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Speaker 1: you're one of my favorite players in the league. Man,

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Speaker 2: I love how hard you play. I love how you

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Speaker 1: So Man, it's a pleasure, and thank you for giving

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Speaker 1: this this time, you know, to mess with the Spider Man.

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Speaker 3: You know I appreciate it. Man, we talked about this true,

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Speaker 3: what was it last year? Two years ago.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad we was able to do this, Man, for sure,

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Speaker 2: In the first question I.

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Speaker 1: Asked everybody is when you first got to the league,

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Man, I gotta say Man, probably Drew Holiday.

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Speaker 2: Uh you underrated?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's the most I think he's the most underrated

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Speaker 5: It's like I don't understand it, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: I mean everybody, If everybody in the league say the

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Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Right, he's still underrated. Man.

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Speaker 3: But I had forty one points against the Pelicans my

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Speaker 3: So I came in the second game like all right, cool,

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Speaker 5: So definitely definitely Drew.

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Speaker 4: Holiday yo, yo yo. We live on location.

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Speaker 6: Me and the Blackest One still here chilling out in

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Speaker 4: Hope you're doing the same. This time.

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Speaker 6: We got a young up and coming super duper start

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Speaker 4: We got the young young.

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Speaker 6: Superstar of Louisville by way of New York City. We

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Speaker 5: I appreciate y'all happen me, man, I'm trying to do this.

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Speaker 1: D Wade made a powerful move and joined the ownership

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Speaker 3: For sure, you know what I mean, I've been I've

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Speaker 3: Like that right there sets an example said something like that.

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Speaker 3: But as far as you know, picking his brain, I'm

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Speaker 3: Get my body right. What you see in the screening roll,

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Speaker 3: Like how do you how do you get to your spot?

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Speaker 3: In a game, you know what I mean, like understanding

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Speaker 2: That's what they always it's a long game.

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Speaker 1: Twenty in the first half and that twenty point league

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Speaker 6: I can remember talking to him today that he came

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Speaker 6: like this is really crazy, like for real, like you

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Speaker 6: Then it's like since you got in the league, we

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Speaker 6: You just spoke on the one thing that I think

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Speaker 5: Ball, appreciate it, and I just gotta get better in

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Speaker 2: That's the golden ticket right there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you in the rams of Jordan and the Kobe's

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Speaker 2: Position in baseball picture and short stop.

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Speaker 3: It was like I don't know if I want to stop,

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Speaker 5: Now, yeah, we was. We was not. I couldn't do

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Speaker 1: And that was I was definite to say, because you're

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Speaker 2: One of the guys I loved was Jayson Look.

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Speaker 2: You know, I was watching a lot of YouTube and

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Speaker 5: Rest in peace of my God, Tea Clark Man. He

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: And you know this is this, this is his shirt

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Speaker 6: But he was like he got a whole nother gear.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, that's my dog man he was. It was tough.

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Speaker 3: That was a tough one because there was like a

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Speaker 2: There was the schools that almost got down of the mill.

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Speaker 5: Almost they almost got me.

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Speaker 3: And I tell people this all the time, like I

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Speaker 5: Have went to you history US history. But man, I

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Speaker 3: When I went to Louis, I made sure I told

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Speaker 5: And Roy is a great guy. Talked to Roy about it.

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Speaker 3: I told Roy coach Roy Williams that and I was like, man,

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Speaker 5: And he was like you know him?

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Speaker 3: He was like, god, dang it down here something like that,

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Speaker 1: Since he chose Pacino and Pacino got that history. You know,

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Speaker 5: Would say two things.

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Speaker 3: something that is there that you don't know, like like

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Speaker 2: Coach control your powers.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like you playing angry, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: But like not like like angry, but like it's like

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Speaker 3: Like he created that competitive that competitive nature. Him and

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Speaker 3: They created that culture where it's like everybody and you

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Speaker 5: Everybody's like kind of under.

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Speaker 1: I know, when you go to Kentucky, a University of

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Speaker 1: How was it, you know, being in Kentucky and being

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Speaker 3: I mean it was a story of my life really,

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Speaker 3: At that time we played, we played Jamal Murray my

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Speaker 5: Poetrioss was there.

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Speaker 3: The team we beat had bam out by Malik Monk,

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Speaker 3: So I never let them hear the end of it

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Speaker 3: Robbery because it's one time of year, it's the braga

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Speaker 3: And that's definitely one of them games where it's like

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Speaker 4: That's all about.

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Speaker 6: Say, like I've seen the commercials and the different things,

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Speaker 5: That's real. And everything closed down.

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Speaker 3: I mean everything from the gas station to the seven

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Speaker 5: In for like that day. It's pretty wild.

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Speaker 6: What is that like to be on that type of

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Speaker 3: Like, I was probably one of the most nervous games

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Speaker 5: Waiting for you, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: So they out there, they got your name, they got

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Speaker 5: They got who you college, they got they got all

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Speaker 5: that stuff like written down.

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Speaker 3: They got your mom, your sister, your favorite like everything, Oh,

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Speaker 3: It's all all on these big posters. So not only

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Speaker 2: And stuff exactly.

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, damn, like they really do their homework,

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Speaker 3: like they go all out, man. And then the game

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Speaker 3: like a high school game when you go play the

443
00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:54,840
Speaker 3: rival team.

444
00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,840
Speaker 2: Right right the red zone when they come on.

445
00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,320
Speaker 4: Down trying get up out of town? Nice?

446
00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:04,480
Speaker 2: And how was them? How was them?

447
00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:10,000
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson football games that he was going crazy.

448
00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:15,280
Speaker 3: It's crazy because our freshman year he came in and

449
00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,359
Speaker 3: replaced so we had the starting quarterback get hurt, the

450
00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:20,640
Speaker 3: second string like got hurt, and then the third string

451
00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,000
Speaker 3: wasn't playing well. So Lamar was like the fourth string

452
00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,440
Speaker 3: our freshman year. So then he came in and all

453
00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:27,760
Speaker 3: he really was doing was running and throwing bombs. So

454
00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:29,440
Speaker 3: it kind of worked some games and that was it.

455
00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:34,120
Speaker 3: I don't know what he did that summer, but him

456
00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:39,639
Speaker 3: he came back different, different dudes, different my man was

457
00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:42,800
Speaker 3: doing like picking people apart, you know, you've seen that

458
00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:44,679
Speaker 3: was I think that was the Heisman year. Like that

459
00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:47,160
Speaker 3: was the year where he up and down the field,

460
00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,199
Speaker 3: jumping over people, doing all these different things. Like he

461
00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,720
Speaker 3: had campus like Louisville is usually all a basketball team school,

462
00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:54,879
Speaker 3: Like basketball kind of runs the school.

463
00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:56,160
Speaker 5: So it's kind of us.

464
00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,480
Speaker 3: In him, like you know what I mean, Like and

465
00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:00,359
Speaker 3: he was bigger than us, like he was he was

466
00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:00,920
Speaker 3: that guy.

467
00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:04,320
Speaker 5: He was that dude. I will say something about Lamar.

468
00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:07,800
Speaker 3: Like people all consistently talk trash about him and all

469
00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:08,399
Speaker 3: that and talk.

470
00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:09,680
Speaker 5: Say he's not this, He's not that.

471
00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:13,879
Speaker 3: Couldn't be more humble, couldn't be more well grounded, you

472
00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:14,480
Speaker 3: know what I mean.

473
00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:16,520
Speaker 5: Like you wouldn't know he's Lamar Jackson if you had

474
00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:17,359
Speaker 5: a conversation with him.

475
00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,040
Speaker 3: But I think it's pretty dope because the amount of

476
00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:21,920
Speaker 3: stuff that was throwing his way that he had to

477
00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,720
Speaker 3: navigate as a college student, I can only imagine, you

478
00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,080
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, Like he handled it well, still

479
00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,200
Speaker 3: handling it well. And props to him and shout out,

480
00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:30,440
Speaker 3: shout out to Lamar.

481
00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,800
Speaker 2: Man, shout out to Lamar when you knew.

482
00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:35,600
Speaker 1: They were like, yeah, man, it's time for me to

483
00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,160
Speaker 1: go see what I can do up there. There's nothing

484
00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:40,520
Speaker 1: else in college that I can do. I want to,

485
00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:42,399
Speaker 1: you know, go to the next level.

