Speaker 1: Here he is Aj Devanta with us now and his
Speaker 1: father A Nise Thank you both so much for being
Speaker 1: here with us AJ big moment.
Speaker 2: We so appreciate you. So where are you headed? I'll
Speaker 2: be coming in too, University.
Speaker 1: Bring him Young b Yu.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cougars, go Coogs.
Speaker 3: There you have it, the number one high school player
Speaker 3: in the nation, announcing on ESPN's first take earlier today
Speaker 3: that he is indeed going to be Yu next season
Speaker 3: and I am lucky to have him and his dad
Speaker 3: a Nie Debondza Senior and of course aj as In Junior.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on your decision. What's going on? Big time? How
Speaker 1: are you?
Speaker 4: I appreciate y'all blessing me with your presence for this interview.
Speaker 4: Just to remind the audience here, y b Yu.
Speaker 5: Like I said our first take, you know and staff
Speaker 5: all the way down to the dietician, strength, coach, analytics,
Speaker 5: die and my ultimate goals to go to the NBA.
Speaker 5: So why not surround myself a year earlier.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna call you Pops because you and I had
Speaker 4: the pleasure of meeting each other a few weeks ago
Speaker 4: and it's a pleasure to get to know you and
Speaker 4: what have you and obviously you're you're the You're the
Speaker 4: man that gods this young man whatever he's You're You're
Speaker 4: a proud daddy here. When he says they've got an
Speaker 4: NBA squad in terms of the coaching staff and what
Speaker 4: have you, who did their homework on that, I'm assuming
Speaker 4: it's you?
Speaker 1: And how do you know.
Speaker 4: That BYU has what it takes to counsel and tutor
Speaker 4: your son and ultimately elevate him to the next level.
Speaker 6: My wife and I went to approval by in April.
Speaker 6: That was during the playoffs. Kevin Young flew from Phoenix,
Speaker 6: Arizona to come and say hello to us. He kind
Speaker 6: of laid out what he wanted to do, so we
Speaker 6: listened and then he continued to have a conversation with us,
Speaker 6: introduced us to the staff. Just like I just said,
Speaker 6: everything was NBA. I'm like, okay, pay attention to that,
Speaker 6: but I continue to do my recruiting. Pay attention to Alabama,
Speaker 6: North Carolina, Kansas, kandasy at the time, and at the end,
Speaker 6: that was his decision, and you supported him.
Speaker 4: Now, when you're a kid, because you still are a kid.
Speaker 4: You're a young man, but you're a kid, and we
Speaker 4: say that affectionately. You know, when people think about a
Speaker 4: school that they want to go to, and you saw
Speaker 4: Afford schools there in North Carolina, Alabama, you know, you
Speaker 4: know obviously b YU in Kansas. When you sometimes you're
Speaker 4: looking at other things, You're looking at the environment, You're
Speaker 4: looking at how much you're going to enjoy the college experience,
Speaker 4: et cetera, et cetera. I thought, I said, he's gonna
Speaker 4: go to North Carolina because I was thinking North Carolina,
Speaker 4: Duke acc big time college basketball rivalry, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 4: Talk about how much consideration you really gave those other
Speaker 4: schools and what is it that b why you had
Speaker 4: that the others in it.
Speaker 5: I mean, all my visits were good, all of them.
Speaker 5: For visits were amazing visits. Like after every visit, I
Speaker 5: wanted to go to the school, that's how good the
Speaker 5: visit was. But I mean I really sat down with
Speaker 5: my parents and was like, alright, what do we want
Speaker 5: of it? And how ultimate goals to the NBA. We
Speaker 5: sat down pros and Constant beat school. Obviously BAU had
Speaker 5: some colls, but they're pros just overweighted all the.
Speaker 2: Times M and then that's you know ultimately why we
Speaker 2: chose to.
Speaker 4: Right, when you think about college basketball in this day
Speaker 4: and age, what.
Speaker 1: Do you see?
Speaker 2: I say, competitiveness.
Speaker 5: I think college games are more competitive than the league
Speaker 5: regular season.
Speaker 2: So that's like the biggest tageway that.
Speaker 4: Their more college basketball is more competitive during the regular season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So when we.
