1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: First off, man, we appreciate you. Come mess with your boys. 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 1: You know, I got my Kobe's and my. 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 2: Yeah. 4 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, man, we always rock with you, walk with your 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: game on and off the court. Appreciate it, and man, 6 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 1: we definitely appreciate you being first question asked everybody is 7 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: you first got to the league? 8 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 3: Who was the first person to bust your first person? 9 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 4: Hm? 10 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 5: Two that that was definitely memorable was Brandon Roy, b Roy, Yeah, 11 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 5: b Roy and d Wade. It was first two to 12 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 5: where it was like all right, fu'm I'm I'm in 13 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 5: the league now them too was on another level. 14 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 3: What they don't talk about b Roy, know what would 15 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:47,160 Speaker 3: be Roy doing? 16 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 6: That's crazy because people really don't talk about like that. 17 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 2: Bro. 18 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 5: B Roy probably like and looking back on it, he 19 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 5: was young too, Like you know what I mean those 20 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 5: Portland days. He was young, but he was so fucking 21 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 5: skilled every way I had to see him, Yeah, from 22 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 5: all three levels, you know what I mean. He take 23 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 5: you to the post, mid range, three, pick and roll, 24 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 5: he meet you at the top, like every festive of 25 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 5: his game was on a different level. 26 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:21,759 Speaker 2: Bro. Like he was stronger than he Yeah he was. 27 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 5: He was strong, explosive, he had everything in his bag. 28 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,400 Speaker 2: Bro Yo yo yo. 29 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 7: We backed live on location, me and the Blackest One 30 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:35,400 Speaker 7: and pulled up the l A Man and we got 31 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 7: Compton Zone in the building. Straight out of USC to Toronto, 32 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 7: made the little kid stop in San Antonio. Now he 33 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 7: headed to my city, the shy city, Chicago Zone man. 34 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 7: He teaming up with Zach, with Zoe, with Vucci. We 35 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 7: got my main man, DeMar DeRozan in the. 36 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 2: Building for sure. 37 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 3: Content. 38 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 1: I was growing up in Compton, I know, we was 39 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 1: around the younger days. 40 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, what was it like? 41 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 2: Was it like what everybody think they see on TV, 42 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 2: N W A and all of that. 43 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 5: You know, it's crazy growing up Like I'd be lying 44 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 5: and you say it was it was crazy because growing 45 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 5: up in it, I just thought it was normal, you 46 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 5: know what I mean. Whatever I was going through, you 47 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 5: know it was it was normal. You know, you knew 48 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 5: what the lookout for, you knew what they expect, you 49 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 5: knew where to go, where not to go, what this 50 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:47,920 Speaker 5: street was with this street wasn't so you you you 51 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 5: was raised in it, understanding the caution and the survival 52 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,079 Speaker 5: taxes that you needed to have. But you know, obviously 53 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 5: when I got older, you know, by the time I 54 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 5: got in high school and it's like, all right, I'm 55 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 5: losing people close to me. You know, you start to 56 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 5: kind of comprehend and understand, like with murders. Really definitely, yeah, 57 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 5: you know what I mean, and you know, you start understanding, 58 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 5: like you know, you start putting a price on life 59 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 5: and understanding like damn, I just lost a close friend 60 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 5: because of what you know what I mean, you start 61 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 5: questioning it later on with growing up, it was you know, 62 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 5: it was normal, you know what I mean, But you know, 63 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 5: looking back on it, it definitely was tough. Definitely being raised 64 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 5: and in an aggressive environment that you you have to 65 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 5: adapt to, you know what I mean. 66 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 3: Who put the ball in? Who one of those? 67 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: Instead of swinging you towards what everything else was going 68 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: around you. 69 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 2: I was at the ball for Shure. My dad. 70 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 5: My dad was always into sports. 71 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 2: You know. 72 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 5: He had me playing everything if it was t ball, 73 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 5: So you fell out straight. Yeah, yeah, you know. He 74 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 5: was one of the dask like shit, every weekend, take 75 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 5: me to the park, do something, putting me in different 76 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 5: activities and everything. So I gotta give credit to Pops 77 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 5: for shure. 78 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: In high school, when you start getting ranked, seeing your name, 79 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: and you're starting to be one of the best in 80 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: the state, not only the state but the country. 81 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 3: What year was that? 82 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 5: When when it really when it really started like standing 83 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 5: out for me? I want to say probably the end 84 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 5: of my sophomore year. It's really when it really started hitting, 85 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 5: because you know, now I'm in different basketball environments, like 86 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,160 Speaker 5: I'm going to East Coast now, and I'm seeing just 87 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 5: when you start playing with yeah, yeah, when I started 88 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,840 Speaker 5: playing with Pee, I probably started playing peep about like 89 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,919 Speaker 5: eighth grade. But you know, I wasn't the best player 90 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 5: on that team at that time, you know what I mean. 91 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 5: It was probably four or five the guys that was 92 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 5: ahead of me at that time. But I just stuck 93 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 5: with it. And by the end of my you know, 94 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 5: sophomore year, you know, I'm ending up at camps on 95 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 5: the East Coast and you're competing against you know, dudes 96 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 5: that talk funny, you like, you know what I mean, 97 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 5: Like like that's when you're really like, all right, now, 98 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 5: now I made it because you know I'm playing against Yeah, 99 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 5: I'm playing against dudes from the country, East Coast dudes, 100 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 5: dudes from the Midwest, and you know you're competing you 101 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 5: know what I mean, so end of my sophomore year 102 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 5: for sure, what did you. 103 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 3: Learn about being around Pee? Because he is like legendary. 104 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,160 Speaker 7: Yeah, how did that like when you first met him 105 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,840 Speaker 7: to play, like to get approached by Master bro? 106 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 2: How did that even come about? First? 107 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 5: I didn't believe it because the team that I initially 108 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 5: was on, like we broke up. So he basically like 109 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 5: took over all the kids that didn't have a team. 110 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:29,160 Speaker 5: So we was like, all right, we're going to play 111 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,359 Speaker 5: for master p team. But we thinking, you know, he 112 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 5: just gonna sponsor it. First practice, he had practiced every practice, yeah, 113 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 5: coaching playing against us, and it turned into like a 114 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 5: family oriented thing, you know what I mean, to where 115 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 5: you know, next day, you know, we had dinners on 116 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 5: the weekend, whole family, you know what I mean, And 117 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,279 Speaker 5: it became something bigger than basketball, to where it was like, 118 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 5: you know, you know, he took me in like one 119 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 5: of his one of his kids, you know what I mean. 120 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 5: And to this day, you know, I appreciate him more 121 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 5: than anything. And you know that's a relationship I never 122 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 5: really talk about, but if you know, you know, you 123 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 5: know what I mean, Like he definitely was a father 124 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 5: figure to me. 125 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 7: You know what I mean, I feel like he don't 126 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 7: get enough credits for what he's done, as you know, 127 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,359 Speaker 7: that father figure everybody knows, you know, the no limit 128 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 7: and everything he's done in that in that realm. But 129 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,799 Speaker 7: just watching you know, we got to meet Pete early 130 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:26,039 Speaker 7: on at Jordan Camp. We had Romeo and all the 131 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 7: kids do and all that different stuff, and then played 132 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 7: against him when you know, had his cup of tea 133 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 7: with with Toronto and Charlotte and so during that whole time, 134 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 7: it's just like you see him then, and to look 135 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 7: at him now and this dude, like, you know what 136 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 7: I'm saying, he got groceries, he's doing this, and then 137 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 7: to see the things and the way he's raised up 138 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 7: his kids is the thing that you see the most. 139 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:46,720 Speaker 7: It's like, you know what I'm saying, I feel like, 140 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 7: you know, being African American, I'm proud to see the 141 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 7: way he's going about it. And then it's the way 142 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 7: little you know, little Romeo is handling his business and 143 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,280 Speaker 7: the younger sons are coming up and they getting the 144 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,039 Speaker 7: crazy endorsements with the colleague game. Just to see Pete 145 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 7: being on it for it's like to be able to 146 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 7: migrate from you know, the street life, and to bring 147 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 7: that into legitimate businesses and put your kids in that position. 148 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 7: It's just crazy to see. And I don't feel like 149 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 7: he really get a lot of flowers. 150 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 6: Yeah he don't because he, like you said, he been 151 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 6: doing this since day one. 152 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 2: Bro. 153 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 5: Like it's crazy exactly what he doing now. He was 154 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 5: doing with me and everybody else who played on the team, 155 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 5: you know what I mean, it's nothing new. So when 156 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 5: I see it now, it's I don't even think nothing 157 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 5: of it because it's been that, you know what I mean. 158 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 5: It's crazy how he always educated us and at the 159 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 5: same time showed us like what his life was really like. 160 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 2: You know what I mean. 161 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 5: Like I remember times he used to be like, you 162 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 5: sure y'all want to go to these concerts? We eighth grade, 163 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 5: ninth grade, Like, oh yeah, we're going to go to 164 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 5: the concert. We go to concerts. It's a whole different 165 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 5: type of element. But he break down the whole business 166 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 5: part of it to help us understand, you know, I mean, 167 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 5: even if we didn't understand it, as we got older, 168 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 5: especially for me, a lot of things started to make 169 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 5: sense why he did a lot of stuff he was doing, 170 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 5: you know, what I mean, I applied that, you know 171 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 5: when I went into the lead, Like I was around 172 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 5: Pe when he had all these cars outside, big houses 173 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 5: and all this stuff. So you know, he always taught 174 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 5: you know, materialistic things don't matter, you know. So by 175 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 5: the time I got to lead, I didn't want nothing 176 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 5: but to understand and learn the game and the business 177 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 5: so I could better myself and whatever comes after me. 178 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 5: So you know, I definitely got to give him his 179 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 5: credit and his flowers for sure. 180 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 2: Yeah. 181 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: A funny story of Pe. We was working out with 182 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: p Uh. He was trying to be on the Clipper 183 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: squad and play with so he was like, yeah, man, 184 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: they need to go on sign me. Man, we don't 185 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: even gotta use they playing, we can use my plan. 186 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 5: Yeah that's big. 187 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 2: He was like, yeah, we need to sign everybody. I understand. 188 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 7: We played for the Donald Sterling leg This was you know, 189 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 7: we didn't even have our own plane. 190 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we was like leasing and playing. 191 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 7: Back then, most teams there was some stuff since you know, 192 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:57,959 Speaker 7: they was getting their own plane and doing big. 193 00:08:58,559 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 2: We were not that. 194 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: Who's some of them guys in high school because you 195 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: came up, you know, ye y'all era you got a 196 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: lot of hitters, a lot of guys that's. 197 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:10,680 Speaker 3: In the league that you've been seeing since you was fifteen. 198 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 1: Sixteen years old. These guys has been around playing against you. 199 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 1: Who was some of them guys you came up in 200 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 1: high school? 201 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 3: He was like, man, he nice. 202 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 2: Man. 203 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 5: I think I was telling somebody this the other day. 204 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 5: One of the toughest players that I had to deal 205 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 5: with I hate playing against in high school was Drew 206 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 5: Holliday just from when we was like eleven twelve. The 207 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 5: Drew you see today is the Drew when we were 208 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 5: eleven twelve years old. 209 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 2: You know what I mean? He was. 210 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 5: He was always everydexterous skilled, and he just had this 211 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:42,719 Speaker 5: whole demeanor like he don't see you like you know 212 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 5: what I mean, Like I'm solid. 213 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:44,959 Speaker 2: He just solid. 214 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 5: I'm gonna go out there and do what I gotta 215 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 5: do any lock up. He like what I'm telling you, 216 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 5: what he is today is what he was when his kids. 217 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 6: I got I gotta give it a Drew for sure. 218 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: When you got announced to be like McDonald's all American 219 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 1: and getting our thing half Jordan class and. 220 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 6: When oh yeah yeah they had it came out. 221 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: They just had McDonald's and he went to Georgia class 222 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 1: you did, y'all didn't have that. 223 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:09,080 Speaker 3: We didn't have it. 224 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 1: They just had McDonald's, McDonald's, Kentucky Derby in the USA. 225 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 3: You know you complete in three all. We definitely had 226 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 3: a Jordan class. Yeah, but you came up in there. 227 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 1: How was that to get selected and be one of 228 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 1: the top guys? 229 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 5: Man, it was crazy for me, especially like I remember 230 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 5: even going staying home and going to count To High. 231 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 5: Like I had so many people tell me, like, man, 232 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 5: you need to go to a bigger school. You gotta 233 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 5: go to school like ok Hill or Dominion's High School. 234 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 5: You got to go to these schools so you be 235 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 5: recognized to make McDonald's by the time you graduate. So 236 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 5: for me to make it and go through everything I 237 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 5: went through, stay home, going to Compton High where you know, 238 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 5: we didn't have a big name. We wasn't the greatest team, 239 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 5: and you know, so fun for me to make it, 240 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 5: it was a special woman. 