Speaker 1: The volume.
Speaker 2: I'm Slow and this is Sloane nos Next. We sit
Speaker 2: down with the future stars of tomorrow. Today's guest is
Speaker 2: Nick Kamenya, a four star recruit who recently just committed
Speaker 2: to Duke University. His journey of winning back to back
Speaker 2: state titled with Harvard west Lake to winning a gold
Speaker 2: medal with Team USA and his dreams of playing in
Speaker 2: the NBA is a story you won't want to miss,
Speaker 2: all right, Nick, So this is an episode of Sloane
Speaker 2: nos Next. And for those who haven't gotten the privileged
Speaker 2: to know a little bit about your game yet, would
Speaker 2: you mind telling us your age, your name, where you
Speaker 2: play basketball, and where you're going to play in college.
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: I'm Nick Kmenya. I'm seventeen years old's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: I go to Harvard west Lake and next year I'll
Speaker 4: be at Duke.
Speaker 2: Congrats that's a big time Nick just committed, very excited.
Speaker 2: It's really cool to have him on. How old were
Speaker 2: you when you started to play basketball?
Speaker 4: Really ever since? I can remember just going to my
Speaker 4: dad's practices. So shoot, I think I really started picking
Speaker 4: it up when I was five six, okay, just dribbling
Speaker 4: around shooting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, were you always taller than the other kids?
Speaker 4: Yeah, all the time, all the time.
Speaker 1: How tall is your dad six eight and your mom
Speaker 1: six foot? Wow? So you have tall gen didn't im
Speaker 1: assuming you guys are a basketball family.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, both my parents played okay in college. Yeah,
Speaker 4: my mom went to a Juco in Florida and my
Speaker 4: dad played at George Washington.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, cool, so it runs it's in your
Speaker 2: blood when you were growing up. Did you play any
Speaker 2: other sports or it was always just basketball?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Literally, it was basketball, basketball, basketball the whole time.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, so that's in your blood.
Speaker 4: Lockdown.
Speaker 2: Other than your parents, who was a you know, basketball
Speaker 2: idol for you growing up?
Speaker 4: I mean I grew up watching a lot of basketbats
Speaker 4: just on the TV, just waking up and turning it on.
Speaker 4: It wasn't a time of Disney Channel and never Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was none of that. I watched a lot of
Speaker 4: the Lakers.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: But I love the Spurs a lot growing up, especially
Speaker 4: when I first started understanding basketball. They were like the
Speaker 4: team so like there.
Speaker 1: Was no connection to San Antonio. You just like like
Speaker 1: their style of play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they were just the best team when you grow up. Yeah,
Speaker 4: So like I kind of hopped in that bandwagon. Kawhi
Speaker 4: Leonard was like my favorite player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you still a first fan? Yeah, we Yeah.
Speaker 2: What do you think about Chris Paul joining the Spurs?
Speaker 4: I mean he was at he was at the JT
Speaker 4: camp when I was there as well, and I know
Speaker 4: his son, So I mean, Chris Paul, he's a good player,
Speaker 4: he's a good point guard. I mean he's already helped
Speaker 4: the Spurs so much he's being there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's cool to see.
Speaker 2: So I got the chance to interview you at Jason
Speaker 2: Tatum camp, like you just touched on, which is pretty
Speaker 2: cool that at seventeen, you've already had experiences where you've
Speaker 2: gotten to meet and play with NBA players. But I'm
Speaker 2: curious who was the first NBA player you ever met?
Speaker 4: First NBA player I ever met? That's a good question,
Speaker 4: thank you. Uh oh, I mean my godfather used to
Speaker 4: be in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's that's one, my.
Speaker 4: Godfather, Slava Medvedenko. Yeah, he's probably the first. But I
Speaker 4: mean I went to Kobe's Jersey retirement and I met
Speaker 4: so many NBA players at that time, Mat Kobe that night,
Speaker 4: Magic Johnson, James Worthy, Uh, Kareem.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, night that night was that's crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was the best one.
Speaker 1: Is there a specific NBA player that you model your
Speaker 1: game after.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say specific, but I just take bits and pieces.
