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Speaker 3: This was the Reggie Jackson episode. We were now joined
Speaker 3: by a special guest to himself.
Speaker 4: You can't forget me if you see him, you see
Speaker 4: me security guard being a security from the day you
Speaker 4: guy not here but in Detroit. And yes, lesson might
Speaker 4: touch him if they want to.
Speaker 3: It's Andre Drummer if you don't know already, But let's
Speaker 3: let's start with that. Obviously, Reggie, your shared history in
Speaker 3: LA with Paul George as well, but Detroit time with
Speaker 3: with Andre Drummon. So how much are you looking forward
Speaker 3: to being reunited with both of your previous teammates here
Speaker 3: in Philadelphia?
Speaker 1: Man, I was excited, uh going through process when I
Speaker 1: got the call to possibly come to Philly understanding that
Speaker 1: talk to Paul, knowing that he was here. But shoot,
Speaker 1: dre I was excited. He shoot, he texted me early
Speaker 1: once he signed. Nothing was even in the fold for
Speaker 1: me moving or what was going to be understood, But
Speaker 1: he kind of texted me. I refused to text back
Speaker 1: in a sense, I'm like, already know what he's gonna
Speaker 1: I know what he's in a text about. But he
Speaker 1: was the first person I hit up as soon as
Speaker 1: I saw ed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at what point did you decide to text back?
Speaker 2: And how did you feel when he touched it back?
Speaker 4: When I saw when I saw well, just think I said,
Speaker 4: you're bro with the f man. I think text you
Speaker 4: for like two weeks. It's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: He texted me. He texted quite a bit. I was
Speaker 1: on vacation. I tried to call him connection and go through. Then.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: We definitely made sure to touch base once I signed,
Speaker 1: So it was like, obviously we broke the news early,
Speaker 1: and then I think my first call was the DRE
Speaker 1: So I was like, yeah, we're back together. We got
Speaker 1: to figure out how to do what we can to
Speaker 1: help the team, but it's just gonna be good to
Speaker 1: be around each other again. Then, especially uh, PG was definitely,
Speaker 1: you know up there in the next call, excited to
Speaker 1: be back together. He was, He's talking to me about
Speaker 1: trying to get me over here, lure me in and shoot.
Speaker 1: He did it once, so I figured we could do
Speaker 1: it again twice.
Speaker 2: You're already a pro with the Segways. But I was
Speaker 2: going to ask you next about Paul George. You shared
Speaker 2: that you guys were actually roommates for a series of summers.
Speaker 2: Can you take us back and explain what the dynamic
Speaker 2: of your relationship is.
Speaker 1: That that's been another brother to me. So having Andre
Speaker 1: having Pg's going to be amazing for me, But honestly,
Speaker 1: it was with the same agency I came in during
Speaker 1: the lockout year in twenty eleven. Guys started to fall
Speaker 1: out later when we kind of figured out there might
Speaker 1: be a lockout, we weren't sure what was gonna happen.
Speaker 1: So we got kind of close, just more so being
Speaker 1: part of the same agency working out as guys kept
Speaker 1: falling off, continue to work out, continue just to hang out.
Speaker 1: And I'm just thankful for how great he is. He
Speaker 1: kind of took me under his wing. I couldn't get
Speaker 1: back home at the time, taking a loan out, not
Speaker 1: sure where money's gonna come from, just waiting for hopefully
Speaker 1: first NBA check. And then he invited me over for
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving out in the Boonie so to see his family,
Speaker 1: and his family's so welcoming. It was amazing to be together.
Speaker 1: And then I think we just hit it off from there.
Speaker 1: So just cheering for him, rooting them on. While he
Speaker 1: was in Indiana the next summer, I loved where he was staying,
Speaker 1: so I really was just reaching out to him to
Speaker 1: try to.
Speaker 3: He said, hey, is it the same place?
Speaker 1: Well, no, for me, I was gonna ask him. I
Speaker 1: was like what was the name of the apartments that
Speaker 1: you were staying at. I'm thinking about hitting them up.
Speaker 1: He kind of responded back, disappeared for a couple of days.