241 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 7: I definitely remember when you get announced for McDonald's game, 242 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 7: You remember where you were when you was watching it 243 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 7: and all that, cause I remember sitting at home. I 244 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 7: was actually mad when they announced me. Short story about 245 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 7: that was that. You know how when they show your 246 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 7: picture and then finally announced it, they show all my 247 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 7: little basketball highlights me in high school. Then they put 248 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 7: my picture up with all my little status of my 249 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 7: name Quinn Richard, but it was Richard Jefferson's picture. Oh damn, Now, 250 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 7: I have nothing bad to say about you, r J. 251 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 7: But we do not look a lot. That was that 252 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 7: was wrong, and they put my picture up. When it 253 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 7: was his turn, I was. 254 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 5: Like, oh, yeah, they had they had all mixed. 255 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 2: What is going on? 256 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: What was McDonald's game Milwaukee? It was in milw Milwaukee. 257 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: Y'all had hit us on like Kember. 258 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 5: And Kemba, Shunk, Brandon greg Roe. We had, we had. 259 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 5: We had some dudes whoever. I'm sorry if I'm missing 260 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 5: anybody else, but we had we had some dogs. I 261 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 5: ain't a lot to get pictures Jordan game. You know 262 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 5: what I'm saying. That was the first time you met 263 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 5: Jordan when you think I was, yeah, that partly. I 264 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 5: went to Jordan camp before, but you know, yeah, in 265 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 5: Santa Barbara, but you know, you know how I go 266 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 5: and all the kids lined up. You know, I don't 267 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:17,679 Speaker 5: count that. But the first time it was definitely Jordan classic. 268 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 2: It was talked. 269 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:23,560 Speaker 5: It was crazy. I remember we took the picture. He 270 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:26,680 Speaker 5: was back there talking ship, back there, talking ship. But 271 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 5: it was one of those moments like I didn't expect 272 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:30,959 Speaker 5: nothing less, you know what I mean. But it was dope. 273 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 5: It was dope just to be selected. And I also 274 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 5: meet him. 275 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:38,680 Speaker 1: Could have been anybody else than usc, anybody else that 276 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 1: almost got you. 277 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm almost went to Florida State, almost crossed that, 278 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 5: almost crossed the whole thing. But it was wait, he 279 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:51,360 Speaker 5: was there, yeah, you know what I mean. So he 280 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 5: played a big part of almost getting me to go there, 281 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 5: you know what I mean. 282 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 2: Hell of a dude. I remember meeting him. 283 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 5: It was just it was just something bottom that just 284 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 5: felt real and authentic to where it was like, all right, 285 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 5: I can mess with this. But I took an unofficial 286 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 5: there and that was doing Like the hurricane season. 287 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:07,840 Speaker 2: I was like, nah, I can't. 288 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:11,080 Speaker 3: I can't the hurricanes just a little storm. 289 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:11,959 Speaker 2: Know you know what i mean. 290 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,679 Speaker 5: I'm sixteen, Like the sunshine palm trees. 291 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:18,079 Speaker 2: You know, I know everybody and stuff. 292 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 5: Bro, That's when I went, that's all the crazy stuff. 293 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 5: I'm like, nah, I can't do this. Who I'm gonna 294 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:25,959 Speaker 5: call us. 295 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: A lot of guys did A lot of guys be like, man, 296 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 1: you go to USC, man, you ain't gonna get an 297 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:33,079 Speaker 1: opportunity to go to the league. And because you kind 298 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: of like started that wave after you, now USC at 299 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 1: least got one or two because. 300 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 7: We were during that time and it was like it 301 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 7: was known you're supposed to go u c L trying 302 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 7: to football. 303 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 2: That's how it was. 304 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 5: And for me, the same approach I took to stay 305 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 5: home and go go to my high school. I took 306 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 5: the same approach at SEA, like all right, it ain't 307 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:57,199 Speaker 5: it ain't too many dudes coming out here. It's known 308 00:13:57,400 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 5: as a football team, But let me go here and 309 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 5: try us whatever I could do, just just me being 310 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 5: overly ambitious, like you know, I could probably start some 311 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 5: here and why not. 312 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 3: You know, you're a different breed if you go to USC. 313 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 1: There was a lot of guys they on purpose choose 314 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: USC because they want to go against the top dog exactly. 315 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 6: So that was l yeah, that was and that was 316 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 6: my whole mental on that for real. 317 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 2: So tell me this. 318 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 7: And when you were growing up, like, is it like 319 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 7: how you see in some of the movies Loving basketball 320 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 7: USC versus U c l A was like, was it 321 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 7: was it a big deal? 322 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 6: When you Yeah, it was a big deal. It was. 323 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 2: It was a big deal. 324 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 5: And the crazy thing we played them in a pack 325 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 5: ten tournament to go to the championship, and I just 326 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 5: remember we saw it out the whole Sable Center played. 327 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 2: There and. 328 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 5: It was to this day like it was like like 329 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 5: one of the craziest games I ever played against. You 330 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 5: play been a part of it because you understand the 331 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 5: tradition and behind it, you know what I mean. I 332 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 5: think going in to it, I really felt the emotion 333 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 5: of it. We played in the conference twice, once at 334 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 5: home and once on the road, but in a pack 335 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 5: ten tournament, it was like it was a different breed. Bro. 336 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 1: When you got to college, like you know, you always 337 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: want to test your game on the level, you know 338 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. 339 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 3: So when you got to college, I know everybody questioned. 340 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 1: Themselves, yeah, see what it is, But you came right 341 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: in and got you a quick dug and some change. 342 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: By the way, Like did that give you instant confidence? 343 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 5: Yeah? But it was so many up and downs early 344 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 5: on when I got to college because you know, you 345 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 5: play that that one good game and you know, well, ship, 346 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 5: you ain't go to college. Yeah, you know, going to college, 347 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 5: it's like you play that you had a good game. 348 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 5: You just you know, you kind of feel yourself and 349 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 5: it's like the college coach, I don't give a damn 350 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 5: about that ship, you know what I mean. So it's 351 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 5: definitely humbling because it was such an up and down, 352 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 5: like first two months for me in college to where 353 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 5: it was like, you know, I had days where it's 354 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 5: like THEMN I'm supposed to. 355 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 2: Be one and done. 356 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 5: I might have to come back, you know what I mean? 357 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 5: Like I just had a game. I had a good 358 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 5: game two games ago, But why last couple of games 359 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 5: I only been having twelve fourteen, you know what I mean. 360 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 7: So that's an interesting perspective, like because when I was 361 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 7: in college, I think it was kind of the beginning 362 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 7: of it. 363 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 2: Remember Larry had just went the year before, so. 364 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,760 Speaker 7: It was not talk about the pressure of that like 365 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 7: being that guy that's coming in and being projected, Oh 366 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 7: he's not gonna be here long, Like walking through the door. 367 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 7: Everybody's supposed to know that you projected, just wanting done. 368 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 7: Like you say you have twelve or fourteen, what type 369 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 7: of thing does that do to your mind, to the confidence. 370 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 5: It's definitely challenging because one you walk in, you're playing 371 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 5: with guys that's been there for two three years, that's 372 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 5: already established, and you know, I'm pretty sure their goal 373 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 5: is to make the NBA too, And it's all of 374 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 5: a sudden, like, Yo, this nineteen year old kid, I mean, 375 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,080 Speaker 5: eighteen year old kid is supposed to come in and 376 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 5: just do his stint and get out. You know, I've 377 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 5: been here putting in you know work, you know what 378 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 5: I mean. So you battling with that off rip. You 379 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 5: got to earn the respect from your teammates. Then dealing 380 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 5: with the pressures behind you know, the coaching coaching staffs, 381 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,400 Speaker 5: and you know that, you know, especially for me, come 382 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 5: from high school relying on my athletic ability, my first 383 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:24,959 Speaker 5: time really being placed in a structuring environment on how 384 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 5: to play basketball. Now you got to kind of follow 385 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:30,159 Speaker 5: suit what the coaches want you to do, you know 386 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 5: what I mean. And a lot of frustration come with 387 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:34,879 Speaker 5: that because it's like, well, fuck, I just was getting 388 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 5: thirty forty doing my thing. Why you just want me 389 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 5: to stand here then set a backscreen and do this, 390 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:42,120 Speaker 5: do this, do this, do this, you know what I mean, 391 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 5: Like all that comes in in the play, then you're 392 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 5: dealing with the outside noise. Then you're dealing with well, 393 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 5: you're supposed to do this, this, that, and the third. 394 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 5: So it becomes frustrating, you know what I mean. So 395 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 5: it took it took me time to figure out. 396 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 1: To get in the tournament, To get you usc in 397 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 1: the that's a big thing. How was that feeling to 398 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 1: get the team in the tournament and go playing. 399 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:07,919 Speaker 5: Man, it was it was everything because we had to 400 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 5: win the Pac ten tournament. 401 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 2: We had to go. 402 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 5: We had to win the whole thing just to get 403 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 5: a spot. So I remember before the Pack ten tournament start, 404 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 5: we all met and we basically just had a conversation like, look, 405 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 5: it ain't no n I t for us. We're not 406 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 5: doing that, you know what I mean. It's like, look, 407 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 5: we gotta go out here and win. We ain't going 408 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 5: sugar coat it. We got to go out here and 409 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 5: win every game. And from that moment on, it was 410 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 5: like it was like the biggest challenge at that time 411 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 5: in my career because it's like, well, fuck, I want 412 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 5: to make the tournament. I know these other five players. 413 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:41,880 Speaker 5: That's in my class, we was just McDonald's. They going 414 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 5: to the tournament. Man, they first, second, third, fourth seed, 415 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 5: you know what I mean, Like, nah, I gotta get 416 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 5: in this so for me to help us win, get 417 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,159 Speaker 5: get MVP of the pack ten tournament and get a spot. 418 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 2: Man. That was dope. 419 00:18:56,359 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 1: And they're playing the tournament. The biggest thing, Yeah, to 420 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: get out between the play. You see how they said 421 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: it all the way up for the teams. 422 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 3: To get a win. I know it's hard to win. 423 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:10,439 Speaker 1: The old thing, just getting the term get a win, 424 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: just just get that atmosphere and the environment. 425 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 5: I was that man, it was dope. I think we 426 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 5: played in the Vikings Arena. First of all, that was 427 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 5: my first time playing in the football in the dome. 428 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 5: Nothing new one, the old one. It was the old 429 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:28,439 Speaker 5: I can't think of his name, bro, I can't Metro okay, 430 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 5: I didn't want to say that. 431 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 2: Yeah me I. 432 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 5: So when we played there, just walking in there, it 433 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 5: was kind of it was an intimidating feeling because you know, 434 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 5: you're looking up and it's like, first of all, the 435 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 5: ceiling don't fucking stop, you know what I mean, Like 436 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:43,679 Speaker 5: all these people in here and everything, So just go 437 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 5: in there and get a win. I think our first 438 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 5: game we played Boston College, go out there get a 439 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:51,919 Speaker 5: win against them, was dope. We played against Michigan State, 440 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 5: took them down to the wire. They end up going 441 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 5: to the whole thing getting smacked by North Carolina that 442 00:19:57,359 --> 00:19:59,679 Speaker 5: year North Carolina won. But you know, just to go 443 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 5: out there and compete, man, where we really wasn't supposed 444 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 5: to be there. 445 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 1: It was, it was, It was dope. You played with gifts. Yeah, 446 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:10,119 Speaker 1: Like I like got a solid game. I think he 447 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 1: got better in the NB Yeah you know what I'm saying. 448 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,160 Speaker 1: He looked like a guy that you want to play 449 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:16,120 Speaker 1: with for sure. 450 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 2: Really yeah yeah, yeah, that was that was That was 451 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 2: That was my dog. 452 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:25,400 Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, speak on that. 453 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 1: You uh untied in college and just see where he 454 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: was in the league and you know, being part of 455 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: good teams like the Bulls and stuff. 456 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 5: Was the one player that kind of brought me in 457 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:38,919 Speaker 5: right away when I got the s C. You know, 458 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 5: he's a hell of a dude man on and off 459 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 5: the court, hell of a dude man, and he's a 460 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 5: hell of a leader. So to get the chance to 461 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 5: play with him, to see how he was to have 462 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 5: that relationship like you know, we don't talk every day, 463 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 5: but if you see me in to you would think like, damn, 464 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 5: you know what I mean? You like, that's that's what 465 00:20:57,119 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 5: type of duty is, and that's what type of relationship 466 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 5: I got with him. And you know, you see you 467 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 5: see him now still being in the league, still kicking. 