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Speaker 1: Okay, So here's an event I think, and it's been

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Speaker 1: brought up a bunch that I think could fix. All

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Speaker 1: Star Weekend one on one tournament. Who do you think

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Speaker 1: but what about like a smaller guard like yourself.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Nobody's fucking with me though. That's that's one thing, the

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Speaker 1: I do that.

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Speaker 3: He asks anybody any team I've been on after practice,

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Speaker 3: we're playing ones every after every practice.

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Speaker 1: Well do you legendary one on one?

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Speaker 3: Ask my teammates about the legendary one on ones? Don't

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Speaker 3: ask me, they know.

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Speaker 1: Look to Point Game looking to the stage telling you no,

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Speaker 1: say that.

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Speaker 4: Thomas All Star Weekend Point Game Live.

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Speaker 1: Who's a fan of Point Game? In Isaiah Thomas. This

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Speaker 1: is his first podcast, right Yeah? Yeah, we're like three

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Speaker 1: four months in already doing a live one. You're a

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Speaker 3: It feels good. It's dope to be in here. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: It t it's a ten year anniversary of that Toronto

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Speaker 1: We were showing the highlights. How's that feel? Ten years?

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Speaker 3: Oh you was showing No, we we were Do you

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Speaker 3: not at all? I've seen those too many times. Ten

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Speaker 3: It was like it was like a proud dad moment.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I always hears, especially All Star weekend,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. What I What I like hearing in the stories

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so what you were a Lakers fan growing up?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool. So when you got traded, because we

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Speaker 2: Know, bro, when I got traded to the Lakers, I

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Speaker 3: I was like, man, I wasn't even thinking about no

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Speaker 1: Well, so, how many Lakers fans do we have here?

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Speaker 1: And I'm a Lakers fan too, and we're I mean,

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Speaker 2: And that's that's how the game is now.

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Speaker 3: To shout out to Chris Paul Man. That was like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: So it's crazy to even read that this morning, like

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Speaker 3: Because of who he is and where he's at in

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Speaker 3: So it's it's a tough situation, bro, But like nobody's

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Speaker 3: And if it's happening to Chris Paul, if it's happened

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna just be a professional. I'm gonna help out,

438
00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:19,440
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be a leader. That's who I really am,

439
00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:22,160
Speaker 3: whether I'm playing or not. So I was like one

440
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,000
Speaker 3: of the voices in the locker room, and that's what

441
00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,960
Speaker 3: my impact brought to that team. Yeah, I can go

442
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,320
Speaker 3: out and give you twenty right now, but it's like

443
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,159
Speaker 3: that's not what they wanted and that's not what they needed.

444
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,240
Speaker 3: So in those ten days, you just got to try

445
00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,760
Speaker 3: to make a positive impact each and every day because

446
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,800
Speaker 3: then if you do, like that's what your value is.

447
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 3: Like you're not coming in to take somebody's spot. That's

448
00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:45,160
Speaker 3: just what it is the reality of a ten day

449
00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:47,680
Speaker 3: which you know most people don't understand.

450
00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we obviously you still want a hoop. You

451
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:55,040
Speaker 1: can still hoop. You're still working out every day. What's

452
00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:58,200
Speaker 1: the storybook ending for I the NBA player?

453
00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,200
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't I don't know, Like I would

454
00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:04,480
Speaker 3: love to play, Like I'm ready right now, let's go.

455
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:05,320
Speaker 2: I'm go.

456
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 3: So so like me, working out is just a way

457
00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:10,440
Speaker 3: of life for me, Like that's just what I do,

458
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 3: it's routine. If a team does call, yeah, I'm ready

459
00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 3: to go right now. So, like I'm not retired. I

460
00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:18,679
Speaker 3: would love to play, Like my goal was always to

461
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,400
Speaker 3: play fourteen years in the league, like as a kid,

462
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,840
Speaker 3: that was my ultimate goal. So like I'm chasing that

463
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,639
Speaker 3: for sure, but it's not the end if I don't,

464
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 3: Like I'm I'm not in a position where I'm tripping

465
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,159
Speaker 3: like that. But it's just like I know where I

466
00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 3: belong and I'm really not going to waste my family's