Speaker 1: Next thing I know, he was like, why would you
Speaker 1: stay there? Like, let's why don't we just get a
Speaker 1: spot together? And from there, I think we stayed together
Speaker 1: for about six years each summer. So just that connection,
Speaker 1: it's it's amazing. It's a bond that you know, it's
Speaker 1: unbreakable bond. Families are close that. Like I said, it's
Speaker 1: the brothers and me are always rooting for them no
Speaker 1: matter what the circumstances are. And I'm just happy that
Speaker 1: we can be back together on the court.
Speaker 2: And Andre, you said you visited the summerhouse, what was
Speaker 2: what was it like and what was the context of
Speaker 2: Like how invite to visit?
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, we were both in the Olympics at the
Speaker 4: time too, so I got invited for for that reason.
Speaker 4: That's how our connection started with USA basketball and he
Speaker 4: was over there He's like, Yo, if you're not doing anything,
Speaker 4: pull up to the house.
Speaker 1: So mind you this is like what that's probably don't
Speaker 1: think I don't think I signed my contract at fourteen.
Speaker 4: Then yeah, and signed my contract at SO to me
Speaker 4: seeing this, how I was like, yeah, this WI money
Speaker 4: looks like I guess I was just so big I
Speaker 4: got lost on multiple occasions. So just going there and
Speaker 4: just you know, being welcomed in this welcome to his home,
Speaker 4: just based off the relationship we have with USA basketball.
Speaker 4: Paul's just a stand up guy, you know, from the
Speaker 4: first that met him to present day. Still cool to
Speaker 4: this day when I see him, Like when you go
Speaker 4: to war with somebody and you build that relationship, it's
Speaker 4: always loved no matter how long you're apart from each other.
Speaker 4: So we sing with Jack too. You know, we went
Speaker 4: to war for years and the relationship always stand no
Speaker 4: matter where we went together.
Speaker 3: And Reggie, you and Paul, not just I mean through
Speaker 3: the agency, not just as teammates, but your your connection
Speaker 3: goes back from what I understand even to the AAU days.
Speaker 3: But the details are a little foggy. For on Paul
Speaker 3: George's end of playing against you, did he know you
Speaker 3: as just the good player from Denver in AAU ball.
Speaker 3: What's the story with that.
Speaker 1: I actually remember seeing PG and it was like Klay Thompson,
Speaker 1: Drew and all those guys. So I had never played
Speaker 1: AU and understand what it was. So I was excited
Speaker 1: to go. And then like he was there's a tall
Speaker 1: lank he got super tall, but kind of shoot who
Speaker 1: he is today? The smooth looking kid on their team.
Speaker 1: But like I said, seeing the Drew Holidays, seeing the
Speaker 1: Larry Drews, which we got, we got to play for
Speaker 1: his dad senior in LA, like that was when like
Speaker 1: I just wanted to measure up, see how good I was.
Speaker 1: At the time, I didn't know about other states playing basketball. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I had no idea. You so kind of researching and
Speaker 1: everybody's like, there's this pumping run, pumping run California, Like
Speaker 1: all right, I don't know who it is. But yeah,
Speaker 1: So the first time I seen them out there, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I know who this Drew Holiday kid is.
Speaker 1: I've kind of studied now, I know Larry Drew's I've
Speaker 1: seen I think Paul George is a sleeper, you know,
Speaker 1: Clay was a sleeper. But they had a pretty stacked team.
Speaker 1: So seeing them and then finally getting a chance to
Speaker 1: compete against them, it was very fun. I think that's
Speaker 1: where I got some of my confidence from and never
Speaker 1: knew that a lot of those guys would be the
Speaker 1: guys that were my peers I had to get a
Speaker 1: chance to play against so for most of my career.
Speaker 1: So shout out just thankful for the you circuit at
Speaker 1: the time, thankful to those guys allowed me to get
Speaker 1: a chance to measure up and really try to see
Speaker 1: where I was to keep giving me confidence to be
Speaker 1: able to play this long. But it was funny because
Speaker 1: then we were chatting once we were living together, like,
Speaker 1: hey man, I was like, I think I remember who
Speaker 1: you were and the teams he played on, especially the
Speaker 1: guys that he had made connection with, things like I
Speaker 1: know you from color Like did you play with a
Speaker 1: certain team? Are like yeah, He's like there was this
Speaker 1: one kid used to wear his headband on top of
Speaker 1: his head and I'm like, oh, you're talking about me.
