Speaker 1: Drafted as a production of tree Ford Media, Clutch Sports
Speaker 1: Group and I Heart Radio, Love La. What do you
Speaker 1: do you know? On our way to the Beverly Senator
Speaker 1: last night in l A last night and then they
Speaker 1: gotta gone with peg actually last night in l A.
Speaker 1: On the ways in Bellston, they gotta find a new
Speaker 1: pair of shoes. Welcome back to Drafted. I'm kicking Michael Key.
Speaker 1: On the last episode, we heard the story behind what
Speaker 1: drives Anthony Edwards in his pursuit towards greatness. Today we're
Speaker 1: on another very different pursuit. Tyrese, Maxie and his uncle
Speaker 1: Brandon are trying to find the perfect pair of draft
Speaker 1: day shoes. Good. How are you? Yeah, Yes, I'm truly good. Cool, cool,
Speaker 1: sanitize where you go. We're gonna part of you guys
Speaker 1: up in just to second pistad. It give us just
Speaker 1: a few minutes and then someone's cann step up. We
Speaker 1: have a rotating system in our storey. If you haven't
Speaker 1: been here in a loud yeah, yeah, solid. You guys
Speaker 1: have anything specifically looking for, I can checker in joy
Speaker 1: level if you want, Nah, not not check Yeah. Trying
Speaker 1: to complain an outfit. It's their last day in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles after eight months in the city, and for most draftees,
Speaker 1: fighting the right footwear might seem like a minor detail
Speaker 1: for a virtual draft at home, especially when there's no
Speaker 1: stage to walk across. In fact, the draft cameras might
Speaker 1: not even capture most players shoes. It had to be real, real, plain.
Speaker 1: You gotta be so none of these popped, none of
Speaker 1: these pop. This don't pop. Tyrese is obsessing over the
Speaker 1: perfect shoes because no fine point it's too small or unimportant.
Speaker 1: For him. He's been focusing on this level of detail
Speaker 1: ever since breaking down his own film as an eight
Speaker 1: year old. That's part of what propels him to greatness.
Speaker 1: He's still chasing the high expectations he and his family
Speaker 1: set all those years ago, So even his shoes on
Speaker 1: draft night can't be brushed aside. It's too much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's too much for the suit. That's too plain. Nah,
Speaker 1: it's not not that, ain't it. This first stop is
Speaker 1: a Gucci store where they struggled to find the perfect shoe.
Speaker 1: You see. That would be too much. This would be
Speaker 1: too much. Yeah, it's too much going on. That would
Speaker 1: be good because it's antique finished it's good with a coloration.
Speaker 1: It's good. Nah, it could be an option. NA, thank you. Frustrated,
Speaker 1: Tires calls his agent, Rich Paul for advice. YEO, hold up,
Speaker 1: because I'm looking for a shoe you think I should get? Uh?
Speaker 1: We looked at a product tennis shoe now as hard
Speaker 1: or a loafer. What do you think? You know what
Speaker 1: I would go with? That? Silk? Don't really get you
Speaker 1: want to you can do, you can get if you
Speaker 1: go to this route, you can get both. Go back
Speaker 1: to Ralph Lauren. They have a double punt black, double punks,
Speaker 1: double month double telling you want to found a double
Speaker 1: month up leather shoot and then gold call you speaks
Speaker 1: sla and they have a plastic. Tires and Rich have
Speaker 1: an uncommonly close relationship for an agent and client, and
Speaker 1: this kind of conversation is normal for that. So Tyres
Speaker 1: and Brandon take the shoe advice and head to St.
Speaker 1: Laurent in search of Rich's suggestion. Right, what's one I'm
Speaker 1: going in? Yes, sir, Yes, sir, that's it. That's it.
Speaker 1: That right there, that's what I did it right there.
Speaker 1: That's how you know when you found it when you walk,
Speaker 1: when we both walk inside. That's it. They're gonna be like, man,
Speaker 1: who'll be who'll be stalling? Oh yeah, my uncle, you
Speaker 1: want to be on league seats every week. To Rees's
Speaker 1: time in Los Angeles has been a training ground on
Speaker 1: and off the court, where he's learned how to live
Speaker 1: and work like a professional athlete. For him, that means
Speaker 1: showing up early to work every morning and completing three
Speaker 1: workouts before lunch. It also means learning how to navigate
Speaker 1: life in a big city as a celebrity, including fighting
Speaker 1: the perfect suit and shoes. I think the attention to
Speaker 1: detail is for reasons. It's sceptional. This is Tyresis trainer
Speaker 1: Chris Johnson, who, like Justin Holland with Anthony Edwards, plays
Speaker 1: the role of mentor, counselor, and friend in addition to
Speaker 1: basketball guru. Not all young players have it, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you this, not all old players have it either.