467
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 3: time if I'm not there. So like when people ask me,

468
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 3: why don't you go overseas, It's like, yeah, if they

469
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,560
Speaker 3: had ten day contracts and I could come back to

470
00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,760
Speaker 3: the crib every two weeks, I'm going I'm not about

471
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,439
Speaker 3: to be out there for six months. That's just not

472
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 3: where my mind's at. And there's no disrespect to those

473
00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:59,959
Speaker 3: guys overseas, because that is a high level of basketball

474
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 3: and it's all love and respect. But my motivation and

475
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 3: my goal is to play in the NBA. So even

476
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,199
Speaker 3: if I go over there and drop forty or thirty

477
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 3: and be killing, and I'm not saying I would, but

478
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 3: like if I did that at night, my motivation would

479
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 3: still be, Like, it's not motivating to do that over

480
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 3: there as a kid. It was motivating to do that

481
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,080
Speaker 3: here and in the NBA. And that's no disrespect. So

482
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:29,439
Speaker 3: if anybody wants to take.

483
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 2: It like that, that's why I don't play overseas. Like

484
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 2: I've had offers I would love, Like the environment looks amazing,

485
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:40,080
Speaker 2: like the basketball in me, I want to go there

486
00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:44,160
Speaker 2: tomorrow because that shit looks cracking. But like my kids

487
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 2: ain't trying to go. That's first and foremost.

488
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 3: I've been trying to beg them to just do one

489
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:51,600
Speaker 3: year over there, but they're in a point in time

490
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:53,320
Speaker 3: in their life where they got real friends.

491
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 2: They ain't trying to dip the cribs.

492
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 3: So it's like I've had my thirteen years of not

493
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 3: being there for ship for them, So it's like, is

494
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 3: it that important? The only important thing it was if

495
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:09,640
Speaker 3: I make it to the NBA, I'm dipping. I'm going,

496
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,959
Speaker 3: and my wife knows that, my kids know that. But

497
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:17,879
Speaker 3: if it's anything else, like the dollar, gotta make sense

498
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 3: for it to matter.

499
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:21,880
Speaker 2: And that's just you know, me being completely honest.

500
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 1: Well, Seattle might have a team soon.

501
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, we will have a team soon, and you're gonna

502
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,879
Speaker 3: be involved. Yeah, I'm gonna be in that front office

503
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 3: or something. I'm gonna be making decisions.

504
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be.

505
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,400
Speaker 1: Yourself in the front office. What are you gonna what's

506
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:37,679
Speaker 1: the first thing that you want to do?

507
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 2: The first thing I want to do?

508
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, what would you do? If you're in the front

509
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 1: office the summer?

510
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 3: Seeing myself first, then we're gonna figure out everything else.

511
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 3: Let me get let me get my flick back, let

512
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 3: me let me let me sign myself.

513
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:57,959
Speaker 1: First as a jersey collector that jersey.

514
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 3: I just need the jersey. I need my just for

515
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 3: the year, and then I'm done.

516
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:04,439
Speaker 2: For you.

517
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:09,120
Speaker 3: Jamal Crawford, Oh my god, all of us that would

518
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Speaker 3: be cracking.

519
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 2: But that's gonna happen though.

520
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,199
Speaker 3: We're gonna speak that into existence in terms of the

521
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,640
Speaker 3: signings coming back, all of us around that way, being

522
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 3: in the front office helping out, Like that's gonna happen.

523
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, I wanted to talk real quick before we

524
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,880
Speaker 1: get to fan questions and your guys' questions. Here we're

525
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 1: here at All Star weekend. I'm not gonna lie like,

526
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 1: We're not gonna sugarcoat anything here. All Star feels a

527
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,199
Speaker 1: little different, you guys first All Stars three? Like, how

528
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: does the what's the overall vibe you guys having fun?

529
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:43,119
Speaker 1: There is no vibe. That's a good answer. Two pm

530
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:47,640
Speaker 1: games on Saturday and Sunday. Superstars don't want to play,

531
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 1: you know, Like, so I t what what's your general

532
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:55,359
Speaker 1: opinion about All Star? And I guess you want to

533
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 1: be in the front office. You want to fix like

534
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:57,680
Speaker 1: what would be your three?