Speaker 4: I think guys like Luka, Doncic and Jokic who kind
Speaker 4: of played the game a little slower and then defensively
Speaker 4: like Kauhi. Of course, I know he hasn't played a
Speaker 4: whole bunch, but yeah, like guys that take defense as
Speaker 4: seriously as they do offense. Try to model my game
Speaker 4: after that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that mentality. Are there any comps that
Speaker 2: you've gotten, player comps that you've really liked?
Speaker 4: I mean I've heard Luca a couple of times. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's that's a good one to here scary. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: I mean I like take it as a compliment that
Speaker 4: But at the same time, I just think I'm different
Speaker 4: than a lot of people. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, it's important to differentiate yourself. I feel
Speaker 1: like that a lot.
Speaker 2: What has been your most memorable basketball moment so far
Speaker 2: in your life?
Speaker 4: Most memorable? Uh, I'd probably say man won a lot
Speaker 4: of championships, so probably my first day championship. I felt
Speaker 4: like that was probably the best one, just because freshman
Speaker 4: year I didn't get a ton of playing time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a freshman on varsity.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, So I mean losing my freshman year and
Speaker 4: then working that whole summer, spring, fall, even and then
Speaker 4: coming into the playoffs we started off a little rocky,
Speaker 4: but then beating Centennial, who was like the team at
Speaker 4: the time, and then winning that first day championship for
Speaker 4: the school as an open vision was cool. That was
Speaker 4: probably the best.
Speaker 1: That's special.
Speaker 2: Who have been the you know, top three best players
Speaker 2: that you played with so far in either high school or.
Speaker 4: A top three players? Uh? Probably go Trent Perry for sure.
Speaker 4: Oh man, I played with a lot of good ones
Speaker 4: in the top five.
Speaker 1: If you want, you can say as money as you want,
Speaker 1: I want to hear top ten, but I'm just go
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 4: Might as well, Yeah, I probably go Trent, Robert Brady, Shoe,
Speaker 4: Zay Johnson on my AU team, Peyton White, who else?
Speaker 4: Who else? Was not trying to miss nobody? Robert Hinton,
Speaker 4: I say.
Speaker 1: Robert already, No, I don't think you said him.
Speaker 4: Robert Hinton, Jacob Huggins was good man. Everybody I played with.
Speaker 2: Everyone, Okay, everyone give a shout out to everyone. All right, So,
Speaker 2: what is the biggest difference is that you've seen between
Speaker 2: playing A you and high school? Because they're they're different games,
Speaker 2: you know, it's not the same thing.
Speaker 4: I feel like AU you kind of learned how to
Speaker 4: play extremely tired you're playing.
Speaker 1: How many games do you play today?
Speaker 4: I mean like sometimes two, sometimes one, but it can
Speaker 4: be like four in one weekend, which gets super tough
Speaker 4: a lot. But I mean, I just say high school
Speaker 4: is way more organized. You got a better feel for
Speaker 4: teams that you're playing against. You got a better feel
Speaker 4: for the teammates that you're playing with. In AU, you
Speaker 4: can only practice so much with everybody being there. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean it's it's it's a pretty big difference. But
Speaker 4: I've been looking lucky enough to play on AU team
Speaker 4: where we've had the same guys. Yeah, yeah, So I
Speaker 4: mean building chemistry with them and working out with them
Speaker 4: all the time.
Speaker 1: Like, do you prefer A you or high school or
Speaker 1: it's the same for you?
Speaker 4: No, I prefer high school for sure, just because you
Speaker 4: can prepare way more than you can for AU.
Speaker 1: And I'm assuming going to school with those guys you
Speaker 1: can create like more of a special.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it helps a lot. Like chemistry is such
Speaker 4: a big piece of bath wall that people don't understand,
Speaker 4: Like people bring in transfer its like it's season. It's
Speaker 4: hard to play together at that point. But if you
Speaker 4: have a whole season to build something, then forward the
Speaker 4: end of the season, you guys are gonna be really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean you could call Harvard Westlake where you go
Speaker 2: at this point, almost like a high school powerhouse. Right,
Speaker 2: winning so many state championships in the past couple of years,
Speaker 2: what do you think has been the key to your guys' success?
