like that was just A i never had, That

2457
01:57:17,520 --> 01:57:19,680
Speaker 1: AND i was, like, man that's the type of COACH i,

2458
01:57:19,680 --> 01:57:20,960
Speaker 1: Need especially WHEN i was on these.

2459
01:57:21,040 --> 01:57:22,040
Speaker 2: Knees you hear.

2460
01:57:22,120 --> 01:57:24,880
Speaker 1: THESE i was, like, man that's the type of coach

2461
01:57:25,520 --> 01:57:27,880
Speaker 1: that you need instead of being on the team that's

2462
01:57:27,920 --> 01:57:30,000
Speaker 1: young and he's trying to run you all the way

2463
01:57:30,440 --> 01:57:30,760
Speaker 1: through the.

2464
01:57:30,800 --> 01:57:33,840
Speaker 3: Dirt, Yeah LIKE i said, that that that coach that's

2465
01:57:33,920 --> 01:57:36,120
Speaker 3: trying to do that as An april. Coach you, know

2466
01:57:36,200 --> 01:57:38,920
Speaker 3: coaches that played in The. June i'm not trying to

2467
01:57:39,840 --> 01:57:42,160
Speaker 3: tire you out or. TU i don't need you to

2468
01:57:42,200 --> 01:57:44,080
Speaker 3: play your best basketball, Now like we just need to

2469
01:57:44,080 --> 01:57:44,960
Speaker 3: peak over of course of the.

2470
01:57:45,040 --> 01:57:46,560
Speaker 2: Team tell me.

2471
01:57:46,600 --> 01:57:50,360
Speaker 5: THIS i want to know what it was like when

2472
01:57:50,360 --> 01:57:53,280
Speaker 5: you were In boston and you guys achieved that.

2473
01:57:53,440 --> 01:57:55,560
Speaker 2: Championship what was that?

2474
01:57:55,720 --> 01:57:59,000
Speaker 5: Feeling because y'all did it in the first year coming

2475
01:57:59,000 --> 01:58:01,720
Speaker 5: together and it was expected to be you, know y'all

2476
01:58:01,720 --> 01:58:03,400
Speaker 5: was gonna be this and y'all gonna be. That but,

2477
01:58:03,480 --> 01:58:07,040
Speaker 5: like how was that feeling to achieve that that goal

2478
01:58:07,120 --> 01:58:09,640
Speaker 5: of a. Championship you hadn't been a champion, before you

2479
01:58:09,680 --> 01:58:11,080
Speaker 5: had been in the league and achieved a lot of.

2480
01:58:11,080 --> 01:58:14,200
Speaker 5: Accomplishments how was that to come together in that first

2481
01:58:14,280 --> 01:58:16,440
Speaker 5: year and like you, say to go From seattle, thinking,

2482
01:58:16,480 --> 01:58:19,080
Speaker 5: man we about to get SEE. Kd we're gonna be all,

2483
01:58:19,160 --> 01:58:21,680
Speaker 5: Right we're gonna be better and then get thrown into

2484
01:58:21,680 --> 01:58:22,760
Speaker 5: that scenario and win a.

2485
01:58:22,840 --> 01:58:24,040
Speaker 2: Championship WELL i.

2486
01:58:24,440 --> 01:58:28,120
Speaker 3: Was, obviously you, Know Sam presty was A gm then

2487
01:58:28,200 --> 01:58:30,680
Speaker 3: and he traded me, away AND i, was you, know

2488
01:58:30,720 --> 01:58:33,000
Speaker 3: we had a conversation and he was trying to, build

2489
01:58:33,240 --> 01:58:34,800
Speaker 3: and then he traded me. Away SO i was like

2490
01:58:34,840 --> 01:58:38,360
Speaker 3: snaking the. Grass but THEN i ended up In boston

2491
01:58:38,400 --> 01:58:40,760
Speaker 3: and we win a. Championship So i'm, like you, KNOW

2492
01:58:41,240 --> 01:58:43,040
Speaker 3: i can't be pissed off at him because he put

2493
01:58:43,080 --> 01:58:46,240
Speaker 3: me in a great. Situation, yeah it's not something that

2494
01:58:46,320 --> 01:58:49,760
Speaker 3: you ever think. POSSIBLE i never worried about winning championship

2495
01:58:49,800 --> 01:58:51,720
Speaker 3: because you got to be fortunate to be on a