486
00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:46,080
Speaker 5: Honestly, I left to go to work out in LA.

487
00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:48,439
Speaker 3: I paid for everything because I didn't know if I

488
00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:50,639
Speaker 3: wanted to really leave, didn't know if I was gonna

489
00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:51,720
Speaker 3: be good enough to make it.

490
00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:54,800
Speaker 5: And then I worked out and was a CP.

491
00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:59,639
Speaker 3: And Paul George two separate conversations, and CEP's brother CJ

492
00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:01,480
Speaker 3: so three tepearate conversations.

493
00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,840
Speaker 5: Like my agent told me I was good enough. Yeah,

494
00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:04,840
Speaker 5: shout out to CJ too.

495
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:06,640
Speaker 3: Man. People don't know a great, great dude in CJ.

496
00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,120
Speaker 3: The trainer at the time who worked for the agency,

497
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:10,240
Speaker 3: was telling me I was good enough.

498
00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:11,240
Speaker 4: Uh.

499
00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,199
Speaker 3: And you know we're growing up in those AU tournaments,

500
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,520
Speaker 3: everybody tell you agents only want your money. They ain't

501
00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,160
Speaker 3: looking out what's best for you. So at the time,

502
00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,119
Speaker 3: I tell my agent this all the time, Like he

503
00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:20,880
Speaker 3: was like, you can, You're gonna be your first round pick.

504
00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:22,960
Speaker 3: I'm like, shoot, I ain't listening to you, bro, Like

505
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:24,920
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't listen to you, like you know

506
00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:25,919
Speaker 3: what I mean, I don't know if you tell me

507
00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,280
Speaker 3: the truth or not. So then I had a conversation

508
00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,800
Speaker 3: with those three about two weeks into my trip, and

509
00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:34,920
Speaker 3: I was like, shoot, men, if they saying it, they're

510
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,840
Speaker 3: not gonna lie, you know what I mean? Like, if

511
00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,399
Speaker 3: they're saying it and clearly they must see something. And

512
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,159
Speaker 3: from that point on called the coach and I was like,

513
00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,080
Speaker 3: look like, this is what I'm about to do, and

514
00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 3: I'm about to go ahead and make that jump. And

515
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 3: from there to continue, I did like fourteen to fifteen

516
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:51,080
Speaker 3: different workouts.

517
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:52,040
Speaker 5: That's how it came about.

518
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:54,399
Speaker 6: And he was like me d n D no was

519
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,359
Speaker 6: he was? He was special, he was top three. He

520
00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,840
Speaker 6: had steak dinners and how did that? And had nice

521
00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,119
Speaker 6: little needs and mean, while I was flying around the

522
00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 6: country having eighteen nineteen different workouts trying to figure it out,

523
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:08,040
Speaker 6: I bust.

524
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:09,359
Speaker 2: A lot of ass and workouts.

525
00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:11,600
Speaker 1: When I was telling them in the workout, we can

526
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:12,880
Speaker 1: still play against each other.

527
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:14,400
Speaker 2: So the boys was getting it.

528
00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:18,560
Speaker 5: And now the workouts, that's a grueling process.

529
00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 3: Man, having a fly around fourteen, it's like fourteen fifteen,

530
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,119
Speaker 3: you had eighteen, he said, right, like in a month

531
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:24,960
Speaker 3: a month too.

532
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,800
Speaker 4: Like that yeah, that's a couple of weeks.

533
00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,640
Speaker 3: Like you, that's for your future too, like it ain't

534
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:32,359
Speaker 3: like you just that's for your future.

535
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,680
Speaker 5: Like you know what I'm saying. That's a tough process

536
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:35,119
Speaker 5: for sure.

537
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:36,720
Speaker 4: I wasn't.

538
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 6: When you got to hear your name get called and

539
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,119
Speaker 6: you got to walk across that stage and shake the

540
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,119
Speaker 6: man's hands.

541
00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:45,240
Speaker 5: It was it was crazy.

542
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,000
Speaker 3: I mean, like you said, you dream of that moment

543
00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 3: you get up there and you hear your name called.

544
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 3: I got my family hearing mean, and I got some

545
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:54,119
Speaker 3: of my family's up in the suite up in the

546
00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,560
Speaker 3: bark list. So I'm back home and all my friends

547
00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:01,320
Speaker 3: and family in the crowd like all that's happening. I

548
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:02,800
Speaker 3: didn't even think I was gonna be in the green

549
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,399
Speaker 3: room until a week before because they only invite the

550
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:10,600
Speaker 3: top what eighteen seventeen people in there. Yeah, so I

551
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,119
Speaker 3: was like, all right, like you've seen the people that

552
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 3: some people that kind of staying there until the second round.

553
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,120
Speaker 3: I was like, man, like, I only want to go

554
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 3: and to be honest with y'all. To start the day,

555
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 3: like I thought I was gonna be going to the

556
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,880
Speaker 3: hornets like, so I was like, right, I'm going eleven

557
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,960
Speaker 3: going to Charlotte. I'm wearing Jordan, like that's what I

558
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 3: was thinking. Like I'm thinking everything would and I'm like,

559
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 3: all right, this is this is the plan. Like I'm

560
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:35,720
Speaker 3: gonna be in Charlotte. It's a two hour flight from

561
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 3: the crib. Mom, Dad, like, this is what we're gonna

562
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 3: do this. So then we get there and then they

563
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 3: picked the league MOMP. So now I'm stuck. I'm like, oh,

564
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,520
Speaker 3: all right, like I might be going to Detroit. I

565
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:50,600
Speaker 3: didn't miss they picked Luke. I didn't work out for Denver,

566
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:52,679
Speaker 3: but I didn't know what there was a trade going on,

567
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 3: so they picked me. I was happy, but I was like,

568
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,240
Speaker 3: man like, I'm trying to think of all the guards

569
00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:57,479
Speaker 3: they had.

570
00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 5: I'm like, that's they got you.

571
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 3: They got Gary har they got Malik Beasley, they got

572
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 3: this dude and that that was five guards and then

573
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 3: you got meet us said as I'm walking down, I

574
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 3: think it was Maria Taylor. She was like, you got traded,

575
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 3: and you see I don't know if you if you

576
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,640
Speaker 3: ever see the video, Like I'm smiling like a little

577
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,399
Speaker 3: extra because I'm like, man like, I wanted to go

578
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,600
Speaker 3: to Utah. Day was great to me like it was cool,

579
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:18,919
Speaker 3: Like I love the city. The people were great. So

580
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 3: I was like, man, I'm happy to go there. And

581
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 3: so yeah, that was That was the whole moment.

582
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 2: How was it for you when you went Utah?

583
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 1: You look at the roster, you see Gordon Haywood, It's

584
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 1: been their best player, Like how was it for you

585
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:32,400
Speaker 1: to see.

586
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 2: Gordon like leave? Like and now you is you hear it?

587
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:38,880
Speaker 1: And it's like all right, so I'm here And they

588
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 1: had these low expectations, but they believed in.

589
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 2: You right as you start rocking.

590
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 5: Right when Gordon left, I didn't know how that would

591
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:46,439
Speaker 5: impact me.

592
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 3: You know, I looked at myself as like a guard

593
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 3: and you know, there was still people in front of me.

594
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 3: We had signed, so Gordon left when we had signed

595
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 3: Richie Rubio. We had Ronnie Hood, right, Joe Johnson was

596
00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 3: still there, so they still had some pieces from the

597
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 3: team that had just played in the second round the

598
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 3: year before. So I'm like, all right, let me just

599
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 3: try and find it. Let me crack the rotation. We

600
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 3: get like six rebounds, eight points, like that's the goal,

601
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,199
Speaker 3: Like me try and find when you do that, Like

602
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 3: that was my thought process. We get through the first

603
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 3: half of the season, our first few months of the

604
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 3: season two months I.

605
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 5: Think, and then by November.

606
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 3: And I give a huge credit to coach Quinn Man

607
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,120
Speaker 3: for believing in me and kind of putting the ball

608
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 3: in my hands on a team that had just made

609
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 3: the playoffs. Yea kind of searching and don't really know

610
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 3: what we were going to be. Where we're going to

611
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 3: make the playoffs. We're going to be a lot of

612
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,199
Speaker 3: a team. And at that point we were kind of

613
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 3: making our way out the playoffs. We were like nineteen

614
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 3: and thirty and then we went on a crazy fifteen

615
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 3: game win streak.