535
00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 2: I don't want to fix you.

536
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not. I'm just I don't know what

537
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 3: can fix you. Honestly, it's it's a lot for the player.

538
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna be I'm not gonna lie like it's

539
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 3: it's a lot. Obviously it is well deserved and too

540
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 3: much is given. You know much is expected, so you

541
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:19,200
Speaker 3: should be able to go out there and get give

542
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 3: it your all in front of the fans that pay

543
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 3: their hard earn money to be able to see you

544
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 3: guys play all on one court. But I mean, it's tough.

545
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 3: I don't know what can change it. Like obviously they

546
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 3: got a new format this year to where the world

547
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 3: versus the USA team, so hopefully that there's some pride

548
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 3: in that. But it's like, honestly, these guys are making

549
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 3: so much bread. The NBA is gonna have to up

550
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 3: the money for the game for guys that want to

551
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 3: play hard because at the end of the day, whether

552
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 3: guys say it or not, like guys have a lot

553
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 3: of pride and nobody's trying to get embarrassed. There's cameras

554
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 3: out there, and it sucks like to be able to

555
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 3: even describe it like that, But that's what I feel

556
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:01,719
Speaker 3: it is.

557
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 2: I'm not saying I got all the answers.

558
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 3: But like if when we were when I was in

559
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 3: the All Star Game, even before that, like if Kobe

560
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,360
Speaker 3: Bryant was in the All Star Game and he played hard.

561
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 2: Everybody would fall inline and play hard.

562
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 3: So like, I feel like if the best players, you know,

563
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 3: come to a conclusion and be like, let's play hard

564
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,639
Speaker 3: at this moment of the game, guys would strap up

565
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 3: and do it. But it's like it's a lot, man.

566
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 3: I don't know what can make it more interesting. I

567
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 3: don't know what can make it more competitive. It's in

568
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 3: a tough spot right now, especially how the games play

569
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,120
Speaker 3: and the younger the game is going. The young dudes

570
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 3: don't really want to rock in the All Star Game.

571
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: Like that, and that's that's crazy to me, Like.

572
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 3: The young dudes in general don't want to play basketball

573
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 3: all the time.

574
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: Well, okay, what do you mean by that?

575
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 3: So this is what I do in the show Universal

576
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 3: and I'm not and I'm not. I don't ever want

577
00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 3: to say nothing like I'm hated because I'm not like

578
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 3: I rock all the young dudes. The generation is just

579
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 3: different now in terms of the love of the game.

580
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying I wouldn't love it the same

581
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 3: if I made all that type of brand either, But

582
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,199
Speaker 3: there was a certain love for the game when I

583
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 3: was coming up, when guys before me was coming up

584
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 3: to where you really you're not ducking no fade, no

585
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 3: matter where's that. You're going to play at the park,

586
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 3: You're going to play at the local gym, You're going

587
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 3: to play where all the dope NBA players are playing.

588
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 3: You're going to Rico Hines runs at UCLA and not

589
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 3: worrying about all the cameras being on you and being embarrassed. Yes,

590
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 3: that's still happening. But for the most part, the younger

591
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 3: guys don't play basketball all the time, Like when they're chilling,

592
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 3: they got other shit that they're doing, which is dope,

593
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 3: But it's different from when I was coming up, Like

594
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 3: you really was only playing basketball, or you was you

595
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 3: was doing something around the game of basketball, playing two

596
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 3: K going out and playing basketball, watching basketball, me being

597
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 3: around kids now, especially like high school kids, they're not

598
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 3: watching the game. They don't want to play, no extra

599
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 3: who they don't want to be at the gym all day,

600
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 3: just because there's so much other shit going on, which

601
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 3: is dope because life obviously expands, but like that's a

602
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:18,959
Speaker 3: big reason.

603
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 2: You're making so much bread.

604
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 3: You're going back to the crib, you you streaming, you playing,

605
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 3: you doing so much other things that wasn't there when

606
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 3: we was coming up. So I don't fault them. It's

607
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 3: just a love for the game is just a little different.

608
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 1: Now, do you think like when ba Yama said he's

609
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: gonna play hard Wenby, Oh yeah, yeah, he's not.

