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Speaker 1: Yo, yo yo.

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Speaker 2: We live on location out here in a hidden location

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Speaker 2: in lovely Los Angeles, California.

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Speaker 1: Today we got my main man and young thunder.

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Speaker 2: Cat, oh oh the Louse, Saint Louis representative in the building,

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Speaker 2: Jordan Representative, Jordan Brand representative. You know, a whole lot

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Speaker 2: of other stuff too, but we just gonna say that first,

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Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. And we got him in

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Speaker 2: the building represent the Boston Celtics gold medal bringing home

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Speaker 2: this season, Jason Tatum.

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Speaker 1: Everybody, we appreciate you, bruther letting us pull up.

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Speaker 2: Man, it's real nice and luxurious and lovely. We chailling

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Speaker 2: knuckleheads live on location, y'all.

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Speaker 1: We back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know it's only right the loop

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Speaker 3: back up in her. Yeah yeah yeah no, just case

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Speaker 3: you wasn't got my man her. But yeah, last time

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Speaker 3: you was here, man, you know, you took off. You know,

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Speaker 3: you stepped up in the leadership role. How was that

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Speaker 3: to be so young and started taking the leadership role

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Speaker 3: Kyrie getting hurt and you just kept the team in

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Speaker 3: the playoffs and you know, with your other team, and

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Speaker 3: how was that to just start leading the team in

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Speaker 3: the NBA at such a young age.

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Speaker 4: That was that was my rookiear last time I was

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Speaker 4: on Yeah he was yes, young babe in the woods,

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Speaker 4: barely saying anything. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Uh, I don't know. It just happened so fast.

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Speaker 4: I think when I envisioned myself when I was thinking

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Speaker 5: I wanted to be the face. I wanted to be

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Speaker 5: one of the best players.

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Speaker 4: And my opportunity came a lot faster than you know,

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Speaker 4: a dude for a lot of people, especially on the

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Speaker 4: biggest stage in the playoffs, playing for the Celtics. So

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Speaker 4: you know, I was young, we always young, and we

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Speaker 4: was all on rookie deals and we just felt like

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Speaker 4: we ain't had nothing to lose. We were supposed to lose,

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Speaker 4: and we won the first round, we won the second round,

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Speaker 4: and I'll be like, we about to go to the championship.

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Speaker 4: So that that was probably the most fun I'd had,

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Speaker 4: honestly since I've been to the league. Just me, young

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Speaker 4: JB young, smart, young t Row. You know, we had

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Speaker 4: Mook who was still proving himself, and we had some

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Speaker 4: best we had Al and Bains, but we just went

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Speaker 4: out there like we ain't had nothing to lose every night?

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Speaker 2: How did it feel like when after you know, Kyrie

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Speaker 2: is gone, he departs from the team, and then you

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Speaker 2: go into it you knowing like you pretty much the guy.

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Speaker 2: How did you feel and what was your perspective going

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Speaker 2: to that season?

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Speaker 4: Going in my third season and we was coming off

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Speaker 4: of a down year when we lost in the second round.

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Speaker 4: We had so many expectations and everything went south and

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Speaker 4: for me, you know, I felt like I felt like

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Speaker 4: this was my last opportunity because I didn't make the

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Speaker 4: I didn't make the All Star Game my second year,

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Speaker 4: and I was like, I like, I got to make

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Speaker 4: to guy that start like, you know, make that leap

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Speaker 4: in my third year. So that was that was a

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Speaker 4: big focus for me. Obviously getting back to winning. We

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Speaker 4: went to these conference finals, but you know I went

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Speaker 4: from you know, fifteen to night to twenty four and

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Speaker 4: first time I made the All Star Game in all NBA.

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Speaker 4: So you know, that was that was a big off

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Speaker 4: season for me going into my third year.

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Speaker 1: How how did that feel though?

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Speaker 2: Getting when you got selected as an All Star, Like

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Speaker 2: that's like the stamp of approval, you know what I'm

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Speaker 2: saying you.

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Speaker 6: Were Its just like you won the ones.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I remember the day I got the

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Speaker 4: phone call, because that was probably the whole two three

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Speaker 4: weeks before. I was just every game if I had

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Speaker 4: it a good game, Like all right, I'm gonna make it.

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Speaker 4: So just to have that, like all right, I accomplished

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Speaker 4: something that you know, I always wanted to. Finally check

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Speaker 4: that off the off the list. That was a dream

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Speaker 3: Speaking of the like all store man, you big for

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Speaker 3: the lou to see you and and and Bradley on

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Speaker 3: the All Star team together, Like how was that?

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Speaker 6: You know?

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Speaker 3: That was like it's a real moment to see both

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Speaker 3: of y'all with these All Star jerseys on from the

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Speaker 3: lou same high school.

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Speaker 6: Like how was that for you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: It was tough. My first year I made it. He

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Speaker 4: didn't make it make it, so my first All Star

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Speaker 4: game he wasn't there. But then last year but this

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Speaker 4: passing and we both started. Yeah, so on Star lineup

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Speaker 4: was both starting. We was on the same teams the

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Speaker 4: first time we ever been on the same team.

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Speaker 5: And just to.

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Speaker 4: Remember the picture we took with our All Star JJ's

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Speaker 4: on and I was just like, I remember riding on

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Speaker 4: with him from school, you know, him dropped me off

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Speaker 4: when I was twelve, and now we're on the All

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Speaker 5: That was that was amazing.

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Speaker 1: How special was that to happen?

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Speaker 2: I remember seeing the pictures of y'all kids there too,

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Speaker 2: Like you know what I'm saying. How special was that

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Speaker 2: to not only be there with your boy like you said,

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Speaker 2: you remember riding school and now y'all here doing it

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Speaker 2: on this big stage, y'all kids getting to be there

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Speaker 2: together and winness all of this.

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Speaker 4: I mean, everything happened for a reason, and you know

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Speaker 4: it's just incredible to see that.

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Speaker 5: You know, someone took me under their wing.

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Speaker 4: You know, now we playing against each other, you know,

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Speaker 4: on the All Star team, and now we got kids

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Speaker 4: around the same age and they getting to share that

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Speaker 4: experience with us as well as together in our families,

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Speaker 4: and you know, being from the same neighborhood.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's something we only could dream about.

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Speaker 3: Straight up, straight up, How proud are you to be

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Speaker 3: from Saint Louis And you know all these guys come

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Speaker 3: from these big cities, you.

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Speaker 6: Know, like Chicago and La and New York.

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Speaker 1: We didn't talked about Saint Louis. That's my question.

