Speaker 1: This life was all I ever wanted. I'm not leaving,
Speaker 1: not yet. I was hoping you say that you gotta
Speaker 1: hit the streets, make some money, maybe like us, let's destroyed.
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Speaker 1: showtime dot com. My brother Jack got back. Just all
Speaker 1: the Smoke just getting started, Baby, just getting started. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to another special Quarantine edition of All the Smoke
Speaker 1: myself or my brother stack Jack. What's up my guy?
Speaker 1: All that good stuff? What's up my brother? How's Atlanta
Speaker 1: treating you? Man? Good man? It was was actually nice man,
Speaker 1: nice out here? Man. What's up with you on the
Speaker 1: boys out there? Man? Tony Tony live? Because it's rating
Speaker 1: like a motherfucker out here're talking about it. Never raised
Speaker 1: in southern California. Ain't been doing nothing but raining. I've
Speaker 1: been happy to keep these motherfucker's in the house. Man.
Speaker 1: I had him boxing last night. I wish I recorded
Speaker 1: that ship was hilarious. But anyway, man, all as well. Man,
Speaker 1: We got a special guest today, one of the best
Speaker 1: young talents the League has seen in a long time.
Speaker 1: Baby man. A lot of our a lot of our face,
Speaker 1: A lot of our guests have already shouted them about.
Speaker 1: But let's introduce job Rent. Man. Appreciate you coming on
Speaker 1: the show, my guy, appreciate appreciate. Good to have you. Man.
Speaker 1: We spoke to ship. Little Wayne shouted you out. D
Speaker 1: Way shouted you out. Snoop shouted you out. Lou Will
Speaker 1: shouted you out. Gary Payton shouted you out. Like you're
Speaker 1: making a real impression on some of the greatest players
Speaker 1: of all time. How does that feel at such a
Speaker 1: young age. Man, It's it's kind of surreal, you know,
Speaker 1: going up watching those guys and obviously listening to Wayne
Speaker 1: and now you here, I'm talking about your game and
Speaker 1: how good you are. Definitely a dream from true. It's
Speaker 1: what I work for. Continue to work So how how?
Speaker 1: How is how is lockdown? Quarantine? Life out there and
Speaker 1: Memphis for you and your family? How's everybody doing? We're
Speaker 1: doing good. You just gotta, you know, continue to find
Speaker 1: different stuff to do. Man. It's it's tough not being
Speaker 1: able to have access to a German stuff, but uh,
Speaker 1: we gotta work with what we got. Good in a
Speaker 1: weight room in our garage, we get a lot of
Speaker 1: work in there. So I see your pops at a
Speaker 1: court back in the day, when they remember when they're
Speaker 1: showing you in the draft. Combine your pops used to
Speaker 1: put you all through all kinds of workout. You guys
Speaker 1: got a court at the house. Your dad still be
Speaker 1: working you out. We just gotta ate on the court
Speaker 1: this morning. So uh we're working on doing that. So
Speaker 1: uh right now, we just gotta we gotta do it
Speaker 1: without a basketball goes your Your dad can't wait to
Speaker 1: serve you. Huh. That's why y'all get in the court.
Speaker 1: I don't think you just to work you out. I
Speaker 1: think he'd be serving you too, now Na, NOA, he
Speaker 1: gotta like that more. Your dad. A lot of people
Speaker 1: know your dad used to whop. He played in high
Speaker 1: school Ray Island. We're talking off camera. He played against
Speaker 1: He said he dunked on Jermaine O'Neil uh in high
Speaker 1: school in pop side game. So when did you finally,
Speaker 1: uh finally start beating your dad because I know he
Speaker 1: held that above your hair for a minute. Uh probably
Speaker 1: uh late in my high school career. Uh before like
Speaker 1: if I get the scoring and get up, he used
Speaker 1: to just post me up every time, so it wasn't fair.
Speaker 1: But uh then afterwards it was me getting the ball
Speaker 1: first and then I don't let him get it back.
Speaker 1: That was it. You're a new You're a new father, man.
Speaker 1: Tell us how that is? Jack and I are both
Speaker 1: Jack got about eighteen kids. I got three that I pay.
Speaker 1: How how is it being a father man? Man, it's
Speaker 1: Good's definitely a blessing. Um, being able to watch him grow,
Speaker 1: get big and continue to do new stuff. Um. That's
Speaker 1: one thing I'm loving about this quarantine right now, being
Speaker 1: able to be here with my family right traveling a
Speaker 1: lot during the season. So I just gotta take advantage
Speaker 1: of this time and UM continue to just watch over
Speaker 1: my daughter. UM, do whatever I can help for out.
Speaker 1: That's what's up. We are We've we've seen you. You're
Speaker 1: you're active on social media a lot. I saw the
Speaker 1: other day when you uh you did the TikTok when
Speaker 1: you dressed in your field uniform and uh and came
Speaker 1: through the starting line of Man. I think that's great. Man.
Speaker 1: How how active are you and how much do you
Speaker 1: enjoy interacting with your fans on social media? Um? A lot?
Speaker 1: I mean that's um, people who I played for so UM.
Speaker 1: I had a lot of message requests like make a TikTok,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah uh during quarantine. Man, it's it's not
Speaker 1: much you can do other than be on your phone
Speaker 1: and play video games. So sometimes I get on video
Speaker 1: games with fans or just do TikTok to get some mass.