2496
01:58:51,760 --> 01:58:56,280
Speaker 3: team with players and with an organization that. Talk, yeah

2497
01:58:56,520 --> 01:59:00,320
Speaker 3: everybody bought in and even during the, year they were

2498
01:59:00,360 --> 01:59:03,200
Speaker 3: trying to get, Better like after we made the initial

2499
01:59:03,240 --> 01:59:06,880
Speaker 3: movement roster wise trade, deadline you're trying to get. Better

2500
01:59:06,880 --> 01:59:09,680
Speaker 3: and then as you, know people got way towards in the,

2501
01:59:09,720 --> 01:59:13,160
Speaker 3: season we ADDED. Pj brown And Sam, juasel which proved

2502
01:59:13,520 --> 01:59:17,120
Speaker 3: very beneficial for us win the. Championship so it was,

2503
01:59:17,520 --> 01:59:20,440
Speaker 3: like you don't, know like we went to the playoffs first,

2504
01:59:20,560 --> 01:59:21,600
Speaker 3: round seven Games.

2505
01:59:21,680 --> 01:59:24,840
Speaker 2: Atlanta we could not Beat atlanta In.

2506
01:59:24,920 --> 01:59:28,600
Speaker 3: Atlanta that joint turned into something that we had never seen,

2507
01:59:28,640 --> 01:59:31,240
Speaker 3: before and that means might be some of the best

2508
01:59:31,240 --> 01:59:32,880
Speaker 3: basketball that The hawks have played in that.

2509
01:59:32,960 --> 01:59:37,480
Speaker 4: Building oh They Josh.

2510
01:59:37,520 --> 01:59:41,600
Speaker 3: Mills but it was like a crescendo to the playoff

2511
01:59:41,680 --> 01:59:45,240
Speaker 3: for us because then we go To cleveland and we

2512
01:59:45,280 --> 01:59:50,280
Speaker 3: win in seven games there and it took us like

2513
01:59:50,560 --> 01:59:53,200
Speaker 3: all of it Because lebron was was doing this. Thing

2514
01:59:53,240 --> 01:59:56,280
Speaker 3: and then obviously we went in six and In, detroit

2515
01:59:56,920 --> 01:59:59,440
Speaker 3: and so by the time we get to The, lakers

2516
02:00:00,080 --> 02:00:04,040
Speaker 3: it almost seemed like the hard work was pasted us

2517
02:00:04,240 --> 02:00:06,720
Speaker 3: because we had dealt with so. Much the game on The,

2518
02:00:06,720 --> 02:00:08,920
Speaker 3: east in The Eastern conference was so much more, physical

2519
02:00:08,960 --> 02:00:11,520
Speaker 3: and they picked The lakers to. Win so we came,

2520
02:00:11,560 --> 02:00:15,160
Speaker 3: in we, played you, know tough, nose, hard gritty, basketball

2521
02:00:15,200 --> 02:00:17,280
Speaker 3: and it was it was.

2522
02:00:17,320 --> 02:00:20,320
Speaker 2: Serendipitous we were in a position where as.

2523
02:00:20,160 --> 02:00:22,560
Speaker 3: Long as we you, Know kobe didn't go off and

2524
02:00:22,600 --> 02:00:25,720
Speaker 3: do do too much, craziness like we, were we were,

2525
02:00:25,760 --> 02:00:26,280
Speaker 3: Primed we were.

2526
02:00:26,320 --> 02:00:29,480
Speaker 1: Ready how was it for you for, uh you, know

2527
02:00:29,600 --> 02:00:32,040
Speaker 1: to see the next generation you on the team with D,

2528
02:00:32,240 --> 02:00:35,440
Speaker 1: Way Lebron. Bosh you know What i'm, saying this is

2529
02:00:35,480 --> 02:00:39,440
Speaker 1: the next generation of. Players how was it to see

2530
02:00:39,440 --> 02:00:41,320
Speaker 1: them young, guys you know What i'm, saying them guys

2531
02:00:41,360 --> 02:00:43,920
Speaker 1: kind of in their prime trying to do something great

2532
02:00:43,920 --> 02:00:44,920
Speaker 1: and special over.

