WEBVTT - Nik Khamenia on Duke Basketball, Spurs & Wemby, AAU lessons, NBA role models 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:02.480 The volume. 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:13.840 I'm Slow and this is Sloane nos Next. We sit 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:16.759 down with the future stars of tomorrow. Today's guest is 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:20.279 Nick Kamenya, a four star recruit who recently just committed 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:23.280 to Duke University. His journey of winning back to back 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:25.880 state titled with Harvard west Lake to winning a gold 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.560 medal with Team USA and his dreams of playing in 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:33.000 the NBA is a story you won't want to miss, 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:38.839 all right, Nick, So this is an episode of Sloane 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:42.760 nos Next. And for those who haven't gotten the privileged 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:44.720 to know a little bit about your game yet, would 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.839 you mind telling us your age, your name, where you 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.560 play basketball, and where you're going to play in college. 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:51.120 Uh? 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.840 I'm Nick Kmenya. I'm seventeen years old's twenty twenty five. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:56.560 I go to Harvard west Lake and next year I'll 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:57.040 be at Duke. 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.960 Congrats that's a big time Nick just committed, very excited. 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.319 It's really cool to have him on. How old were 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:03.840 you when you started to play basketball? 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.600 Really ever since? I can remember just going to my 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.880 dad's practices. So shoot, I think I really started picking 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.080 it up when I was five six, okay, just dribbling 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:15.800 around shooting. 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:17.800 Yeah, were you always taller than the other kids? 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.000 Yeah, all the time, all the time. 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.600 How tall is your dad six eight and your mom 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:24.880 six foot? Wow? So you have tall gen didn't im 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:26.360 assuming you guys are a basketball family. 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.320 Yeah, yeah, both my parents played okay in college. Yeah, 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.640 my mom went to a Juco in Florida and my 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:33.040 dad played at George Washington. 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.479 Oh wow, okay, cool, so it runs it's in your 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.080 blood when you were growing up. Did you play any 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.200 other sports or it was always just basketball? 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:40.880 No? 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.800 Literally, it was basketball, basketball, basketball the whole time. 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:45.320 Oh wait, so that's in your blood. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:45.920 Lockdown. 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.000 Other than your parents, who was a you know, basketball 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:50.200 idol for you growing up? 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.800 I mean I grew up watching a lot of basketbats 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:58.920 just on the TV, just waking up and turning it on. 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.200 It wasn't a time of Disney Channel and never Yeah, 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.360 it was none of that. I watched a lot of 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:05.840 the Lakers. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:05.160 Uh. 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.080 But I love the Spurs a lot growing up, especially 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:10.840 when I first started understanding basketball. They were like the 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:12.160 team so like there. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.000 Was no connection to San Antonio. You just like like 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:14.760 their style of play. 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:16.800 Yeah, they were just the best team when you grow up. Yeah, 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.160 So like I kind of hopped in that bandwagon. Kawhi 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:20.720 Leonard was like my favorite player. 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:25.560 Yeah, so you still a first fan? Yeah, we Yeah. 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:27.680 What do you think about Chris Paul joining the Spurs? 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.560 I mean he was at he was at the JT 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.120 camp when I was there as well, and I know 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.160 his son, So I mean, Chris Paul, he's a good player, 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.720 he's a good point guard. I mean he's already helped 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:40.240 the Spurs so much he's being there. 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:41.200 So yeah, it's cool to see. 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.800 So I got the chance to interview you at Jason 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.040 Tatum camp, like you just touched on, which is pretty 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.399 cool that at seventeen, you've already had experiences where you've 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.320 gotten to meet and play with NBA players. But I'm 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.000 curious who was the first NBA player you ever met? 0:02:55.400 --> 0:03:00.000 First NBA player I ever met? That's a good question, 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:06.120 thank you. Uh oh, I mean my godfather used to 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:06.640 be in the NBA. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.480 Okay, that's that's one, my. 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:13.760 Godfather, Slava Medvedenko. Yeah, he's probably the first. But I 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.520 mean I went to Kobe's Jersey retirement and I met 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:20.440 so many NBA players at that time, Mat Kobe that night, 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:24.639 Magic Johnson, James Worthy, Uh, Kareem. 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:28.280 Wow. Yeah, night that night was that's crazy. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:29.239 Yeah, that was the best one. 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.480 Is there a specific NBA player that you model your 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:32.000 game after. 