Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Sloan and I know the NBA. Today we're
Speaker 1: hanging out with one of the NBA's most incredible big man.
Speaker 1: He's not just tall, he's a towering figure of shot
Speaker 1: blocking wizardry and dunking prows. And guess what. His journey
Speaker 1: from being a young, wide eyed athlete to an absolute
Speaker 1: NBA sensation is a story that's all about hard work,
Speaker 1: bouncing back from setbacks, and flying high above that rip.
Speaker 1: This week, We're Soaked introduce you to Lob City legend
Speaker 1: DeAndre Jordan. So DeAndre. As you know, Halloween is coming up,
Speaker 1: I'm very excited. I feel like for a teenage girl,
Speaker 1: that's like the best time of year for sure. And
Speaker 1: I want to know, if you could dress up as
Speaker 1: one NBA player for Halloween, who would you dress up as?
Speaker 2: Ooh, that's a really good question. If I could dress
Speaker 2: up as one pastor.
Speaker 1: Present, pastor present, I'm going to go.
Speaker 2: With Portland Trailblazer's Bill Walton.
Speaker 1: Okay, and what would you wear?
Speaker 2: I mean obviously like shorter shorts, jersey hair, beard, headband,
Speaker 2: high to socks. I think that'll be kind of my
Speaker 2: uniform that day.
Speaker 1: Okay, I love that And can you take us through, like,
Speaker 1: have you ever seen someone dress up as you? And
Speaker 1: what did that costume entail?
Speaker 2: So one year, my brothers and I as adults, dressed
Speaker 2: up for a Halloween kind of party deal. I went
Speaker 2: at a have you seen Cool Runnings? It's like the
Speaker 2: Jamaican Bob Sled movie.
Speaker 1: No. I feel like my generation like hasn't seen any
Speaker 1: movies anytime anyone asked me if you've seen a movie, I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, a noe. Oh yeah, I went in this, like yeah,
Speaker 2: I went is that? And my brother was kind of
Speaker 2: like being lazy and he was like can I wear this?
Speaker 2: And I'm like I check and see it and I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh wow, this is my full uniform. I was like,
Speaker 2: so sure. So he wore my Clippers jersey shorts. He
Speaker 2: bought an NBA basketball with him and that was his
Speaker 2: costume for the night.
Speaker 1: All Right, So I'm sixteen and I just turned sixteen,
Speaker 1: So this will be my first episode of Sloan Nos
Speaker 1: as a sixteen year old, which is really exciting. I
Speaker 1: think you should be very flattered that you get to
Speaker 1: be on here for that.
Speaker 2: Really, I really appreciate that, you know, sweet sixteen, I'm
Speaker 2: on the show for this and now I do feel
Speaker 2: humbled to be a part.
Speaker 1: Of this, so thank you, well, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for being here. So at sixteen, what were you like
Speaker 1: as a basketball player?
Speaker 2: Wow? I was just figuring out how to run and
Speaker 2: chew gum at the same time, so it was very
Speaker 2: It was a learning experience for me. But I think
Speaker 2: that at sixteen I was trying to just take in
Speaker 2: so much information but also still have fun with the
Speaker 2: sport at the same time, So it was it was
Speaker 2: a fun.
Speaker 1: Time for sure. And then I want to know, you know,
Speaker 1: also at sixteen, other than being a basket player, this
Speaker 1: is the age you know when you get your license
Speaker 1: in Texas? What was the vibe there? Like, did you
Speaker 1: get your license just at sixteen? Did you wait?
Speaker 2: What was going on?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: I wanted to drive as soon as possible, so we
Speaker 2: would do things like my mom would get to our
Speaker 2: street and then let me drive down the street and
Speaker 2: like park in the driveway. So that was those were
Speaker 2: like great times. And then someday though that can I
Speaker 2: drive today? Can I drive today? And She's like not today,
Speaker 2: And it was like the world was ending for me.
Speaker 2: But it was it was great, But I did I
Speaker 2: got the whole permit drivers head. I did that, and
Speaker 2: I I took my driver's head test in a Toyota Corolla.
Speaker 1: Love that, Okay.
Speaker 2: Two other students, so that would and I felt bad
Speaker 2: for them because I had to put my seat all
Speaker 2: the way back so there was like no leg room.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, how did you fit?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: At sixteen, how tall were you?
Speaker 2: I was about six nine, six ten.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, I'm just five four, So hopefully I get
Speaker 1: a little bit of that grossper you know.
Speaker 2: But I was got to say, girl spurts for girls
Speaker 2: coming late, So you're good, don't even worry about it.
Speaker 1: It's fine, Okay, fingers crossed. But so you pass first time?
Speaker 2: Of course, of course I had. I had a little
Speaker 2: I had a little illegal practice early, like I was saying,
Speaker 2: But I did pass, Yeah, because I was a big
Speaker 2: ten and two I was, you know, but once you
Speaker 2: get on the freeway, that's that's a different beast. You know.