468 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:06,920 Speaker 2: He's one of those veteran dudes. You won't on your. 469 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 1: Tag now yeah, yeah, yeah. 470 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,159 Speaker 7: Listen to him seeing him get signed back with the 471 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:15,440 Speaker 7: Knicks and you listen to him. You know the impact 472 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,359 Speaker 7: that those type of dudes. I mean, we know because 473 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:18,879 Speaker 7: we've been in it long enough, and you know that 474 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 7: he regardless of how much he plays, that he's gonna 475 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:23,959 Speaker 7: impact that team. I mean, he's still in the position 476 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 7: where he's still really out there playing and impactful two though, 477 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 7: so he doing both. I want that, Like when you 478 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 7: lost to Michigan State, did you know right away that 479 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 7: like you was out of here. I appreciate the artist 480 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 7: because some people would get up here and be like, no, 481 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:47,400 Speaker 7: I didn't make my decision like some of us. We know, 482 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 7: like as soon as I said I was going back 483 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 7: to school for something, I knew that it was over. 484 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 2: It didn't matter what was gonna happen. I was gone 485 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:56,679 Speaker 2: that year. It was a point. So that's why I 486 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 2: appreciate that. 487 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 5: Nothing against nobody, but I try to understand and like 488 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 5: when some dudes losing the tournament and you know, they 489 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 5: get emotional and all that, and it's tough and all that. 490 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 5: Nobody want to lose. As soon as we lost, soon 491 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 5: as the buzzer went off, in my head, I'm like, 492 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 5: I'm out this motherfucker. I'm going to lead like that 493 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,120 Speaker 5: was my next that was my next name. 494 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,639 Speaker 2: You know what I mean? People could have That's the truth, 495 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 2: and that is the real. 496 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,719 Speaker 7: Had sometimes real talk, like to be honest. Hey, I 497 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 7: appreciate that honesty. 498 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 3: Did you think you was gonna get drafted by anybody else? 499 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 5: I didn't want I didn't want to get drafted by 500 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 5: nobody else. You wanted to go to toront I want 501 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:34,439 Speaker 5: to go to Toronto. Toronto had came and see me 502 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 5: work out, probably like a week or two prior to 503 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 5: the draft, and it's probably one of my best workouts. 504 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,880 Speaker 5: And after the workout, they basically like guarantee me, like, yo, 505 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 5: if you at nine, we're gonna take you. 506 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 2: You know what I mean right away. 507 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 5: So the vibe and everything I got from them was like, 508 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 5: all right, cool, I got one. I worked out for 509 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:56,360 Speaker 5: probably like six teams that had a spot before Toronto, 510 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 5: but nah, I didn't. 511 00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't want to go nowhere else. 512 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: The first long flight from LA too, you know, you 513 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,199 Speaker 1: go through customs and all that and you get to Toronto. 514 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 2: How was that? 515 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 5: Bro That was probably from I'll never forget today, leaving 516 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 5: la with all these bags, not nothing matched up for 517 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 5: the wintertime at that time, I ain't had no winter closes, 518 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:23,919 Speaker 5: but the flight landing, not knowing how to do the 519 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 5: custom fill out form, right, you know what I mean. 520 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 5: You get to the airport and you know, you're seeing 521 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 5: stuff in two different languages, one in French English, you 522 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 5: know what I mean. It's like it becomes overwhelming because 523 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,200 Speaker 5: all right, this is really another country, you know what 524 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,119 Speaker 5: I mean. Like I just got a pass for it 525 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 5: two weeks ago, you know what I mean. So it's 526 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 5: like it was definitely like a brand new start, you 527 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 5: know what I mean. I had to learn it, I 528 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 5: had to go through it, and it was it was 529 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:56,720 Speaker 5: one that to this day I'm appreciative of it because 530 00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:58,360 Speaker 5: it was it was tough. It was tough. I ain't 531 00:23:58,359 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 5: gonna lie. 532 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,399 Speaker 7: You wanted to go as it was fortunate enough to 533 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 7: actually go to the draft, being a green room, like 534 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 7: do that whole process, and you know, the whole week 535 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,920 Speaker 7: leading up everything, and then actually to get your name 536 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 7: called and walk across that stage and shake David Stern hand, 537 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,200 Speaker 7: like tell me all of us. 538 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 2: You know, that's. 539 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 7: Everybody's dream and everybody's moment for you had that feeld 540 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 7: to actually get to that achievement and experience that moment 541 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:26,919 Speaker 7: where you on stage and you looking back into the 542 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 7: camera and the crowd and you know, everybody. 543 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 2: You ever knew looking at you and TV seeing you. 544 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 5: Man, it was what was more crazier for me, It 545 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 5: was just to sit there at that table, seeing my mom, 546 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 5: seeing my dad, right, you know what I mean. It's like, 547 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 5: you know you I remember just having a moment sitting 548 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,239 Speaker 5: there like y'all. I remember y'all trying to figure out 549 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 5: how to keep the lights on, you know what I mean. Like, 550 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 5: so it's that burst of emotional impact that you got 551 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 5: to take in because it's like, Yo, I'm really sitting 552 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,639 Speaker 5: here and I'm waiting for my name to get called. 553 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 5: But I wouldn't be nothing without y'all too, you know 554 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 5: what I mean. So I had a lot of that 555 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 5: moment of me just really feeling overly appreciated for them, 556 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,959 Speaker 5: you know what I mean, Because it's like, Yo, I 557 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,119 Speaker 5: did everything I said I was gonna do. Now I 558 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 5: got us here, you know what I mean, So whatever 559 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,160 Speaker 5: happens next, it's a new start for me to even 560 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 5: do more, you know what I mean. So it felt surreal, 561 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 5: but for me everything to them because I wanted I 562 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 5: want to see them enjoy the moment more than me, 563 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 5: you know what I mean. 564 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 2: It was crazy. 565 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 1: Let me ask you a funny question. Did you change 566 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 1: your money? 567 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 5: You know when I first got there. That's a good question. 568 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 5: When I first got there, bro, I ain't gonna lie. 569 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,440 Speaker 5: Probably like my rookie year, right, I think I would 570 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 5: have took like five thousand dollars and change it. I'm 571 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 5: doing this, I'm taking pictures with it. I got the brown, 572 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:53,680 Speaker 5: the green, every color I did. I ain't gonna lie. 573 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 5: I did my first year. 574 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:03,439 Speaker 8: I was like, we used to change your money? 575 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:08,359 Speaker 5: You're really that Nobody ever asked that, bro. That's a 576 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 5: real question. Yeah, to answer your question, yes, I did. 577 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:12,640 Speaker 5: I ain't gonna lie, I did. 578 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,159 Speaker 6: I wanted to stack of it just to have it, 579 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:16,400 Speaker 6: and yeah I did. 580 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 2: I did right there. 581 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,879 Speaker 1: You in Toronto, and like you know before even you know, 582 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 1: in high school, college on coming up. The thing about 583 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,639 Speaker 1: your game is, oh, he's a dunker. He's a dunker. 584 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,679 Speaker 1: That's all you do. He's dunk. And I know you 585 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,879 Speaker 1: heard it as well, But when did you feel like 586 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 1: was that year where you showed everybody that you ain't 587 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,679 Speaker 1: a dunk? Like my mid range game is one of 588 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 1: the best in the league. I can do this, I 589 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 1: can do that, and I can hit big shots. 590 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:50,640 Speaker 5: Probably I want to say my fourth or fifth year 591 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,159 Speaker 5: where I really kind of like put it all together. 592 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 5: My rookie year was tough. I was only rookie. I 593 00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 5: played with Chris B. Turculu was a Calderon Antoine, you know, 594 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 5: like I played with a bunch of older dudes. So 595 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 5: that next year we was terrible. So I'm trying to 596 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 5: figure out my third year, you know, just trying to 597 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:13,879 Speaker 5: it was a lockout year, so it was tough. So 598 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 5: going to like my fourth fifth year, that's when I 599 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 5: really just felt comfortable and felt like myself and I 600 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 5: could do more and I could show more than just 601 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 5: being athlete and dunking the ball. 602 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, did that lockout help that out? 603 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 2: Yeah? 604 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 5: It helped the confidence because it's only so much working 605 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 5: out you could do that. Everybody know, we all played 606 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:39,639 Speaker 5: all that whole lockout every week it was playing you 607 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 5: know what I mean, during the weekends, even stuff that 608 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:42,320 Speaker 5: wasn't an on camera. 609 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,160 Speaker 6: All we did was play, you know what I mean. 610 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 5: So the game so much confidence and playing against pros 611 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 5: consistently built confidence to a whole other level to where 612 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 5: coming out that lockout it was, you know, I was 613 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 5: ready to go. 614 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,399 Speaker 1: To come behind like Vince Card and Chris bog for 615 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: Toronto and yeah, you know what I'm saying, and the 616 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 1: love that they give you. Y'all start being bad and 617 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 1: then you turned it around. What was that moment when 618 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,159 Speaker 1: you feel like, man, the city is behind me, they 619 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 1: believe in me to be the best player because a 620 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 1: lot of people feel like the era that y'all was 621 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,639 Speaker 1: in supposed to be in episode right. 622 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 5: Yeah, And that was the beauty of it because we 623 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 5: was counted out. We didn't nobody really expected anything from us. 624 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:29,400 Speaker 5: We was always underdogs. I remember teams coming in there. 625 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 5: I remember we always used to have these Sunday games 626 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,159 Speaker 5: y'all probably know, you know, Sunday games, Yeah, you know 627 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,879 Speaker 5: what I mean, the early Sunday games and teams to 628 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 5: come in and be like, you know, fuck it, Saturday night, 629 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 5: we're still going out because Sunday, yeah, we're still don't 630 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 5: get to win, you know what I mean. Like that 631 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 5: was the whole perception of coming in Toronto, you know 632 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 5: what I mean. So I always used to take a 633 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 5: lot of stuff like that personal, you know what I mean. 634 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 5: I used to always express that to it, like, yo, 635 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 5: we gotta change this narrative, We gotta change this fact 636 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 5: and be somebody that you know, when they come in here, 637 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 5: they're like, nah, we can't go out. We gotta get 638 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:04,800 Speaker 5: our rest, you know what I mean. So to see 639 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 5: a start from there and slowly build us get to 640 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 5: the playoffs, you know, we win fifty games, fifty five games, 641 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 5: fifty eight games, you know what I mean, That's what 642 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 5: it was all about, to even get into the conference 643 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 5: finals for the first time. To just seeing how much 644 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 5: the city evolved and you know, starting something that just 645 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 5: came with a thought, you. 646 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:26,280 Speaker 2: Know what I mean. 647 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 6: And it definitely was a crazy time for sure. 648 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 2: Did you personally know Cale before he got traded to 649 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 2: the team. 650 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 6: No, I didn't. I didn't personally know him. 651 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 2: I mean I know. 652 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 5: Him just like everybody against everybody playing against him. 653 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 2: So how did that bond begin? 654 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 7: And how did I mean, obviously we know that you 655 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 7: know where it became, how it got to where it went. 656 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,640 Speaker 2: But you know, tell me how did that bond began. 657 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 5: To grow when he got traded to us? The first 658 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 5: year we played together. Since I've been sitting here, I 659 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 5: didn't talk to Cal half as much as I have 660 00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 5: talked to y'all, right now, I didn't talk to him 661 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 5: at all, like you know what I mean, Like anybody 662 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 5: know Cal. He's for Philly and he's an asshole, you 663 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 5: know what I mean? And obviously I was still young 664 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 5: and I still have my own compt in mind to. 665 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 6: Where it's like it was this, dude, why are you 666 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:15,960 Speaker 6: acting like this? 667 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 2: Why he is? 668 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 6: He is? 669 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 5: But that year would buy and I don't know what 670 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,480 Speaker 5: made it click to where it was like next thing, 671 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,640 Speaker 5: you know, we on the exact same page, But it 672 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 5: all came from you know, I seen his work ethic 673 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 5: and how much the game meant to him, you know 674 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 5: what I mean? Just me being a competitor, I wanted 675 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,080 Speaker 5: to know more, you know what I mean. And I 676 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 5: think I don't know what happened. I think it was 677 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 5: something that just clicked for us to where on the court. 678 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 5: It was just like ease, you know what I mean. 679 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,960 Speaker 5: Next thing, you know, it turned into something bigger than 680 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 5: just basketball, you know what I mean. But it all 681 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 5: started because his love and his passionate knowledge for the 682 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 5: game was something that I just couldn't agnure. 683 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 1: That's why I love y'all era of Toronto because it's 684 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 1: like man, two top players, two underdog players. 685 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 3: People didn't expect y'all to be All Star. The inspect 686 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 3: y'all to. 687 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 1: Win as much as as y'all won, and for it 688 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 1: to be y'all to in Toronto, you know what I'm saying, 689 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: A team that a lot of people didn't want there. 690 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 1: I think that's even more special. And you know how 691 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 1: people try to make it feel like just because you 692 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: ain't win a championship or you didn't win the ultimate goal, 693 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,160 Speaker 1: that you ain't accomplished nothing. 694 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 3: Like people make you feel like I got drafted, like 695 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 3: you can never go back. 696 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, I accomplished something and I 697 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 1: did something, so with that team. I always respected them teams, 698 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 1: even though y'all lost Lebron, But I always respected them 699 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,240 Speaker 1: teams because y'all was there every single year, every every year, 700 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 1: because it could have been anybody else but y'all there 701 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 1: every single year trying to accomplish the ultimate goals. 