2533
02:00:44,960 --> 02:00:48,880
Speaker 3: There it was great because they truly respected my voice

2534
02:00:49,160 --> 02:00:51,320
Speaker 3: and they referred to me a lot in a lot

2535
02:00:51,320 --> 02:00:54,480
Speaker 3: of the, situations asking my, opinion and there was a

2536
02:00:54,640 --> 02:00:59,400
Speaker 3: there was a great appreciation for, myself For Juwan howard

2537
02:01:00,080 --> 02:01:03,480
Speaker 3: in that right there. Is it allows you to have

2538
02:01:03,520 --> 02:01:06,080
Speaker 3: a space where you know you're respected and you can

2539
02:01:06,080 --> 02:01:06,480
Speaker 3: come in and do.

2540
02:01:06,520 --> 02:01:09,480
Speaker 2: Your, job and, uh it was a great work.

2541
02:01:09,640 --> 02:01:13,120
Speaker 5: Environment tell me, THIS i don't like the mails brought

2542
02:01:13,120 --> 02:01:15,880
Speaker 5: it up, earlier but when you hit that fucking, SHOT

2543
02:01:16,680 --> 02:01:19,440
Speaker 5: i need to know in real time what that felt.

2544
02:01:19,520 --> 02:01:23,200
Speaker 5: Like Cause i'm because we, players we know how it,

2545
02:01:23,280 --> 02:01:24,680
Speaker 5: go AND i know what the FUCK i.

2546
02:01:24,760 --> 02:01:25,560
Speaker 2: Saw i'm sitting.

2547
02:01:25,600 --> 02:01:30,320
Speaker 5: Here they then roped off the, sidelines they, bringing.

2548
02:01:30,200 --> 02:01:34,760
Speaker 2: You, know they getting, ready like in real.

2549
02:01:34,680 --> 02:01:37,200
Speaker 5: Time reality just setting AND i see the time out

2550
02:01:37,280 --> 02:01:39,040
Speaker 5: they sold the way they should have.

2551
02:01:39,040 --> 02:01:41,400
Speaker 2: Been they show You lebron and show everybody they showing.

2552
02:01:41,440 --> 02:01:44,960
Speaker 5: Y'all it's, like y'all have the realization this is like

2553
02:01:45,560 --> 02:01:48,320
Speaker 5: this shit about to be over like it could be,

2554
02:01:48,440 --> 02:01:51,000
Speaker 5: Over like you could see that in everybody's face and

2555
02:01:51,040 --> 02:01:54,280
Speaker 5: ain't no, Bully this is no, bullshit no Put like

2556
02:01:55,040 --> 02:01:57,480
Speaker 5: everybody could see the feet and the you can see

2557
02:01:57,480 --> 02:02:00,640
Speaker 5: the feet for. Y'all you can see trying for the.

2558
02:02:00,680 --> 02:02:03,560
Speaker 5: Spurs you see them roping shit, off getting shit. Right you're, like,

2559
02:02:03,640 --> 02:02:07,840
Speaker 5: damn this is like for you to hit that shot

2560
02:02:08,040 --> 02:02:11,360
Speaker 5: and to flip the whole course of. History tell me

2561
02:02:11,680 --> 02:02:14,680
Speaker 5: what that was like in real time as it's, happening

2562
02:02:14,960 --> 02:02:17,320
Speaker 5: and like d mind, said you did, it like you,

2563
02:02:17,360 --> 02:02:20,000
Speaker 5: said you prepared for these moments and, everything and you

2564
02:02:20,040 --> 02:02:23,280
Speaker 5: got your feet. Together like aside from, THAT i, GET

2565
02:02:23,400 --> 02:02:26,160
Speaker 5: i don't listen to you explain how in the moment

2566
02:02:26,200 --> 02:02:30,640
Speaker 5: you got your feet and practiced me after that the,

2567
02:02:30,760 --> 02:02:33,280
Speaker 5: huddle like after you've made this shot and to re

2568
02:02:33,640 --> 02:02:36,640
Speaker 5: energize y'all got, it after y'all won that, game and

2569
02:02:36,680 --> 02:02:38,480
Speaker 5: to know that you did what you did and this

2570
02:02:38,680 --> 02:02:40,840
Speaker 5: couldn't have been won without, you what is that?

2571
02:02:40,920 --> 02:02:41,320
Speaker 2: Feeling?

2572
02:02:41,400 --> 02:02:46,040
Speaker 3: Like it was interesting because and we you, know when

2573
02:02:46,080 --> 02:02:47,880
Speaker 3: we saw the game something the way we turned the

2574
02:02:47,920 --> 02:02:51,320
Speaker 3: ball over late in the, Game San antonio missing free,

2575
02:02:51,360 --> 02:02:55,040
Speaker 3: throws you, Know lebron hits the. Three the first three

2576
02:02:56,400 --> 02:02:59,800
Speaker 3: during the, Game Mike miller hit a three with one shoe.

