Speaker 1: The volume. Hi, I'm Sloan and I know basketball. Today's
Speaker 1: guest started as a three star recruit in high school
Speaker 1: and is now a ten year MBA veteran. His journey
Speaker 1: from hooping in LA to earning first team All Conference
Speaker 1: at Colorado and now playing for his hometown Los Angeles Lakers,
Speaker 1: is this story you won't want to miss. So let's
Speaker 1: get to know Spencer. Get with it. Okay, So Spencer,
Speaker 1: I'm sixteen, which I'm sure for you those a really
Speaker 1: long time ago. But I need you to think back
Speaker 1: to when you were sixteen and tell me what you
Speaker 1: were like personality.
Speaker 2: By I mean not to age myself sixteens, like half
Speaker 2: my life will go.
Speaker 3: I guess, uh, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean I was with a sophomore junior in high
Speaker 2: school at that time. I was kind of starting to
Speaker 2: come to I was a basketball player. I understand I
Speaker 2: was probably gonna, you know, at least be able to
Speaker 2: go to Division one. So yeah, I mean, I think
Speaker 2: there was a lot of maturation in growth that kind
Speaker 2: of was happening at that time.
Speaker 3: And you know, but I was still in a normal
Speaker 3: high school experience.
Speaker 2: It seems like you're traveling the world and living out
Speaker 2: your dream already.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it is really cool. So it's sixteen. Obviously
Speaker 1: you grew up in Woodland Hills, which, for those of
Speaker 1: you who don't know, is basically a little bit outside
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles. But at least being in that area,
Speaker 1: do you have any relationships with any NBA players?
Speaker 2: So actually, you know, I grew up in like in
Speaker 2: the heart of LA like oh Okay, in like south
Speaker 2: central area. I mean by the time about sixteen, though,
Speaker 2: I was living in around like View Park, which is
Speaker 2: close to Cover City. My bus out to.
Speaker 3: Tap the Woodland Hills there.
Speaker 2: I mean, I went to high school with Larry Drew,
Speaker 2: ended up, you know, having a couple of stints in
Speaker 2: the NBA. You ended up crossing paths with a lot
Speaker 2: of guys just in the high school au circuit anyway.
Speaker 2: But I wasn't like super heralded, and I didn't have,
Speaker 2: you know, anybody in my family that was in NBA
Speaker 2: or anything like that, so I didn't get to kind
Speaker 2: of get you know, ushered in or gloomed into that,
Speaker 2: you know situation.
Speaker 1: Have you always been a Laker sent? Yeah, so your
Speaker 1: sixteen year old self would be like this would be crazy.
Speaker 2: Oh, no, listen, if you could have told my sixteen
Speaker 2: year old self that, hey, in your tenthyon NBA, you're
Speaker 2: gonna play for Lakers and and all that stuff like that,
Speaker 2: you he would have took whatever consequences came with that.
Speaker 2: He took both ACL tears, all of THO stuff be here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well I'll do it.
Speaker 1: So I heard that in high school and now, obviously
Speaker 1: you're really smart. How did you balance being a student
Speaker 1: and an athlete? And I guess what advice can you
Speaker 1: give to kids that are trying to balance that student
Speaker 1: athlete life?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I mean I cred my mom a lot.
Speaker 2: She got PAGY from USC, She's she's brilliant, stressed academics early.
Speaker 2: I'd like to think I'm fairly in touch, and so
Speaker 2: school kind of came easy. I was able to, you know,
Speaker 2: get good grades with effort, but not not too too
Speaker 2: much effort. I think what I really sacrificed growing up
Speaker 2: was just social life and that stuff. I think, you know,
Speaker 2: you can kind of pick too, you know, basketball, school,
Speaker 2: having fun, and so I just delayed my fun into Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, I got an NBA basically, you know that
Speaker 2: kind of sort of back half of college back a
Speaker 2: couple of years college, Like I did have a little
Speaker 2: bit of fun like junior in college, but other than that, no,
Speaker 2: I mean I pretty much had that delayed gratification mentality
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, just stuck with what would give
Speaker 2: me far in life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So after high school, what was the thought process
Speaker 1: with choosing Colorado? I know, you had an offer from Harvard,
Speaker 1: which is obviously a non traditional path to go down,
Speaker 1: but I think a lot of people now are starting
Speaker 1: to sort of try the IVY route and you know,
Speaker 1: they want to be that first option for How did
Speaker 1: that go for you?