Speaker 4: I mean exactly that, Like we've brought in two transfers
Speaker 4: in however many years that coach Wilbo has been there. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I mean we have really good coaching staff.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Who uh, they don't let us just do whatever. It
Speaker 4: don't matter who you are, what kind of player you are.
Speaker 4: And I mean we're just literally just a brotherhood, like
Speaker 4: we just put were together all the time at school,
Speaker 4: Like yeah, we'll be in a big circle like in
Speaker 4: the middle of the quad just talk exactly. We're just
Speaker 4: a family there. Uh. And I don't a lot of
Speaker 4: people a lot of places say they have that, but
Speaker 4: only so many people act like it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, that's great. Okay.
Speaker 2: So you know, obviously, like we said earlier, committed to
Speaker 2: Duke and you've had some pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: Offers as well. What is what was it like?
Speaker 2: You know, when you were playing in it their AE
Speaker 2: or high school and you look over in the side
Speaker 2: and you see these guys sitting there in the Duke
Speaker 2: Cats and zagahats and you're like, oh my gosh, like
Speaker 2: these scouts are there for me.
Speaker 4: I mean it's just different. Like you grow up thinking
Speaker 4: about that kind of stuff, but yeah, you dream about it,
Speaker 4: but you never really think it's possible. You just work
Speaker 4: for it, not thinking anything of it. But when it
Speaker 4: really starts to happen, you're like, oh, shoot, like koch
Speaker 4: Shi are really sitting right there watch my game right now?
Speaker 4: Like mm hmm, it really hits you, Like yeah, man,
Speaker 4: like these people really want me to come and play
Speaker 4: for them, like you only dream about playing at places
Speaker 4: like Duke.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Just I mean four years ago, I was probably watching
Speaker 4: the mal Invitational Zion R. J. Berry.
Speaker 1: It is like, now that's gonna get it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you wouldn't even think about that, but I mean
Speaker 4: now having that shoot not even having the opportunity, but
Speaker 4: gonna go being committed there. Yeah, that's it's really cool.
Speaker 2: We talked about this a little bit before we started filming,
Speaker 2: but I want to touch on it again. Whereas you know,
Speaker 2: I'm obviously not a D one basketball player like you are,
Speaker 2: but I was gonna say, if I was in your shoes,
Speaker 2: I feel like, if I got that do Golfer, I'd
Speaker 2: be like, that's it, that's the one I'm going there.
Speaker 1: What was that process like for you?
Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like recruiting it starts like right
Speaker 4: before I think junior, like when they can start calling
Speaker 4: you and whatnot. Yeah, so it's a really long process
Speaker 4: of phone calls and messages and meetings and visits. It
Speaker 4: takes a lot out of you, but it's also fun
Speaker 4: and it's a blessing that not a lot of people
Speaker 4: can experience. So you take the good and you appreciate
Speaker 4: that way more than you do the bad in the
Speaker 4: negative side of it. But I mean, it's super fun
Speaker 4: to be recruited. Yeah, And ultimately, like I said earlier,
Speaker 4: it's a dream and you work for it every single day.
Speaker 4: So it was super cool And obviously it was a blessing,
Speaker 4: but you can only really choose one school.
Speaker 1: So yeah, for you, it has a video and I
Speaker 1: feel like for you, you know, I've I realized this with
Speaker 1: your Instagram. It was like all of a sudden, all
Speaker 1: these offers were pouring it, pouring it and pouring it.
Speaker 2: How are you able to stay humble, stay grounded when
Speaker 2: you sort of your stock rose that much?
Speaker 4: I mean I really just think it's my parents in
Speaker 4: just the base that they installed in me. Yea, ever
Speaker 4: since I was young. Shoot, my dad told me today,
Speaker 4: as soon as you think you've made it, that's when
Speaker 4: you start to fall off.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you just always got to keep working like
Speaker 4: it don't matter. It don't matter where you are at
Speaker 4: that certain point one second, it can all be taken
Speaker 4: away for a mistake, for anything you start working hard.