616
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 2: Or something like that.

617
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 5: But like I get coach credit, he saw something.

618
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 3: I was just like like, man, like, all right, go ahead,

619
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 3: Like you know, next thing, you know, it's twenty five,

620
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 3: twenty eight, thirty thirty three, like and it's consistent, you know,

621
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 3: throughout the year, and you know, we ended up surprising

622
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 3: a lot of people. And then we end up making

623
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 3: the playoffs that year against the team that had beaten us.

624
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 5: They swept us, They swept us my rookie year, all

625
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 5: four of them.

626
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 3: I think it was four zero or three one or whatever,

627
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 3: but it was russ PG and Mellow and they had

628
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 3: killed us throughout the whole year, and then we get

629
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,200
Speaker 3: to the playoffs and we just went out there and

630
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 3: you know, I had a series that I was just like,

631
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,919
Speaker 3: man like, I'm playing against Mellow, who I grew up watching.

632
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 3: When I went to Nick Games, I tried to copy

633
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 3: all the moves that Russ was doing. He's out here

634
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 3: dunking on people. And then PG a few months ago

635
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 3: told me that I should be in the league. Like

636
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 3: now we're in a playoff series like that. For me,

637
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,639
Speaker 3: that was one of my Everybody asked me, welcome to

638
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 3: the NBA. I mean, I had a few of those,

639
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:36,919
Speaker 3: but that was kind of a surreal one for me.

640
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 3: And you know, we get to that playoff series and

641
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,679
Speaker 3: I'm just coasting through them and doing.

642
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 5: Our thing, and we ended up winning that one.

643
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,120
Speaker 3: So it was crazy how you go from the goal

644
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 3: was to win, to get eight and six and just

645
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 3: make the rotation to them being honestly, where I'm at now,

646
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 3: I think it's I'm definitely blessed and lucky for that

647
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 3: opportunity that came and continue to put the work in.

648
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's three Hall of famers right there.

649
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 5: That was.

650
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,199
Speaker 1: That's a big series, and man, you played mature, you

651
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,239
Speaker 1: play well. You know what I'm saying, You didn't have

652
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,679
Speaker 1: that type of experience, and nothing like that I have

653
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,159
Speaker 1: noticed from you now, you know what I'm saying, you

654
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: getting that experience early and so forth on.

655
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 2: You're very patient now, you know what I'm saying.

656
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 1: You ain't like how your first year you know, kind

657
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: of bulldozing a little bit, and you know what I'm saying,

658
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: just going, going, going, But like I see your patience

659
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: waiting for the picks and making sure guys really getting

660
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,639
Speaker 1: pick instead of going ahead and run and stuff with.

661
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: How is that for you to kind of see the

662
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: game and the game slow down a little bit for

663
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 1: you this early?

664
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

665
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 3: Really, it's crazy because it comes one with a lot

666
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 3: of film. I think that's the one of the most

667
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:49,679
Speaker 3: underrated aspects of the game, is watching yourself and watching

668
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 3: the bad highlights, like watching the bad ones, like the

669
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 3: bad games, the bad possessions. So for me, like you said,

670
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 3: setting up the pick and roll is huge, not just

671
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 3: right here you come. Let me just take off, like,

672
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 3: let me just use my athleticism, because now you're playing

673
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 3: the jew Holidays, you're playing the Paul George is the

674
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 3: Klay Thompson's the dudes who are just as athletic or

675
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 3: can slide their feet and be able to stay in

676
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 3: front of you. So now you're making it harder on yourself,

677
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 3: you know, setting a guy up coming off the pick

678
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 3: and roll. The only thing that's not the rim, Like

679
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 3: you know, you got Rudy on the lob. And then

680
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 3: this year, the past two years, what we have. We

681
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 3: have excellent shooters. So it's made my life so much easier,

682
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. So like im coming off,

683
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 3: it's like, shoot, you want to help, right cool? Like

684
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:31,640
Speaker 3: the three you don't want to help?

685
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 5: Right cool?

686
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 3: I got a left, you know what I mean, and

687
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 3: kind of repping that out. But it starts with being

688
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 3: able to see what I was doing wrong, you know

689
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. But then there's no experience like going

690
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 3: through it in the game, going in through a season

691
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 3: over and over again. So for me, it's like, Okay,

692
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 3: you've been here before, You've seen every coverage.

693
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 5: Now how do you manipulate it? You know what I mean?

694
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 3: And there's definitely areas that I can definitely improve in,

695
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 3: but I can feel the game slowing down and you.

696
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 5: Hear everybody say that, and you don't really know until

697
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 5: you're going through it and you're like, ah, this is

698
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 5: what everybody.

699
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 2: It's a possession at a time.

700
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 5: You know exactly. And you kind of can come down to.

701
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 6: Part one of the things that I always respected about you.

702
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 6: You got out there, you got a dunk contest and

703
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 6: you you know what I'm saying, you actually got to

704
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 6: win it. Just tell me about how that was because

705
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:22,959
Speaker 6: I know as a kid, you know, that was one

706
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 6: of the things that I always watched.

707
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 4: I wish I would have.

708
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 6: Been became a good enough dunk and competing in the

709
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 6: dunk contest, but you know, I got to shoot.

710
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 4: Threes out there.

711
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 6: But just tell me how that experience was for you

712
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 6: as a rookie, being out there on the stage and

713
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 6: I know you didn't watch so many times growing up,

714
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 6: and then to actually get to win and be up

715
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 6: there and you get your moment that you didn't watch

716
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 6: so many times. People stand up there like, yeah, some

717
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 6: legendary guys, Like how was that for.

718
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 4: You to get that moment as a rookie right away?

719
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, it was crazy because I didn't get

720
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 3: selected as the main four.

721
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 4: I only I think, are you a replacement? Yeah?

722
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 3: I was a replacement. So Aaron Gordon got hurt, and

723
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 3: then I only had two leaps to kind of prepare.

724
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 3: So I only have two weeks to prepare. So I

725
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 3: was like, shoot, all right. Every dunk I did, I've

726
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 3: been doing since high school. So like the first one,

727
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 3: the first one, I threw it off the other basket.

728
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 3: That stimulates like a wall in high school. You know,

729
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 3: you have the wall behind him exactly, Like that was

730
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 3: the same thought process and everything else I've already been doing.

731
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 3: And once I made the first one, like, you're good

732
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 3: after that. Like for me, it's like you started making

733
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 3: the first one and then started missing exactly exactly everybody

734
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 3: started missing.

735
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 5: So then my confidence grew even more.

736
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 3: So I'm like, okay, Like because I thought Dennis would

737
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 3: have won hands down, like Dennis's I know y'all seen

738
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 3: the tapes like Dennis Smith got some got some crazy bag.

739
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, Right before you got ready

740
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: to dunk, you're sitting on the little box and stuff,

741
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 1: and you know the world is watching it.

742
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 4: That's when it im.

743
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 1: Packed in her and you got all your peers all

744
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: KD lebron them on the side, Like what was the

745
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: nerves that and where was the butterflies that in that

746
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: moment when you kind of sitting there and you just

747
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: breathing and you know you're gonna come up next break,

748
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:12,719
Speaker 1: you know.

749
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean for me, what helped us? Well, I

750
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,239
Speaker 3: wasn't sitting on the bench. So what I did was

751
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 3: after I dunk, I went because I changed every fit,

752
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 3: so I every dunk fit.

753
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 5: So I would leave.

754
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 3: So I left until it was like my term, So

755
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 3: I wasn't really thinking about.

756
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 2: Also, you ain't get all that, you ain't get.

757
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 5: The eliminated.

758
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 3: Everybody advice to give you. I'm like, man, I don't

759
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 3: want to hear none of that right now, Like I'm.

760
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 5: Zone.

761
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 3: So I left every chance I got and then came

762
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 3: back on the floor.

763
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: I got the opportunity to be on the front cover

764
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: of the Slam, and I know, coming up, man, seeing

765
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 1: the front covered Slam and everybody was on the front cove.