Speaker 3: Basically?
Speaker 2: I mean, again, my my academics were pretty solid, So
Speaker 2: you had some of those prestigious schools on that side
Speaker 2: looking at me. I got pretty much most of the
Speaker 2: pact to offer, along with obviously Harvard, But the differentiating
Speaker 2: factor between most of the PAC.
Speaker 3: Twelve Colorado and Harvard was Colin.
Speaker 2: Harvard really just stressed like, hey, we love you. It's
Speaker 2: going to be a centerpiece of you know, our recruiting class.
Speaker 2: You're going to be the guy that we want. And
Speaker 2: then it came when it came down of those two schools,
Speaker 2: I really just had in my mind that I wanted
Speaker 2: to go to the draft early. You know, at the time,
Speaker 2: I know I wasn't gonna be one and done. I
Speaker 2: wasn't McDonald's America or anything like that. But I really,
Speaker 2: in my in my heart believed I could do two
Speaker 2: years and lead, and there just wasn't a precedent for
Speaker 2: somebody doing that for an IVY league. So I knew
Speaker 2: if I would go to the Patrol of Conference, play
Speaker 2: against the best players, show my talent against them, that
Speaker 2: I might have a chance to leave after two years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and what are your thoughts as a Colorado alumni
Speaker 1: and coach Prime coming and taking over.
Speaker 3: It's epic. It's epic.
Speaker 2: I went back, caught a couple of games, I got
Speaker 2: to meet him, talk to him a little bit.
Speaker 3: You know, he's he's an inspiring guy. I see how
Speaker 3: he's termed the program around.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm excited to be a part of it.
Speaker 2: Like I loved every second going back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, super cool. So I guess now we jumped around.
Speaker 1: We were talking about college, but I want to go
Speaker 1: back to high school for a little bit. So you
Speaker 1: were a three star and you were ranked one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty eighth nationally in high school, which is not
Speaker 1: necessarily a common route for a guy who's now been
Speaker 1: in the NBA for ten years, what advice would you
Speaker 1: give to high school athletes wh or not top ten,
Speaker 1: top one hundred recruits, but want to succeed in their sport.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think being realistic with your game. I
Speaker 2: think you know, for me, I grew gradually. I wasn't
Speaker 2: very athletic, so I had to gain a lot of
Speaker 2: skills and versatility. I think as I was able to
Speaker 2: get taller, stronger, and more athletic, that's kind of my
Speaker 2: game blossom. So that's why I was kind of a
Speaker 2: late bloomer in that standpoint in terms of high school.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, the more you can be realistic
Speaker 2: with your craft, work hard every day, aboually develop a routine,
Speaker 2: but just never be.
Speaker 3: Too big for any role. Yeah, I think that's how
Speaker 3: you last ten years in the league.
Speaker 2: I've been everywhere from a first option to literally the
Speaker 2: fifteenth option. Guy doesn't dress and it is about to
Speaker 2: get cut, so you know, and each role one through
Speaker 2: fifteen has its own challenges that you have.
Speaker 3: To prepare for.
Speaker 1: I love that also, So I know in your class
Speaker 1: of those all those you know, one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: seven recruits above me, there was Michael Carter, Williams, Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Growing up in the AU circuit, Can you
Speaker 1: tell us a story about playing a guy like that?
Speaker 2: I mean, my best AU story is probably when we
Speaker 2: won the Adida Super sixty four going into my senior year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean we played like Memphis Elite and the other
Speaker 2: guys that were big time at the time. You know,
Speaker 2: we were kind of an unholded secondary pump and run
Speaker 2: team from California.
Speaker 3: Was able to win.
Speaker 2: I know, now it's like all eybl on Nike circuit
Speaker 2: and stuff, But back then the Adida circuit, like it
Speaker 2: was like, what was it, Dida's big time Super sixty four.
Speaker 2: Then there's one in LMU that I can't remember the
Speaker 2: name of. We're like the big time terms at the team.
