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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Drafted. We're two college basketball stars mike
Speaker 1: themselves up and take us on their personal journeys to
Speaker 1: the NBA. In the first episode, we heard from explosive
Speaker 1: University of Georgia guard Anthony Edwards. Yeah, there's Edwards, a
Speaker 1: nineteen year old with the talent to go number one
Speaker 1: overall and the grit to stay in the league for many,
Speaker 1: many years. We was just in a gym like every day,
Speaker 1: all all day, all night. In this episode, we'll get
Speaker 1: to know another dynamic carresmatic larger than life one and
Speaker 1: done guard. Oh well, old Tyrese Maxie from the University
Speaker 1: of Kentucky and he's brushing his teeth. Yep. Even athletes
Speaker 1: at their peak of training and preparations still struggled to
Speaker 1: wake up on a chilly morning and go to work,
Speaker 1: just like the rest of us. But unlike most, Tyrese
Speaker 1: just woke up at four fifty am inside of Beverly
Speaker 1: Hills Hotel. My daily routine is a lot of people
Speaker 1: think it's crazy. I think it's normal. That's Tyrese describing
Speaker 1: his recurring wake up call. The reason why I do
Speaker 1: it is because I feel like I get a psychological
Speaker 1: advantage over my over my opponents. Why it's crazy to
Speaker 1: see someone do three workouts before some you know, some
Speaker 1: of my opponents and some of my periods even are
Speaker 1: waking up. He leaves this hotel room and heads to
Speaker 1: his car. It's still dark out and there are almost
Speaker 1: no other cars on the road, at least bite l
Speaker 1: A standards. I want to be someone that doesn't have
Speaker 1: any what ifs. I don't want to be at the
Speaker 1: end of my career when it's all setting done. The
Speaker 1: boss I was bouncing and say, dang, what if I
Speaker 1: just worked a little bit harder. What if I did this,
Speaker 1: or what if I did that? And you know this
Speaker 1: would have happened. I want to be able to say,
Speaker 1: you know, I gave it my all. I did everything
Speaker 1: I could, and I maximized on my potential. You know
Speaker 1: this is gonna be my profession. You know, this is
Speaker 1: this is me perfecting my crab this is what I'm
Speaker 1: good paid to do. I love to do this my passion,
Speaker 1: but you know, at the end of the day, this
Speaker 1: is a business. This is gonna be my job. Like
Speaker 1: my body is my job. I have to take care
Speaker 1: of me and I want to make it the best
Speaker 1: that I could possibly be. All three of his workouts
Speaker 1: this morning will happen back to back at all before
Speaker 1: eleven am, and so every morning he has this thirty
Speaker 1: minute commute to a gym and chatsworth often rolling calls
Speaker 1: with people in other time zones who also might be
Speaker 1: awake this early. Now, I called you to tell you
Speaker 1: how my workout went, he is today. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: It was the Pelicans. This is a friend back in
Speaker 1: Texas and tyren is calling about his most recent workout
Speaker 1: with the New Orleans Pelicans, who hold pick number thirteen.
Speaker 1: Like Anthony, Tyrese is working out for most of the
Speaker 1: team's picking early in the first round, a good sign
Speaker 1: he could be taken in the top half of the draft,
Speaker 1: but when and where is as big a question mark
Speaker 1: as with any player this year. Rumors have him as
Speaker 1: high as number eight and as low as number twenty eight.
Speaker 1: That's spread is a difference of about seven and a
Speaker 1: half million dollars over his first three years in the league.
Speaker 1: This means each team workout really really matters. Oh was
Speaker 1: there slow really good? Yeah? I'm sure? Yeah, I hate
Speaker 1: in a row? Yeah yeah, Thix in the right corner corner.
Speaker 1: That kind of dead eye shooting is exactly what Anthony
Speaker 1: and Justin and his crew were talking about in the
Speaker 1: last episode, and this performance is especially noteworthy for Tyrese
Speaker 1: when the biggest knock against him is his inconsistent jump shot.
