WEBVTT - S2 Episode 5: No Excuses 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.920 Drafted is a production of tree Ford Media, Clutch Sports Group, 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:09.879 and I Heart Radio Cold Drew trying to get some 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.640 working any baby walking in the weight room right now. 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:27.400 We're going on time doing alright, So I welcome back 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:31.440 to Drafted. I'm keeping Michael Key and you're hearing from 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:35.400 Justin Holland and Uncle Drew, two critical people supporting Anthony 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:40.040 Edwards rise from unknown South Atlanta talent to potential number 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.640 one pick in the NBA. Hey, I'm are you ready, 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:53.159 bab nah lifeealthing issue. They're only six days away from 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.440 the NBA Draft and the reality of the moment is 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.800 starting to sink in, especially given how far Anthony has. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:01.760 I think about it all the time, like, man, it's 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:07.440 motherfucker boy. I always knew it when you were yawn, 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.960 But I didn't think you're gonna focus like I was 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:14.559 gonna be a superstar and you was gonna be good. 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.400 That's Anthony talking while he lives waits at the gym 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.839 on god Be Road, his home base for the last 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:24.120 five years in a tough Atlanta neighborhood. You don't understands, 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.560 shouldn't you always had? He was like, you know, I 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:29.920 always knew you was gonna be good at sport, but 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.240 supert and you got on the stand. Should listen, listen, 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.920 I'm the stands out. You will yawn. You used to 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.320 be good, bro, and you will. Boys sitting in episode one, 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.000 we told you about the near impossible odds of any 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.320 kid becoming an NBA lottery pick and how much more 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.400 likely it was for Anthony to become a dark statistic instead. 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.440 But Uncle Drew had an even more specific reason for 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.960 why he didn't think Anthony would make it here to 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.520 the cusp of NBA stardom. So get what if you 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.320 stop bullshit? No, I need to cut you out. Bro. 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.200 When you stop bullshit and you buy in, Shaw, you 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.960 can be here. You're still coming out of bullshit. Get 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:11.480 the ball here we go. What that you guys say? 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:15.480 I'm bullshit like you like once you buy in like 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:17.240 man the man it would buy. You don't own the problem? 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:22.240 Are you bout in? Their argument is about Anthony not 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.080 practicing hard enough as a kid, and how he wouldn't 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.800 buy into the work it takes to become great, and 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.440 that he only tried his hardest during games. Uncle Drew 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.040 was his youth football coach back then, so he had 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:40.119 the clearest look at Anthony's shortcomings in sports. Why they're 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:43.000 making me right? Man got the practed late. I got 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.639 school and man got a prcted late. I got through 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.519 all the running and then run down here. I said 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:52.079 that the man too small. Phone don't good that point 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.920 you make me mad? Right, that shouldn't make me mad? 0:02:55.960 --> 0:03:04.160 Wrong like man don't get it rough? He was could 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.760 be mad though. I don't know no better you did. 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:11.760 You did know better. You knew what you would. You 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.400 knew better, bro, you knew better because you know what 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.639 stop I was act like he was. See the mentality head. 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.560 Anthony avoided the most grueling parts of practice, the intense 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.800 hitting drills or the extra hill runs or anything that 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:30.320 would push his limits. So, in my opinion, I called 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.440 a knoa head yeah ahead the skills, just the discipline 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.120 pot or for the work ethic when we was younger. 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.160 You know one thing, If you got a kid that's 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.040 a knockahead in a good way, and you put that 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.240 discipline in them, you can create a master in a 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.080 positive way. So how did Anthony go from lacking the 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.560 discipline and the work ethic he needed to become this 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.080 laser focused nineteen year old prodigy. Here's uncle Drew and 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:56.240 Anthony still in the weight room. To be honest, basketball stuff. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.480 Of course I was get what of course I was 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.320 banging on the football when I came to the third game. 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.000 Y'all play somethingbody, I'm like a lot. They ain't really 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.400 work with him. But once I say you played basketball, 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.320 yeah you gotta shot. I course I think you'd be 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:17.040 dead good. Yeah, what do you think I'll give the superstar? 