Speaker 2: So it was the equivalent of like when eybl type
Speaker 2: of thing.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on the way that sort of
Speaker 1: AU basketball has evolved into this now like crazy thing
Speaker 1: on social media and everyone knows these kids before they
Speaker 1: even make it anywhere really close to it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think in terms of exposure, it's dope, right,
Speaker 2: Like you want everybody to be able to expand their
Speaker 2: brand or get their money, capitalize on name and likeness
Speaker 2: and all that stuff. I think for the priority of
Speaker 2: or the prioritization of the end game experience, I think
Speaker 2: it's kind of trash now because I've seen, you know,
Speaker 2: some guys like let guys go get dugs and you know,
Speaker 2: so they can get their high through sixty you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Ducks on the break stuff like that,
Speaker 2: Like you know, coming up, we played to win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And that was just it, like you just you went
Speaker 2: out there, you tried to win the game you want
Speaker 2: or lost, whatever it was, you try to learn get better.
Speaker 3: Like it was kind of a simple formula.
Speaker 2: We didn't have as much outside noise, and we weren't
Speaker 2: giving guys breakaway ducks like yeah, you know, just so
Speaker 2: they could get their you know, mixtape off or whatever
Speaker 2: like so, so to me, that's something that i'd love
Speaker 2: to see change for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And I think on that note, something interesting is
Speaker 1: like it's like guys are playing for themselves on their
Speaker 1: teams exactly, you know, because they want to shine, not
Speaker 1: their team. But it's a team small.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't be wrong.
Speaker 2: There's always gonna be an element of that, right, Like
Speaker 2: like in the NBA now everywhere you go, like everybody
Speaker 2: wants to do well, you know what I'm saying, But
Speaker 2: you have to understand your role and try to be
Speaker 2: a star in that as well for the collective's success,
Speaker 2: because you know, rising tide raises off ships, you know,
Speaker 2: And like I said, there's been times where I've averaged
Speaker 2: twenty in the league and a sixteen point a game
Speaker 2: or a sixteen point game might be considered bad.
Speaker 3: And obviously we lose, and you know, I have to
Speaker 3: be better.
Speaker 2: Whereas like you know, I've been again the six seventh
Speaker 2: eight guy, whatever you come in, you get sixteen points,
Speaker 2: you probably played really well, you're super efficient, you help
Speaker 2: your team win. It's the same number, but different context,
Speaker 2: and so guys gotta understand that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I liked hearing about you at sixteen. Again,
Speaker 1: that was so long ago, I know, almost not your
Speaker 1: life ago. I feel like I really got to know
Speaker 1: you as a sixteen year old. I don't know if
Speaker 1: we would be friends. I feel like maybe about Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: now I want to know about you now. So, Spencer,
Speaker 1: what was your eye made it moment. I made it
Speaker 1: moment the head scratcher quite literally.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that that's tough. I mean I haven't really
Speaker 3: dwelled in uh and some of the accomplishments. I mean,
Speaker 3: I probably.
Speaker 2: Go back to maybe my game winners against Detroit, which
Speaker 2: probably came in my fourth year in the NBA, maybe
Speaker 2: just because of everything that had gone on. You know,
Speaker 2: my first year is not playing it all pretty much
Speaker 2: getting cut you know, and deallely signed to Brooklyn all
Speaker 2: sort of stuff, and then you know, to come back
Speaker 2: play the Pistons.
Speaker 3: Now I had to be my fourth year. I think
Speaker 3: it was my third year because I signed late.
Speaker 2: That year, but yeah, probably my fourth year and having
Speaker 2: the game winners one in the in Little Caesars and
Speaker 2: and you know, a couple of big shots in Barclays
Speaker 2: as well, probably was what I really felt like, you know, actually, let.
Speaker 3: Me take that back, let me take that back.
Speaker 2: Yes, those were big time os where I felt like
Speaker 2: solidified in the NBA. But probably the one game that
Speaker 2: I can remember in Detroit that I remember being like
Speaker 2: I belong was against the Wizards. Ironically, John Wall well,
Speaker 2: just a podcast within something like that, you know, at
Speaker 2: the time it was one of the best point guards
Speaker 2: in the league and kind of.
Speaker 3: Look up to. I think that was like my first
Speaker 3: twenty point game or something. I would say that was cool.
Speaker 3: I like tiped dunk my own missing that game and stuff.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: It was kind of cool. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I saw the John Whole podcast. He said, you're gonna
Speaker 1: sleep for a year after retired, Like, I are.
Speaker 3: You being for rip? Do you think, yeah, you're.
Speaker 1: Like a man caven like Hibernate y?