Speaker 1: By the way, this is shocking. In my driver's ed
Speaker 1: everyone kept saying to me, it's ten and two, and
Speaker 1: it's not ten and two actually, I think now it's
Speaker 1: like eleven and three or something. Weird like that, so
Speaker 1: like I hold it like a little bit differently, which
Speaker 1: is really interesting.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so it's like more more middle staring wheel
Speaker 2: kind of huh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is also funny because I don't think I
Speaker 1: can tell time on a clock. I don't know the
Speaker 1: last time I had to tell time on a clock.
Speaker 1: So I'm like eleven in two, Like, I don't even
Speaker 1: know what that means. I'm just putting my hands where. Yes,
Speaker 1: but let's move on. Now that you can drive in
Speaker 1: this like when we're thinking back of you being sixteen,
Speaker 1: that's that's big in your life. You know, now that
Speaker 1: you can drive, I feel like you can grind more.
Speaker 1: You know, you can go to the gym more, etc.
Speaker 1: So what was your high school you know I made
Speaker 1: it moment or when were you like, wow, I'm going
Speaker 1: to make it to the league.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's tough. Well, AAU was a big, big deal.
Speaker 2: The AAU circuit was huge for my age and even
Speaker 2: now coming up in basketball. But I think that I
Speaker 2: had my first AAU like big, big tournament showcase in Houston.
Speaker 2: It was a tournament called the Kingwood Classic and it
Speaker 2: was huge. Teams from all over the nation came out
Speaker 2: and played in this tournament in like the outskirts of Houston,
Speaker 2: and I had a really good game. One game, I
Speaker 2: had a really nice dunk, and that weekend I got
Speaker 2: a ton of scholarship offers, and throughout the rest of
Speaker 2: that weekend a lot of college coaches who were big
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame coaches came to see me play. And
Speaker 2: after that summer it was all up for me.
Speaker 1: It was great, I'm sure. And you know, in that
Speaker 1: AU tournament or just an AU tournaments in general, for you,
Speaker 1: can you tell us a story about maybe playing against
Speaker 1: another future NBA star?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, there. The summer circuits are insane. You play
Speaker 2: against guys, and especially in my class, against guys like
Speaker 2: Michael Beasley, Kevin Love, Derrick Rose, Oj Mayo, Eric Gordon,
Speaker 2: who was we got drafted together to the Clipper. So
Speaker 2: I played against all those guys in high school. But
Speaker 2: I will probably say, uh, I was most excited to
Speaker 2: play against a guy like Kevin Love because we played
Speaker 2: the same position. We were in the same high school
Speaker 2: graduating class, so playing against him in the summertime at
Speaker 2: these different camps and tournaments was was really really cool.
Speaker 2: And to say that we're still in the NBA now
Speaker 2: was a great experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so special, And what are your thoughts? I know, like,
Speaker 1: to me, Cooper, flag reclassing and just geting a year
Speaker 1: of high school is so interesting, and I feel like
Speaker 1: it's not I mean, it's something we've seen before, right,
Speaker 1: but for someone to be that dominant that he's like,
Speaker 1: I don't even need that year of development. Was that
Speaker 1: ever something that you would have considered or what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that happening now?
Speaker 2: Well? I think, I mean, if you're talented enough and
Speaker 2: you're physically and mentally ready to take that next step,
Speaker 2: I think why not. However, I think for me coming up,
Speaker 2: I obviously wanted to get to the NBA, but I've
Speaker 2: definitely needed that development, those four years of high school,
Speaker 2: that one year of college. I look back and I'm
Speaker 2: very appreciative and grateful that I got to go to
Speaker 2: college for a year and had that college experience with teammates,
Speaker 2: with friends who I still talk to this day, and
Speaker 2: I just overall I've needed that development to be able
Speaker 2: to get to the next level and be somewhere ready
Speaker 2: to play against these adults.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and speaking you know of those adults at sixteen,
Speaker 1: did you have any relationships with guys already in the
Speaker 1: league or were they foreign to you? Like, were they
Speaker 1: really just gods?
Speaker 2: They were foreign to me? They were definitely foreign to me.
Speaker 2: I remember at a certain time it switched for me
Speaker 2: having a favorite team and I just went to having
Speaker 2: favorite players because I didn't want to pick a favorite
Speaker 2: team and not be drafted to that team or just
Speaker 2: like you know, like a connection and it'd be disappointment
Speaker 2: later in the draft. But I think that like seeing
Speaker 2: the guys that I looked up to and they're finally
Speaker 2: being able to play against them did something for my
Speaker 2: confidence and for me as a player.
Speaker 1: And then you know now that we're I want to
Speaker 1: move on a little bit to your NBA career not
Speaker 1: being sixteen anymore. What was it like seeing those guys
Speaker 1: that you thought of as gods now as like your equals.
Speaker 2: It was a shock, I will say that to be
Speaker 2: able to you know, aize guys like Kevin Garnett, Shaquille O'Neill,
Speaker 2: trying to think who else like Shack, Guys like that,
Speaker 2: and then actually be like Lebron seeing him in high school,
Speaker 2: Carmelo Anthony, Guys like that and then to be able
Speaker 2: to play against them and be like, wow, this is
Speaker 2: not just I'm looking at this person's highlights, like this
Speaker 2: is happening in real life, game time situation. So it was.
