Speaker 1: I'm d' anthony Melton, and you're listening to the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers Insiders podcast. Welcome back to the seventy six Ers
Speaker 1: Insiders podcast. I'm Lauren Rosen here with Matt Murphy, another
Speaker 1: duo that you'll hear from shortly, d' anthony Melton and
Speaker 1: George Nyang. And sometimes usually when we do these types
Speaker 1: of sit downs, we go one by one. But George
Speaker 1: and d anthony happened to be ready at the exact
Speaker 1: same time, and so they sat down at the exact
Speaker 1: same time, and I challenged them to interview each other.
Speaker 1: So I look forward to you guys hearing how well
Speaker 1: they did. They did actually pretty well, and they used
Speaker 1: our questions, so that helped. But Matt a duopod coming
Speaker 1: down the pike. A pair of duos, them and us,
Speaker 1: they would certainly beat us in two on two. But
Speaker 1: looking forward to hearing from them, and I did hear
Speaker 1: the beginning of this conversation where George was like, I'm
Speaker 1: a podcaster, I'm usually the one asking the questions, so
Speaker 1: he asked d' anthony to kind of take over the
Speaker 1: hosting role, at least towards the start. How did you said,
Speaker 1: it went well, but like, was there any questions they
Speaker 1: particularly enjoyed discussing? Listen, they traded off they I think
Speaker 1: they were impressed by our questions, or they would have
Speaker 1: asked different ones. But it was cool to see them
Speaker 1: sort of in their element, letting loose. Hopefully this was
Speaker 1: we set out to help you guys get to know
Speaker 1: them a little bit better, and I think they were
Speaker 1: really in their element, very relaxed, and I think you
Speaker 1: guys are gonna enjoy this one. So without further ado,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let George and d' anthony take it away.
Speaker 1: Standing at six three from North Hollywood, California. Man, he'd
Speaker 1: a problem, he'd just alucition, he'd an answer. They did that.
Speaker 1: He melted for your Philadelphia seventy six ers six seven
Speaker 1: from Iowa, staying George, Bang bangy, welcome back. We got
Speaker 1: George's here for the seventy sixers inside this podcast. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we got a couple of questions just to
Speaker 1: get a fans of update on how everything going. Stuff
Speaker 1: like that. You got a couple of questions for me.
Speaker 1: I'm ready, yeah, man, I know it's a little chance
Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, the big bang, Yeah, the you know,
Speaker 1: the big knee ank there. Usually I'll ask you the questions,
Speaker 1: but you know, I'll let you take the mic. Come
Speaker 1: all right back, you're looking at so you know, I
Speaker 1: got one question for you. You know, everybody know you're
Speaker 1: great at basketball. You know what I mean, you could
Speaker 1: shoot you gotta you know what I mean, you gotta. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: but we want to know what else? What else did
Speaker 1: George just be doing? What else is George's you know,
Speaker 1: really good at? Uh. You know, I like to think
Speaker 1: that I'm good at the game of golf. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't take me as a golfer. Really, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: look like you could probably go I can't at all.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I love to golf. I'm gonna say I'm good,
Speaker 1: but I'm probably not that good it. Um, But you know,
Speaker 1: I think the best thing that I'm doing is the
Speaker 1: thing that you're best at. Hanging out. I can't get it.
Speaker 1: I mean, we got a lot of time that we're
Speaker 1: always doing stuff. So I just like hanging out, spending
Speaker 1: time with my family. But golfing is a passion that
Speaker 1: I picked up, you know, over the pandemic, where I
Speaker 1: really you know, got into it, and uh, it's a
Speaker 1: new hobby. Yeah, yeah, new hobby. I'm nice, d Anthony.
Speaker 1: You know, players are very aware of their you know,
Speaker 1: public personas. You know, what's something the public has right
Speaker 1: about you and what is something that the public has wrong.
Speaker 1: You know, Philly fans, they ain't afraid to you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, voice how they feel, what they see,
Speaker 1: what's right about it, and what's wrong. I mean, but
Speaker 1: you are like what you see is what you get. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw. This might be a tough question, I guess
Speaker 1: you say, what do you think that they might have wrong?
Speaker 1: I feel for the most part, they have it right.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean kind of like you said, it's
Speaker 1: like you see what you get. Like, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: a quiet person, like until like I really get to
Speaker 1: meet you, you know what I mean, and then I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'll be joking a lot. Probably on a court.
Speaker 1: People don't probably see me show as much emotion. I
Speaker 1: probably say that, but like I mean, I think most
Speaker 1: of the time, like I'll be laughing, joking. You are
Speaker 1: like one of the only players that like you think
Speaker 1: that he's like even killed and like, oh it's cool.