Speaker 3: Ok, yeah, No, like like you said, I mean, think
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 2: I climbed from what one twenty eight my high school
Speaker 2: class to even get to the spots and things and
Speaker 2: now tend your career, and you know, that's that's been
Speaker 2: an odyssey of itself. You know where things have happened
Speaker 2: that haven't necessarily been the greatest, and you know, now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when it's all done, ye, I'm gonna take it
Speaker 3: a nice little siesta.
Speaker 1: So obviously, the free agency process is something that you're
Speaker 1: very familiar with, and people in and around the league
Speaker 1: are very familiar with. But US fans we have so
Speaker 1: much to say about it and sort of don't really
Speaker 1: know what actually goes into it. When you are looking
Speaker 1: at teams and talking to them. What are green flags
Speaker 1: that you look for?
Speaker 2: Green flags? I think, you know obviously when they have
Speaker 2: a specific plan for you, you know, and then you
Speaker 2: look around the roster, it doesn't seem to be like
Speaker 2: conflicting messages.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: Sometimes and this hasn't necessarily happened to me because I
Speaker 2: was mostly in free agency.
Speaker 3: Just like one major times, yeah, U nles' say.
Speaker 2: They have three centers on the roster and then they
Speaker 2: promise you know, another saying that they're going to start
Speaker 2: or something like that.
Speaker 3: It's like that makes sense, you know, So you know,
Speaker 3: some of that goes on.
Speaker 2: I think obviously, you know, you definitely want the financial
Speaker 2: component to be whatever you want it to be in
Speaker 2: terms of market value. Then you gotta look at like
Speaker 2: living areas, uh, you know, is it is it conducive
Speaker 2: to whatever lifestyle you enjoy?
Speaker 1: Your vocabulary is like insane. I'm like half these words
Speaker 1: and you're saying, like I have not learned with those people.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: It just it just blends well okay, okay, you know,
Speaker 3: for example, let's.
Speaker 2: Say you wanted to party like I think Miami's probably yeah, okay, oh,
Speaker 2: Miami's yes.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think, uh, it's just a multitude effective.
Speaker 1: So I want saw a story where Shaq said he
Speaker 1: had signed the team mid season and he like broke
Speaker 1: the record for the amount of money I don't know,
Speaker 1: spent in Walmart in one day or something because he
Speaker 1: just moved to the city. So he like bought like TVs,
Speaker 1: like food, refrigerators, et cetera in the first forty eight
Speaker 1: hours that you signed with the Lakers. What went into
Speaker 1: that whole process?
Speaker 2: Oh, I just I mean I just got it jet
Speaker 2: and came home. I didn't break any Walmart rules. I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously I already had this house. Yeah, I'm from here,
Speaker 2: so you know when I signed, I mean I should
Speaker 2: have a house and does too. But both of those
Speaker 2: places were like home. So when it was come in
Speaker 2: time for that kind of decision, Yeah, that's really all
Speaker 2: I was doing was just going back to the crib
Speaker 2: basically and just trying to like reset, regroup, take a
Speaker 2: split second to kind of refocus, and then yeah, figure
Speaker 2: out what that team needs for me, and dive in.
Speaker 1: Cool. So you're playing the Calves on Saturday, walk us
Speaker 1: through your preparation process for that game, or I guess
Speaker 1: any game, whatever.
Speaker 3: Tim would have been.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think that one's a little bit
Speaker 2: interesting because that's a new game. So you know, I
Speaker 2: probably have to get there eight or nine in the morning,
Speaker 2: so you know, I'll be up relatively early.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll probably just be smooth before that game. Nothing
Speaker 3: too crazy.
Speaker 1: What's your smoothie order?
Speaker 2: No, I can't if I give, if I can recipe, yeah,
Speaker 2: if I get a secret recipe, I gotta kill you.
Speaker 2: That's that's the way it works. That's the secret sauce.
Speaker 2: That's what like that's that's that's beef and fruit or how.
Speaker 1: Every city you drink the same smoothie.
Speaker 2: Roughly, Wow, roughly, I have a couple of staples in
Speaker 2: this mooth and then sometimes you know, you switch it up, okay, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then also sometimes certain cities have uh more health
Speaker 2: food obsually like sea laws, et cetera, and some don't.
Speaker 1: So the situation is giving like Plankdin from SpongeBob where
Speaker 1: they like steal this secret thing for the okay, you.