Speaker 1: Last season, he only shot from three point range, low
Speaker 1: enough to keep numerous NBA executives awake at night wondering
Speaker 1: if he's the right guy for their team. Stroke coming along, Yo, Hello, Parlar, Yo,
Speaker 1: you gotta say pols bron that was what the stroke
Speaker 1: coming along? Yeah? Yeah, yea, but now yeah, have a smooth,
Speaker 1: real smood. Tyrese arrives at the Chatsworth Gym a little
Speaker 1: before year. He and his uncle Brandon have been living
Speaker 1: in southern California since May after the college season was
Speaker 1: canceled and without a summer league to play in. He's
Speaker 1: built this disciplined routine to capitalize on the downtime. Some
Speaker 1: of my warm clock goes off at four fifty every
Speaker 1: single morning most of the time. My uncle thus something
Speaker 1: to get a little breakfit soundwards and then we're getting
Speaker 1: to the gym by five forty five stretch, start working
Speaker 1: out at six. I swoon. The workout done at around
Speaker 1: seven fifteen, seven twenty answered the way room. Here's his
Speaker 1: uncle Brandon. He's been living in l a to help
Speaker 1: keep an eye on his a few in the big city.
Speaker 1: But Tires's focus has never been a concern, even with
Speaker 1: all the turmoil this year. It's just been embracing the
Speaker 1: embracing the situation circumstances. I'm just being grinding. It's just
Speaker 1: I's honestly kind of worked out because it's helped him
Speaker 1: just stay in the gym more um and that's it.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's pretty much all he wants to do anyways,
Speaker 1: work out. It just seems like it's basketball, basketball, basketball.
Speaker 1: It's always been this way. Tyrese has envisioned his basketball
Speaker 1: future since grade school. Every year it's cool, like from
Speaker 1: fifth or sixth grade, I sit down the day before
Speaker 1: school and I write down my life goes right down,
Speaker 1: my sports goals for basketball goes and I write down
Speaker 1: my academic school goes and I did that every single
Speaker 1: first day of school all the way to my last,
Speaker 1: well my first and last year of college. By the
Speaker 1: time he started middle school in Garland, Texas, he was
Speaker 1: writing about becoming the next grade player at the University
Speaker 1: of Kentucky. I'm in McDonald's All American. I was gonna
Speaker 1: and I go to Kentucky and to the NBA. Now
Speaker 1: that vision has almost been fully realized. He's finishing his
Speaker 1: third workout of the day in Los Angeles. He signed
Speaker 1: with the most powerful agent in the NBA, Rich Paul,
Speaker 1: and he's being talked about as a potential lottery pick.
Speaker 1: He's focused nearly every action and decision since middle school
Speaker 1: to get from there to here on the cusp of
Speaker 1: being a first round pick in the NBA. And if
Speaker 1: you watch closely, he almost always leaves clues showing how
Speaker 1: he's been able to defy the odds and make his
Speaker 1: dream a reality. We'll be right back. Tyrese arrives at
Speaker 1: the Chatsworth Gym with his trainer, Chris Johnson, ready to
Speaker 1: start their next workout. When oh here, ready, ready, you
Speaker 1: already know, I know, let's get it. Look look, look,
Speaker 1: look now what I told you. Look what's he's doing?
Speaker 1: Look about that? Oh remember I was telling you about
Speaker 1: the brain. Look, okay, nothing. I'm trying to show him
Speaker 1: the difference between a motherfucker that's gonna be a multip
Speaker 1: millionaire and then god that don't know you. You already anticipation.
Speaker 1: Some people can't anticipate, so they have to wait. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tyree started setting up his own shooting drills. So even
Speaker 1: a few minutes it would take to put down cones
Speaker 1: isn't wasted. He wants every possible rep he can get.