Speaker 4: Look at college basketball in America right now, and I'll
Speaker 4: throw this question to both of you, you first.
Speaker 1: And then and then and then and then.
Speaker 4: Pops, when we look at college basketball right now, clearly
Speaker 4: there's a competitiveness. The games matter. Nothing's like March Madness.
Speaker 4: College basketball owns the month of more watch. Nobody tries
Speaker 4: to compete with March Madness. And we get that part.
Speaker 4: But there's still people that look at college basketball in
Speaker 4: this day and age. They see the G League, they
Speaker 4: see competition over in Europe, they see all of these
Speaker 4: different things, and they say, college basketball is it what
Speaker 4: it used to be?
Speaker 1: Do you feel that way or do you just watch.
Speaker 4: It and find yourself loving it and gravitating to.
Speaker 1: It more and more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I just watch it and just love it.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's less.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's still college basketball, right, Like you said,
Speaker 5: it's still March Madness. People don't compete at March Madness, right, what.
Speaker 1: About you, pops.
Speaker 6: Those kids are hungry. They're trying to get to the
Speaker 6: next level. They have to compete, you know, even though
Speaker 6: there's only four hundred fifty players in the league. They're hungry.
Speaker 6: They want to compete. You know, we watch Mark Mavis,
Speaker 6: we go to the games. You know, we really love it.
Speaker 6: He wanted to go to college. He may not clear
Speaker 6: his mother. Yep, he made that clear.
Speaker 4: And what were the kind of things he would say
Speaker 4: to you about going to college.
Speaker 6: I wanna go to college people, because at the time
Speaker 6: they were talking about the G League, we were talking
Speaker 6: about Europe. He total these Mama, I'm going to college
Speaker 6: one and done.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: I gotta get back to you because when I look
Speaker 4: at college basketball, we've seen superstars like back in the
Speaker 4: days with Lebron James, Kobe Bryant and others, uh, Kevin
Speaker 4: Gardnet to a lesser degree, man On Neil, etc.
Speaker 1: People that went straight from high school to the pros.
Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously the rules changed and mandates you gotta be
Speaker 4: nineteen years of age or.
Speaker 1: One year in college, et cetera. Et cetera. Before you
Speaker 1: move on.
Speaker 4: When you think about your game and you fantasize about
Speaker 4: what you're going to do on the next level, tell
Speaker 4: our audience about your game. The kind of game you
Speaker 4: think you bring to the table.
Speaker 2: Uh, just all around game.
Speaker 5: I mean passing, scoring, rebounding, defense. Obviously I can improve
Speaker 5: on a lot, but you know, I think I can
Speaker 5: run a lot to the table. If I'm having an
Speaker 5: off scoring night, I'm a defend I'm having a off
Speaker 5: defensive night, I'm a score like this, stuff like that,
Speaker 5: Just doing a lot of stuff that you know impacts winning.
Speaker 4: Now, you were talking to me about your defensive prowess.
Speaker 4: What is it that you love about you yourself as
Speaker 4: a defender.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just take pride in defense.
Speaker 5: I don't like getting scored on a lot, So I
Speaker 5: mean I just like locking up other defenders Like I
Speaker 5: watched defensive film.
Speaker 1: MM. Really yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay, have you ever found yourself on a basketball court
Speaker 4: where somebody was getting the better U offensive leader?
Speaker 1: They were scoring too much on you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What was that like?
Speaker 2: Good day?
Speaker 1: Mm?
Speaker 2: Good offense to day.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm I'm guarding the best player in the
Speaker 5: other team, So I'm gonna get scored on. I know
Speaker 5: I'm gonna get scored on, but I mean, I'm just
Speaker 5: trying to limit field goal percentage, make them take harder
Speaker 5: shots that I don't wanna take. M I mean, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna get scored on those basketball but gets going on.
Speaker 1: I wanna get to you, Pops in this regard.
Speaker 4: When we see players in this day and age, and
Speaker 4: a lot of times we just see their talent. We
Speaker 4: don't see their discipline. And the conversations that you and
Speaker 4: I had. You've talked a lot about your son, the
Speaker 4: responsibility that he has to be all he can be.