Speaker 4: So ultimately, my dream is to be in the NBA,
Speaker 4: So I'm not going to start working until I get there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this sort of ties into that as well.
Speaker 2: How have you been able to balance being a student
Speaker 2: and an athlete?
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, especially at Harvard Westley.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say that's hard, Yeah.
Speaker 4: But I mean you kind of get used to it.
Speaker 4: But I mean you have to help from people and
Speaker 4: you just have to sacrifice a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Some weekends, yeah you might just be sitting at home
Speaker 4: doing homework or just going to the gym and then
Speaker 4: going back home to do homework. But I mean you
Speaker 4: learn how to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean it's good experience because like eventually.
Speaker 4: For the next level. Yeah, ultimately.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: One und So, if I want to go watch Harvard
Speaker 2: Westlake play this year, what game would you suggest me
Speaker 2: or anyone listening goes to.
Speaker 4: I mean, sure you can go to all of them. Uh,
Speaker 4: the most fun I'll probably say I've had the most
Speaker 4: fun playing in playoffs. Yeah, but in season, the league
Speaker 4: is always fun. Every single game is always fun. This
Speaker 4: year we got to play at the end of a dome,
Speaker 4: which is gonna be super cool. So cool. Yeah, have
Speaker 4: you been there yet? No? I haven't.
Speaker 2: I haven't either. I want to go so badly. And
Speaker 2: you know, there's all the high school jerseys hung up
Speaker 2: on the wall from every single high school in California
Speaker 2: or in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: That it's insane. That's crazy senior jersey up there.
Speaker 4: Cool, that would be fine, that'd be fine.
Speaker 2: So we touched on a little bit about your high
Speaker 2: school teammates. You know, Trent Perry who goes to UCLA
Speaker 2: and Robert Hinton who goes to Harvard and has been
Speaker 2: going off at Harvard, which has been.
Speaker 1: Cool to see. What was it like for you to
Speaker 1: a play with them?
Speaker 2: And then how have they helped you sort of you know,
Speaker 2: navigate your senior year and commitment and all of that.
Speaker 4: I mean, I still I think I texted Trent and
Speaker 4: Robert yesterday because I know Trent played a good mind
Speaker 4: minus yesterday he did pretty solid. And Robert, of course,
Speaker 4: I think he just had back to back twenty five
Speaker 4: plus games. B I mean being able to play with
Speaker 4: those guys, like when you're in high school, they're just
Speaker 4: like your friends, like just regular guys, and then they're
Speaker 4: going off the big time D one schools and they're
Speaker 4: doing what they're doing. But I mean, I've learned a
Speaker 4: lot of things from the seniors in my past, and
Speaker 4: I've taken that into my senior year. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: there always good guys to text and call whenever I
Speaker 4: need something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and talking about big times he wont schools. I
Speaker 2: want to like really get into Duke for a little
Speaker 2: bit here. How do you think your game fits in
Speaker 2: with Duke's playing style, especially with the Boozer Twins coming in.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think they just have a lot of
Speaker 4: versatile guys, and I think I'm literally just like that.
Speaker 4: Just being able to shoot, being able to pass, dribble,
Speaker 4: I mean yeah, I mean they played super hardy, they're
Speaker 4: super positive energy wise. I feel like I can do
Speaker 4: just that. I try to practice that every single day
Speaker 4: at Harvard West like right now. Yeah, talking to my
Speaker 4: teammates about the whole practice, talking on the court the
Speaker 4: entire time. Just really just preparing myself for next year.
Speaker 4: And I really see myself being a part of that.
Speaker 1: Brother, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2: And can you walk us through your official visit? I
Speaker 2: love hearing about official visits. What was your favorite part
Speaker 2: of Durham Any good food?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: What was that like?
Speaker 4: No, my favorite part was actually when I got to
Speaker 4: play with them. Yeah, so we had did some runs
Speaker 4: and I got to play with Spencer Harberd, who actually
Speaker 4: went to Harvard Westlake I think two years or a
Speaker 4: year before I went there. Yeah, So, I mean it
Speaker 4: was just super fun getting up and down in there.