702 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 3: I always respected. What was your first All. 703 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 1: Star game when you first got announced to be an 704 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 1: All Star? Now you you won the best in the league. 705 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 1: That's like. 706 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,560 Speaker 5: It was a ya and honor because it was like, 707 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 5: all right, now, I felt like I'm a monkst like 708 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 5: my whole thing coming in lead, like I didn't want 709 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 5: to do nothing. So I felt respected by my peers 710 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 5: like I didn't care about nothing else, Like my biggest 711 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 5: thing was like I want to be respected by my peers, 712 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 5: Like that's my biggest thing. I want to have that respect. 713 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,240 Speaker 5: You know what I mean, I won't motherfuckers know, like yo, 714 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,840 Speaker 5: when you play against the marrow, like man, you know 715 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 5: what I mean? Like I always wanted that. So for 716 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,200 Speaker 5: me to make the All Star team, it finally made 717 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,440 Speaker 5: me feel like all right, I belong, you know what 718 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:30,840 Speaker 5: I mean? 719 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 2: Like I belong all right? 720 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 5: Cool, like I can laugh a little bit more because 721 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,720 Speaker 5: I'm a monks, you know what I mean. I could 722 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,720 Speaker 5: be a little bit more outspoken because now I'm a 723 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 5: monkst the real ones, you know what I mean. And 724 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 5: that was my That was like my welcoming for me 725 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 5: to the NBA, you know what I mean. I think 726 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,320 Speaker 5: it was like my fourth or fifth year, so to 727 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 5: get there, it was like cool, like you know what 728 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 5: I mean, Especially for me. I seen a couple of 729 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,120 Speaker 5: other dudes that you know that came in lead that 730 00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 5: was All Stars before me, and it was like, Damn, 731 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 5: I just want to see I don't want to see how. 732 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,480 Speaker 6: I feel, you know what I mean. Motivation, Yeah, definite motivating. 733 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,680 Speaker 7: I'm listening to different levels of it because like I 734 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 7: never got to make an All Star, so I had 735 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 7: to get the validation that you speaking of, like yeah, 736 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 7: I belong. I had to get that in the in 737 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,160 Speaker 7: the off season because I felt like that was the 738 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 7: truest time where I got to be the realist met 739 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 7: where it was like I could still see them people 740 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,720 Speaker 7: like because I played in environments where it was going 741 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,960 Speaker 7: to be them people, all the All Stars and you 742 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,000 Speaker 7: know that who we a hoop so we even we 743 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 7: was out here playing in La ucl someth it would 744 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,840 Speaker 7: be like, now I get to see all those people 745 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 7: and I ain't got none of these restrictions that I 746 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,920 Speaker 7: gotta deal with when because you know, sometimes it's politicis 747 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,000 Speaker 7: and different things. So that's why I had to get 748 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:45,360 Speaker 7: my validation from from from those open gym pick up 749 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,240 Speaker 7: games and the workouts in the summers. Was how was 750 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,840 Speaker 7: your experience in going to the dunk contest, because I 751 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:54,239 Speaker 7: don't think people realize, you know, how difficult that is, 752 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,800 Speaker 7: and how that when you get on that stage, it's 753 00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 7: just you in the world. 754 00:33:58,200 --> 00:33:59,680 Speaker 2: It's like not really you against that. 755 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 7: Tell you about that feeling when you go sit on 756 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 7: that little block because I know it's a three point 757 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,280 Speaker 7: shooter and always trying to like go from the perspective 758 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 7: that I'm just shooting the ball, like it's not as 759 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:12,959 Speaker 7: hard to do what y'all doing. 760 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:14,440 Speaker 2: So tell me, like. 761 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 7: Your perspective of experiencing that, the whole dunk contest and everything. 762 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,799 Speaker 5: I'm to be honest, because I don't think I could 763 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,960 Speaker 5: do it now. I think being young, you're so naive 764 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:29,319 Speaker 5: of the fact and you really don't understand, like, yo, 765 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:35,760 Speaker 5: it's millions of people having a high expectations on seeing something, 766 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,520 Speaker 5: you know what I mean. Being young as a kid, 767 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,480 Speaker 5: you just like, you know, you just overly exciting, so 768 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 5: that clouds everything that's really going on, you know what 769 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,239 Speaker 5: I mean. But looking back at it, it's kind of 770 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,280 Speaker 5: like it's a crazy situation. 771 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,359 Speaker 6: I commend anybody who get out there and. 772 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,359 Speaker 5: Be like, yo, all right, because the expectation is so high, 773 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,319 Speaker 5: you know what I mean, people expecting you to do 774 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:56,959 Speaker 5: something to ooh ooh. 775 00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:57,879 Speaker 2: You know what I mean. 776 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:01,440 Speaker 5: So for me at the time, i'd be lying to 777 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,120 Speaker 5: you if I told you it was like, oh, man, 778 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 5: I was I didn't know what I was doing. I 779 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,080 Speaker 5: was just excited just to go out there and had 780 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,279 Speaker 5: the opportunity. And you see celebrities and all these people 781 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,320 Speaker 5: sitting out there. I'm excited to just be on TV, 782 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,760 Speaker 5: you know what I mean. So it's it's but looking 783 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,360 Speaker 5: back on it, it's, man, it's fucking crazy. 784 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,760 Speaker 2: It's a crazy moment getting in them situations. 785 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 7: Tell me how it felt to have All Star Weekend 786 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:25,719 Speaker 7: in Toronto. 787 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,160 Speaker 2: And I remember being that cause like Andre, you know, 788 00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:31,399 Speaker 2: I was to make the All Star Game. 789 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:35,640 Speaker 7: So I come stowing up and and I remember just 790 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 7: coming in like I mean, I don't know if you 791 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,000 Speaker 7: got me. I come in locker with Dre and it's 792 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,360 Speaker 7: like I'm looking at them like, y'all, I don't know 793 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,080 Speaker 7: if you had joke. I know Cale had one of 794 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:44,880 Speaker 7: his kids, if not, both for them and y'all in 795 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:46,600 Speaker 7: the locker room, I'm looking at them like and I 796 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,280 Speaker 7: remember having a quick thought like. 797 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,120 Speaker 2: You know, lebron them over here, this all of this 798 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 2: that was going on. 799 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,920 Speaker 7: But I was like, these dudes at the crib, this 800 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,799 Speaker 7: ain't never happened to do. And I remember having that 801 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:01,560 Speaker 7: moment thinking like, man, they got this going on. Y'all 802 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,560 Speaker 7: got Drake looming over the whole weekend being like the hose. 803 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,919 Speaker 2: Like tell me how all that was for y'all. 804 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:09,960 Speaker 5: You know, man, it was amazing because you go back 805 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,799 Speaker 5: to the point of like being such an underdog and 806 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,759 Speaker 5: overlooked and not even paid attention to to where we're 807 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,879 Speaker 5: making noise. And that was the whole goal, was the like, yo, 808 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,160 Speaker 5: we gotta make them respect us, you know what I mean, 809 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,920 Speaker 5: Because one it was always like we're not going to 810 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,040 Speaker 5: be on TV because we in another country. It was 811 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:32,200 Speaker 5: always all these excuses about something, so we always used 812 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:36,080 Speaker 5: to have conversations about Yo, winning saws everything. You know 813 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,839 Speaker 5: what I mean, winning would bring everything. We win, you 814 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,239 Speaker 5: get paid, you get paid, you get paid. This come this, 815 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,120 Speaker 5: come we win, you know what I mean. So for 816 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:47,279 Speaker 5: us to start winning to people start paying attention, people 817 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,920 Speaker 5: saying how the fan base is that all of a sudden, 818 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,239 Speaker 5: like we got All Star Weekend here. Yeah, like you 819 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:56,640 Speaker 5: know what I mean, everything everything was going right, like, 820 00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:00,000 Speaker 5: everything was going in the right direction. It was crazy. 821 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:00,920 Speaker 2: Was colding shit too. 822 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,160 Speaker 7: I was about to say, listen to things it was. 823 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:08,080 Speaker 7: It was cold, it was coldest ice boy, Oh my goodness. 824 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:09,719 Speaker 7: I went out there trying to be you know, you'd 825 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:11,520 Speaker 7: be trying to be at Off Star Weekend, trying to 826 00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,680 Speaker 7: be fly with your little jackets and the listen boy, 827 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:15,359 Speaker 7: some of them play. 828 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:15,640 Speaker 2: I know. 829 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:17,919 Speaker 7: We had to go to the Jordan party. You got 830 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,799 Speaker 7: dropped off way over here. You know it was some 831 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,920 Speaker 7: like first of all, I got to see Prince that night. 832 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,800 Speaker 7: You hear me Prince perform the Jordan part, like performed. 833 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,760 Speaker 7: I ain't never seen Prince. That was like my sister 834 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:31,960 Speaker 7: lost in miles. I got videos in my phone to 835 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,400 Speaker 7: this day, but like Yo t Dot was one of 836 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,200 Speaker 7: the cold. It was cold and it was cold. 837 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:38,920 Speaker 2: You feel me. 838 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,000 Speaker 7: It was like it was a dope y'all t dot 839 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,160 Speaker 7: put on boy, it was. It was a sick event, 840 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:45,160 Speaker 7: but it was definitely cold as head. 841 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,759 Speaker 1: Let me uh asked you about like I love when 842 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,680 Speaker 1: the playoffs, when Toronto was in the playoffs, y'all fan base, 843 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:56,719 Speaker 1: how the games be so hype, everybody color coordinated and 844 00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,440 Speaker 1: it's just be cool. How's the playoff game? And how 845 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:05,040 Speaker 1: people be outside? Like how was them the atmosphere in them? 846 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:10,879 Speaker 5: Man? I seen that atmosphere. I would never say a name. 847 00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:15,399 Speaker 5: I seen them break a certain player, like I seen 848 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:20,960 Speaker 5: the crowd break opposing player, Like you see the confidence 849 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,560 Speaker 5: just get sucked away, you know what I mean? Like 850 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,520 Speaker 5: I never seen nothing like that. But the crowd was 851 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:31,279 Speaker 5: so crazy to where I couldn't hear myself speaking to 852 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,200 Speaker 5: another teammate, you know what I mean. Like that's how 853 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:38,000 Speaker 5: crowd crazy the crowd were. I'm talking about from outside 854 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:40,680 Speaker 5: to when you're leaving a loading dock after the game, 855 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:42,080 Speaker 5: fans waiting out there. 856 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:42,440 Speaker 2: You know what I mean. 857 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:47,520 Speaker 5: It was something that was beyond crazy and I appreciate 858 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:50,600 Speaker 5: it so much because again, you see the growth of it. 859 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:51,200 Speaker 2: You know what I mean. 860 00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:54,920 Speaker 5: You seen where it came from. You see why they 861 00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,279 Speaker 5: are the way they are, you know what I mean. 862 00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,760 Speaker 5: And to think about it, we represent the whole country, 863 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,000 Speaker 5: you know what I mean, it's just us. So everywhere 864 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,600 Speaker 5: we went in Canada it was like that, you know 865 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,600 Speaker 5: what I mean. So it was one of those unique 866 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:12,440 Speaker 5: situations to where it was like, Yo, the'se y'all crazy, like. 867 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:13,799 Speaker 2: You know what I mean, but you gotta love it. 868 00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,279 Speaker 7: Let me say this about their fans, right, So when 869 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:22,080 Speaker 7: I worked for the Pistons, the Raptors were probably the 870 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,719 Speaker 7: team me personally. They were the team I wanted to 871 00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:28,279 Speaker 7: beat the most every time, didn't matter. It was worse 872 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,840 Speaker 7: if it was our home game. You can attest it. 873 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:38,759 Speaker 7: Detroit Pistons home games against the Raptors. BRO never understood it. 874 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:40,480 Speaker 2: I didn't know what the hell was going on. I 875 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:44,360 Speaker 2: came in, I was like, what is happening? How is it? 876 00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:50,160 Speaker 7: They hont fans crowd jerseys, chants. You think you are 877 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:54,560 Speaker 7: in Toronto because it's like somehow Michigan, and it's so 878 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,520 Speaker 7: the borders are so close, and it's bro it be 879 00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,359 Speaker 7: so many Toronto fans there. 880 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:01,799 Speaker 2: I was so tired. 881 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,560 Speaker 7: I was aggravated just from the presence, like this is 882 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:05,439 Speaker 7: some boy, Like. 883 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,480 Speaker 2: What is happening? This is not their building. They became 884 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:09,520 Speaker 2: the team. I didn't care. 885 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:11,560 Speaker 7: I was like we gotta beat them, like we gotta 886 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,839 Speaker 7: shut these people up. They in our building more than 887 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:15,239 Speaker 7: we are. 888 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,560 Speaker 2: It was crazy. That's when I know I said, oh no, 889 00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:20,000 Speaker 2: they got some sick fans, like bro, they coming up. Man, 890 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:20,640 Speaker 2: it was crazy. 891 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,640 Speaker 7: Tell me this, how did it feel when you found 892 00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:26,120 Speaker 7: out you was gonna sign the one hundred and thirty 893 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,400 Speaker 7: nine million dollar max. It's like that's you know, you 894 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,960 Speaker 7: didn't got that was what your third deal right outside 895 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,600 Speaker 7: the second outside of your rookie year, so you didn't 896 00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:39,759 Speaker 7: got a decent you sat you'd seen more money thought 897 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:40,600 Speaker 7: you ever see, but. 898 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:44,359 Speaker 2: Like this is like different type of bread. Like how 899 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:46,000 Speaker 2: did that feel? Man? 900 00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:49,640 Speaker 5: Like, you know, it's crazy. I remember negotiating that, and 901 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,399 Speaker 5: you know, obviously the team was going to negotiate trying 902 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,000 Speaker 5: to get their leverage. I remember the first offer was 903 00:40:55,200 --> 00:41:01,200 Speaker 5: one hundred and I was like, oh shit, cool, I'm 904 00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,960 Speaker 5: excited on that, you know what I mean. My agent 905 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,319 Speaker 5: like no, and I'm like what you mean? No, that's 906 00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,760 Speaker 5: just like no, no, don't. You're talking about one hundred. 907 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,480 Speaker 5: I'm good with that, you know what I mean. It's like, no, 908 00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:19,200 Speaker 5: you know you can. And I'm like, don't funk. 909 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,799 Speaker 2: This up, like you know what I mean. 910 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,440 Speaker 5: I'm like, you just talking or what Like He's like, no, 911 00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,560 Speaker 5: I'm telling you that's their job is supposed to you know, 912 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:28,479 Speaker 5: shoot this, but. 913 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,440 Speaker 2: We don't trip. We're gonna get it to what we 914 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:31,080 Speaker 2: need to get it to. 915 00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:35,160 Speaker 7: So I appreciate the honesty and the realness of this. 916 00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:38,360 Speaker 5: This is the real, that's the real. Pers money like this, 917 00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:42,319 Speaker 5: like I'm keeping up real. I'm like, I'm like, bro, 918 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:44,719 Speaker 5: I remember seeing them numbers. I remember he wrote it 919 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,239 Speaker 5: down to me because he didn't want to say it 920 00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,880 Speaker 5: out loud. He wrote it down to me, and I'm like, 921 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:50,920 Speaker 5: I'm under the table. 