Speaker 4: What was it like raising him?
Speaker 6: What's easy? I'm from Africa, Okay, you know one way?
Speaker 1: Okay, tough love.
Speaker 6: You know what is gonna be? My son? He may
Speaker 6: be number one in the country. He's number four in.
Speaker 1: My house, number four. Who's one, two or three?
Speaker 6: I'm the one. My wife is number two, Samara's number three,
Speaker 6: Aged is number four, and Jasmin's number five.
Speaker 1: Got you got the order?
Speaker 6: He does it, dishes when he comes home, he clean
Speaker 6: his house, he does everything he's supposed to do. He's
Speaker 6: still my son.
Speaker 1: And that's always been the case.
Speaker 4: Has there been any because America can be tempted America sometimes.
Speaker 4: One of the things that we lament is that America
Speaker 4: it can influence the young minds and get them to deviate.
Speaker 1: From what they're supposed to do. Have you ever had
Speaker 1: those challenges with Junior?
Speaker 6: His mother from Jamaica. They don't mess around.
Speaker 4: So in other words, got you from Africa, got mom
Speaker 4: from Jamaica, and he didn't have any rights.
Speaker 1: Well, so you you let him know? Is that true?
Speaker 2: I don't cause no problem?
Speaker 1: But and why is that? How come you didn't cause
Speaker 1: any problem? Give it to us straight.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were just disciplined at home, me and my sisters,
Speaker 5: so we just know right from wrong.
Speaker 4: Right, and you know right from wrong. But that doesn't
Speaker 4: mean you won't try to get away from anything. When
Speaker 4: you're a kid, kids always try their parents stop you
Speaker 4: know that?
Speaker 2: Nah?
Speaker 5: I kind of did try it. I kind of did
Speaker 5: try it, and I got basketball taken away for.
Speaker 2: Like a month.
Speaker 1: Really, how old were you?
Speaker 2: Like sixth grade?
Speaker 1: Six?
Speaker 5: I was like sixth grade playing on my eighth grade team.
Speaker 5: I thought it was nice. Nah, a month off suspended
Speaker 5: his choice.
Speaker 4: Because you thought because you thought you was nice, that
Speaker 4: you had a nice game.
Speaker 2: Nah, I was going around in school grades. Wasn't a's
Speaker 2: and b's month off.
Speaker 4: So you gave him a month off from basketball? Is
Speaker 4: that because you knew that's how much he loved it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so you took away because we were the parental guidance here.
Speaker 4: We want strategies, right, So in other words, you found
Speaker 4: the thing that he loved the most and you took
Speaker 4: it away from him for a full month.
Speaker 6: He didn't like before, Oskin, he never loved basketball.
Speaker 2: You gotta start somewhere.
Speaker 6: I have to force his out right.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: So when you think about that now and you think
Speaker 4: about the culture that exists in the NBA today, because everybody,
Speaker 4: by all accounts, they say that's where you're going. You're
Speaker 4: going to be one and done. They think that you're
Speaker 4: you know, clearly you're the number one player in the nation.
Speaker 4: Obviously there's competition out there. You got this Cat Peterson
Speaker 4: that you just went up against. You got the Booze
Speaker 4: of twins, particularly one boos. Both of them are going
Speaker 4: to Duke. You've played against them on several occasions as well.
Speaker 4: People are looking at you and they say it's a
Speaker 4: given health obviously, being you know, paramount as long as
Speaker 4: you're healthy, You're definitely going to be one of the
Speaker 4: top picks in the twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Six NBA draft.
Speaker 4: That's how everybody is looking at you. When you think
Speaker 4: about it from that standpoint, My question that you would
Speaker 4: be the world that we live in, the NBA, all
Speaker 4: the distractions that come along with it. How prepared are
Speaker 4: you for those challenges and why?
Speaker 2: I mean I'm prepared.
Speaker 5: I mean as a kid, I was still you know,
Speaker 5: challenge with like distracts and all that. But I have
Speaker 5: my mom my dad just want me just telling me
Speaker 5: to write things, and I think I just still continue that,
Speaker 5: like the levels I know up.