Speaker 4: And I mean Durham is a's a really nice place.
Speaker 4: It's pretty quiet, but you can tell that people really
Speaker 4: love Duke. Ye, you can really tell that. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean it was super fun. Playing with them was
Speaker 4: super fun. The meetings were good. Food was good too.
Speaker 1: I've been to the Duke Dining Hall.
Speaker 4: The Duke Dining Hall. Yeah, that's what a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Talking about and ma big back activities.
Speaker 2: But that was my favorite part when I at what
Speaker 2: is one thing that you want the Cameron crazies, which is,
Speaker 2: you know, Duke's fan base to know about you.
Speaker 1: Nick Kmena, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, I'm gonna come in. I'm gonna give him my hall.
Speaker 4: I like to label myself as this guy that just
Speaker 4: likes to win. Yeah, that's about it.
Speaker 2: Like I think they're gonna like that they like to win.
Speaker 2: Can you give us your Duke all time? Starting five.
Speaker 2: I'm putting you on the spot here. I know you
Speaker 2: like to include a lot of people, but we need
Speaker 2: to be strict here and go with a five.
Speaker 4: Top five. I'm gonna go Shire at.
Speaker 1: The one, Wow the coach, Okay.
Speaker 4: JJ Ready at the two, Jason Tatum at the three,
Speaker 4: Christian Lander at the five, just because of how good
Speaker 4: he did at Duke. I'll actually move Jayson Tatum down
Speaker 4: before and I'll go Grant Hill at the three.
Speaker 1: You're leaving out a lot of pretty good Duke players.
Speaker 2: Huh, Kyrie, you know, I mean there's so many Barritt
Speaker 2: but okay.
Speaker 4: JJ Reddick, what he did at Duke was different. Grant
Speaker 4: Hill won a national championship. Christian Laner win national championship.
Speaker 4: Jason Tatums, Jason Tatum, Koch my head coach.
Speaker 1: Julil okafor love, Like, come on, you know.
Speaker 4: There's just there's just so many going on there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, So I want to move on now
Speaker 2: to a little rapid fire section. So we got to
Speaker 2: go fast and ask you some questions really to get
Speaker 2: to know you. So this is where the camera crazy
Speaker 2: is out there. Really to get to know do commit
Speaker 2: m it command yet?
Speaker 1: Okay? What is one aspect of your game that you're
Speaker 1: most proud of? And why?
Speaker 4: Passing? I think it's just different. I can make a
Speaker 4: lot of no look passes behind the back pass. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite school subject? None?
Speaker 4: Math?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I hate math? I like history better.
Speaker 4: A fan?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Really, are you good at math? Or you just like?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 4: Ma? Are you win calculus? Wow?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm in pre Calcary now. It's horrible. I just
Speaker 2: failed another test. It's really bad.
Speaker 1: I hate it. In the next five years, who is
Speaker 1: going to be the face of the NBA and why.
Speaker 4: Next five years? Jason Tatum? He just won a national,
Speaker 4: not national champion, he just won an NBA championship. Celsa's
Speaker 4: are good. He's the best player on that team.
Speaker 2: They see who is an NBA player that is your
Speaker 2: dream to share the court with them?
Speaker 4: I feel like Jokic, you just make everybody better.
Speaker 1: You want to be a nugget.
Speaker 4: That'd be cool.
Speaker 1: I like that. Who is your dream NBA player to
Speaker 1: play against.
Speaker 4: Lebron?
Speaker 2: Have you Lebron played against each other on this wonderful
Speaker 2: Phoenix Melbourne court.
Speaker 1: Who do you think would win? And what do you
Speaker 1: think the score would be?
Speaker 4: Lebron will for sure win. I'm not even gonna lie.
Speaker 1: Like that.
Speaker 4: Eleven eleven m I score ones and twos?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 4: Five points?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 4: Five eleven, that's confident.
Speaker 1: I like it. How many points you think I would
Speaker 1: score if we one v one right now?
Speaker 4: Zero?
