Speaker 1: From my high school team. We have five guys make
Speaker 1: the NBA. We had a County rock gets some mecca
Speaker 1: of basketball. There are those who come before us, upon
Speaker 1: whose shoulders we stand. It's nothing that you can do
Speaker 1: to stop that competitive and it's just in the water.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to a special Quarantine edition. We got a
Speaker 1: real special guys. What's up with your brode with the
Speaker 1: virtual handshake. I'm gonna tell ya something that I never
Speaker 1: told no about it. I want to smoke. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to a special Quarantine edition of all the smoke. I'm
Speaker 1: out here in l a big smoking jack. What you
Speaker 1: want break dancing, working on my TikTok moves shout. Our
Speaker 1: next guest knows all about that TikTok game man and
Speaker 1: him his little brother be on there all the time.
Speaker 1: But man, this is fun. Man. I'm excited. Man, this
Speaker 1: is to me, the best young players in the game.
Speaker 1: Excited to watch him. My love is enthusiasm. He plays
Speaker 1: with motherfucker's He makes fools out of people. People be
Speaker 1: getting mad. The nutmeger I probably would have got mad too,
Speaker 1: Not even gonna lie. But anyway, man, one of the
Speaker 1: best young talents in the game, Trey welcome, Pray. What's
Speaker 1: up y'all? Welcome to the show, little bro. I appreciate
Speaker 1: y'all having it's been been too long, man, I appreciate
Speaker 1: you taking some time with us. So how how's everything?
Speaker 1: So we just I asked you of. So you're back
Speaker 1: at home with in Oklahoma right now with the fam. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm back home. I came back here as soon as
Speaker 1: they led us, to be honest. The only reason why
Speaker 1: it is because obviously I'm we're at home. But this
Speaker 1: my house here is the only one that has a
Speaker 1: basketball goal out front, So yeah, get some stuff in well.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the basketball goal, you played in the NBA's
Speaker 1: horse competition. Yeah, yeah, it didn't. It didn't work out
Speaker 1: well for me. I don't understand how they did the
Speaker 1: seeding and how they messed me up with A with A,
Speaker 1: I mean Hall of Famer with ny uh. He can
Speaker 1: still play, still shoot, he's still being pick up runs
Speaker 1: and big shot for life. That jumper don't go nowhere
Speaker 1: for big shot. I didn't like it, man, I didn't
Speaker 1: like it. I think hard Horst has to be played
Speaker 1: in person, you know what I mean. I think that's
Speaker 1: how you get that, you know, what I mean you
Speaker 1: and I kind of felt like I'm gonna be honest
Speaker 1: with you. Know I'm a real with Tray. I kind
Speaker 1: of feel like you took it easy on big Shot.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie. I think I didn't take it
Speaker 1: as serious as I probably should have. I got I
Speaker 1: got a lot of love for he's helped me help ye.
Speaker 1: But maybe that's a littlettle bit, Maybe that's a lot
Speaker 1: of little uh reason why you want talk to us
Speaker 1: a little bit about you are very involved, but I
Speaker 1: love about you as You're very engaging, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. And I think we've seen more NBA players
Speaker 1: that particularly be more engaging obviously over this quarantine. But
Speaker 1: so you've got a little brother, and you guys are
Speaker 1: tiktoking all over the place, and you're very heavy into
Speaker 1: the social media game. Talk to us a little bit
Speaker 1: about that and how you enjoy that. Yeah, yeah, no, So,
Speaker 1: I mean me and my brother had definitely been um
Speaker 1: making a lot of TikTok's. Like I told you off air,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't be dancing like that. So this
Speaker 1: is the time that I'm just trying to experience new things,
Speaker 1: be around my family, be around I mean my close people.
Speaker 1: As much as I can learn new things and learn
Speaker 1: how to cook different thing. How its cooking going. I
Speaker 1: mean I'll try like one or two things. They haven't
Speaker 1: went well. So I got some more time to practice stuff.