Speaker 3: Can't do that track pat formula, it stays, uh, it
Speaker 3: stays locked up in the center.
Speaker 1: On the topic of food, what is your post game
Speaker 1: cheat meal?
Speaker 3: Cheat meal?
Speaker 1: Yeah, cheat meal is like when you're like, because you know,
Speaker 1: you're an athlete, right, like you have to be really healthy.
Speaker 1: But like, let's say you just like have a really
Speaker 1: good game whatever and you go home, you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I need to go Chick fil a like that type thing.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I don't even bullshit like that.
Speaker 1: Oh so you never have this.
Speaker 2: Basically, So like nine percent of the time I eat
Speaker 2: steak and fruit, like that's my entire diet basically, But how.
Speaker 1: Do you cook your seak medium?
Speaker 2: With that being said, though, my cheap thing to do
Speaker 2: is peach cobbler. I love peach trousers.
Speaker 1: Okay, but that still follows with like the fruit thing.
Speaker 3: You know, like.
Speaker 2: I guess I meant like raw fruit basically, like oh
Speaker 2: not like or or smooth.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, this question now has changed a little because
Speaker 1: you seem pretty picky. But what is your favorite restaurant in.
Speaker 2: LA I don't have one of my favorite restaurant in
Speaker 2: New York, which I was just there's Coke co Ote Korean.
Speaker 3: It's like the only mission to Star Korean steakhouse in
Speaker 3: the country. Fire Wow.
Speaker 1: Have we tried to try the Kogi truck?
Speaker 3: Do you know?
Speaker 1: It's like this like Korean truck in La and it's
Speaker 1: like Korean barbecue and it's like in Venice like on
Speaker 1: ABACINNI like, oh, literally the best food I've ever had
Speaker 1: it sincetat.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, if you like Korean barbecue.
Speaker 1: And which NBA fandom is the craziest to play.
Speaker 2: Against to me, probably the Knicks, just because I had
Speaker 2: like beef with them for so long because like when
Speaker 2: I was in Brooklyn the first time, they were ass.
Speaker 3: So I used to troll them all the time because.
Speaker 2: You got to remember, like in terms of prestige and franchise,
Speaker 2: like of course the Nets and a little brother to
Speaker 2: the Knicks, but we was really whooping the ass, you
Speaker 2: feel me, So they would talk crazy and it's like, yo,
Speaker 2: y'all haven't been good for a long time. So then
Speaker 2: when I got back the tables, that kind of turned
Speaker 2: and they were giving me hell.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean you didn't Spike ever get into it?
Speaker 2: No, No, me and Spike never got into it. I
Speaker 2: don't think Spike was invested enough at the time because like.
Speaker 1: They they weren't.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Like I don't have like thirty point games
Speaker 2: in the Guard and stuff like walk off dunks, and
Speaker 2: ship like, yeah they weren't.
Speaker 1: Yeah they suck In the next five years. Who do
Speaker 1: you think is going to be the stace of the
Speaker 1: league and why?
Speaker 2: I hope it's Anthony Edwards because man, that boy good.
Speaker 2: He's nice and he's got a he's.
Speaker 1: Got his personality. It's just like, yeah, he's.
Speaker 2: He's funny, but he's got like a streak to him
Speaker 2: where he wants to take on the challenge.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of guys, don't you know. I
Speaker 2: think a lot of guys they'll play offense. So I
Speaker 2: played the offense date like Anthony Edwards game of line
Speaker 2: wants to stop the best guy.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, it's some of that old school throwback Kobe
Speaker 3: type type.
Speaker 1: Stuff or what you know, the rumors about MJ being
Speaker 1: his dad? I did.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: You played on five different teams in your career with
Speaker 1: some pretty incredible teammates. Can you give us your starting
Speaker 1: five of your best ever teammates? Oh?
Speaker 3: Man, uh.
Speaker 2: Luca for shows in there at the one. Uh Bron
Speaker 2: is definitely my four.
Speaker 3: KDS, my three a DS, my five. I didn't really
Speaker 3: play with James.
Speaker 2: You feel me like we on the same team, But
Speaker 2: I didn't really play with him, So I mean I
Speaker 2: would probably have to go Kyrie.
Speaker 3: At the two.
Speaker 1: No, Jalen Brunson love.
Speaker 3: Over over Kyrie's at two.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Like probably as a one, I.
