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Speaker 2: and what a thrill you mentioned it. Nick Nurse said
Speaker 2: before the game. It's colorful and it is certainly colorful
Speaker 2: here inside the Center tonight, looking forward to talking about
Speaker 2: the week that it's been for this team over the
Speaker 2: next slightly less than an hour, hearing from you and
Speaker 2: some of your favorite Sixers as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if for those who haven't been with us so
Speaker 3: far through the first few weeks, I'm sure you're aware
Speaker 3: of the sixers hot start to the season at eight
Speaker 3: and one, entering Tuesday Night's action as the only team
Speaker 3: in the NBA with just one loss, hence the best
Speaker 3: record in the NBA. Because the other night, when the
Speaker 3: Sixers beat the Pacers in the first meeting, the Nuggets
Speaker 3: lost to the surprising Houston Rockets, who have started the
Speaker 3: season well, which gave them their second loss and boosted
Speaker 3: the Sixers up to the best record in the NBA
Speaker 3: solo possession of the best record in the NBA. But
Speaker 3: the season has been off to a good start, and
Speaker 3: as if you haven't been listening to this show, we
Speaker 3: will frequently hear from seventy six Ers players themselves, and
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Speaker 3: We've got Paul Reid coming up on this show, plus
Speaker 3: a lot of Tyrese Maxie, who had a fifty point game,
Speaker 3: a career high against the Pacers last time out. And
Speaker 3: you had the chance prior to the fifty point game
Speaker 3: to get extended time in a sit down with mister MAXI, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Shall we call it Class of twenty twenty Draft Night
Speaker 2: and draft episodes?
Speaker 3: Weird drafts too, because they weren't in person.
Speaker 2: Weird draft which made it possible for the seventy six
Speaker 2: ers to draft Tyrese Maxey and with the twenty first
Speaker 2: overall pick, Matt you said it. I spoke with him
Speaker 2: just before his fis fifty point outing and so unfortunately,
Speaker 2: in a forty five minute conversation, we actually weren't able
Speaker 2: to cover him scoring forty five points or more, which
Speaker 2: became his new career high the other night, hitting that
Speaker 2: fifty ball for the first time.
Speaker 4: That one of my favorite.
Speaker 2: Things that he said after the game was how badly
Speaker 2: his teammates wanted it for him. Took him a second
Speaker 2: to catch up to what exactly was going on in
Speaker 2: the last few minutes.
Speaker 4: Of the game.
Speaker 2: Tobias Harris talked about it coming off the court. Joel
Speaker 2: Embiid talked about it postgame. They were fired up trying
Speaker 2: to get Tyrese to fifty, and Tyree said it seemed
Speaker 2: like they wanted it more than I did. I just
Speaker 2: wanted to get out of the building.
Speaker 4: With a win.
Speaker 2: True to form, Tyree's just looking for the dub, but
Speaker 2: his teammates wanted that one for him really badly.
Speaker 3: He's been the player of the Week already this season,
Speaker 3: so has Joel Embiid. In the fifty point game from Maxi,
Speaker 3: Embiid had a phenomenal outing himself with thirty seven points,
Speaker 3: thirteen rebounds, eight of those offensively seven assists. Every time
Speaker 3: you look up, Joel Embiid has seven assists this year
Speaker 3: under Nick Nurse, which is so so impressive. Maxi did
Speaker 3: Edgeman blocks three to one, though, and the points fifty
Speaker 3: to thirty seven, as Tyrese became the ninth seventy six
Speaker 3: er ever to have a fifty point game. He capped
Speaker 3: it with sixteen points in the fourth quarter. He's had
Speaker 3: a great season, so it's not just you sit down
Speaker 3: with him, and we'll hear that in two parts tonight.
Speaker 3: Throughout the show, stick around to hear from Tyrese Maxey,
Speaker 3: who was the first player of the Week of the season,
Speaker 3: and then it alternated sixers with one week in between,
Speaker 3: with Joel Embiid averaging almost forty a game last week
Speaker 3: to win the award, but two part interview with Maxi
Speaker 3: coming up throughout our show in this But I guess
Speaker 3: all that to say is the timing of when you
Speaker 3: sit down with Tyrese Maxi hasn't just hasn't mattered this
Speaker 3: season because he's been so consistent and every night he
Speaker 3: does something that's amazing.
Speaker 2: Nick Nurse said prior to the game that maybe Tyrese
Speaker 2: Maxi is closer to a true point guard than everybody
Speaker 2: thought except for Tyres but said he was closer to
Speaker 2: a point guard than we all thought he was because
Speaker 2: he certainly looks very, very good.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Matt a couple of stats to support Tyrese Maxy averaging
Speaker 2: seven point two assists per game.
Speaker 4: That's good for twelfth.
Speaker 2: Best in the NBA. But he has the fewest turnovers
Speaker 2: among the top thirty nine assisters. Let me say that again,
Speaker 2: he's twelfth overall and assists seven point two assists per game,
Speaker 2: but among the top thirty nine ball sharers in the NBA,
Speaker 2: he is the one with the fewest turnovers.