Speaker 1: But if he's pissing something happened, he just makes it
Speaker 1: he's small, like on the bench. Shock, I could people
Speaker 1: probably think you're even killed all the time. Oh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'll be I think I'm chill until i'm not. I
Speaker 1: think that's the most important thing. So I'll be trying
Speaker 1: to keep you cool. But you know, here, I got
Speaker 1: one for you though. It's it's a good one actually.
Speaker 1: Uh your dream table, you know what I mean? Who
Speaker 1: you who you want to have dinner with? I know
Speaker 1: you like to eat dinner and stuff like that. Hey,
Speaker 1: what's what's for dinner? Though? Ye? I mean we got snapped. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you know, you got whatever you want. So like,
Speaker 1: who's at it? Like, who's at your table? What? I
Speaker 1: got like four or five people? I say, you got
Speaker 1: you got two and you got four other seats? Okay, um,
Speaker 1: you know I'm definitely gonna start off, you know, with
Speaker 1: my home girl, Diana Tarossi. I grew up in Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: so she was like I was growing up. She was no, no,
Speaker 1: she was. She played at Yukon and she's kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, dominated the game then. And I've had a
Speaker 1: couple opportunities to, you know, have encounters with her. She's
Speaker 1: like she's a boss. Like, uh so just picking her
Speaker 1: mind on you know, the game of basketball. Um. And
Speaker 1: you know how she's gone about, you know, being a
Speaker 1: pioneer in the women's game. I think that'd be pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Uhanna Tarsi C one, Yeah, so she's yeah, seat one,
Speaker 1: Diana Tarossi, seat two? Dead or alive? Can they be?
Speaker 1: I mean why not? I've always been, uh since I
Speaker 1: was a kid obsessed with Abraham Lincoln. You know, I
Speaker 1: think someone that you know could stand up for what
Speaker 1: is right, um, you know, freeing slaves, um. You know.
Speaker 1: I think that's super cool where he stood up for
Speaker 1: something when it was could have easily just you know,
Speaker 1: gone the other way and not done that. The next
Speaker 1: would be my man, Jalen hurts Man, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, the same city man leading the team. Already.
Speaker 1: I gotta get to dinner with Jalen hurts Man. I
Speaker 1: think you know, he played at Alabama, everything that happened,
Speaker 1: all diversity he had to go through, and then he
Speaker 1: went to Oklahoma and was successful, and then he brought
Speaker 1: that success here to the Eagles. I thought that was
Speaker 1: pretty cool. And then the third seat, gosh, I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean the fourth seat. You know, I might even
Speaker 1: say Joe Ellenby because you know him maybe laugh you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? You got hip, Like, what are
Speaker 1: we gonna do it? Yeah, we're gonna look at each other. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I dang, that is a good one. What are you
Speaker 1: guys eating? What at the table? Pizza? Steak? Ice cream?
Speaker 1: That he didn't read the whole question, dream table? Who's
Speaker 1: at it? What's on it? Oh? What's on it? But
Speaker 1: you definitely see food you like sushi? Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: we could do that. So last seat, it's you're getting
Speaker 1: out to Joe's Joe. No, No, he ain't. Ain't he
Speaker 1: ain't getting the last seat. Um, you know I might
Speaker 1: have to go. No, I was Boston. You got a
Speaker 1: Boston native. Well, if I say it, they're gonna crush me,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I wasn't gonna say Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna say Tom Brady. Randy Moss. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say Tarall Owens, but we had dinner with
Speaker 1: him the other you know what I mean? Man, But yeah,
Speaker 1: no Randy Moss, just because you know when I was
Speaker 1: bigger than everybody when I was a kid, you know,
Speaker 1: you go up and grab the football in the yard, Moll.
Speaker 1: Still it will happened now, low elevation, ground travel, no
Speaker 1: air travel. George has done. All right, I got one
Speaker 1: for you. What is your favorite slash most memorable sporting
Speaker 1: event you've been to as a fan. I'll give you
Speaker 1: an example. My my senior year of college, I signed
Speaker 1: with an agency that was in LA and I got
Speaker 1: to go to Kobe Bryant's last game. That was like
Speaker 1: music to the Like it was poetic. But like, bro,
Speaker 1: you say that, It's like, Bro, I can't bro like that.
Speaker 1: I think he shot some hundred point game. I think
Speaker 1: he shot seventy shots, and it was just like every
Speaker 1: time he got the ball in the second half, it
Speaker 1: was like the pickup game that you just got to see.