Speaker 2: Might be able to give j B to nine I think,
Speaker 2: you know, but as a two, like I don't understand
Speaker 2: Kyrie at the at the two is it's tough. Like
Speaker 2: if Kyrie was like six seven, it'd be a it'd
Speaker 2: be a different style of conversation through in Dallas.
Speaker 1: Obviously, Jayn Brunson wasn't the same player that he is
Speaker 1: now in New York. But could you I know you
Speaker 1: only played with him for a year, but could you
Speaker 1: guys see that like he had something like cooking in
Speaker 1: him like he was going to be a star star.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I don't know if I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go with star, but like you definitely saw it. I
Speaker 2: mean when we when he got those Lucas style possessions
Speaker 2: when we were in the first round against Utah, like
Speaker 2: we were beating Utah without Luca.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Some of that is like that was running through him.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you know in that series, obviously you could
Speaker 2: see like Okay, this guy could really like run a team.
Speaker 3: He could score at a big time level. I think
Speaker 3: he had forty in one of the games. So you
Speaker 3: just knew like some of that.
Speaker 2: Obviously, it's also Dallas offense because like, man, they they
Speaker 2: make it easy on the guard over there.
Speaker 3: Well just to let that, but yeah, no JB. JB's cold.
Speaker 3: JB's super cold.
Speaker 1: Okay, So during your NBA career all ten years, was
Speaker 1: been the hardest player you've had to.
Speaker 3: Guard, probably prime James Harden s Houston James Harden. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's yeah, because he was like.
Speaker 2: I hope many seasons to understand what I'm saying, but
Speaker 2: he was like fact quick, like.
Speaker 3: No, I'm telling you, really strong as hell, but he's
Speaker 3: like he was really quick.
Speaker 2: So all that like like lawyer to sleep, lawyer to sleep,
Speaker 2: tweet and tween tween twins and they'd hit that sharp
Speaker 2: cross and if he shifts you, he gets you on
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, on his hip, You're not
Speaker 2: you're not getting around him.
Speaker 3: And then obviously we all know about the step back. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he got the leg hitting the whole nine. It's four
Speaker 3: point play.
Speaker 2: And you know when you go back five years or so,
Speaker 2: when he was doing all that sweep through stuff.
Speaker 3: They was conned every time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he gets like yeah, like now they don't really
Speaker 2: give it to him and say skinny er. I mean
Speaker 2: he wasn't ever skinny for real, but you know, like
Speaker 2: he would do that. He didn't hit in the game
Speaker 2: with twenty free throws fifteen threes, yeah, you know, taking.
Speaker 3: Obviously not not made because that'd be insane. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: so like, how are you gonna stop that shot? P
Speaker 3: file Like he's gonna make eighteen out of twenty free throws.
Speaker 3: He's already in a rhythm. If he makes seven out
Speaker 3: the you know, twenty or seven out to fifteen threes,
Speaker 3: he's already damn at forty points. Yeah, it's crazy, I
Speaker 3: hear you.
Speaker 1: So now, obviously you're Lebron's teammate. What is one behind
Speaker 1: the scenes thing that he's done. It's really like show
Speaker 1: you like he's just that great.
Speaker 2: I think it's just a routine. Every day he's locked in,
Speaker 2: ready to go. He's always getting his work in. He's
Speaker 2: just he's militant about it, more so than anybody I've
Speaker 2: ever seen in my in my career, and obviously I've
Speaker 2: been around a plethora of great players, but he just
Speaker 2: seems to be the most like diligent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like every single day.
Speaker 1: Okay, Spender. So you know, like in a high school
Speaker 1: yearbook where there's superlatives like who's most likely to be president,
Speaker 1: who's most likely to you know, be famous? Whatever? Me
Speaker 1: and you were going to do some Lakers team superlatives. Okay,
Speaker 1: so are you ready? Okay?
Speaker 3: Who is the most stripped Vanda?
Speaker 1: That's obvious? Okay? Who is the best playlist?
Speaker 3: Playlist?
Speaker 1: Or like on the team bus, who's getting off?
Speaker 3: I think a d might get the US really does.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't touch it that, Okay? Who is the best
Speaker 1: golf game?
Speaker 3: Are ye?
Speaker 1: Who is the best crib? And it can't be Lebron
Speaker 1: or yourself?
Speaker 3: Not ad got the best crib? Like Delo did that?
Speaker 2: Backyard podcast says says, like the White House different definitely mine.