Speaker 2: It was shocking at first, but then after a while
Speaker 2: you kind of have to go into a okay, like
Speaker 2: I can't look at it that way. I have to
Speaker 2: focus on competing against this person, you know, to lock in. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you have to lock in. And it was an adjustment,
Speaker 2: but a good one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, of course I'm not like a six '
Speaker 1: ten basketball I can relate that a little bit because well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, we never know, maybe something crazy will happen.
Speaker 1: But I can definitely relate to that because what I
Speaker 1: always say is that I think, like, I've been so
Speaker 1: lucky to make relationships, you know, with people like you
Speaker 1: and be able to talk to these amazing athletes, and
Speaker 1: whenever I see an NBA player on the court, my
Speaker 1: whole perception change. Yeah, Like, you know, I interviewed I
Speaker 1: interviewed Chris Paul in a in a classroom at UCLA,
Speaker 1: and in that moment I felt so comfortable. I was
Speaker 1: like I got this whatever, And then I saw him
Speaker 1: on the court and I was like, who is that? God?
Speaker 1: You know, like there's such like a thing about seeing
Speaker 1: you guys suited up on the court that's so special.
Speaker 1: But having that perception and then being like, oh wait,
Speaker 1: that's also me. It's probably I don't even know how
Speaker 1: how you could deal with that, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Yeah, it's insane. There's definitely a like an on
Speaker 2: and off switch or like it's almost like two different worlds,
Speaker 2: you know, to be able to have that separation of
Speaker 2: this is me off the court, chill, no, kind of
Speaker 2: and you know, like intensity, I'm just relaxed. But then
Speaker 2: on the court it's a totally different thing because the
Speaker 2: competition aspect kicks in and you know, sports they take
Speaker 2: you through so many different emotions and you see guys
Speaker 2: the physicality of the game, the intensity of the game,
Speaker 2: the seriousness of the game at times, and people have
Speaker 2: it's almost like doctor Jaco, mister High, like people have
Speaker 2: multiple personalities on and off the floor, which I think
Speaker 2: is good for us to have.
Speaker 1: Some balance for sure. So speaking of you know, your
Speaker 1: time in the league, what was your welcome to the
Speaker 1: league moment?
Speaker 2: Oh? Wow, I think that I was in the weight
Speaker 2: room as a rookie. This is one of I've had
Speaker 2: plenty of these because I came into the league at nineteen.
Speaker 2: But like I was saying earlier, like Dirk was one
Speaker 2: of my favorite players coming up also, and we were
Speaker 2: playing against the Mavericks and I was a young player.
Speaker 2: I wasn't really playing a lot and we were in
Speaker 2: the weight room. I was doing like some lyfts little
Speaker 2: Cardio before the game, as all rookies do, and I
Speaker 2: saw dirt into our weight room and I was kind
Speaker 2: of like freaking out. I was like, oh my god, Wow,
Speaker 2: it's dirt. It's it's him and our our weight uh
Speaker 2: cardio and strength guy. At times, like I don't care
Speaker 2: who it is. You got to finish your weights, and
Speaker 2: I was kind of like, oh sorry, I forgot, And
Speaker 2: it was it was just that moment made me realize, like,
Speaker 2: this is this is my job, and you got to
Speaker 2: be focused on your task at hand. Even though that
Speaker 2: this person is somebody who you may have looked up
Speaker 2: to for a long time, You're still competing against this guy.
Speaker 2: And it was definitely welcomed me for sure.
Speaker 1: For sure. And do you think you've ever had an
Speaker 1: experience sort of the opposite of that where someone came
Speaker 1: up to you and asked for your autograph, and you
Speaker 1: were like, you're asking me for my autograph? Like, look
Speaker 1: at you?
Speaker 2: You know? Uh, Yeah, I've had I've had a couple
Speaker 2: of those moments. Just being able to play against your
Speaker 2: peers and people who respect what you bring to the game.
Speaker 2: I think is it's huge, you know.
Speaker 1: Uh or any celebrities maybe, Oh man.
Speaker 2: That is hmm, that's tough. I've had people tell me
Speaker 2: that they're big fans of mine and I was kind
Speaker 2: of like, what, I didn't even know that you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's yeah, that's a really good feeling to have. I
Speaker 2: just I can't think of one person who I was
Speaker 2: kind of like, wow, But I always tell this story.
Speaker 2: I do believe that we played against the Lakers one
Speaker 2: time as when I was a rookie and Kobe had
Speaker 2: some really great words to say to me after the game,
Speaker 2: which really really stuck with me throughout my career.
Speaker 1: Though. Yeah, I'm sure, I mean, hearing that as a
Speaker 1: rookie is just something you'll never forget. Okay, So now
Speaker 1: we've talked about you when you were sixteen in the
Speaker 1: NBA all that, and I want to go into this
Speaker 1: next segment so I'm not sure if you're familiar with
Speaker 1: a beautiful man newly to the Philadelphia seventy six ers,
Speaker 1: Kelly Ubray Junior.
Speaker 2: A beautiful man.
Speaker 1: Yes, a beautiful man. This segment is called takes Harder
Speaker 1: than Kelly Ubrad Junior and DeAndre I. You know, when
Speaker 1: I think of Kelly Junior, I'm like, I don't think
Speaker 1: many takes could be hotter than him. But then I
Speaker 1: also think about you, and I think about me, and
Speaker 1: I feel like we're both like the best people ever.