Speaker 4: He has ten total assists this season.
Speaker 2: That's good for about one point one assists per game.
Speaker 2: That he has done such a good job of taking
Speaker 2: care of the ball, a great job of sharing it
Speaker 2: as well, And to those who underestimated him, shame on you.
Speaker 3: Let's hear from his draft classmate and teammate on what
Speaker 3: it's been like to play for this sixer team with
Speaker 3: that teammate in Tyrese Maxey. Here's the ball, Paul, Paul Reid.
Speaker 2: Paul Reid, thank you for joining us on Sixers in
Speaker 2: sixty the Sixers.
Speaker 4: At this point eight and one. What exactly is working
Speaker 4: so well for you guys right now?
Speaker 5: I think what's working well for us is the fact
Speaker 5: that we have good team chemistry. I think everybody knows
Speaker 5: what their role is and what they can do to
Speaker 5: help the team win, and we all are doing that.
Speaker 6: I mean, especially myself.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm just going out there doing whatever I
Speaker 5: can to get my teammates open, to get offense, rebounds,
Speaker 5: rebounds in general, and get defensive stops, and I feel
Speaker 5: like I'm not the only one out there doing that,
Speaker 5: so it's like we're all on the same page, and
Speaker 5: I think that's just really helping.
Speaker 6: That's one of these ball games.
Speaker 2: Last time out, your draft classmate from the twenty twenty draft,
Speaker 2: Tyrese Maxi and friend, dropped his first fifty piece. You
Speaker 2: called him in spal Why is he an inspiration to you?
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, the dude that got drafted with
Speaker 5: me going out there dropping fifty.
Speaker 6: I just I just love to see it, you know.
Speaker 5: I love to see him be aggressive man and make
Speaker 5: all his shots like that. I feel like that's tough,
Speaker 5: and uh, you know, I think that's just inspirational. It
Speaker 5: makes makes me feel like, you know, I can go
Speaker 5: out there and do the same thing if I put
Speaker 5: my mind to it.
Speaker 2: You and Tyrese together are part of these second and
Speaker 2: fourth quarter lineups where you guys, like you say, are
Speaker 2: holding it down without Joel out there. Does how does
Speaker 2: that play differ from from when Joel is out there?
Speaker 2: And what are you enjoying about playing with that group
Speaker 2: in the second and the fourth.
Speaker 5: I feel like as long as I set him the screen,
Speaker 5: get him open, I mean the rest he's going to
Speaker 5: take care of. He's going to go to the room
Speaker 5: and do whatever he has to do the finish, and
Speaker 5: a lot of times the defense is going to step
Speaker 5: up and he's going to make the right decision. He's
Speaker 5: either gonna hit me on the road, make the skip pass,
Speaker 5: or whatever. And that's kind of what it comes down to.
Speaker 5: And uh, he's not the only one. Pat Bell, you know,
Speaker 5: it's been real good playing with him. I feel like
Speaker 5: he's making the game a lot easier as well, just
Speaker 5: by making the right players out there not trying to
Speaker 5: do too much.
Speaker 2: You've said that part of your success this year is
Speaker 2: due to the fact that coach Nick Nurse is encouraging
Speaker 2: you to really crash the glass. Right, How is that
Speaker 2: different from from years past? And how much are you
Speaker 2: enjoying being able to showcase part of that game.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's not very different from years past. But
Speaker 5: you know, I'm not the only one that he's telling
Speaker 5: the crash and glass. So when you got two three
Speaker 5: guys crashing the glass, it makes it easier for one
Speaker 5: of us to come up with the rebound. You feel
Speaker 5: me and I like how he has the whole team.
Speaker 5: You know our chemistry. I feel like we weremoving the
Speaker 5: ball a lot better this season, and.
Speaker 6: You know we're playing more unselfish.
Speaker 2: I was last but not least, the second of two
Speaker 2: games against the Indiana Pacers. This one counts for the
Speaker 2: in season tournament. How much are you enjoying playing in
Speaker 2: the league's first in season tournament, Paul, I.
Speaker 6: Mean it's fun.
Speaker 5: It's fun because normally we would be competing and then
Speaker 5: try to win regardless, but now it's a little bit
Speaker 5: more extra on the line, which makes it even more
Speaker 5: interesting and more fun because it's like, Okay, we got
Speaker 5: you gotta get this dub, not only because really the
Speaker 5: best team really better team, but also because it's money
Speaker 5: on the line, and I think everybody want that extra
Speaker 5: check in their pocket. I definitely do, so I'm not
Speaker 5: gonna say that I'm playing harder, but at the same time,
Speaker 5: it's like it means more for sure.
Speaker 4: Paul Reid aka be ball, Paul, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Will you will extra check on the line? Lauren? And
Speaker 3: should fans stick around, I'll hear from Tyrese MAXI maybe
Speaker 3: in the next segment.
Speaker 4: Absolutely they should.