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Speaker 3: R Okay, So how is it, you know, to be

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Speaker 3: all these guys from these big cities to represent Saint Louis,

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Speaker 3: and you know, for the kids of Saint Louis to

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Speaker 3: see somebody else go and do the accomplishment like man

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Speaker 3: like from Larry or Us, the Jojo White, the Anthony Bonnas,

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Speaker 3: all that to y'all. Now y'all making one hundred million dollars,

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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, contracts to the next generation

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Speaker 6: How was that to just be from a small town

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Speaker 4: One thing about people from Saint Louis, and people always

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Speaker 4: tell me Saint Louis got the most prideful people ever.

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Speaker 4: If you anybody from Saint Louis and they go out

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Speaker 5: They already you know, they're gonna put the hat on.

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Speaker 4: I don't go out, I don't leave the city or

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Speaker 4: go out the country or any state without my Saint Louis.

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Speaker 4: I took it to Vegas Tokyo. Wow, anywhere I go,

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Speaker 4: I took it to Periers. I'm taking my Saint Lewis hat.

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Speaker 4: I got it tattered on me more than once is

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Speaker 4: you got like.

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Speaker 6: If I bought this in the airport in London on

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Speaker 2: Forgot I did right type of Chicago people that don't

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Speaker 2: go nowhere?

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Speaker 3: Everybody person do that you like you can finish?

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Speaker 6: Let him finish answer, Let him finish answer.

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Speaker 4: It's red like that stand out like it's only one

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Speaker 4: of them. Yeah, I love Chicago, but like y'all got

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Speaker 4: white socked. Y'all got the cubs. I don't know which one,

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Speaker 4: y'all won't work. We're putting that one on.

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Speaker 6: It's the west side, north side, Like what side'all?

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Speaker 2: It don't matter what side? You know Chicago. When we

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Speaker 3: Got so we said with our chest to let him finish,

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Speaker 3: answering the question, how proudly is to be from Saint Louis.

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Speaker 5: But it's different, y'all, y'all got the rock y'all m

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Speaker 5: J like y'all this big six said, you know what

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Speaker 5: I'm saying, it's only.

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Speaker 1: Right. I go ahead.

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Speaker 5: We're just a small city thing.

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Speaker 4: So when you know what I'm saying, when somebody make

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Speaker 4: to us, that everybody pulling form, everybody know who that

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Speaker 4: so when we do, it's like it's a real big

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Speaker 4: deal and you got an obligation to come back to

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Speaker 4: show the younger generation. Like I played at Woes, I

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Speaker 4: played at this park, I've been to the program like

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Speaker 4: I did all the things you're doing. So you can

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Speaker 4: make it where I'm at, or you don't have to

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Speaker 4: be in the NBA, whatever you want to be. You

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Speaker 4: be something. And support of the people, it's real. Support

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Speaker 4: the people is real and the little super real.

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Speaker 2: I should respect that respect to the lou All I

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Speaker 2: was saying is that, you know, it's pretty real in

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Speaker 2: Chicago too.

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Speaker 1: That's it. You know we love our people too.

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Speaker 3: You play of the playing game against Bradley, how was that?

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Speaker 5: Like I'm being honest, I ain't like the idea of

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Speaker 5: the playoffs.

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Speaker 6: I hated it.

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Speaker 5: It was good for the fans. I'm sure the fans

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Speaker 5: enjoyed it.

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Speaker 4: But at the same time, if I'm the seventh seed,

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Speaker 4: somebody that's the tenth spot, you.

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Speaker 5: Get a chance.

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Speaker 1: You lose two games, you go.

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Speaker 5: But if I'm the seventh seed, I lose two games

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Speaker 5: and the temp seed get in.

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Speaker 2: I'm sick to hear me. I was doing TV at

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Speaker 2: the time. They asked me, like, what's your opinions A

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Speaker 2: four player? I say, man, listen, I say, if I'm

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Speaker 2: a seventh or eighteen, I hate it. I said, if

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Speaker 2: I'm a ninth tenth for eleven, one of them teams

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Speaker 2: trying to I said, I love you. I say, that's

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Speaker 2: just the facts.

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Speaker 4: Shortened season COVID seventy two games. Maybe the ninth seed

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Speaker 4: I could see for one year. I ain't rolling with

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Speaker 4: the temph seed. No, there's no way.

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Speaker 2: Tell me to speaking of COVID because you you had

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Speaker 2: spoke heavily about how it's still impacted you long got like,

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Speaker 2: how is that all clear now?

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Speaker 1: Or are you back good? Like how long did it

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Speaker 1: take you?

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Speaker 2: Because you told me Diamond when we was there, when

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Speaker 2: we talked the winder Mill, when you came to work

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Speaker 2: out before you left, you was saying that you had

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Speaker 2: to take an inhaler and all that. So how long

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Speaker 2: did it take for all of the clear up for you?

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Speaker 4: I mean I was I using the Hitler from the

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Speaker 4: whatever time I started to our last game against Brooklyn,

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Speaker 4: so that was two months, probably after two much after

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Speaker 4: I recovered. I didn't use it in USA. I feel

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Speaker 6: Again, but.

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Speaker 4: Shout out Disney y'alls and a halfe place on Earth

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Speaker 2: And it was like your popstar, this is when I

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Speaker 5: He like you for real? I'm like, I'm like, yeah, yo,

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Speaker 6: I know that all the way down in the sock draws. Man,

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Speaker 5: To be a part of your brand.

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Speaker 6: I know it was stupid.

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Speaker 1: I remember when Jeff told me that she was about

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Speaker 5: That was it was. It was cool.

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Speaker 4: MJ was there, Rush Blake, Griffin, Mellow, Maya Moore, Maya Moore.

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Speaker 5: We was all there together. Spike Lee was there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember that.

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Speaker 4: Everybody was there and we was there for about a week.

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Speaker 4: We had a great time.

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Speaker 1: How dope is it to like this is still on

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Speaker 2: How dope is it for you to you know, now

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you gotta keep it in the family.

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Speaker 5: It was funny. It was my my third season. We played.

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Speaker 4: And we got the most talented players in the world

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Speaker 2: Time, tell me how how it is and from inside

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Speaker 5: It is.

446
00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:18,440
Speaker 4: And it was also like we was thirteen hours ahead

447
00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:22,800
Speaker 4: from the East coast, so couldn't bring our family, our kids.

448
00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,840
Speaker 4: So we was just we was isolated. We was, we

449
00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:30,520
Speaker 4: was together, and we had it was like the days

450
00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:33,240
Speaker 4: was long. So when we up, everybody back home sleep,

451
00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:35,840
Speaker 4: so it's nobody talked to. Then when we're going to sleep,

452
00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,520
Speaker 4: everybody waking up. So all we had was each other.