Speaker 1: That's how intense his commitment to improving is. If you
Speaker 1: really wanted and this is what you said that you
Speaker 1: want to do, If you want to make to NBA
Speaker 1: or you want to make it or do whatever it is,
Speaker 1: all you gotta do is put the work in. You
Speaker 1: have to put the excessive amount of work in, and
Speaker 1: you gotta sacrifice. You gotta sacrifice. It's not it's not easy,
Speaker 1: but it can be done. No matter where he's from,
Speaker 1: it it can be done. It's no, it's not easy,
Speaker 1: but it definitely can be done. Nice just food person.
Speaker 1: So our goals every day for Tires is to make
Speaker 1: over two thousand shots. So if you look at two
Speaker 1: thousand times six, that's where twelve thousand shots a week
Speaker 1: over a five six month period. That's a lot of shots,
Speaker 1: and that's made shots. So it wasn't complex, it was
Speaker 1: super simple. This is where we have the correct let's
Speaker 1: put in the world. They're focusing on improving areas of
Speaker 1: his game that still need work, his shooting mechanics and
Speaker 1: a more consistent three point shot, and the only way
Speaker 1: to do that is with reps. Lots and lots of reps,
Speaker 1: right to shoots, best shooting in your drift. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: got it, stay word it. Just how much of a
Speaker 1: sacrifice Tyrese is talking about is something most non professional
Speaker 1: athletes don't understand. Forcing himself to make over three hundred
Speaker 1: thousand shots this summer, it's just the beginning. Here's Tyrese's mom, Denise,
Speaker 1: in their house in Garland, Texas, a suburb of Dallas
Speaker 1: known for its parks, wildflowers, and safe community and for
Speaker 1: being the hometown of p g A champion Lee Trevino
Speaker 1: and NBA All Star Mookie Blaylock. Denise paints a picture
Speaker 1: of what her son's childhood looked like. On most weekends,
Speaker 1: we're in a car together rotting to the game or
Speaker 1: to the tournament out of town, you know, a mom.
Speaker 1: So we're we're having a happy, go lucky time. But
Speaker 1: then dad, the driver is a coach, so he's like,
Speaker 1: it's not time to play, it's a time to get
Speaker 1: focused in. So we got an eight hour drive to
Speaker 1: wherever we're going, and I'm trying to make fun and
Speaker 1: the driver and he's pissed because we're laughing and playing.
Speaker 1: That was Tyres's dad, Tyrone, Maxie, You've got to lock in.
Speaker 1: It's how he was trying to get Tyres to intensely
Speaker 1: focus during these car rides. So that wasn't easy. So
Speaker 1: now you're in the car with the coach, hit it
Speaker 1: to your tournament, but also your dad. Then you gotta
Speaker 1: stay in the room with your dad, so you gotta
Speaker 1: watch film the whole time, while your teammates may be
Speaker 1: playing their games or at the pool or whatever they're doing.
Speaker 1: But no, you're in the room watching film and you know,
Speaker 1: getting ready for your opponent and breaking down, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever defense that person maybe bringing or whatever. And then
Speaker 1: you gotta go out and play the tournament with your dad,
Speaker 1: who's the coach get yelled at and do whatever else
Speaker 1: they do out there on the on the floor. They
Speaker 1: come back to them and they come back to the
Speaker 1: room and watch my film again. That's Tyres chiming in.
Speaker 1: And then you gotta go sleep mad because you ain't
Speaker 1: can do anything. You know, you don't have a normal life.
Speaker 1: It is absolutely the truth. It was the absolute truth
Speaker 1: almost every single weekend of our lives for the last
Speaker 1: ten years. Ten for the year that was our weekend.
Speaker 1: But you know, and I'll be like tired. Do you
Speaker 1: don't think he's been too hard on him? I called
Speaker 1: my husband tied, so tire, aren't you? Don't you think
Speaker 1: you're being too hard on him? You know he should
Speaker 1: be happy? And no, he needs to learn these things now.
Speaker 1: A Division one coach is going to demand these things
Speaker 1: of him, and he needs to The sooner he learns,
Speaker 1: and the more he will be prepared when he hits
Speaker 1: stepped forward for a Division one coach. And if he
Speaker 1: doesn't learn him now, and then he's not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to adjust. The coach is not gonna have time
Speaker 1: to teaching these things. So he needs to learn him now.