2577
02:02:59,840 --> 02:03:06,320
Speaker 3: On so when you think about the way teams win,

2578
02:03:06,400 --> 02:03:10,760
Speaker 3: championships there's one moment they get you to the next

2579
02:03:10,840 --> 02:03:14,000
Speaker 3: somebody does something that gets you over the, hunt you,

2580
02:03:14,040 --> 02:03:16,040
Speaker 3: know the play off the bench to start from, five.

2581
02:03:16,520 --> 02:03:17,120
Speaker 2: Whatever it may.

2582
02:03:17,160 --> 02:03:20,120
Speaker 3: Be and that's kind of how that. WENT i remember

2583
02:03:20,880 --> 02:03:23,520
Speaker 3: the next day we had we had a. Practice but

2584
02:03:23,560 --> 02:03:25,160
Speaker 3: what we're gonna just do is going through a walk

2585
02:03:25,240 --> 02:03:27,920
Speaker 3: through and the media is in, there and we're, just you,

2586
02:03:27,920 --> 02:03:30,240
Speaker 3: know gonna shoot around a little. Bit we sit there

2587
02:03:30,240 --> 02:03:32,720
Speaker 3: and play some shooting, games and then we walk off

2588
02:03:32,720 --> 02:03:33,680
Speaker 3: and we you, know watch.

2589
02:03:33,760 --> 02:03:37,000
Speaker 2: Film BUT i was getting treatment in the training.

2590
02:03:37,080 --> 02:03:39,200
Speaker 3: ROOM i had been there, early AND i walked into

2591
02:03:39,360 --> 02:03:41,880
Speaker 3: the locker room And Mike miller goes there he, is

2592
02:03:42,360 --> 02:03:49,760
Speaker 3: AND i was stunned because in my MIND i thought

2593
02:03:50,240 --> 02:03:53,160
Speaker 3: THAT i was. There we were there because we all.

2594
02:03:53,320 --> 02:03:57,280
Speaker 3: Contributed And mike, says, man, bro we would be in

2595
02:03:57,280 --> 02:03:59,360
Speaker 3: here packing our shit if it were for. You and

2596
02:03:59,600 --> 02:04:02,640
Speaker 3: yes that we see that first, hand but you all

2597
02:04:02,680 --> 02:04:07,360
Speaker 3: know every little thing transpires into that final, moment you,

2598
02:04:07,400 --> 02:04:11,480
Speaker 3: Know so miss free, throw a, turnover a block, shot

2599
02:04:11,520 --> 02:04:14,040
Speaker 3: all that gets you to that, moment and it's easy

2600
02:04:14,080 --> 02:04:17,120
Speaker 3: to point the or shine the light on that that

2601
02:04:17,200 --> 02:04:18,920
Speaker 3: moment that actually took you over the.

2602
02:04:19,000 --> 02:04:21,080
Speaker 2: Hump and that's kind of the.

2603
02:04:21,000 --> 02:04:23,200
Speaker 3: Way i've always been, like you, know everybody did their

2604
02:04:23,240 --> 02:04:25,520
Speaker 3: part to get us, here and obviously that was probably

2605
02:04:25,520 --> 02:04:28,720
Speaker 3: one of the most glaring moments of that game that

2606
02:04:28,800 --> 02:04:29,720
Speaker 3: got us to where we need to.

2607
02:04:29,760 --> 02:04:31,080
Speaker 2: GO i was GLAD i could be a part of.

2608
02:04:31,120 --> 02:04:33,360
Speaker 3: It IF i missed that, shot it wouldn't have been

2609
02:04:33,360 --> 02:04:35,760
Speaker 3: a big deal because everybody would have, said you.

2610
02:04:35,720 --> 02:04:40,280
Speaker 4: Know there's a. Wave, yeah even.

2611
02:04:40,120 --> 02:04:42,120
Speaker 3: Me, shooting, like there's no way you would have made that.

