Speaker 1: I'm Tyres, Maxie and your list to the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: Insiders Podcast. Welcome back, everybody to the seventy Sixers Insiders Podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm Lauren Rosen here with Matt Murphy with a very
Speaker 1: special guest on today's edition of our one on one
Speaker 1: interviews ahead of the playoffs. He might be your favorite.
Speaker 1: He's many people's favorites, many listeners favorites. Mister Tyree's Maxie
Speaker 1: was in the hot seat with us ahead of the
Speaker 1: playoffs and we got to know him better, which was
Speaker 1: the goal, Matt at this point. People. A lot of
Speaker 1: people will have seen the teaser trailer with the starting
Speaker 1: lineup introduction, and Maxie did a great job of doing
Speaker 1: the echo for his own last name. He's extremely animated,
Speaker 1: which we know on the court, but it's been such
Speaker 1: a treat to see him get into his element, his
Speaker 1: many elements sort of off the court. And he's told
Speaker 1: us that he wants to hope fully one day be
Speaker 1: an announcer or do something in the sort of coverage world,
Speaker 1: and he's certainly well on his way. So he's a podcaster. Now,
Speaker 1: he's a podcaster. You had the chance to do this
Speaker 1: interview with him, and you tried to ask him questions
Speaker 1: that he has yet to be asked in his young
Speaker 1: MBA career. I think you came close to succeeding on
Speaker 1: that front. I challenged him. I said, and I've said
Speaker 1: this with all the guys that it came on to
Speaker 1: this edition of our of our podcast series, and I said, Hey,
Speaker 1: if you've answered any of these questions before, please say
Speaker 1: next question. Tyrese didn't next question me a single time,
Speaker 1: but then after the interview he did say that he
Speaker 1: had been asked them before. So now that I've discredited
Speaker 1: the interview itself, I really hope you guys enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Here's Tyrese Maxie guard out of Garland, Sexish from the
Speaker 1: University of Kentucky. You're standing six three, number zero Tis
Speaker 1: MAXIXXIX Tyrese Maxie, welcome back. Start here. When you retire
Speaker 1: from the NBA, what do you hope that people say
Speaker 1: about what you were like as a player When I retire,
Speaker 1: I hope people would say that Tyrese was somebody who
Speaker 1: outworked a lot of people, whom you know, earned everything
Speaker 1: that he got, all the accolades that he got in
Speaker 1: the league. There was nothing given to him and that
Speaker 1: he's somehow got one percent better literally every single day
Speaker 1: and found ways to reach the maximum level of its potential.
Speaker 1: I think players today, probably because of social media, are
Speaker 1: very aware of what their public personas are. What is
Speaker 1: something that the public gets right about Tyrese and what
Speaker 1: is something that the public gets wrong about Tyrese. I
Speaker 1: think something that that everybody gets right is that I
Speaker 1: really enjoy playing basketball, Like this is like something that
Speaker 1: I don't I can't fake it, Like I'm always smiling,
Speaker 1: I'm always having the best time in my life when
Speaker 1: I'm out there. Um, I think the only thing that
Speaker 1: that that they don't know it's probably that I'm a
Speaker 1: human being. So everybody struggles. Everybody you know, goes through
Speaker 1: their moments, whether it's behind closed doors, whether it's on
Speaker 1: the court, whether it's you know, when they're just talking
Speaker 1: to their parents and or what not. But for the
Speaker 1: most part, and I'm this is real who I am.
Speaker 1: I don't smile because it's fake. I smile because I
Speaker 1: really enjoy being out there. I really enjoy competing. I
Speaker 1: really enjoy playing at the highest level. So that's that's
Speaker 1: fun to me. What have you learned this year about
Speaker 1: your ability to push through struggle or to overcome struggle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm actually really proud of myself, and I'm
Speaker 1: proud of, you know, my parents for what they've kind
Speaker 1: of installed me since day one, because if it wasn't
Speaker 1: from without them, I don't know how I would be
Speaker 1: able to push through certain things like getting hurt, you know,
Speaker 1: coming out the bench, starting, you know, whatever the situation is.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've been able to kind of persevere
Speaker 1: and kind of help this team win games. Reflecting on
Speaker 1: your life now as a whole, beyond just this season
Speaker 1: or the last three years, if you ever particularly memorable
Speaker 1: for in the road, a school, you didn't go to,
Speaker 1: a job, you didn't pursue, anything that you chose not
Speaker 1: to do that was particularly impactful, or maybe that you
Speaker 1: wish you had explored. I don't think so. I think
Speaker 1: everything kind of happened and worked out for a reason.