453
00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,800
Speaker 4: So we were in the lounger ay night, talking, playing cards,

454
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,000
Speaker 4: watching games like we were just chilling. And I mean,

455
00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,560
Speaker 4: we got social media. We've seen what everybody was saying.

456
00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,200
Speaker 4: And we was like, man, we gotta figure it out.

457
00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:54,320
Speaker 4: Like book came in and drew, Like y'all ain't two

458
00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,359
Speaker 4: days after the finals come all the way over here

459
00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:59,600
Speaker 4: for nothing, Like we ain't sacrificed our time for our

460
00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:01,880
Speaker 4: family for no reason. Like we gotta figure it out.

461
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,240
Speaker 4: And we was all on board, was on the same page.

462
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:06,960
Speaker 4: And man, when we won. I mean, y'all seen the

463
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,639
Speaker 4: pictures we was in there, Champagne. It was like it

464
00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:11,560
Speaker 4: was a hell of a feeling.

465
00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,639
Speaker 3: I was to have that gold medal in your hands, man,

466
00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,159
Speaker 3: taking it home and bringing it home to your mama.

467
00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:22,760
Speaker 2: Rapping like m and all these people before y'all it

468
00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,879
Speaker 2: was because you wanted on a younger level before.

469
00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:29,200
Speaker 1: But it's you know, on that national team, this that big.

470
00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,040
Speaker 6: Big boy gold medal.

471
00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:30,520
Speaker 1: Yeah.

472
00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:34,280
Speaker 4: I played USA. I played three times in high school.

473
00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:36,840
Speaker 4: And even when you in that program, the end goal

474
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,479
Speaker 4: is to get on the national team. I mean, so

475
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,640
Speaker 4: I remember being fifteen and winning my first gold medal

476
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:44,760
Speaker 4: with everybody on the team when we fifteen, like, man,

477
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,240
Speaker 4: I can't wait till we get to the the national level.

478
00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,000
Speaker 4: But it's like it's it's really hard. Yeah, So to

479
00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:52,480
Speaker 4: make it to the national level and be on the

480
00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,960
Speaker 4: Olympic team and finally get it, it's.

481
00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,960
Speaker 5: Really heavy, Like it's way heavy.

482
00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:02,679
Speaker 4: And I thought, and I remember like just taking it

483
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:04,840
Speaker 4: on to my mom and she was like she got

484
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:05,400
Speaker 4: teary eyed.

485
00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:06,920
Speaker 5: She was like, man, you like my.

486
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:10,280
Speaker 4: Son is a gold medalist saying that, and me like

487
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,199
Speaker 4: I didn't realize how big of a dealer was till

488
00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:12,520
Speaker 4: we won.

489
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm like, hold on, I went to the Olympics.

490
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,359
Speaker 1: I'm on, that's maze.

491
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,080
Speaker 5: It was like it was a big deal that we won.

492
00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,120
Speaker 3: How was it to hear that coach k is about

493
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:28,640
Speaker 3: to retire? H Like, coach is Duke. All we've been

494
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,879
Speaker 3: knowing is that coach. To here, he's finna retire and

495
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,160
Speaker 3: not be coaching that duke no more. Honestly, I mean

496
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:36,600
Speaker 3: he was.

497
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,520
Speaker 4: He turned seventy seventy one when I was in school,

498
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:43,160
Speaker 4: so he got me seventy five. I remember when when

499
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,919
Speaker 4: I seen that Roy Williams retired, I kind of clicked

500
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:48,760
Speaker 4: on me like, all right, coach, he got to be

501
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:54,280
Speaker 4: on his way soon. But it's like you said, all

502
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,200
Speaker 4: I've ever know, we ever know is Duke. And I'm

503
00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,840
Speaker 4: just honest that I had the privilege of being able

504
00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:03,480
Speaker 4: to play for him for one year and still talk

505
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 4: to him all the time. I got a FaceTime from

506
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 4: him when after I wanted to go medal, so me

507
00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,399
Speaker 4: and coach we talked all the time. I love him

508
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,640
Speaker 4: to death, and uh, you know, hopefully he go out

509
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:17,600
Speaker 4: on top of you.

510
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:21,440
Speaker 1: Did you get a FaceTime from Tom Brady to we was, Uh.

511
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 2: I saw everybody getting Tom Brady facetimes after the gold medal?

512
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 1: Did you hollered?

513
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:25,960
Speaker 2: Tom?

514
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 1: Terrific?

515
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:31,359
Speaker 5: I know Tom, you feel me.

516
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 1: That's how you know him. We know each other like that.

517
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 5: Me and Tom talked from time to time.

518
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,960
Speaker 4: I went up to see them practice when he was

519
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 4: back on the Patriots.

520
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:45,959
Speaker 5: So I member, we was on the bus. We was,

521
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:46,880
Speaker 5: we just.

522
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 4: Got our gold medal, and uh, Draymond called him. Draymond

523
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:52,359
Speaker 4: was in the back. So I was like ten rows

524
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,960
Speaker 4: at him. And I remember, like Buck and Zach and

525
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,600
Speaker 4: all of themself, what's up to him?

526
00:23:58,440 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 6: I was.

527
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:00,399
Speaker 4: I thought about it, but I would I might have

528
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,119
Speaker 4: been on the phone or something, but I was like,

529
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 4: I talked, I talked to later this is.

530
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:07,719
Speaker 1: This is the same Lewis thing right here.

531
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 2: Because I could do that for love.

532
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 1: He would do that and like, look, that's crazy.

533
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:18,360
Speaker 6: Worldwide every time.

534
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 5: My gosh, So I talked to him.

535
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 1: Tell me about tell me about these fifty balls. You

536
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.

537
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,919
Speaker 2: You didn't past Larry legend with fifty burgers in there

538
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:33,520
Speaker 2: within the Celtish uniform, and you're still a young boy

539
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:35,879
Speaker 2: in the game. Just tell me about you know what

540
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 2: I'm saying, it's scoring prowess and how you become you

541
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, so confident in your skill set

542
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:43,880
Speaker 2: and what you do. I mean, I know the work

543
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:45,920
Speaker 2: you put in, but I'm just saying, just watching you

544
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 2: grow from year to year, Just tell me how you've

545
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 2: gotten this confident?

546
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the first I remember the first time

547
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 4: I scored fifty. I had fifty three against the Timberwolves

548
00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 4: at home and we wanted over time. And I had

549
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 4: sixty against the Spurs. I had fifty against the Wizards

550
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 4: in the playoff game. I had fifty against Brooklyn in

551
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 4: Game three. I remember it was after the second one.