610
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 3: He's not from here, so he's built different. He's definitely

611
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 3: playing hard and he's not tripping. That's why he said, like,

612
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 3: I hope the other star players play it to the

613
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 3: level I'm gonna play. He's like locked in on some

614
00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 3: Kobe shit. Everybody's not with the Kobe mindset. That's wild

615
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 3: in terms of like the younger players because it's too hard.

616
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 3: It's too hard to wake up every day and be

617
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:07,960
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619
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620
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,160
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621
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,440
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622
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 3: to each his own. And that's not the fault the

623
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:21,320
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Speaker 2: It's like.

625
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 3: If I didn't have to be like that every day,

626
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 3: I probably wouldn't. Yeah, you feel me, like if you

627
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628
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656
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: so here's an event I think, and it's been brought

657
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: up a bunch that I think could fix. All Star

658
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: weekend one on one tournament. So if players prime players

659
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: in their prime superstars took it. Seriously, who do you

660
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: think is winning that tournament? Kevin Durant still right now?

661
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, right now. It don't matter which NBA player is

662
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 3: in there. If Kevin Duranson there, he's winning you if

663
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 3: Winby wanted to do it. But those are the two

664
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 3: that nobody's beaten, no matter who it is. But what

665
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 3: about like a smaller guard like yourself. Yeah, nobody's win

666
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 3: me though.

667
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 2: Now that's one thing I do. One on one? Shit,

668
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 2: I do that.

669
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 3: He gags anybody any team I've been on after practice,

670
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 3: come over and get this as if you want.

671
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're playing ones every after every practice.

672
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: What do you have any legendary one on one.

673
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 2: Ask my teammates about the legendary one on ones.

674
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 3: Don't ask me. They know I'm not losing that. Who

675
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 3: is the number one person or your favorite? Uh, teammates

676
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 3: that you can name them, all of them, Jalen Brown's one,

677
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 3: and that's my name.

678
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 2: It didn't matter who was over there.

679
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 3: And you get only three dribbles and I'm already at

680
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 3: a disadvantage because I'm Hella small.

681
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, I'm serving them. That's something I really do.

682
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 1: Wow. Well that's funny.

683
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 3: But the one on one ship if they did do

684
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 3: that though, huh, you already know I'm just keeping it real.

685
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 2: They know, you know, like, yeah, this ain't this is

686
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 2: just facts. But the one on one thing.

687
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 3: If they did do it, the money would just have

688
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 3: to be like because guys ain't about to get embarrassed

689
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 3: for free.

690
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: Well that's what I'm saying. We don't need any of

691
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: this other stuff.

692
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 3: Just four PM is just gonna have to put some

693
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 3: bread up or like a one one. That's the difference now,

694
00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 3: like guys are only playing for money.

695
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: Well it's not really the n season tournament.

696
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 3: Yeah they should do a one on one though, Yeah,

697
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 3: they should do that would be that would be so

698
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 3: dope because then if you get one superstar in it,

699
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 3: another superstar do it.

700
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all it takes.

701
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 1: That was actually one of the fan questions. We'll go

702
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: through a couple of these real quick, because there is

703
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,359
Speaker 1: a one on one scene. I don't know if you've

704
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: seen that on YouTube. There's like Beasley Lance and then

705
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: a bunch of YouTubers. Is that something that you've ever considered?

706
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 3: No, I haven't, but they've been tapping in. They've been

707
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:32,760
Speaker 3: trying to get people.

708
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 2: To do it.

709
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 3: But like, I got respect for all them dudes, Like

710
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 3: one on one is a different One of one is

711
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,399
Speaker 3: a different type of game. And then to see those

712
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 3: guys get the love that they get right now, Like

713
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 3: they really are making a good amount of money to

714
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 3: play one on one across the country and people are

715
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 3: tapping in. So that's really like another outlet for the

716
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 3: game of basketball that hasn't been talked about. So all

717
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,439
Speaker 3: them dudes really hustling out there and playing one on one,

718
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 3: and you know, all the guys are tapping in, Like

719
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 3: all the NBA guys are really watching those things for sure.

720
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's your number one strategy in one on one?

721
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 3: Dang I'm not going to give out my strategy, fam Nah.