2612
02:04:42,160 --> 02:04:45,800
Speaker 3: Shot that just you were in a difficult. Situation nobody

2613
02:04:45,840 --> 02:04:48,760
Speaker 3: could make that. Shot but you, know when you show

2614
02:04:48,840 --> 02:04:51,360
Speaker 3: the possibilities when you don't give, up you, know that,

2615
02:04:51,560 --> 02:04:54,880
Speaker 3: was you, know showing the possibilities of how a team

2616
02:04:54,920 --> 02:04:56,960
Speaker 3: doesn't give up and continue to believe in.

2617
02:04:57,000 --> 02:04:59,960
Speaker 1: Themselves if you had five, players, well you had four

2618
02:05:00,080 --> 02:05:02,360
Speaker 1: players to play with out of all the teams that

2619
02:05:02,440 --> 02:05:02,840
Speaker 1: you play.

2620
02:05:02,960 --> 02:05:06,480
Speaker 4: With if you have to pick four players to.

2621
02:05:06,560 --> 02:05:08,760
Speaker 1: Hop in the rabbit hole with and win you a,

2622
02:05:08,840 --> 02:05:12,840
Speaker 1: game no matter what, team what are the four players you'll?

2623
02:05:12,920 --> 02:05:15,240
Speaker 4: Choose you got some heat because you can play with some.

2624
02:05:15,760 --> 02:05:25,880
Speaker 2: Boy i'm Taking i'm Taking Glenn, robinson big, yeah, Uh

2625
02:05:28,080 --> 02:05:29,000
Speaker 2: i'm Taking Terrell.

2626
02:05:29,120 --> 02:05:34,800
Speaker 4: Brandon people don't even know ABOUT, tv don't know About.

2627
02:05:34,800 --> 02:05:37,920
Speaker 2: I'm looking For i'm looking FOR tv right. There man

2628
02:05:38,080 --> 02:05:42,640
Speaker 2: used to get game and split the pick and roll nobody's.

2629
02:05:42,680 --> 02:05:44,360
Speaker 2: BUSINESS i mean.

2630
02:05:47,520 --> 02:05:48,800
Speaker 4: You got to pick. It the letter.

2631
02:05:51,120 --> 02:05:54,120
Speaker 2: A whole lot of a whole lot OF i MEAN

2632
02:05:54,160 --> 02:05:54,600
Speaker 2: i played With.

2633
02:05:54,640 --> 02:05:56,560
Speaker 3: Shack it be unfair to Put shack on, there but

2634
02:05:56,600 --> 02:06:04,840
Speaker 3: it's easy to say shack exact, dad.

2635
02:06:02,040 --> 02:06:04,200
Speaker 2: He just say. Shack i'm gonna say, shock And i'm

2636
02:06:04,200 --> 02:06:07,760
Speaker 2: gonna say kg. Up this is my favorite. QUESTION i

2637
02:06:07,800 --> 02:06:09,320
Speaker 2: got a picture right here on the wall with me

2638
02:06:09,400 --> 02:06:10,280
Speaker 2: with a big dumb.

2639
02:06:10,160 --> 02:06:13,160
Speaker 5: Ass chain with everything selling my uh you, know my

2640
02:06:13,200 --> 02:06:14,080
Speaker 5: Social security on.

2641
02:06:14,160 --> 02:06:16,120
Speaker 2: IT i need to know when you because you signed.

2642
02:06:16,200 --> 02:06:18,920
Speaker 5: Ship you signed the biggest dealing in Walkee bucks history

2643
02:06:18,920 --> 02:06:21,440
Speaker 5: at the time when you got that. BAG i know

2644
02:06:21,480 --> 02:06:23,320
Speaker 5: you took care of. Mama you still take care Of.

2645
02:06:23,360 --> 02:06:26,040
Speaker 5: MAMA i know THAT i won't know What Ray ray

2646
02:06:26,080 --> 02:06:29,960
Speaker 5: did for, himself like On South, Central Ray ray doing.

2647
02:06:29,880 --> 02:06:36,160
Speaker 2: Real new new, Car Right ray, Right, ray, Right ray

2648
02:06:36,200 --> 02:06:36,720
Speaker 2: doing real.

2649
02:06:36,800 --> 02:06:39,920
Speaker 5: Good like what Did ray dude when he got that

2650
02:06:40,040 --> 02:06:42,080
Speaker 5: big old. Bag what did? YOU i don't want to

2651
02:06:42,120 --> 02:06:43,080
Speaker 5: hear about you take care of.

2652
02:06:43,120 --> 02:06:43,760
Speaker 2: Mom i'm talking.