Speaker 1: Do you have two parents that will challenge you.
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about your game here, I'm talking about
Speaker 4: your characters.
Speaker 1: You continue to get older and you're.
Speaker 4: Mature and what have you that'll keep a watchful eye
Speaker 4: and always remind you of the responsibility that you have
Speaker 4: to yourself, your family and beyond. Talk about that for
Speaker 4: a second, and what your parents have meant to you
Speaker 4: and what you anticipate they will mean to you moving forward.
Speaker 5: I mean just from a young age, just discipline at
Speaker 5: all levels. Like he said, discipline starts home. So that's
Speaker 5: why I say thank you to every What did I
Speaker 5: go by? That's why, you know, I opened the door.
Speaker 5: Like I just got taught from a young age. And
Speaker 5: even my sisters, you know, didn't learn manners. They just
Speaker 5: we just been growing up a different way. Cause Africa Jamaican,
Speaker 5: two different cultures.
Speaker 2: African. Yes, that's right. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Talk about the path that you've taken because obviously him
Speaker 4: working in Boston, you ultimately moving on to Utah to
Speaker 4: go to to go to school out there. Speak about
Speaker 4: the movement that you've had to experience and how beneficial
Speaker 4: that has been for you.
Speaker 2: I mean it was good.
Speaker 5: I mean Boston noney wrong with Boston, but competition wise,
Speaker 5: I think I needed a.
Speaker 2: Little bit more challenge.
Speaker 5: So I moved out to uh California, played with prolific
Speaker 5: prep national schedule.
Speaker 2: That's what we really got tested.
Speaker 5: Uh We lost first round of Japole Nationals, then made
Speaker 5: a decision to go to Utah play another national schedule,
Speaker 5: still getting tested. So I mean it was just you know,
Speaker 5: testing myself early before I get to college.
Speaker 1: So it's not even new Pops, how does he handle losing?
Speaker 1: Not good? He doesn't like to lose.
Speaker 6: By tell him all the time, fix it. It's not simple.
Speaker 4: And when you say fix it, what does that mean?
Speaker 4: Because sometimes it could be the people around you, it
Speaker 4: might not be you. But you seem like the kind
Speaker 4: of father that says, nah, I'm not gonna go that
Speaker 4: route because that'll be an excuse. So I'm gonna blame
Speaker 4: you even when it ate your fault. So you you
Speaker 4: will embrace that responsibility.
Speaker 1: You seem to be that kind of guy always.
Speaker 6: You know, I tell him all the time, stop with you?
Speaker 6: You got to lead? Say he has none rebound? Wasn't
Speaker 6: you get ten? I always want more?
Speaker 1: Yep, define your definition of a great leader.
Speaker 6: Sir, uh leave example. You know he's not a top
Speaker 6: of getting your faced type of guy. That's not him.
Speaker 6: I wish you was sometimes, you know, but lead by example.
Speaker 6: You know, Aja, you're a great defender. You got to rebound.
Speaker 6: You know he birdwatch all the time. No, I shouldn't
Speaker 6: tell all the time. Sometimes I met the dream a
Speaker 6: couple of months ago. Olage, Okay, my second favorite player
Speaker 6: of all time?
Speaker 1: Mine second? Mine? Who's first?
Speaker 2: MG?
Speaker 1: Okay, just one next show? Okay, go ahead, see let's
Speaker 1: see you there right there. We're going, keep going. MJ
Speaker 1: not Lebron, Michael Jeorge.
Speaker 6: I didn't mention his name, Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Alright, So
Speaker 6: I met one. I mentioned his name, didn't know who
Speaker 6: he was.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 6: I introduced him to LA one. He said, I'm gonna
Speaker 6: watch him play. Watch him play one half. He went home,
Speaker 6: came back the next day, looked me up. Where's your son?
Speaker 6: Hold on, hey, Jay, get over here. He got here.
Speaker 6: Dream talked to him for twelve minutes. The first thing
Speaker 6: he said, your bird watched too much. Swear to God.
Speaker 1: And by bird watching, he meant, what just spectating? Now
Speaker 1: he doesn't rebound?