Speaker 2: We have a couple secon moments from Tyrese himself. This
Speaker 2: is the first time anyone is hearing these conversations from
Speaker 2: immediately prior to his fifty point outing. But if you
Speaker 2: want to learn more about everybody's new favorite player, you
Speaker 2: should stick around.
Speaker 3: Thanks again to be Ball, Paul. Paul reads Tyrese. Maxi
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Speaker 3: Awesome stuff. The Sixers have been awesome to start the
Speaker 3: season at eight and one currently as we speak pre
Speaker 3: game on before Tuesday night's slate of action across the NBA,
Speaker 3: including here in Philadelphia. We're about to hear from Tyrese
Speaker 3: Maxi in a few minutes. But one thing that has
Speaker 3: been on everyone's mind is the health of Kelly Oubre Junior,
Speaker 3: who last weekend was a pedestrian struck by a vehicle
Speaker 3: in Philadelphia and has now missed games due to a
Speaker 3: broken rib. And we've been getting updates from coach Nick
Speaker 3: Nurse as well, who spoke about Kelly Ubray Lauren with
Speaker 3: us pre game.
Speaker 2: YEP, the latest on Kelly Ubray Junior. Nick Nurse was
Speaker 2: able to visit Kelly in his home in Philadelphia yesterday.
Speaker 2: Nick added that Kelly Ubray was able to come into
Speaker 2: the facility this morning that he rode the exercise bike
Speaker 2: for a little bit and that he is quote in
Speaker 2: good spirit, so of course as always sending nothing but
Speaker 2: the best to Kelly Ubray and his family.
Speaker 4: Such a scary situation.
Speaker 2: It was scary for the locker room, it was scary
Speaker 2: for the coaches, and we're just so glad that Kelly
Speaker 2: is okay. Tyree of course, dedicated his fifty piece after
Speaker 2: the game to Kelly Ubray Junior. He said, I just
Speaker 2: met him, but I love him, and I think that
Speaker 2: that's how this whole team feels about Kelly. So great
Speaker 2: to hear that he was able to get into the
Speaker 2: facility this morning and cnbccen right, and that he's on the.
Speaker 4: Road to recovery.
Speaker 3: He has been a part of a Sixers group this
Speaker 3: season in twenty three twenty four that has had already
Speaker 3: shown has already shown great chemistry, great team chemistry. And
Speaker 3: here avid listeners of the Sixers radio network know that
Speaker 3: postgame after wins, we hear from the players. They throw
Speaker 3: a headset on and they speak with Tom McGuinness after
Speaker 3: the win, and I wanted to call back to one.
Speaker 3: I was actually filling in for Tom who was on
Speaker 3: the TV side, but fer Khan Korkmaz next man up
Speaker 3: back on November two against the Toronto Raptors, had a
Speaker 3: ten point game off the bench. We had called Kelly
Speaker 3: our player of the game. He had twenty three. But
Speaker 3: I think this speaks to what this year's team and
Speaker 3: what a lot of what Kelly Oubre is all about
Speaker 3: as a teammate. Talking about the Sixers and cork Maz
Speaker 3: as a family.
Speaker 6: It's everything, man.
Speaker 7: You know, realistically, he's been here the longest tenure. You know,
Speaker 7: I obviously I don't know one hundred percent facts, but
Speaker 7: he's been here a while, man, and you know, he
Speaker 7: puts into work.
Speaker 6: He's very professional.
Speaker 7: I'm his locker mate, so you know, I kind of
Speaker 7: give him some missing pieces about his recovery and just
Speaker 7: the things that are going on within his mental man.
Speaker 6: Because we're we're all the family.
Speaker 3: So I'm just happy to see him come out here
Speaker 3: and be a sol And he always that was Kelly
Speaker 3: Ubray a couple of weeks back talking about fer Cohn,
Speaker 3: Korkmaz and this Sixers family. All the best to Kelly
Speaker 3: Ubray Junior. And he always ends his interviews in a
Speaker 3: unique way as well. He always mentions love often times
Speaker 3: or something along those lines. I forget exactly what it is,
Speaker 3: but you're gonna hear the word love a lot with
Speaker 3: Kelly Ubray. So a lot of people in Philadelphia are
Speaker 3: sending their love to him right now. But it's good
Speaker 3: to hear that Nick nurse that visited with him and
Speaker 3: that he was able to be at the facility on
Speaker 3: the exercise bike on Tuesday morning as his recovery process begins.
Speaker 3: Tyrese MAXI coming up here on six ers and sixty.
Speaker 3: This was a long conversation that took place in Detroit
Speaker 3: with you, Lauren, and what are some of the things
Speaker 3: you touched on here?
Speaker 4: It was an awesome conversation. Tyrese and I laughed.
Speaker 2: At the beginning of the interview, we were getting ready
Speaker 2: to break down some highlights for our new series presented
Speaker 2: by Nerd Wallets out now Side Comparisons. Episode one with
Speaker 2: the Anthony Melton dropped today. That's available on the seventy
Speaker 2: six of YouTube and.
Speaker 4: Clips on at sixers.