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.160 I wouldn't say specific, but I just take bits and pieces. 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.880 I think guys like Luka, Doncic and Jokic who kind 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.760 of played the game a little slower and then defensively 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.200 like Kauhi. Of course, I know he hasn't played a 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:49.400 whole bunch, but yeah, like guys that take defense as 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.560 seriously as they do offense. Try to model my game 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:51.800 after that. 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:53.960 Yeah, I like that mentality. Are there any comps that 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.119 you've gotten, player comps that you've really liked? 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.800 I mean I've heard Luca a couple of times. I mean, 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:03.200 that's that's a good one to here scary. Yeah, but 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.160 I mean I like take it as a compliment that 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:07.720 But at the same time, I just think I'm different 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:09.000 than a lot of people. Yeah. 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.160 So yeah, yeah, it's important to differentiate yourself. I feel 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:12.640 like that a lot. 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.160 What has been your most memorable basketball moment so far 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:16.839 in your life? 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:25.640 Most memorable? Uh, I'd probably say man won a lot 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:31.480 of championships, so probably my first day championship. I felt 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.360 like that was probably the best one, just because freshman 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.520 year I didn't get a ton of playing time. 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.160 Yeah, you're a freshman on varsity. 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.919 Yeah, okay, So I mean losing my freshman year and 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:44.760 then working that whole summer, spring, fall, even and then 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:48.239 coming into the playoffs we started off a little rocky, 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.080 but then beating Centennial, who was like the team at 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.120 the time, and then winning that first day championship for 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.240 the school as an open vision was cool. That was 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:55.880 probably the best. 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:56.560 That's special. 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.760 Who have been the you know, top three best players 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.040 that you played with so far in either high school or. 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:08.640 A top three players? Uh? Probably go Trent Perry for sure. 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.560 Oh man, I played with a lot of good ones 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:15.800 in the top five. 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:17.160 If you want, you can say as money as you want, 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.479 I want to hear top ten, but I'm just go 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:19.800 for it. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:25.720 Might as well, Yeah, I probably go Trent, Robert Brady, Shoe, 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:33.000 Zay Johnson on my AU team, Peyton White, who else? 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.000 Who else? Was not trying to miss nobody? Robert Hinton, 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:36.400 I say. 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:37.880 Robert already, No, I don't think you said him. 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:42.000 Robert Hinton, Jacob Huggins was good man. Everybody I played with. 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.120 Everyone, Okay, everyone give a shout out to everyone. All right, So, 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.520 what is the biggest difference is that you've seen between 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.159 playing A you and high school? Because they're they're different games, 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:51.200 you know, it's not the same thing. 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.640 I feel like AU you kind of learned how to 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.880 play extremely tired you're playing. 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:00.640 How many games do you play today? 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.120 I mean like sometimes two, sometimes one, but it can 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.320 be like four in one weekend, which gets super tough 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:10.320 a lot. But I mean, I just say high school 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.880 is way more organized. You got a better feel for 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:14.600 teams that you're playing against. You got a better feel 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:19.000 for the teammates that you're playing with. In AU, you 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:23.920 can only practice so much with everybody being there. But yeah, 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.039 I mean it's it's it's a pretty big difference. But 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.000 I've been looking lucky enough to play on AU team 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.039 where we've had the same guys. Yeah, yeah, So I 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.120 mean building chemistry with them and working out with them 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:36.640 all the time. 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.800 Like, do you prefer A you or high school or 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:40.719 it's the same for you? 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.560 No, I prefer high school for sure, just because you 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.080 can prepare way more than you can for AU. 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.279 And I'm assuming going to school with those guys you 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:50.960 can create like more of a special. 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:55.120 Yeah, and it helps a lot. Like chemistry is such 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.160 a big piece of bath wall that people don't understand, 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.680 Like people bring in transfer its like it's season. It's 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.560 hard to play together at that point. But if you 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.880 have a whole season to build something, then forward the 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:07.240 end of the season, you guys are gonna be really good. 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:07.480 Yeah. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.160 I mean you could call Harvard Westlake where you go 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.400 at this point, almost like a high school powerhouse. Right, 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.600 winning so many state championships in the past couple of years, 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.400 what do you think has been the key to your guys' success? 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.960 I mean exactly that, Like we've brought in two transfers 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.240 in however many years that coach Wilbo has been there. Yeah, 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:26.560 and I mean we have really good coaching staff. 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:27.120 Yeah. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.160 Who uh, they don't let us just do whatever. It 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:30.960 don't matter who you are, what kind of player you are. 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.600 And I mean we're just literally just a brotherhood, like 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:36.880 we just put were together all the time at school, 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:38.920 Like yeah, we'll be in a big circle like in 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.840 the middle of the quad just talk exactly. We're just 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.480 a family there. Uh. And I don't a lot of 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.400 people a lot of places say they have that, but 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:49.400 only so many people act like it. 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.320 So yeah, yeah, that's great. Okay. 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.520 So you know, obviously, like we said earlier, committed to 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.120 Duke and you've had some pretty amazing. 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:58.800 Offers as well. What is what was it like? 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:00.360 You know, when you were playing in it their AE 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:01.840 or high school and you look over in the side 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.200 and you see these guys sitting there in the Duke 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:06.800 Cats and zagahats and you're like, oh my gosh, like 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:08.600 these scouts are there for me. 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:10.920 I mean it's just different. Like you grow up thinking 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.520 about that kind of stuff, but yeah, you dream about it, 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.480 but you never really think it's possible. You just work 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.400 for it, not thinking anything of it. But when it 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.040 really starts to happen, you're like, oh, shoot, like koch 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.040 Shi are really sitting right there watch my game right now? 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.600 Like mm hmm, it really hits you, Like yeah, man, 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.320 like these people really want me to come and play 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.960 for them, like you only dream about playing at places 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:31.360 like Duke. 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:32.080 Yeah. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.160 Just I mean four years ago, I was probably watching 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.000 the mal Invitational Zion R. J. Berry. 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:39.480 It is like, now that's gonna get it. 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.800 Yeah, you wouldn't even think about that, but I mean 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:46.400 now having that shoot not even having the opportunity, but 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:51.120 gonna go being committed there. Yeah, that's it's really cool. 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.320 We talked about this a little bit before we started filming, 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.240 but I want to touch on it again. Whereas you know, 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.640 I'm obviously not a D one basketball player like you are, 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.560 but I was gonna say, if I was in your shoes, 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.360 I feel like, if I got that do Golfer, I'd 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.800 be like, that's it, that's the one I'm going there. 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:06.720 What was that process like for you? 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:11.840 I mean, I feel like recruiting it starts like right 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:16.160 before I think junior, like when they can start calling 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:20.840 you and whatnot. Yeah, so it's a really long process 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:25.320 of phone calls and messages and meetings and visits. It 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.520 takes a lot out of you, but it's also fun 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:30.000 and it's a blessing that not a lot of people 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:34.040 can experience. So you take the good and you appreciate 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.120 that way more than you do the bad in the 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.400 negative side of it. But I mean, it's super fun 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.560 to be recruited. Yeah, And ultimately, like I said earlier, 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.720 it's a dream and you work for it every single day. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.720 So it was super cool And obviously it was a blessing, 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:49.600 but you can only really choose one school. 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:51.959 So yeah, for you, it has a video and I 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.520 feel like for you, you know, I've I realized this with 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.319 your Instagram. It was like all of a sudden, all 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.480 these offers were pouring it, pouring it and pouring it. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.240 How are you able to stay humble, stay grounded when 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.040 you sort of your stock rose that much? 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.200 I mean I really just think it's my parents in 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.719 just the base that they installed in me. Yea, ever 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.920 since I was young. Shoot, my dad told me today, 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:13.600 as soon as you think you've made it, that's when 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:14.560 you start to fall off. 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:15.200 Wow. 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.240 So yeah, you just always got to keep working like 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.439 it don't matter. It don't matter where you are at 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.720 that certain point one second, it can all be taken 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:28.640 away for a mistake, for anything you start working hard. 