Speaker 1: I got some more time. Thank god, Hey, thank god,
Speaker 1: you're rich. You gonna have people cooking that ship for
Speaker 1: you. You You got met mom and dad. He's good. He
Speaker 1: got mom and dad. He's good. Yeah. Yeah. Why do
Speaker 1: you feel it's important to engage with the fans. I
Speaker 1: think it's very important. Um. I think it's I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously we're trying to continue to grow the game game,
Speaker 1: and for me, I feel like, um, I mean, the
Speaker 1: more I continue to get better and produced and make plays.
Speaker 1: I mean my, I mean, the more people following me,
Speaker 1: the more people that are looking up to me. I
Speaker 1: think it's for me to use my platform in the
Speaker 1: right way to to stay involved with the fans and
Speaker 1: make sure they're still loving the game of basketball the
Speaker 1: way I do. Um. So, I think it's just like
Speaker 1: a responsibility for me to be honest with you, just
Speaker 1: to make sure everybody's still engaged. Even even even when
Speaker 1: basketball is back, players and fans gonna have to be
Speaker 1: you know, kind of separated. What's your thoughts on that
Speaker 1: that's gonna be. That's gonna be different. I mean it's
Speaker 1: gonna be Uh, it's gonna be obviously something that a
Speaker 1: lot of the players have never experienced before. UM, a
Speaker 1: lot of fans I've never experienced before. So it's gonna
Speaker 1: be different. Um, But I know, I mean, we have
Speaker 1: I mean, one other's not the best commissioners in in
Speaker 1: the world, UM, and he's gonna make make sure that
Speaker 1: we're all doing it the right way, make sure everybody's safe. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we all want to have fans in the buildings. But
Speaker 1: if it's not the safest thing to to do, Um,
Speaker 1: I think it's the right thing. And I know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna do the best best thing for us.
Speaker 1: Have you heard anything being a player about possible return.
Speaker 1: We're here in a possible twenty five day training camp.
Speaker 1: We're hearing some stuff happening in Vegas. Um, as a player,
Speaker 1: how closely do you follow that and do you have
Speaker 1: any kind of update on what's going on? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm following it closely. Um. Obviously, I'm I'm kind of
Speaker 1: just in the same boat as everybody else. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to wait, wait, and see, just like everybody else is. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously I want to return back as soon
Speaker 1: as possible. I know, uh, I hear all the rumors
Speaker 1: and different things and that that involved is coming back early,
Speaker 1: but with the twenty five day thing. But now I'm
Speaker 1: still I'm still just in the I don't know stays.
Speaker 1: Like a lot of people, uh, like a lot of
Speaker 1: people are right out. Yeah do you do. Do you
Speaker 1: feel the NBA handled did the right way? I think so.
Speaker 1: I think so, Um, this is a crazy time. Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily know how to put it in their words, like, uh,
Speaker 1: I think they've never none none of us have ever
Speaker 1: been through something like this, so it's hard to put
Speaker 1: it in words. We've never been through nothing like this. Yeah, nas, yeah,
Speaker 1: So I mean, like you said, it's it's a it's
Speaker 1: a different time. So I think I think the NBA
Speaker 1: handled it, I mean the best they could, the best
Speaker 1: that they thought they could. I don't think there's a
Speaker 1: right or wrong answer to the way where he did happened.
Speaker 1: This is the first time this has happened, so and
Speaker 1: I think for it to happen, I think we handled
Speaker 1: the right way, and I think too. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think we've discussed it with other guys. I think people
Speaker 1: started taking it serious after the NBA did cancel the
Speaker 1: season because knowing how much money that I was gonna
Speaker 1: cost them and the sacrifices this league would make to
Speaker 1: cancel it. I think I know personally, like when they
Speaker 1: said ship the NBA season is canceled. That's when I'm
Speaker 1: just like, Okay, well this is really real. And you
Speaker 1: saw it's kind of a domino effect of kind of
Speaker 1: almost the world shutting down post the NBA. Like I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it all happened because the NBA, but it possibly.