766
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: You know, we always want to be right smack dead

767
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: on the front cover. And how was it for you

768
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: to be on the front cover of Slam something that

769
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: you've been looking at since high school? It's part of

770
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: the culture and now they got you represented and it's

771
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: just you on the front cove.

772
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 5: Yeah.

773
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 3: The fact that it was just me, I think was

774
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 3: crazy to me, you know what I mean, because you

775
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 3: see Slim Club is just like you know, maybe two, three, four,

776
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 3: you know, five guys. You know what I'm saying, Like

777
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 3: that iconic photo shoot was that it was ninety ninety six,

778
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 3: but it was like six. Like for me, they were like,

779
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 3: man like, they want to come do it with me.

780
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 3: So I'm like, yo, like this is this is crazy.

781
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 3: I still got it in my house. It's as big

782
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 3: as hell, you know what I mean. You gotta have

783
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 3: it right, you gotta have it big lost exactly.

784
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 2: You know.

785
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 3: For me, it was just like, man, like a lot

786
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 3: of stuff my rookie year happened so fast. I wish

787
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 3: I took more time to kind of savor each moment,

788
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, because it just happened, like

789
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 3: everything was just happening. But like, I never forget that

790
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 3: we shut the whole arena down and everybody was taking

791
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 3: photos and stuff like that, and it was a moment

792
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 3: that I never forget, the moment that I'd be able

793
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 3: to at least show my kids be like, look, dad

794
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 3: was somebody.

795
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, like that did something? You

796
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, so bad, but exactly so. It

797
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 5: was definitely a pretty double moment for sure.

798
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: Now that's your first All Star game. Now you know

799
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: it's not the rookies game. This is you part of

800
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: the elite. Like how was that to be your first

801
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: All Star game? Mom's sister get a chance to experience

802
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: it and see it, you know what I'm saying, like,

803
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: how was that for you?

804
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 5: That was?

805
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 3: That whole weekend for me was just just wild, like

806
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 3: you know, just being able to because you see certain

807
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 3: things like growing up, you see things in cameras, you

808
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 3: see spread like bits and pieces like you now you

809
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 3: that person, like you mean, all that behind us, all

810
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 3: the talk in the locker room. So for me, it's

811
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 3: like we had a meeting where both teams come and

812
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 3: meet and talk to Adam and Michelle and I sat

813
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 3: down and I could see everybody in the room and

814
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 3: I'm sitting there and it's the CPS ron, It's Russ.

815
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 3: It's be honest, it's it's all so many dudes. Are

816
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 3: you looking at like man like you're doing it? Like

817
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 3: what you what you were goals. You're kind of getting that,

818
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 3: you know, and I'm in this room sitting with these

819
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 3: guys like I'm a part of that, you know what

820
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 3: I mean, You're a part of this, and you know,

821
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 3: you always know that I feel like I belong, Like

822
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 3: there's there's definitely that time where I'm past that point

823
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 3: where I know.

824
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:22,839
Speaker 5: I belong in the league.

825
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 3: But there's always moments throughout where you kind of can

826
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 3: sit back, and that's one thing I love doing is

827
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 3: just sit back and reflecting and where I'm at and

828
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 3: where I'm currently at, you know what I mean. And

829
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 3: for me, it's like, man, that that moment for me

830
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 3: being able to sit in that room and to be

831
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 3: a part of that, like, it's something that's truly special,

832
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 3: and I hope to continue to experience those as my

833
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 3: career goes along.

834
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 5: But that was that was definitely a special woman.

835
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, you get that first one time. That

836
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 4: was big Exactly.

837
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: I don't know about the world, but I know for me,

838
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 1: Utah Jazz was the team that made me take Corona series.

839
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 1: You know, how was that experience? I think I was

840
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 1: playing against CP three them and they pulled you off

841
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: the court and uh, just take us back to last year,

842
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 1: like you know, when all this is coming along because

843
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: we don't know what's going on, you know, Yeah, and

844
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: everybody is saying this, everybody saying that. But like for me,

845
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: like I said, I can't speak for the world, but

846
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: for me, when I knew it was serious, it was

847
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: when the.

848
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 2: League told y'all that y'all can't play.

849
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 5: That was, in a word, I mean crazy, you know,

850
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:28,879
Speaker 5: out of a movie, you know what I'm saying.

851
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 3: But you felt like he was just in one of

852
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 3: them scary ass movies and like the world was watching it,

853
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.

854
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 5: We were in the locker room for what was it.

855
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 5: It was it like seven hours eight hours after.

856
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 4: I know he because I was at work. I got off.

857
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 4: They still there.

858
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, we was in there for a minute, and you know,

859
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 3: it was kind of to a point we just didn't

860
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,359
Speaker 3: know what the hell. We didn't know if we had

861
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 3: it because at this point in time, me doing the

862
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 3: test that go all the way up to here, you know,

863
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:56,800
Speaker 3: the test have changed.

864
00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, when I wouldn't wish that, don't nobody like

865
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: they taking me in my brain.

866
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 3: But yeah, so that that was just a wild moment

867
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 3: and then we all once we left, we got to

868
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 3: the hotel, and now I found.

869
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 5: Out I had it, and for me, it was just

870
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 5: many emotions.

871
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 3: The biggest thing for me was, you know, because at

872
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 3: that time it was a kid that had died in

873
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 3: high school from it, you know, so we really didn't

874
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 3: know the age raams. We didn't know how serious it was,

875
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 3: like am I gonna be okay? And my immediate thought

876
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 3: because I had just seen my my family three days,

877
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 3: but prior to that, like my mom and sister and

878
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 3: my dad, like are they gonna be good? And that

879
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 3: had they had gotten tested immediately, and you know, everything

880
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 3: that happened, man, it was just like just a wild time.

881
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 5: And then to go and sit in your house for

882
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:47,840
Speaker 5: like I couldn't leave.

883
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 3: My room for like fourteen days straight, you know what

884
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 3: I mean, And as I felt, I'm glad, I'm thankful

885
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 3: I had no symptoms, thankful Rudy Rudy symptoms were minor,

886
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 3: you know, after the first two days. But you know,

887
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 3: that was something that was just a scary ass feeling, man.

888
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 3: And you know, then from that, we're sitting at the home,

889
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 3: like you said, kee Rich, for months, not knowing what

890
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 3: the hell going on, not knowing if we're playing the

891
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 3: world gonna shut down.

892
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:13,439
Speaker 5: We don't know what.

893
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 3: Everybody had their own little theories of like, oh, this

894
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 3: is what's gonna happen in three months, three months later,

895
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 3: we can get there happen, you know what I'm saying.

896
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 5: So we didn't know what was.

897
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 4: Going on during that time.

898
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 6: Like when you wait, like you hear all the stories

899
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 6: about what guys was doing to stay ready, What were

900
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 6: you doing to try and just be as ready as

901
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 6: possible for whenever anything? Like at what point did you

902
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 6: start like preparing like or was it right when you

903
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 6: got well from the you know, from your battle with

904
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 6: to the then you know, once you were good to go,

905
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:41,320
Speaker 6: Like when did you start?

906
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 4: Just like I gotta be trying to do something. We

907
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 4: don't know how long it's going to last.

908
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, I took a month probably off month or sof

909
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 3: just doing nothing. I mean I would do a little

910
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 3: something a month of not thinking about playing basketball, because

911
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 3: at that point in time, I was like, shit, ain't

912
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 3: we ain't playing? Like I ain't no, wait, we finishing

913
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 3: the season, you know what I'm saying, Right, And then

914
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 3: you know, with my assistant coach at the times, with

915
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 3: the Knicks now Johnny Bryant. You know, we kind of

916
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 3: put a plan together. It was like, look, but we

917
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 3: play or not, Let's be ready, you know, so we

918
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 3: kind of attacked it through film sessions, attacked it like

919
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 3: And that's one thing I say that really helped me

920
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 3: was just kind of when I, before I got to

921
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 3: the ball, was attacking it. Who do I struggle against?

922
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 3: While I struggle what coverage were they in? Why wasn't

923
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 3: I successful against the coverage against this team? But I

924
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 3: was able to do it against a different team. You know,

925
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,240
Speaker 3: is it height? Is it length? Is it speed?