Speaker 1: So I feel like we could make takes hotter than him.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 1: Do you think that's cool?
Speaker 2: I agree?
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's start off with this. Who in the
Speaker 1: NBA do you think is the best shoe game?
Speaker 2: The best shoegame? Are we talking on court? Off court?
Speaker 2: What are we saying?
Speaker 1: I think I think on court, but I feel like
Speaker 1: if you have a good shoe game on court, it's
Speaker 1: like you're also gonna have a good shoe game off court.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: That's a fact. I'm going to say best shoe game
Speaker 2: on court? Ooh, I'm gonna have to go with Kelly
Speaker 2: Ubray Junior's teammate PJ. Tucker.
Speaker 1: Of course classic. I mean, is there any other option?
Speaker 1: I think that that's like the number one, you know,
Speaker 1: to go with him? You know, yeah, he has a
Speaker 1: house for his shoes, so I feel like it would
Speaker 1: be almost offensive to choose anyone else. But anyways, let's
Speaker 1: let's keep our takes getting hot. And I want to
Speaker 1: know if you can give me a top five most
Speaker 1: underrated players to guard. I interview Drew Holliday a few
Speaker 1: months ago, and he told me Bobby Portois and people
Speaker 1: love that. So I want to hear people that no
Speaker 1: one expects.
Speaker 2: M Okay, this is this is a really good question. Slow, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with hmmm, gosh, this is tough. Let's
Speaker 2: go Io from the Chicago Bulls. Okay, I think he's
Speaker 2: I think he's a tough guard. I'm gonna go with.
Speaker 2: This is a This is really really tough.
Speaker 1: That's why there takes harder than Kelly brid Junior because
Speaker 1: I really have to stump you.
Speaker 2: You know, this is tough because it's like you can't
Speaker 2: name the obvious players, so you want to be players
Speaker 2: like you know, Yeah, this is tough. Okay, let's go.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go one of my team it is Christian Brown.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, three, let's.
Speaker 2: Go mm hmm you are yeah, Jeremy Grant from Portland.
Speaker 1: Yes, of course he's huge. He's a big guy. I
Speaker 1: guess no one is like huge to.
Speaker 2: You though, right, And yeah, I'm kind of like.
Speaker 1: Like do you look at a guy that big and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, he's so little, you.
Speaker 2: Know, he's irige. Yeah, I'm gonna go, oh Man.
Speaker 1: M Lakers Legends.
Speaker 2: And then one more, let's go with only because we
Speaker 2: played him tomorrow and I think he's a really good player,
Speaker 2: but he's not like he's one of their best players.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Shay. I think it's of course, yeah,
Speaker 2: like he's tough.
Speaker 1: SHA's the type of guy that this this segment could
Speaker 1: also be called takes hotter than Alexander. It's true. My
Speaker 1: fantasy backstall team is called Sloan gilligas Alexander, and you
Speaker 1: have to make an abbreviation, so it's.
Speaker 2: Just s g A.
Speaker 1: Because like, what specifically about Shay would you say you
Speaker 1: think makes him really that good? Because he went from
Speaker 1: being I mean, you know, he he's always been good,
Speaker 1: but last year he really took off what do you
Speaker 1: think it was about him that that allowed him to
Speaker 1: have that jump.
Speaker 2: Well, one, I think for sure, like maturity, being able
Speaker 2: to you know, go from when he was with the Clippers.
Speaker 2: He was kind of you know coming into his own
Speaker 2: and trying to figure out what kind of player he
Speaker 2: was going to be to come into OKC and you know,
Speaker 2: learning with Chris quite a bit and then coming into
Speaker 2: his own as a player and like you know taking
Speaker 2: over this team. And I think that that was that
Speaker 2: was pretty cool to see. But for one, you know,
Speaker 2: he's a big guard. You know, he's not short, he's tall,
Speaker 2: He gets spot, his mid range is crazy. He shoots
Speaker 2: over people. He's one of the best like reject guys
Speaker 2: in the league. So he he gets to the foul
Speaker 2: on So he he's a very very tough guard. And
Speaker 2: I think that he will continue to develop and you
Speaker 2: know be tougher for a lot of teams for for
Speaker 2: years to come.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this definitely connects to you and to Shay.