922 00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:53,520 Speaker 2: Like cool, like take it. 923 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,279 Speaker 5: But then, you know, we went to another room and 924 00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,800 Speaker 5: he told me, and I'm like, it even fucked me 925 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:01,800 Speaker 5: up even more, like you I could what you know 926 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,320 Speaker 5: what I mean? So we end up working out getting 927 00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,000 Speaker 5: getting into the number one thirty nine. Even when I 928 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,480 Speaker 5: did did it, it still didn't feel real, you know 929 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,600 Speaker 5: what I mean, Like it didn't feel real to me, 930 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,239 Speaker 5: you know what I mean like I couldn't like I 931 00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,319 Speaker 5: couldn't understand it, you know what I mean, Like it 932 00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,120 Speaker 5: just didn't it didn't hit hit. Then in my mind, 933 00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,000 Speaker 5: I'm thinking, like, all right, I got I gotta work 934 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:26,200 Speaker 5: my ass off, so this could mean something, you know 935 00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,560 Speaker 5: what I mean, Like I didn't feel like I was 936 00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:30,440 Speaker 5: in a celebrating move, you know what I mean, Like 937 00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,759 Speaker 5: I wanted to get to work at that point, you 938 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:34,280 Speaker 5: know what I mean, because it was when. 939 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:35,520 Speaker 3: You came out and but. 940 00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,960 Speaker 5: That was Yeah, that was my That was my whole 941 00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,080 Speaker 5: Like I deserved that, And I want to make sure 942 00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:46,719 Speaker 5: that nobody could say anything other than me deserving this, 943 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,399 Speaker 5: you know what I mean. That was my whole mind. 944 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,880 Speaker 2: What's your agent name? Aaron good good job and Goodwin. 945 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:52,560 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. 946 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,600 Speaker 7: Putting a young buck to the side, I said, whoa 947 00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:55,879 Speaker 7: young fellow man. 948 00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,520 Speaker 1: But now you're in the category now off be coming 949 00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,240 Speaker 1: off that you're in a category like Jordan and world 950 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:04,680 Speaker 1: be free. And certain players who start off a season 951 00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:06,800 Speaker 1: then score thirty or more points in like six to 952 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,960 Speaker 1: eight games. Yeah, yeah, that's that's crazy, coming out just 953 00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:12,200 Speaker 1: shooting everybody. 954 00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,279 Speaker 7: Anytime you in the cargo with MJ. You know what 955 00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,600 Speaker 7: I'm saying, not to mention like you said, world be free, 956 00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:20,960 Speaker 7: tiny archiball and our tiny. 957 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:25,160 Speaker 5: Was a oh yeah, it was crazy. But that was 958 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,319 Speaker 5: my mindset. Like nah, man, y'all ain't about to say 959 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:29,200 Speaker 5: nothing about this. 960 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,200 Speaker 1: A good question. This question is for me and you 961 00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,279 Speaker 1: could me and you are dunkers. Yeah, you know what 962 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,600 Speaker 1: I'm saying. We're gonna leave the look guys out of this. 963 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:41,600 Speaker 3: But you got a lot of. 964 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:43,879 Speaker 1: Dunk owns, Like you can dunked on a lot of people, 965 00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,120 Speaker 1: but you dumped on when you came back to Toronto 966 00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:47,640 Speaker 1: and you dunked on the young fella. 967 00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:51,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like that was that was like that was 968 00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:51,839 Speaker 2: not right. 969 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:55,560 Speaker 5: That was like I got a funny story of that 970 00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:59,120 Speaker 5: roight that you mentioned that so so young fella. That 971 00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:01,400 Speaker 5: summer before that season, we was hooping at U C. 972 00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:03,960 Speaker 5: L A and a lot of a lot of teams 973 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,160 Speaker 5: up there, so the Raptors was up there, so he 974 00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:06,680 Speaker 5: was there. 975 00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:08,239 Speaker 2: I didn't really know who he was. 976 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,120 Speaker 5: So I'm going to the basket probably like two three 977 00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,120 Speaker 5: times in a row, and I'm getting past everybody. I'm 978 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:16,160 Speaker 5: getting to the basket. He's blocking it. He blocked my shot. 979 00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:19,040 Speaker 5: Like three times, and I'm like, what's this? 980 00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:19,920 Speaker 2: You know what I mean? 981 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,239 Speaker 5: I don't, And I took a fist to it to 982 00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:24,279 Speaker 5: where it's like, yo, he you know, he yelling and 983 00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:27,359 Speaker 5: all that. So when we played, when we played bro 984 00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,680 Speaker 5: and I went to the basket, I seen him coming, 985 00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:31,920 Speaker 5: I'm like, all right, you're not bigger than me, are 986 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:33,799 Speaker 5: stronger than me. The worst thing you could do is 987 00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:36,759 Speaker 5: fouled me. So I went to the basket with that 988 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,000 Speaker 5: in my mind from the previous summer of him just 989 00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,400 Speaker 5: blocking my shots, like, Yo, I'm going to the bucket. 990 00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:43,799 Speaker 5: I'm about to dunk the ship out this ball. Either 991 00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:45,560 Speaker 5: he gonna get out the way or he's gonna foule me. 992 00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,040 Speaker 5: So that's how it really happened. 993 00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,439 Speaker 1: I didn't think you were fin the dunket, but you dunk? 994 00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:52,720 Speaker 1: Is that your favorite dunko? 995 00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,240 Speaker 6: That's probably my favorite dunk on. I ain't gonna lie because. 996 00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,600 Speaker 7: You know that's what when I saw it, I said, 997 00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,319 Speaker 7: I say, I don't care what nobody say. I said, 998 00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,400 Speaker 7: that means a little bit more different, I say, because 999 00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,520 Speaker 7: you just everything in it. I say that it was 1000 00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:14,280 Speaker 7: a whole lot of like any any type of frustrations 1001 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:18,680 Speaker 7: was just like finished. And then I knew because it 1002 00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:23,560 Speaker 7: was the extras. He don't do no extras. I say, yep, 1003 00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,560 Speaker 7: that's stamped on tip. I say, yeah, y'all take that 1004 00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:27,640 Speaker 7: and put that in there. 1005 00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:30,480 Speaker 3: When they won a championship. 1006 00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:34,319 Speaker 1: When Toronto won a championship, did it feel like you 1007 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:36,520 Speaker 1: just needed a couple of more years to get the 1008 00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:37,359 Speaker 1: ultimate gold? 1009 00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:38,279 Speaker 2: Oh? 1010 00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:42,759 Speaker 5: Yeah? I felt like that next year regardless, like you know, 1011 00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:45,400 Speaker 5: because you know, we couldn't we couldn't get past one person, 1012 00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:47,520 Speaker 5: you know what I mean, Like that was our biggest 1013 00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,040 Speaker 5: you know, obstacle was one person, you know what I mean. 1014 00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:55,680 Speaker 5: So that year, knowing he was leaving, you know, we 1015 00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:58,520 Speaker 5: we felt like, yo, all right, we got a shot 1016 00:45:58,520 --> 00:45:59,040 Speaker 5: at this thing. 1017 00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:00,520 Speaker 2: Let's give it all we got. 1018 00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,560 Speaker 5: If it don't work, then all right, cool, Like maybe 1019 00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:05,520 Speaker 5: it's really time for us to blow up, one of 1020 00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:07,520 Speaker 5: us to leave maybe whatever, you know what I mean. 1021 00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:10,480 Speaker 5: But I really felt like that next year, you know, 1022 00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:13,600 Speaker 5: because our team was was was equipped for it. 1023 00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:15,960 Speaker 6: Built for it, like you know what I mean, we was, 1024 00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:17,240 Speaker 6: we was always right there. 1025 00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:21,680 Speaker 5: So that next year I truly believe like we would 1026 00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:23,480 Speaker 5: have got it regardless. 1027 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:27,040 Speaker 1: So now you're in San Antonio and you're about to 1028 00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:28,000 Speaker 1: play with coach Pop? 1029 00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,439 Speaker 3: Like, how how was that? Playing with lizd like Pop? 1030 00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:36,239 Speaker 5: It was one. I always had the utmost respect for Pop, 1031 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:38,799 Speaker 5: you know, and even a little interaction we always had 1032 00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:40,239 Speaker 5: planning against each other. 1033 00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:42,560 Speaker 6: It was it was dope, just a mutual respect. But 1034 00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:43,879 Speaker 6: playing for him. 1035 00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:45,520 Speaker 5: I mean when I got traded to him, you know 1036 00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:46,960 Speaker 5: what I mean, he gave me a few days and 1037 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,000 Speaker 5: he gave me a call and telling me, you know, 1038 00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:52,520 Speaker 5: I don't want you to be upset. We didn't trade you. 1039 00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,040 Speaker 5: We traded for you, you know what I mean. So 1040 00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:57,640 Speaker 5: those words kind of like hit me hard when he 1041 00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:00,200 Speaker 5: told me that, because it's like all right, cool, Like 1042 00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:02,000 Speaker 5: now I'm about to come in there and just you know, 1043 00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:05,120 Speaker 5: work my ass off and you know, listen and everything, 1044 00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:08,319 Speaker 5: and we kind of like build a relationship, you know, 1045 00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,840 Speaker 5: on a daily basis of always talking and everything. 1046 00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:11,879 Speaker 2: And you know, a. 1047 00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,320 Speaker 5: Lot of it had to do with stuff outside of basketball, 1048 00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,520 Speaker 5: and that's what I appreciate and love the most about 1049 00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:20,680 Speaker 5: Pop was he was a teacher, like a life teacher, 1050 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:24,400 Speaker 5: you know, somebody who cared with like just people, you 1051 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,120 Speaker 5: know what I mean. And it's hard to find that. 1052 00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,120 Speaker 5: You you play for certain coaches that just want to 1053 00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:30,759 Speaker 5: coach you. You need to do this, do this, do 1054 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,520 Speaker 5: this basketball. But it was like, nah, how are you 1055 00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,880 Speaker 5: really you know what I mean? And talk about life stuff. 1056 00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,120 Speaker 5: So you know that was that was the dope thing 1057 00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:38,680 Speaker 5: about Pop. 1058 00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,360 Speaker 7: How much easier did he make it for you? Like, cause, 1059 00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:45,200 Speaker 7: like I can speak from experience. When I got I 1060 00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,359 Speaker 7: had my one season in Phoenix, who was sixty two 1061 00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:49,719 Speaker 7: and twenty time in my life as far as like 1062 00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:52,680 Speaker 7: winning in him kicking ass and you know what I'm saying. 1063 00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,440 Speaker 7: Then I get traded boom to New York, the worst 1064 00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:57,960 Speaker 7: team in the league. Right, you didn't go from you know, 1065 00:47:58,040 --> 00:47:59,839 Speaker 7: the best to worst, but like at the same time, 1066 00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:02,239 Speaker 7: you went from a place where you had made home 1067 00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:04,600 Speaker 7: and had been there for a very long time, really 1068 00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:08,360 Speaker 7: had just resigned and now you see the team having 1069 00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:11,000 Speaker 7: that type of success. How was that to sit and 1070 00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,520 Speaker 7: watching the spend because I know for me, I was pissed. 1071 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:16,399 Speaker 7: I was watching I can remember I told Roger Bill 1072 00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:17,440 Speaker 7: I did the little show with him. 1073 00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:19,560 Speaker 2: I said, I was watching him like I don't like 1074 00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:21,160 Speaker 2: the shit out of him. You take that's my shot, 1075 00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:23,880 Speaker 2: This is bull. 1076 00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:27,520 Speaker 7: I'm over here in purgatory getting my ask everything and 1077 00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:29,480 Speaker 7: you on the team winning and having fun like I 1078 00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:30,239 Speaker 7: was used to doing. 1079 00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,719 Speaker 2: Like how was that to deal with in real time? 1080 00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,040 Speaker 7: Because I know it's not you know, we we say 1081 00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:36,799 Speaker 7: this and that, but it's not the easiest thing. 1082 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,719 Speaker 5: It's not, but that you gotta be real with yourself 1083 00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:41,960 Speaker 5: when it come to those motions, Like it was hard 1084 00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:43,720 Speaker 5: as ship, you know what I mean, It was tough 1085 00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,600 Speaker 5: because you start to look at especially for me, then, 1086 00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:49,879 Speaker 5: everything was always in comparison, you know what I mean, 1087 00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:52,680 Speaker 5: like they do this, well, this didn't happen with tomorrow 1088 00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,640 Speaker 5: was you know what I mean? It was always that 1089 00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:58,120 Speaker 5: even the people who just don't know basketball, especially now, 1090 00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:00,440 Speaker 5: like imagine you had to deal with that. Then with 1091 00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,120 Speaker 5: social media, you know what I mean, Like, boy, it 1092 00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:05,480 Speaker 5: would have made it ten times worse. Yeah, you feel me. 1093 00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:08,160 Speaker 5: So for me, it was like every time you see something, 1094 00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:13,520 Speaker 5: it's like then it's like you see a game, it's like, damn, 1095 00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,640 Speaker 5: I chose to pick these jerseys this year, you know 1096 00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:19,160 Speaker 5: what I mean, Like everything down the line, and you 1097 00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:20,120 Speaker 5: be lying to yourself. 1098 00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:21,480 Speaker 6: If you set up here and say, man, I ain't 1099 00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:21,960 Speaker 6: feel no way. 1100 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:25,160 Speaker 5: A lot of motherfuckers be saying like I know man, Yes, 1101 00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:27,440 Speaker 5: that's yes, you felt you felt at all? You know 1102 00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:29,920 Speaker 5: what I mean nothing that means. 1103 00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:33,080 Speaker 7: It's human emotion to feel something that's but see, that's 1104 00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,560 Speaker 7: why a lot of times I have a problem with 1105 00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:37,960 Speaker 7: you know, like you said, the people that don't know basketball. 1106 00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:40,480 Speaker 7: Then like some fans you know, I know fans, I 1107 00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:43,520 Speaker 7: don't mean well and stuff. But like, don't tell me 1108 00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:46,880 Speaker 7: that I can't be pissed off or I can't be 1109 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,360 Speaker 7: upset or have a human emotion about a lot of 1110 00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:52,560 Speaker 7: this stuff. But job trying to don't be mad to 1111 00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:53,800 Speaker 7: real Like man, are you kidding me? 1112 00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:57,080 Speaker 2: A bad color? You might lose your mind. 1113 00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,360 Speaker 7: But like you talking about like bro, I've been in 1114 00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:02,000 Speaker 7: this place for nine ten years, Like my family is 1115 00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:04,560 Speaker 7: growing here. We got friends and we have a community. 1116 00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:06,960 Speaker 7: We've grown Like now you just snatched it away from me. 1117 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,080 Speaker 7: It wasn't supposed to be. I'm not supposed to feel 1118 00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:09,960 Speaker 7: nothing like. 1119 00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:10,480 Speaker 2: What you mean. 1120 00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,279 Speaker 1: We all you know, we all watched the Dream Team. 1121 00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,920 Speaker 1: How was it for you to you know, Vietnounce to 1122 00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:18,600 Speaker 1: play with the USA team. 1123 00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:20,280 Speaker 2: That was in high school? 1124 00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:25,400 Speaker 5: But that same way I felt with the All Star situation. 