Speaker 1: And what's your video game game? Like, I saw you
Speaker 1: tweeted something that you said you ain't shipping video games. No,
Speaker 1: I'm trash man, I'm still learning to I'll be seeing
Speaker 1: people like post their little twitch videos. Man, if I
Speaker 1: go live, it will be embarrassed. I just keep it
Speaker 1: in the house. Man, me too. I'm straight. It gets
Speaker 1: the computer. Now I get the computer. I'm nice. But
Speaker 1: so as I get online, stop playingcast everybody else. I
Speaker 1: don't even belong online, and my teammates get me. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna call it duty and stuff. Man, it don't look
Speaker 1: so good. Yeah, it's better than I used to play
Speaker 1: video games all the time. Then I stopped. Now I
Speaker 1: got the twins at eleven year old. Eleven years old,
Speaker 1: kicking my ass and like doing little dances in front
Speaker 1: of me when they beat me, like you don't get
Speaker 1: your little mother fucking ass away from me. My ass
Speaker 1: and maddening everything. But it's a blast, like you said.
Speaker 1: I mean, we got to be creative during this time.
Speaker 1: And one thing that Jack and I both you know,
Speaker 1: joint to it is the family time and being able
Speaker 1: to hang out with our kids and being able to
Speaker 1: interact with other people. Man, I think it's been fun
Speaker 1: for a lot of us if you try to find
Speaker 1: the silver lining in this situation. Yeah, so you recently
Speaker 1: just had uh your own day in South Carolina. Talk
Speaker 1: to us about that. Man, that's a tremendous honor. First
Speaker 1: and foremost, congratulations, Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Um, definitely, you know,
Speaker 1: something special, having my own day back home. Um got
Speaker 1: the key to the city. Um, wove up, woke up
Speaker 1: that morning and everybody was in here getting ready for breakfast,
Speaker 1: and I was like happy John Moran, dad and everybody
Speaker 1: looked back, like what are you talking about? And they
Speaker 1: remember the day. So, Um, it's just something you know,
Speaker 1: brag about. Still in competition with my dad a little bit.
Speaker 1: So I like it, but don't like it. So it's
Speaker 1: that's that's that's definitely something to brag about. But let
Speaker 1: me get some Mogi game. Let me get some mog game.
Speaker 1: I got folk kidds, I mean, I got I got
Speaker 1: fold keys to folk cities in folk states, and let
Speaker 1: me say that. Do my fun's gonna open? Ship phones
Speaker 1: open nothing? All right, it's good to happen. You can,
Speaker 1: you can. You can brag on it. Bro. You know what,
Speaker 1: they don't open that damn thing. He said. I got
Speaker 1: folk keys and the bitches don't work at not one
Speaker 1: door and folk cities in four different states and now
Speaker 1: open not I yeah, that's funny as ship. Tell me
Speaker 1: what it's like. I was. I was talking to your dad.
Speaker 1: I say, it's crazy. I met your dad at All
Speaker 1: Star and he we started talking. He told me here
Speaker 1: was your father. I'm like, hold on, man, you look
Speaker 1: like you my age. Other fun you got a son
Speaker 1: in the NBA already. So I kind of looked at
Speaker 1: him crazy. But we've kind of been in contact since then,
Speaker 1: texting here and there, and we're talking about pretty much.
Speaker 1: After seven years in in l A, I got traded
Speaker 1: to Memphis and it was a culture shot from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of basically being from California and playing a lot
Speaker 1: of my career in California. When I got to Memphis,
Speaker 1: people were polite and said hello and asked me how
Speaker 1: it was, and it was just such a shock to
Speaker 1: me because that's that Southern hospitality that I've never seen,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, I'm coming from a place where
Speaker 1: motherfucker's you stare you down and give you dirty looks
Speaker 1: and don't say nothing. So to walk every single day,
Speaker 1: no matter what grocery store, picking up a pizza. Wherever
Speaker 1: I'm going, people are polite and the Grizzlies are life
Speaker 1: out there. Talk to me about what that community has
Speaker 1: been for you, because I know that's that's one of
Speaker 1: the best fan bases in the game, that the fans
Speaker 1: are very passionate, that they're very down to earth and cool.
Speaker 1: How has that been for you? Being this is your
Speaker 1: first introduction to the NBA. Um, it's been great. Um.
Speaker 1: Like you said, um, everybody greeting you no matter where
Speaker 1: you at. Um, it's something you know, I'm kind of
Speaker 1: getting you to. My parents used to always make me,
Speaker 1: you know, uh introducing myself to people when we go places.
Speaker 1: But back home in South Carolina, Uh, we kind of
Speaker 1: had that. But who who used to hate on you
Speaker 1: and give you that look? So you always had to
Speaker 1: watch your surrounding. So uh, I mean being here, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of similar. Um, I feel like that's
Speaker 1: why we're so comfortable. But uh, everybody here makes you
Speaker 1: even more comfortable with how they greet you and trying
Speaker 1: to bring you in. That's fairy touch on this right quick.