Speaker 1: The Clippers draft some really talented guys, and I think
Speaker 1: a lot of them don't get their opportunities to thrive
Speaker 1: on the Clippers, especially right now, because of how you know,
Speaker 1: Star heavy the Clippers are and a guy that I've
Speaker 1: always thought that if he got the right opportunity, could
Speaker 1: be similar to Shae is Brandon Boston Junior. I really
Speaker 1: think that he's extremely talented, and we've seen that with
Speaker 1: the Ontario Clippers. He's really proven that he's a really,
Speaker 1: really talented guy. And I think it's interesting to see
Speaker 1: what would happen to someone like him who was in
Speaker 1: a similar position to Shay if he was traded to
Speaker 1: his team like the Spurs or the Rockets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see that because Brandon is you know, he's
Speaker 2: he's tall, he's skilled, he's athletic, he can score the
Speaker 2: basket really well. But I also think that you know,
Speaker 2: with that comes you know a time where you can
Speaker 2: learn from guys like PG Kawhi to where when it's
Speaker 2: when it is your time to either you know, step
Speaker 2: up and take a bigger role with the team that's're on,
Speaker 2: or if you get moved or you decide to move
Speaker 2: on to a different team, that you're ready to be
Speaker 2: able to take on those responsibilities. So I do think
Speaker 2: that he is getting everything that he needs to get
Speaker 2: at this time and then when when the time is
Speaker 2: right for him to excel. I think that that will happen, Like, uh,
Speaker 2: it's hard for guys who are extremely talented to not
Speaker 2: be talented in this league. Like you'll get that opportunity,
Speaker 2: I believe. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so you know, right now, I'm in tenth grade, sixteen,
Speaker 1: and I'm starting to think about college, which is a
Speaker 1: little bit stressful. I'm going to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to know. I feel like you're sort
Speaker 1: of a master of this college spectrum because, as we
Speaker 1: all know, you went to Texas A and M for
Speaker 1: one year. But then I also heard a little rumor
Speaker 1: that right now you're studying at Brown, two very different places.
Speaker 1: So I'm curious to know which school would you suggest,
Speaker 1: you know, like, what do you think the juxtaposition is
Speaker 1: between those two places?
Speaker 2: Oh? That is that is tough. You know, I haven't
Speaker 2: really seen a lot of Brown's sports programs up close,
Speaker 2: so I will say that, you know, my time at
Speaker 2: Texas and then was awesome. And I think for that
Speaker 2: period of time that I was in as a as
Speaker 2: a person, as a player trying to get to the
Speaker 2: goal that I was trying to get to, it was
Speaker 2: perfect for me at that time. But now that I'm
Speaker 2: older and I've matured quite a bit. I think that
Speaker 2: being at Brown is something that is amazing for me,
Speaker 2: and I'm very grateful to be at this university with
Speaker 2: these fantastic and amazing professors and my peers that I'm
Speaker 2: able to learn and discuss and debate things with on
Speaker 2: a daily basis, and classmates that I consider friends at
Speaker 2: this point in time, and I think that it's it's
Speaker 2: great to be able to have those relationships and and
Speaker 2: do it at a time where I didn't think I
Speaker 2: was going to ever go back to school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, before we move on, I just want to
Speaker 1: clarify you'll get me that letter of reck right to Brown,
Speaker 1: right question for me?
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure, like before we move on,
Speaker 1: I got that down. Okay, cool, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: Whatever you need.
Speaker 1: I want to move on to this. So Wemby, let's
Speaker 1: talk about Wenby. Right. It's been a few games for
Speaker 1: Wemby so far, and he's he's he has been special.
Speaker 1: I I it's been a pleasure for me to watch.
Speaker 1: I've never seen a more dominant person in my life.
Speaker 1: It's really so cool. And I want to know as
Speaker 1: someone who's also pretty tall and big. Are you going
Speaker 1: to try to dunk on Wemby? And if so, how
Speaker 1: would you approach that?
Speaker 2: I think at this part of my career, like I've
Speaker 2: I've had a lot of dunks, and like why not.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he's gonna try to block everything that comes
Speaker 2: into the pain. He's gonna try to dunk on everybody.
Speaker 2: So I think when you as a competitor, like you're
Speaker 2: definitely gonna try to do these things because he's gonna
Speaker 2: try to do these things too. So it's it's something
Speaker 2: that you can't go up against a guy that big,
Speaker 2: who is you know, playing some great basketball this time
Speaker 2: he has a great I feel like, you know, knack
Speaker 2: for the ball. His timing is really good. So with him,
Speaker 2: you got to go to the basket aggressively. If not, like.
Speaker 1: It'll get Yeah. The other day I was watching Rocket
Speaker 1: Spurs and Javari Smith Junior went up for the poster.
Speaker 1: He gets denied by Wemby and tries to do it again,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what are you doing? You are getting
Speaker 1: yourself done something you do not want to be in.
Speaker 1: Like you're gonna be on House of Highlights not once,
Speaker 1: but twice and you know, that's his way of being like,
Speaker 1: look at me, I want to get on House of Highlights.
Speaker 1: That's fine, but I feel like he should try to
Speaker 1: get on House of Highlights for another reason than getting
Speaker 1: destroyed by Wemby multiplely.
Speaker 2: I did like the way he puts to the basket aggressively.
Speaker 2: So I did like the first attempt that he had though,
Speaker 2: because at that point.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, I mean he has balls. He tried it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta try it, you gotta try it, and
Speaker 2: you do. Wendy did what he was supposed to do,
Speaker 2: what he's supposed to do.
Speaker 1: Man, he did, and he's good at doing what he's
Speaker 1: supposed to do. So I like. I like how we've
Speaker 1: I think we've been talking pretty positively so far, which
Speaker 1: I think is good. You know, we've given some shout
Speaker 1: outs to SGA, to Wemby, the Brandon Boston Junior, and
Speaker 1: I want to continue doing that. So my next segment
Speaker 1: doesn't really have a name, but the idea of it
Speaker 1: is all positivity. I'm a teenage girl and I'm trying
Speaker 1: to bring a fresh perspective to the NBA world, which
Speaker 1: unfortunately so much of media of the media is so negative.