Speaker 1: I feel like I got to go to the University
Speaker 1: of Kentucky. I didn't leave early. I didn't leave early
Speaker 1: like Coach cow Was asked me if I wanted to
Speaker 1: leave because I had enough credits and stuff to graduate
Speaker 1: high school early. But I didn't leave because I wanted
Speaker 1: to be a mcdonal's all American. I wanted to go
Speaker 1: through that process, so I was able to do that.
Speaker 1: I wanted to graduate and go to Problem with my
Speaker 1: with my homies, so that was cool. I got to
Speaker 1: do that. Um So, I mean, the only thing I
Speaker 1: would say is I didn't get to play in the tournament.
Speaker 1: I didn't get to play in the tournament. I was
Speaker 1: like really looking forward to doing that. And I ran
Speaker 1: all those fifteens for Coach Cow and ran out there
Speaker 1: on the track and did all the stuff that you
Speaker 1: do go through in college. And I didn't get to
Speaker 1: play in the tournament. You know, it kind of sucked,
Speaker 1: but the experiences was great also. To be fair, wasn't
Speaker 1: your voice? No, I wasn't. Um Okay, here's another one
Speaker 1: for you, Terry's what's the most regular thing about you?
Speaker 1: I think I can give you two things that I say.
Speaker 1: The most regular thing about me is one is I
Speaker 1: love my dog. I think that's a very very natural thing.
Speaker 1: Like I really do love my dog, Like, um, I
Speaker 1: miss him right now, Like it's it's it's crazy that
Speaker 1: every time I get home, I just love to see
Speaker 1: his tail wagging, him being so happy. And jumping, jumping
Speaker 1: all over me. That that excites me that end. I
Speaker 1: will sit on my couch, like on an off day
Speaker 1: when I don't like when I really have no nothing
Speaker 1: to do, like on a black out day, I will
Speaker 1: sit on my couch the entire day. Um, I think
Speaker 1: the snacks that I eat are a little bit different
Speaker 1: and not as normal, like what like, uh, granola stuff
Speaker 1: that the chef makes like little yoga parfase, healthy yoga parfase,
Speaker 1: healthy smoothies. So I still I'm still eating snacks on
Speaker 1: the couch, but like they're just a little bit a
Speaker 1: little bit different. But that's like probably the most normal
Speaker 1: thing I would do if you had to pick one.
Speaker 1: What's the most important relationship that you have in your life? Uh,
Speaker 1: you know the relationship that I have with God. In
Speaker 1: the relationship that I have my parents, my family, It's
Speaker 1: like it's second to none. Like I can lean on
Speaker 1: my family for anything. I know I could pray to
Speaker 1: God to anything. If I can definitely lean on my
Speaker 1: family for anything. They'll always be the for me. I
Speaker 1: no matter what the situation is, They'll always be supportive
Speaker 1: of me. And I know I know they always have
Speaker 1: my back. Understanding that you have that pride in both
Speaker 1: of those relationships. God, this one is a little bit tough.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about how I'm going to ask it, But
Speaker 1: if you prefer to just answer it for your family,
Speaker 1: that's fine. How do you nurture that relationship? How do
Speaker 1: you give back to that relationship so that you know
Speaker 1: your parents are getting what they need from Tyres or
Speaker 1: that God is getting what he needs from Tyres, from
Speaker 1: from the Lord. I just I mean, I pray. I
Speaker 1: pray every day, and then I also try to find
Speaker 1: different ways to understand know the Bible, understand the religion.
Speaker 1: If that's talking to my grandmother, if that's reading myself,
Speaker 1: that's looking up different things on you know, the Internet nowadays,
Speaker 1: because that's like one of the main sources of information.
Speaker 1: And then my family, Um, you know, I just go
Speaker 1: out there. One thing I do is the name in
Speaker 1: front of my chest is the most important when you're
Speaker 1: out there playing, But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you know the name when the back is important too.
Speaker 1: So I go out there and I try to put
Speaker 1: off of them as much as I possibly can. Every
Speaker 1: single every single time I step on the floor, and
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm a resemblance of them. So if
Speaker 1: I'm putting on, then I'm showing everybody. Would I fail?
Speaker 1: The dynamic is all about we know that you're a
Speaker 1: great basketball player. What's something people don't know that you're
Speaker 1: great at. I think I'm great at mimicking people like mimicking,
Speaker 1: Like like the time you mimic to me doing an interview,
Speaker 1: I don't think it was that good of a mimic. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody's in tied it to their own opinions,
Speaker 1: but I think a lot of people say I'm good
Speaker 1: at mem people like if I like mimicking, I don't
Speaker 1: know Joel mimicking. Like sometimes I turned off the game,
Speaker 1: like when I wasn't playing, and I'm not mimicking her,
Speaker 1: I was like trying to be like just like her,
Speaker 1: like be like missus k Scott or missus ky Scott.
Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, I would do that when
Speaker 1: I when I wasn't playing, I was cool, yeah, and
Speaker 1: then but I was on the road, so I would
Speaker 1: just like like turn mute her and then like be
Speaker 1: her and like try to like kind of even be
Speaker 1: in her voice or being all his voice. It's kind
Speaker 1: of cool. Did anything surprise you about like how challenging
Speaker 1: that job is. Yeah, I think because I like to talk.
Speaker 1: I would really love to talk. But you really have
Speaker 1: to talk throughout the whole forty eight minute game, and
Speaker 1: you have to be enthusiastic. You have to be able to,
Speaker 1: You have to be able to because they're team reporters.
Speaker 1: So but they still have to be able to, like
Speaker 1: I do I explain it, they still have to be
Speaker 1: kind of excited for the other team as well. Up
Speaker 1: that makes sense to put you guys in a positive
Speaker 1: light without betraying the integrity of the job in the
Speaker 1: game exactly. So they have like they have a harder
Speaker 1: job than like the actual ESPN and the TNC and
Speaker 1: the ABC broadcast is because the ABC, you know that
Speaker 1: they're just they're they're neutral. You know, they're just out
Speaker 1: there calling a game. But when you're when you're Sixer
Speaker 1: commentators or you're whatever the team is commentators, you're of
Speaker 1: course you're going for the sixers because that's your job.
Speaker 1: But like you still have to be able to do
Speaker 1: both and that's pretty cool. Well, and they have to
Speaker 1: do it eighty two times. They don't just parachute in
Speaker 1: and tell one story about Tyrese. They have to have
Speaker 1: something new to say about you every night. That's cool
Speaker 1: that you appreciate that. I'm excited to play this form.
Speaker 1: Speaking of watching games, what's the most memorable sporting event
Speaker 1: that you didn't play in, not a game, not a
Speaker 1: basketball game that you've been to as a spectator or
Speaker 1: watched on TV. This summer or last summer. In August,
Speaker 1: I went to watch the first round of Serena's at
Speaker 1: the US Open. That was That's my first time at
Speaker 1: a tennis match ever in my life. And for it
Speaker 1: to be so inspirational that I come home and I
Speaker 1: start playing tennis and actually sitting on my couch at
Speaker 1: two am watching um, like the finals, like the final
Speaker 1: four women's and men's of tennis. That's like second to none,
Speaker 1: Like I can't like, that's like amazing, like that it
Speaker 1: can change somebody's persona like that, Like I have never
Speaker 1: watched a tennis match ever in my life. I watched one,
Speaker 1: go to hers, watch one first round of the US Open,
Speaker 1: and now I'm watching tennis. I'm going to play tennis
Speaker 1: on off days with Chake, Milton, Tyler, Lashbrook, Spencer Rivers.
Speaker 1: So it's like that's really cool. Last question, My timing
Speaker 1: is impeccable. You do this a lot. You've answered a
Speaker 1: lot of questions. Do you have any questions for me?
Speaker 1: I have ze real questions. No questions today, um, no
Speaker 1: no questions for me today. My only question is what
Speaker 1: time is it? Love? Y'all gotta go by. Thank you, Tyrese.
Speaker 1: Always a pleasure to sit down with Tyrese Maxie, get
Speaker 1: to know them a little bit better off the court.
Speaker 1: But on the court, Matt, it's almost become disrespectful to
Speaker 1: continue asking if Tyrese Maxie is going to continue getting better,
Speaker 1: whether or not he'll make the leap after a great
Speaker 1: rookie year, after a great sophomore season, coming back from
Speaker 1: injury this year, going to the bench, coming back. This
Speaker 1: is someone who has continued to rise to the occasion
Speaker 1: with every challenge that's been thrown at him over the
Speaker 1: three years that he's been a sixer, and it's been
Speaker 1: nothing short of a privilege to watch doing it all
Speaker 1: with a smile on his face most of the time,
Speaker 1: if not all of the time. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a forty one percent three point shooter for his career
Speaker 1: so far, fifty one percent this March and if you
Speaker 1: want to get hot at a good time of the
Speaker 1: NBA season, right before the playoffs is a pretty good
Speaker 1: time to do that. And we've seen him. It feels
Speaker 1: like Tyrese Maxie has played like ten years already in
Speaker 1: the NBA. With the amount of things he's been through.