926
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:30,439
Speaker 5: Is it finding ways?

927
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 3: Why am I not hitting guys who are opening the

928
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 3: high quadrant who were hoping in the corner? Like literally

929
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,319
Speaker 3: attacking every every day it was something different, you know.

930
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 3: It's kind of had like homework per day, you know,

931
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 3: kind of getting to that film session, you know, the

932
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 3: running and stuff.

933
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 5: I go for a job. I didn't have a gym

934
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 5: in my house at the time.

935
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 3: I didn't really have much, but I go for a

936
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 3: jog and try and stay in shape that way. But

937
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,399
Speaker 3: the biggest thing was the mental part of the game.

938
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:55,439
Speaker 3: That's when I would say that the game slowed down

939
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 3: for me after that, after that going into the boat,

940
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 3: because you would literally attack every possible situation that I

941
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,359
Speaker 3: was gonna see on the floor because we ain't doing

942
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:06,840
Speaker 3: shit else, like you know what I mean, Like we

943
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 3: in the house done so literally attacking it every way

944
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 3: possible through film.

945
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 5: That was one way I feel I got better for sure.

946
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,360
Speaker 1: When you heard that y'all was gonna continue the season

947
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 1: and it's gonna beat this bubble. What were your thoughts

948
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,399
Speaker 1: on that you thought it was gonna work and you're

949
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:23,240
Speaker 1: gonna be prepared.

950
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 3: I didn't want to go at first, to be honest

951
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:27,959
Speaker 3: with you, I did not want to go. I didn't

952
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 3: know if it was gonna work. There was a lot,

953
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 3: There was so many unknowns that it was just like

954
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 3: for me, I didn't want to leave my family, leave

955
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 3: the house and kind of do that. But you know,

956
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 3: for me, my family was okay with it. My sister

957
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 3: talked to it out, and my teammates were like, look,

958
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 3: if we're gonna go, we're gonna go as a group,

959
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 3: like we're gonna do this.

960
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:45,399
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.

961
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 3: It's not gonna be like were just there to show up,

962
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 3: and we were there, like obviously it was obviously it

963
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 3: was no secret it's about collecting money too, Like for sure,

964
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 3: we do this job for money too. But like we

965
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 3: were like, look, we're gonna go like we're gonna go

966
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 3: to try to compete for a chip.

967
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 5: We ain't just want to just go to and just

968
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 5: be there, be there, you know what I'm saying.

969
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 3: And I felt felt at that point it was like, Okay,

970
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 3: we coach did a great job. Like we had zoom

971
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 3: sessions once a week, once every two weeks, kind of

972
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 3: going over a who were gonna play with.

973
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 5: It's Houston, it's Dallas, it's Denver.

974
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 3: Kind of going over schemes, and we kind of were

975
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 3: engaged that way as a group, and I felt like

976
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 3: that was one of the things that kind of got

977
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 3: me on board with like all right, like we're gonna

978
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 3: do this, Like we're gonna go out there and compete.

979
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 3: And at that point in time, it was like all right,

980
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 3: let's get it, like let's go find a way to

981
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:31,280
Speaker 3: do it and go from there.

982
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 2: Shout out to the NBA.

983
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 4: Man.

984
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,320
Speaker 2: I feel like they did a great job and that,

985
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 2: you know, was amazing.

986
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,760
Speaker 1: It was a unique look because I've never seen NBA

987
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 1: basketball with no fans and the big screen on the

988
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 1: side and all that stuff. So it was it was

989
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 1: a different look than we were used to, but we

990
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:52,880
Speaker 1: were very entertained. But one of the best playoffs scoring series.

991
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: You got an opportunity to see you and Jamal Murray

992
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: going in and how was that tournament for you? Like

993
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 1: to see another player over there holding his wheel up

994
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: and just trying to just score as much for his

995
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: team and doing everything for the team, and you right

996
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 1: back at him, and to go through that battle.

997
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 3: I felt like, you know, both of us kind of

998
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 3: took a step, you know with that. You know, I

999
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:16,359
Speaker 3: think at the end of the day, no fans, it's

1000
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 3: the playoffs. It's just kind of you and I at

1001
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:20,959
Speaker 3: a point, you know where it's like you go score,

1002
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 3: all right, Well I gotta go ahead and match that,

1003
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 3: you know, kind of like a street ball mindset, you know,

1004
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 3: within the float the game too, you know what I'm saying.

1005
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 5: So we obviously we had.

1006
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:31,959
Speaker 3: Lost Boyon who was a twenty point per game score

1007
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 3: at the time, so we had to get here, and

1008
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 3: then Mike Conley had a baby, so he was out

1009
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 3: the first two games. We were kind of like, oh shit, Like, yeah,

1010
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 3: we got to figure this out, and then the fifty

1011
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:43,839
Speaker 3: seven point game happened, and then I was like, well,

1012
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 3: I can't do all of it, Like I'm gonna have

1013
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 3: to find ways to create. And so then I was

1014
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 3: able to map out and put those scoring performances with

1015
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 3: assist with while being efficient, you know what I mean.

1016
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 3: I think that was something for me to allowed me

1017
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 3: to grow. But Jamal and I have been going back

1018
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 3: and forth, man, since high school. Like people don't know

1019
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 3: that about us, Like we played in all circle games

1020
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 3: against each other. In college, we played against each other wins,

1021
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 3: went to Louisville and then throughout the league. You know,

1022
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 3: the only difference is this time it was on the

1023
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,760
Speaker 3: national stage. Like we haven't had our battles throughout Denver,

1024
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:18,319
Speaker 3: Utah before, you know, But the only difference is now

1025
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 3: we do it in the playoffs. And it was a

1026
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 3: lot of fun.

1027
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:20,839
Speaker 4: Man.

1028
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 3: It was a great competition, and you know, maybe we

1029
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 3: still talk about it all the time, but like, you know,

1030
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,240
Speaker 3: I think the best thing about you saw the competitiveness

1031
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 3: not just within ourselves within our teams, like within we

1032
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 3: saw a lot about each other as a team throughout

1033
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 3: that entire series.

1034
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 6: How unique was it that of a situation where it

1035
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 6: was like, you know, y'all having these crazy battles fifty

1036
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 6: point games, and then y'all got to walk back to

1037
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 6: the hotel and y'all might wait past each other and

1038
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 6: see each other right over there.

1039
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was crazy because I remember you'll.

1040
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 6: Had like a video at one point, like you was

1041
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 6: trying to chill and he was like over there or

1042
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:55,760
Speaker 6: vice versus.

1043
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 5: I remember seeing That's what it was. That's what the

1044
00:42:58,760 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 5: whole campus was.

1045
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 3: And there was a point where we were on the

1046
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,879
Speaker 3: floor above them or below them, so we were one

1047
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 3: floor removed. So like we get to the elevator, bus

1048
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 3: is leave at the same time, like you on the elevator.

1049
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 3: It's like me, Michael Porter, they video our video, dude,

1050
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 3: Like you know what I'm saying. So it was weird,

1051
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 3: but like you kind of just kept your headphones on

1052
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 3: it like like I ain't talking to you right now,

1053
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 3: like you know, I mean, it was kind of it

1054
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 3: was still a business mindset, like we gotta go out

1055
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 3: there and do what we gotta do. But it was

1056
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 3: definitely weird, especially after when we lost Game seven, we

1057
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 3: had to see him, Like I didn't want to fucking

1058
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 3: talk to him after you know what I'm saying, but

1059
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 3: we're seeing them after the games like that. But it

1060
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,720
Speaker 3: was definitely a tough series and looking back in the bubble,

1061
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 3: it was a great experience and we got a lot

1062
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 3: done on and off the floor too.

1063
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: Absolutely this year, how was it this year for the team? Like, man,

1064
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: y'all played good to be the number one seed in

1065
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 1: the West. A lot of people didn't expect y'all to

1066
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: be the number one seed in the West, Like, how

1067
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: is that for you to accomplish that with the team?

1068
00:43:57,800 --> 00:43:58,879
Speaker 2: Now? You know what I'm saying.

1069
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: I know it's not you know, like no moral victories,

1070
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:02,799
Speaker 1: but like you know, that's a bigger confidence.

1071
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it kind of goes back to that bubble.