Speaker 2: But all that is to say Tyree sat down for
Speaker 2: episode two, which is in production. We were getting ready
Speaker 2: to break down some highlights for a section that you
Speaker 2: won't hear tonight on sixers In sixty that'll be on
Speaker 2: court side comparisons presented by Nerdwallett, and Tyree said, we've
Speaker 2: done this a bunch of times, and I said, I know, Tyrese,
Speaker 2: but now so many people are paying attention and the
Speaker 2: games have gotten better. He said he's always been available
Speaker 2: and ready to play in this way and that he's
Speaker 2: really grateful to have the opportunity to do so.
Speaker 4: So we covered his great play as of late.
Speaker 2: And because so many eyeballs and of course ears are
Speaker 2: watching and listening to Tyrese Maxi right now, I wanted
Speaker 2: to give him a chance to sort of reintroduce himself
Speaker 2: tell his story. In this first clip, you're going to
Speaker 2: hear a little bit about his upbringing. His father coached
Speaker 2: him as a kid, he played up and that sort
Speaker 2: of taught him to battle adversity and doubters really really
Speaker 2: early on. And then in the second clip, we'll dive
Speaker 2: a little bit deeper into that upcoming. So that upbringing
Speaker 2: rather which is the clip upcoming, So Matt, I'm excited
Speaker 2: to share this with our six ers and sixty audience.
Speaker 3: First, without further ado, here's part one with Tyrese Maxey.
Speaker 2: I wanted to start with how far we've come. Right,
Speaker 2: So I want you to answer some questions with some
Speaker 2: questions when you were drafted twenty twenty season, what was
Speaker 2: the big question about Tyrese Maxy.
Speaker 1: Oh, so you're saying, like, people, so I can't shoot?
Speaker 4: Correct?
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty right, people, so I couldn't shoot? And then
Speaker 2: you proved that I can shoot? Okay, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: What do people say?
Speaker 1: Now you're getting to it? I don't remember this. What
Speaker 1: was it? It?
Speaker 4: Twenty twenty one was the first time that you stepped in?
Speaker 1: Oh, it started for started for us, started at point
Speaker 1: guard for.
Speaker 2: Us, and people asked if you could do it, and
Speaker 2: you proved that I could do that.
Speaker 4: Twenty twenty two, she.
Speaker 8: Was they play out the ball with James, come on
Speaker 8: with the bench score twenty one night, play defense, some everything,
Speaker 8: and you proved I think I could do good job
Speaker 8: at that.
Speaker 2: So what I want to know is why in year
Speaker 2: four people are still wondering, can Tyrese MAXI make another leap?
Speaker 4: Will he be able to run this team?
Speaker 2: And in weeks one and two you've proven with flying
Speaker 2: colors that you can.
Speaker 4: Why do people continue to question you? Do you think.
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 8: I think they were sent here to motivate me, honestly,
Speaker 8: and it works and I appreciate them. Not that I
Speaker 8: need any more motivation than I put on myself and
Speaker 8: like pressure that I put it for myself, but I
Speaker 8: appreciate them. You know, people saying that I can't do
Speaker 8: stuff and motivates medi Gia jim Ey secret day during
Speaker 8: the summertime, and I keep saying, it's find ways to
Speaker 8: get what sit better, and it's worked for me so far.
Speaker 2: You're very much in sort of the national media right now.
Speaker 2: Everybody's talking about you and what you and Joel have
Speaker 2: been able to do and what you and this team
Speaker 2: have been able to do, but not everybody knows the
Speaker 2: backstory that you've told me five thousand times since you
Speaker 2: were a rookie, right So I sort of want to
Speaker 2: go back in time, but I don't want to bore
Speaker 2: you by making you tell the story the same way
Speaker 2: you have in the past. So as it relates to
Speaker 2: the last question I asked you young in your basketball career,
Speaker 2: when you were playing for your dad, when was the
Speaker 2: first time you remember people doubting you.
Speaker 8: When I was young, I used to play up a grade,
Speaker 8: so I started playing AAU basketball when I was in
Speaker 8: the I want.
Speaker 1: To say second grade.
Speaker 8: So in second grade I was playing against third graders.
Speaker 8: I think my third grade year, I was playing fourth grade.
Speaker 8: And what happened was I just remember one of the
Speaker 8: coaches and because I was young, they we lost our
Speaker 8: point guard from the year before.
Speaker 1: He was like, well, is rich going to be able
Speaker 1: to step.
Speaker 8: In and play point guard and run his team and
Speaker 8: do all these different things with all these older guys,
Speaker 8: or do I need to go out and get a
Speaker 8: point guard?
Speaker 1: I dreamed my dad tell him, like, man, that's what
Speaker 1: he does.
Speaker 2: He's talking about fourth graders like GMS talk about NBA players.