1125 00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,680 Speaker 5: It was like all right, cool, it's another step of 1126 00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:32,560 Speaker 5: now saying now because it's only twelve that get big, 1127 00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:37,200 Speaker 5: you know what I mean. Now, now it's like all right, cool, 1128 00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:41,120 Speaker 5: Like now I'm continuing going in the right direction. Just 1129 00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:43,720 Speaker 5: with all the hard work and you know, preparation, everything 1130 00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,200 Speaker 5: I put into the game, it's giving it back. So 1131 00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:48,879 Speaker 5: to be on that list, be on the USA team, 1132 00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:53,359 Speaker 5: representing your country for one and being amongst eleven of 1133 00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:56,560 Speaker 5: the greatest players in the world, you know what I mean, 1134 00:50:56,880 --> 00:51:00,160 Speaker 5: it was it was like all right, cool, Like now 1135 00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,640 Speaker 5: I could laugh, I could laugh a little bit more, 1136 00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:06,759 Speaker 5: but it was it was something that was like never expected, 1137 00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:07,920 Speaker 5: you know what I mean. It was never one of 1138 00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,520 Speaker 5: my goals saying like man, I want to play on 1139 00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:13,200 Speaker 5: the USA team. I wanted just this, but you know 1140 00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:16,279 Speaker 5: when it came about, like I had to do it, 1141 00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:17,080 Speaker 5: you know what I mean. 1142 00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:18,719 Speaker 3: Like you marking all the checks off the list for 1143 00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:20,600 Speaker 3: that all the right thing. 1144 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:24,359 Speaker 7: So we had clearly we had the Vince car to 1145 00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,799 Speaker 7: jump over fred Wee wife, how you want to say it, 1146 00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:29,680 Speaker 7: when he jumped over me, and that was probably the 1147 00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:35,120 Speaker 7: craziest dunk in USA basketball. But you had probably the 1148 00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:37,239 Speaker 7: right there. If you would have made your miss was 1149 00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:41,760 Speaker 7: probably still second when you did sixty, like for real, 1150 00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:44,959 Speaker 7: like what was going through your mind when you wanted 1151 00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:47,239 Speaker 7: to do that? Because you because like, don't tell me, 1152 00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:50,879 Speaker 7: I know you saw him, you saw the step you. 1153 00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:51,640 Speaker 2: Did, what you did? 1154 00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:54,160 Speaker 7: What led to that when you was running up and 1155 00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:55,880 Speaker 7: what like like what happened? 1156 00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,960 Speaker 6: What's crazy? It was blowing them out? I remember it was. 1157 00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:01,680 Speaker 5: It was a time before that, and I think it 1158 00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:07,480 Speaker 5: was like DeAndre Jordan KD mellow the mark is somebody 1159 00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:08,680 Speaker 5: was like, man, do something. 1160 00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:09,440 Speaker 2: You know. 1161 00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:12,960 Speaker 5: It was like, man, like do something. I didn't know 1162 00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:14,439 Speaker 5: what I was gonna do, you know what I mean? 1163 00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:17,719 Speaker 5: I was like, all right, bet cool And as soon 1164 00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:19,680 Speaker 5: as we came out the time out, I think we. 1165 00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:20,960 Speaker 2: Would have like a possession or two. 1166 00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,279 Speaker 5: It was a file as a free throw out the 1167 00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:26,480 Speaker 5: free throw Draymond kicked it up to me and I 1168 00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,400 Speaker 5: just seen dude there. I don't know what got into me, 1169 00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:32,759 Speaker 5: but I just remember that conversation in the huddle like yo, 1170 00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:36,400 Speaker 5: just do something, and just my instincts forced me to 1171 00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:38,640 Speaker 5: do a three sixty tied three sixty on. So if 1172 00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:41,040 Speaker 5: you watch the video, you see KD run off the 1173 00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:43,480 Speaker 5: bench and almost underneath the court because it was like 1174 00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:45,440 Speaker 5: I told him like, all right, I'm about to I'm 1175 00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:47,880 Speaker 5: gonna try something, like I didn't know what though. 1176 00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:49,680 Speaker 7: Well, hell, I didn't know. I thought it was just 1177 00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:51,840 Speaker 7: because that was so crazy. I didn't know it was 1178 00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:53,520 Speaker 7: because it was a prior conference. No, it was a 1179 00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:58,440 Speaker 7: prior conversation. It was a prior conversation. It was a 1180 00:52:58,480 --> 00:52:59,320 Speaker 7: prior conversation. 1181 00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:00,399 Speaker 2: Man. 1182 00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:02,000 Speaker 3: That's yeah, that's one we gotta get back. 1183 00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:06,040 Speaker 5: I wish And I was so mad after the fact 1184 00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:09,080 Speaker 5: that I missed it, Like I hate seeing the video 1185 00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:10,360 Speaker 5: now because it's like yo. 1186 00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:11,600 Speaker 3: And they send it to you all time. 1187 00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:12,960 Speaker 6: Yes, I see it all the time. 1188 00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:14,719 Speaker 2: It's just like, how did I miss this? 1189 00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,400 Speaker 5: Like I just wish I would have made it for history, 1190 00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:20,440 Speaker 5: you know, like that's for the history. 1191 00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:24,520 Speaker 3: So now your journey is to Chicago. 1192 00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:26,160 Speaker 1: I know there was a lot of teams that you 1193 00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:29,520 Speaker 1: could have decided that you you wanted to go to, 1194 00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:32,080 Speaker 1: but was Chicago. 1195 00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:34,120 Speaker 3: Was Chicago? 1196 00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:36,520 Speaker 1: What you see in Chicago that you was like, man, 1197 00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:39,600 Speaker 1: I'm intrigued to play with them. 1198 00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:42,840 Speaker 2: You know, it being one of the best city, Yeah. 1199 00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:46,759 Speaker 5: That's that's definitely. In fact, besides it being one of 1200 00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:50,520 Speaker 5: the best cities, what they was building you know, obviously 1201 00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:52,920 Speaker 5: it was a big you know you I paid attention 1202 00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:54,640 Speaker 5: to it. We all know how it worked when certain 1203 00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:57,200 Speaker 5: moves are made during the season. So when they made 1204 00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:01,200 Speaker 5: them move for midway through season last year, I'm like, 1205 00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:03,120 Speaker 5: all right, let me see what this is and a 1206 00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:05,719 Speaker 5: crazy thing. A lot of people don't know me and 1207 00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:07,640 Speaker 5: being like trying to figure out how to play with 1208 00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:08,600 Speaker 5: each other for years. 1209 00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:12,839 Speaker 2: I totally I forgot that. I missed that whole part. 1210 00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:16,760 Speaker 5: So, you know, we always when he was in Orlando, 1211 00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:19,200 Speaker 5: we also be like, let's figure it out, you know 1212 00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:20,759 Speaker 5: what I mean, Let's figure it out. 1213 00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:21,480 Speaker 2: Let's figure it out. 1214 00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:23,799 Speaker 5: So when that happened, it was like, all right, this 1215 00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:26,960 Speaker 5: past season, he was like, you're free agent this summer. 1216 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:30,240 Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, it's like I'm gonna call you, you 1217 00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:32,960 Speaker 5: know what I mean. So when I seen that happen, 1218 00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:34,680 Speaker 5: obviously I've always been a. 1219 00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:35,400 Speaker 2: Fan of Zach. 1220 00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:39,600 Speaker 5: Hell of a player, hell of a talent and deserve 1221 00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:41,960 Speaker 5: everything that's coming his way, you know what I mean, 1222 00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:43,840 Speaker 5: and wanted to be a part of that. 1223 00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:45,560 Speaker 2: That was the dynamic that I looked at. 1224 00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:49,400 Speaker 5: And obviously you bring in a Lonzo Ball, another player 1225 00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:54,000 Speaker 5: that has so much PRETENTI you that haven't been sought out. 1226 00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:56,880 Speaker 5: It just felt right, you know what I mean. It 1227 00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:58,480 Speaker 5: just felt right and it's something that I want to 1228 00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:00,399 Speaker 5: be a part of. To where it was like, all right, 1229 00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,200 Speaker 5: well let's do it. It took me back to that 1230 00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:05,839 Speaker 5: whole underdog teality that I had my whole career two 1231 00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:09,080 Speaker 5: where it's like, you know, they imagine go there and 1232 00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:13,440 Speaker 5: win in Chicago. Oh yeah, it's my guys, crazy saying you. 1233 00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:16,399 Speaker 7: About to get some of the best fans in the 1234 00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:19,760 Speaker 7: world on a planet period, loyal down for you, gonna 1235 00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:23,200 Speaker 7: be with you and share and support. What I want 1236 00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:28,239 Speaker 7: to know is now you come as an og. 1237 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:30,920 Speaker 2: You you know what I'm saying. We talked about earlier. 1238 00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:33,479 Speaker 7: You talked in the door nineteen year old young boy, 1239 00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:36,960 Speaker 7: you know, rookie young. Now you coming to a team 1240 00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:39,600 Speaker 7: and you've been with the Raptors as long as you've 1241 00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:42,440 Speaker 7: been there. You've gone to San Antonio and I feel like, 1242 00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:44,759 Speaker 7: you know, you had to learn some great stuff from 1243 00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:47,200 Speaker 7: popping that whole organization. What do you feel that you're 1244 00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:50,680 Speaker 7: bringing to this boys like you say, they are relatively young. 1245 00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:53,160 Speaker 7: You got Boots who's a veat kind of like you are. 1246 00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:57,000 Speaker 7: Lonzo and Zach aren't young young guys. They're still young 1247 00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:59,160 Speaker 7: in this league. They still need, you know, got some 1248 00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:00,920 Speaker 7: learning to do. So what do you think you guys 1249 00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:02,560 Speaker 7: will bring to that team? 1250 00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:06,239 Speaker 5: Especially for me, I mean everything other than you know, 1251 00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:09,680 Speaker 5: in my career, I've then did everything other than make 1252 00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:11,759 Speaker 5: the final shit, you know what I mean. So with 1253 00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:15,680 Speaker 5: the experience that I've had throughout my years playing with 1254 00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:20,880 Speaker 5: great coulches, great players, understanding the game, understanding what it 1255 00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:24,680 Speaker 5: looks like when the ups and downs come, Understand the 1256 00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:27,640 Speaker 5: mentality and maturity you got to have to stay even 1257 00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:29,920 Speaker 5: keeled through it all. You know, A lot of that 1258 00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:33,080 Speaker 5: becomes contagious when you have that in the building. I 1259 00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:35,840 Speaker 5: think that's the importance of just always having great vets 1260 00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:40,960 Speaker 5: around that understand the game overall, you know what I mean. 1261 00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:44,520 Speaker 5: Once you get that elementent or around of the talents 1262 00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:48,080 Speaker 5: that haven't experienced it, it becomes cutagious and it could 1263 00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:51,320 Speaker 5: carry on to the court. And that's my goal obviously 1264 00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:53,720 Speaker 5: to work that thing and everything being there, but also 1265 00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:57,000 Speaker 5: that veteran understanding and leadership that I could kind of 1266 00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:00,520 Speaker 5: put everything together that I'm just excited to have with 1267 00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:03,839 Speaker 5: all these players that won them fans of and two 1268 00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:07,360 Speaker 5: that deserves, you know, to experience what it feels like 1269 00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:07,680 Speaker 5: to win. 1270 00:57:08,239 --> 00:57:10,520 Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm excited to see. I don't work for the 1271 00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:12,480 Speaker 7: Bulls or anything like that. I work for the Magic, 1272 00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:14,960 Speaker 7: but I you know, I support the Bulls and watch 1273 00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:15,600 Speaker 7: what y'all doing. 1274 00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:16,720 Speaker 2: So I'm excited to see. 1275 00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:20,720 Speaker 7: You know, Linzo, you Zach obviously coming off USA and 1276 00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:24,800 Speaker 7: he already been lighting up at the crib and Vouch. 1277 00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:27,680 Speaker 7: I feel like, you know, y'all got a And then 1278 00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:32,120 Speaker 7: you know, the Williams kid from Florida State here, I 1279 00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:34,760 Speaker 7: think he's got a chance to have a really good 1280 00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:36,840 Speaker 7: career and be a really good piece. And I just 1281 00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:39,320 Speaker 7: like the team, and I think y'all got a real 1282 00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:42,320 Speaker 7: solid foundation what y'all building up there with the squad. 1283 00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:46,439 Speaker 7: Tell me about the impact that Kobe had on you 1284 00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:49,320 Speaker 7: and your game, because I mean when he his fingerprints 1285 00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:51,240 Speaker 7: and are all over your game, when you look at 1286 00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:53,880 Speaker 7: the foots, you know, the footwork of your game, the 1287 00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:56,360 Speaker 7: mid range child, No matter what you know, how the 1288 00:57:56,560 --> 00:58:00,080 Speaker 7: errors have changed, you're stuck consistent with with that crazy 1289 00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:02,400 Speaker 7: range game and being able to do that. And I 1290 00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:04,640 Speaker 7: feel like you evolved to that kind of the way 1291 00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:06,960 Speaker 7: he did. But coming into the league as an athlete 1292 00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:09,520 Speaker 7: and junk kid, talk about the impact that he had 1293 00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:12,440 Speaker 7: on your game. Just watching Kobe outside of my dad 1294 00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:15,840 Speaker 7: putting the ball in my hand, Cole, was my imagination 1295 00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:19,120 Speaker 7: to play basketball, you know what I mean. Like, obviously 1296 00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:22,840 Speaker 7: I'm a fan of Jordan obviously, but being from LA 1297 00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:28,560 Speaker 7: really being seven eight years old, really watching understanding basketball, 1298 00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:31,600 Speaker 7: it was consistently always Kobe, you know what I mean. 1299 00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:35,880 Speaker 7: So that's who gave me my imagination to go in 1300 00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:39,320 Speaker 7: the living room and do you know the shoulder shape, 1301 00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:41,920 Speaker 7: the fate aways this and that I won't go to 1302 00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:43,480 Speaker 7: the park, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do you 1303 00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:45,720 Speaker 7: know what I mean, to where I just continue to 1304 00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:48,600 Speaker 7: build off that to where you know, I gained an 1305 00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:52,280 Speaker 7: emotional connection to my favorite player through the TV and 1306 00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,640 Speaker 7: by the time I was sixteen years old. Next thing, 1307 00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:57,360 Speaker 7: you know, every summer I'm with him, working with him, 1308 00:58:57,480 --> 00:59:00,560 Speaker 7: playing with him in the off seat and you know, 1309 00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:06,000 Speaker 7: getting words in preparation from him. So cold was basically 1310 00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:10,080 Speaker 7: like my everything because like you know, I'm molded, like 1311 00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:12,760 Speaker 7: my groundwork was from him, just watching them, you know 1312 00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:15,200 Speaker 7: what I mean. So yeah, so it just it just 1313 00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:16,200 Speaker 7: took off from there. 1314 00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:18,600 Speaker 1: And you know, I got my Kobe's all right now. 1315 00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:24,000 Speaker 1: So what's the reason that you wear Kobe's every every game? 1316 00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:29,040 Speaker 7: Well, first of all, how they so el A lot 1317 00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:31,360 Speaker 7: of people want to wear Kobe's. But you be coming. 