Speaker 1: And that's the difference. When people say, well, well, why
Speaker 1: is that guy better than they got? They both sixty eleven,
Speaker 1: they both two d sixty pounds, they both got a
Speaker 1: four days vertical. Those are the people that dominate the
Speaker 1: game because they're playing chess as a rookie coming in
Speaker 1: the first thing you have to navigate. It's the veteran players.
Speaker 1: Not the veteran players are trying to be the best
Speaker 1: they could be. The veteran players that are kind of
Speaker 1: in the coast mode and they see that you're on
Speaker 1: the heels, but they can kind of be like, Yo,
Speaker 1: we're not going hard today. Yo, why are you going
Speaker 1: so hard? In their drill? So down? And so I
Speaker 1: wanted him to know right away you are a professional.
Speaker 1: So your jobs just set the tone with the way
Speaker 1: you want to be every day. You don't change how
Speaker 1: you're gonna be. You make them adjust to you. So
Speaker 1: when they see you coming, they're gonna know if I'm
Speaker 1: not on my ship, he's gonna embass me in practice,
Speaker 1: because practice is the way you play the game. And
Speaker 1: so I taught him like a bunch of the the
Speaker 1: O G tricks and I was like, this is what
Speaker 1: a rookie will go through, and this is like, you know, fun,
Speaker 1: like you gotta carry and got bags and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: People don't see that. But let's talk about some things
Speaker 1: that people don't talk about. Let's talk about the manipulation,
Speaker 1: because you're actually are attempting to take their job. So
Speaker 1: perspective is very important, and so that's what we talked about.
Speaker 1: It's easy to forget that NBA rookies are not only
Speaker 1: competing for playing time and games. They're competing every minute
Speaker 1: of practice for one of four hundred and fifty jobs,
Speaker 1: and they're shooting, passing, and defense. Those are only part
Speaker 1: of what a professional lead master. Here's Tyrese again talking
Speaker 1: about some of those off the court demands. Being in
Speaker 1: l A you never know who you're gonna step on
Speaker 1: the quote with, who you're gonna be working out with,
Speaker 1: or you're gonna be playing against. But as soon as
Speaker 1: I step on the court with these guys that are
Speaker 1: in the NBA or in whatever position they are, I
Speaker 1: feel perfectly fine. I feel like this is where I belong.
Speaker 1: So when I'm on the court, I feel like at
Speaker 1: home there's I feel like there's nothing wrong or out
Speaker 1: of place there. Now being in in a different lifestyle
Speaker 1: to where you have to do different things like I
Speaker 1: have to do interviews, I have to do you know,
Speaker 1: certain media stuff. I have to look at, contracts, have
Speaker 1: to stuff different stuff like that. You know that that's
Speaker 1: where you start getting to like like WHOA like Okay,
Speaker 1: you know this is different, not saying like I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been working for this, this is why I wanted
Speaker 1: to be in my whole life. But it's still different.
Speaker 1: Chris Johnson tells the story about the moment he saw
Speaker 1: things click for Tyrese during a one on one game
Speaker 1: with another pro man. I'm gonna tell you a story
Speaker 1: about Rundo and Tyrese. He's talking about Roger on Roundo,
Speaker 1: another former University of Kentucky star, has become a fifteen
Speaker 1: year NBA VET with two championships and multiple All Star
Speaker 1: Games under his belt. Manname was compete so hard man.
Speaker 1: Rundo and him got into it. Tyree's said, man, check ball.
Speaker 1: Rundo wouldn't play run us and now I didn't get
Speaker 1: the file. So Rundo been a vet. Rundo wasn't affected
Speaker 1: by any of it. But Rundo was pushing his mentor
Speaker 1: think about it like it's just them every day. So
Speaker 1: then Rundo was like, Chris, I'm done. Game over. I'm
Speaker 1: a VET. I get that foul. I was trying to
Speaker 1: teach her Rees say this is how it goes. Here
Speaker 1: we go. But you know, Rundo is a great mind.
Speaker 1: Player of the game. And he's one of the better
Speaker 1: point guards than ever played the game. So Rundo's teaching
Speaker 1: him all these tricks and he hes getting into his
Speaker 1: brain and and then all of a sudden, you see
Speaker 1: tires go from this side, and he started playing the game.
Speaker 1: See that is development, and he understood it. He didn't
Speaker 1: get it at first. And he you know, Rundell bolling him,
Speaker 1: hit him in his side, stepping on his shoes. This
Speaker 1: true story. Nothing going. Who was winning and losing? That
Speaker 1: that ain't important. It was lessons that were being taught.
Speaker 1: Tyree spent the last eight months learning these lessons, and
Speaker 1: he's improved his shot, his physique, and his game. He's
Speaker 1: learned how to move and operate off the court. He's
Speaker 1: practiced scenarios that might never occur and found shoes that
Speaker 1: might never get seen. He's covered every detail and prepared
Speaker 1: for every scenario. There's no doubt he's ready to go.