Speaker 1: How it's important, how important it is for you and
Speaker 1: and uh and how it helps you, you know, to
Speaker 1: stay focused on basketball by having both parents. Um Man,
Speaker 1: it was it's big time. Um. Even though sometimes you know,
Speaker 1: me and my dad used to work out or whatever
Speaker 1: and you know kind of get into it. Um, having
Speaker 1: my mom there. You know, my dad throughout my career
Speaker 1: having said nothing positive about my game, so I always
Speaker 1: sell people like, um, like negative energy. It motivates me
Speaker 1: because my dad was my first hate. So anybody else
Speaker 1: say it doesn't matter, it doesn't. It doesn't hurt having
Speaker 1: my mom there, you know, being able to pick me up. Um,
Speaker 1: both being able to you know, take care of the
Speaker 1: household and allow me to focus on what I need
Speaker 1: to do, uh, which was school and basketball at the time,
Speaker 1: and also you know, look after my sister. So um,
Speaker 1: it's definitely a blessing to have both both parents in
Speaker 1: your life. I know, uh, some people wish they could, um,
Speaker 1: But what I love about my parents so much is
Speaker 1: that they even took in kids who not their kids.
Speaker 1: So uh, right now we got three people in the
Speaker 1: house right now who are not my parents kids. So
Speaker 1: that's it's just big time and just show their cares.
Speaker 1: Bless you to bless them, man to your to your
Speaker 1: pops credit. I know you you think it's hate, but
Speaker 1: being a father that coaches his kids, it's it's a
Speaker 1: weird way of love. It's love. It's motivation is driving you.
Speaker 1: But like you said, it's still lights a fire under
Speaker 1: your ass, and that's what's been keeping you motivated up
Speaker 1: to this point. I want to talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about that because Jack and I kind of are in
Speaker 1: similar situations. Jack is in the situation where he says
Speaker 1: he can't coach his kids because the kids just wanted
Speaker 1: to be like the homie, Right Jack, I don't want
Speaker 1: to speak for you. Yeah, now you're you're exactly right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then I coached my twins, uh, you know, and
Speaker 1: I'm hard on him and and but try to find
Speaker 1: that silver lining. Tell me what that was like. You
Speaker 1: touched on a little bit, But tell me what it
Speaker 1: was like growing up with your dad on you you
Speaker 1: feel like he was overbearing, was he what? What was
Speaker 1: it like? And and and did that affect your relationship
Speaker 1: at all in a negative way? No? I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: at first, at a younger age, it was kind of tough. Um,
Speaker 1: just hear negative stuff like now you ain't good yeah,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. It kind of you know, make you
Speaker 1: think about your game sometimes at a young age. But
Speaker 1: as I got older, I started realizing like what he
Speaker 1: was actually doing, it was just preparing for all the hecklers.
Speaker 1: And also, um, I thank him for that. And he
Speaker 1: always used to tell me, Um, one thing he hate
Speaker 1: doing was coaching me. So whether it was AU middle school,
Speaker 1: he was never the head coach. He always been the assistant.
Speaker 1: I mean he used to get mad sometimes, he used
Speaker 1: to tell me to go kill, but he know my
Speaker 1: game is his past first. So yeah, the unique you
Speaker 1: touched on AU and I want to talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about that because you got a chance to play
Speaker 1: with uh, you know, to me the two top players
Speaker 1: in last year's draft where you and Zions and you
Speaker 1: guys played AU together. Tell tell us what that was like.
Speaker 1: Um Man, it was it was crazy. Uh definitely wasn't
Speaker 1: a lot of losing Um, I mean I think our
Speaker 1: first try out for the AU teams. I was actually
Speaker 1: about to play his age group, but uh we was
Speaker 1: on the other end. And then one of my big
Speaker 1: man from my high school team was dunking him as
Speaker 1: Zion started having a dunk off, and next next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, Zion was on our t So Zion, Zion,
Speaker 1: Zion is younger than you. Yeah, he's younger than me. Okay,
Speaker 1: So then after that is just going out there and
Speaker 1: who um, me and Zion actually wasn't the stars on
Speaker 1: the team. We had guard who's that old miss right now,
Speaker 1: Daponte Schuler who was probably averaging close to thirty, and
Speaker 1: air U And then it was just one tournament where
Speaker 1: Shula miss and me and Zion both probably average thirty
Speaker 1: that tournament. So and that was the that was the
Speaker 1: beginning of the end for him. Yeah, let's talk present
Speaker 1: day NBA. After not, you know, not being highly recruited,
Speaker 1: not really even being a blip on the radar, going
Speaker 1: to a minor school, and then come tournament time, you
Speaker 1: start taking the world by storm. Tell me what that
Speaker 1: was like before you even got to the draft, because
Speaker 1: like I said, you kind of not necessary came out
Speaker 1: of nowhere because obviously some people knew about you, but
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the world really started finding out about you,
Speaker 1: um heading in to the tournament, and and the rest
Speaker 1: is history. Um Man. I gotta start by saying, at
Speaker 1: the beginning of my sophomore season, I told my dad
Speaker 1: that the world about to see the real Jo and
Speaker 1: that was my goal, you know, just go out and
Speaker 1: prove myself. Um having a great year, you know, winning
Speaker 1: the our conference tournament and being able to make it
Speaker 1: to the tournament. I was just locked in on who
Speaker 1: my match up was. Um, we end up getting Marquette
Speaker 1: and me and my teammates. You know, a coach is
Speaker 1: prepared for and at that time it is it's a
Speaker 1: big stage. And my love of bright like draft night,
Speaker 1: lottery pick. You're up there, you're shaking Adam Silver's hand.