1072
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 3: It goes back to losing Game seven and the message

1073
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 3: and the tone after the bubble was don't forget this.

1074
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 3: You know, we had an opportunity up three to one,

1075
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 3: and we let our foot off the gas. You know,

1076
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 3: we stopped paying attention to the little details, and you

1077
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 3: saw the carryover this year. You know, we've every game.

1078
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 3: You know, there were games that we lost last year

1079
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 3: by a lot that we either come back and win

1080
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 3: or we're up by a lot, and we make it

1081
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 3: a close game, and we keep it up by a lot,

1082
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 3: and you know how that goes back and you up thirty,

1083
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 3: you know, and you just like, I bet we up thirty.

1084
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 3: Like the great teams, the teams that win championships, like

1085
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 3: they don't let their foot off the gas, Like, no

1086
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 3: matter who's in the game, no matter how do you feeling,

1087
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 3: no matter what the road fip looked like like you

1088
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 3: have a four and five that fit like you know,

1089
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 3: that fourth game in wherever, you know what I mean,

1090
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 3: that's that's a game you win. You know, That's what

1091
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 3: championship teams are supposed to do. It's not like, oh,

1092
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 3: we're gonna blame it on the four and five, you

1093
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. So like that's the mindset for

1094
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:01,919
Speaker 3: us to this year. And I felt like you saw

1095
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 3: that accumulate, you saw that kind of cultivate, you know,

1096
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 3: throughout the entire season and every team exactly, you.

1097
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 5: Know, and now we got to go out here and

1098
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 5: prove it.

1099
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, I think people don't realize how much bog

1100
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 6: Down meant for y'all. I said that last year working

1101
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 6: on NBA TV. I said that, you know, he was

1102
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 6: a huge piece of twenty points scorer not being there,

1103
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 6: it's huge. He's able to shoot, stecch the floor, do

1104
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,879
Speaker 6: some playmaking and some other things. And so I felt

1105
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 6: like he was a huge part of the you know,

1106
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 6: the push forward y'all had this year as well having

1107
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 6: him back.

1108
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 5: He did it.

1109
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 3: When I was out for like nineteen games, he averaged yeah,

1110
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 3: twenty five points, like you know what I mean, Like

1111
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 3: he was going out there he had forty eight. I

1112
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:43,720
Speaker 3: think that first game used out here had like forty

1113
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 3: or so. Game Like, that's that's what he can do.

1114
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 3: He can go get go ahead and score, you know.

1115
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 3: And he had an up and down the year to

1116
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,359
Speaker 3: that point. And you know he's hitting his stride at

1117
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 3: the right time of the year.

1118
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: How is it talking to John Stock, the legend John Stock,

1119
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,280
Speaker 1: like the locked necks Mons, So we don't see you nowhere,

1120
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 1: but because Zaga games, you know what I'm saying, Like,

1121
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: how is that man?

1122
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 2: Because he's one of the great to ever do it.

1123
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't spoken to him or call that much

1124
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 3: in the recent two years. I think my first two

1125
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 3: years I spoke to them because they were around a

1126
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 3: little bit more. Obviously with COVID that things have been crazy,

1127
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 3: been different, but usually they would be in like a

1128
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 3: little room out across from the locker room and just

1129
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 3: being able to see their presence. They come in and

1130
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,240
Speaker 3: say hello and kind of just talk to me about

1131
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 3: their days, you know. Obviously Hall of Famer's legends.

1132
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 5: You know.

1133
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 3: The one thing I always remember he told me and

1134
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 3: I was we were just talking about this was the

1135
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 3: patience the boys, you know, like being able to find that.

1136
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 3: You know, in your second year, you you hear that

1137
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 3: from everybody, so you're like, all right, I don't know

1138
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:48,279
Speaker 3: what that is yet. You know what I'm saying. I'm

1139
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:49,719
Speaker 3: trying to find that, like you know what I mean.

1140
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 3: And you know, then you get to a point where

1141
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 3: you find and you're like, ah, like that's what you

1142
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 3: were saying.

1143
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 5: That's I get it now, you know what I mean.

1144
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 5: So they've been great. Utah loves them to death.

1145
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 3: You know, when things open back cup, I as soon

1146
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 3: they'll be back in, back around and being able to

1147
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:04,880
Speaker 3: kind of be with us, give us more jams.

1148
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 6: Tell me about the impact that Kean Dueling has had

1149
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 6: on the team, because he's somebody that you know that's like,

1150
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:13,240
Speaker 6: that's our brother.

1151
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,359
Speaker 4: We came in. I've known Keon since I.

1152
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 6: Was thirteen years old and earlier the day, and you

1153
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 6: know we played four years and like that's that's been

1154
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:20,919
Speaker 6: our boy.

1155
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 4: Fact.

1156
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 6: We just know how he has that infectious personality and

1157
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 6: how he's able to lift up.

1158
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 4: A whole room and just the mood and.

1159
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 6: Every time on TV and I will see y'all doing

1160
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,320
Speaker 6: well working on NBAT, always yell out something random like that's.

1161
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 4: The key on dueling effect.

1162
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:39,839
Speaker 6: Don't want how y'all bother, but like, like I know

1163
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 6: he's not, you know, the main thing, but like just

1164
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 6: talk about the impact that he's had coming there, because

1165
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:45,439
Speaker 6: I know what type of great guy.

1166
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 4: He is one of my favorite people in the world.

1167
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:50,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, he you know, we talked about Terrence Clark not

1168
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 3: having a bad day, Like I've never seen KD have

1169
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 3: a bad day.

1170
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 5: Like every day, man, he's my guys.

1171
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 3: We work out, we do all work out together every day. Man,

1172
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 3: Like he could win the Mister Positivity Award every year.

1173
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 5: Every day. Like he's always you know, geeking everybody up.

1174
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 5: You know, we got a big game.

1175
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 3: He's putting that like that battery pack on everybody, put

1176
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 3: on everybody's back.

1177
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:15,879
Speaker 5: Like he's charging people up. He's always in a good spirit. Man.

1178
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:18,399
Speaker 3: I think we've had cause we had some we had

1179
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 3: some tough stretches to start the year. Like we got

1180
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 3: we lost by it was like thirty to Brooklyn. Then

1181
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:24,919
Speaker 3: we lost to New York and he was in there

1182
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 3: like man, just all smiles like this ain't nothing, like

1183
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like and kind of giving

1184
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 3: you that lightheartedness and understanding that yeah, this is what

1185
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 3: you do. This your job, but like there's life and

1186
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like there's a life that

1187
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 3: you have outside of basketball and enjoying that and enjoying

1188
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 3: the days and enjoying the opportunities that you have every day,

1189
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:44,240
Speaker 3: not taking them for granted.

1190
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 5: And that's kind of what I was referring to when

1191
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 5: I say, kind of.

1192
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 3: Putting yourself where your feet are, like right now, kind

1193
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 3: of seeing where you're at, because it's like, man, like

1194
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 3: you know this, these are experiences that you're going to

1195
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:56,360
Speaker 3: last a lifetime. You know, the game is great, and

1196
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:58,920
Speaker 3: you want to achieve all these different accomplishments. But I

1197
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 3: would say the one thing he taught me for sure,

1198
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 3: it is just enjoying where you're at. Don't take anything

1199
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 3: for granted, and just having a great mindset and a

1200
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 3: great positive.

1201
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 6: He was somebody that just being around him, you know

1202
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 6: what he the value he brings to that type of

1203
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:14,720
Speaker 6: a setting, and what he can do to help because

1204
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 6: we experienced it on a day to day basis for

1205
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 6: four space years and and you know, just every time

1206
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:21,520
Speaker 6: you talk to him, he's exactly what you said.

1207
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,440
Speaker 4: He's that joke, that uplifting spirit, that energy.

1208
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 6: I don't care what's going on, what's happening when the

1209
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 6: DZ call you, I'm about to be smiling, laughing and

1210
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 6: feeling a little bit better, a lot better than I

1211
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:32,360
Speaker 6: was already feeling.

1212
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,720
Speaker 4: Like no question exactly. Shout out to the DZ.

1213
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 5: Man shut.

1214
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 1: Now, this question don't really have nothing to do with

1215
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: q's for us dunkers. You know, So, what was your

1216
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:51,320
Speaker 1: favorite dunk holes since you've been so far? I probably

1217
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: said he's got some bulls.