Speaker 1: Not grant. Chances are this is probably he was twelve
Speaker 1: thirteen years old, so we were six seventh eighth grade
Speaker 1: and he was learning, he was breaking and literally he
Speaker 1: started breaking down his own film at eight. So imagine
Speaker 1: being eight years old and you're sitting in the room
Speaker 1: with your dad breaking that film. Imagine that while your
Speaker 1: friends are either outside shoot hoops or to a plan
Speaker 1: to PlayStations, and you have very little time to play.
Speaker 1: So it was very difficult for for him. And I'm
Speaker 1: not just paying the band picture. My husband is an
Speaker 1: amazing guy, but it was on. What I want people
Speaker 1: to understand is that there was a lot. My husband
Speaker 1: put so much work into developing terriss On and off
Speaker 1: more skills to where it in some moments, I felt
Speaker 1: like he didn't have an opportunity to be just a
Speaker 1: normal kid. University of Kentucky head coach John Calipari, who
Speaker 1: recruited and then coached Tyreson college, speaks to the level
Speaker 1: of preparation Tyrone gave his son. It started with his father.
Speaker 1: Tyrone was a basketball coach. He ran the dribble drive
Speaker 1: stuff better than I did, and I'm the one that
Speaker 1: brought it into college basketball. His teams were better at
Speaker 1: running it, which meant Tyrese learned court spacing, running downhill,
Speaker 1: running the whole league is at now the spacing that
Speaker 1: you need, the ability to shoot threes. I mean his
Speaker 1: dad taught him. His dad was also the guy that
Speaker 1: would be in the gym with him if I thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning. I mean, that's who he is, so
Speaker 1: we knew getting him here what it would look like.
Speaker 1: Of course, it looks different depending on who sneakers. You're
Speaker 1: standing in from the outside looking at. If you you
Speaker 1: see someone's dad coaching them, you automatically think like they're
Speaker 1: gonna have their way. You know, the dad's not gonna
Speaker 1: be tough one. Then the dad's gonna let them do
Speaker 1: kind of whatever they want to do, which wasn't the
Speaker 1: case for me. It was like it was almost the
Speaker 1: exact opposite, Like he was the toughest on me. It
Speaker 1: was Tom's where in practice it would be like I
Speaker 1: know I was doing the right thing, and he was
Speaker 1: still like find a way to you know, get on me.
Speaker 1: And it was like, which is which is cool? Because
Speaker 1: I understood he always he always found the way, even
Speaker 1: if I had, like he said, a good game, forceps whatever,
Speaker 1: he always found a way to be able to to
Speaker 1: umble me and make me stay hungry and made me
Speaker 1: want to be great. And that's one thing I really
Speaker 1: appreciate it for him. But no, it was not easy.
Speaker 1: Tyrone was tough, hyper competitive, and determined to succeed. Tyrese
Speaker 1: immediately spotted those qualities in another famous player. I think
Speaker 1: my dad really modeled his game at Isaiah Thomas. But
Speaker 1: in my opinion, the film that I watched him him
Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas were identical. The toughness that Isaiah brought to
Speaker 1: that team and just to his personality. I see there
Speaker 1: my dad. He acts the same way he and my
Speaker 1: and I don't see my dad. It's not the biggest
Speaker 1: Isaiah Faan just because he loves Jordan's. But it's funny
Speaker 1: because I was I was telling my mom when you know,
Speaker 1: I was one time I was able to talk to
Speaker 1: the great Isaiah Thomas and I was like, Mom, they're
Speaker 1: the same like, they act the same way. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. That's probably why he's so competitive, and you
Speaker 1: know it doesn't care for him as much as he
Speaker 1: should because they're the same, they're the same way, the
Speaker 1: same person. He's a small guy. He's five nine, so
Speaker 1: you know, it's not easy for him to be, you know,
Speaker 1: Division one basketball player, but he worked extremely hard and
Speaker 1: and became talented and what he did and perfected his
Speaker 1: craft to where he got scholarship. He wants scholarship to
Speaker 1: play at Washingtonate University. Tyrone averaged about five points a
Speaker 1: game for Washington State under coach Kelvin Sampson, which was
Speaker 1: as far as his size and physical ability could take
Speaker 1: him as a player. And after that, he wanted to
Speaker 1: become a coach, and he studied the game and and
Speaker 1: just became a student of the game and really perfected
Speaker 1: his craft and coaching and became one of the best
Speaker 1: coaches in the Dallas area. And I think he passed
Speaker 1: all that knowledge that he knew down to myself. So
Speaker 1: when I told him everything, I know he's gonna be
Speaker 1: better than me. I admit that that's Tyrone again, with
Speaker 1: Denise and Tyrese still in the room. So it's just funny.