2653
02:06:43,600 --> 02:06:46,200
Speaker 4: About what flashy ship yourself.

2654
02:06:46,000 --> 02:06:47,840
Speaker 2: Said when you look, back, like, man that was kind of,

2655
02:06:47,880 --> 02:06:51,200
Speaker 2: crazy BUT i love that. SHIP i did well for

2656
02:06:51,320 --> 02:06:52,000
Speaker 2: me And.

2657
02:06:53,080 --> 02:06:58,400
Speaker 3: Milwaukee help because you ain't doing nothing super crazy because You. Knowwaukee,

2658
02:06:59,360 --> 02:07:02,440
Speaker 3: yeah like you. Can't you can't be floss In milwaukee

2659
02:07:02,440 --> 02:07:04,720
Speaker 3: because you're gonna have a car sitting on.

2660
02:07:04,800 --> 02:07:07,080
Speaker 2: Bricks you, know too much snow out.

2661
02:07:07,080 --> 02:07:07,280
Speaker 4: There.

2662
02:07:07,880 --> 02:07:08,840
Speaker 2: Yeah so the.

2663
02:07:08,800 --> 02:07:10,520
Speaker 3: Thing THAT i did do IS i bought a three

2664
02:07:10,560 --> 02:07:13,640
Speaker 3: sixty spider AND i had a garage And corey.

2665
02:07:13,560 --> 02:07:20,440
Speaker 2: Mcginny, yeah, ak let me just let you know about that.

2666
02:07:20,560 --> 02:07:23,680
Speaker 5: SPIDER i had A cel sixty five and tell that

2667
02:07:23,800 --> 02:07:26,120
Speaker 5: thing got the frame until we get a little further

2668
02:07:26,160 --> 02:07:28,080
Speaker 5: than you get in your top. Gear but when we

2669
02:07:28,120 --> 02:07:31,880
Speaker 5: first start, Off i'm kicking your ass after frame, Ass corey,

2670
02:07:32,000 --> 02:07:34,520
Speaker 5: mcgetty we was On Lincoln boulevard coming from.

2671
02:07:34,520 --> 02:07:36,320
Speaker 2: There WHAT i told his ass up.

2672
02:07:36,280 --> 02:07:38,840
Speaker 4: One, day go, ahead go.

2673
02:07:38,880 --> 02:07:41,520
Speaker 3: Ahead that's why you can't go wrong with some of these.

2674
02:07:41,600 --> 02:07:47,480
Speaker 3: Cars like my wife has A BMW i three and

2675
02:07:47,640 --> 02:07:48,360
Speaker 3: they say that.

2676
02:07:48,280 --> 02:07:51,840
Speaker 2: THING m three TO m three. Joint OH i. Three

2677
02:07:51,920 --> 02:07:54,680
Speaker 2: oh THE i? Three, Right, yeah that's it fast stay

2678
02:07:54,800 --> 02:07:55,200
Speaker 2: because it's.

2679
02:07:55,240 --> 02:07:57,600
Speaker 3: Electric they say that thing is one of the fastest

2680
02:07:57,600 --> 02:08:00,160
Speaker 3: cars that they have from zero to sixty and it's Elect.

2681
02:08:01,440 --> 02:08:04,080
Speaker 1: How was it when you heard that you was gonna

2682
02:08:04,080 --> 02:08:06,720
Speaker 1: be inducted into The hall Of? Fame how was that

2683
02:08:06,800 --> 02:08:07,360
Speaker 1: for you and your?

2684
02:08:07,400 --> 02:08:11,000
Speaker 3: Family you, know, yeah it Was The hall Of fame was,

2685
02:08:11,080 --> 02:08:14,920
Speaker 3: super super, emotional like just thinking about your whole. Life

2686
02:08:17,680 --> 02:08:20,640
Speaker 3: you go To All Star, game you have, fun you

2687
02:08:20,760 --> 02:08:23,280
Speaker 3: just join. Yourself but The hall Of fame was like

2688
02:08:23,800 --> 02:08:25,040
Speaker 3: it was, Like, okay it's over.

2689
02:08:25,040 --> 02:08:27,520
Speaker 2: WITH i get to sit back and now cry and

2690
02:08:27,600 --> 02:08:29,240
Speaker 2: celebrate those that helped me get.