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.479 You can tell me, bro. Why does Anthony insist on 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.160 hearing that other people doubted him? Does he use it 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.760 as motivation to gain an edge or is he also 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:28.680 stunted that he used to find the odds and it's 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.880 now being talked about as the number one pick in 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:35.320 the NBA. I'm telling, why the hell you think I 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.400 was so close to y'all? You didn't had a discipline, 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:40.600 you didn't had to work, anth you're looking at on 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:42.120 the top of the hill. Way, No, your mom can't say, 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.000 and you know c common you know seven rey hare, 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:51.080 Come on, manlazy man. They rolled the ball. I didn't 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:57.880 play and they want to pray what I'm talking? Yeah, 0:04:58.200 --> 0:04:59.760 I had to let him how to hear somebody feel 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.800 a you start level red the matt. Let's tell what 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.400 you gotta do. Run run, you gotta gonna get it. No, no, y'all, 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.000 no no no no, no, no no no, don't run 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.560 for real, act like you want to run. You gotta 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:12.240 come pushing around and feel like a little baby. And 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.920 ship get what looking at it? Looking up the hell 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.080 and ship wanted mama can't say you know what here 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.839 we're going? And that he would dodge these extra drills 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:21.960 and then try to convince his mommy vet to get 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.520 him out of practice. I hate it. Let me tell you. 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.960 I hate free to think called free games so much rain. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.640 It's I used to get the practice round six fifteen 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.880 six on purpose. So I know they've done like no, no, 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.840 no, no no, no, get dressed super get dressed super slow. 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.200 But I'm so good now made me do that, SI, 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:43.240 So look we get down practice. We gotta run a 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.760 lot again. I got down. I run a regular ship. 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:50.080 But once when they started doing at ship, I'm like, man, 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:51.880 all right, right doing that? I get what to do? 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:57.400 You're looking on let's look at looking doing My time 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.520 is star eight teen, my MoMA, I'm like, you're ready 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.440 to do? Well? What and a your team. You know 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.760 what I'm doing talking to him? You do stand right 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:14.960 on here with j like, oh, I don't know. Counting 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.000 my mom to save him didn't always work out his 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:23.039 planet though, my mom, she's pushing everybody. This is Anthony's 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.360 older brother Anthony three years is elder and better known 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:31.520 as Bubba to those closest. One time, I think Aunt 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:33.880 was having a bad day in football game. It was 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.040 a football game. He was kind of playing a little sluggish, 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.000 and like halftime, she pulled him over and talked to 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:43.080 him like my mom was very aggressive. I can say that. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.320 So you didn't want to play around with my mom, 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.160 But my mom didn't want to play around with us. 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:52.480 So even to just hear her voice, it's like motivating 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.800 to any one of us, any one of my siblings. 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:56.480 If you hear her voice, you're gonna want to do 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:01.120 whatever you're doing ten times harder. So she was a 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.160 support and the motive that we actually I used to 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.040 drive ourselves to do what we want to do. As 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.520 far as force see anything in life, she was out 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.400 rock for real man, So yeah, that would be the 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:15.800 main force for me. Uncle Drew again, Miss Mama. She 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.280 babied him as far as that's my son. But when 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:20.960 it came to a pet in the sports, she didn't 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:22.680 play that. It wasn't no baby that, it was none 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.800 of that. We we had the green light too. If 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:26.400 we want to run a the time, we're gonna run 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:28.600 aft the time. She wasn't solve at all. She didn't 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.720 miss no games. She did she had to do to 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:32.440 get him, give him a pregnant. She was allowed as 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.320 once you know, everybody knew was mother wall. She had 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.560 the jerkor's on some type of pair that everybody know. 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:40.480 You know, there's my baby, there was my boy. If 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.400 anybody on the sideline started talking trade, she's gonna talk 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:45.800 trash back. She was a diehard. She had a lot 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.040 of son. Uncle Drew and Anthony's mom both knew he 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.840 needed to be pushed, and since Anthony's mother and grandmother 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.520 primarily raised the kids on their own, it often fell 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.360 on Uncle Drew to get on his star running backs case. 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.280 Here they are in the weight room, still debate what 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.960 happened back then you knew, you knew what you were doing. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:08.200 Doesn't mean they need practice though, so much better. They 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.400 just blow on and then how you come by that practice? 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:14.680 Great bullshit? How you On some level, Anthony was also right. 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.200 He didn't need to practice at that age. He was 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.560 that much better than everyone else. Who y'all depended on 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:24.280 in the game beside we had a good team. Who 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.280 y'all depending on days and the hole? Yea looks like 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.760 you to come out of that bullshit? Who y'all depending 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:34.560 on during game time? If it rain ain't working, tone 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.520 ain't working? Who y'all giving the ball? To remember that 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.360 game you played in the snow? What comes? Time to do? 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.560 And I'm rare where airplane? What I do to the 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:44.920 house to the house, to the house, to the house, 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:49.480 to the house, to get that ForSight game? And I'm 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:58.120 gonna get you by a time you remember the Reliving 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.840 those touchdowns proves his point. What kind of kid scores 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:06.160 eight touchdowns in a game without practicing hard? The differences. 