Speaker 1: My dad said that, and all my friends t the
Speaker 1: same thing. He better you here. Now, I give him
Speaker 1: that he got it. Oh wow, I can't believe you
Speaker 1: said that. Hey, and fifty years old, fifty you got me?
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, but uh, but yeah, for so many years,
Speaker 1: yet he will never beat me, admitting he's soon to
Speaker 1: be first round NBA pick. Son is better than he is.
Speaker 1: Did not come easy because the fiercely ambitious nature he
Speaker 1: has doesn't go away, and now it's instilled in his son.
Speaker 1: So even at age fifty, there are no easy baskets
Speaker 1: in the Maxi household. Ever, Well, first got back and
Speaker 1: we worked worked out a little bit, and I was
Speaker 1: just messing with him, man, like, I don't know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying something to him, and he started talking smack
Speaker 1: or whatever. I said, what don't they ever talk to
Speaker 1: me like Heather again, don't do that. But he started
Speaker 1: talking to Nords. But my, y'all South Dallas just that
Speaker 1: other yet that that side data stuff ain't gonna work
Speaker 1: this that other. But you know that's all. We both men,
Speaker 1: we both have test assom so you know, it never
Speaker 1: get to that point. I mean, you know I love him. Uh,
Speaker 1: we both with both of a screen and screenly competitive
Speaker 1: we are we are we. I mean we go round
Speaker 1: around about basketball, different players and who we like to said,
Speaker 1: who's you know, who's the goat, who's not the goat?
Speaker 1: So yeah, well, I mean that's what that's what we do.
Speaker 1: Here's Uncle Brandon under dynamic and that particular on the
Speaker 1: court batch up his dad, like his dad was trying
Speaker 1: to lock up on him, and and Reese is kind
Speaker 1: of like a little boy and him like, you know,
Speaker 1: it was funny. They got super intense and I was
Speaker 1: just sitting back like, okay, alright, cool, but it was
Speaker 1: it was it was hilarious. Man. After we when we
Speaker 1: got in the car, we left and joked about it.
Speaker 1: They played just the like, I mean, the same thing.
Speaker 1: His dad is the same way defense shoot the ball,
Speaker 1: uh point guard. They played the exact same way. He's
Speaker 1: just holler competitive, same way. He's been like that forever.
Speaker 1: He's been coaching his whole life. I think it's only
Speaker 1: one time and I think that was his junior year
Speaker 1: where his dad didn't coach him. And whether it's been peewee,
Speaker 1: little league, direct league, hey, you select ball, whatever you
Speaker 1: you name it, he's coached him even I think he
Speaker 1: played baseball at one time and his dad was the coach.
Speaker 1: Everything is a coaching moment, Like everything is a coaching
Speaker 1: propoment in that house. And it's like you know sometimes
Speaker 1: and that's why I come in that you know, sometimes uh,
Speaker 1: he just wants to just maybe just talk, and they
Speaker 1: don't want to always be like, all right, you tell
Speaker 1: me this, then I'm gonna I'm gonna talk to you
Speaker 1: in a coaching manner. It's like you just sometimes you
Speaker 1: just want to talk. You just want to talk. You
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. His dad, you know, it wasn't
Speaker 1: always like that, but it was like you could tell us.