Speaker 8: Like my dad was crazy though, so like we used
Speaker 8: to do things like in second and third grade where
Speaker 8: we played a tournament. We'll come back home and watch
Speaker 8: the film of it, all eight games as me seven
Speaker 8: eight years old like that, I want to play video
Speaker 8: games while we're watching games already happen. Anyways, that just
Speaker 8: you know, you know that day you know a coach
Speaker 8: at the fourth grade, which I appreciate him, because without
Speaker 8: without doubters, without I guess you could say haters whatever
Speaker 8: youone call them, you probably would have work as hard
Speaker 8: people wouldn't work as hard. I don't know if that's
Speaker 8: the case for me, but I do appreciate them because
Speaker 8: they make me work even harder than I already do.
Speaker 1: So it's been great.
Speaker 2: You told me once that haters sort of make you
Speaker 2: relevant and that means that you're relevant, and that stuck
Speaker 2: with me. I'm obviously way less relevant than you are,
Speaker 2: but that whole message, that's not true.
Speaker 1: You're pretty relevant.
Speaker 2: We're doing an interview, but that message, like sticks with me,
Speaker 2: sticks with you. And I've found that over the course
Speaker 2: of my career in the NBA, no shade, but smaller
Speaker 2: guards have all sort of shared that same experience. How
Speaker 2: have you found that being smaller than other NBA players
Speaker 2: as a chip on your shoulder? How how does being
Speaker 2: smaller play into how successful you've become.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny.
Speaker 8: When I'm actually out there on the court, I don't
Speaker 8: I don't feel small like it's that's the funny part
Speaker 8: about it. I only feel small when I'm watching, like
Speaker 8: rewatching games on film or when I'm like watching games
Speaker 8: on TV.
Speaker 1: That's when i feel small. But when I'm actually out on.
Speaker 8: The court and I'm defending somebody or somebody defending me
Speaker 8: and I'm looking at them, I promise you, I feel
Speaker 8: like I'm looking at them.
Speaker 1: Eye to eye and it's the weirdest thing ever.
Speaker 8: Like I don't know if I just like raise my
Speaker 8: shoulders up or something, but like so it doesn't really
Speaker 8: bother me. But I think me knowing, like my dad
Speaker 8: was small, my dad's smaller mom small, Like I come
Speaker 8: from a smaller family. Like I'm probably the tallest in
Speaker 8: the group. So I knew that I was going to
Speaker 8: be a shorter guy. I knew I was gonna be a.
Speaker 1: Shorter basketball player, and I knew that I was going
Speaker 1: to have to find creative ways get my shots off.
Speaker 8: So I know a lot of trainers like Tim when
Speaker 8: I my high school trainer and my dad, they taught
Speaker 8: me different ways get my shots off inside the paint
Speaker 8: still going because I'm fually just going to the rim.
Speaker 8: So being able to shoot, you know, right for the
Speaker 8: right hand lays crazy les go off full speed.
Speaker 1: I know they're pbut to do those things, so you know,
Speaker 1: it's pretty good.
Speaker 4: What else have you observed about yourself watching yourself on TV?
Speaker 4: Besides being small?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't really like watching myself play on TV.
Speaker 8: I like, I like watching philm like when it's no
Speaker 8: commentation stuff, but like actually rewatching the game. It's kind
Speaker 8: of weird sometimes. But I noticed that always I do
Speaker 8: smile a lot. You know, I know that I knew
Speaker 8: that I smiled a lot, But like when you're actually
Speaker 8: watching yourself play, like and you're just smiling out there
Speaker 8: for absolutely no reason.
Speaker 1: It's like, man, I do smile a lot, but it's great.
Speaker 1: I love smiling. I love what I do, and I'm
Speaker 1: an extremely happy person.
Speaker 3: So well, Sixers fans have been smiling a lot watching
Speaker 3: the play of Tyrese Maxi in year four. We thank
Speaker 3: him for joining us here on Sixers in sixty Tuesday nights,
Speaker 3: typically at six pm Eastern. I'm Matt Murphy with Lauren
Speaker 3: Rose in more with Tyres coming up in just a moment.
Speaker 3: But the stats tell us that Tyrese the basketball player
Speaker 3: we already know Tyrese Maxi the human is delightful. The
Speaker 3: stats tell us he's been delightful on court this season.
Speaker 3: He ranks highly in points and assists, and he has
Speaker 3: taken the reins and run with them this season for
Speaker 3: the seventy six ers, almost twenty nine points a game
Speaker 3: and over seven assists per game. Just an absolute dominant
Speaker 3: duo with him and the player of the week Joel
Speaker 3: Embiid and.
Speaker 2: Joel Embiid's second in scoring as of Tuesday thirty two
Speaker 2: point four points per game, sixth in rebounding eleven point
Speaker 2: seven rebounds per game. The two of them have been
Speaker 2: absolutely phenomenal together. One of the best, if not the
Speaker 2: best picking roll duo in the league. And just again
Speaker 2: doing such a good job is Tyrese Maxey at taking
Speaker 2: care of the ball. Nick Nurse said it pre game
Speaker 2: and I've said it already on this show, but those
Speaker 2: who doubted him, shame on them.