Speaker 1: I had no idea, and come front forward, I've been
Speaker 1: like five years separation to then. Now we've had a
Speaker 1: bond ever since.
Speaker 4: It's funny best been in the league because that's the
Speaker 4: that's what I know him by too. When I was
Speaker 4: when I was in high school, I saw him that
Speaker 4: Boston College and that's what he had, the headband. That's
Speaker 4: how I remember who he was until he came back
Speaker 4: and played with me Detroit, so definitely stood out that
Speaker 4: had been because he definitely didn't worth the right way.
Speaker 1: And then we tried to get him on campus, but
Speaker 1: you know, popped up. He was a kid in the
Speaker 1: Northeast that everybody wanted. We moved working probably get me
Speaker 1: at BC. So it's funny at all comes forward is
Speaker 1: these relationships that you bypass each other in history and
Speaker 1: then you end up being real cool and friends for
Speaker 1: life down the road. So, like I said, it's funny
Speaker 1: to all kind of interact with PG at times with
Speaker 1: how we truly met. Have we seen each other as afar?
Speaker 1: I remember seeing Dre as a young kid being who
Speaker 1: Dre is now and then I never always just feel
Speaker 1: like I just try to lie in the shadows and
Speaker 1: be myself. But how he was like, He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you used to wear your head band. All funny and
Speaker 1: all we got to de trade him like, oh I
Speaker 1: remember you, you remember who I am. So it's funny
Speaker 1: with the game's done with a lot of these relationships
Speaker 1: that I've had in my life.
Speaker 3: You ended up at Boston College, So how did you?
Speaker 3: How did you end up on the East Coast because
Speaker 3: before Colorado and high school, you you lived all over
Speaker 3: because your dad was in the Air Force. How did
Speaker 3: you end up picking Boston College?
Speaker 1: Honestly, man, funny story. I was always tell all the
Speaker 1: time shots one of the Chauncey Bilichi was supposed to
Speaker 1: be at Colorado. There was. It's just a terrible mishap.
Speaker 1: I was honestly supposed to be funneled into Colorado. My
Speaker 1: one of my best friends from Colorado, his dad is
Speaker 1: he's been the what is the announcer, like the media
Speaker 1: voice for air Force forever. So coach Bisdelic was at
Speaker 1: air Force. My best friend's dad works at air Force.
Speaker 1: Sometime like since I got there middle school. He goes
Speaker 1: to see you. Everybody's like, Oh, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: easy transition. The visitor just didn't go well. Unfortunately, Terrell's here,
Speaker 1: who played at Oklahoma State. One of the coaches actually
Speaker 1: so way he doesn't know. I remember I went to
Speaker 1: one of their little mini camps, ended up ducking on
Speaker 1: some kid in their regular camp. Got invited to like
Speaker 1: do a little unofficial visit there. So that's actually where
Speaker 1: I wanted to go, but the coaching staff had kind
Speaker 1: of told me that it probably didn't work be there long.