Speaker 3: I mean I think it's cool.
Speaker 1: I like this house. There's such good lighting.
Speaker 3: I did it for the lighting.
Speaker 1: But you know that's always how I think. Like I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a taktok mindset, you know, Like especially when I
Speaker 1: walked in, I was like okay, and I already like
Speaker 1: started taking selfies on the couch Yeah, who is the
Speaker 1: team dad?
Speaker 3: Team dad? Since I've been around, probably gave Vincent.
Speaker 1: Really okay, yeah, not Bron, Like I feel like as
Speaker 1: like the old Like I know, he's like okay whatever,
Speaker 1: I know he yeah.
Speaker 2: Bro kind of goofy like he he can, yeah, jump
Speaker 2: through generations and like I think that's one of his
Speaker 2: best gifts too, Like he's very smart, but he knows
Speaker 2: how to like bond with a twenty year old is
Speaker 2: the same as your bond with a forty year old,
Speaker 2: like speak the language that he needs to speak to
Speaker 2: communicate his message.
Speaker 3: It's it's actually pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so cool. Okay. Lastly for the supperlatives. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a multiple park questions. So is there a
Speaker 1: Lakers team group chat? Who texts on it the most?
Speaker 1: And what is it called?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, now there is. It's like, I don't forget.
Speaker 3: It's forced. I mean it's on my phone force four
Speaker 3: forty dollars or some I don't know.
Speaker 1: It is not exciting. I was really I really wanted.
Speaker 3: To eat something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what it is. Who texted the most?
Speaker 2: I don't know who gets ignored the most? Is ruly nobody?
Speaker 2: I want to have what we gotta.
Speaker 1: Say houses English in texting.
Speaker 3: Oh he texts me. He text English perfectly, it's just
Speaker 3: when he speaks sometimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you text on it a lot?
Speaker 3: I just got it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's like, yeah, the new guy. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: have to they had to add you. Everyone had to
Speaker 1: get the notifications. But the chat like that. Okay. Lastly,
Speaker 1: so this podcast is called Sloan Nose. Okay, so this
Speaker 1: next segment is called Sloan Knows Your Game but to you.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna ask you trivia about yourself, Spencer, And
Speaker 1: I feel like you're a competitive guy and you may
Speaker 1: think that you're gonna be really good at this, but
Speaker 1: no one is good at it, like really no one.
Speaker 1: And I know you're really smart and I'm sure you
Speaker 1: have a good memory, but I go deep. Okay yeah yea.
Speaker 1: So Also another thing I want to add is this
Speaker 1: is not like a complaining with the ref situation, like
Speaker 1: I will tee you up and like this podcast episode
Speaker 1: can be over, so like you need to like you
Speaker 1: cannot complain about the scoring. Like this is very much
Speaker 1: like I mean, I'll give you sometimes, I'll give you
Speaker 1: like half points. We'll see how that goes. Okay, what
Speaker 1: was your high school GPA?
Speaker 3: Uh? I think it was three point four?
Speaker 1: Actually, is three point two? Really? Over one? Okay? In
Speaker 1: your first ever college game, Colorado beat Fort Lewis by
Speaker 1: how many points?
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure it was up by like a million
Speaker 3: in the game, but maybe won by fourteen.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna give you one more guess because the
Speaker 1: a million was closer than the fourteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thirty two?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, thirty five, thirty five, that's like I have
Speaker 1: a point. So okay, you're at point five. I guess
Speaker 1: In your sophomore season in Colorado, how many games did
Speaker 1: you start?
Speaker 3: That's got old?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but how many games was that? Oh?
Speaker 3: Shit?
Speaker 2: The college season is usually if you're good, you go
Speaker 2: like twenty three and ten thirty three?
Speaker 3: Yes, hey, look at.
Speaker 1: That one point five points? Great? Okay. In your first
Speaker 1: NBA season with the Pistons, what was your season high
Speaker 1: in minutes?
Speaker 3: My first shit, my first season should have had the
Speaker 3: twenty point game. So this is no. I know, I
Speaker 3: know I'm saying. So that means I at least hit
Speaker 3: thirty minutes. Uh So I'm gonna go with no, no, no,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Oh, so goes twenty nine that Lake Hassidy. That's sweet. Credit,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. That was good. I gotta and I
Speaker 1: could see like this and they were yell okay, So
Speaker 1: like two points. I feel like that's like basically where
Speaker 1: we're at in twenty nineteen to twenty twenty. You average
Speaker 1: the most points in your career with the nets. How
Speaker 1: many points did do you average per game? But I
Speaker 1: want to be like exact to the decimal, like my
Speaker 1: math teacher would be, like, you have to wrap, you know,
Speaker 1: or else it.