Speaker 6: Wow, yep, he's seeing you bird watch too much. You
Speaker 6: such a good athlete. You great and in transition, grab
Speaker 6: the rebound and go. No one can stop you.
Speaker 4: So hakeem the dream a Lodge one one of the
Speaker 4: greatest centers, a two time NBA champion, although he won
Speaker 4: both years with Michael Jordan retired. He I'm just giving facts.
Speaker 1: I think Michael Jordan would have beat him, But the
Speaker 1: point is that he won one championship. When Michael Jordan retired.
Speaker 4: The second year, Michael Jordan came back with seventeen games
Speaker 4: left in the regular season, lost in the playoffs to
Speaker 4: Orlando and ultimately he beat.
Speaker 1: Them as well.
Speaker 4: My question to you is when a keme the dream
Speaker 4: a Lodge one, you realized who he was and he
Speaker 4: was talking to you, what was that like?
Speaker 5: I mean it was just you always gotta take advice
Speaker 5: from the greats. I mean they've been there, done that.
Speaker 5: So whatever he's saying, you better listen and apply.
Speaker 1: So, how has your rebounding improved since that conversation?
Speaker 2: Game?
Speaker 1: And what was it before that?
Speaker 2: Like five?
Speaker 4: So you averaged six more rebounds a game after your
Speaker 4: conversation with the King of the Dream of Lodge One?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Any other players you've been speaking to.
Speaker 5: I have a pretty good relationship with Kevin Durant, Okay,
Speaker 5: Paul George, Uh, Paula, Ben Carroll, Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown,
Speaker 5: Celtics guys, spoke to Lebron Ones ZB three, a lot
Speaker 5: of guys trying to get connection.
Speaker 1: And Kevin Durant is your favorite player?
Speaker 5: Why certified bucket simplicity.
Speaker 4: And Okay, do you think that somebody your game will
Speaker 4: be modeled after?
Speaker 5: I don't think I'm modeled my game after him, but
Speaker 5: I do take a lot of these things.
Speaker 2: That's why I shoot the middle ay so much.
Speaker 4: By the way, getting back to that conversation with your dad. Uh,
Speaker 4: you heard what he said about Michael Jordan, right, is.
Speaker 1: That your belief? That is my belief that what say it?
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan is the best player of all time?
Speaker 1: And why do you come to that inclusion? Is it
Speaker 1: because your pop said so? Now? It was what you watch?
Speaker 5: We used to argue. Then I watched the last dance
Speaker 5: changed my home mind. Why if you watched the last dance,
Speaker 5: you know why? Like he's just crazy, Like I never
Speaker 5: I wasn't alive to watch him. So I was like Lebron, Lebron, Lebron,
Speaker 5: now Lebron's second.
Speaker 2: In my opinion.
Speaker 1: Same here, same here.
Speaker 5: But I just watched six and like the two three peats,
Speaker 5: this crazy.
Speaker 4: Two to three peats, six championships, six NBA finals, MVPs,
Speaker 4: ten times scoring champions, nine time All NBA First Team
Speaker 4: defensive player.
Speaker 1: That is the goal, Just so.
Speaker 6: We nest somebody else. Michael Jordan, would you have won
Speaker 6: eight in a row? You know what was his answer?
Speaker 6: What I don't know about to beg African?
Speaker 1: Excuse me? You heard what I said? He doesn't know
Speaker 1: about the big Afage.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so another word, he's not sure for what I
Speaker 6: want eating the role because of Akima.
Speaker 1: Well, I agree with that, it's not a certainty.
Speaker 4: I don't think. I think a Keem of Dream was phenomenal.
Speaker 4: But when I look and listen Kenny Smith, his son
Speaker 4: kJ y'all.
Speaker 1: Know very very well.
Speaker 4: I got a lot of love for the JET. I
Speaker 4: remember Robert Oriy on those squads. I remember Oldess Thorpe,
Speaker 4: the whole bit. What I'm thinking about is the three
Speaker 4: headed monster at the Big Man Spot that they had.
Speaker 1: In terms of the Luke Longley's of the.
Speaker 4: World and stuff like that, not to mention the Tony
Speaker 4: kok coaches, the Dennis Robins.