Speaker 1: So I appreciate their honesty because that allowed me to
Speaker 1: not probably waste my time. I really wanted to go
Speaker 1: o Goha State. Then at when I was like fifteen,
Speaker 1: I think BC. Actually that's when they transferred into from
Speaker 1: Big East to the ACC Man they had a great
Speaker 1: showing a bunch of probably guys who kind of a
Speaker 1: similar route I did, au like unknown, and then they
Speaker 1: had some guys go to the league. So that was
Speaker 1: one of those I kind of paid attention. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to ride a similar wave, be around guys that are
Speaker 1: similar to me, and my mom had lived in Florida,
Speaker 1: so Boston College just went there. So I was like,
Speaker 1: I remember seeing them at fifteen sixteen, I was like, man,
Speaker 1: if they ever offered me, I'd probably go there. Just randomly.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm actually look into it. And then
Speaker 1: I had a really great teammate Rip Drew Gordon. That's
Speaker 1: the first team ever played was Oakland Soldiers. They had
Speaker 1: like six kids in top one hundred, and my teammate
Speaker 1: at Boston College and who I went with, he had
Speaker 1: like sixty in overtime and it was like one of
Speaker 1: the games. I yeah, no, killing I had thirty and
Speaker 1: then that was my coach. Now is that you mass lol,
Speaker 1: So we always talked about then that's kind of we
Speaker 1: were a packaged deal to go to BC, so kind
Speaker 1: of flunking out with where I was supposed to go
Speaker 1: to college everywhere else the options that I wanted to
Speaker 1: BC was an acc and came to fruition. So a
Speaker 1: kid who just said I might go there if they
Speaker 1: ever offered me at seventeen, I could offer basically right
Speaker 1: at the end of the summer, and from there it
Speaker 1: was easy. It was an easy call. It was a
Speaker 1: chance to play in front of my family and the
Speaker 1: East College, chance to playing for my mom, possibly two
Speaker 1: times at Florida State and Miami. I always grew up
Speaker 1: a fan of North Carolina Tar Hills, and my motto was,
Speaker 1: I didn't get invited, so if you can't beat him,
Speaker 1: or if you can't join and beat them. So it
Speaker 1: was just a chance, especially at the time it was
Speaker 1: one of the power conferences for basketball. So I've always
Speaker 1: just wanted to see where I measure up, Like, I
Speaker 1: just wanted to play the basketball, do something I love
Speaker 1: as long as I can, and just see where I
Speaker 1: fall amongst my peers, and I've just been atramely blessed.
Speaker 1: But that's kind of how I ended up at BC.
Speaker 1: Thankful for my time here all the time. A lot
Speaker 1: of the relationships I've made, the bonds I made for
Speaker 1: a lifetime, I'm thankful. So it's funny how everything the
Speaker 1: game's done for me and a lot of relationships that
Speaker 1: I have because of it.
Speaker 3: Fast forward about a decade.
Speaker 2: You guys become teammates for the first time. How did
Speaker 2: you go from new teammates to this dynamic duo? You
Speaker 2: said package deal? Y'all sort of came here together this
Speaker 2: time as well. I understand there was some not texting back,
Speaker 2: but we made it. Can you sort of take us
Speaker 2: through sort of that friendship from being teammates for the
Speaker 2: first time to today rejoining here?
Speaker 1: You got it? Or we could both do. I'll give
Speaker 1: half the story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Andre start and then you can call him out
Speaker 2: if he messes anything up.
Speaker 1: I think you was just I couldn't wait. I watched him,
Speaker 1: so I was like, I can't wait to be lave
Speaker 1: this kid. Your drumming like a chance to play with
Speaker 1: a center, athletic center, young upcoming hungry as Shroggsy is
Speaker 1: gifties he is, and I just remember the first time we met,
Speaker 1: but chatting it off and they were running and playing around.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was like, all right, I couldn't
Speaker 1: play the first game, but I remember time. I was like,
Speaker 1: if we ever get a chance played, I was like,
Speaker 1: be ready, I'll throw a lob from anywhere. He was
Speaker 1: like all right, kind of brushed it off. I think,
Speaker 1: like you're crazy. The first love we got was beyond
Speaker 1: half court and he was like, yo, you threw the
Speaker 1: ball and I was like, oh, if I throw it, it
Speaker 1: just goes out of bounce like right. He was like
Speaker 1: gaudy dunk and he's like, oh snap. And then he
Speaker 1: hung out with me and yeah. So then I had
Speaker 1: to meet with the owner and he came and he
Speaker 1: helped me out like being uncomfortable. Him and the owner
Speaker 1: were really close, so then me and him just hit
Speaker 1: it off. Actually where they put me in like this
Speaker 1: housing facility, I ended up looking. I didn't know Drake
Speaker 1: was there, so like I drive up, I'm looking like
Speaker 1: that Carlo's familiar. One day and next time I look
Speaker 1: out of my kitchen window and I think I'm on
Speaker 1: the second floor. Dre's on the floor, so like we
Speaker 1: actually could see each other diagonally, and I was like, wait, Drake.
Speaker 1: So ever since then we were just like inseparable. He's
Speaker 1: either at my spot or my hisads were playing the game.
Speaker 1: It would be two three am, like all right, we
Speaker 1: got to go to sleep, we have to get ready
Speaker 1: for work. We were just literally NonStop, whether always chatting
Speaker 1: what we see on the court, hanging out off the court.