552
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,439
Speaker 4: After when I scored sixty, one of my homeboys called me.

553
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 4: He called me the next day.

554
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 5: He was like yo. He was like, like.

555
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,920
Speaker 4: You really twenty three and you scored fifty and sixty.

556
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:24,879
Speaker 4: He was like, I just want to know, like what

557
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 4: go through your mind? Like how do you do it?

558
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 4: And I was like, honestly, I always had a mentality whatever,

559
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 4: like if you do something once, you can always do

560
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 4: it again. So once you get over that hump when

561
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,960
Speaker 4: I scored fifty three against Minnesota.

562
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 5: Like you figure it out, Like all right, I hit.

563
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,880
Speaker 4: I get to the line fifteen seventeen times, you get

564
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 4: your rhythm, you get some easy layups, back cut out

565
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 4: of the ram bit, you coming off step ups, you

566
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 4: shooting side step threes. Like I just I know I

567
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 4: can score fifty, so I know I can do it again.

568
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,439
Speaker 4: I know I can score sixty, so I know I

569
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,639
Speaker 4: can do it again. Like that's just the mindset I have.

570
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 4: Like once you do something, once, you can do it again.

571
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 3: You're playing chess with the game man, It's like it's

572
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 3: you playing a game in your mind and got nothing

573
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 3: to do with it.

574
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,400
Speaker 2: But what goes to your mind when you look up

575
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 2: and they say that you've already you with Larry Bird,

576
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 2: Like come on, bruh, twenty five year and they talked

577
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 2: about you with Larry legend, and you got so much

578
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 2: long and so much more of the go and work

579
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 2: to do and all of this, but you already right

580
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 2: there with with somebody. This this this all time legendary greatness.

581
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 5: Yeah.

582
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 4: I remember they said I tied the scoring record with

583
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 4: Larry after the game.

584
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: I remember between it, like for real, I think, I.

585
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 4: Think when you're young and you in the moment, it's

586
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 4: like it don't really resonate like how special that that is,

587
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 4: and obviously Larry being one of the top ten greatest

588
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,880
Speaker 4: players of all time, and just to be with anything

589
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 4: you do be mentioned in the same category with him,

590
00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 4: as like you know, you're doing something special. I just

591
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 4: look at it as you know, I'm twenty three. I

592
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,919
Speaker 4: got so much more to accomplish, so much more I

593
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 4: want to do. I don't necessarily take the time to

594
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 4: be like, man, I got the same record as Larry.

595
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 4: It's like I gotta beat it. Like when I get done,

596
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,119
Speaker 4: then you can sit back and be like, all right,

597
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 4: I did a lot. But you know right now it's

598
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 4: like now you' you got that window to maximize your

599
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:26,880
Speaker 4: ability and your potential.

600
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 5: So I'm just trying to figure it out.

601
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 3: I won't speak on like your pops and Larry. What

602
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 3: are some of the things that your pops and Larry

603
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 3: when you was coming up that you've seen, like some

604
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 3: of them trips to Cleveland when Larry was playing, and

605
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 3: some of the stuff that you've seen coming up that

606
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 3: was motivation, Like, man, I want to want to get

607
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 3: there because you're seeing stuff from your pops and Larry that.

608
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 6: The average kid wouldn't get.

609
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,199
Speaker 3: The opportunity to see you walking through the locker rooms

610
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 3: through the back or sitting with the family and being

611
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,159
Speaker 3: their games. What are some of the things that you

612
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 3: seen early on? It was like, man, that was motivation

613
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 3: for me to get.

614
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, I just remember like being back home

615
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 4: and going to the Bonda League, like the prom games

616
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 4: on the weekend, like if you came or Larry came.

617
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:13,360
Speaker 5: I remember just pulling up.

618
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 4: And seeing a Bentley on side or seeing an all

619
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 4: black phantom and just being like I never seen this

620
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 4: in person.

621
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: Definitely had.

622
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 4: Squizzy seeing like what he did and how he got there,

623
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 4: and like that's not what it's about. But at ten

624
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 4: years old he got a fanom like all right, I

625
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 4: need to do what he did to get one of them.

626
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 4: But my Pops was he was the one who put

627
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 4: the ball in my hand from as early as I

628
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 4: can remember, and you know, from three till I was fourteen.

629
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 4: You know, he was my coach, the person I worked

630
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 4: out with and taught me everything I know you know

631
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 4: about the game, especially at that age. And he never

632
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 4: he never like we never really talked about the NBA

633
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 4: like I did. I used to watch Kobe and Paul

634
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 4: Pierce and all them and be like, man, I can't

635
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 4: wait till I get there.

636
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 5: And he used to be like, hold on, like, you

637
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 5: gotta get.

638
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 4: The high school first, you gotta hopefully get a scholarship

639
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 4: like scolar like I'm going to the league. And he

640
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 4: used to just be like, listen, it ain't it's not easy,

641
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 4: like nothing guaranteed. So he never we me and him

642
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 4: never really talked about the NBA til I got to

643
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 4: like probably my junior senior year. Was like, you know,

644
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 4: if I don't get hurt or something, I don't get

645
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 4: in trouble, you know I'm gonna make it. So he

646
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 4: was just always like, man, just worry about going to

647
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 4: college for free. I like that, tah. He never we

648
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 4: never talked about the NBA. He was just like, just

649
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 4: see if you can get to college.

650
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 6: What motivates you?

651
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 3: Now, what do you be saying in the league that

652
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 3: motivates you to be not only the best player, one

653
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 3: of the best player, but you know, the best player.

654
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 6: You know.

655
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 5: What motivates me?

656
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 4: It's a lot, honestly, I think my son first and

657
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,479
Speaker 4: first of all, just trying to be somebody that you

658
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 4: know he'll be proud of, like him I think of

659
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 4: all the time when he gets old enough and he

660
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 4: go to school and he tell all his friends like

661
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 4: who his daddy is, Like I think that.

662
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 5: Should be cool.

663
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 6: Oh, that's the dopest thing.

664
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 4: And just seeing him when he come to like when

665
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 4: he sit course out of the games, and like seeing

666
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 4: the pictures and after the game when I score sixty,

667
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 4: he ran out on the court.

668
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 2: I love it, like I love to be to see

669
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 2: y'all relationship and how you have him everywhere, and how

670
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 2: he loved to be everywhere, up under you and in it,

671
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 2: and even though he don't really understand it, like you say,

672
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 2: when he look back, it's gonna be unbelievable.

673
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's no better feeling than that.