Speaker 1: Well, you don't even know. I could be like so good?
Speaker 2: Really, no, I think because I'm gonna like I'm I'm
Speaker 2: like really shifty and I'm a really good defender. So
Speaker 2: I just like swatted out of your hands and then
Speaker 2: just like pull up and like I can do a
Speaker 2: little granny.
Speaker 1: I'm really good at those. Like when you do it
Speaker 1: like that's the way.
Speaker 2: No, I'm telling you, like that's the thing. It's like
Speaker 2: it's a different type of game, but I'm telling you,
Speaker 2: like I'm gonna be you.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite clothing brand?
Speaker 3: Essential is nice? Probably Essential, shout out excel toect.
Speaker 1: You like your agencies, it's not really a brand, but
Speaker 1: you're aware. What is your go to cheat meal?
Speaker 4: Go to cheat meal? I got a lot of those.
Speaker 4: I like pizza. I like sushi.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's sushi really a cheap man. I feel like
Speaker 1: that's like not that unhealthy.
Speaker 4: Then I probably say like an in and out burger.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite sushi restaurant in La.
Speaker 4: Dude? There are some goings. There's I he in Studio City.
Speaker 4: There's a.
Speaker 1: Like Spicy you know, Krispy Rice.
Speaker 4: I mean I don't really do tuna like that.
Speaker 2: Okay, No, that's like my I like I love sushi,
Speaker 2: but I'm also a fake sushi person, Like I'm like oh,
Speaker 2: I love.
Speaker 1: Sushi's my favorite food.
Speaker 2: And then I get like cucumber cut roll and like
Speaker 2: at a moment, yeah, I'm fake.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
Speaker 4: I'll go In and Out?
Speaker 2: La boy, Yes, same. I feel like In and OU's
Speaker 2: one of those things where it's like if you're from California,
Speaker 2: I've eaten it so much that I'm now sick.
Speaker 1: It's probably just like I can't do it anymore.
Speaker 2: You're out, Like I'm not even gets the burgers are
Speaker 2: so like flat, like I need like something.
Speaker 4: Don't want to fat burger that's just going to fall
Speaker 4: out like I do, though you don't.
Speaker 1: I do. I want a juicy burger.
Speaker 4: You know In and Out has a juicy burger, but
Speaker 4: you don't want your burger falling out the bun.
Speaker 1: Well, but you can get like yeah, no, okay, I
Speaker 1: hear you.
Speaker 4: Because then you're just gonna beat me after having the
Speaker 4: times when I.
Speaker 2: Go to In and Out like I feel like they're
Speaker 2: not like really putting in love and my burger like
Speaker 2: it's just.
Speaker 4: Like a slap on every time I've had it out.
Speaker 1: Felt the love.
Speaker 2: You think that's why you committed to do because the
Speaker 2: in and Out Burgers that you were eating just like
Speaker 2: really sparked that, like five.
Speaker 3: In you.
Speaker 4: They don't have it, Duke.
Speaker 2: No, do you think that's why eatning though it is
Speaker 2: in and out Burgers has like made you that good
Speaker 2: of a basketball player that you can go to Duke.
Speaker 4: I mean I wouldn't give credits in and out, but
Speaker 4: what you know?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Wow, See we're just getting monetizing all of that.
Speaker 1: Great. If you could go to dinner with anyone dead
Speaker 1: or alive, who would it be?
Speaker 4: Uh, Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 1: It's the classic answer. I feel like everyone says.
Speaker 4: That Kobe or Jordan for sure.
Speaker 1: Who is your favorite non basketball athlete?
Speaker 4: Favorite non basketball athlete? Good question, I'll go Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: Football. Okay, is that your second favorite sport?
Speaker 4: I mean I will probably watch football the most out
Speaker 4: of all other sports.
Speaker 1: Do you play fantasy? No, you're just too walk in.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's what to play fantasy? Okay. What is your
Speaker 1: favorite movie?
Speaker 4: Favorite movie? Spijam? The first one. I like to watch
Speaker 4: that like all the time.
Speaker 1: Actually I like the second one. It gets too much hate.