Speaker 3: I talked about this post game against Indiana, Game one
Speaker 3: against Indiana, and it's the idea that everybody can learn
Speaker 3: something from what Tyrese Maxi has done with his approach
Speaker 3: to his career, because he's taken what people perceive as
Speaker 3: weaknesses and turn them into strength. And so many athletes
Speaker 3: in particular will just stick to what they're good at,
Speaker 3: and I guess people in general, and that's that's not
Speaker 3: the case with Tyreese. It doesn't have to it doesn't
Speaker 3: have to be those strengths that he leans on. He
Speaker 3: leans on the weaknesses, and I think you say this
Speaker 3: a lot, like turns them into the strengths.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, he said it in that interview, like we just heard.
Speaker 2: He uses the weaknesses or the perceived weaknesses as motivation,
Speaker 2: and one by one he's plucking them all.
Speaker 3: Shooting, defense, playmaking.
Speaker 2: There's not gonna be a lot of doubts left to
Speaker 2: throw at him in a few more games.
Speaker 3: Perhaps he's eleventh in scoring as of Tuesday twelve, and
Speaker 3: assists with those numbers that I gave a minute.
Speaker 4: Ago, insanely impressive.
Speaker 2: All Star is not all NBA worthy at this point, Matt,
Speaker 2: are we ready for segment two with Tyrese?
Speaker 3: We are, But I just want to explain to the
Speaker 3: listeners what's about to happen, because we're giving you more
Speaker 3: time with Tyrese, Maxi and Lauren Rosen, but you won't
Speaker 3: hear from us again, well, Lauren until her birthday show
Speaker 3: next week on six Ers and sixty. The cancel that
Speaker 3: twenty first, I suppose, and you'll hear from me for
Speaker 3: the Sixers pregame show here on the Sixers Radio network
Speaker 3: after that. But we've got more with Tyrese in Part
Speaker 3: two with you which has even more highlights.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Part two was awesome.
Speaker 2: Again, we tried to make sure in a long form
Speaker 2: interview to be seen on many platforms, that people were
Speaker 2: able to get to know Tyrese Maxi either a new
Speaker 2: or for the first time.
Speaker 4: We talked about the matriarchs of his family.
Speaker 2: This was one of my favorite conversations I've had in
Speaker 2: my now three plus years with Tyrese Maxi, his mother,
Speaker 2: his grandmother's all together in the house helping raise Tyree's
Speaker 2: of course, along along with his father who coached him,
Speaker 2: and we heard about in part one, but in Part
Speaker 2: two we learn more about the matriarchy, all of whom
Speaker 2: had a huge influence on the Turkey Drive that with
Speaker 2: this weekend and the now annual Tyrese Maxie Foundation Turkey
Speaker 2: Drive feeding over a thousand families nine thousand Philadelphians. Each
Speaker 2: box fed six to eight people. It's something he's passionate
Speaker 2: about and a lot of that passion comes from the
Speaker 2: women in his family. So have a good time listening
Speaker 2: and learning more about the women of the Maxie family,
Speaker 2: and you guys will hear from Matt right after this interview.
Speaker 2: Thanks as always for listening to six ers and sixty.
Speaker 2: Here is our interview with Tyrese Maxie. I want to
Speaker 2: dive into your backstory through the matriarchs of your family
Speaker 2: now a little bit, because you've also shared with me
Speaker 2: in interviews past, before you were as big time as
Speaker 2: you are now about your grandmother's and I think now
Speaker 2: that you are so big time, the world should know
Speaker 2: about your grandmothers.
Speaker 4: So let's go one by one. Let's start with your mom, right.
Speaker 2: Talk to me about what she taught you growing up
Speaker 2: that turned you into the man that you are today.
Speaker 1: And my mom taught me a lot. I think she
Speaker 1: taught me.
Speaker 8: A lot of different things that normal like moms like,
Speaker 8: different than like moms teach you.
Speaker 1: She's tough. He' shome me tough. A lot of people
Speaker 1: don't see that, you know.
Speaker 8: They see her smile and see her happy, they see
Speaker 8: like the stuff that she posts whatever, but like she's
Speaker 8: extremely tough. And it was like she taught me how
Speaker 8: to be disciplined. She taught me how to love other people.
Speaker 8: She taught me how to be myself, and she taught
Speaker 8: me that you know, no one's ever going to give
Speaker 8: you anything. And that's testimony to her, honestly, because she
Speaker 8: started working out at Blue Cross with shit, and she
Speaker 8: was like at the bottom of the totem pole when
Speaker 8: she's retired now, but she worked her way all the
Speaker 8: way up to being a manager of like three four
Speaker 8: different states. And to do that coming from all the
Speaker 8: way at the bottom, like, it's very impressive. And it's like,
Speaker 8: if my mom's going to do that, if she's going
Speaker 8: to show that type of gratitude, she's going to show
Speaker 8: that type of energy to her job, why would she
Speaker 8: expect anything less of us?
Speaker 1: So it started from grades to school.
Speaker 8: You know, if I was getting all a's when I
Speaker 8: was young young, it was a issue for her.
Speaker 1: And then when I started getting.