674
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 4: And then I think the second part is like being

675
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 4: young enough to like I still play against some of

676
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 4: the best players and some of the guys that I

677
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 4: looked up to, So like all the guys, most of

678
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 4: the guys I looked up to, I'll get to play

679
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 4: against him now. And it's a lot of instances where,

680
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 4: especially like my third season, especially last year, where like

681
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 4: there's people I looked up to and it's like hold on,

682
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 4: we like we're going at.

683
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: It up and I.

684
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 4: Think like playing USA basketball really helps out with that,

685
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 4: like playing against Kadi every day in practice and seeing

686
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 4: how he prepared and you know, he's like one of

687
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 4: the What is that like.

688
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 6: He wanted?

689
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 5: He wanted the best players ever ever?

690
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 2: Like that's what I'm saying, Like, what is it like

691
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 2: when you when you get picked to a team and

692
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 2: you walking in, you got KD right there, dang, right there, book,

693
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 2: right there, bam, all these different dudes, and it's like,

694
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 2: like you say, when you're looking at KD, that's one

695
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 2: of the greatest ever.

696
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: What is it like to watch him?

697
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 6: Yeah?

698
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 4: KD seven feet tall. He shoot over the top of everybody.

699
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 4: He is, you know, smooth and it's fluid. And I

700
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 4: played it like we went at it in the playoffs

701
00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 4: for five games and I was like, I remember Earn

702
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 4: a playing game.

703
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 5: After the playing game.

704
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 4: We like we won, but then it was also like,

705
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 4: damn we got Brooklyn.

706
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: Congratulations.

707
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 4: But that in hindsight, like that's what I wanted. I

708
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 4: wanted because those are those were the matchups that people

709
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 4: remember playing against Lebron in the playoffs, playing against KD,

710
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 4: you know, five games in a row, and yeah, I mean, yeah,

711
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 4: we came up short, but you know, showing like you know,

712
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 4: I belong out here, and then just competing against him

713
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 4: with the team USA and being on the same team

714
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 4: and having those talks with him, of him coming to

715
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 4: me during the game, like yo, take over, keep going like,

716
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 4: don't look for nobody when you get to go to work,

717
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 4: like him telling me he's a fan. He like seeing

718
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 4: me go to work. Was just like damn, Like this

719
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 4: is something I looked up to him. We're on the

720
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 4: same team and he telling me, like, you know, don't

721
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 4: pass the ball, go to go get a bucket I saw.

722
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 1: He said.

723
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 2: When he was asked, you know he broke he became

724
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 2: an all time leading scorer for the USA team.

725
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: They said, who you think next?

726
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 2: He said, you Like, how did that shield I have

727
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 2: of somebody who's arguably be the greatest score ever to

728
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 2: say that you next?

729
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: To do that?

730
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 4: Uh?

731
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 5: That was I mean, I meant a lot.

732
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 4: And I think what I've realized is by earning it,

733
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 4: like to earn the respect of people like him and

734
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 4: Braun like when you play them, you gotta go at him,

735
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 4: Like I took that that mindset when we played them

736
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 4: in the playoffs, of like to earn the respect of

737
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 4: somebody like him.

738
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 5: Like you got you gotta go at him. That's like

739
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 5: that's the.

740
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 4: Only way he gonna be like all right, you know

741
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 4: young and up next. And you know I felt that

742
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 4: way after we played on the playoffs and and you know,

743
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 4: just playing with each other against each other and practice

744
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 4: at us. Say, I just know, like that's how you

745
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 4: you know, show respect and get respected of, like you know,

746
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 4: not taking it easy because of who they are.

747
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 5: Is just like I gotta go at.

748
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: You, That's what that's what.

749
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 2: So So when you leave that series walking away from

750
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 2: like you said, y'all came up short, but to a man,

751
00:33:58,240 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 2: you you you know what I'm saying. You did what

752
00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 2: you you could do and end like you say, you

753
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 2: went at them. How do you walk away from that feeling?

754
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 2: You know like you you know, like you said, y'all lost,

755
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 2: you gotta go get better and the team got improved, but.

756
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: You fought and you you showed, you showed a lot.

757
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think from every time you lose, it's a

758
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 4: lot to learn from his small little wins or lessons

759
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 4: that you can take. And I just I felt like,

760
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 4: you know, obviously we we had none to lose. You know,

761
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 4: everybody expected them to win and go all the way.

762
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 4: So you know, let's take it one game at the time,

763
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 4: let's make it tough for him.

764
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 5: And we tried.

765
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,919
Speaker 4: You know, we won Game three, y'all had fifty and

766
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 4: Game four I had forty something, but we lost. But

767
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 4: just knowing that Katie and James and Kyrie was out

768
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 4: there and you know them three of the best players

769
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 4: in the world. And you know, regardless how old I am,

770
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 4: I want to go out there and say, you know

771
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,399
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, I'm up there with y'all.

772
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: I saw that they y'all had moments with you. What

773
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: were they? What was that like?

774
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 4: The little moment shots shared between each other after the

775
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 4: after the series was over year. I mean I played

776
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 4: with Kai, I known Katie Feaven and James, and I mean,

777
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 4: you know, after the playoffs, you know, you show the respect.

778
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 4: You know, you've been pushing and shoving somebody five to

779
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 4: seven games straight. Uh So, just those those are the

780
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 4: special moments that you know a lot of people don't get,

781
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 4: you know, until you get to that that level in

782
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 4: the playoffs and stuff like that.

783
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,240
Speaker 3: In your Instagram, do they send you to Lebron dunk

784
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:32,280
Speaker 3: on every day.

785
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 5: Yeah, I see I see the.

786
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 4: Dunk at least, if not every If not every day,

787
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 4: I see it every other since whether it's Twitter on Instagram,

788
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:45,800
Speaker 4: I always see it somewhere.

789
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 2: Tell me, how excited are you to see Kember get

790
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 2: to go home to the Knicks and be you know,

791
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 2: in that atmosphere and just to know him being a

792
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 2: kid from from you know, Mount Vernon, New York, in

793
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 2: that whole atmosphere, what he did it when he went

794
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 2: to Yukon and every time he came to the garden

795
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 2: and how special that place is to him. How do

796
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 2: you how happy are you to see him get home?

797
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,919
Speaker 4: I mean it's too full. I ain't want him to leave, right,

798
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 4: That's like that's the first part. But that's my man.

799
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 4: Like I love Kim with the death, coolest dude, every great,

800
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 4: great teammate, one of the best personalities, like you, always smiled,

801
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 4: like everybody know, Kim was just always.

802
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 1: Happy doing brand represent her.