Speaker 1: You know, So I would like to highlight five special
Speaker 1: players that you have played with before, and I would
Speaker 1: like you to, like, you know, give a little compliment
Speaker 1: to your guys. Okay, so let's start off with Blake Griffin.
Speaker 2: Not only a great teammate, but one of the best
Speaker 2: uh in game dunkers and athletes that I've ever been
Speaker 2: around in my entire life.
Speaker 1: That is the truth. And a guest on slow notes.
Speaker 1: So like it, wod yes crazy? Right next up CP three,
Speaker 1: and before you give him his compliment, do you know
Speaker 1: that I have now had the whole Lob City trio
Speaker 1: on slow nose. I don't think many teenage girls can
Speaker 1: say that. I'm just gonna be real. I don't think
Speaker 1: many t dage girls sin.
Speaker 2: That is that is true. I'm glad I was able
Speaker 2: to like finish that off.
Speaker 1: So that's for appreciation. Okay, let's give CP three his compliment.
Speaker 2: Uh CP, the probably the smartest player that I've ever
Speaker 2: played with, the point god and the guy who is
Speaker 2: one of the big big reasons that I turned into
Speaker 2: the player that that I am today.
Speaker 1: Amazing. Now you gotta go the joker mm hmm, speechless.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean, like Nicola is great. Yeah. Yo,
Speaker 2: he like one of the most selfless guys I've ever
Speaker 2: been around, on and off the floor. He truly, truly loves,
Speaker 2: you know, making his teammates better and winning basketball games.
Speaker 2: And I think that when you are, you know, the
Speaker 2: best player on the team and you have that selfless attitude,
Speaker 2: that it's truly contagious. And he's he's a joy to
Speaker 2: be around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And does he like basketball? Like, I'm confused. Does
Speaker 1: he like basketball? Does he not? I'm confused with what's
Speaker 1: going on.
Speaker 2: Listen, I hear this quite a bit. And I uh,
Speaker 2: I think that it's okay to be able to have
Speaker 2: an off button from basketball at times. You know, basketball
Speaker 2: is what we do, is not who we are. And
Speaker 2: I think that having other hobbies can help you stay
Speaker 2: sae throughout your career in the NBA. So, you know,
Speaker 2: if he likes to not pick up a basketball for
Speaker 2: a month or two, if he wants to ride horses,
Speaker 2: if he you know, if like, that's fine as long
Speaker 2: as you know. But I mean, I think that you know,
Speaker 2: even when he does take a break from basketball, he
Speaker 2: comes back and it's like he hasn't taken a break
Speaker 2: from basketball. So I think that he's he's just fine.
Speaker 1: By the way, I know why you're going to Brown.
Speaker 1: Your comments are so deep. I'm like, wow, I'm like
Speaker 1: getting overwhelmed by the intelligence.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm getting you ready for the curriculum
Speaker 2: that you're gonna be you know, take in in.
Speaker 1: Like two years. Okay, well, prayers fingers crossed again. Okay,
Speaker 1: next compliment is to Jamal Murray.
Speaker 2: Oh man, Jamal is you know, first of all, Jamal's Canadian,
Speaker 2: so he's a very nice guy to with.
Speaker 1: Of course, of course, does he say sorry like in
Speaker 1: the Canadian way? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, Jamal I think is one of the most
Speaker 2: relentless guys I've been around. Obviously, he went through a
Speaker 2: very very tough injury during a tough time, and he
Speaker 2: fought his butt off to get back and you know,
Speaker 2: led us to win a championship last summer. And just
Speaker 2: his fight alone and the type of mindset he had
Speaker 2: to get back, like that's that was awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And I want to move on to
Speaker 1: another guy on the Nuggets that I every time I
Speaker 1: watched either the Nuggets play or the Clippers play, I
Speaker 1: always saw this guy and I was like, I feel
Speaker 1: like no one talks about how good he really is.
Speaker 1: And that guy is Reggie Jackson. And I'm curious if
Speaker 1: you have a compliment for reg.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Reggie's good man. Reggie has been doing great things
Speaker 2: in this league for a long time. Back when he
Speaker 2: was with OKCE and Detroit. He he you know, with
Speaker 2: the Clippers, he did a really really good job. And
Speaker 2: I think that you know, to be able to play
Speaker 2: in different spots in this league, whether it's coming off
Speaker 2: the bench, being a starter, and being one of the
Speaker 2: main guys to coming off the be again, his value
Speaker 2: is so big for what he does for multiple units,
Speaker 2: and it's really great to have him back this year
Speaker 2: with us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and speaking of a veteran like Reggie, as a
Speaker 1: veteran yourself, you've seen so many players grow and improve
Speaker 1: over the years. You know, I know, this is your
Speaker 1: fifteenth season, which is like basically the span of my life,
Speaker 1: which is just a funny thing to consider.
Speaker 2: You know, ste sixteenth, this is.