Speaker 1: Is that something you always dreamed about, something you didn't
Speaker 1: know it was possible walking through that, Um, that's definitely
Speaker 1: something I dreamed about. My my number one goal obviously
Speaker 1: being you know, under recruited, um, and kind of make
Speaker 1: you dodge yourself sometimes. So uh, I mean the journey
Speaker 1: wasn't easy at all. Um, There's a lot I went
Speaker 1: through that. People don't know um, but the people who
Speaker 1: was with me during that time, I just continue to work,
Speaker 1: you know, we didn't allow myself to quit. And then eventually,
Speaker 1: you know, everything paid off coming to the draft. I
Speaker 1: think it was earlier that morning. I've seen Adam Silver
Speaker 1: and he went to give me a handshake and I
Speaker 1: gave him a pound. I told him I need my
Speaker 1: handshake at the draft. So that's what's up. Hey, Sometimes
Speaker 1: sometimes being underrated and being overlooked help because you know,
Speaker 1: I went through kind of the same thing, like it
Speaker 1: pushed you more, and you have a chip on the show.
Speaker 1: Especially long as in your your mind, as long as
Speaker 1: your heart in your mind, you know you belong, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, And having other people saying that
Speaker 1: you don't. People overlooking you're looking like, man, I'm nicer
Speaker 1: than this fool. What him? Okay, I'm gonna sure. Motherfucker's
Speaker 1: like us need that job. We need that, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, because we come we come from a
Speaker 1: different cloth. Everybody can't take that, but we need that.
Speaker 1: And that's more reason why I rocked with you. I
Speaker 1: call I call you a baby gir Ruler because I
Speaker 1: love the way you play. I love. I love when
Speaker 1: you're walking on the court, you kind of like Russ.
Speaker 1: I don't care who it is, what's your name, where
Speaker 1: you're from. I'm come and kill you point blank. Uh man,
Speaker 1: it breathes dogs, you know. Um being overlooked now, I
Speaker 1: mean me being able to you know, make it to
Speaker 1: the league. Um, going through all that. You know you
Speaker 1: have some guys who's going through it right now that's
Speaker 1: younger than me. So you know, being able to tell
Speaker 1: my story to you know, motivate them, get them confidence
Speaker 1: is is just it just makes me happy. Um. Honestly,
Speaker 1: Uh my dad used to tell me those stars, those rankings,
Speaker 1: none of that matter. Um I didn't playing none of
Speaker 1: those McDonald's and none of that and little so you
Speaker 1: still got a lot more work to do though. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love that. So current day, man, what is it?
Speaker 1: What is your rookie year been? Like? I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: with this situation, obviously this pandemic, it was cut short.
Speaker 1: But you you've been nothing short of spectacular, to say
Speaker 1: the least. You've taken the league by storm. You'r you
Speaker 1: play like a dog. You out there dunking on centers.
Speaker 1: You're out there getting your teammates involved, you out there
Speaker 1: knocking down big shots. You're everything. Once we found out
Speaker 1: about you, You've been everything and more, you know as
Speaker 1: a spectator and a fan. What has it been like?
Speaker 1: What is your personal journey been like up to this point? Um,
Speaker 1: it's been smooth. You know, definitely not easy, you know,
Speaker 1: transitioning from uh thirty games to eighty two. Um, obviously
Speaker 1: you you gotta count in traveling all the time. UM,
Speaker 1: it's been tough. I feel like a lot of fans
Speaker 1: don't see actually right, Yeah, they don't see all that.
Speaker 1: So all they see is when you on the court.
Speaker 1: So whether it's you're working on your off day practice whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, you just got to continue to just take
Speaker 1: care of your body. UM. Always sell myself that my
Speaker 1: body makes my money. UM. I can't go out there
Speaker 1: with a bad body and be able to play. So Uh,
Speaker 1: that's one thing you know, I keep in my UM.
Speaker 1: Other than that, it's just going out there and hooping.
Speaker 1: You said, uh, early on in March. You know, obviously
Speaker 1: Za missed the first chunk of the season. He's he
Speaker 1: came on strong. Uh played well, you said early in March.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously everyone pretty much. I mean, you'd earned it,
Speaker 1: but everyone was saying you were the rookie of the Year. Uh.
Speaker 1: Zalion came on strong once he started playing. But I
Speaker 1: like the approach you took. You could really care less
Speaker 1: about the Rookie of the year, your whole telefans. What
Speaker 1: your goal was coming into this season. It wasn't to
Speaker 1: win Rookie of the Year. Uh. My goal is just
Speaker 1: to be better at the end of the season than
Speaker 1: I was at the beginning of the Seeds. Um coming
Speaker 1: in and making a media impact on my team and
Speaker 1: UM trying to win ball games. UM. I feel like
Speaker 1: you can having much stats what you want, but if
Speaker 1: you're losing, all that kind of goes out the window.