803
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 4: So to see him leave, but for him to be

804
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 4: able to go back home, right, and I'm sure him

805
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 4: being a kid always dreaming about the far being from

806
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 4: the Bronx to playing you know, in the Madsison Square Garden.

807
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 4: I couldn't be happier for him? How was it for

808
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 4: you playing in MSG? Like you know what I'm saying.

809
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 2: Everybody say, that's the mecca and that's the place, Like

810
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 2: how does that like? How do you feel when you

811
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 2: get to go there? Like how that How does that like?

812
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 2: That's that's a special special vibe? Like how does it

813
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 2: impact you? Because I'm you play home in Boston Garden

814
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 2: every day with that, but how does that that Nick

815
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 2: Garden feel?

816
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 4: Since I was in college, that was my favorite place

817
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 4: to play. I had I hurt my foot in college,

818
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,439
Speaker 4: so I missed the first twelve games. So my first

819
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,720
Speaker 4: game back, we played it in Cameron and I played

820
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 4: like twenty minutes all a minute restriction. But the game,

821
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 4: the first game I played like four minutes was like

822
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 4: my coming out party. We played Florida at MSG. I

823
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 4: remember Kyrie was was a court sided and I had

824
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 4: like twenty seven or something. And ever since then, for

825
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 4: the most part, I always get busy when I get

826
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 4: when I playing MG, it's just like there's no better

827
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,800
Speaker 4: place to play in my eyes, Well that's.

828
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 3: That's good for a Celtics player because then, y'all conference,

829
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 3: you always got to get busy up from now.

830
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 2: Tell me about your relationship with Jalen Brown and how

831
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,839
Speaker 2: that's grown, because you know, early on they was like, oh,

832
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,280
Speaker 2: they got to split these guys up. They so similar

833
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,280
Speaker 2: to this and that. But like, you guys have proven

834
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,879
Speaker 2: that not only can y'all play the game othering exists together,

835
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 2: but y'all could be you know, stars together and thrive together.

836
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 2: So tell me about how that relationship has grown over

837
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 2: the years.

838
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 5: It's been great.

839
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 4: Two guys that got drafted back to back to the

840
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 4: same team, same you know draft number, and every day,

841
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 4: every day, every day, every game. You know, I know

842
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 4: where I'm trying to get to. He know where he

843
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 4: trying to get to, and we're trying to figure out together.

844
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 4: But it's in a way we were pushing each other

845
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 4: like it had been times where he didn't done something

846
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 4: in the game and it's not like and I'm thinking

847
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 4: like damn, like I need I'm trying to do that

848
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 4: and things out and did or he didn't told me

849
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 4: like yo, Like so like we we everything we do,

850
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 4: we compete in it, like in a good way, like

851
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 4: I'm pushing in were playing one on one after practice

852
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 4: and we I think the next step of us is

853
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 4: like even feeding off each other more in the game.

854
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 4: But you know, JB is from where he started his

855
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 4: first year, and what they tried to label him is

856
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 4: just like, you know, he couldn't shoot or whatever, and

857
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 4: you know, he shot on thirty eight forty percent from

858
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 4: the three and made his first All Star game. I

859
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 4: couldn't I couldn't have been happier for him. And you know,

860
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 4: obviously he hurt his wrist so he didn't play in

861
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 4: the playoffs. But you know, I think especially going into

862
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 4: this season, you know, people talking about all the trades

863
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 4: that other teams made, and you know what we're gonna do.

864
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 4: I think, you know, honestly, me and him kind of

865
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 4: take the same approach it, like you know, I'm getting

866
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 4: better and he getting better. It's not like we stand

867
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:36,919
Speaker 4: the same.

868
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 5: So you know.

869
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 4: We we we two of the hungriest players in the league.

870
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 4: We're still trying to get there.

871
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 2: Tell me about like, like you spoke about going to

872
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 2: the new season, right, so I had the pleasure of

873
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 2: your new coach email. That was my teammate, even to

874
00:39:56,520 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 2: two different in stints. I played with E Mail and

875
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 2: I played with him in New York for I don't know.

876
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 2: They both of them was a couple of little short stands.

877
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 2: But he may and his sister went to college with me.

878
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 2: It's just to play it on the women's team in

879
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 2: depart So shout out to fund. But he's one of

880
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,800
Speaker 2: the greatest, like just individuals that you ever you know

881
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, encounter and just class. He stand up guys,

882
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,280
Speaker 2: and I know what he's gonna bring to the table.

883
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 2: Just tell me what you think of him. How excited

884
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,840
Speaker 2: are you to move forward with him as your new coach?

885
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:33,359
Speaker 4: Yeah? I met he May twenty nineteen. He was on

886
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 4: the Spur staff and that's when I played on the

887
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 4: feb team with Pop, so he was there on the

888
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 4: whole trip. So he came with a trip with us

889
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,280
Speaker 4: to Tokyo. I spent a lot of time with him.

890
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 4: I think the world of him. I'm excited and especially

891
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 4: that you know when you assistant coach first get they

892
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 4: first head coaching, they hungry, you know, they yes, they

893
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 4: He called me all, he faced me all the time,

894
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,319
Speaker 4: like he sent me stats. I can tell like you know,

895
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 4: he excited and you know, as a player, that's what

896
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 4: you want, Like somebody's excited and ready for the season.

897
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,799
Speaker 5: So no, I mean I'm excited for the new start.

898
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 3: I just feel for the organization to feel like the

899
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 3: organization is behind you and and believing in you, like

900
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 3: the like the Celtics organ.

901
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:22,800
Speaker 1: You mean that big bag. Yeah, bring backed up on it.

902
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 3: Talk about for be the Celtics and the franchise that

903
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 3: really believe in you and want to move forward in

904
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 3: the future with you.

905
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 6: Uh.

906
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 5: That was that was.

907
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 4: A incredible moment when I got that, when we came

908
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,839
Speaker 4: to an agreement, I signed that deal.

909
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:42,399
Speaker 6: Uh.

910
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 4: I I'm like, growing up, I thought about like man,

911
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 4: like you think about all these things, but when they happen,

912
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 4: like yeah, you can't even explain just thinking about everything

913
00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 4: you'd have been through growing up, where you come from,

914
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 4: your family and at twenty two signing a you know,

915
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 4: one hundred and seventy five million dollars contract.

916
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 6: First millionaire for your family.

917
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 2: Hold loo, did the cameras hear that tell how old

918
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:11,839
Speaker 2: you is?

919
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: Not all how old you is? And what you just said.