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.280 So ultimately, my dream is to be in the NBA, 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.120 So I'm not going to start working until I get there. 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.600 Yeah, and this sort of ties into that as well. 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:37.920 How have you been able to balance being a student 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:38.800 and an athlete? 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:41.040 I mean, yeah, especially at Harvard Westley. 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.440 Yeah, I was gonna say that's hard, Yeah. 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.280 But I mean you kind of get used to it. 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:48.560 But I mean you have to help from people and 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:49.880 you just have to sacrifice a lot. 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:50.840 Yeah. 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.200 Some weekends, yeah you might just be sitting at home 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.520 doing homework or just going to the gym and then 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.560 going back home to do homework. But I mean you 0:10:58.640 --> 0:10:59.480 learn how to do it. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.959 Yeah. I mean it's good experience because like eventually. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:04.760 For the next level. Yeah, ultimately. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:05.000 Yeah. 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:08.040 One und So, if I want to go watch Harvard 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.880 Westlake play this year, what game would you suggest me 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:12.520 or anyone listening goes to. 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.439 I mean, sure you can go to all of them. Uh, 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.920 the most fun I'll probably say I've had the most 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:25.559 fun playing in playoffs. Yeah, but in season, the league 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.680 is always fun. Every single game is always fun. This 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:30.000 year we got to play at the end of a dome, 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.200 which is gonna be super cool. So cool. Yeah, have 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:33.680 you been there yet? No? I haven't. 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:35.160 I haven't either. I want to go so badly. And 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:37.040 you know, there's all the high school jerseys hung up 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.079 on the wall from every single high school in California 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:40.400 or in Los Angeles. 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.000 That it's insane. That's crazy senior jersey up there. 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.840 Cool, that would be fine, that'd be fine. 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.959 So we touched on a little bit about your high 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.840 school teammates. You know, Trent Perry who goes to UCLA 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:53.760 and Robert Hinton who goes to Harvard and has been 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:55.440 going off at Harvard, which has been. 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.160 Cool to see. What was it like for you to 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:58.280 a play with them? 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.000 And then how have they helped you sort of you know, 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.040 navigate your senior year and commitment and all of that. 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.280 I mean, I still I think I texted Trent and 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.640 Robert yesterday because I know Trent played a good mind 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.520 minus yesterday he did pretty solid. And Robert, of course, 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.360 I think he just had back to back twenty five 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:17.480 plus games. B I mean being able to play with 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.840 those guys, like when you're in high school, they're just 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.040 like your friends, like just regular guys, and then they're 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:27.040 going off the big time D one schools and they're 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:31.480 doing what they're doing. But I mean, I've learned a 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.520 lot of things from the seniors in my past, and 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:37.160 I've taken that into my senior year. So yeah, I mean, 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.080 there always good guys to text and call whenever I 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:40.520 need something. 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.600 Yeah, and talking about big times he wont schools. I 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.360 want to like really get into Duke for a little 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.160 bit here. How do you think your game fits in 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.839 with Duke's playing style, especially with the Boozer Twins coming in. 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:52.959 I mean, I think they just have a lot of 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.480 versatile guys, and I think I'm literally just like that. 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.960 Just being able to shoot, being able to pass, dribble, 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.120 I mean yeah, I mean they played super hardy, they're 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.440 super positive energy wise. I feel like I can do 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.240 just that. I try to practice that every single day 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.400 at Harvard West like right now. Yeah, talking to my 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.599 teammates about the whole practice, talking on the court the 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:18.840 entire time. Just really just preparing myself for next year. 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.000 And I really see myself being a part of that. 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:23.679 Brother, Yeah for sure. 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.080 And can you walk us through your official visit? I 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:27.959 love hearing about official visits. What was your favorite part 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:29.360 of Durham Any good food? 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:29.679 Like? 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:30.360 What was that like? 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.160 No, my favorite part was actually when I got to 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:36.320 play with them. Yeah, so we had did some runs 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.520 and I got to play with Spencer Harberd, who actually 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.000 went to Harvard Westlake I think two years or a 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.320 year before I went there. Yeah, So, I mean it 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:45.080 was just super fun getting up and down in there. 