Speaker 3: Does not count. I know roughly what it was, but
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go twenty point six.
Speaker 1: Spetzer, Okay, yes that is Rex.
Speaker 3: I always say twenty one, so I remember it was
Speaker 3: open twenty point.
Speaker 1: Five, which I guess technically if you were to round up,
Speaker 1: it would be twenty one, you know, because we're both
Speaker 1: so smart. So we're doing so we're like three points. Well,
Speaker 1: that's that's much better than most people I've been doing.
Speaker 1: I mean, even though you didn't go to Harvard, you
Speaker 1: have a Harvard brains.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's that's score. I remember now sixty hundred.
Speaker 1: Yes, I saw that. There was an article written in
Speaker 1: the Harvard Crimson about how you out of fourteen hundred
Speaker 1: and can you actually tutor me? I'm doing my suffering
Speaker 1: now I need some tutoring.
Speaker 3: Fun fact, I took that my freshman year high school
Speaker 3: and took it again.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: That's why.
Speaker 2: That's why I didn't take the twenty four hundred and one,
Speaker 2: because like by my junior year, they said if I
Speaker 2: took it again and then I have to do that one.
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, I'll just live at that score.
Speaker 1: No, okay, how many threes?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Sorry this season? How many threes did you average per game?
Speaker 1: Or how many threes have you averaged per game?
Speaker 3: Uh? Taken or made?
Speaker 1: No? Made two? Well to the decimal.
Speaker 3: Fucking one point eight?
Speaker 1: Yes, oh my gosh. Yeah, it's the best well nos
Speaker 1: trivia of all time.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, this well, we'll see you a good memory. I
Speaker 1: think you can get this. You were drafted thirty eighth
Speaker 1: in the twenty fourteen NBA draft. Who was drafted thirty
Speaker 1: seventh and who was drafted thirty nine.
Speaker 3: Thirty seven was Deandrew Dames.
Speaker 1: Yes, do you know where you went to college? Uh?
Speaker 3: You can't. Yes, he went to my eigh Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Okay, thirty nine was that.
Speaker 1: I can get me?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Can can you tell me where I went to college?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: There we go. Okay, two point six out of one, two, three, four, five,
Speaker 1: six six not Hey, hey, hey, okay, this is crazy.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. This is your last question. Okay, what was
Speaker 1: your free throw percentage your rookie year?
Speaker 3: It was high as yes, it was high as point
Speaker 3: it was like.
Speaker 2: Coult it take not but it was like ninety one
Speaker 2: or ninety two or but to the decimal ninety one
Speaker 2: point two.
Speaker 1: Okay, there's this has to be a cheat code. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. Oh my god, this is a slow nose
Speaker 1: left right here. Listen, this is Spencer knows. This is crazy. Now,
Speaker 1: Spencer for the last question, who do you want to
Speaker 1: nominate to be the next slow nose?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: To beat me or just to do it?
Speaker 1: To do it, and then maybe if you want to
Speaker 1: be strategic about this, you pick someone that wouldn't beat you.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Oh, if I want to pick somebody that ain't gonna
Speaker 2: be baby, I nominate Luca Doches.
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean that is the good nomination. Luca. Don
Speaker 1: Did you heard it right? Here people, spencered in withity Luca.
Speaker 1: We're about to take that phone call right out for
Speaker 1: this episode.
Speaker 2: And if I want to nominate somebody that possibly could
Speaker 2: beat me, Lebron James.
Speaker 1: Oh what a great nomination. That's so Look, we have
Speaker 1: actually never heard of that guy. I don't think I
Speaker 1: can have him on. He's not like big enough as
Speaker 1: a guest.
Speaker 3: I think he's not really there.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, but you're you're the Thanks guys, like, thanks
Speaker 1: for listening. You can get links to my socials and
Speaker 1: see behind the scenes fun from Spencer and I in
Speaker 1: the show notes, or just search at Sloan Notes on Instagram,
Speaker 1: TikTok and YouTube. Remember that's Sloan with an E.
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