Speaker 1: It's cute.
Speaker 4: It's like Second Ones.
Speaker 1: All right, you're a Jordan guy. Yeah, yeah, So that's
Speaker 1: why you like that. Okay. What is your favorite TV show?
Speaker 4: Uh? Watched a lot of All American during COVID, that's
Speaker 4: the one.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite video game?
Speaker 4: Uh? I really don't play video.
Speaker 2: Games really, No two k nothing, no Fortnite, like rarely,
Speaker 2: you don't. I can't if you don't play Fortnite.
Speaker 4: I mean I probably played Fortnite like a couple of
Speaker 4: days ago.
Speaker 2: But okay, so lies, now we're getting this out of you.
Speaker 2: I don't play video games.
Speaker 4: But it might be like once every two months.
Speaker 1: That's still like, I mean, that's more often than I
Speaker 1: play video games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but like when you say someone plays video.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're saying like you're not like in your house
Speaker 2: just like gaming every night.
Speaker 4: I'm not play two games and I'm off for the
Speaker 4: next two months.
Speaker 2: Really, okay, I need to keep track. I need to
Speaker 2: see if this is like a lie or not, if
Speaker 2: it's like, actually two months, you wouldn't lie.
Speaker 1: Okay. What is your favorite song?
Speaker 4: Favorite song? Wait for You by Future?
Speaker 1: What is you favorite ice cream flavor?
Speaker 4: Cookies and cream from?
Speaker 1: Where do you have like a certain place.
Speaker 4: In l A, like not a certain place but brand
Speaker 4: to lamok or whatever?
Speaker 1: Is that like a grocery store ice cream that you
Speaker 1: can get like in the pines?
Speaker 4: I think I think they're based out of organ or something.
Speaker 1: You know, the whole thing. You must really like it. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm like a.
Speaker 2: Cookie dough cookie do is cookies and cream is like
Speaker 2: too heavy? I like cookie dough, mint chip.
Speaker 4: Mint chocolate chip.
Speaker 1: I think those are Yeah, is that the same thing?
Speaker 1: Mint chocolate chip and mintchip? Probably right? Yeah, No, that's
Speaker 1: my favorite flavor. Okay. What is your favorite on the
Speaker 1: court sneaker Kobe's and what is your favorite off the
Speaker 1: court sneaker?
Speaker 4: I wear a lot of pool with, wear a lot
Speaker 4: of pool with, but I mean new Bounce. I like.
Speaker 1: I like your shoes. I like you Bounce. I have
Speaker 1: those shoes all right. What is your go to emoji?
Speaker 4: Probably like the crying emoji, but like the sideways one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh uh huh good one. What is your favorite candy?
Speaker 4: Favorite candy Skittles?
Speaker 1: Did you dress up for Halloween?
Speaker 4: I did? I was.
Speaker 3: I was Simon from Alvin and shimmucks really strong.
Speaker 1: Did you trigger treat?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: I didn't get any Skittles. No, sad. Who is the
Speaker 1: most famous person in your contacts.
Speaker 4: Ooh, probably, I mean, oh, I mean coaches in there.
Speaker 4: Most famous person i'd probably say, like yeah, like PUSHI
Speaker 4: or somebody. Yeah probably yeah, nobody crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean that's pretty cool. Who is your celebrity lookalike?
Speaker 4: Celebrity look alike? I don't think I have one.
Speaker 1: Really, no one's ever given you one.
Speaker 2: No, I'm trying to see, like I asked this question,
Speaker 2: I should like come with like some research and like
Speaker 2: really like look at you and I need to like
Speaker 2: find it. I'll let you know who I think figure
Speaker 2: it out? And what is your favorite podcast?
Speaker 3: Nick?
Speaker 4: This one?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Obviously obviously you gotta say slow Nose is my
Speaker 2: favorite podcast.
Speaker 4: Slow nos is my favorite part.
Speaker 1: Emphasize on favorite you like mumbled favorite me?
Speaker 4: Slow is my favorite?