Speaker 1: I think the collection.
Speaker 4: Of individuals Scottie Pippen, one of the elite defenders the
Speaker 4: game has ever seen the combination. They could sit up
Speaker 4: there and pressure you ninety four feet that could really
Speaker 4: derail you. I don't see that level of defense in
Speaker 4: the NBA to day. When you look at defenders in
Speaker 4: the NBA tod day and the way that they defend,
Speaker 4: how do you think you'll feel against them?
Speaker 2: What you mean like, how my offensive?
Speaker 4: Yes, what you bring to the game offensively compared to
Speaker 4: what this show when you in the NBA to day,
Speaker 4: what do you see now?
Speaker 5: Since I watched defensive clips, I know defensive tendencies and
Speaker 5: I'm gonna defending myself, so I know defensive tendencies. So
Speaker 5: that's why I think I will be able to break
Speaker 5: it down a little bit more. Now, if you do
Speaker 5: decide to pressure me and double team and helpside, you're
Speaker 5: leaving two of my shooters open.
Speaker 2: Don't let me.
Speaker 5: Get tennisist because then they'll start getting hot and you'll
Speaker 5: lose a game.
Speaker 4: But you're assuming you're gonna be playing with shooters everybody.
Speaker 1: You're not everybody in the NBA.
Speaker 2: That is not true.
Speaker 1: AJ, that is not true. Everybody in the NBA cannot shoot.
Speaker 1: I can get the boys.
Speaker 2: If I knew a whole bunch of biggs.
Speaker 4: I mean I don't. I just don't want to throw
Speaker 4: anybody on front Street. I can name a whole bunch
Speaker 4: of people that are not bigs that can't shoot.
Speaker 2: Right after the show, Okay, we can do that.
Speaker 1: We do that after the show, because I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: put it on camera.
Speaker 4: Look, man, before I let you get on out of here,
Speaker 4: I just want you to speak to what this whole
Speaker 4: process has meant you as a young man, being in
Speaker 4: a position where you're on national television announcement to the world,
Speaker 4: where you're going to go with everybody interested in it
Speaker 4: because you're that guy. What is this whole process meant
Speaker 4: to you? And what have you learned from it?
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just a blessing. But it's only one
Speaker 5: step closer. I mean I told my dad it's a
Speaker 5: three step process. This is only step one. The draft three,
Speaker 5: Step two in the Hall of Fame speaches step three.
Speaker 1: And the Hall of Fame sweaches at three.
Speaker 4: If I may say, respectfully, I think you missed the
Speaker 4: stat what's that step? How about a final four appearance
Speaker 4: for BYU? Yeah, you're going to play there? Yeah, or
Speaker 4: competing for national chimpiship. That's the NCAA tournament births a
Speaker 4: final four appearance. You ain't just bot passing byus.
Speaker 5: And that means there'll be more step than than that
Speaker 5: would be Rookie of the Year, first All Star okay,
Speaker 5: Defensive Team Okay, there'll be more steps.
Speaker 2: But the Olympic Olympics twenty twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty eight Olympics. Really, I didn't even think about
Speaker 1: that one.
Speaker 4: I'm still salty about that because I don't like the
Speaker 4: fact that Steve kurb bent to my man Jason Tatum
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 1: That that really bothered me. That really boughs.
Speaker 4: He's too great to not find a spot for a
Speaker 4: few minutes for one of the great players in the NBA.
Speaker 1: That's just me, But I digress. Twenty twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 4: I think the coach will be either Eric Sposter or Tyler.
Speaker 4: One of the two is gonna be coaching that team.
Speaker 4: But there's a lot of people that's ahead.
Speaker 1: Of you for twenty twenty eight. Yeah, you're gonna buy
Speaker 1: pass those folks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Cooper Flag is somebody that's in college basketball right now,
Speaker 4: or Duke everybody's been talking about him. How do you
Speaker 4: feel about his game and head compares to yours?
Speaker 5: So you known each other since seventh grade from New
Speaker 5: England from me and so I mean I support his game.
Speaker 5: I always respected this game. We've been playing terms each other.
Speaker 5: So I mean he gonna be great.