Speaker 1: So I rather do but do the little things to
Speaker 1: help my team win and go out and you know,
Speaker 1: stat Chase, you know you know what and nothing that
Speaker 1: separates you. You know, there's a lot of stars, and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys that that that that can
Speaker 1: be a star, but came too many guys actually make
Speaker 1: everybody on their team better and lead the organization. I
Speaker 1: see I see that in you because because you're willing
Speaker 1: to take on all roles being a leader, being a
Speaker 1: leader on the course for us, getting your teammates first,
Speaker 1: taking over in crunch times when it's time to take over,
Speaker 1: being that face of the team, all that organizations need,
Speaker 1: that spurs needed to Tim duncan you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: The Lakers needed to cover all of all of them
Speaker 1: needed to face so they can stop building an identity
Speaker 1: identity And that's why I see what myth is going
Speaker 1: with you. Yeah, I mean it's definitely once again another blessing,
Speaker 1: um being able to come here and um, they just
Speaker 1: you know, speak highly of me and the trust me
Speaker 1: to be that guy. Um, I just try to go
Speaker 1: out and you know, make everybody better. Like you said, Um,
Speaker 1: I just looked to get my teammates involved and eventually everything,
Speaker 1: you know, it kind of opened up for me or
Speaker 1: if it's me attacking early and then it opened up
Speaker 1: for my teammates. So um, eventually just reading the defense.
Speaker 1: M h, you're one of the rare superstars that you know,
Speaker 1: kind of the piggyback up. What Jack said was that
Speaker 1: it's whatever the team needs, So whether it be getting
Speaker 1: everybody going one night, whether it be taken over one night.
Speaker 1: To me, similar to you know, obviously different playing styles,
Speaker 1: but mentality of a magic Johnson, of a Lebron James,
Speaker 1: that you can really control and dictate the whole pace
Speaker 1: of the game, the whole outcome of the game. Who
Speaker 1: did you look up to growing up? Uh? With that?
Speaker 1: Some some players like that or tell us where you
Speaker 1: learn just that mentality of team first over numbers? Um madness.
Speaker 1: A lot of guys actually, Um, I probably study every
Speaker 1: top guard that played the game. Something to just throw
Speaker 1: out there. Uh, I watch a lot of Nash, I
Speaker 1: watch a lot of kids. Um, I study Pitty Ai,
Speaker 1: you know for that killer mentality. Um. Growing up au days,
Speaker 1: I was watching Kobe and Bron Um. Then um watching
Speaker 1: Rondo with that Celtics team, how he was facilitating the offense,
Speaker 1: you know, and getting guys um open looks. Um. That's
Speaker 1: what kind of you know made me fall in love
Speaker 1: with passing the ball. Um. Just to be able to
Speaker 1: affect the game in so many ways, I feel like
Speaker 1: it makes you more dangerous. A lot of high i
Speaker 1: Q players, a lot of i Q playing. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: now it's just you know, we have different guys in
Speaker 1: this league now who can do different things. Uh. Obviously
Speaker 1: Russ with everything he brings to the table, Um Curry
Speaker 1: with how he affects the game even if he doesn't
Speaker 1: have the ball. Um, you got Dame, you got now
Speaker 1: and Tree, Young Luca, those guys. Um, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of talented guys who played this game. Who's playing now?
Speaker 1: And Um, I know a lot of people say you
Speaker 1: can't be friendly. I don't think it's friendly. It's just me,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to get better at my game. Respecting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: respect Yeah, you mentioned Russell Westbrook. A lot of people
Speaker 1: compare your game to his in a certain aspects. What
Speaker 1: has been like playing against him? And then have you
Speaker 1: ever got a chance to talk to him and got
Speaker 1: any advice on him about just this this game of
Speaker 1: life of hoop? Um, it's definitely been crazy, you know.
Speaker 1: Um just watching him coming up, Um, everything he was
Speaker 1: doing it was triple double average and triple double three
Speaker 1: straight years. Um. He's definitely a tough guy. He he
Speaker 1: doesn't care about who's on the floor, who's on the
Speaker 1: other side of the ball. He's Um, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: on goal. So that's definitely a mentality I got. Um.
Speaker 1: I think our first game used to came to us. Um,
Speaker 1: I think we end up losing later in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and I talked to him after the game, and um,
Speaker 1: he was just telling me, you know, keep going, keeping
Speaker 1: like the killer that I am, and just keep pushing
Speaker 1: and leading the team. So UM, It's definitely was one
Speaker 1: of those moments you'll be like, wow, you know watching
Speaker 1: um a guy you know grew up watching and now
Speaker 1: you're actually playing against who has been I hear I
Speaker 1: hear the baby girl crying something about the feet or
Speaker 1: she said, oh man, now she's over here trying to talk. Man.
Speaker 1: Who up to this point obviously you mentioned a lot
Speaker 1: of great players. Who was the one player when you
Speaker 1: finally play him, Like, damn, I'm playing so and so
Speaker 1: what was who? Who was that player for you? Um? Man? Um,
Speaker 1: I probably have to say Kyrie because it was at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season, you know, watching him and
Speaker 1: what he did his career. I think it was like
Speaker 1: a third game of the season. Um. Yeah, game then y'all, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we went at the buzzard. But it's like, yeah, you
Speaker 1: get straight to it, um, and just watching him how
Speaker 1: he was he was, well, I think he's one of
Speaker 1: the tough players to guard in this league. Absolutely, he
Speaker 1: got the ball on the stream he can knock down
Speaker 1: the shot, and um, I feel like he's gray finisher
Speaker 1: and he's not even over the realm. So UM, that's
Speaker 1: it's just a tough all around player and um probably
Speaker 1: one of the one of those guys. It was like, wow,
Speaker 1: like I'm playing against Kyrie. Where did the uh the
Speaker 1: goggles thing come from? When you drop a time and
Speaker 1: now you got you do the ship over your eyes.