920
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 4: I was twenty two and when I signed one hundred

921
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 4: and seventy million dollar contract, and like you said, for

922
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 4: someone to you know, believe in you like that someone

923
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 4: liked the Celtics, who you know, got as much history

924
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 4: as any franchise ever. You know, that was just you know,

925
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:40,280
Speaker 4: I was extremely excited, you know, thankful, you know, happy,

926
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:42,720
Speaker 4: enjoyed it, enjoying it now.

927
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 2: So I must ask this, you know, with that we're

928
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,840
Speaker 2: talking about that, it's only righted I asked my question

929
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 2: because last time you was too you was too young.

930
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 2: We spared you this, We didn't even go there with you.

931
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 2: But now, like you say, one hundred seventy five, me like,

932
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 2: I don't hear. I know, I know, I know, I

933
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 2: know for sure you didnet took care mama. We know

934
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 2: that's for show and all that pops everybody straight, What

935
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 2: did you do for yourself that was like fly flash, like,

936
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 2: oh I just got this bag. I got to have

937
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:12,399
Speaker 2: this and maybe a little bit of that over there,

938
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 2: because one seventy five that's a.

939
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 1: That's healthy.

940
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, but you got to know yet when

941
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 4: you when you sign your extension, you got a whole

942
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 4: nother year before you get.

943
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 5: To that check come. So yeah, but it's coming.

944
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 3: You don't waste that light money real quick. I get

945
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:33,839
Speaker 3: this next year time out, don't time from going. This

946
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 3: is what they call the SA because what he trying

947
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 3: to do is talk about you don't do. First of all,

948
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 3: you you endorsed up, so we about to talk about

949
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 3: all of that.

950
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 2: But you endorsed stuff, so you ain't got a light

951
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 2: take it. I gotta time out. And what now, boy?

952
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 2: You could you could right now instant gratification. You got

953
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 2: all types of gator read over here. You got first

954
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 2: of all, the brothels, Saint Louis barbecue, flaming high.

955
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:01,439
Speaker 1: So hold on, let me up for all the hood

956
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: you sound. You know what I'm saying.

957
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, you and Draymond on the

958
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 2: subway commercials.

959
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: But let's get back to the question getting off the bag?

960
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: What did you get?

961
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 4: So I'm being honest. I've always saved all my NBA money.

962
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 4: That's why I, you know, enjoy doing all the Ruffles, Gatorade,

963
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 4: two K beats, all those commercials.

964
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 1: I heard that, man, I see y'all. Jeff, you know

965
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, gang.

966
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:39,879
Speaker 4: Gang, So I spent I spend that money. I live

967
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 4: off that money, and I like nice things. I got

968
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 4: a couple of whips I like. I like watching the

969
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 4: nice watch. I like watches. Uh, you know, taking trips,

970
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 4: so that endorsement money. You know what I'm saying, Come

971
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 4: on and shot.

972
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: Right now what you did.

973
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 6: I gotta.

974
00:44:59,280 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: What you.

975
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 4: This is the most expensive thing I got for Christmas. Uh,

976
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 4: I got myself twenty twenty one black badge is exclusive

977
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 4: and it's only a few of them out there, black

978
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 4: badge of Rose Royce coloring, Rose Chuck. It was always

979
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 4: since I was like in high school, ready for.

980
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 2: Listen, I said contest clues. I was, you know, real

981
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 2: good and that type of stuff. He said, some a

982
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:30,320
Speaker 2: few of them out there.

983
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,359
Speaker 1: Black badge. I don't think I heard that.

984
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 6: Reference for us, like some Batman coloring.

985
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 1: I know what that is. But he threw all the

986
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:39,919
Speaker 1: mother things.

987
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 2: When you say it's only a few of them out there,

988
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 2: I mean it's like a certain number of them exclusive

989
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:49,800
Speaker 2: club saying it sounded like the George Gervin that the

990
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 2: hel the Rider a little bit black on black.

991
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:54,320
Speaker 1: Twenty four, not twenty five.

992
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 2: Yet twenty three. Hold on, man, this is really crazy.

993
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 2: Okay you twenty three. Run off all of them endorsements

994
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:04,959
Speaker 2: again one time. Just run them off for me one time,

995
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 2: because I want to explain something.

996
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 4: The ones I got right now, right now, Jordan Brand, Gatorade,

997
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 4: New Era, NBA two K, Mike Rosof Beats, Ruffles, have Ridgimos.

998
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 1: I didn't see man commercials all types of stuffing.

999
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a couple of years ago. I read that.

1000
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 2: Listen, bro, this man ain't et twenty five year the

1001
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,920
Speaker 2: cash out, Like, how do it feel like for real?

1002
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 2: Like cause, like for you to have those type of

1003
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 2: those are significant brands. You know what I'm saying this already,

1004
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. Invested in you. I see

1005
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 2: they support in your charity golf events and your all

1006
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:47,760
Speaker 2: your efforts.

1007
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 1: That you do in the community and stuff.

1008
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 2: Like yeah, straight up, like how do it feel to

1009
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 2: have that type of support and have that type of

1010
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 2: team to put you in play with all those different things?

1011
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Because that's like crazy for

1012
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 2: you not even to be twenty five? You well on

1013
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 2: your way to be young shackout. You know what I'm saying,

1014
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 2: for to be on general.

1015
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 3: You're saying your whole life you grew up like you

1016
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. But some of these products and

1017
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 3: now you promote two.

1018
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 2: K, Like come on, bro, like we know how you

1019
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 2: grew up on that and now you like part of that,

1020
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 2: like all of that stuff.

1021
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 4: Yes, I remember coming out of college and I was

1022
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 4: trying to find an agent, and you know Jeff, you know,

1023
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 4: just knowing what he did with Kai and Penny and

1024
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 4: working with Shocking those guys and Jeffrey Wexler. So I

1025
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 4: got my pops, got two other kids. I got a

1026
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 4: little brother and little sister, but I grew up the

1027
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 4: only child with my mom. So I remember I went

1028
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,319
Speaker 4: to Jeff because Jeff only had one client that was

1029
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 4: in the league at the time.

1030
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 5: So I was like, you know what I'm saying, I

1031
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:48,800
Speaker 5: need a lot of attention.

1032
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 4: I was like, I was like, Jeff, my plan is

1033
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 4: to save all my NBA money, So like I'm fine

1034
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 4: with doing all the photo shoots, all the commercials. And

1035
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 4: it's funny because sometimes I think think about like what

1036
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 4: I was doing my rookie year, and like how much

1037
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 4: I was getting paid for stuff like that, and like

1038
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 4: now what I'm doing now. In in fact, Joe said,

1039
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:15,800
Speaker 4: the price is not the same all battles price. I

1040
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,839
Speaker 4: remember Jeff telling me, he was like, you do your part,

1041
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 4: and I do my part. So you take care of

1042
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 4: business on the court, you know, you don't get in trouble.