Speaker 1: As soon as Brandon packs up his hotel room, that is,
Speaker 1: we'll be right back. It's true to get out of here.
Speaker 1: It's been a long journey to enjoy the process, but
Speaker 1: it is time to l a start. The new journey
Speaker 1: man like literally packing up and I'm out. They're checking
Speaker 1: out and heading to l a X Airport for their
Speaker 1: flight back to Texas, but first they need to make
Speaker 1: one last stop before leaving town. B there is Hey,
Speaker 1: just see my dog go man m lonts of a
Speaker 1: hard grind, get the head of a job though, Man,
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you. Appreciate, appreciate. That's Rich Paul at
Speaker 1: his house in Beverly Hills with Clutch agent Mark Murray,
Speaker 1: both waiting to say goodbye. A lot of guys can't
Speaker 1: can't stomach that like that, especially the way you handled
Speaker 1: it flawless, which I'm a hard critic. I don't have
Speaker 1: much of I'm the hardest critic. I don't really have
Speaker 1: much of critique. How your body feel over with all
Speaker 1: of them? So good? Good? You know for rehab, you know,
Speaker 1: get recovery every single day lifting. You're gonna fall in
Speaker 1: love with that part. See, that's what guys understand too,
Speaker 1: coming in as rookies, that recovery aspect of it. Now,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna go with you, You're not gonna go
Speaker 1: without it. If you can't get that in Garland, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be like, man, I'm getting the hell out of here,
Speaker 1: because I'm telling you, once you come in like that,
Speaker 1: you're getting your body taken care of. You won't ever
Speaker 1: go backwards. It's gonna be good. Bro. I can't ain't.
Speaker 1: I'm sing, it ain't the same. I can't. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm still doing everything, working out and getting my shots,
Speaker 1: are doing all that, But I ain't. But you need
Speaker 1: your process. Yeah, I agree, But that's part of being
Speaker 1: a pro, you know. That's that's part of being a pro.
Speaker 1: So now your trainers whatever whatever team, you go to
Speaker 1: your training stack and be looking at you like, damn,
Speaker 1: young fellow, like what you're doing. Man. I fell in
Speaker 1: love with it a day long. Few rookies worry about
Speaker 1: rehab and recovery because when you're twenty years old, like Tyrese,
Speaker 1: injuries are less common and sore muscles heal fast. But
Speaker 1: that's a false sense of security For young players. The
Speaker 1: competition in the NBA is significantly bigger, faster, and stronger
Speaker 1: than any they faced before. Pros play four times as
Speaker 1: many games as college players, and the traveling demands are
Speaker 1: grueling throughout the season. All this leads to younger players
Speaker 1: regularly hitting a wall in their rookie year where they
Speaker 1: physically begin to wear out. But thanks to his extra
Speaker 1: time in l A this offseason, Tyrese is already one
Speaker 1: step ahead. All right, makes sure you are those mass
Speaker 1: out there or we gotta keep you safe for a
Speaker 1: couple of day. Double it up. You got some sanitizing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about all right, my dog, I talked to
Speaker 1: a show. Okay, be thank you too. Man Rich and
Speaker 1: Mark watched them drive away. They don't come like that often. No, no,
Speaker 1: they don't come like that. You really had to drag
Speaker 1: him out of the gym today, like he was like
Speaker 1: sad leaving Chris Sports Rehab, crazy parties, all of them
Speaker 1: are sad. They said, he's leaving from like not just
Speaker 1: like the people working from like assistance, the interns, the rebounders,
Speaker 1: like they all because he's just such a good kid,
Speaker 1: like you don't. And that's what I'm telling these teams,
Speaker 1: y'all don't understand. This kid is a superstar person paying
Speaker 1: him millions and dollars not gonna matter. He is a
Speaker 1: super for star person. And when you got that, times
Speaker 1: is work ethic times and skill set times is man,
Speaker 1: It's dangerous, bro, that is what it means to be
Speaker 1: a professional, and people around the league are already starting
Speaker 1: to notice. Here again, it's Chris Johnson talking about a
Speaker 1: moment in Los Angeles this summer. I remember we're played
Speaker 1: two on two and Katie was here, k d Is Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: that superstar Kevin Durant. We were trying to figure out
Speaker 1: the two on two teams, and you know, Katie first
Speaker 1: pick Tyrese because if we ain't gonna name all the players, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a number of NBA players's I want Tyrese.
Speaker 1: Him and Tyres killed the gym. They destroyed at the gym.