Speaker 1: You got the whole team doing it. Where did that
Speaker 1: come from? Um? I mean I used to do it
Speaker 1: that Murray my sophomore year. UM, just not as much now.
Speaker 1: So once I kind of brought it um and with
Speaker 1: the gristiness, it was like the fans started loving it.
Speaker 1: My media people kept asking me about it, so they
Speaker 1: kind of blew up you. Recently, you guys had one
Speaker 1: of my former teammates. Obviously the end of the Golden
Speaker 1: State dynasty happened. Uh, you guys picked up Iguadolla and
Speaker 1: Jack and I know the business of basketball's is a
Speaker 1: cold game. He came there, didn't play obviously as young players,
Speaker 1: thinking like I'm sure you guys had a certain mindset
Speaker 1: and thinking like why is this guy not playing? He
Speaker 1: had a certain reason why he wasn't tell us what
Speaker 1: that was like because at one point, you know, Dylan
Speaker 1: Brooks broke the silence and and said what he said
Speaker 1: and and completely understand it, you know from from a
Speaker 1: competitive player standpoint. Uh and you actually uh you went
Speaker 1: Steph Curry Loki went back and forth on social media
Speaker 1: about stuffing not too crazy, but what was that experience
Speaker 1: like for your team? Knowing his accolades and what he
Speaker 1: done in the past, and then he came to Memphis
Speaker 1: but didn't play. Um man, I'm I'm gonna be with
Speaker 1: a hundred, which you've um coming in when when they
Speaker 1: said he was gonna be on our roster, you know,
Speaker 1: I was very excited, um having an event like that
Speaker 1: in the locker room with us, a guy who won
Speaker 1: in games, me coming in my first year. I was
Speaker 1: looking forward to, you know, learning some stuff from him.
Speaker 1: And didn't hear and like he was saying he wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna play with us or whatever happened, you know, Like
Speaker 1: you said, it's a business, all different types of stuff
Speaker 1: going around. Um, I was just like like wow, basically
Speaker 1: somebody said like he said, we wasn't good enough, So
Speaker 1: in my head is like all right, at that moment.
Speaker 1: You know, it is what it is. We go, Bro,
Speaker 1: we don't want you anyway. Bro. Yeah, like there like
Speaker 1: we're gonna, you know, play what we got. Um, I
Speaker 1: think it came out deal and said something and then
Speaker 1: it was like at that moment, it was out there
Speaker 1: now so um, you know everybody started chiming in. Um curry. Um.
Speaker 1: There's just a lot of stuff, you know what's going on. Um.
Speaker 1: Like I said before, I still got respect for those guys,
Speaker 1: still fan of them. But you know, it is what
Speaker 1: it is. You're right, you're right with your teammates. You
Speaker 1: let me tell you what's what you did? Bro? You
Speaker 1: did what you're supposed to do, point blank. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I don't care what team my mom
Speaker 1: and I don't care who said the president said. You
Speaker 1: say something about me or anybody of my teammates, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say something and you have to deal with not
Speaker 1: Now when I'm on another team and you say something
Speaker 1: bout them, that that's it's all good. But why I'm
Speaker 1: on this team, you're gonna you're gonna show some respect. Bro.
Speaker 1: Yeah you did right, Bro. Yeah, that's that's what I
Speaker 1: just feel like. Man, we're not taking no disrespect. Um.
Speaker 1: You know where I'm from, miss, Um, it's one all
Speaker 1: you know. We ride for hours. So yeah, at that moment,
Speaker 1: that's what it was. That's hounds supposed to be. That's
Speaker 1: how I supposed to be. Can you pinpoint possibly one
Speaker 1: defining moment up to this point in your career, whether
Speaker 1: it be a good game, a dunk on somebody beating
Speaker 1: a team, Has there been one moment that really stood
Speaker 1: out to you thus far in your rookie season. He
Speaker 1: got some miss dunks in his career, Matt that I
Speaker 1: wish I would. Yeah, I didn't to try nothing like
Speaker 1: that in my career. I want one of his miss dunks.
Speaker 1: I want was the one ship on Kevin love that
Speaker 1: was who I got A couple that Kevin love joint
Speaker 1: was was definitely one. Um, you might have put this
Speaker 1: one of the made that you might have ended his career. Bro.
Speaker 1: Not to cut you off, but if you would have
Speaker 1: made that ship, that might have been the end of
Speaker 1: Kevin Lovell That that was definitely one you know I
Speaker 1: wish I could get back. Um. I think my teammates
Speaker 1: can tell you. I think it was like a time out, Um,
Speaker 1: like the next play and that was in the in
Speaker 1: the huddle, plush in my hand, like bro like it
Speaker 1: that she was still on top plays and you missed it.
Speaker 1: That's how bad that motherfucking duck was. Another probably would
Speaker 1: be you know the Kyrie game, Um, you know that
Speaker 1: battle between me and Kyrie and being able to win
Speaker 1: that game. Another would probably be the game winner versus Charlotte.