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.439 Uncle Drew wasn't worried about Anthony's success as a nine 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.440 year old football player. He wanted to instill the discipline 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:13.880 and work ethic for when Aunt got older and other 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:17.640 kids physical abilities caught up, especially before it became too late. 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:23.199 So you done got understanding. But their starts down you 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.920 bought in. I don't buy an hold. You bought in 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:27.959 being good. You bought in and got I want to 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:29.800 get better. I want this is what I want to be. 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:37.600 You bought into it and I wanted to be best. 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:40.800 But you want work a line in him? No, I was, 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:46.960 I'm sorry, before I start picking up. Maybe take hard, 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:51.320 we'll maybe take great, maybe take greater down right, working 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.480 on the focus and work ethic emerged in ninth grade, 0:09:54.880 --> 0:10:05.760 when Anthony's entire life changed forever. We'll be right back. 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:21.080 Here's justin Holland again. I was a recreation coordinator, so 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.679 I worked at the rec center and and pretty much 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.680 a low income neighborhood. The rec center he's talking about 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:28.280 it is the gym at god to Be Road in 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.280 South Atlanta, the one that's played such an important role 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:37.840 in Anthony's story. I have a passion for just kids 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.600 and in the youth, especially the kids that grew up 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.760 in our communities, and they really need guided, structure and 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:46.719 somebody just to be there for him, even if it's 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.120 just for some advice, even if it's just even it's hell, 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.960 if even if it's just a hood. You know, kids 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.240 need those types of people around them. When I met him, 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.800 um he had just lost his mom and his grandma 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:04.200 within six months of each other. Anthony's grandmother, Shirley, was 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.880 someone he described as their family backbone. He once said 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:09.960 she would help pay the bills, keep the lights on 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.640 where they didn't have the money, that she would always 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.760 come through in their time of need. Grandma Shirley had 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:19.640 been battling cancer for years when her daughter, Anthony's mom, Yvette, 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:23.240 lost her own fight with the disease only a few 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:28.319 months later, surely passed two shortly after that. Justin first 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:33.679 met Anthony, that was even a part of the introduction 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.360 of my buddy, Heir who brought him to me. He 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.120 was just kind of like this kid, like he just 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.400 needs somebody good in his life. And I know you're 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:41.559 a good person. I know you have him on the 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.440 basketball court, and like I said, he's special, just not 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.200 on the court. And I think I tell him this 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:48.880 all the time as well, because I think if I 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.679 was dealt the same cards that he was dealt, I 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:53.760 no doubt in my mind, I wouldn't be in a 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.599 position that he's in right now, like I would be 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.120 a statistic because it's so easy to be a statistic 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:03.080 and losing you know, losing losing his mom and grandma 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.720 so young, and and his brothers and sister being so 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.199 young and just kind of being left to figure it out. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:10.840 You know, that's something that that's really hard, and I 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.880 just kind of wanted to present myself as stability. If 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:15.920 you need anything for me, I'm always here for you, 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:20.400 regardless of what it is. And like I said, I like, 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.280 I'll always be your stability with whether you need it 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.720 or not, and being that like that mentor and just 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:29.520 being available to give insight and information to throughout life, 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:30.920 just for life, because you know, life is just so 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.840 much more than basketball, because one thing I understand, like 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.320 the basketball eventually stops bouncing, and it's who you become 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:41.200 after that. Justin entered Anthony's life at a critical moment 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:45.199 when he was just an eighth grade kid fourteen years old, 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.240 facing the loss of the two most important people in 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:53.600 his life, both to cancer, both within six months. Here's 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:57.160 Anthony's older brother, Anthony, about the relationship with his mom 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:03.080 and grandmother. My grandmother, she's she's very caring, so she 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.360 doesn't like the yellow line. So she was more up 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.640 the calm motivator. That's what I would call her. Become motivated, 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:14.560 laid back motivating like like she would she would like 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.160 give you a speech or something like, put you to 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:20.480 the side and talk to you. Very loving person though. 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:25.800 And then there was his mom basically, and my mom 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.839 was like best friends. We all best friends with my mom, 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.480 and she was always a person that picked us stuff 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.200 when we needed a shoulder, lean on the shoulder, the 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.600 crowd on anything like that. She basically supported us throughout 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:39.800 anything we wanted to do or we believe that we 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.480 could do so. And those were two queens right there. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.280 His mom and grandmother pushed and pulled and carried the 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:50.080 entire family through life. The impact of their loss goes 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:53.199 beyond saying goodbye to the two people Anthony loved most. 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:57.199 His whole life was upended since they were also his caretakers. 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:01.040 Suddenly Anthony and his simple things were on their own. 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:05.600 Here's justin again. They've always kind of been a close 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.560 knit family and they're still to this day. They're still 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.240 really close. But like I said, at the time that 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:13.319 I met him and his mom and grandma passed, they 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.200 were they all were young, like they were. I think 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:20.800 his older brother Antoine may have been with his older brother, 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.400 his older brother was one, so so they all were 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.720 so young. So I think just as a community, as 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:27.640 a whole, I think everybody kind of came together and 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.880 just helped everybody out and kept everybody focusing and definitely 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:35.840 kept and kept them even closer. Anthony internalized everything he 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:39.160 was thinking or feeling. He could only watch as his 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:43.720 former reality collapsed around him. Here again, his uncle Drew. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:48.640 He never not one time, not one time at all, 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:50.440 even if they had the funeral, we were sitting in 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:52.800 the church and stuff all now, I was sitting to 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.280 my scene. He came walking in with his siblings. He 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.120 helped them together. He didn't, he didn't, you know, he 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.320 didn't break down. If he were, you know, you gotta 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.200 do what you gotta do. Everybody deal with different but 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.320 he held it together even that day when you know, 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.840 thirteen fourteen years old. You know, I always to ask 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.640 myself like that they came the past of the mother. 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.560 I just kind of sat back and out like, well, 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.600 asked myself, who's really gonna step up right now? Who's 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:17.080 really gonna do what they gotta do for their kids. 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.520 Despite having his own family and kids to raise, Uncle 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.640 Drew felt an obligation to get involved. I think it's 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.960 his mother had some more respect from him, just knowing 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:30.320 that I was deaf for the best centers of him. 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.240 She would text me sometimes she would send me a 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.520 long test man's just saying, you know, thank you coach 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:36.520 Ruth for doing this. Blod they didn blod to that, 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:38.800 and that right there, just that was all the validation 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.600 I needed to step up, do what I had to do. 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.240 So I'm gonna make it happen. You need you need 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.880 this in your pocket, you need shoot, you need a TV. 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:48.000 It was nothing. It was just like I said, I 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:49.080 don't know why I could have got through. I had 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:50.880 a treat like you want to mind, I had to that. 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:52.800 I don't know why I could do it. You fucking 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:54.920 get your sheep. I'm coming to get your clothes. You 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:56.960 come and stay with me. He didn't, He didn't push 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:58.600 back at all. You know he needed that. I'm gonna 0:15:58.600 --> 0:15:59.920 give his face because I know how to deal with. 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:01.880 I ain't gonna be his face. I ain't gonna be 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:03.800 I ain't even to play that role like I'm your daddy. 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.000 I'm just a person to respect you, to respect me. 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.080 It just it's just tough love. And then I'm doing 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:09.400 what I gotta do. I told your mom'nna do what 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:14.440 I gotta do, point blank. Anthony split time between his 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:18.680 siblings and uncle Drew, sometimes staying for long stretches at 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:22.680 his old coach's house. I think, down inside, I kind 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:23.920 of feel like it was my dude to do what 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:27.040 I had to do to beat the phone, because you 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.880 gotta have somebody. You gotta have somebody else. They don't 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:31.360 want them for you. Just Janine Low, you know, I 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:32.760 want to see the kid be great. I won't see 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:34.400 him make it like I said it won those secret. 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:35.800 I treat him just like one of my own. I 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.160 had to get on his ass, I had to beat 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:38.320 up phone if I had to do what I had 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:39.760 to do out there, so I would feel like I 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:41.720 was just I was just acent the whole, and he 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.520 kind of knew that too. That relationship and their dynamic 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.320 is still the same in many ways even now, because 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:49.520 they continue lifting in the weight room and get into 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:55.000 another heated back and forth. I think he wants you 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.680 to be like I'll bringing my own water. Drew has 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.800 just called out Anthony, or getting in his ass as 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.879 he calls it. They're arguing over water. Specifically that Anthony 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.240 doesn't want to drink it. But that isn't what it's 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.920 really about at all, the way married couples fight about 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.280 dinner when they actually are upset about something else entirely. 