1218
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 3: I probably said the Houston one where I missed the floater,

1219
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 3: caught it and dunked it, caught it back.

1220
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 6: That was that was like she you weren't supposed to

1221
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 6: be able to do that and everything.

1222
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna put some respect on that one.

1223
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a face I made when I'm hanging

1224
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 3: on It was like a shock, like, oh shit, I

1225
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 3: caught it, you know what I mean. That's something you

1226
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 3: do like when you buy yourself, like messing around like

1227
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 3: three people in a playoff.

1228
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 2: Game pickup or something.

1229
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, You don't really get them

1230
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 1: like that off in the game.

1231
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 3: You missed the tip exactly. So for me, it was

1232
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,880
Speaker 3: just like that one right there. Definitely It's like number

1233
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:29,959
Speaker 3: one and that book for sure.

1234
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:32,319
Speaker 6: And this is the question I need to know, Like

1235
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 6: don't you know he talked about dunks and stuff. I

1236
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 6: follow you on social media. You know what I'm saying.

1237
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:38,359
Speaker 6: I don't want to talk about when you first made

1238
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:40,800
Speaker 6: the NBA. You know, I know you took care of mom, dudes,

1239
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 6: make show, said straight pops and all that. I've seen

1240
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 6: you coming into the game. You got some nice jewelry.

1241
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:48,759
Speaker 6: I don't know what type of wheel you got, But

1242
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:52,439
Speaker 6: what did you get when you got that big boy bag?

1243
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 6: I saw you were somewhere on the island, went jumped

1244
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 6: in the pool.

1245
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 4: But what did you what?

1246
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 6: I want to know the ignorant purchase that you got

1247
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 6: that your mama and daddy might looked at.

1248
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 4: You like what you was like?

1249
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 6: I did it though, Like you know what I'm saying,

1250
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 6: Like we all had that moment.

1251
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 4: What did you do? What did the Spider Man do?

1252
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:14,399
Speaker 5: I got a Lamborghini truck, uh month.

1253
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 3: I think after that, I was the first thing I

1254
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 3: went ahead and bought and I had it tricked out

1255
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:23,240
Speaker 3: and every possible way, got my logo in the seat.

1256
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:27,799
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, remember them logo days, Everything.

1257
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 5: And everything possible.

1258
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:32,800
Speaker 2: Man, But that was you gotta do it, You gotta

1259
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 2: do it.

1260
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 6: Where did the nickname spider come from? Like to have

1261
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:42,239
Speaker 6: this bonica? Now I see the shoes they put the

1262
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 6: Spider Man designs.

1263
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:45,720
Speaker 4: That's like, yeah, that's.

1264
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 6: Like a hard in the history books. Where where did

1265
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 6: that nickname come from? And how did you get it?

1266
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 3: So my team, when I was about eight or nine,

1267
00:51:56,520 --> 00:51:59,880
Speaker 3: we played AU and my teammates Dad gave everybody nicknames.

1268
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 3: It's crazy. Myself Eric Pasco from the Warriors, and Tied

1269
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:06,600
Speaker 3: Jerome for the Thunder. We were all on the same

1270
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 3: AU team. We all had these nicknames and we had

1271
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:12,359
Speaker 3: this press, you know, the Diamond Press, the one two

1272
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 3: two or the one three.

1273
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 4: Whatever press was.

1274
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:18,880
Speaker 5: Exactly.

1275
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 3: I was over there just getting a bunch of steels

1276
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 3: in the front of the press, and I was just

1277
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 3: completely unstoppable in front of that press, and.

1278
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 5: He was like, man, you got here.

1279
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:30,319
Speaker 3: You got to hear him say, it's like he got

1280
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:32,360
Speaker 3: his spinning your weab and he would do that do

1281
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 3: like trying to do the motion. While he was doing

1282
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 3: was like, call me spider. And then I kept it,

1283
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:40,279
Speaker 3: you know. And then you know how you had those

1284
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 3: kids that would call himself something but no one else

1285
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 3: would call them that in high school, like that was me,

1286
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:47,720
Speaker 3: Like I was called like now my name is Spots,

1287
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:51,880
Speaker 3: Like I was called myself nobody else was, like nobody

1288
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:55,919
Speaker 3: ever called me. And then it wasn't until I wanted

1289
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:59,239
Speaker 3: the dunk contest that it took off, like it just

1290
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 3: took it blew up. So that's where it came from.

1291
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 6: Is it true that you wear forty five because you

1292
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 6: a Jordan's baby and when Jordan came back warning the

1293
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:09,440
Speaker 6: four five that that was it for you.

1294
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, he worre in baseball and basketball, so like that

1295
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 3: was paying how much and staying true to my baby.

1296
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:16,759
Speaker 4: That's hard.

1297
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,959
Speaker 1: Use a lot of people run to that twenty three quick, Yeah,

1298
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 1: run that forty five at forty five.

1299
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:24,319
Speaker 6: If see, I'm gonna just keep it real with you

1300
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 6: though by I don't disrespect I like you.

1301
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 4: I like the number. But in Chicago that's a no

1302
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:29,840
Speaker 4: fly zone.

1303
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:32,320
Speaker 6: Man, we ain't even don't really like remember that phase

1304
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 6: forty five. They was like, that's why he would great

1305
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:37,200
Speaker 6: for him, go back twenty three, Like it just didn't

1306
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 6: feel right to us, And.

1307
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 3: I feel like for me, it was just like I

1308
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:43,680
Speaker 3: was just different than that, Like everybody everybody wanted to

1309
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 3: be like and twenty three ran out like you know,

1310
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 3: the jersey's like I ain't. I was able to get us.

1311
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 3: I was like, shoot, how can I go about this?

1312
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:52,520
Speaker 3: Fuck it, I'm gonna wear forty five. And then from

1313
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:55,880
Speaker 3: there it just like took off. And but yeah, now

1314
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 3: forty five is I know, I can only understand in Chicago,

1315
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:01,320
Speaker 3: forty five, Uh ain't the famous?

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00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 1: Yeah start bench cut you gotta start one. You got

1317
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:10,320
Speaker 1: bitch one. You gotta cut one. Dwayne Wade, Alan Irrison,

1318
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:16,279
Speaker 1: Tracy McGrady, you got to start one. I don't want

1319
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:18,239
Speaker 1: to say cut. You gotta start one, bench one and

1320
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:18,919
Speaker 1: trade one.

1321
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:20,320
Speaker 4: I know who's starting.

1322
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 5: I gotta start the Wade.

1323
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:25,440
Speaker 4: The way.

1324
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 5: I'm a bench A.

1325
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:31,319
Speaker 3: I'm a trade T MAC and this kills men because

1326
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:33,719
Speaker 3: T Max is my guy with a das we.

1327
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 5: Went on we went on a tour in China together.

1328
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 2: Uh be like that guy, that's my guy, my dude.

1329
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:43,720
Speaker 5: I don't know. I mean, just those those.

1330
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 1: Two how to come off the bench like Clarks.

1331
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 5: You go winnight too, got.

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00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 3: Man, that's a tough one for me, But I think

1333
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 3: start start D bench A I and trade T MA.

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00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 6: I know we're right at the line. I want to

1335
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:01,400
Speaker 6: ask you these let that's who thanksful we got? You're like,

1336
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 6: I won't to talk about your Spider Cares foundation to

1337
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 6: empower women all over. Just tell me how you came

1338
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:10,319
Speaker 6: up with that and what inspired you to do that.

1339
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 3: You know the biggest thing for me, my mom raised

1340
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 3: my sister myself, and for me, it was like I

1341
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:18,880
Speaker 3: saw how hard she worked just to get us to

1342
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 3: go to private school. Like you know, I was fortunate

1343
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:23,279
Speaker 3: enough to go to private school, and she worked her

1344
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:24,840
Speaker 3: tail off just to get us to go there. She

1345
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,239
Speaker 3: sacrificed everything, you know, way to.

1346
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 5: Life, you know what I mean. Like she was was

1347
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,279
Speaker 5: she was doing well, like making good money.