722
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,720
Speaker 3: One on one is just like if you could score,

723
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 3: you're you got a good chancey, I'm and I'm you know,

724
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 3: I'm solid at scoring the basketball, so I got a

725
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 3: good chance against anybody. And then, like they always talk

726
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,399
Speaker 3: about the height thing, it's like, I've really been Hella

727
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 3: small my whole life. So it's not like I woke

728
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 3: up one day and I was shorter than everybody. I

729
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 3: just figured out how to score over bigger guys since

730
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:41,240
Speaker 3: I was even smaller. So it's like it's no different

731
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 3: no matter who it is. I think one on one

732
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 3: is a good scene. Hopefully the NBA, the NBA will

733
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 3: catch on. Let's put that in the air. NBA is

734
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 3: going to do anything the culture. The culture loves, and

735
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 3: that's what's dope about the NBA because it's a players league,

736
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 3: and I bet in a few years they'll have something

737
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 3: like that.

738
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: And your technique. It actually reminded one of the my

739
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 1: favorite things you said on the show before I asked you, uh,

740
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: what what was your mindset when you play defense? And

741
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: you said score more points than them on offense.

742
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but.

743
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: That's just you know, you know your game.

744
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:19,399
Speaker 3: So yeah, the if you score more, you win. I'm

745
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 3: gonna teach you're not gonna stop me that many times

746
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 3: are my team.

747
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 1: Okay, let's let's go in a couple of these fan questions.

748
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 1: We want to open up to you guys before we

749
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: get out here. There's a lot of a lot of

750
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: kids who are undersized. They they're you're their number one player.

751
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: So they they were asking the comments, what is the

752
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: most important factor in getting drafted as a D one guard?

753
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 3: The most important factor, I think man being small. It

754
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 3: is tough because the game is going away from small guards,

755
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 3: like you could see it.

756
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 2: You know, each and.

757
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 3: Every year the game is getting bigger, is getting taller,

758
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 3: and they're pushing the smaller guards out. But my advice

759
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,839
Speaker 3: for any small guard out there would just be like,

760
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 3: you got to be special at something. Whether it's your

761
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 3: defense is amazing where you can impact and change a

762
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 3: game defensively, whether your offense is top tier on a

763
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 3: high level of scoring or making plays or getting in

764
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 3: the paint, you have.

765
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 2: To have some type of superpower to.

766
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,359
Speaker 3: Even make it, not let alone Division one, but even

767
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 3: make it to the pros. So, like what I tell

768
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,360
Speaker 3: kids all the time, Like, whatever your strength is, you

769
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 3: got to bring that every day and it got to

770
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 3: be the best every day. Every time you get an opportunity,

771
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 3: it got to be the best. And that's damn near

772
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:43,720
Speaker 3: not realistic to be the best every day. But if

773
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 3: you're small and you want to be able to make

774
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 3: it in basketball, that's what has to happen every time

775
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:55,320
Speaker 3: you get an opportunity. So you're already, you know, behind

776
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 3: the eight ball starting because you're small. So you got

777
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,240
Speaker 3: to bring something that somebody doesn't bring on that team,

778
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 3: and they gotta happen every day every time you're seeing

779
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 3: it has to show up. And that's just to give

780
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 3: yourself a chance. And then you got to have a

781
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 3: lot of luck in that shit, because it's damn near

782
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,720
Speaker 3: impossible to make it when you're small because they don't

783
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 3: they're not giving you a fair shake. They're not giving

784
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 3: you the opportunity a six foot one guy would get.

785
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 3: And it sucks, but that's the reality of the game.

786
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 3: But it's not impossible. So that's why I'm here, and

787
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 3: that's why I'm always here to help the younger guys

788
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 3: and the smaller guys out there. They gotta dream, they

789
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 3: gotta inspiration to make it because it's not impossible. It's

790
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 3: gonna be hardest, but it's not impossible, and you can

791
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:43,919
Speaker 3: do it. But you're gonna have to have a lot

792
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 3: of faith, a lot of confidence, believe when nobody believes.

793
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 3: You're gonna have to believe every day you're gonna have

794
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 3: to wake up and it's gonna have to be You're

795
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 3: gonna have to be damn near delusional to even come

796
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 3: close to making it because that's how hard it is.