Speaker 1: You think he's gonna play, You think he's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: I like him.
Speaker 2: I watched the skill set plays the right way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and for me, personally, I don't want to use
Speaker 4: the word pressure. You're gonna have pressure anyway that's gonna
Speaker 4: be on you, which I'm sure you'll embrace problem. But
Speaker 4: when we look at him and then we look at
Speaker 4: you as the number one guy, we're saying, wait a minute, now,
Speaker 4: what's up?
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to answer that call? You prepare for that. Yeah, because.
Speaker 2: I'm my own player, like you can compare me who
Speaker 2: you want? We two different.
Speaker 4: Players, right, I got you? Okay, First take your father
Speaker 4: made it clear. College is one and done, and there
Speaker 4: are two NBA teams you're most interested in. You said
Speaker 4: it yourself, the Orlando Magic and the San Antonio spurg
Speaker 4: Shock the living hell out of me.
Speaker 1: You pick those two teams? I ain't. I mean, I
Speaker 1: just did it.
Speaker 2: What did you think me?
Speaker 1: Personally?
Speaker 4: I was thinking you were gonna say somebody like Golden
Speaker 4: stayed in Boston.
Speaker 5: I don't want to play for Boston because because I'm
Speaker 5: from Boston, I want to get out of Boston.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's the only reason.
Speaker 4: Well, you know that you ain't gonna have I mean,
Speaker 4: I would say you ain't gonna have a choice.
Speaker 5: But I mean, you don't have a choice. I'll be
Speaker 5: if I get drafted to the Celtics, I'm blessed. But
Speaker 5: if it was option, I wouldn't.
Speaker 4: Want to go to what's the problem with playing in
Speaker 4: the place you grew up in?
Speaker 5: I just want to get out and move, right. I
Speaker 5: don't want to raise my family in Boston. I want
Speaker 5: to be somewhere else.
Speaker 4: Got you just because you want to move you want
Speaker 4: you want to find someplace different, all right? Playing with
Speaker 4: a shooter like Steph Cove and I see that's where
Speaker 4: you'd have it'ge twelve twelve.
Speaker 2: Fifteen and a great vet with Draymond Green.
Speaker 1: Yes, he is a great vet. He is a great vet.
Speaker 1: He gets emotional, Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: But he's a phenomenal teammate and he's a champion.
Speaker 1: Stuff pops.
Speaker 4: As we get ready to end this talk, this conversation,
Speaker 4: by the way, before before I get to my last question,
Speaker 4: your son made history four and a half million dollar
Speaker 4: nil deal. What kind of financial advice have you given.
Speaker 6: Him before he started making money. I don't know where
Speaker 6: the figure came from.
Speaker 1: First and right, that's what they told that's where it
Speaker 1: was reported. I'm not I don't know if it's accurate
Speaker 1: or not. And that's youall business. Y'all tell if you
Speaker 1: want to. If you don't, it's no big deal. But
Speaker 1: that's what it saying.
Speaker 6: Well, they were saying we were going to the biggest bidder.
Speaker 6: That's that's not true. Three out of the full school
Speaker 6: that made the final cut offer the same amount.
Speaker 1: I called it the minimum wage, okay. And he had no.
Speaker 6: Idea what he was because he chose not to tell
Speaker 6: him because we didn't want money, Me and my wife
Speaker 6: didn't want money to affect his decision. Once he told
Speaker 6: us what he wants, he wanted to go. We told
Speaker 6: him this, see what you got, and we taught him
Speaker 6: to manage the money. We got him a financial advisor.
Speaker 6: We told him about taxes. You know, he was shocked
Speaker 6: when he got the other day.
Speaker 1: Yes, welcome to the real world. He was shocked. Your
Speaker 1: money going. He was shocked. That's it.
Speaker 5: You pay your taxes to say, Yeah, I say that
Speaker 5: amount gonna triple next year.
Speaker 1: Why he's gonna make more money.
Speaker 2: And that's another reason why Boston is one of the highest.
Speaker 5: Taxes New York, Texas and Florida.
Speaker 2: No state, Texas.
Speaker 1: I'm aware of this. I'm aware of this. I'm aware
Speaker 1: of this.