Speaker 1: You just kind of laid out the course of this
Speaker 1: season alone, but in past seasons he has stepped up
Speaker 1: and proven to be a playoff performer. We just happened
Speaker 1: to be talking before another game against the Raptors, but
Speaker 1: in the playoffs against the Raptors, he went off in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: The crowd already loves him, but in those moments when
Speaker 1: he's a great guard, but he's knocking down threes at
Speaker 1: a rate that not many people expected when he was
Speaker 1: coming out of college. And if he had done that
Speaker 1: in college, he wouldn't have fallen to where he fell
Speaker 1: in the draft. And he's making a ton of shots
Speaker 1: as a professional, and it is a it's a privilege
Speaker 1: to watch. He is a great person to cover on
Speaker 1: and off the court and always has a smile on
Speaker 1: his face. Everything happens for a reason, and Tyree's talked
Speaker 1: about it on his podcast, So I'll shout out Maxie.
Speaker 1: On the mic with iHeartRadio, he talked about the fact
Speaker 1: that he thinks had he shot better in college, or
Speaker 1: had he had the opportunity to play in a March madness,
Speaker 1: which of course is at its peak right now, he
Speaker 1: feels that he might have gotten drafted sooner, probably would have,
Speaker 1: but that he's glad he didn't because he's so happy
Speaker 1: he ended up in Philadelphia, And I think everybody here
Speaker 1: can wholeheartedly agree with that thought. It's kind of tough
Speaker 1: to even criticize the shooting from college because A they
Speaker 1: already play way fewer games. B there was a pandemic
Speaker 1: going on that affected things. See, it was Kentucky where
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of other prospects, so it's not like
Speaker 1: he had a ton of volume or multiple seasons of
Speaker 1: like a poor shooting record or something. It's just it's
Speaker 1: still shocking to see how much better he's been. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you mentioned his great cumulative shooting stats this season. I
Speaker 1: wanted to quickly highlight one more shooting nearly forty seven
Speaker 1: percent from three this season on the road, which is
Speaker 1: an extremely impressive feat from such a young player. To
Speaker 1: show such poise in every building. We talked about it
Speaker 1: ahead of one of the Sixers recent games. I had
Speaker 1: a one on one with Tyrese and he said that
Speaker 1: he loves the sound of silence in the crowd after
Speaker 1: he makes on the road kind of dark, but also
Speaker 1: shows he's got a little bit of a killer instinct
Speaker 1: in him and it's only growing. He's only growing and
Speaker 1: always just a pleasure, nothing but a pleasure to hear
Speaker 1: from Tyrese. Well, that type of mentality certainly bodes well
Speaker 1: for playoff performances of the future for Tyrese. Maxie and
Speaker 1: I wonder if the road shooting splits have anything to
Speaker 1: do with the white sweatsuit that he warms up with
Speaker 1: before away games, the white six or sweatshirt, the white
Speaker 1: six or sweatpants we've noticed has been his road wardrobe
Speaker 1: this season and Navy on Navy at home. So if
Speaker 1: it's not broke and he says there's nothing to it,
Speaker 1: he says there's nothing to it. Something we do know
Speaker 1: Tyrese is great at his playoff performances. You think back
Speaker 1: to his rookie season when he wasn't even really in
Speaker 1: a consistent spot in the rotation throughout the regular season.
Speaker 1: Stepping up and winning playoff games for his team as
Speaker 1: a rookie, doing the same last season availability sort of
Speaker 1: independent of other players availability, Tyrese has found a way
Speaker 1: to make his presence known and to step up big
Speaker 1: in big moments. We certainly hope that he'll do the
Speaker 1: same in the playoffs to come. He mentioned on his
Speaker 1: podcast that that year, his rookie year, like mid season,
Speaker 1: there was the possibility of playing in the G League.
Speaker 1: I think if it was a normal season and games
Speaker 1: were happening in Delaware and things like that, that very
Speaker 1: well could have happened. And then in the playoffs he
Speaker 1: won a game like things happen fast in the NBA.
Speaker 1: And he's a perfect example of how you can respond
Speaker 1: to that. And we talked on the last episode with
Speaker 1: guys that went through the G League Shake Milton, Paul Reid.
Speaker 1: Go back and listen to that one. If you're jumping
Speaker 1: into this series with Tyrese seventy six Ers Insiders. I
Speaker 1: hope you guys enjoyed hearing from Tyreese. I know we
Speaker 1: always do, and we will talk to you next time
Speaker 1: here on the seventy Sixers Insiders podcast.