Speaker 1: It just became like inseparable. We wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: our bond was as close as it could be, so
Speaker 1: we won, just trying to win as much you can
Speaker 1: of court, where we actually enjoyed being around each other
Speaker 1: and enjoy a lot of the same things, similar humor,
Speaker 1: similar games that we're into. But I really think it
Speaker 1: was more so the human part, like things that we
Speaker 1: find funny, random shows. And our families have made it
Speaker 1: easier too, because then they hit it off. So I
Speaker 1: think when your people hit it off as well and
Speaker 1: you're into a lot of the same things, it makes
Speaker 1: it easy. And he was just he's just genuine, Like honestly,
Speaker 1: the best thing for me was Dre was genuine. He's
Speaker 1: down to earth and He's exactly who he presents to be,
Speaker 1: So it made it easy for me to just kind
Speaker 1: of open up and be myself. Like I said, a
Speaker 1: lot of these guys, for me, I didn't know them
Speaker 1: because they played the au circuit. Things have gone, they've
Speaker 1: been in camps together. I'm kind of outsider looking in.
Speaker 1: I was always confused how people knew each other because
Speaker 1: I did research from like, wait, one guys from Cali,
Speaker 1: one guys from Texas, and the other guys from New York, Like,
Speaker 1: how do y'all know each other? And this has been
Speaker 1: this whole basketball community. But even without necessarily having that
Speaker 1: in my baggage or reps, like Dre was just always
Speaker 1: accepting it who I am. So it was just amazing.
Speaker 1: Back man, at the time, I think I coached my
Speaker 1: few of my coach staff from OKAC was over there,
Speaker 1: so like they just made sure we were always connected
Speaker 1: and always gonna hang out and be around each other,
Speaker 1: and then it just never stops.
Speaker 2: So this reunion aside, just because you did agree to
Speaker 2: sit in on the Reggie episode, Andre before you knew
Speaker 2: that Reggie was coming to Philadelphia with you, can you
Speaker 2: take us inside the decision to return to Philly and
Speaker 2: what it means to you to be back here.
Speaker 4: I feel like it was a no brainer for me
Speaker 4: when they called, you know, I sat down, talked to
Speaker 4: Nick for a little bit, and then when the big
Speaker 4: fellow called me, It's kind of what really solidified it.
Speaker 4: Just his approaching what he wanted from me is what
Speaker 4: was attractive, So like, why not? I mean, I had
Speaker 4: a great relationship here, I played well here, I know
Speaker 4: the city, I know the team, I know everything about Philadelphia,
Speaker 4: So why not come back and do something that's bigger
Speaker 4: than me? And now that we had you know, one
Speaker 4: of my best friends ever, you know, it just makes
Speaker 4: this situation even better. Like I've been smiling for the
Speaker 4: past week when I found out that he was coming here.
Speaker 1: I've been so excited. Just a relationship for Reggie and I.
Speaker 4: Man, it's it's different because in this league, it's hard
Speaker 4: to get attached to somebody because of how it goes.
Speaker 4: You know, people get traded, people get waived, and you know,
Speaker 4: you never see them again. So when we got him,
Speaker 4: you know, I didn't know what to really expect because
Speaker 4: we just played him like a week prior, and we
Speaker 4: I think at dunked on search that's the game with
Speaker 4: dunkd on search right, and ended up getting him like
Speaker 4: a week, like a week or two later. So I'm like, damn,
Speaker 4: I just seen this dude and he comes in and
Speaker 4: he's similar to me, Like he does the same much
Speaker 4: he does it with his play. I have the personality,
Speaker 4: he has the chill side. So that's why we bounce
Speaker 4: each other out. But when we got him, I was like, man,
Speaker 4: there's something about this dude that's different. And he came
Speaker 4: to me. I didn't even get to go to him first.
Speaker 4: We started talking. We hit it off, and as he said,
Speaker 4: we lived in the same apartment complex. And when you
Speaker 4: start building those personal relationships, like our families are tied together,
Speaker 4: you know, makes it hard to not checking out somebody,
Speaker 4: you know. I think he's probably one of the only
Speaker 4: people I've really kept in contact with since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 4: Everybody else, you know, I say what's up, but like
Speaker 4: consistently him and Stanley Johnson or like the closest people
Speaker 4: in the NBA that I have and the three Musket teams. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it means the world to me that
Speaker 4: he's here, you know, I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: It makes this like, so much more exciting.