797
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 3: If you're fine with that, then that's half the battle.

798
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 3: Then you're fine with how hard the journey's going to be,

799
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 3: and then you just got to continue to keep getting better.

800
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 3: But it's tough because you're against all odds literally in

801
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:15,399
Speaker 3: every way. But if you break through, shit, you could

802
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 3: change the game forever. So I mean, you did it.

803
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: And actually one of the questions was what changed between

804
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 1: Phoenix in Boston that launched you to that next level,

805
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: because that was that was a big lead.

806
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a big leap to you.

807
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was really the opportunity, I promise you, because

808
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 3: I always dreamed of those moments, always dreamed of having

809
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,800
Speaker 3: the opportunity of being the man on the NBA team,

810
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 3: So like when those moments came, I was ready for

811
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 3: him because I already, like I already visualized it as

812
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 3: a kid, I already visualized it every day that I

813
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 3: was in the gym. I visualized just being having that

814
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 3: opportunity of being that guy, being what Alan Iverson was,

815
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 3: as being what Kobe Bryant was, Like those were my

816
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 3: favorite players. Ever, so when that opportunity came, I took

817
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 3: it and ran with it, like I really, like anything

818
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,760
Speaker 3: that happened in my career, I've seen it before it happened,

819
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 3: and it was hella weird because if you ever look

820
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 3: at any of my highlights or any of like big

821
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 3: moments in my career, when it happened, I showed no emotion, bro,

822
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 3: because I'm thinking in my head, I'm like, this is crazy.

823
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:29,479
Speaker 2: I already seen this shit.

824
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 3: And I was really thinking that because like when I

825
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 3: grew up, I everything was around the game of basketball.

826
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 3: Every moment, every memory, everything that I did, it was

827
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 3: about the game. So when I made it to that level,

828
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 3: I already knew what was about to happen because it

829
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 3: happened so many times in my dreams in my life,

830
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 3: and it just happened to get the opportunity in real life.

831
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 3: I did it so many times in the video game

832
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 3: to where like when it happened in real life, I

833
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 3: was prepared because I obviously prepared myself and worked hard

834
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,359
Speaker 3: for it. But when those moments came, I was just

835
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 3: like finally in my head because I already know what

836
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 3: to do with those moments, and I took advantage of them,

837
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 3: and it was like the coolest thing ever because I

838
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 3: really was able to do everything I dreamed of. And

839
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 3: you know, a lot of people don't get to say

840
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 3: those things.

841
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 2: So like.

842
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 3: Anytime that I'm around the game of basketball, it puts

843
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 3: a smile on my face because that's what it did

844
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 3: when I was a little kid, and I still have

845
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 3: those feelings. So those moments were everything. So the difference

846
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 3: between Phoenix was Boston was just the opportunity because I

847
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 3: already seen what I was going to take it to

848
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 3: and I was just able to do it and the

849
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 3: world was able to see that.

850
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:41,280
Speaker 2: So yeah, well.

851
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: Said, all right, well, we appreciate you guys coming out,

852
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: so we do want to give you an opportunity if

853
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: you have any questions for it, Let's try to do this. Yeah,

854
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: how about y'a how to answer all of it? Yeah,

855
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 1: start with you.

856
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:58,359
Speaker 2: They do game.

857
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 5: If you're building in today's NBA, who would you have

858
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 5: When I.

859
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 3: Started Today's NBA. I'm gonna be the sixth man, though

860
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,919
Speaker 3: I ain't gonna put me in, so I come off

861
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 3: the bench, be a spark off the bench. But Today's NBA, Dang,

862
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 3: that's tough. I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with

863
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:24,760
Speaker 3: Joker at the center.

864
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 2: Man, that's hard.

865
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Joker at the center, Windby at

866
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 3: the four, Damn kd at the three, Anthony Edwards at

867
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 3: the two, Steph Curry at the one. So that's how

868
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 3: I come off the bench to that for Shure, And

869
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 3: I'm always like I could have went with so many

870
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 3: other guys. Obviously there's so many other talented guys, but

871
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 3: those are like that would be a tough matchup against.

872
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 3: Especially you even have a Joker at the one at

873
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 3: that on that tap and that's what's crazy, Like they

874
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 3: all can play to one.