Speaker 1: Your sixteenth Oh so literally, your NBA career and me
Speaker 1: are the same age sixteen. Yes, happy. Now your career
Speaker 1: can get your license. That's crazy. Your career can literally
Speaker 1: get its license. But will it pass Driver's ed.
Speaker 2: I don't know about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyways, as a veteran, is there a certain players
Speaker 1: development and growth that you've seen that's really impressed you
Speaker 1: the most? And how do you think that they were
Speaker 1: able to evolve their game?
Speaker 2: M wow. I think I have to go to one
Speaker 2: of my teammates now who is in our rotation and
Speaker 2: he learned a lot last year through ups and downs,
Speaker 2: through mistakes great times. Is Peyton Watson. Yes, I think
Speaker 2: that he his ceiling is really really high. He is
Speaker 2: extremely athletic, He has a knack for blcking shots, getting steals,
Speaker 2: and he can also score the basketball too. But I
Speaker 2: think right now his focus is energy and defending and
Speaker 2: doing anything he can to be on the floor, And
Speaker 2: just his growth within the past year has been amazing.
Speaker 2: And he has guys like you know KCP, who is
Speaker 2: a great defender and a great shooter to kind of
Speaker 2: learn from and like pick his brain about different things.
Speaker 2: And him and Michael Porter Junior have Michael Porter Junior
Speaker 2: is one of the best shooters we have in this league.
Speaker 2: They have shooting competitions after practice, so just you know,
Speaker 2: guys like that, he's able to kind of feed off
Speaker 2: of and and learn from Uh, it's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 2: take him high.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I feel like, you know, correct me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, But it seems almost that that sort of
Speaker 1: family connection that all those guys have is the key
Speaker 1: to winning the chip, you know, is like all you
Speaker 1: guys seem so close, and the fact that those players
Speaker 1: are wanting to enable to really mentor younger guys like
Speaker 1: Peyton shows, at least to me from the outside, why
Speaker 1: you guys are so special.
Speaker 2: That's true. Yeah, you're right, You're right.
Speaker 1: Okay, So now we're gonna move on to the ending,
Speaker 1: the last hurrah. As you know, this show is called
Speaker 1: Sloane Knows. It's actually called Slow Nose because of a
Speaker 1: commercial about bo Jackson, but that's a whole nother story.
Speaker 1: So this segment is called Sloan Knows Your Game? But
Speaker 1: do you?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you trivia about yourself, DeAndre, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to answer, And I'm very curious to see
Speaker 1: how well you're gonna do. You you may be shocked
Speaker 1: to see that. You will be stumped. Really, So let's
Speaker 1: give it a go. Okay, are you ready?
Speaker 2: I'm ready?
Speaker 1: How many blocks was your heist school career high.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know it's twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is true. Wow, okay, good start, good start?
Speaker 1: Who Okay, So, DeAndre, shockingly, you were drafted in the
Speaker 1: second round thirty fifth pick. Who was drafted the thirty
Speaker 1: fourth pick, and who was drafted the thirty sixth pick?
Speaker 2: Can I know the team names?
Speaker 1: I think that that's cheating. I think, I mean, I
Speaker 1: can tell you the guy drafted above you had a
Speaker 1: good career. The guy below you is Turkish. I believe
Speaker 1: those are my two like hints for you, because I'm
Speaker 1: not like I can't you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: I need you to, I need you to like grind
Speaker 1: on this.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the guy before me was Mario Thomers.
Speaker 1: Yes that is correct. Okay, Yeah, Now the one after you,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he had a great career. I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 1: At my ripe age of sixteen, I have no idea
Speaker 1: who he is. So I want to know if you.
Speaker 2: Do Turkish guy after me in the draft?
Speaker 1: Gosh, well, I think he's Turkish. His name just sounds Turkish,
Speaker 1: So I guess maybe that's a guess.
Speaker 2: But like I feel like, oh, that's tough. I know
Speaker 2: Mario is before me.
Speaker 1: Do you want me to reveal in his last name?
Speaker 1: There's like a letter I've never seen before, but I
Speaker 1: think you pronounced his name Omar ashik Oh.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeah, he played for the Rockets. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: yes yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, great, well we got there, We got there, no offense, Omar.
Speaker 1: We love you out here. If you'd ever like to
Speaker 1: be on, come on and you can just pretend like
Speaker 1: you don't know who the guy drafted above you was. Yes, yes, okay. Next,
Speaker 1: this is a fun one. How many three pointers have
Speaker 1: you made in your career? DeAndre? Two those? Can you
Speaker 1: do me a favorite this year? I'd like you to
Speaker 1: make your third? Okay, do it for Sloan please?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I will consider doing that for you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, and maybe just to like make it perfect.
Speaker 2: You can do like a little heart after Okay, so
Speaker 2: you'll know that for you when I make it, I'll
Speaker 2: go like.
Speaker 1: This exactly all right. When I was in like eighth
Speaker 1: grade or no, eighth grade was like two years ago.