Speaker 3: For me, letting your play do the talking. When you
Speaker 3: guys were with the Pistons, do you remember an early
Speaker 3: season game in Portland in twenty fifteen. It might have
Speaker 3: been the best game you've ever played. The game was
Speaker 3: a game career high on forty points.
Speaker 1: Nothing, It wasn't new, it was early in the year,
Speaker 1: and it's the game that shoot, it's the game that
Speaker 1: you and Marcus were yelling get forty. I'm like, who's
Speaker 1: gonna get forty? You? They like, I was like, what's forty? Meaning?
Speaker 1: Then I think I found there was like they pointed
Speaker 1: the board. I'm like, oh, I think like twenty four
Speaker 1: and the fourth But I had no idea. I'm just
Speaker 1: like I remember telling him like, yeah, we keep coming times,
Speaker 1: like all right, that's how we keep play. Let's keepetting bucket.
Speaker 1: She always doesn't scoring and points say anything. But I'm like,
Speaker 1: they're like, you're the one who's scoring, Like, oh, the
Speaker 1: balls moving. I didn't know the recipient, but that is
Speaker 1: one of the funniest games, funniest moments because at time too,
Speaker 1: I know he's gone, but it was Tobias, Marcus, Morris,
Speaker 1: Dre myself. We're all young. He's the youngest. Yeah, Like
Speaker 1: we're all trying to established ourselves, and I think everybody
Speaker 1: had like breakout games, but at that time, you can
Speaker 1: also like our group, we never paid attention necessarily stats.
Speaker 1: So it was just funny for me that at that moment,
Speaker 1: I think we're playing and that time we were riding
Speaker 1: away from might have been like twelve and four. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we were playing very well, but it was just funny
Speaker 1: for me, like having a group of guys who were
Speaker 1: in that excited about other people's success. Yeah, and I'm
Speaker 1: thinking it's just the team success. And I'm like I
Speaker 1: blank out a lot of times in games where I
Speaker 1: have no idea that I just feel the flow, like
Speaker 1: the we're flowing. I don't know who's necessary flowing, and
Speaker 1: it could be myself, but it just feels like just
Speaker 1: the right things are going on. So I've never been
Speaker 1: a person who necessarily can pay attention to what's going
Speaker 1: on in the scoreboard or stats or any of those.
Speaker 1: I just know either it's right or wrong, we're doing
Speaker 1: well or we're not, And the game always tells you
Speaker 1: how to play. So that's how I've always believed it,
Speaker 1: Like you got your guys who have to come in.
Speaker 1: Their job is to big game hunt. They have to
Speaker 1: do what they're supposed to do, and then it'll be
Speaker 1: somebody's night each and every night. It can change. But
Speaker 1: the game of basketball, that's one thing I loved about
Speaker 1: it is if you play it with a peer heart,
Speaker 1: you play the right way. I always feel I've always
Speaker 1: been taught that the cream of the car up rises
Speaker 1: to the top. So talent's gonna show for what it is,
Speaker 1: what you do. It's going to show for what it
Speaker 1: is and what you do. So if you're just true
Speaker 1: in your peer to your highest degree, then good things
Speaker 1: typically happen.
Speaker 3: Andre. When Reggie got forty, do you want to take
Speaker 3: a guess at your stat line from that game in
Speaker 3: twenty fifteen at Portland November, it was like twenty six
Speaker 3: and twenty twenty nine points and twenty seven rebounds, so
Speaker 3: not too bad.
Speaker 1: I was just saying, your best game, remember is the
Speaker 1: Boston one. I think the game to seven five steals
Speaker 1: and like four blocks.
Speaker 4: Almost had a trip with doublin Atlanta too. He's like,
Speaker 4: we've got a lot of good games.
Speaker 1: Man right at this age. Hopefully got a few in
Speaker 1: the tank. Got. He takes takes care of himself, takes
Speaker 1: great care of himself. He's got a lot in the tank.
Speaker 1: But hopefully, you know, we still got some myself, hopefully
Speaker 1: got some good games to help this team from just
Speaker 1: the whole thing is to win.