Speaker 1: Uh well, I feel like that was a big time
Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, your first one. Yeah, and that that
Speaker 1: Rie game was specially because because I've seen both of
Speaker 1: your Kyrie put a move on one of your big
Speaker 1: man with the hesitation, y, oh my god, you can't.
Speaker 1: I was going out and that that was. That was
Speaker 1: good basketball. And I can't wait to see I want
Speaker 1: to see y'all going for years to come, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna I still I still look back at that game
Speaker 1: right there. You know, you got so much to learn
Speaker 1: with that game right there, especially if you're a guard.
Speaker 1: Um that not right there, was definitely want to watch.
Speaker 1: Do you feel the pressure of being a franchise player.
Speaker 1: Do you ever think about like how much weight is
Speaker 1: on your shoulders, like the city expects you to take
Speaker 1: them to the promised land, being a young player having
Speaker 1: an amazing rookie season. You're gonna win Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: Do you ever let that creep in your mind? Or
Speaker 1: is that part of what your dad was preparing you
Speaker 1: for back in the day. Um, I feel like my
Speaker 1: dad actually, you know, preparing me for that moment. Um
Speaker 1: eat My mom useduld tell me, Um, I'm beneath no one,
Speaker 1: my dad, you should tell me, I'm trained to go. Basically,
Speaker 1: this is is what I'm here for us, what I
Speaker 1: work for is what I want. So, um, you know
Speaker 1: going there, Um, I don't think about it too much.
Speaker 1: I continue, you know, trying to be me. Um, do
Speaker 1: what I do out there and eventually, you know, everything
Speaker 1: that just work out. So is there one player past
Speaker 1: or present that you would actually let's go past? You've
Speaker 1: talked about president someone who a former star or a
Speaker 1: former player that you wish you would have got a
Speaker 1: chance to play against. Oh man, Um, I got to
Speaker 1: I got Kobe and Jordan to legends. Yeah, I got
Speaker 1: I need that talk to us about it though, because
Speaker 1: you're a lot smaller than them, so to talk to us.
Speaker 1: What goes through your mind when you think about messing
Speaker 1: up with those two? Um, man that like you said,
Speaker 1: they put on their shoes the same way I do.
Speaker 1: So I'm going into that matchup, you know, um, liking myself.
Speaker 1: Um as you should. Yeah, I mean going there saying
Speaker 1: all right, they get that, don't come out of that,
Speaker 1: don't come might stay. No, I'm going to that matchup,
Speaker 1: you know, ready to take on that challenge. And uh,
Speaker 1: he's definitely one. You know. Um, I wish I could
Speaker 1: I could have have That's what's up. So getting down
Speaker 1: to the end, what are who are some of the
Speaker 1: artists you're listening to right now? I listen? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he definitely number one. Um, I listened to Young Boy.
Speaker 1: You know you got Drake. My dad still played the
Speaker 1: old school jay Z. Uh yeah, that's hold hold on
Speaker 1: one second. Isn't it crazy to hear jay Z called
Speaker 1: old school? I love it? That ship is crazy to me.
Speaker 1: Though he'd be playing he'd be playing some songs I
Speaker 1: think was out before I was born. Man, let me
Speaker 1: think he doing something. Man. Yeah, Man, your man, your
Speaker 1: dad around the same day. So that's the same stuff
Speaker 1: you're listening to. I'd be jamming it to my house.
Speaker 1: But you still listen to some of the throwbacks. You
Speaker 1: know you got the way the jeezy. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: you still got those guys out there straight up and
Speaker 1: this is it's a lot of it's a lot of
Speaker 1: tough guys, you know, Uh, just throwing them shuffle man,
Speaker 1: what what? What? What rap? Do you want to see? Names?
Speaker 1: Drop you and the sound? Uh? Because you know what
Speaker 1: once you say it, oh here, it's gonna happen. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's going as good as going. So I need that.
Speaker 1: I need that little Baby or Drake. Oh you're gonna
Speaker 1: get You're gonna get it. They gonna hear from this show.
Speaker 1: So that ship is coming, trust us. Yeah, I got
Speaker 1: that for show. Do you have one song that would
Speaker 1: kind of be like your theme song to either your journey,
Speaker 1: your life, your mindset? Like, what is your your one
Speaker 1: song that that represents you you feel like to the fullest?
Speaker 1: Uh dream seriality, my little Baby. Yes, actually put my
Speaker 1: fan who went to the drift with me. I actually
Speaker 1: put them on that song that was playing that now
Speaker 1: they know every word. Yeah yeah, yeah, Hey, hey I
Speaker 1: want to I want to give your song. You just
Speaker 1: had to look up a listen to what you're working out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's called it's called tears. Came from making this dream
Speaker 1: by street Military. Tears came from the check it out
Speaker 1: street military tears came from making his dream. Yeah, tears
Speaker 1: came from by street military. Just happen and want you
Speaker 1: to check that out? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We recently had
Speaker 1: like I said early on, we gave you a numerous
Speaker 1: people gave you shouts out as their favorite player and
Speaker 1: one of the you know, the most exciting players to watch.
Speaker 1: What did you think Just the other day when we
Speaker 1: had Wayne on and and and you were the first
Speaker 1: name he brought up, what do you think about that?
Speaker 1: And a legend? Um, definitely know one of the guys
Speaker 1: who got a lot of respecting this rap game. Uh,
Speaker 1: a guy you know I still listen to so um
Speaker 1: being able to hear one of the you know, the
Speaker 1: great I mentioned, my name's definitely a big time Um.