Speaker 1: But it was like his last It was the most
Speaker 1: amazing thing I ever seen. I remember like this, like
Speaker 1: with like the second second quarter that's when he really
Speaker 1: caught five. Yeah he was thinking early, but yeah it
Speaker 1: was a little shaky. But then after that, I'm just
Speaker 1: like it was amazing, not missing. Yeah, but um as
Speaker 1: a sports fan, I mean you went to USC, so
Speaker 1: I saw the probably some good college kids. It was
Speaker 1: it had to be one of the USC games. Like
Speaker 1: I remember first like starting getting there, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: you get to do a little, um little tailgate. They're
Speaker 1: walking through like the school and stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: I got to do that. Walked through the school, walk
Speaker 1: through the like all the students and stuff like that. Um,
Speaker 1: then go onto the field, see them dudes warm up
Speaker 1: and like USC. It's like USC legend right here. It's
Speaker 1: pro so like you see these dudes they big, they
Speaker 1: ain't ready. UM, so it definitely had to be one
Speaker 1: of the USC games. I think those was those was fun.
Speaker 1: I got to stand in the stands, fans with the
Speaker 1: fans and students do the chairs all that. So definitely
Speaker 1: one of those. Um, what's the good one? When you retire?
Speaker 1: What do you want people to say about you? Was that? Dude?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I think, you know, on a
Speaker 1: serious note, I'll be serious for at one time in
Speaker 1: my life, but I think, you know, just people respect
Speaker 1: the hard work that I put in. You know, every
Speaker 1: single day. I may not have been the fastest jump
Speaker 1: the highest, but at the end of the day I
Speaker 1: came in and and gave my all and affected the
Speaker 1: game in a positive way and affected my teammates in
Speaker 1: a positive way. I think the biggest thing for me
Speaker 1: is I like to be a team guy, get along
Speaker 1: with everybody, and uh make sure the vibes are are
Speaker 1: always up. The Anthony can attest to this. I probably
Speaker 1: talk it two damn much. Um, but you know, just
Speaker 1: always someone that you know is trying to bring energy
Speaker 1: and uh came in, did his job to the best
Speaker 1: of his ability. I think, yeah, I think and a sniper.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean that's three point sniper. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think everybody will probably say, like probably
Speaker 1: the best team guy, like teammate, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like just the way you're always encouraging people, the way
Speaker 1: you're always you know, always put the team first. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you may but like you know what I mean, you're
Speaker 1: gonna do it either way. So you know. So now
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you the same thing. What do
Speaker 1: you want you know, when it's all said and then
Speaker 1: what do you want people to remember about d Anthony
Speaker 1: Melton Man? And he was a real one, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? He was a real done now, but
Speaker 1: I don't know somebody somebody that like like kind of
Speaker 1: like you said, it worked, you know, he ain't he
Speaker 1: ain't having nothing handed to him. Um, I had to
Speaker 1: go get everything um, and I did it. I did
Speaker 1: it my way, you know what I mean. I ain't
Speaker 1: have to change up or nothing like that. You know,
Speaker 1: been the same person from time I got into the
Speaker 1: league to the time I left. So no complaints either.
Speaker 1: Put on this hard come to work. I respect that.
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming. You know. Seventy six is inside
Speaker 1: his podcast. We hear. We'll catch y'all later later, appreciate
Speaker 1: y'all origin d' anthony. Different players, to be sure, but
Speaker 1: both have contributed time and time again this season. It's
Speaker 1: been really cool to watch d' anthony especially grow into
Speaker 1: his role. Not that it's not always cool to watch
Speaker 1: Bang Bang George and he hanging out there, but d'
Speaker 1: anthony coming into a new team with so many established
Speaker 1: players and finding his footing right away, making an impact
Speaker 1: right away on both ends of the floor. It's been
Speaker 1: really cool to sort of watch him assimilate to this
Speaker 1: new team. I mean the Grizzlies and the Sixers, very
Speaker 1: different roster construction and d' anthony finding a way to
Speaker 1: make an impact on a nightly basis on both teams.
Speaker 1: It's been so cool to watch him assimilate to the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Wait before I share some thoughts about d' anthony Melton's
Speaker 1: first year with the Sixers. Can we talk about their
Speaker 1: willingness to do the starting lineup intros and how excited
Speaker 1: George was, and then how you kind of had a
Speaker 1: pride out of d' anthony a little bit. George is
Speaker 1: always probably the first guy most willing to show personality d' anthony.
Speaker 1: It did take a little bit of coaxing, but once
Speaker 1: he was ready, his was one of my favor favorites.