875
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 2: So that was a good question. Yeah, right right behind them. Yeah,

876
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 2: we're from the same neighborhood.

877
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 1: This is my homegirl with the jersey.

878
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:23,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, shout out to the Seahawks family.

879
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 6: Timmy Foster, and as I said I mentioned we from

880
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 6: the same community.

881
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 5: I want, first of all, thank you for.

882
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 6: Being not just our hometown hero, but somebody that we

883
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 6: can look up to around the world.

884
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 7: And there's three things that you do.

885
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 5: For our city that stand out to me. One ten years.

886
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 7: A second, you know, ensuring and sharing yourself and your

887
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 7: family with your community three week, three day weekend a

888
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:06,919
Speaker 7: couple thousand people decade long that gay strong number two

889
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 7: showing up for every sport event back home from the

890
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 7: w NBA Seattle.

891
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, shout out to the storm.

892
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 4: You know, Seattle.

893
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 6: I mean, you just show up to every sports game

894
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 6: in our.

895
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 5: Community and it stands out because not every player does that.

896
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 6: And Then three, it's personal for me you and your

897
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,880
Speaker 6: team really wrapping your love around the youth, including my

898
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 6: son Hollywood when he was young and man, you just

899
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 6: opened up the platform, gaining your number.

900
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,719
Speaker 5: And just really as a you know, show our youth

901
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 5: that you're accessible. So my question to you is why.

902
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 6: Like, why has it been so important for you to

903
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:52,320
Speaker 6: make yourself and your family from your kids, your wife,

904
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:54,240
Speaker 6: your late sister pops.

905
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:56,880
Speaker 5: Why has it been important.

906
00:44:56,440 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 7: For you to share yourself and be accessible to us

907
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 7: in the community.

908
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 5: You are fairly asessive.

909
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

910
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 3: First off, Look, look she since day one that I

911
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 3: met her, when I was younger, she's always been like that.

912
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 3: She's always showed me my love and appreciation, and not

913
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,800
Speaker 3: only myself, like she's done that to anybody in the city.

914
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,359
Speaker 3: And you know, I'm super thankful for you and your

915
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:27,919
Speaker 3: family as well. But to answer your question, I mean,

916
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 3: from early on, I just wanted to I wanted to

917
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:35,720
Speaker 3: be bigger than basketball, Like I wanted to be able

918
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 3: to reach people bigger than the game has ever, you know,

919
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 3: brought to me. I was always taught to, you know,

920
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 3: get back to any community I was a part of.

921
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 3: You know, where we're from, we didn't really have no

922
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 3: professional athlete come back to the community. It was a

923
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 3: basketball player in Tacoma, Washington before I made it. So, like,

924
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 3: my biggest thing was I, like you said, I want

925
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 3: to be accessible. I want to be able to.

926
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 2: Be in the community.

927
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 3: I want a kid from the inner city to be

928
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 3: able to see me not only driving a fat ass

929
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 3: whip in the hood, but to get out and really

930
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 3: chop it up with them and go hoop with them

931
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,839
Speaker 3: and go to the YMCA and play with I still

932
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 3: show up to the YMCA today and I'm going to

933
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 3: hoop with regular kids or regular people, And it's like

934
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,400
Speaker 3: that's how I was raised, and my community raised me

935
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:35,879
Speaker 3: to be just be accessible to anybody, like I'm able

936
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:39,480
Speaker 3: to treat somebody that can't do shit for me the

937
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:42,360
Speaker 3: same respect that I treat, you know, a front office

938
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 3: GM where I'm trying to get a job, because I

939
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 3: think that means more than me putting the ball in

940
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 3: the basket. So when I understood my impact and my

941
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 3: inspiration in the world, I wanted to dig my my

942
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 3: I wanted to make a bigger footprint that I can

943
00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:01,319
Speaker 3: leave behind for anybody that I ever touched without them

944
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 3: knowing I was a basketball player. Obviously the basketball player

945
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,800
Speaker 3: was like a cherry on top, But once I was

946
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 3: able to see that people really follow what I was doing,

947
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 3: I wanted to just be because I know if there

948
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 3: was somebody in the neighborhood that came to me and