Speaker 4: You know, fos, what's it gonna be like for an
Speaker 4: agent to be representing him having to deal with you?
Speaker 1: Because you know I've listened to you. You know a
Speaker 1: thing or two about your basketball.
Speaker 4: Now you know they ain't gonna be able to just
Speaker 4: pull one over on you.
Speaker 1: And like you.
Speaker 4: Said, African pops, jamake it, mama, they y'all gonna play.
Speaker 1: What's it gonna be like? What do they need to
Speaker 1: know about representing your son?
Speaker 6: Who see? I want to have an agent?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 6: So far, so good having an advisor.
Speaker 4: Okay, an advisor, but so you plan on being to
Speaker 4: do across from the team negotiating with him?
Speaker 1: No, your advisor?
Speaker 6: So far? Advisor Leonard told he's taking care of it. Okay,
Speaker 6: you work together and uh, when your time comes, if
Speaker 6: he needs an agent, he has to be my price.
Speaker 1: Your price? Yes, what does that mean? My rates? Your rate?
Speaker 1: Excuse me?
Speaker 4: Aj Bob's appreciate y'all. Man, congratulations on everything, all the best.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch BYU basketball for the first time.
Speaker 2: Man, you're not watching this year? No, you don't know
Speaker 2: who I got covered out this year?
Speaker 1: No, I'm not watching them much this year. I will
Speaker 1: be watching them next year. Will I will watch practically everywhere.
Speaker 4: If you're around, I'm gonna watch. I'm not gonna have
Speaker 4: you on the show. And to ignore you. You know,
Speaker 4: first of all, you got a fan of me.
Speaker 6: He's not gonna watch this year.
Speaker 4: No, no, I watched him this year. I mean I
Speaker 4: watch him as a season progressives. I really listen between
Speaker 4: football and professional basketball. I'm inundated with a lot of stuff.
Speaker 4: As March Madness approaches that I really really pay attention
Speaker 4: to who's in the mix and what they're gonna do.
Speaker 4: I don't miss March Madness game, so I'll definitely be
Speaker 4: watching that. But what I'm saying is, even with North
Speaker 4: Carolina and Duke, I really don't watch much of them
Speaker 4: unless they play in each other, Kentucky, Louisville, stuff like that.
Speaker 4: I'm watching SEC, I'm watching Florida State from Thoms because
Speaker 4: you know of the coach Leonard. I'm watching a few
Speaker 4: of these programs. Colin Parvey, I know very well. Obviously
Speaker 4: I've lost faith. I remember, I see. I grew up
Speaker 4: in the days in the Big East where you had
Speaker 4: Saint John's Ewan and the Boys at Georgetown d Wayne
Speaker 4: Pearl Washington. Then letting anybody tell you differently, the greatest
Speaker 4: show in the history of college basketball, d Wayne Pearl
Speaker 4: Washington out of Syracuse.
Speaker 1: God Rest is so special.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about a better show than Chris Jackson at
Speaker 4: LSU before.
Speaker 1: He became duing my move Raoul, when he was.
Speaker 4: Playing with Shaq and Stanley Robertson. I'm talking about Kenny
Speaker 4: Andersalite the Weapon three at Georgia Tech.
Speaker 1: With Dennis Scott and Brian Oliver. I'm talking about UNLV with.
Speaker 4: Larry Johnson and Greg Anthony and Stacey Augman and Anderson
Speaker 4: Hunting and crew.
Speaker 1: That's how I go back. And I'm telling you, despite.
Speaker 4: All of that, even with Michael Jordan at North Carolina,
Speaker 4: Michael Jordan at North Carolina, the greatest showman on the
Speaker 4: basketball court in the history of college basketball was Dwayne Pearl.
Speaker 1: Washington as your coach. I bet you he'll agree with me.
Speaker 1: I asker asking good.
Speaker 4: Luck to you, Thank you all the best, to you, Thanks,
Speaker 4: appreciate you, thanks right here. Really really honed to have
Speaker 4: both of y'all. Wish you nothing but the best. You're
Speaker 4: gonna be, all right, man, You got your pops with you.
Speaker 1: You're good. You good to go. You're good to go.