1348
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:35,759
Speaker 3: And she decided to stop all that to provide us

1349
00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:38,880
Speaker 3: in that proper education to see us do better, you know,

1350
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:41,319
Speaker 3: And I don't think now all parents necessarily do that

1351
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:41,879
Speaker 3: for their kids.

1352
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:43,319
Speaker 5: You know a lot of them do, but not all

1353
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 5: parents do that.

1354
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 3: For me, it was like, Okay, how can I not

1355
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 3: I'm in a position to take care of people. How

1356
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:51,040
Speaker 3: can I in my foundation and my mom's the head

1357
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:54,319
Speaker 3: of the foundation, how can we find ways to help

1358
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:56,719
Speaker 3: single mothers women in general, because at the end of

1359
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 3: the day, Black women and women in general are just

1360
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 3: like under.

1361
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 5: Appreciated what everything they do.

1362
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:03,319
Speaker 3: At the end of the day, Q, you wouldn't be here,

1363
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 3: D you wouldn't be here, I would be nobody that

1364
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 3: women at all. I mean, like they don't get the

1365
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 3: respect they deserve. So for me, it was like empowering

1366
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:13,800
Speaker 3: women in any way possible. And my mom's a teachers

1367
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 3: or was a former teacher. Uh so empower women in

1368
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 3: that field, you know, and in basketball and doctors whatever may.

1369
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:26,359
Speaker 6: You gave twelve million to your mom's old school, Like what, bro,

1370
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:28,240
Speaker 6: did you just buy a new school?

1371
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:29,400
Speaker 4: What you're doing? Like that?

1372
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:32,360
Speaker 6: That was the first of all salute and that's amazing,

1373
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:35,120
Speaker 6: Like that's empowering on the whole other level. All I

1374
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 6: could think is anything those kids at that school need

1375
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 6: is coming.

1376
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that was that was my biggest thing is

1377
00:56:40,719 --> 00:56:43,319
Speaker 3: through scholarships. And I also built a new gym for

1378
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 3: the school. So for me, it was like I went

1379
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 3: to private school school is predominantly white kids in Grangish, Connecticut,

1380
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 3: and for me, I would I was like, you know

1381
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:53,720
Speaker 3: what I want to do. I want kids who would

1382
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:55,840
Speaker 3: never even think about going to this school because they

1383
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:57,319
Speaker 3: wouldn't be able to have the funds to go to

1384
00:56:57,360 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 3: this private school, to be able to have that education.

1385
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 3: That id because I'm able to see so many things

1386
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 3: in this NBA business first, you know business because of

1387
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:08,200
Speaker 3: where I got my education. And I can only imagine

1388
00:57:08,239 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 3: like we go into AU tournaments at thirteen fourteen, my

1389
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 3: friends going to work at Golden in Sex, you know

1390
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 3: what I'm saying.

1391
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 5: So like that's there's a difference.

1392
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 3: You know, between white American and Black American, and that

1393
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 3: right like the only outlets that a lot of our

1394
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 3: kids feel like is wrapping and hooping, you know, but

1395
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 3: like understand that there's more to that, you know what

1396
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 3: I mean.

1397
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:27,120
Speaker 5: So being able to.

1398
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 2: Take care outlets.

1399
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 3: Exactly from areas that necessarily wouldn't be able to go

1400
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 3: to these schools and say, look, I'll pay for it.

1401
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 3: Go ahead, get this education, better yourself, get the grades,

1402
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 3: do this, do that, or be able to open yourself

1403
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 3: and connect yourself to people that are going to be

1404
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:44,120
Speaker 3: successful in life and so you can see it and

1405
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:46,280
Speaker 3: pass it down to your kids, pass it down to

1406
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:48,959
Speaker 3: your family. Being able to open your eyes and stuff

1407
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 3: that you've maybe never seen before. So that that was

1408
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 3: what I wanted to do, because I'm very thankful that

1409
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 3: I was able to go to private school because it's

1410
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 3: opened my eyears and things I've never even experienced. You know,

1411
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 3: I've gotten lost and never forgetting third grade that I

1412
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 3: got lost in my friend's crib when I went over

1413
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 3: to the house because it was that big, you.

1414
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:05,800
Speaker 5: Know what I mean. And that was a fuel for

1415
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 5: me to be cable. I want I want that, Like

1416
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 5: how do I go about doing that?

1417
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?

1418
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:11,440
Speaker 3: You never know what that is for a kid that

1419
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 3: triggered to be able to get them to to just

1420
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:16,280
Speaker 3: start doing whatever that is in life. So that was

1421
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 3: really for me the biggest thing. When we decided to

1422
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:22,160
Speaker 3: donate the money, you brought your little sister A call, right,

1423
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:23,720
Speaker 3: Yeah I did.

1424
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 2: She doesn't feel like.

1425
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:29,120
Speaker 1: How does it feel to be the best big brother

1426
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:31,560
Speaker 1: in the world? And you know, you know you got

1427
00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:33,720
Speaker 1: your mom something, but you got the opportunity to get

1428
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:34,960
Speaker 1: your sister something.

1429
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 4: Dope, Like how is that?

1430
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:38,440
Speaker 5: It's great? Man?

1431
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 3: And when she sees this, I hope she doesn't she

1432
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 3: understands she still got to work for this.

1433
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:44,400
Speaker 5: But like she she doesn't understand that.

1434
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 3: Like you know, for me, like I've always wanted to

1435
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 3: see my sister's done on everybody, Like that's just for

1436
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 3: me that I feel like you want.

1437
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:52,720
Speaker 1: To do you got to do that. You gotta find

1438
00:58:52,720 --> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 1: that one family.

1439
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 5: Man.

1440
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 4: I'm both unt.

1441
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:57,000
Speaker 2: Through you like you got it?

1442
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 5: Like what do you want?

1443
00:58:57,760 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 4: You got it?

1444
00:58:58,280 --> 00:58:58,840
Speaker 5: You know what I mean.

1445
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:00,919
Speaker 3: I feel like with her, she gave up so much

1446
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 3: travel with me from state to state, you know what

1447
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 3: I mean, going to not going to friends house, not

1448
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 3: going to parties, travel me sitting in a hot ass

1449
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:10,600
Speaker 3: gym for five hours and then going to go sit

1450
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 3: out for ane any baseball game. So for me, it

1451
00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 3: was like, man, like how can I repay you? You

1452
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 3: know what I mean? It's for me, it's like, shit,

1453
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 3: whatever you need you know, she's gonna be good for life,

1454
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And I think that was

1455
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 3: the biggest thing that I.

1456
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:21,640
Speaker 5: Let her know.

1457
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, you're still working

1458
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 3: for it, but like you're gonna be good regardless as you.

1459
00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:31,240
Speaker 2: Got your motivation as it should be, got out of it.

1460
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:32,080
Speaker 4: With the four five.

1461
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 6: I definitely just want to salute you, man and tell

1462
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 6: you that we as OG's in the game, appreciate you

1463
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:42,520
Speaker 6: and the way you represent yourself and your family. All

1464
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:44,800
Speaker 6: the good that you're doing back in the community, and

1465
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 6: not just the money that you're paying and the things

1466
00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:49,840
Speaker 6: you're doing financially, but you showing up and the words

1467
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:51,800
Speaker 6: that you're speaking and the things that you standing for

1468
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 6: and you living by Man. We appreciate you being a

1469
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:56,960
Speaker 6: young dude coming up young superstrowing the game and you

1470
00:59:57,040 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 6: use your platform and using everything at your resources to

1471
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:02,440
Speaker 6: right way and trying to be a better person to

1472
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 6: make the place of people around you better.

1473
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 2: Man.

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01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 4: We appreciate that sure, and I.

1475
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 5: Appreciate y'all man and this man, this is dope.

1476
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 3: Like I said, everybody you know seeing y'all do y'all

1477
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 3: podcast continue to make continue to shine light on not

1478
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 3: just myself, for US athletes, as black men and men

1479
01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:20,200
Speaker 3: in general, and just continue to put us on that platform.

1480
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:22,040
Speaker 3: And y'all keep doing your thing. Man, it's really a

1481
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:24,480
Speaker 3: it's motivating for rial. So I appreciate y'all.

1482
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:29,400
Speaker 6: Spider Mitchell, y'all appreciate you put enough home blab.

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01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 4: That was dope, all right.

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01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:43,080
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01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:45,520
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