Speaker 1: Hard for him to turn it on and off. Maybe
Speaker 1: Tyrone couldn't turn off the switch because of his personality,
Speaker 1: or it's because some of his own dreams are being
Speaker 1: manifested through his son. We'll be right back. Tyrese's dad,
Speaker 1: Tyrone Maxie. I played the Vision one basketball for coach Sampson,
Speaker 1: so I knew the demand of order to so I
Speaker 1: coached all my kids that way. I'm gonna demand this
Speaker 1: from you because no going to the next level, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be the demand. Nobody likes to look at them
Speaker 1: and to be corrected, nobody, and so I guess that
Speaker 1: was tough for him. I would bring him into the
Speaker 1: room when Jordan was playing. I said, look at this man,
Speaker 1: look at Jordan's This is how you want to be great.
Speaker 1: Look at the things he's doing on the court. And
Speaker 1: so if anybody was playing Kyle, anybody that moved at
Speaker 1: the idea said look at this move, try this or whatever.
Speaker 1: And so this being his dad and being a basketball
Speaker 1: guy and him being a bad asked by a guy
Speaker 1: by basketball guy, it was great, man, it was great.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm assuming now he feels like it was
Speaker 1: all benefited him. And that's all I wanted to ever
Speaker 1: wanted to do, to be the best dad, best coach,
Speaker 1: best asset for him, you know, trying to fulfill his dreams.
Speaker 1: That's what everyone in the family does on some level.
Speaker 1: In a way Tyrese's success. It's like the family business,
Speaker 1: which could be a lot of pressure for someone about
Speaker 1: to turn twenty years old, serious expectations from dad and
Speaker 1: mom my, Mom. She she is, she is who she is.
Speaker 1: I mean, she worked and earned everything and all the
Speaker 1: tiles that she has. She didn't finish college and she
Speaker 1: worked extremely hard to where she is and she just
Speaker 1: worked and build a foundation for our family that she's
Speaker 1: not gonna let anybody slack off. She never slacked off,
Speaker 1: so why why should she let us? And she doesn't
Speaker 1: get the craze that she deserves what she does for
Speaker 1: this family, but she doesn't want the crash. She's behind
Speaker 1: the scenes and and she's she's rock solid, even one thousand,
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty two miles away. Denise plays a
Speaker 1: major role in Tyrese's life. A self proclaimed mama's boy,
Speaker 1: he calls her every single day to check in. We're
Speaker 1: gonna be home Monday. Perfect? What here? Okay? Tyrese's grandparents
Speaker 1: and even his extended family have also all worked in
Speaker 1: the family business in the house that I'm in now.
Speaker 1: Both my grandmother's, my grandfather who before he passed away,
Speaker 1: lived there, my uncle you know, his kids have been there,
Speaker 1: have lived there at a time, my sister, both of
Speaker 1: my author and my sisters have lived there before. And
Speaker 1: my oldest sister has you know, a set of twin daughters,
Speaker 1: so my you know, my nieces, twin nieces, they lived
Speaker 1: there at the same time. And my both my parents
Speaker 1: and myself, so all of us lived in this one house.
Speaker 1: Like if you can, it's hard to imagine that my
Speaker 1: oldest isn who have to sacrifice so much just because
Speaker 1: you know, a you had to travel and do different
Speaker 1: things like that, you know. Sadly, I take up so
Speaker 1: much time for my parents, just because you know the
Speaker 1: schedule that I've had over the years. Here's coach John
Speaker 1: Calipari again on his recruiting trip to the Maxi household.