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:49.720 And I mean Durham is a's a really nice place. 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.560 It's pretty quiet, but you can tell that people really 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.640 love Duke. Ye, you can really tell that. But yeah, 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:57.760 I mean it was super fun. Playing with them was 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:01.480 super fun. The meetings were good. Food was good too. 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:02.719 I've been to the Duke Dining Hall. 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.640 The Duke Dining Hall. Yeah, that's what a lot of people. 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.720 Talking about and ma big back activities. 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.000 But that was my favorite part when I at what 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.400 is one thing that you want the Cameron crazies, which is, 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.440 you know, Duke's fan base to know about you. 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:16.959 Nick Kmena, I. 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:18.480 Mean, I'm gonna come in. I'm gonna give him my hall. 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.760 I like to label myself as this guy that just 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:26.000 likes to win. Yeah, that's about it. 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:28.760 Like I think they're gonna like that they like to win. 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.880 Can you give us your Duke all time? Starting five. 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:34.440 I'm putting you on the spot here. I know you 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.320 like to include a lot of people, but we need 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.880 to be strict here and go with a five. 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.120 Top five. I'm gonna go Shire at. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:46.760 The one, Wow the coach, Okay. 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.320 JJ Ready at the two, Jason Tatum at the three, 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:56.440 Christian Lander at the five, just because of how good 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.920 he did at Duke. I'll actually move Jayson Tatum down 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.160 before and I'll go Grant Hill at the three. 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.680 You're leaving out a lot of pretty good Duke players. 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:10.400 Huh, Kyrie, you know, I mean there's so many Barritt 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:11.600 but okay. 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:14.760 JJ Reddick, what he did at Duke was different. Grant 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.920 Hill won a national championship. Christian Laner win national championship. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:22.360 Jason Tatums, Jason Tatum, Koch my head coach. 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.440 Julil okafor love, Like, come on, you know. 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.080 There's just there's just so many going on there. 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.840 Yeah, all right, So I want to move on now 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.880 to a little rapid fire section. So we got to 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.000 go fast and ask you some questions really to get 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:36.360 to know you. So this is where the camera crazy 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.040 is out there. Really to get to know do commit 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:39.720 m it command yet? 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.920 Okay? What is one aspect of your game that you're 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:43.120 most proud of? And why? 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.080 Passing? I think it's just different. I can make a 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.240 lot of no look passes behind the back pass. Yeah, 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:48.960 I like that. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:53.320 What is your favorite school subject? None? 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:54.560 Math? 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:55.560 Really? 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:55.960 Yeah? 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:58.800 I hate math? I like history better. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:00.440 A fan? 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:00.640 No? 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.040 Really, are you good at math? Or you just like? 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:03.920 What? 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.320 Ma? Are you win calculus? Wow? 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.680 Okay, I'm in pre Calcary now. It's horrible. I just 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:10.120 failed another test. It's really bad. 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.480 I hate it. In the next five years, who is 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.440 going to be the face of the NBA and why. 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:20.320 Next five years? Jason Tatum? He just won a national, 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.520 not national champion, he just won an NBA championship. Celsa's 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.720 are good. He's the best player on that team. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:30.400 They see who is an NBA player that is your 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:34.000 dream to share the court with them? 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.640 I feel like Jokic, you just make everybody better. 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:37.960 You want to be a nugget. 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:38.800 That'd be cool. 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.600 I like that. Who is your dream NBA player to 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:42.640 play against. 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.800 Lebron? 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.560 Have you Lebron played against each other on this wonderful 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:51.320 Phoenix Melbourne court. 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:53.480 Who do you think would win? And what do you 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:54.320 think the score would be? 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.560 Lebron will for sure win. I'm not even gonna lie. 0:16:58.040 --> 0:16:58.320 Like that. 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:04.440 Eleven eleven m I score ones and twos? 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:05.760 Sure? 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:07.560 Five points? 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:08.040 Wow? 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:09.560 Five eleven, that's confident. 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.400 I like it. How many points you think I would 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.560 score if we one v one right now? 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:16.720