WEBVTT - S2 Episode 6: How To Be A Pro 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.679 Drafted as a production of tree Ford Media, Clutch Sports 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:07.080 Group and I Heart Radio, Love La. What do you 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:11.039 do you know? On our way to the Beverly Senator 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:16.200 last night in l A last night and then they 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:18.880 gotta gone with peg actually last night in l A. 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:21.480 On the ways in Bellston, they gotta find a new 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:32.520 pair of shoes. Welcome back to Drafted. I'm kicking Michael Key. 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.159 On the last episode, we heard the story behind what 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.960 drives Anthony Edwards in his pursuit towards greatness. Today we're 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:43.480 on another very different pursuit. Tyrese, Maxie and his uncle 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.479 Brandon are trying to find the perfect pair of draft 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:55.720 day shoes. Good. How are you? Yeah, Yes, I'm truly good. Cool, cool, 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.600 sanitize where you go. We're gonna part of you guys 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:06.480 up in just to second pistad. It give us just 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:08.320 a few minutes and then someone's cann step up. We 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:10.080 have a rotating system in our storey. If you haven't 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:14.480 been here in a loud yeah, yeah, solid. You guys 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:16.640 have anything specifically looking for, I can checker in joy 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:22.080 level if you want, Nah, not not check Yeah. Trying 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:25.800 to complain an outfit. It's their last day in Los 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.240 Angeles after eight months in the city, and for most draftees, 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.400 fighting the right footwear might seem like a minor detail 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:35.520 for a virtual draft at home, especially when there's no 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:38.920 stage to walk across. In fact, the draft cameras might 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:44.680 not even capture most players shoes. It had to be real, real, plain. 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:53.840 You gotta be so none of these popped, none of 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:58.840 these pop. This don't pop. Tyrese is obsessing over the 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:02.880 perfect shoes because no fine point it's too small or unimportant. 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.400 For him. He's been focusing on this level of detail 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.680 ever since breaking down his own film as an eight 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:11.040 year old. That's part of what propels him to greatness. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.320 He's still chasing the high expectations he and his family 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:18.120 set all those years ago, So even his shoes on 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:23.560 draft night can't be brushed aside. It's too much. Yeah, 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:27.680 it's too much for the suit. That's too plain. Nah, 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:32.280 it's not not that, ain't it. This first stop is 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.520 a Gucci store where they struggled to find the perfect shoe. 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:38.560 You see. That would be too much. This would be 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.320 too much. Yeah, it's too much going on. That would 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:45.200 be good because it's antique finished it's good with a coloration. 0:02:46.200 --> 0:03:01.560 It's good. Nah, it could be an option. NA, thank you. Frustrated, 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:10.360 Tires calls his agent, Rich Paul for advice. YEO, hold up, 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.000 because I'm looking for a shoe you think I should get? Uh? 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.240 We looked at a product tennis shoe now as hard 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.080 or a loafer. What do you think? You know what 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.200 I would go with? That? Silk? Don't really get you 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.239 want to you can do, you can get if you 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.399 go to this route, you can get both. Go back 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:31.800 to Ralph Lauren. They have a double punt black, double punks, 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.160 double month double telling you want to found a double 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:41.880 month up leather shoot and then gold call you speaks 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:46.640 sla and they have a plastic. Tires and Rich have 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.120 an uncommonly close relationship for an agent and client, and 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.480 this kind of conversation is normal for that. So Tyres 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.080 and Brandon take the shoe advice and head to St. 0:03:56.160 --> 0:04:03.280 Laurent in search of Rich's suggestion. Right, what's one I'm 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:10.880 going in? Yes, sir, Yes, sir, that's it. That's it. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.520 That right there, that's what I did it right there. 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.320 That's how you know when you found it when you walk, 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:23.560 when we both walk inside. That's it. They're gonna be like, man, 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:28.039 who'll be who'll be stalling? Oh yeah, my uncle, you 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:34.279 want to be on league seats every week. To Rees's 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.920 time in Los Angeles has been a training ground on 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.479 and off the court, where he's learned how to live 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.799 and work like a professional athlete. For him, that means 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:46.000 showing up early to work every morning and completing three 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.280 workouts before lunch. It also means learning how to navigate 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.000 life in a big city as a celebrity, including fighting 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.280 the perfect suit and shoes. I think the attention to 0:04:56.440 --> 0:05:02.480 detail is for reasons. It's sceptional. This is Tyresis trainer 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.880 Chris Johnson, who, like Justin Holland with Anthony Edwards, plays 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.919 the role of mentor, counselor, and friend in addition to 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:15.080 basketball guru. Not all young players have it, and I'm 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:18.080 gonna tell you this, not all old players have it either. 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.920 And that's the difference. When people say, well, well, why 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.680 is that guy better than they got? They both sixty eleven, 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:27.599 they both two d sixty pounds, they both got a 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.719 four days vertical. Those are the people that dominate the 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.839 game because they're playing chess as a rookie coming in 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:39.000 the first thing you have to navigate. It's the veteran players. 