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:18.920 I say, and man, I'll mail listen to are you 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:20.960 this is said you got some water? I said not, 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.199 you got get away and water. Just give me the 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:25.080 I think he wants to be sooth the initiative to 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:28.399 bring you a whole water? What I don't get away? 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:34.760 People say you got one? No, if you ask a lot, 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:39.280 don't you just give it to him? I'm never got 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.320 water got the water? Like I got a protein drink? 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.200 I don't want to ask some or you got a 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:51.000 water water? Let's but I haven't had an action. He 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:55.520 just give it to you? Are you ask so you don't? 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.920 You don't get abou You see what I'm saying. I'm 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:02.680 drew back the water. You just give me the water 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:04.560 and Drew you have protein? Drew know you just give 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:07.600 me pronching to drink. He goes for water I got 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.000 like if I bring if if I bring you a dollar, 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.600 dollar about you you're gonna say you better dollar? You 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:15.720 know what I'm saying. I don't know any but you 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:19.639 gotta get to get with exactly. And I got whatever 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:23.359 you need me exactly. Come on the only time on 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:35.160 bro so always about lookout, look out, look out. Hey listen, listen. 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:38.040 He helped you know, You're not like I told you before, 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:41.360 anybody in this big only bigger wather. He don't even 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.080 know you. Don't ad me, but it is a outside 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.680 of him. Don't ad nothing, no no opinion on go 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:51.040 what's that body with the employ It ain't talking the 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:58.160 important and this is what they're really fighting about. Drew 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.639 feeling like Anthony isn't relying on him enough, not asking 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.480 for help with the most important issues, especially as Anthony's 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:08.400 whole life is about to change. Absolutely, I'm talking about 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:12.359 civil life, growing up, being a manas didn't that mean nothing? Hey? 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.560 What what? What? What? What I came here said about 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:18.200 my paper is sent to the po box giving yours 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:22.840 about it. I ain't tell what I'm about. You don't listen. 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.960 You gotta keep out everybody I'm telling I said, I said, 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:27.560 I said, I said, I said from now I went 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:29.520 up to myself. Now, everything that I do, I'm gonna 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:33.560 get it, said to my po bay, I'm sort. You 0:19:33.600 --> 0:20:06.640 don't know what's coming, We'll be right back. What's coming 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.560 in ten days is somewhere between six and eight million 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:15.200 dollars a year, along with fame an immense pressure because 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.680 in ten days, Anthony will become a top pick in 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:21.240 the NBA. He'll be moving to his new city and 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:24.440 starting his new professional life with his new team. His 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:28.320 entire reality will be turned upside down once again, hopefully 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:31.359 this time for the better. But Uncle Drew still sees 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:34.119 a teenage kid who needs his help, who doesn't know 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.000 how to avoid the pitfalls that likely await him. He 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:39.560 still needs those same people that were there for him 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.000 before he got his circle. Now he put it together. 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:43.639 You know who they all for the love, and you 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:45.399 know who they all for the for the fame and 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:47.639 all that. So I'm just gonna continue to bust to day. 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:49.719 They're not gonna change with me because I won't run 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.600 from the boy for him to be successful. So uh, 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:55.639 I feel like it was my duty to do all 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:57.760 I had to do to to beat their phone. Just 0:20:57.920 --> 0:20:59.439 makes you links to see no matter what he did 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:02.000 in life basketball, even if you want to go, we're 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:03.960 gonna go to the military. If you want to just 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:05.960 be a regular person working nine of five. I just 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:07.720 feel like I had to beat the phone. I just 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:09.440 tell the MoMA, no matter what, I'm gonna make sure 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.440 you get you know what I mean. I make a problem, 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:13.719 I'll do what I gotta do them or to get 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:15.200 him now. And like I said, he never knew this. 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:18.640 Uncle Drew made a vow twe that that he would 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:21.400 be there, that he'd help Anthony the young football start 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:23.760 with his pads or rides to practice or with a 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:26.640 place to sleep over, and a promise that years later 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:29.280 he'd still be in the weight room trying to warn 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:33.040 Anthony the teenage basketball start about the dangers of money 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:35.760 and fame lurking around the corner. Of course he knew 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:38.000 it now, but that's why it went so hard. I'm 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:39.800 just saying, in the pain that he went through, he 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:42.000 never broke He never, you know, he never he never 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:45.000 made an excuse. Never. Man, I lost my mama, I 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:50.960 lost my grandmama. Why me? Why this is why? This? Never? Never? No, No, 0:21:51.240 --> 0:21:54.560 he just locked in. Once they passed, he took that 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:58.280 that discipline and just put he put their they head 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:00.960 into it. And you see what you put everything you 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:04.520 head into it. Anthonis work, ethic and determination changed after 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:07.960