1318 00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:33,480 Speaker 7: I see you on the nice Kigs from all the 1319 00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:36,160 Speaker 7: little sites and this, and you be having the elite 1320 00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:38,240 Speaker 7: people ain't really got that. 1321 00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:41,280 Speaker 5: Go back to our conversation. This probably go back to 1322 00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:44,280 Speaker 5: my senior year in high school. He used to give 1323 00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:47,800 Speaker 5: me a lot of his shoes to wear, certain shoes 1324 00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:49,280 Speaker 5: that didn't wasn't out yet. 1325 00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:54,440 Speaker 2: I did feel in high school giving me exclusive shoes 1326 00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:57,680 Speaker 2: and I'm like bro, and people didn't believe it. 1327 00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:01,360 Speaker 6: Then I can't go around me. Cob gave me needs, 1328 01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:02,640 Speaker 6: but you know he did. 1329 01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:06,800 Speaker 5: But it was crazy because he was always big on 1330 01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:08,640 Speaker 5: me just having the shoes, you know what I mean. 1331 01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:11,480 Speaker 5: Even if you go back to when I was in college, 1332 01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:15,200 Speaker 5: he made sure USC was sponsored by Kobe's, so we 1333 01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:18,280 Speaker 5: wore the Kobe FOURD and had our own colorways while 1334 01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:21,120 Speaker 5: I was in college. From the relationship that we had, 1335 01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:23,600 Speaker 5: you know, and it all started back from high school 1336 01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:25,560 Speaker 5: and it just carried over by the time I got 1337 01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:27,640 Speaker 5: to a league, kind of the same thing y'all had, 1338 01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:29,520 Speaker 5: like with the Team Jordan thing, you know what I mean. 1339 01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:33,440 Speaker 5: Cole wanted to kind of transition towards that and have 1340 01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:36,520 Speaker 5: you know, his own set of players that you know, 1341 01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:39,920 Speaker 5: the Mamba situation that he had. So I was the 1342 01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:42,760 Speaker 5: first one to start it with the whole Kobe situation 1343 01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:45,960 Speaker 5: through our relationship, and you know, it just built from 1344 01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:48,280 Speaker 5: there as he you know, started to pick and other 1345 01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:49,880 Speaker 5: players started to come up and everything. 1346 01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:51,520 Speaker 6: But I was the first one. 1347 01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:55,560 Speaker 5: I was just a favorite player, my favorite payer. That's 1348 01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:57,680 Speaker 5: a good question. Probably the force. 1349 01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:02,320 Speaker 2: Which variation, Like that's all about that. It's so hard 1350 01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:03,320 Speaker 2: to say, it's. 1351 01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:07,120 Speaker 7: So hard and a million variations, yeah, bro like, and 1352 01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:08,160 Speaker 7: they's so comfortable. 1353 01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:11,200 Speaker 5: They comfortable for me. I go with the ones because 1354 01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:14,240 Speaker 5: you know, you started with the ones. He's squatty one 1355 01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:16,959 Speaker 5: and the ones, and I think a few years ago 1356 01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:18,760 Speaker 5: that was big. I want to make sure I had 1357 01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:20,720 Speaker 5: a colorway for the ones. I think I did the 1358 01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:24,520 Speaker 5: Raptorr colors, but the ones, I gotta go with the ones. 1359 01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:26,720 Speaker 2: Where I want to hear some breaking news right here. 1360 01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:29,480 Speaker 7: I've never ever in my life owned a pair of 1361 01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:35,040 Speaker 7: Kobe's really well, not ever, really, it ain't even First 1362 01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:40,919 Speaker 7: of all, it ain't because of any disrespect, like I've 1363 01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:45,080 Speaker 7: only ever wore Jordan's right, and to be honest, like 1364 01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:47,960 Speaker 7: I've never worn anybody else's shoes. 1365 01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:51,480 Speaker 5: But just how you say I had the coldest Kobe's, 1366 01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:52,880 Speaker 5: you had the coldest Jays. 1367 01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:54,240 Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. 1368 01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:58,480 Speaker 5: It's not yet and. 1369 01:01:57,280 --> 01:01:58,320 Speaker 2: All the other person shoes. 1370 01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:00,840 Speaker 7: I can ever say I've ever won with Mellows because 1371 01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:02,400 Speaker 7: me and mellow were the same size. 1372 01:02:02,680 --> 01:02:06,760 Speaker 2: We switched out, I read, but they were melos. 1373 01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:10,520 Speaker 3: They had his name, this Jordan. They don't really count 1374 01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:10,800 Speaker 3: on you. 1375 01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:14,840 Speaker 7: I don't know, but that's why I said. It's not 1376 01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:17,280 Speaker 7: a disrespect. It was just like because people call me 1377 01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:19,760 Speaker 7: a sneak here and I always decline that I denied 1378 01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:22,560 Speaker 7: because I never went and sought out a look for anything. 1379 01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:26,160 Speaker 2: I just take what was received was given happily and gratefully. 1380 01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:28,280 Speaker 2: But like I would fall short of doing that. 1381 01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:30,680 Speaker 7: I'm not standing in lines or doing none of the 1382 01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:32,000 Speaker 7: work to be a real striper. 1383 01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:36,480 Speaker 1: My city loved me, like the Martelros. You know, we 1384 01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:39,160 Speaker 1: all hip hop fans. We grew up on hip Hop's 1385 01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:40,720 Speaker 1: how this rapping in the game. 1386 01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:42,240 Speaker 2: I mean, you know him like that, y'all. 1387 01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:46,360 Speaker 1: You know, to hear your name and the rap songs 1388 01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:48,520 Speaker 1: and stuff like that, Like how is that when you 1389 01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:51,280 Speaker 1: hear your name and the rap song, especially coming from somebody. 1390 01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:55,840 Speaker 5: Like man, it's always an honor whenever, whenever you hear 1391 01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:59,840 Speaker 5: your name in the song periods, it's beyond honor. But 1392 01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:02,680 Speaker 5: when Drake did it, I mean, obviously the biggest of 1393 01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:06,280 Speaker 5: the codas in the game. And you know that is 1394 01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:09,360 Speaker 5: my patna. You know that is my that is my dog. 1395 01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:13,000 Speaker 5: And I maybe said it once, but it was a 1396 01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:15,480 Speaker 5: couple of years ago. I went to his concert and 1397 01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:18,120 Speaker 5: we sitting backstage and we just joking and talking whatever. 1398 01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:20,200 Speaker 5: It was like, man, we're gonna put my name in 1399 01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:22,640 Speaker 5: the song. It's like, man, I gotta find something that 1400 01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:24,400 Speaker 5: rhyme with it, you know what I mean? And like 1401 01:03:24,480 --> 01:03:27,400 Speaker 5: we were just joking or whatever, all from just sitting 1402 01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:31,040 Speaker 5: back in the back, just chilling, just talking stuff. The 1403 01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:33,080 Speaker 5: next thing, you know, I mean, he told me when 1404 01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:37,400 Speaker 5: he did the song like last year, but to hear 1405 01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:39,360 Speaker 5: it when it came out, it was like, you know 1406 01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:42,480 Speaker 5: what I mean, it's Drake, you know what I mean? 1407 01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:46,440 Speaker 7: For me, I felt like that was like full circle 1408 01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:48,440 Speaker 7: type moment, like you know what I'm saying, insight of 1409 01:03:48,520 --> 01:03:51,080 Speaker 7: everything that happened and just still here like you know 1410 01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:51,520 Speaker 7: what I'm saying. 1411 01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:52,840 Speaker 2: Like when he, like. 1412 01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:55,600 Speaker 7: You said, it's one of the biggest global icons period 1413 01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:59,240 Speaker 7: and he's saying that his city loved him like they 1414 01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:02,000 Speaker 7: loved the walk the road, like that is a crazy 1415 01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:05,120 Speaker 7: it's like to say that he's claiming that he get 1416 01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:06,240 Speaker 7: loved in his city. 1417 01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:09,080 Speaker 5: Like yeah, And that's the crazy part about it, bro 1418 01:04:09,160 --> 01:04:11,800 Speaker 5: because it's like people, everybody know how much I love 1419 01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:14,680 Speaker 5: that city, that that country and what it did for me. 1420 01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:17,959 Speaker 5: And you know, I like I grew there as a 1421 01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:19,960 Speaker 5: as a man, you know what I mean. Like I 1422 01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:22,600 Speaker 5: became so much there And it's a test to them, 1423 01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:23,440 Speaker 5: you know what I mean, and. 1424 01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:26,160 Speaker 2: The love and. 1425 01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:28,400 Speaker 6: The support to this day that they show. 1426 01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:31,560 Speaker 5: You know, it's crazy for the biggest person from there 1427 01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:34,400 Speaker 5: to even mention that, but you know, and it's just 1428 01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:36,640 Speaker 5: dope for me to have a friendship and relationship that 1429 01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:38,520 Speaker 5: I have, you know, with him as well. 1430 01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:41,840 Speaker 6: So it definitely was crazy. 1431 01:04:41,160 --> 01:04:43,320 Speaker 1: When he came to the team and started being around 1432 01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:46,720 Speaker 1: the team, get the season ticket, being part of y'all team, Like, 1433 01:04:46,760 --> 01:04:49,240 Speaker 1: how was that for y'all team to have him part 1434 01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:52,200 Speaker 1: of it? Because he's he's deep into it. I like 1435 01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:58,280 Speaker 1: what he I love all. 1436 01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:04,280 Speaker 5: What's dope about that is it's not an act with him, 1437 01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:06,680 Speaker 5: you know what I mean. Like it's he's the most 1438 01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:09,640 Speaker 5: genuine individual you could come by. So everything that you 1439 01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:11,680 Speaker 5: see is that's really you know what I mean, it's 1440 01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:13,600 Speaker 5: really him. It's not I'm not doing this for no 1441 01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:17,160 Speaker 5: publicity reason. I'm doing this because you know, I really care, 1442 01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:20,000 Speaker 5: and you know, people don't know. It's been plenty of times, 1443 01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:23,160 Speaker 5: whether stuff, we had good games of bad games, he 1444 01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:25,919 Speaker 5: be the first ones to come back there in locker room, 1445 01:05:26,120 --> 01:05:29,080 Speaker 5: get everybody up lifted, always have positive things to say, 1446 01:05:29,160 --> 01:05:31,520 Speaker 5: you know what I mean, inviting people to you know, 1447 01:05:31,680 --> 01:05:34,440 Speaker 5: certain is it's just he's just a real individual when 1448 01:05:34,480 --> 01:05:37,960 Speaker 5: it comes come to those Yeah, he's not. Sometimes not 1449 01:05:38,280 --> 01:05:40,480 Speaker 5: because there's more stuff he do behind the scenes that's 1450 01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:42,320 Speaker 5: not even seen, you know what I mean, or spoke 1451 01:05:42,360 --> 01:05:45,680 Speaker 5: about that's even more dope than what people actually see, 1452 01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:47,640 Speaker 5: you know what I mean, That's that's what makes them 1453 01:05:47,640 --> 01:05:48,960 Speaker 5: the hell of a person, you know what I mean. 1454 01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:53,560 Speaker 5: It's crazy and it's like it's cool when your team 1455 01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:55,720 Speaker 5: have a connection with the biggest star in the world, 1456 01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:57,680 Speaker 5: you know what I mean. And even for me, like 1457 01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:01,240 Speaker 5: I'm in my to see him become who he is, 1458 01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:04,040 Speaker 5: like my rookie years when you know he first started, 1459 01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:06,840 Speaker 5: you know what I mean. So to see him grow, 1460 01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:11,480 Speaker 5: see his growth, see where everything comes. Yeah, bro, it's 1461 01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:14,680 Speaker 5: the craziest thing that the witness because people think it 1462 01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:17,720 Speaker 5: come overnight. But I remember where you know, we used 1463 01:06:17,760 --> 01:06:19,960 Speaker 5: to go out and it'll. 1464 01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:22,400 Speaker 3: Be one as crazy as it is nothing, you know 1465 01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:22,640 Speaker 3: what I mean. 1466 01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:25,480 Speaker 5: Nobody even paying attention, you know what I mean. You 1467 01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:29,760 Speaker 5: could walk in and walk out of somewhere nobody. 1468 01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:32,960 Speaker 6: So it's crazy just you. 1469 01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:34,760 Speaker 2: Know, now tuned in to the biggest ever. 1470 01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:37,800 Speaker 3: Dudes around him like his crew man. 1471 01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:42,680 Speaker 5: Everybody the future, like everybody around every that's and that's 1472 01:06:42,680 --> 01:06:45,240 Speaker 5: the crazy thing. One thing everybody around him, from Chelse 1473 01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:48,480 Speaker 5: to Mark that everybody that's that's around them like they family. 1474 01:06:48,560 --> 01:06:51,480 Speaker 5: And even if I see them, it's it's the same thing, 1475 01:06:51,560 --> 01:06:52,920 Speaker 5: you know what I mean, They all family. 1476 01:06:53,280 --> 01:06:53,440 Speaker 2: Dog. 1477 01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:56,320 Speaker 7: That's what I want to ask though, because you've just 1478 01:06:56,360 --> 01:06:59,160 Speaker 7: seen a lot of bread, you know what I'm saying, 1479 01:06:59,160 --> 01:07:00,720 Speaker 7: A lot of little you know I saw when you 1480 01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:02,720 Speaker 7: going through the contract negotiations. 1481 01:07:02,720 --> 01:07:03,800 Speaker 2: Money ain't a big deal. 1482 01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:06,280 Speaker 7: I'm trying to finund like that's a that's a privileged 1483 01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:07,160 Speaker 7: ass position. 1484 01:07:07,240 --> 01:07:07,479 Speaker 2: Boy. 1485 01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:09,320 Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying that. You know you've seen 1486 01:07:09,400 --> 01:07:13,000 Speaker 7: a lot of that. You feel me. So what I 1487 01:07:13,040 --> 01:07:14,640 Speaker 7: want to know is, like, you know, I don't want 1488 01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:16,880 Speaker 7: to hear about you. I took care of mom and pops. 1489 01:07:16,880 --> 01:07:19,520 Speaker 7: We all did that, everybody. I won't know what DeMar 1490 01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:22,680 Speaker 7: de Rosen did when you look back on it now 1491 01:07:22,760 --> 01:07:23,760 Speaker 7: it's an adult. 1492 01:07:23,960 --> 01:07:27,160 Speaker 2: Did you feel like the hell was you doing young tomorrow? 1493 01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:30,240 Speaker 7: Like you si, but like at the time you felt 1494 01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:34,280 Speaker 7: absolutely outstanding about it, cause we're all about that big 1495 01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:37,040 Speaker 7: dumb ass chain or a crazy watch or a car 1496 01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:40,240 Speaker 7: or what have you. What did you do to spend 1497 01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:43,760 Speaker 7: the bag? Did you look back on like that? But like, 1498 01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:46,080 Speaker 7: couldn't nobody tell me nothing? At the time, it was 1499 01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:48,160 Speaker 7: it was the best decision I made. 1500 01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:53,960 Speaker 5: I'm being honest. I don't think I never really like 1501 01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:58,160 Speaker 5: bought nothing. It's probably like the thing like for example, 1502 01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:00,960 Speaker 5: like I remember to this day I price I always 1503 01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:01,680 Speaker 5: say I ain't. 1504 01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:02,280 Speaker 2: Doing that ship again. 1505 01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:06,520 Speaker 5: I think I took like seventy some people to disnitey 1506 01:08:06,600 --> 01:08:12,160 Speaker 5: land right, my whole family, they kids, friends, like a 1507 01:08:12,240 --> 01:08:14,360 Speaker 5: half tickets people. 1508 01:08:14,560 --> 01:08:14,840 Speaker 2: People. 1509 01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:16,600 Speaker 7: If you this is if you know, you know, like 1510 01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:20,280 Speaker 7: people may be like, well, trust me, the v come 1511 01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:21,559 Speaker 7: out much more than. 1512 01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:29,680 Speaker 2: You know the vi I P. Yeah, you know, you know, 1513 01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:32,280 Speaker 2: you know what the VIP I ain't gonna look he 1514 01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:37,439 Speaker 2: paid like he way right, seventy people, twenty vi P people. 1515 01:08:37,640 --> 01:08:38,400 Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. 1516 01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:41,599 Speaker 5: You know, you know so many people on so many people. 1517 01:08:41,840 --> 01:08:47,040 Speaker 2: You gotta have, yes, like one person one VIP to 1518 01:08:47,160 --> 01:08:47,799 Speaker 2: like ten. 1519 01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:50,639 Speaker 5: People something something like that. You got like an eight 1520 01:08:50,680 --> 01:08:53,040 Speaker 5: hour minimum right with each person. Bro. 1521 01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:55,559 Speaker 2: It was crazy. It was crazy anxiety. Listen. 1522 01:08:55,800 --> 01:08:59,559 Speaker 5: That's probably like the craziest thing because I ain't never 1523 01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:03,000 Speaker 5: been a car because like I always make like throughout 1524 01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:04,800 Speaker 5: the season, I'd be like, yo, all right, if I 1525 01:09:05,200 --> 01:09:08,160 Speaker 5: if I'm all star off from this, I get this 1526 01:09:08,280 --> 01:09:10,760 Speaker 5: mean points, I get this car, like I always, I 1527 01:09:10,760 --> 01:09:13,240 Speaker 5: always put those certain incentives on myself, you know what 1528 01:09:13,240 --> 01:09:16,280 Speaker 5: I mean. So I ain't never really did nothing crazy 1529 01:09:16,320 --> 01:09:18,000 Speaker 5: other than like some like that. 1530 01:09:18,240 --> 01:09:20,120 Speaker 7: Knowing what I know about you from the outside, I 1531 01:09:20,120 --> 01:09:22,759 Speaker 7: could see that and truly believe that because you didn't 1532 01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:24,879 Speaker 7: really jump out of somebody that's gonna. 1533 01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:28,799 Speaker 5: Be like like like, yeah, I ain't gonna. 1534 01:09:30,200 --> 01:09:36,400 Speaker 8: People, let's pay the like when I say that probably 1535 01:09:36,479 --> 01:09:38,799 Speaker 8: was more than any of the cars he talking about, 1536 01:09:38,920 --> 01:09:40,679 Speaker 8: Like it's like, I'm telling you, bro. 1537 01:09:40,680 --> 01:09:41,360 Speaker 2: I say this. 1538 01:09:41,640 --> 01:09:44,120 Speaker 5: I say this to this day when I see pictures 1539 01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:48,320 Speaker 5: from that day, I'm not doing that. I'm not doing 1540 01:09:48,439 --> 01:09:49,200 Speaker 5: that ship again. 1541 01:09:49,240 --> 01:09:52,679 Speaker 7: You don't think about the good time, about the building. 1542 01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:56,480 Speaker 7: I'm not doing that up there. One of the biggest persons. 1543 01:09:56,720 --> 01:09:59,320 Speaker 7: I'm telling you people even get into the hot dollars 1544 01:09:59,320 --> 01:09:59,959 Speaker 7: in the concession. 1545 01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:04,360 Speaker 5: What I'm saying, world, trust me, it's a trap. 1546 01:10:04,880 --> 01:10:06,639 Speaker 2: What I'm saying, you got away. 1547 01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:12,120 Speaker 7: It's a big ass wall and everything. This is the 1548 01:10:12,160 --> 01:10:14,679 Speaker 7: spot where all the kids have to melt down because 1549 01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:16,720 Speaker 7: this is the last chance we get this. 1550 01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:19,679 Speaker 2: Alright. You'd be like, yo'all wrong. 