Speaker 1: I meant like fifth grade. Wayne Ellington was in the
Speaker 1: three point contest and I told him if he won
Speaker 1: to do this celebration for me and he didn't win,
Speaker 1: But my thought is is that if he won, he
Speaker 1: would have done it, like okay, or maybe he just
Speaker 1: didn't win because he didn't want to do this seally
Speaker 1: for me, you know, like I think like people are like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: he would have never done that. I'm like, no, it's
Speaker 1: just because he lost. Like I'm telling you, if he won,
Speaker 1: he definitely would have done that for me. But please
Speaker 1: make my dreams happen better than Wayne Ellington and do
Speaker 1: the heart and hit that three dandre.
Speaker 2: If I had a three D year, I will do it. Ready.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I can't wait. This is gonna that
Speaker 1: will be good viral content. So good. Now, okay, So
Speaker 1: what was the lowest free throw percentage you've ever shot?
Speaker 1: And what was the highest?
Speaker 2: The highest was I believe when I was in Dallas,
Speaker 2: it's like seventy two point four, seventy one point.
Speaker 1: A little generous seventy point five.
Speaker 2: Seventy point five I was, I was rounding up you were, yeah, sorry,
Speaker 2: and the lowest, oh my gosh, ummm, forty eight.
Speaker 1: Thirty six, also being a little generous, thirty seven point five.
Speaker 1: But it's okay. It was in your second year. I
Speaker 1: feel like you've learned from that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, Yeah, I've gotten a lot better since then.
Speaker 2: So that was yeah wow, that was when you were
Speaker 2: too slow.
Speaker 1: That was when I was too that So I have
Speaker 1: to be honest, DeAndre, I didn't. I wasn't locked in
Speaker 1: when you were shooting your free throws in your second year.
Speaker 1: I did not see them. I'm just gonna be real,
Speaker 1: but I see them now. So I actually, what's funny
Speaker 1: is I I only know you as like a seventy
Speaker 1: point five percent free throw shooter because I wasn't like
Speaker 1: mentally here when you Yeah, so you shouldn't. Actually you
Speaker 1: shouldn't have even told me that, because then I just
Speaker 1: would have been like, oh my god, DeAndre Jordan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like a better free throw shooter than Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: and it would be like whatever. Also, this is deep knowledge.
Speaker 1: You know who actually had a better free throw percentage
Speaker 1: than Steph Curry one year, Brad Wannamaker. So I'll just
Speaker 1: think of you as like the next Brad Wanta Maker
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate that. Thank you for that. I needed
Speaker 2: that for my confidence.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Brad will too.
Speaker 2: WILLO.
Speaker 1: Okay, now, what was your field goal? Percentage in the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two twenty twenty three season. This is crazy.
Speaker 1: It is a very good stat It is.
Speaker 2: A very good stat. I will say eighty percent.
Speaker 1: You really. I love the generosity. It's still amazing, but
Speaker 1: it's not eighty seventy six point five.
Speaker 2: Seventy six point five. See, I'm round, I'm selling, I'm rounding.
Speaker 1: This year. The goal is eighty, goal is eighty. This
Speaker 1: year you are rounding, which is fine because if well, okay,
Speaker 1: not to be like that, right, but just like in
Speaker 1: algebra two, which I'm in right now, if you were rounding,
Speaker 1: you would round to seventy seven because you're a seventy
Speaker 1: six point five, you know what I mean. Okay, eighty
Speaker 1: eighty is like actually just I think a little bit
Speaker 1: of a stretch, but I get where you're at.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just want to be better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's okay, and I know you will be. This year.
Speaker 1: We're going for eighty and then you don't have to round, Okay,
Speaker 1: So next time you're on here when I'm seventeen, it'll
Speaker 1: all work out. Okay, DeAndre, this is your last question,
Speaker 1: and you've actually been doing pretty well. Like people usually
Speaker 1: do not get this, so The last question is how
Speaker 1: many regular season games have you played over your career,
Speaker 1: excluding like the two games this season.
Speaker 2: One thousand, one hundred thirty.
Speaker 1: Two one thousand, nineteen. So close, it's close. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're you're in like the area. You know what I mean,
Speaker 1: you're in the area. I need to get like a
Speaker 1: statistic of who has done the best on this, Like
Speaker 1: I want to I need to start getting like I
Speaker 1: need to start grading you guys, you know, because like
Speaker 1: if you're a whole brainiac at Brown, like I need
Speaker 1: to start grading you. I think i'd be yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: well hopefully I think you're I think you're up there.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna grade you like a C. I'm sorry, s awkward.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take a hit to your GPA. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, like I think I could give
Speaker 1: you some half credit maybe like for the free throw percentages.
Speaker 1: I'll give you half credit, so like maybe like be
Speaker 1: plus range.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then and then like the draft one, I
Speaker 2: got one of those, right, so I should have credit
Speaker 2: for that as well.
Speaker 1: So like I'll consider I'll let you know. Okay, thanks, okay, Greg, Well, anyways, DeAndre,
Speaker 1: it has truly been my pleasure having you on here.
Speaker 1: I think we're like low key now best friends, and
Speaker 1: I also think that I'm maybe like making you a
Speaker 1: better player, Like you're going to hit a three and
Speaker 1: hit me with that heart celebration and we're all gonna
Speaker 1: know where it comes from. So thank you so much
Speaker 1: for doing this. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you so much, and good luck get
Speaker 2: your license.
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