1043
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 4: Do things like that, you know, make the job a

1044
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 4: lot easier.

1045
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, like that, Like listen, we've been with Jeff.

1046
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 2: Me and him both came out saying, yeah, we chose

1047
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:37,240
Speaker 2: j double together and like that was the best decision

1048
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 2: we made period in life. Like you know what I'm saying.

1049
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:42,800
Speaker 2: Like for us, he like a obviously he was our agent,

1050
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 2: but he was more like a big brother type figure

1051
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 2: mentor type figure and put us on the different things

1052
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 2: in this game and business like always get you right

1053
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 2: and the thing you gotta appreciate it.

1054
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:54,240
Speaker 1: You's gonna always tell you the truth.

1055
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 3: Store bench cut man, store bench trade about trouble.

1056
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 6: Bench trade.

1057
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 5: So benches mean like a six man come off the

1058
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 5: bench or something.

1059
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:06,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, they first put off bench. You gotta trade one.

1060
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:08,879
Speaker 3: We ain't gonna cut them. You know, we're too good

1061
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 3: to cut. So we're gonna trade. Kd Lebron.

1062
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.

1063
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 5: How you answer that?

1064
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 4: Kobe Huh? I'm starting. I mean I gotta start, Kobe.

1065
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:27,399
Speaker 4: I got I got Kobe Jersey downstairs in my book bag.

1066
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 4: I got Kobe tap uh. I mean like the players

1067
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 4: like that never get traded like Lebron. Never get traded, Katie,

1068
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 4: You'll never get traded.

1069
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 1: He's starting, Kobe.

1070
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 2: We got a long pause right now, storing cod He

1071
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 2: thinking about the internet clips swirling around.

1072
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,719
Speaker 4: I don't know, you know what I'm saying. I don't,

1073
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:57,319
Speaker 4: kat we don't want to go metal together. Wen't been

1074
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:57,880
Speaker 4: through something.

1075
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:00,320
Speaker 6: We just came off.

1076
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 5: We didn't been through something.

1077
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:09,799
Speaker 4: Boys, I can't trade neither one. They come off the bench.

1078
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 2: Said Kobe, starting and coming off the bench.

1079
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 6: I feel that about the Kobe. What made you get

1080
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:17,280
Speaker 6: a tattoo of Kobe?

1081
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 5: Uh? I?

1082
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 4: I love tattoos, and for me, it's like it's a

1083
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 4: way to like express yourself. I love I love the process,

1084
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 4: you know, figuring out a tattoo, you know, going through

1085
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 4: the pain, you know, seeing it come to life. You

1086
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 4: know how you know you place it in, you know

1087
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 4: how all the whatever story you're trying to tell, whatever,

1088
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:49,719
Speaker 4: how I come together. And you know somebody as you know,

1089
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 4: important and influential to me, as anybody you know, resting

1090
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:57,840
Speaker 4: pieces to Kobe. Uh you always knew, you know you

1091
00:50:57,920 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 4: have to you know what happened that you know I

1092
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 4: eventually get one. I just wanted to take some time

1093
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 4: a respect that and figure, you know what I wanted

1094
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 4: to do. So I got twenty four in a black mamba,

1095
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 4: you know, with the scales detailed going down the inside

1096
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 4: of my left knee. I seen eight and twenty four play,

1097
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:22,400
Speaker 4: you know, but I was a little older when he

1098
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 4: was twenty four, so I remember that most.

1099
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:26,799
Speaker 5: So that's why I picked twenty four.

1100
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:29,360
Speaker 1: Tell me how dope is to be?

1101
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 2: You know now that you with Jordan Brand and I

1102
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 2: haven't seen you know, I didn't hit you a couple

1103
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:35,840
Speaker 2: of times like yo, you know what I'm saying, Like,

1104
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 2: how dope is it for you to have that that

1105
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 2: to be that involved in the process and coming up

1106
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 2: with the customs you the pees you have because you

1107
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:46,759
Speaker 2: be having some crazy stuff. I'd have seen you, you know,

1108
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 2: shout out to Lou your son, all types of different

1109
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 2: things that means something to you, Like how how dope

1110
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 2: is it to you to you know, for you to

1111
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 2: feel like you really putting your own input in DNA

1112
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 2: and impact on your own shoe every time time out.

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00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 4: I think for me, anything that you know is involved

1114
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 4: in like you know, my brand or something that I

1115
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:10,759
Speaker 4: you know, want to endorse to put out, you know,

1116
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:12,880
Speaker 4: I want to put my all into it. You know,

1117
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 4: I love storytelling. I love having ideas and seeing them

1118
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:20,239
Speaker 4: come to life. So when you know people like y'all too,

1119
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 4: or whether it's Twitter or I'm in the layup line

1120
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:25,799
Speaker 4: and somebody from an other team like yo, like let

1121
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:27,319
Speaker 4: me get them, like send me a pair?

1122
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 5: Like that is a like that is a hell of

1123
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 5: a feeling.

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00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 4: Just no like the talks that I've had with the

1125
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,359
Speaker 4: team and trying to figure out what shoes I want

1126
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 4: to see and then seeing them come to life and

1127
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:41,520
Speaker 4: then seeing people react to him. It's no better feeling

1128
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:43,240
Speaker 4: than that lou.

1129
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 1: Be doing his thing out j lou.

1130
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:50,799
Speaker 4: So coach when the Tatum ones come out. Make sure

1131
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 4: y'all wait that way. But that was my next question.

1132
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 2: Can we expect my man's own signature shoot? Because it's

1133
00:52:58,160 --> 00:52:59,280
Speaker 2: definitely that time.

1134
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:02,359
Speaker 5: I can't tell you exactly when, but it's on the way.

1135
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 2: I said, Man, we look, man, we appreciate you. Man,

1136
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:11,359
Speaker 2: we done pulled up on you and lovely pulled up

1137
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 2: to the vote. You know what I'm saying, You welcome

1138
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 2: us in. We appreciate you. When that's a route, man,

1139
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:19,840
Speaker 2: we got the Young thunder Cat Superstar, Young Jason Taitum

1140
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 2: Boston Celtics in the building in Saint Louis's own Make

1141
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:25,360
Speaker 2: sure you say that, bro, so you've got to say it.

1142
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:27,880
Speaker 2: Make sure you say I don't get jumped Saint Louis

1143
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:29,360
Speaker 2: Is on everybody.

1144
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:39,440
Speaker 6: All right.

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