Speaker 1: I think I said it to him. We so as
Speaker 1: we asked me a question the first name, he said,
Speaker 1: we're Joe name. Yeah, So I definitely you know, set
Speaker 1: that out to them like, yeah, that's that's right here,
Speaker 1: A big time right there. But much love. That's what's up.
Speaker 1: We got some quick hitters. We appreciate your time. Hopefully
Speaker 1: we can get you a studio. We didn't want to
Speaker 1: dig two deep old stuff. We want to get you
Speaker 1: a studio and really catch a vibe. So we kind
Speaker 1: of just wanted to cover the surface or some of
Speaker 1: the stuff. But we got some quick hitters to uh
Speaker 1: to end this jack go ahead and hit it with
Speaker 1: the quick hitters. Who you think should be a guest
Speaker 1: on our show? Quick hitters? Wait? Uh let me let
Speaker 1: me see, uh, I said, trade of working as we speak. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna get okay, most underready
Speaker 1: to play on We're coming for you, the most underady
Speaker 1: player in the league right now to you? True holiday.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I think everybody we asked that question, everybody
Speaker 1: saying that name, everybody name, he's one of them guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah he don't, he don't. He don't get the respect
Speaker 1: he deserved. But who know the game we know here dog? Yeah,
Speaker 1: right up, all right, doing quarantine. We all were all
Speaker 1: at home right now? What you currently being watching? Money? Heis?
Speaker 1: How is that a couple of times? How is that
Speaker 1: it's moved? I just I just got into it. What
Speaker 1: episode I'm on? Like three started? Yeah? Yeah that good?
Speaker 1: Right now? Yeah, it's starting to go to I'm on
Speaker 1: the episode six. I just started a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: That should goes. Yeah, I gotta get on that. I
Speaker 1: gotta get on that. You're at home quarantine again. Watch you, Ben,
Speaker 1: you'd say you bening what you're snacking on while you're benjing. Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't really snack too much. My dad normally cook
Speaker 1: almost every three hours, so we kind of eating good
Speaker 1: over here. You got you gotta eat good, especially when
Speaker 1: you can't running work out like like walk to it.
Speaker 1: So you gotta you gotta be careful with that. Alright,
Speaker 1: favorite restro jersey? Uh? Very cool? Oh that Van cool
Speaker 1: man on? Hold on, hold on, Now I have one.
Speaker 1: I played preseason with him. That yeah, with Mike viving him.
Speaker 1: I played the preseason. Yeah, I should have made the team.
Speaker 1: I would think I was the third, second or third
Speaker 1: scoring during preseason, and I had the number one jacks.
Speaker 1: I still had that jersey. Boy, that is definitely one
Speaker 1: of the jerseys. What nobody ain't got bad that they
Speaker 1: said Vancouver's dope. I ain't never been to Vancouver. I
Speaker 1: heard they got homes out there, yeah, and were illegal
Speaker 1: to But we're gonna be talking about that one thing
Speaker 1: before we get out of here. Man, I want to
Speaker 1: touched on. I think it's amazing an amazing dynamics, so
Speaker 1: mistaken if I'm wrong. Your mom and dad, you guys
Speaker 1: are all under one house, and you guys live together
Speaker 1: during the season two. Yeah, yeah, we all say together.
Speaker 1: It's UM talk to us about the side of the house,
Speaker 1: talk too. It's they They've been here, you know, through
Speaker 1: it all. Um. It was you know, only right that
Speaker 1: I brought him with me. Um. One of the big
Speaker 1: reasons was coming into this league, not saying, you know,
Speaker 1: I can't handle myself and stuff, but being right now,
Speaker 1: you know, getting used to everything, is still getting comfortable. UM.
Speaker 1: It's allowed me to just focus. UM, you know, and
Speaker 1: they can um do stuff around the house and you know,
Speaker 1: just let me do what I do. So do they
Speaker 1: do they have to do chores for you? Now that
Speaker 1: you're the boss of the house. My pathers gotta do everything.
Speaker 1: I'm making pet the graph that that's that'ste I gotta
Speaker 1: wish I would have did that came up, I came in.
Speaker 1: I gotta wish I would have brought my mom, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I think that would have helped
Speaker 1: me focus my early years and help me get a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff straight to It had been easy on me.
Speaker 1: So if I have brought my mom so that's real
Speaker 1: smart Broyea. Hey, Man, we just want to thank you
Speaker 1: for your time. We're huge fans. Continued success, Continue on
Speaker 1: that grind man, don't lose that chip, don't never lose
Speaker 1: that dog man, and just fuck the NBA up straight up. Man.
Speaker 1: You got a lot of support, man, keep doing, continue
Speaker 1: to improve in and good luck the rest of the way. Man. Appreciate,
Speaker 1: appreciate you. Bro. Hey, that's a wrap special episode Quarantine
Speaker 1: edition with the soon to be rookie the Year job Marette.
Speaker 1: We want to thank him Jack, great show, my guy, job,
Speaker 1: my brother. You can find this streaming on Showtime Basketball
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Speaker 1: This life was all I ever wanted. I'm not leaving,
Speaker 1: not yet. I was hoping you'd say that you gotta
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