Speaker 1: I mean, Kevin was kicking it moving and Tyrese burning
Speaker 1: the gym down right there to Kevin. That's why I thought.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, Brooklyn may try to get him,
Speaker 1: because Kevin knows how good he is. He's seen him.
Speaker 1: So now, with only two days to go, Tyrese just
Speaker 1: wants to get back to Garland, Texas and find out
Speaker 1: where he'll be playing and living. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: You won't say call her, You just being all ye earlier.
Speaker 1: That's Terse's mom, Denise Maxie. Oh god box in a
Speaker 1: sand e p a draft box. But I did hoping open.
Speaker 1: They won't. No, I'm gonna take me. Who are John's
Speaker 1: showing U some mew yeah I did the mask pad
Speaker 1: s door was so exciting. You think you delivered the supermom.
Speaker 1: This was the lier. Moe's so exciting these guys and
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah. So I guess got your
Speaker 1: hands honestly, Yeah, the hats and I don't know, little
Speaker 1: I don't got the hats in there. I want to
Speaker 1: what that leather box for that every season there is
Speaker 1: a green box. There's what he made the name name
Speaker 1: was sitting us watching game and there's the green box.
Speaker 1: Draft was supposed to take place in the Barclay Center
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, and normally Tyrese and his family would be
Speaker 1: at the arena in the green room with all the
Speaker 1: hats and swag waiting for them. This year, the league
Speaker 1: shipped a version of the green room in a giant
Speaker 1: green box two players houses instead. The box contains hats
Speaker 1: of every team in the league, so he can put
Speaker 1: on the logo for whichever franchise picks him in the moment.
Speaker 1: M hey me and Brott, just time aboutible, it's here,
Speaker 1: ain't no, but I don't run if I'm not like,
Speaker 1: this's the real thing, because you just want to say
Speaker 1: an you get you say h m hm. So I'm
Speaker 1: only even here gonna know you hibly don't get it.
Speaker 1: You get handy home. My conscious so heavy. I don't
Speaker 1: know what happened. Ye, he's a whole hundred Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're about to come up any minute. Ye, I'm gonnaquite
Speaker 1: when we get to the game. So all right, I
Speaker 1: wanted to they said, and say everybody that's in first
Speaker 1: and second round. I think they s draft bots everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because everybody even you know what I'm saying. But the
Speaker 1: name is so what they what you're doing? The heads
Speaker 1: keep keep No, I ain't keeping more. I'm tee you
Speaker 1: go to that my new favorite team. Well, I'm just
Speaker 1: talking about from me. The car service drops Brandon and
Speaker 1: Tyrese at l a X Airport. As they get out,
Speaker 1: an airport employee greets them, but instead of asking questions
Speaker 1: about their flight, the employee wants to talk about the
Speaker 1: latest NBA news. What do you think on a drip
Speaker 1: pol trade? We're just talking about that, man, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like what I don't know if I mean, he said
Speaker 1: when we think about the curs paultry and I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's cool, I guess, but what is that exactly? What
Speaker 1: does it means? They're referring to the trade that sent
Speaker 1: All star point guard Chris Paul from Oklahoma City to
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns, likely to the Suns into a legit
Speaker 1: playoff contender. Right, It's good to have vetterans around, but
Speaker 1: what they got They need this kid by the name
Speaker 1: of Tyrese max You know you know who that is?
Speaker 1: On whe is that you? You? You know? I appreciate m.
Speaker 1: My man, have a good one. The employee at the
Speaker 1: airport might not know his name yet, but he will soon.
Speaker 1: In forty eight hours, basketball fans everywhere will know Tyrese
Speaker 1: Maxi and in a few years he'll be the one
Speaker 1: in the gym helping pass these lessons on to the
Speaker 1: next fresh faced teenager trying to make the jump to
Speaker 1: the league. And maybe ten or fifteen years after that,
Speaker 1: an employee at the airport will be asking some young
Speaker 1: prospect what he thinks about the Tyrese ma trade. Now
Speaker 1: that Tyrese has developed all the tools for a long,
Speaker 1: successful career, the question is where will this journey start next? Undrafted.
Speaker 1: I guess I'll get this last little record. Actually, like
Speaker 1: to get on the plane, go back to the crib.
Speaker 1: Planning sports with my two older brothers was rough because
Speaker 1: I never could win, and that definitely pushed me to
Speaker 1: be better because like I'm like, one day, I gotta
Speaker 1: be able to beat him. This is their first time
Speaker 1: going through this whole ordeal too, and so it's new
Speaker 1: to them. Drafted equipment. Here's an NBA ban or for media.
Speaker 1: Here's an I pan for draft night. Here's some technical
Speaker 1: equipment for this and that. I'm so excited for you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you everything you do me brother, like
Speaker 1: you appreciate that. Yeah, no, who we have been through
Speaker 1: these last few years with you. It's been freaking crazy.
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