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