Speaker 1: And watching them sort of challenge each other to get
Speaker 1: better and to do more was really special. I loved
Speaker 1: that they both embraced it. Less surprised to see George
Speaker 1: embrace it though, of course, than Dy Anthony North Hollywood, California. D'
Speaker 1: anthony Melton and the Steel's race is still on as
Speaker 1: we speak. He has a chance with what three games
Speaker 1: left at this current point in time as we talk,
Speaker 1: to come away with the most steals in the NBA
Speaker 1: for the season. So he already surpassed his Steel's total
Speaker 1: for a career for his career in a single season,
Speaker 1: but with three left, he's trailing og An Andobe by one,
Speaker 1: so it's neck and neck. That would be cool to
Speaker 1: see him take home the Steels crown. Recently, Dave Yeager,
Speaker 1: Sixers assistant coach, told us that he's a knack guy,
Speaker 1: or he has a high level of the knack factor,
Speaker 1: a knack for finding the ball wherever it is, getting steals,
Speaker 1: getting rebounds on both ends of the floor, and that
Speaker 1: wingspan that he has at his height has served the
Speaker 1: Sixers well. And we're talking total steals on the season
Speaker 1: for a player that's spent much of the season coming
Speaker 1: off the bench or not necessarily playing starter minutes every night.
Speaker 1: So for his totals to still be so competitive with
Speaker 1: starters around the league, extremely impressive stuff from Dan. It's
Speaker 1: going to be in the one thirties, by the way,
Speaker 1: big time by the end of the season. Absolutely big time.
Speaker 1: George Niang, on the other hand, has had a handful
Speaker 1: of standout performances this season. Obviously we know that what
Speaker 1: he can do from behind the arc, but watching him
Speaker 1: continue to work on his craft, watching him continue to
Speaker 1: embrace the crowd, continue to embrace his teammates, grow into
Speaker 1: a a bit more, let's say, of a leader among
Speaker 1: this group in his second season as a Sixer has
Speaker 1: been really cool to watch as well. He's so steady
Speaker 1: that fans may already be taking it for granted a
Speaker 1: little bit, even though he's only been with the Sixers
Speaker 1: for two years now. But someone who has clawed his
Speaker 1: way through the NBA circuit to a point now where
Speaker 1: he's a regular rotation player and playing most games each
Speaker 1: season and now in Philadelphia, just don't take for granted
Speaker 1: out there that that forty three point number. He knows
Speaker 1: he has a job to do. He's going to hustle
Speaker 1: throughout the game, but that shooting job that he does.
Speaker 1: Earlier in the year, he's talked about how slumps or not.
Speaker 1: He knows that you're going to have good stretches, you're
Speaker 1: going to have bad stretches. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, for a player like him, it's about being
Speaker 1: near that forty percent number from three point range, and
Speaker 1: he always is. And I've loved as well watching George
Speaker 1: and Tyrese Maxie go back and forth in terms of
Speaker 1: who is the leading three point shooter on the Sixers.
Speaker 1: The two of them have challenged each other to stay
Speaker 1: above forty all season long. Cool to see them arriving
Speaker 1: at the end of the season as forty percent three
Speaker 1: point shooters, but the rivalry there has been a sweet
Speaker 1: one to watch develop. Gotta say it just because we're
Speaker 1: here Matt talking about Danthony and George together, not technically
Speaker 1: the first time that they've done a podcast together this season.
Speaker 1: If you haven't heard it, if you like what you
Speaker 1: just heard The Big Yang Theory with George Niang the
Speaker 1: first episode of this season, we had d' anthony and
Speaker 1: Tyrese come on together, but we got to know d'
Speaker 1: anthony on a much deeper level than I think. He
Speaker 1: is prone to sharing in other settings. So that's a
Speaker 1: much longer version, a bit of a deeper version. This
Speaker 1: one had a little bit more levity that one did too,
Speaker 1: of course though, so go check that out on the
Speaker 1: Big Niang Theory podcast wherever you get your pods in
Speaker 1: the woods, if you get your podcasts there, wherever you
Speaker 1: get your pods, Oh hilarious. But maybe d'anthony's trying to
Speaker 1: tell us something by always being around when George has
Speaker 1: a headset or a microphone, because there was that interview
Speaker 1: where he was a guest, then he popped in when
Speaker 1: Kate Scott and Shake were with George. He's always kind
Speaker 1: of around. Maybe Orge it around the action. Maybe loves
Speaker 1: podcasting more to come, we can ask him to come there. Guys,
Speaker 1: thank you as always for listening to the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: Insiders podcast. Matt and I had so much fun doing
Speaker 1: this series with the guys. Hopefully you did get to
Speaker 1: know them a little bit better as they get ready
Speaker 1: for a big playoff run. If there are other Sixers
Speaker 1: you're hoping to hear from in the near future, let
Speaker 1: us know we will always do our best to get
Speaker 1: your favorites on our show. And thanks as always for listening.
Speaker 1: The players are locked in it's playoff time. We love
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