949
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 3: was a basketball player and dab me up, that would

950
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 3: have made my dream that much more real. And when

951
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 3: I was able to do that to Jamal Crawford and

952
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 3: Jason Terry and those older guys and be around them

953
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 3: every day and see how they treated people each and

954
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 3: every day with the most respect ever, See how they

955
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 3: went to see how they worked on their craft each

956
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 3: and every day to become a professional. I wanted to

957
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 3: be just like them. So who I am is obviously

958
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,359
Speaker 3: my parents first and foremost. But who I am got

959
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:48,320
Speaker 3: a big thing to do with Jamal Crawford, Jason Terry,

960
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 3: those guys that I looked up to, and everything that

961
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:55,240
Speaker 3: they did and the imprint that they left on real people.

962
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 3: So like when people come up to me, I'd be

963
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:00,040
Speaker 3: in any country and somebody come up to me and

964
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:03,760
Speaker 3: say my story inspires them. That shit trips me out.

965
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 3: So it's my duty to dap him up with real

966
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 3: love and be like, man, I appreciate that because I've

967
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:15,720
Speaker 3: been around athletes that they take that shit for granted.

968
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:17,919
Speaker 3: And you know, I'll be getting emotional when I talk,

969
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 3: and I just don't take it for granted the impact

970
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 3: I can leave on someone else's life. And I know

971
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:29,879
Speaker 3: one thing that we all go through is some type

972
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 3: of adversity or some type of grief. And I know

973
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:35,439
Speaker 3: if I could just you know, put a small line

974
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,879
Speaker 3: the next dude's face with just showing them the love

975
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 3: that they didn't think I can give them.

976
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 2: You know, I've done my job. So to answer.

977
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 3: Your question, I just feel like this is the right

978
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,319
Speaker 3: way to be at all times, no matter who you are.

979
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 3: And I think that's why people gravitate to who I

980
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 3: am as a person, not only as a basketball player,

981
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 3: because I really care for people and I really treat

982
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 3: people like they should be treated no matter who I

983
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 3: am or no matter what I've done, you know, outside

984
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 3: of being a real person.

985
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 2: I think that's the most important. It's dope.

986
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: Well said. Well guys, again, we really appreciate you guys

987
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: checking out the podcast and coming out tonight. Let's give

988
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: it up for Isaiah Thomas.

989
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:26,319
Speaker 2: All thank you, thank you, thank you.

990
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 3: Hey, I gotta give but yeah, obviously a big shout

991
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 3: out to you like you've been You've been helpful in

992
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 3: in this transition of just you know, trying this. This

993
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 3: is new for me, so I always got to give

994
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 3: you a shout out and give you your flowers and

995
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 3: you know, the whole follow through team, Like it's been

996
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,839
Speaker 3: a easy. It's been easy each and every week being

997
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 3: able to record and being able to do the podcast,

998
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 3: which it wasn't ever on my radar. So I appreciate you.

999
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:02,359
Speaker 3: I appreciate everybody that's been out here, like this is dope.

1000
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 2: Like I didn't think we would do an.

1001
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 3: Event and then everybody would show up just to hear

1002
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 3: hear me talk about some little stories. But like I

1003
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 3: really like, from the bottom of my heart, like everybody

1004
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 3: that's in here, I always appreciate the love and support,

1005
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 3: whether it be you know by social media, whether it

1006
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:26,359
Speaker 3: be you DM and me just showing me the love

1007
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 3: that you guys show me. Even being here like that

1008
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 3: shit means the world to me. So like this is

1009
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:35,279
Speaker 3: my thanks to you guys for being here. I'm not

1010
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:38,719
Speaker 3: no little cliche little athlete either, so I'm not just

1011
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 3: saying that. It truly means a lot for me to

1012
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:46,480
Speaker 3: come here and see the support no matter where I'm

1013
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 3: at in the world, Like y'all really show it for

1014
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:52,800
Speaker 3: me each and every time, and that's like super thankful.

1015
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 2: I'm super grateful, And all these moments.

1016
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 3: Are just like like play back in my head each

1017
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 3: and every day and I never forget it.

1018
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 6: Song.

1019
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 2: Thank you guys for it all.

1020
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 1: Thank you every man