Speaker 1: When I went into the home, he made sure everyone
Speaker 1: was there, including the grandmother. He wanted his grandmother to
Speaker 1: sign off on me. Think about that, Think about the
Speaker 1: kind of person this kid is. They walked me up
Speaker 1: to his bedroom in ninth grade. He had a picture
Speaker 1: he drew of himself in a Kentucky uniform. You don't
Speaker 1: want this guy. Absolutely I wanted the guy. And after
Speaker 1: a year of coaching Tyres, it was up to coach
Speaker 1: Kyl to help him decide whether or not to take
Speaker 1: the next step. NBA stands for no boys allowed. If
Speaker 1: you're not a man, you don't leave. If you're a
Speaker 1: child and how you're immature, you won't last there. They're adults.
Speaker 1: They look at you like, what do you fourteen? You
Speaker 1: have to be a man. You have to be ready
Speaker 1: to bet on yourself. That's what you're doing. You're betting
Speaker 1: on you. You know you You tell these kids right now,
Speaker 1: there are thirty teams, So let's just say there's four
Speaker 1: hundred jobs. Well, there's not four hundred jobs because there's
Speaker 1: not four guys leaving the NBA. You know there there's
Speaker 1: probably sixty jobs. That's it. Then next year they'll be sixty.
Speaker 1: Sometimes there's forty, sometimes they're a hundred. To rest them,
Speaker 1: you're in the G league, trying to fight. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to make it so you when you go, you need
Speaker 1: to be ready now. Tyrese is ready, ready for NBA
Speaker 1: Commissioner Adam Silver to announce his name on national television,
Speaker 1: Ready to prove to everyone how much he wants it
Speaker 1: and maybe more than anyone else in this traft. He
Speaker 1: knows what it takes. It doesn't matter where you're from,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. You know who you play for, None
Speaker 1: of that matters. If you if you work extremely hard
Speaker 1: and you do, you know, it can be done. It
Speaker 1: can be done. It's not it's not easy. It's not easy.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have the sacrifice. You're gonna miss birthday parties,
Speaker 1: you're gonna miss, You're gonna lose friends, you're gonna you're
Speaker 1: not gonna build to, you know, hang out with everybody.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to. You're not gonna be build up,
Speaker 1: go to every party or do you know certain different
Speaker 1: things or co certain different things that you want to
Speaker 1: post on social media. It's sacrifice. Next are drafted. I'm
Speaker 1: watching this kid and he's just going through drills, real smooth.
Speaker 1: He said. His name is Anthony Edwards. He told me
Speaker 1: when he was in the tenth grade, I believe he
Speaker 1: could be a Lebron James Typitanic I felt like Georgia
Speaker 1: with the best I did for and so I just
Speaker 1: felt like that was the right thing to do. My
Speaker 1: goal always as a coach is not for somebody to
Speaker 1: get drafted. My goal is for them to be ready
Speaker 1: to play, because NBA ready is completely different. I want
Speaker 1: to be a part of that legacy, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to be a part of legacy like that was. I
Speaker 1: had my mind made up in the eighth grade. When
Speaker 1: this thing ended. Some of the guys who were a
Speaker 1: little more outgoing than others, I think some of them
Speaker 1: were just stunned, like stunned, like what in the world.
Speaker 1: So coach cal turns to me and said, you're not playing.
Speaker 1: Here's a matter of fact, he tells. He tells, you
Speaker 1: know the other guys on our team that don't get
Speaker 1: ready to play? For hy Men because he's he's not
Speaker 1: ready to play. I was like devastated. Given COVID things
Speaker 1: were going to be different, so we were tinkering with
Speaker 1: the idea of pro day. He pushed me so hard
Speaker 1: that nothing can phase me. Now. Drafted as a production
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Speaker 1: The executive producers are Kelly Garner, Lisa Ammerman, Eric's A
Speaker 1: Lott sewn to Tone l Kie and me Keegan Michael Key.
Speaker 1: The series is produced and written by Eric Weiner. Jared
Speaker 1: Bram is our coordinating producer. Trey McCain is our associate producer.
Speaker 1: Tom Monaghan is our senior audio engineer. Mixed and edited
Speaker 1: by Steven Johnson and Jasper Leek, additional production help from
Speaker 1: Tim Shower, June Rosen, and Hailey Mandelberg. For transcripts of
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