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:41.960 Not the veteran players are trying to be the best 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.960 they could be. The veteran players that are kind of 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.640 in the coast mode and they see that you're on 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.800 the heels, but they can kind of be like, Yo, 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:53.080 we're not going hard today. Yo, why are you going 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.919 so hard? In their drill? So down? And so I 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:58.920 wanted him to know right away you are a professional. 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.800 So your jobs just set the tone with the way 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.960 you want to be every day. You don't change how 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.000 you're gonna be. You make them adjust to you. So 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:13.159 when they see you coming, they're gonna know if I'm 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.640 not on my ship, he's gonna embass me in practice, 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.960 because practice is the way you play the game. And 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.359 so I taught him like a bunch of the the 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.560 O G tricks and I was like, this is what 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.080 a rookie will go through, and this is like, you know, fun, 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.080 like you gotta carry and got bags and stuff like that. 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.240 People don't see that. But let's talk about some things 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.279 that people don't talk about. Let's talk about the manipulation, 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:39.000 because you're actually are attempting to take their job. So 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.320 perspective is very important, and so that's what we talked about. 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.840 It's easy to forget that NBA rookies are not only 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.440 competing for playing time and games. They're competing every minute 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.400 of practice for one of four hundred and fifty jobs, 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.880 and they're shooting, passing, and defense. Those are only part 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:02.359 of what a professional lead master. Here's Tyrese again talking 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:09.000 about some of those off the court demands. Being in 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.000 l A you never know who you're gonna step on 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:12.480 the quote with, who you're gonna be working out with, 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.360 or you're gonna be playing against. But as soon as 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.080 I step on the court with these guys that are 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.480 in the NBA or in whatever position they are, I 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.960 feel perfectly fine. I feel like this is where I belong. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.800 So when I'm on the court, I feel like at 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:27.200 home there's I feel like there's nothing wrong or out 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:31.800 of place there. Now being in in a different lifestyle 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:33.200 to where you have to do different things like I 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.000 have to do interviews, I have to do you know, 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.440 certain media stuff. I have to look at, contracts, have 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.880 to stuff different stuff like that. You know that that's 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.720 where you start getting to like like WHOA like Okay, 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.040 you know this is different, not saying like I mean, 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:46.640 I've been working for this, this is why I wanted 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.200 to be in my whole life. But it's still different. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.080 Chris Johnson tells the story about the moment he saw 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.600 things click for Tyrese during a one on one game 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.080 with another pro man. I'm gonna tell you a story 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.480 about Rundo and Tyrese. He's talking about Roger on Roundo, 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.920 another former University of Kentucky star, has become a fifteen 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:07.480 year NBA VET with two championships and multiple All Star 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.960 Games under his belt. Manname was compete so hard man. 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:18.520 Rundo and him got into it. Tyree's said, man, check ball. 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.000 Rundo wouldn't play run us and now I didn't get 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:25.000 the file. So Rundo been a vet. Rundo wasn't affected 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.400 by any of it. But Rundo was pushing his mentor 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.800 think about it like it's just them every day. So 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:37.160 then Rundo was like, Chris, I'm done. Game over. I'm 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.520 a VET. I get that foul. I was trying to 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.760 teach her Rees say this is how it goes. Here 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:46.439 we go. But you know, Rundo is a great mind. 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.480 Player of the game. And he's one of the better 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:53.440 point guards than ever played the game. So Rundo's teaching 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.720 him all these tricks and he hes getting into his 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.120 brain and and then all of a sudden, you see 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:02.440 tires go from this side, and he started playing the game. 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:08.040 See that is development, and he understood it. He didn't 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.719 get it at first. And he you know, Rundell bolling him, 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.280 hit him in his side, stepping on his shoes. This 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.199 true story. Nothing going. Who was winning and losing? That 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.600 that ain't important. It was lessons that were being taught. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.840 Tyree spent the last eight months learning these lessons, and 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.360 he's improved his shot, his physique, and his game. He's 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.960 learned how to move and operate off the court. He's 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.720 practiced scenarios that might never occur and found shoes that 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:38.080 might never get seen. He's covered every detail and prepared 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.800 for every scenario. There's no doubt he's ready to go. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.000 As soon as Brandon packs up his hotel room, that is, 0:09:49.559 --> 0:10:06.079 we'll be right back. It's true to get out of here. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.520 It's been a long journey to enjoy the process, but 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:16.360 it is time to l a start. The new journey 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:22.520 man like literally packing up and I'm out. They're checking 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.800 out and heading to l a X Airport for their 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.040 flight back to Texas, but first they need to make 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:33.640 one last stop before leaving town. B there is Hey, 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:38.440 just see my dog go man m lonts of a 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.440 hard grind, get the head of a job though, Man, 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:47.040 I'm proud of you. Appreciate, appreciate. That's Rich Paul at 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.840 his house in Beverly Hills with Clutch agent Mark Murray, 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:55.360 both waiting to say goodbye. A lot of guys can't 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.640 can't stomach that like that, especially the way you handled 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:06.520 it flawless, which I'm a hard critic. I don't have 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.480 much of I'm the hardest critic. I don't really have 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.600 much of critique. How your body feel over with all 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:17.000 of them? So good? Good? You know for rehab, you know, 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:21.400 get recovery every single day lifting. You're gonna fall in 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.280 love with that part. See, that's what guys understand too, 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:29.800 coming in as rookies, that recovery aspect of it. Now, 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.920 you're not gonna go with you, You're not gonna go 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.839 without it. If you can't get that in Garland, you're 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:36.679 gonna be like, man, I'm getting the hell out of here, 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:40.280 because I'm telling you, once you come in like that, 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.760 you're getting your body taken care of. You won't ever 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:49.040 go backwards. It's gonna be good. Bro. I can't ain't. 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:50.720 I'm sing, it ain't the same. I can't. I mean, 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:52.760 I'm still doing everything, working out and getting my shots, 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:54.440 are doing all that, But I ain't. But you need 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:59.839 your process. Yeah, I agree, But that's part of being 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:03.120 a pro, you know. That's that's part of being a pro. 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.120 So now your trainers whatever whatever team, you go to 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.320 your training stack and be looking at you like, damn, 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:16.000 young fellow, like what you're doing. Man. I fell in 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:21.559 love with it a day long. Few rookies worry about 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.920 rehab and recovery because when you're twenty years old, like Tyrese, 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.680 injuries are less common and sore muscles heal fast. But 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.720 that's a false sense of security For young players. The 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:35.840 competition in the NBA is significantly bigger, faster, and stronger 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:39.040 than any they faced before. Pros play four times as 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.839 many games as college players, and the traveling demands are 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:46.280 grueling throughout the season. All this leads to younger players 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.559 regularly hitting a wall in their rookie year where they 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.280 physically begin to wear out. But thanks to his extra 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:54.920 time in l A this offseason, Tyrese is already one 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:59.400 step ahead. All right, makes sure you are those mass 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.200 out there or we gotta keep you safe for a 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:06.880 couple of day. Double it up. You got some sanitizing. Yeah, 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:09.920 I'm talking about all right, my dog, I talked to 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:15.400 a show. Okay, be thank you too. Man Rich and 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:24.079 Mark watched them drive away. They don't come like that often. No, no, 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.680 they don't come like that. You really had to drag 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:30.079 him out of the gym today, like he was like 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:34.240 sad leaving Chris Sports Rehab, crazy parties, all of them 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.280 are sad. They said, he's leaving from like not just 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:41.600 like the people working from like assistance, the interns, the rebounders, 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.440 like they all because he's just such a good kid, 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.760 like you don't. And that's what I'm telling these teams, 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:56.240 y'all don't understand. This kid is a superstar person paying 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.640 him millions and dollars not gonna matter. He is a 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:03.720 super for star person. And when you got that, times 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.480 is work ethic times and skill set times is man, 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.559 It's dangerous, bro, that is what it means to be 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.319 a professional, and people around the league are already starting 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.120 to notice. Here again, it's Chris Johnson talking about a 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:21.600 moment in Los Angeles this summer. I remember we're played 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:25.720 two on two and Katie was here, k d Is Brooklyn, 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.600 that superstar Kevin Durant. We were trying to figure out 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.280 the two on two teams, and you know, Katie first 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:35.960 pick Tyrese because if we ain't gonna name all the players, Yeah, 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.880 it was a number of NBA players's I want Tyrese. 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.040 Him and Tyres killed the gym. They destroyed at the gym. 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.440 I mean, Kevin was kicking it moving and Tyrese burning 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.480 the gym down right there to Kevin. That's why I thought. 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.160 I was like, man, Brooklyn may try to get him, 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.000 because Kevin knows how good he is. He's seen him. 