2691
02:08:29,280 --> 02:08:32,360
Speaker 3: Here that's what it is is the culmination of your

2692
02:08:32,520 --> 02:08:35,120
Speaker 3: your life and the people in it that pushed the,

2693
02:08:35,240 --> 02:08:38,120
Speaker 3: envelope that fought for you to have tennis shoes on

2694
02:08:38,120 --> 02:08:41,040
Speaker 3: your feet, on have clothes on your, back a camp

2695
02:08:41,080 --> 02:08:43,600
Speaker 3: to go. To so that's WHAT i wanted to be,

2696
02:08:43,680 --> 02:08:45,400
Speaker 3: about was the people that got.

2697
02:08:45,240 --> 02:08:46,760
Speaker 4: Me, coaches teammates and.

2698
02:08:46,800 --> 02:08:50,120
Speaker 3: Everything, yeah and SO i wanted to make sure THAT

2699
02:08:50,160 --> 02:08:52,920
Speaker 3: i talked about those people because those people and you,

2700
02:08:52,960 --> 02:08:56,120
Speaker 3: know were the ones that carried. Me and you, KNOW i,

2701
02:08:56,160 --> 02:08:58,000
Speaker 3: thought you, know When i'm announced on The hall Of.

2702
02:08:58,080 --> 02:09:00,320
Speaker 3: FAME i get to put those people in the.

2703
02:09:00,360 --> 02:09:03,440
Speaker 1: Forefront when you came, over they said To, boston they,

2704
02:09:03,440 --> 02:09:05,600
Speaker 1: said it's Three hall Of. Famers case you just winning

2705
02:09:05,600 --> 02:09:07,560
Speaker 1: The hall Of fame the other day And paul is

2706
02:09:08,120 --> 02:09:10,880
Speaker 1: had selected to be next. Year to see that complete of,

2707
02:09:10,960 --> 02:09:13,320
Speaker 1: y'all Three hall of, famers to win that, championship to

2708
02:09:13,320 --> 02:09:16,040
Speaker 1: See paul getting in it next, year how's that for?

2709
02:09:16,080 --> 02:09:19,000
Speaker 1: You to see see your guys getting The hall Of

2710
02:09:19,040 --> 02:09:21,600
Speaker 1: fame and be a part of that That hall Of fame.

2711
02:09:21,640 --> 02:09:24,800
Speaker 3: Status i'm just thankful that we won in a wait

2712
02:09:26,000 --> 02:09:28,200
Speaker 3: because you don't want to see that three of us

2713
02:09:28,240 --> 02:09:29,880
Speaker 3: Were hall Of, famers like Y'all hall of.

2714
02:09:29,880 --> 02:09:32,480
Speaker 4: Famers, yeah, yeah.

2715
02:09:32,560 --> 02:09:35,840
Speaker 3: Yeah so to see those those, guys you, know walk

2716
02:09:35,920 --> 02:09:38,560
Speaker 3: in because we know that that was where they were.

2717
02:09:38,600 --> 02:09:42,440
Speaker 3: Headed you, know you couldn't ask for anything better because

2718
02:09:42,440 --> 02:09:44,840
Speaker 3: they've been able to be good for a long period of.

2719
02:09:44,880 --> 02:09:50,160
Speaker 2: Time it's a, glory all, right. Man that's a. Wrap,

2720
02:09:50,240 --> 02:09:50,840
Speaker 2: man this is.

2721
02:09:50,960 --> 02:09:55,000
Speaker 5: Dope we Had, Jesus we Had Jesus showsworth in the.

2722
02:09:55,040 --> 02:09:58,320
Speaker 2: Building, man he got. Game Ray allen missed the three.

2723
02:09:58,160 --> 02:10:03,040
Speaker 5: Point, Shot Sugar ray h old, well big time baller.

2724
02:10:03,120 --> 02:10:05,680
Speaker 5: Man we appreciate, you, right appreciate you putting up on the.

2725
02:10:05,720 --> 02:10:08,440
Speaker 3: HOMIES i feel LIKE i went to school today with,

2726
02:10:08,520 --> 02:10:11,000
Speaker 3: Y'all SO i appreciate y'all for.

2727
02:10:11,080 --> 02:10:20,920
Speaker 2: Sure yes, man all Love Big. Dob all. Right we

2728
02:10:21,000 --> 02:10:23,080
Speaker 2: want to thank y'all for you continue support of the.

2729
02:10:23,160 --> 02:10:26,320
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2730
02:10:26,400 --> 02:10:28,880
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02:10:41,720 --> 02:10:44,360
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