1551 01:10:21,120 --> 01:10:24,599 Speaker 1: What's your favorite food spot in Toronto that you missed 1552 01:10:24,600 --> 01:10:26,800 Speaker 1: the most and you used to always go and get 1553 01:10:26,840 --> 01:10:28,600 Speaker 1: that you you don't get into states. 1554 01:10:28,680 --> 01:10:32,120 Speaker 5: It's a It was a restaurant there called Booker. It's 1555 01:10:32,160 --> 01:10:36,360 Speaker 5: like Booker b U c Ay. It was Italian spot. 1556 01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:39,000 Speaker 5: One of my favorite places to eat there. 1557 01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:42,320 Speaker 7: I won't say I might have been there when we 1558 01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:45,240 Speaker 7: came there from with the heat. I want to say, 1559 01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:47,040 Speaker 7: Jo did a did a team. 1560 01:10:47,240 --> 01:10:51,240 Speaker 6: I wasn't be surprised, you know, the big I wouldn't. 1561 01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:52,439 Speaker 6: I wouldn't want to say. 1562 01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:56,040 Speaker 7: Here the team Jenner and they definitely got some bomb food. 1563 01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:59,000 Speaker 2: It's like very low ceiling. 1564 01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:02,160 Speaker 6: Type yes, like it's yes, yeah. 1565 01:11:02,080 --> 01:11:02,760 Speaker 2: I think yeah. 1566 01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:05,680 Speaker 7: I want to say he did a private team dinner there, 1567 01:11:06,560 --> 01:11:07,280 Speaker 7: very good time. 1568 01:11:07,760 --> 01:11:10,559 Speaker 2: Shout out to Jo the flights one I love. 1569 01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:12,200 Speaker 3: I'm big on mental health. 1570 01:11:12,320 --> 01:11:14,920 Speaker 1: I feel like mental health is important these days, and 1571 01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:17,639 Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of people don't communicate within 1572 01:11:17,680 --> 01:11:22,439 Speaker 1: their own families, let alone outside of their families. You 1573 01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:24,880 Speaker 1: and Keimel Love was big on, you know, bringing that 1574 01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:28,080 Speaker 1: to the table and really talking about it first, like 1575 01:11:28,160 --> 01:11:31,040 Speaker 1: explain more about the mental health thing and how the 1576 01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:34,080 Speaker 1: NBA got with you to do the whole set up. 1577 01:11:35,240 --> 01:11:40,200 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean shit, mental health is probably, you know, 1578 01:11:40,479 --> 01:11:43,320 Speaker 5: one of the most overlooked things that don't get talked about, 1579 01:11:43,560 --> 01:11:46,680 Speaker 5: not just within our sports, just in general. You know 1580 01:11:46,680 --> 01:11:50,080 Speaker 5: what I mean from the way, you know, especially how 1581 01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:52,519 Speaker 5: we always brought up to where you know, you know, 1582 01:11:52,640 --> 01:11:53,880 Speaker 5: suck it up, don't worry about it. 1583 01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:55,679 Speaker 2: Just this, you know, what I mean. 1584 01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:58,320 Speaker 5: Yeah, you suck if you don't. You less of an 1585 01:11:58,320 --> 01:12:01,680 Speaker 5: individual if you don't. But really that's not true, you 1586 01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:04,920 Speaker 5: know what I mean. But we never had that understanding 1587 01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:07,560 Speaker 5: of how to approach it, how to talk about it, 1588 01:12:07,560 --> 01:12:09,760 Speaker 5: and how to deal with it. So when we went 1589 01:12:09,800 --> 01:12:13,040 Speaker 5: through dark times, we internalized it, you know what I mean, 1590 01:12:13,160 --> 01:12:16,200 Speaker 5: and it forced us to suppress it whatever way we 1591 01:12:16,360 --> 01:12:18,240 Speaker 5: felt was fit, you know what I mean. You know 1592 01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:21,200 Speaker 5: what I mean, And that could become detrimental in a 1593 01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:25,080 Speaker 5: long run. But sometimes you don't realize that it's too late, 1594 01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:29,280 Speaker 5: or you know, you in trouble, or you gotta really 1595 01:12:29,400 --> 01:12:31,240 Speaker 5: look in the mirror and face the facts, you know 1596 01:12:31,240 --> 01:12:36,000 Speaker 5: what I mean. So for me, the league getting behind 1597 01:12:36,439 --> 01:12:39,439 Speaker 5: and figuring out ways to help our players, it's definitely dope. 1598 01:12:39,479 --> 01:12:44,439 Speaker 5: But for me, it's us just expressing our stories that's 1599 01:12:44,680 --> 01:12:48,840 Speaker 5: inspirational from other people that's terrified to talk about it, 1600 01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:51,400 Speaker 5: you know what I mean, Because we are looked at 1601 01:12:51,479 --> 01:12:54,000 Speaker 5: you like we superheroes, but we got a. 1602 01:12:53,960 --> 01:12:56,800 Speaker 3: Dollar amount of yeah, because we got problems we should have. 1603 01:12:57,080 --> 01:12:58,479 Speaker 5: We shouldn't have it, you know what I mean. Like 1604 01:12:58,520 --> 01:13:01,720 Speaker 5: I always say this quote, I wish everyone was rich 1605 01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:04,320 Speaker 5: so they could realize money isn't everything, you know what 1606 01:13:04,320 --> 01:13:07,639 Speaker 5: I mean, Like that's the realest thing, and even then 1607 01:13:07,880 --> 01:13:10,880 Speaker 5: people still wouldn't understand it, you know what I mean. 1608 01:13:10,920 --> 01:13:13,240 Speaker 6: But for me it's just us. 1609 01:13:13,840 --> 01:13:16,519 Speaker 5: I feel like when I hear certain people's story, like 1610 01:13:16,680 --> 01:13:20,640 Speaker 5: it becomes inspirational to me because you're showing vulnerability. You 1611 01:13:20,720 --> 01:13:23,840 Speaker 5: have a story that's behind it, that made you resilient, 1612 01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:28,080 Speaker 5: made you successful, whatever. But the more we talk about 1613 01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:31,400 Speaker 5: it and express it and show that we could put 1614 01:13:31,400 --> 01:13:33,439 Speaker 5: our guards down because we all got a hell of 1615 01:13:33,479 --> 01:13:36,040 Speaker 5: a story, man, you know what I mean. So that 1616 01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:39,519 Speaker 5: was kind of like my thing, like making it feel okay, 1617 01:13:39,680 --> 01:13:42,200 Speaker 5: not being ashamed of it, not feeling like you less 1618 01:13:42,280 --> 01:13:45,800 Speaker 5: of an individual because because we nothing. 1619 01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:47,680 Speaker 7: Yeah that mad I had a lot of respect for 1620 01:13:47,880 --> 01:13:50,439 Speaker 7: both you and Kevin. Love Win came out and I 1621 01:13:50,479 --> 01:13:52,600 Speaker 7: felt like when I looked at y'all, like damn, like 1622 01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:56,240 Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, Like that's definitely empowering and 1623 01:13:56,280 --> 01:13:58,839 Speaker 7: giving somebody else the courage to go out there because 1624 01:13:58,880 --> 01:14:02,439 Speaker 7: like you said, you you k love all of us 1625 01:14:02,479 --> 01:14:05,920 Speaker 7: has been in NBA, somebody some superheroes. It showed that, 1626 01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:07,759 Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, that you could be vulnerable 1627 01:14:07,880 --> 01:14:10,040 Speaker 7: enough to go out there and share and let them 1628 01:14:10,080 --> 01:14:13,280 Speaker 7: know that, like, hey, look, you think this is me, 1629 01:14:13,439 --> 01:14:15,880 Speaker 7: and I'm showing you that, Hey, I'm going through this 1630 01:14:15,920 --> 01:14:18,240 Speaker 7: and I'm dealing with this and you can still be 1631 01:14:18,360 --> 01:14:21,040 Speaker 7: good and have a good life and be okay. And 1632 01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:23,240 Speaker 7: I'm sharing this with you when I don't really have to, 1633 01:14:23,400 --> 01:14:25,679 Speaker 7: showing you that I'm not perfect, and showing you there's 1634 01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:28,400 Speaker 7: no difference between me and you, even though you may 1635 01:14:28,479 --> 01:14:29,320 Speaker 7: really think it is. 1636 01:14:29,640 --> 01:14:32,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm big, but I feel like mental health is big. 1637 01:14:32,560 --> 01:14:32,840 Speaker 2: I'm big. 1638 01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:33,680 Speaker 3: Gonna communicate. 1639 01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:36,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I got a best friend that I've been 1640 01:14:36,120 --> 01:14:40,320 Speaker 1: best friends for since third grade, but these last three 1641 01:14:40,439 --> 01:14:45,160 Speaker 1: four years we communicated and talked about deeper stuff way 1642 01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:48,599 Speaker 1: more than I did the last twenty some years with them. 1643 01:14:48,600 --> 01:14:52,439 Speaker 1: It's because I'm more open to communicate now or to 1644 01:14:52,479 --> 01:14:53,639 Speaker 1: talk to another person. 1645 01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:55,559 Speaker 3: And a lot of families don't come up. 1646 01:14:55,600 --> 01:14:57,960 Speaker 1: You be in your household and none of y'all have 1647 01:14:58,120 --> 01:15:02,479 Speaker 1: a deep conversation about nothing then that'spertaining about a feeling 1648 01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:05,680 Speaker 1: or emotional or whatever going on, and a lot of 1649 01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:09,000 Speaker 1: people suffer. That's I was definitely happy that y'all did that. 1650 01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:10,880 Speaker 1: Y'all spoke of the first thing a person to come 1651 01:15:10,920 --> 01:15:13,360 Speaker 1: out and say, it's like, oh, you're crazy because I 1652 01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:15,160 Speaker 1: want to go and talk to somebody and kind of 1653 01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:18,559 Speaker 1: get my thoughts out my own head that I'm crazy for. 1654 01:15:19,479 --> 01:15:22,519 Speaker 1: And that's how people will make you feel when it's 1655 01:15:22,560 --> 01:15:23,679 Speaker 1: okay for you to go and talk. 1656 01:15:23,680 --> 01:15:27,679 Speaker 5: Okay, That's why so many people are reserved so much, 1657 01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:30,800 Speaker 5: because they scared of that type of reaction, you know, 1658 01:15:31,640 --> 01:15:36,960 Speaker 5: like damn not like, man, whatever you need, do it, 1659 01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:39,679 Speaker 5: you know what I mean, It's okay to talk to whatever. 1660 01:15:39,880 --> 01:15:43,400 Speaker 5: Especially growing up in like the urban community, we were 1661 01:15:43,520 --> 01:15:46,679 Speaker 5: just taught the complete opposite, you know what I mean, 1662 01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:49,360 Speaker 5: to where it take you, Like you said it took 1663 01:15:49,400 --> 01:15:52,360 Speaker 5: me I was twenty seven, twenty eight years old to 1664 01:15:52,439 --> 01:15:53,800 Speaker 5: be like man, fuck it, you. 1665 01:15:53,760 --> 01:15:55,960 Speaker 2: Know what I mean. Like I was older than that. Yeah, 1666 01:15:56,280 --> 01:15:56,800 Speaker 2: you know what I mean. 1667 01:15:56,800 --> 01:15:59,680 Speaker 5: So it's just like if we normalize it earlier and 1668 01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:02,400 Speaker 5: help kids who go through so much, that come home 1669 01:16:02,439 --> 01:16:04,680 Speaker 5: in eight grade that don't want to talk, and you 1670 01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:06,880 Speaker 5: wonder why they're sitting there in the corner not knowing 1671 01:16:06,920 --> 01:16:09,840 Speaker 5: what they contemplating because they don't know how to talk 1672 01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:11,240 Speaker 5: or express their feelings. 1673 01:16:11,240 --> 01:16:14,439 Speaker 6: They get it out. You could cut so much stuff out. 1674 01:16:14,479 --> 01:16:14,720 Speaker 2: That kid. 1675 01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:16,719 Speaker 6: Ain't gotta wait till they twenty five or thirty. 1676 01:16:16,840 --> 01:16:21,200 Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Start bench trade two. We're 1677 01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:27,400 Speaker 1: gonna go too god, Ai d Way, ray Allen. 1678 01:16:27,760 --> 01:16:34,200 Speaker 5: Oh what, oh my god, start bench cut yeah. 1679 01:16:34,280 --> 01:16:34,559 Speaker 2: Trade. 1680 01:16:34,560 --> 01:16:36,320 Speaker 3: Oh my god, we're gonna cut them. We're gonna trade. 1681 01:16:36,360 --> 01:16:45,080 Speaker 5: Oh trade, start bench trade yeah, Ai Ray d Wade, Yeah, 1682 01:16:45,200 --> 01:16:46,000 Speaker 5: this is gonna hurt. 1683 01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:47,800 Speaker 2: It's gonna hurt. 1684 01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:53,080 Speaker 5: Start d Way Yeah. 1685 01:16:54,240 --> 01:16:54,599 Speaker 2: Trade. 1686 01:16:54,680 --> 01:17:02,280 Speaker 5: Oh my god, start the way. Damn man, that's start 1687 01:17:02,320 --> 01:17:02,679 Speaker 5: the way. 1688 01:17:03,360 --> 01:17:04,120 Speaker 2: She just stuck. 1689 01:17:05,240 --> 01:17:08,600 Speaker 6: Oh my god, this is a tough one. I just 1690 01:17:08,640 --> 01:17:10,639 Speaker 6: got to just go and say it. Start the way. 1691 01:17:14,560 --> 01:17:21,799 Speaker 5: A trade Ray, jesus, I'm sorry, trading trading. 1692 01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:27,040 Speaker 6: I'm trading Ray because yeah, right right, I love you. 1693 01:17:27,200 --> 01:17:29,080 Speaker 1: I know you was a Laker fan coming up, But 1694 01:17:29,120 --> 01:17:32,439 Speaker 1: what do you remember about the Clippers everything? 1695 01:17:32,479 --> 01:17:35,320 Speaker 5: I mean, I went the more us. I mean yeah, 1696 01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:39,160 Speaker 5: for sure, y'all, no question y'all, no, no question y'all. 1697 01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:43,320 Speaker 5: But you know it's crazy, like I went the more 1698 01:17:43,360 --> 01:17:46,760 Speaker 5: Clipper games that I haven't been making. 1699 01:17:47,920 --> 01:17:51,599 Speaker 2: Definitely have the people. He was Boo fan. We know 1700 01:17:52,040 --> 01:17:55,400 Speaker 2: we had to give about twenty five tickets away. 1701 01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:57,479 Speaker 7: Makes use like you know, all the all the school 1702 01:17:58,120 --> 01:18:02,200 Speaker 7: school kids and all that we need that action. 1703 01:18:02,520 --> 01:18:03,400 Speaker 2: Used to come to the game. 1704 01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:05,280 Speaker 6: I used to come to the games, bro, I used 1705 01:18:05,280 --> 01:18:05,759 Speaker 6: to when. 1706 01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:08,000 Speaker 2: Y'all played to be young boys. 1707 01:18:08,360 --> 01:18:11,360 Speaker 5: I went to so many ain't ain't many games I 1708 01:18:11,439 --> 01:18:17,599 Speaker 5: missed going to the Clipper love. Yeah, make sure we've 1709 01:18:17,640 --> 01:18:21,120 Speaker 5: been a black ass fan the Lakers and all that stuff. 1710 01:18:21,720 --> 01:18:24,640 Speaker 7: Hey, listen, we always talked about that even though the 1711 01:18:24,680 --> 01:18:26,639 Speaker 7: Lakes Lakers we hadn't carved out. 1712 01:18:26,720 --> 01:18:29,160 Speaker 2: It was kind of like a little hood portion, you know. 1713 01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:30,559 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it was kind of. 1714 01:18:30,479 --> 01:18:32,320 Speaker 7: Booze you to be the Lakers fan, but it was 1715 01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:34,720 Speaker 7: kind of frown of fun. But like we still had 1716 01:18:36,840 --> 01:18:41,080 Speaker 7: feels just right. You made you dropped the song. Yeah 1717 01:18:42,479 --> 01:18:43,280 Speaker 7: you wrapping up? 1718 01:18:43,560 --> 01:18:44,839 Speaker 6: I mean it's crazy. 1719 01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:50,960 Speaker 5: Wait, we got bars feat Yeah Blake feature coming with. 1720 01:18:53,120 --> 01:18:53,599 Speaker 2: On the track. 1721 01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:57,000 Speaker 5: And that's what's crazy. He heard plenty of my songs before, 1722 01:18:57,200 --> 01:18:58,200 Speaker 5: like a long time. 1723 01:18:58,080 --> 01:19:01,680 Speaker 7: Ago, you'd have been I don't play them, I don't 1724 01:19:01,720 --> 01:19:03,200 Speaker 7: play them, I don't play them songs. 1725 01:19:05,240 --> 01:19:07,960 Speaker 5: I don't play them songs and everything. But that was like, 1726 01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:09,759 Speaker 5: you know how like a lot of guys go golfing, 1727 01:19:09,920 --> 01:19:12,719 Speaker 5: that stay hobby, Like that's just always been my hobby. 1728 01:19:12,760 --> 01:19:15,320 Speaker 6: But I never thought I put a song out there. 1729 01:19:15,320 --> 01:19:17,400 Speaker 7: I'm like, do we have a Do we have a? 1730 01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:19,840 Speaker 7: But like you about to do your dame little about 1731 01:19:19,840 --> 01:19:21,320 Speaker 7: to put out an app do we have a I 1732 01:19:21,360 --> 01:19:24,040 Speaker 7: mean you said you thought about it songs in the time. 1733 01:19:26,439 --> 01:19:30,760 Speaker 5: I don't know. I haven't got that part. I never 1734 01:19:30,800 --> 01:19:33,320 Speaker 5: thought I was going for the song. I got to 1735 01:19:33,360 --> 01:19:34,800 Speaker 5: think about it now. I got to have a whole 1736 01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:39,280 Speaker 5: promotion behind it. Like that's what I'm saying, bro, Like 1737 01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:45,759 Speaker 5: trust me man. 1738 01:19:43,479 --> 01:19:46,240 Speaker 2: Staying together. The first song is five hundred million liquid. 1739 01:19:46,320 --> 01:19:52,120 Speaker 7: I could imagine what that thing, but you know. 1740 01:19:52,439 --> 01:19:55,680 Speaker 2: Laugh rate might damn me. 1741 01:19:57,320 --> 01:20:01,440 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's the name of the song. 1742 01:20:01,720 --> 01:20:03,880 Speaker 7: Look, I'm thinking that he say they about to go 1743 01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:05,240 Speaker 7: to the shot, he about to win. 1744 01:20:05,479 --> 01:20:07,440 Speaker 2: You know, I feel you. 1745 01:20:07,720 --> 01:20:10,280 Speaker 1: Feel because I know like guys wanted expressing as much 1746 01:20:10,280 --> 01:20:13,400 Speaker 1: as they was expressing themself off the court when you 1747 01:20:13,439 --> 01:20:16,439 Speaker 1: first came into the league to now seeing how guys 1748 01:20:16,520 --> 01:20:20,080 Speaker 1: can can make rap songs, make rap album. 1749 01:20:20,080 --> 01:20:24,120 Speaker 3: They can do movies or do whatever they they choose 1750 01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:24,360 Speaker 3: to do. 1751 01:20:24,640 --> 01:20:27,280 Speaker 1: Like to see the lead change from when you first 1752 01:20:27,320 --> 01:20:29,400 Speaker 1: came in a lot of guys want expressing themself as 1753 01:20:29,479 --> 01:20:31,720 Speaker 1: much off the court to now. 1754 01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:35,800 Speaker 5: That's a that's a great question because I always wonder that, 1755 01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:38,200 Speaker 5: especially from us, think about how many dudes we know 1756 01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:43,360 Speaker 5: that's talented, that has so many capabilities other than just basketball. 1757 01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:47,559 Speaker 5: But that's just we let the world and social media 1758 01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:50,680 Speaker 5: boxes seeing it just be one thing, you know what 1759 01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:54,559 Speaker 5: I mean, Like everybody I know in the league got 1760 01:20:54,640 --> 01:20:56,760 Speaker 5: so many elements to them, you know what I mean, 1761 01:20:57,200 --> 01:21:00,360 Speaker 5: That's what makes them more amazing other than just a 1762 01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:03,040 Speaker 5: basketball player, you know what I mean. Like so I 1763 01:21:03,080 --> 01:21:05,920 Speaker 5: think just the freedom of guys just having that self 1764 01:21:06,240 --> 01:21:09,719 Speaker 5: awareness and confidence within himself just doing stuff. 1765 01:21:09,760 --> 01:21:11,439 Speaker 2: You know what I mean. I'm trying to figure out 1766 01:21:11,439 --> 01:21:13,679 Speaker 2: when can we get a collab? You got you. 1767 01:21:14,200 --> 01:21:20,600 Speaker 7: Dang chump, Will got boars? What's the boy from Sacramento? 1768 01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:25,040 Speaker 2: Uh? Badly badly got. 1769 01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:28,160 Speaker 7: Boss He was going at it with with somebody. Then 1770 01:21:28,200 --> 01:21:30,479 Speaker 7: you got Shack DS with the o G. Like, man, 1771 01:21:30,520 --> 01:21:31,360 Speaker 7: we need to collab. 1772 01:21:31,400 --> 01:21:34,320 Speaker 2: But hoops at Steven Jack stat Jack flowing whatever? We 1773 01:21:34,360 --> 01:21:35,680 Speaker 2: need to collab? What's up? 1774 01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:35,960 Speaker 1: Man? 1775 01:21:36,040 --> 01:21:39,160 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm with it. I'm you know what I'm saying. 1776 01:21:39,320 --> 01:21:43,160 Speaker 7: I want to collab all the hoops getting on, get 1777 01:21:43,200 --> 01:21:45,120 Speaker 7: some features, you know, get get hardened. 1778 01:21:45,240 --> 01:21:49,080 Speaker 5: How about your DJ Kelly and put it, put it 1779 01:21:49,120 --> 01:21:49,840 Speaker 5: all together. 1780 01:21:50,080 --> 01:21:52,080 Speaker 3: Together, put the couple together. 1781 01:21:52,200 --> 01:21:57,720 Speaker 5: No, somebody got to put it together. I'm a hype man. 1782 01:21:57,800 --> 01:22:01,920 Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying that I'm gonna get hyped. 1783 01:22:01,960 --> 01:22:05,240 Speaker 7: I don't know about all keep going, time out of it, 1784 01:22:06,200 --> 01:22:10,760 Speaker 7: keep going you small, no kind of do more than 1785 01:22:10,760 --> 01:22:12,240 Speaker 7: that now. I cant of got twn of now you 1786 01:22:12,360 --> 01:22:15,000 Speaker 7: putting together beats and I ain't doing nothing. I could 1787 01:22:15,240 --> 01:22:17,280 Speaker 7: I get on try and talk some ship. That's like 1788 01:22:17,600 --> 01:22:19,400 Speaker 7: stop staying. You know what I'm saying. I ain't doing 1789 01:22:19,439 --> 01:22:23,639 Speaker 7: all of this everything else? All right, man, that's a wrap. Man, 1790 01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:26,640 Speaker 7: this has been dope. We had the real deal, my 1791 01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:29,880 Speaker 7: main man confidence z On DeMar de Rozan in the 1792 01:22:29,920 --> 01:22:30,960 Speaker 7: building with us. 1793 01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:34,120 Speaker 2: Real deal, holy feel, real deal okay, and you know 1794 01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:37,240 Speaker 2: that right. Appreciate you, My appreciate you. Appreciate you, man, 1795 01:22:37,360 --> 01:22:53,160 Speaker 2: Appreciate you. O G. That's what it is now. All right. 1796 01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:55,320 Speaker 4: We want to thank y'all for your continued support of 1797 01:22:55,320 --> 01:22:58,439 Speaker 4: the podcast. 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