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.960 So now, with only two days to go, Tyrese just 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.560 wants to get back to Garland, Texas and find out 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:05.280 where he'll be playing and living. We'll be right back. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:27.160 You won't say call her, You just being all ye earlier. 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:43.440 That's Terse's mom, Denise Maxie. Oh god box in a 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:47.480 sand e p a draft box. But I did hoping open. 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:51.920 They won't. No, I'm gonna take me. Who are John's 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.960 showing U some mew yeah I did the mask pad 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:58.840 s door was so exciting. You think you delivered the supermom. 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.360 This was the lier. Moe's so exciting these guys and 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:04.840 blah blah blah blah blah. So I guess got your 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:08.160 hands honestly, Yeah, the hats and I don't know, little 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:12.560 I don't got the hats in there. I want to 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:17.360 what that leather box for that every season there is 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.760 a green box. There's what he made the name name 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:25.840 was sitting us watching game and there's the green box. 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.160 Draft was supposed to take place in the Barclay Center 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.200 in Brooklyn, and normally Tyrese and his family would be 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.240 at the arena in the green room with all the 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:41.960 hats and swag waiting for them. This year, the league 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:43.920 shipped a version of the green room in a giant 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:47.760 green box two players houses instead. The box contains hats 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:49.680 of every team in the league, so he can put 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.400 on the logo for whichever franchise picks him in the moment. 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:07.000 M hey me and Brott, just time aboutible, it's here, 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.280 ain't no, but I don't run if I'm not like, 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.960 this's the real thing, because you just want to say 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:25.760 an you get you say h m hm. So I'm 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:27.320 only even here gonna know you hibly don't get it. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:31.160 You get handy home. My conscious so heavy. I don't 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:39.960 know what happened. Ye, he's a whole hundred Yeah. Yeah, 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:44.480 we're about to come up any minute. Ye, I'm gonnaquite 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:49.639 when we get to the game. So all right, I 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.920 wanted to they said, and say everybody that's in first 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:56.960 and second round. I think they s draft bots everybody. Yeah, 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.040 because everybody even you know what I'm saying. But the 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:04.080 name is so what they what you're doing? The heads 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:13.560 keep keep No, I ain't keeping more. I'm tee you 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:17.760 go to that my new favorite team. Well, I'm just 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.879 talking about from me. The car service drops Brandon and 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.160 Tyrese at l a X Airport. As they get out, 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.280 an airport employee greets them, but instead of asking questions 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.960 about their flight, the employee wants to talk about the 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:35.680 latest NBA news. What do you think on a drip 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:39.480 pol trade? We're just talking about that, man, I don't know, 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:43.400 like what I don't know if I mean, he said 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.200 when we think about the curs paultry and I'm like, 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:50.920 it's cool, I guess, but what is that exactly? What 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.399 does it means? They're referring to the trade that sent 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.639 All star point guard Chris Paul from Oklahoma City to 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:01.040 the Phoenix Suns, likely to the Suns into a legit 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:05.520 playoff contender. Right, It's good to have vetterans around, but 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:14.720 what they got They need this kid by the name 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:17.040 of Tyrese max You know you know who that is? 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.399 On whe is that you? You? You know? I appreciate m. 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:34.600 My man, have a good one. The employee at the 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.640 airport might not know his name yet, but he will soon. 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.680 In forty eight hours, basketball fans everywhere will know Tyrese 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:46.479 Maxi and in a few years he'll be the one 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:48.680 in the gym helping pass these lessons on to the 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:51.560 next fresh faced teenager trying to make the jump to 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:55.040 the league. And maybe ten or fifteen years after that, 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:57.560 an employee at the airport will be asking some young 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:01.439 prospect what he thinks about the Tyrese ma trade. Now 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:03.719 that Tyrese has developed all the tools for a long, 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:17.639 successful career, the question is where will this journey start next? Undrafted. 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:22.879 I guess I'll get this last little record. Actually, like 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:25.320 to get on the plane, go back to the crib. 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:28.080 Planning sports with my two older brothers was rough because 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:30.840 I never could win, and that definitely pushed me to 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.160 be better because like I'm like, one day, I gotta 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:34.840 be able to beat him. This is their first time 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.800 going through this whole ordeal too, and so it's new 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:41.879 to them. Drafted equipment. Here's an NBA ban or for media. 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.680 Here's an I pan for draft night. Here's some technical 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:48.159 equipment for this and that. I'm so excited for you. 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:51.760 Thank you, thank you everything you do me brother, like 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.760 you appreciate that. Yeah, no, who we have been through 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:58.600 these last few years with you. 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