Speaker 8: Into basketball and sports, she always wanted me to be
Speaker 8: the very best I could possibly be. And that's what
Speaker 8: that's what it was. That's what it was of the expectation,
Speaker 8: and I just tried to follow through on that.
Speaker 2: Okay, tell me about your grandmother's now, who grew up
Speaker 2: in the.
Speaker 4: House with you?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: You were a household, you were a matriarchy growing up.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I grew with both my grandmother's in the house,
Speaker 8: both of them, and then my grandfather and my my
Speaker 8: mom's mother. So her stepfather grew up. He was in
Speaker 8: the house with us till he passed away. But both
Speaker 8: my grandmother were there. My dad's grandmother, I'll start with her.
Speaker 8: She passed away.
Speaker 4: That's mom, sorry, right, said grandmother.
Speaker 1: My dad's mom, my grandmother, me and me.
Speaker 8: She passed away right before I got drafted, so she
Speaker 8: lived with us all the way from I think when
Speaker 8: I was I want to say five. And then my
Speaker 8: mom's mom moved in the house when I was eight,
Speaker 8: seven or eight, all right. So it's funny that we
Speaker 8: were talking about this because last night in the game,
Speaker 8: I had on a new balance to collab with me,
Speaker 8: like I always have a break. I don't have it
Speaker 8: on today because it just broke. But uh, this has
Speaker 8: Ellen d on it, which is leave no doubt. My
Speaker 8: dad always told me that. And I have in my
Speaker 8: vioo on Instagram and Twitter and all that stuff. I
Speaker 8: have LLL long lived me, me and them, and on
Speaker 8: my shoes, I had, you know, long lived me me
Speaker 8: on them and.
Speaker 1: That was pretty cool. And they had Ellen d r
Speaker 1: out there. But that's all topic.
Speaker 8: But anyways, my grandmothers, the were great though, honestly, like
Speaker 8: they set the foundation for everybody in the house. They
Speaker 8: worked semly hard for what they had. My grandmother she
Speaker 8: did a lot of different things with the World Trade Center.
Speaker 8: She did a lot of different things as far as
Speaker 8: she she she did stitching and she sold like I
Speaker 8: don't know I was playing that, but like clothes together
Speaker 8: and helped me with that.
Speaker 1: And then my grandmother she was she did day care.
Speaker 8: She did basically everything for me as far as my
Speaker 8: parents weren't there, so she watched me.
Speaker 1: My parents went there. And then she was a big
Speaker 1: with church, so she shung in a choir.
Speaker 8: But they were great. I mean, honestly, they taught me,
Speaker 8: I'll just say this. They taught me how to treat
Speaker 8: others trailers with respect. They taught me that again, nothing's given.
Speaker 8: And then my grandmother who passed away, she always told me,
Speaker 8: if I was blessed to make it to the NBA,
Speaker 8: and I was blessed with a platform to be able
Speaker 8: to give back and to be able to motivate others,
Speaker 8: then that's what I need to do.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's sad that.
Speaker 8: She didn't get to see me get drafted, but you
Speaker 8: know she was there in spirit. You know, we left
Speaker 8: the chair for her at the little table or whatever.
Speaker 8: But I just feel like I'm making her proud now,
Speaker 8: not just because of what I do on the basketball court,
Speaker 8: but all the things that I try to doing in
Speaker 8: the communities as far as Philly and as far as
Speaker 8: Dallas and wherever I'm at Lexington.
Speaker 1: I try to go back there too as well.
Speaker 2: And your mom's mom is the one that's really plugged
Speaker 2: in on Twitter.
Speaker 8: Correct, she's really plugged in on Twitter. She knows, you know.
Speaker 8: I keep saying Twitter is the news now. My grandmother
Speaker 8: used to wake up every morning at four o'clock and
Speaker 8: watch the news. Now she gets up every morning at
Speaker 8: four o'clock and checks Twitter. So she knows stuff before
Speaker 8: I know stuff.
Speaker 4: She's literally broken news about your career to you.
Speaker 8: Yes, she yes, she yees she you know. She had
Speaker 8: She the one who told my mom that I was
Speaker 8: Player of the Week. My mom told me, and I
Speaker 8: told them they had no idea what there was talking
Speaker 8: about until six just.
Speaker 1: Tagged me and I was okay, y' all right.
Speaker 8: But now she's great though. I love her at the death.
Speaker 8: She caused me all the time. She shoots me mad
Speaker 8: text before games. I just got on the phone with
Speaker 8: her before we came out here, got into playing. My
Speaker 8: mom's at home, so they were all FaceTime. I talked
Speaker 8: to her for about twenty minutes. But she's great. I
Speaker 8: really do appreciate her stuff that she does for my foundations,
Speaker 8: that she does for my mom, nothing but love.