Speaker 2: Friend, bodyguard, coach, everything, got it.
Speaker 1: No doubt about motivator like Drey don't. He used to
Speaker 1: refuse to let me have bad days. That's his whole
Speaker 1: thing was. We were trying to not let each other
Speaker 1: have bad days. So just bonds like that. And honestly,
Speaker 1: is I know basketball, don't take care of yourself. I
Speaker 1: know we love the game. I know we're gonna put
Speaker 1: in the work, But is your approach. It's the energy
Speaker 1: that you come with. So knowing that I got two
Speaker 1: guys and Andre, and knowing I got Paul, I know
Speaker 1: guys who were going to try to keep me at
Speaker 1: my highest level in my degree, just being happiness, being
Speaker 1: centered and being focused. I look forward to the season.
Speaker 2: Andre. My last question for you, you mentioned that Joelle
Speaker 2: played a role in your decision to come back to Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: He picked up the phone.
Speaker 2: Understanding that one of the most recent MVP's, one of
Speaker 2: the most dominant players in this league made it a
Speaker 2: priority to make sure you got back here. Can you
Speaker 2: take us sort of inside that conversation with him and
Speaker 2: how much that meant to your decision making.
Speaker 4: I'll give you this, I don't want to give you
Speaker 4: the whole conversation.
Speaker 2: That's okay, that's okay, just.
Speaker 4: The fact that one of the best players in the
Speaker 4: world picked up the phone to call me. I mean, obviously,
Speaker 4: my resume speaks for herself, but through to the past,
Speaker 4: prior years of being you know, a backup for teams
Speaker 4: and for him to call me is it's insane.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I think my presence of what I did when I
Speaker 4: was here kind of stuck out to him, which is
Speaker 4: why he wanted me back here. And he said that,
Speaker 4: and you know, it's honor to have that kind of
Speaker 4: praise from a guy like that, And I told him
Speaker 4: that's what.
Speaker 1: I'm here to do.
Speaker 4: Whatever you need me to do, Bro, I'm here to
Speaker 4: help you out the best way I can. So again,
Speaker 4: the decision to come here was a no brainer.
Speaker 2: And then Guard to Guard, I wanted to ask you
Speaker 2: about Tyrese Maxey and what you observed about his game
Speaker 2: and his rise This quickly obviously you haven't been teammates
Speaker 2: to be played against each other.
Speaker 3: What do you see?
Speaker 2: Your eyes get big when I ask you about Tyrese?
Speaker 2: What have you observed?
Speaker 1: Heart He obviously has to be a hard worker, but
Speaker 1: a very confident guy. It's crazy with the amount of
Speaker 1: points he can put up. He seems like a very
Speaker 1: selpless teammate. So I'm just amazed. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: work with him, can't wait to see his appro teaching
Speaker 1: every day. But a guy who looks like he plays
Speaker 1: the game peer. He plays very plays with strengths, plays
Speaker 1: the right way. He plays to win. That's that's what
Speaker 1: really attracts me to his team is the opportunity to win.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to play for to be the last
Speaker 1: one standing. That's always something special to do. And man,
Speaker 1: his his progress already in a short amount of time
Speaker 1: in this league has been tremendous. Honestly, Like, I'm excited
Speaker 1: like what he can do in the offensive side, but
Speaker 1: also what he does on the defense. Seeing his progression
Speaker 1: and becoming a leader. He's definitely rewarded because everything he's done,
Speaker 1: you know, he deserves it, and I'm just excited to try.
Speaker 1: Like I said, whether it's helping him or just help
Speaker 1: the team in the possible way. I'm just excited to
Speaker 1: be here.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'll say this about I think from when
Speaker 4: I was here watching him just be throwing in the
Speaker 4: fire to lead a team as such a young age,
Speaker 4: I think he did such an incredible job of listening
Speaker 4: and observing and he progressed. He did, he got so
Speaker 4: much better throughout the years and it's been so much.
Speaker 1: It's been so.
Speaker 4: Enjoyable for me to watch him afar and now be
Speaker 4: back to seeing what he's done now to be a
Speaker 4: part of an outs it's incredible.
Speaker 3: Bodyguard Andre Drummond and Reggie Jackson, thank you guys so much.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Everybody's bodyguard man, not just him, but mainly mainly him,