Speaker 2: There we go, There we go. That's why I like
Speaker 2: to hear. Okay, moving on. This is the next little
Speaker 2: rapid fire section. Okay, I am going to say a word,
Speaker 2: and you're gonna have to tell me an NBA player
Speaker 2: that you think connotate's with that word you really like
Speaker 2: think about it like that. I think I just used
Speaker 2: the word connotate wrong. I was trying to sound smart
Speaker 2: and it didn't work. But whatever, let's just pretend like
Speaker 2: it worked. Okay, defense.
Speaker 3: Kawhi, Leonard Iq, Luca clutch ooh Teth selflessness, Jokic Aura
Speaker 3: shake Gojess, Alexander.
Speaker 2: Agreed, veteran Lebron vision Luca instincts Yo Kic trip shake
Speaker 2: go Axander.
Speaker 1: Good. Okay. Now, lastly, this is the yes or no section.
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you a claim, an NBA claim,
Speaker 2: and you're gonna have to tell me whether you agree
Speaker 2: or not.
Speaker 1: Are you ready?
Speaker 4: M hmm?
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: The Cavs will say is a top three team in
Speaker 2: the East made wow?
Speaker 1: Okay, straight up?
Speaker 2: No, I mean they literally were beating the Warriors by
Speaker 2: forty points last night.
Speaker 1: No, you think it's a fluke?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, why do you think it's fluke?
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean they're doing pretty good right now.
Speaker 4: They got two guards that I'll pass will. I just
Speaker 4: figured Celtis are going to be in there. H Billy's
Speaker 4: going to find a way to be in there.
Speaker 1: Doesn't look that way right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they'll figure it out. Okay, somebody else will be.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay. Joel Embiid will leave the Sixers this year?
Speaker 1: No really? Okay? Expand on that.
Speaker 4: I mean that's like his place, Like where else would.
Speaker 1: He go, right, But it doesn't seem to be working out.
Speaker 4: He wouldn't even look right in anybody else's jersey though.
Speaker 1: I think so. Yeah, you only see him in the city.
Speaker 2: Okay, Wemby will get a quadruple double in his career.
Speaker 1: Yeah you think so? How soon? Uh?
Speaker 4: Probably like two years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he needs a little bit of time to develop.
Speaker 2: Okay, the Thunder will win a chip in the next
Speaker 2: three years. Yeah, I feel like you're a shay guy.
Speaker 4: I just think he's he's really good. But if you
Speaker 4: look at their team and how they act each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, sort of the way that you were saying
Speaker 2: how Harvard West like has that community vibe.
Speaker 1: You can really see it there.
Speaker 4: They're like really all right, they're all together during the interview.
Speaker 1: They're all friends totally.
Speaker 2: If I was in your shoes and someone asked me
Speaker 2: what NBA team I would hope to.
Speaker 1: Be on, it would definitely be the Thunder.
Speaker 4: Thunder.
Speaker 2: I just feel like this, Yeah, all right. Next up,
Speaker 2: Jannis will stay a buck for his whole career.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 2: And lastly, Jason Tatum win an MVP Award this season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he can do it.
Speaker 1: Duke Guy m v P.
Speaker 4: He's been playing well too, he yes, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean the Celtics are off to a good start
Speaker 1: except for the Warriors beat.
Speaker 4: Them, Lou You knows, all right, are pretty good.
Speaker 1: They're really good except for last night. I have no
Speaker 1: idea what happened, but Buddy.
Speaker 2: Hill was literally the best that was Yeah, we did
Speaker 2: it was bad, all right, Nick, here's my last question.
Speaker 2: Can you please nominate the next guest that you think
Speaker 2: should be on Slow Nose.
Speaker 4: I'll go, shoot, I'll go. I'll go to Zay Johnson
Speaker 4: from Campbell Hall.
Speaker 1: Okay, great, yep. What about Cooper Flag?
Speaker 4: I mean, Coop probably gonna be getting ready for the
Speaker 4: League two.
Speaker 1: You should call him up and be like, Coop, come
Speaker 1: on Slow Nose.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I he should if he wants.
Speaker 1: To do amazing. Thank you.
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