Speaker 2: Last thing before we move into basketball, shortly after you
Speaker 2: were injured last season, you spent some time coming off
Speaker 2: the bench and those two things together. Obviously life is
Speaker 2: much bigger than basketball, but after going through those two
Speaker 2: things were the first time that you brought up publicly
Speaker 2: in a media availability situation mental health and how even
Speaker 2: though you are larger than life, idle to these kids,
Speaker 2: someone that smiles like you said all the time. You
Speaker 2: pulled back the curtain and you explained what was going
Speaker 2: on with you and why it was hard and why.
Speaker 4: It was important to share how hard that was.
Speaker 2: And when you did that, I remember thinking, I try
Speaker 2: to be vocal about it myself as someone that's like
Speaker 2: dealt with mental health issues in my past.
Speaker 4: I remember when Jamar de Rosen and Kevin Love.
Speaker 2: First talked about mental health publicly, and how like kind
Speaker 2: of crazy and brave that was. That was like five six,
Speaker 2: seven years ago. It wasn't that long ago. So I
Speaker 2: guess I'm curious, like why you felt comfortable bringing it up,
Speaker 2: why it was important to you to bring up why
Speaker 2: normalizing yourself to people was a priority.
Speaker 1: And for me, you know, I didn't want it to
Speaker 1: be like a.
Speaker 8: Like I don't know I explained it like I didn't
Speaker 8: want anybody to feel sorry for me. I just I
Speaker 8: just wanted to like explain, like you know, us as
Speaker 8: NBA players, we go through things as well, like people
Speaker 8: see us, like as far as you know, we love
Speaker 8: our fans, we really do.
Speaker 1: We love people that watch on TV. We love them death.
Speaker 1: And it's like they see us as just that you
Speaker 1: know basketball player.
Speaker 8: Can't they don't sekik to see us as the personal
Speaker 8: aspect of it, like us flying from this city to
Speaker 8: that city, Guys actually being tired, Guys having family, some
Speaker 8: guys have kids, some guys have why, some guys go
Speaker 8: through things with their family. Some guys you know, moms
Speaker 8: are sick. And you know what I mean, it's so
Speaker 8: many different things behind us. They only see what's going
Speaker 8: on in that forty eight minute game and like it's hard,
Speaker 8: like life is hard, but like for me, and it
Speaker 8: was hard for me because I started.
Speaker 1: Out to be really really good. I started doing really
Speaker 1: really strong, because you always do, by the way, try to,
Speaker 1: but I started doing really really strong.
Speaker 8: I felt like I was helping our team win, helping
Speaker 8: our team be successful.
Speaker 1: You get hurt, you come back. I didn't.
Speaker 8: I didn't start right away because you don't know normally
Speaker 8: start right away when you come back for injury.
Speaker 1: Then I start starting.
Speaker 8: Did they decide they want to bring me off the bench,
Speaker 8: And it's like, yeah, cook good games off the bench.
Speaker 1: Then you're like, why am I come off the bench? Why?
Speaker 1: They're like why am I stich rights?
Speaker 8: But it's like for me, I'm always in the guy,
Speaker 8: the happy guy, you know what I mean. So I've
Speaker 8: always been a guy that every time he come a
Speaker 8: shoot around, every time anybody in order to just see
Speaker 8: him that, I'm always smiling because I'm I'm a happy person.
Speaker 1: But for me, I just as a competitor. You know,
Speaker 1: you want to be out there, you want that.
Speaker 8: You want you work hard for your starting spot, You
Speaker 8: work hard for that, and that's you know, I just
Speaker 8: wanted it back and I just wanted to help the
Speaker 8: team as well.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's hard. It was hard.
Speaker 8: I can't lie it was. It was difficult for me,
Speaker 8: but everything ended up working out great. And you know,
Speaker 8: we tried to do our best last year and things happened.
Speaker 2: We talk about it a lot, But in doing what
Speaker 2: you did, you made it okay in my opinion, for
Speaker 2: people that are having struggles in whatever career or in school,
Speaker 2: regardless of how old you are, to be outwardly succeeding
Speaker 2: or in a good position, but struggling internally. And I
Speaker 2: think in normalizing that for kids, you probably did more
Speaker 2: positive good than you realize.
Speaker 4: So as one of those former kids, thank you for
Speaker 4: doing that.
Speaker 8: No, for sure, I hope so, man, And I'll just
Speaker 8: say this last thing about it. You know, it's always
Speaker 8: somebody out there you can talk to. It's always somebody
Speaker 8: out there to talk to you. You know, if it's your mom,
Speaker 8: if it's your dad, your parents, your family, teach your
Speaker 8: counselor like, don't want anybody flight there alone out there.
Speaker 8: I had people to talk to, call my mom, call
Speaker 8: my dad, they call my agent, called some coaches, and
Speaker 8: you know, they helped me. They help me get back,
Speaker 8: get through it and get back to myself. So you know,
Speaker 8: it's always somebody out there that you can talk to.
Speaker 2: You just know that therapist is too hard to find.
Speaker 2: But like I like to plug that when when you
Speaker 2: need it, those resources are out there. They're not easy
Speaker 2: enough to get, but I can second that for sure.
Speaker 4: It's tyr SMAXI thank you so much, thank you for
Speaker 4: having me