Speaker 1: It definitely started knocking the dominoes down once they announced
Speaker 1: the season was gonna be postponed. Yeah, no, it's Uh.
Speaker 1: The NBA is a I mean the big one of
Speaker 1: the biggest platforms and uh once once we ended our
Speaker 1: seat and felt like it's just a trickle down to
Speaker 1: tech to everything else, like you said, and um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we had it the right way, and I
Speaker 1: think we all want sports back, but we need we
Speaker 1: need to make sure it comes back the right way.
Speaker 1: Everybody's safe. Let's jump to your college career. You were
Speaker 1: one and done at Oklahoma moved a lot of heads,
Speaker 1: turned a lot of eyes, you know, dubbed does the
Speaker 1: possible next steph Curry. But you're looking at yourself as obviously,
Speaker 1: Trey Young. Talk to us about your one and done
Speaker 1: experience because even today, which we'll get to, that landscape
Speaker 1: of college basketball starting to change. But how fun or
Speaker 1: what was your college experience like for you? I had
Speaker 1: a great college expense fun. I got to stay home.
Speaker 1: It came down to the two blue bloods Kentucky, Kansas
Speaker 1: and Oklahoma. I decided to stay home playing in front
Speaker 1: of my friends, my family, to be able to have
Speaker 1: them come to all my games. It was great, It
Speaker 1: was fun, kind of hectic. It was a hectic year.
Speaker 1: It was Baker Mayfield's last year in college, so he
Speaker 1: was obviously the man on campus that first half and
Speaker 1: then that second half. I mean, it was basketball season
Speaker 1: and it was kind of it was trade. It was
Speaker 1: trade tongue. It was two different worlds. It was fun,
Speaker 1: it was a great, great experience, and uh, I was
Speaker 1: blessed to be able to stay home and play playing
Speaker 1: Norman Oklahoma. Yeah. See, we have two different kind of
Speaker 1: outlooks on this because I was talking to some people
Speaker 1: earlier today because obviously Dreven Green announced that he's gonna
Speaker 1: forego college and go right to the G League. So
Speaker 1: they said he's gonna get make up towards of five
Speaker 1: K plus, uh, get a scholarship for a hundred twenty
Speaker 1: five thousand to go to college that he wants to
Speaker 1: to go, uh further his education, and then also outside
Speaker 1: NB what I think is NBA training outside of the
Speaker 1: G League, So it's all most like college. You know,
Speaker 1: Jack and I were talking before. They should have been
Speaker 1: on this ship earlier. They should have been playing players
Speaker 1: for what they're worth. Because now with this move that
Speaker 1: that this young boy made, this could possibly forever change
Speaker 1: the landscape of how kids look at college. Kids are
Speaker 1: gonna like they finally found a way to jump. You're
Speaker 1: trying to tell me I can get paid at half
Speaker 1: a million dollars, possibly get a shoe deal. They're gonna
Speaker 1: pay for my school a later time, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: pay for my training. Like what kid is not gonna
Speaker 1: take that? And I think that's the n C double
Speaker 1: A's faut because they've been bullshitting and dragging their feet
Speaker 1: for so long. No, no, I mean, to be honest, Matt,
Speaker 1: I agree with I mean everything you said. I think
Speaker 1: this is it's all about to change, and it sucks.
Speaker 1: It sucks for me because I know how much college
Speaker 1: basketball did for me, Um, how much of that that
Speaker 1: that stage and playing on ESPN every day, putting on
Speaker 1: the show every game, how much that did for me
Speaker 1: and my draft status and going top five. And I
Speaker 1: know I want to help me, but also see white
Speaker 1: kids like I mean Jalen uh and many more kids
Speaker 1: I mean the mellow ball, Like, how many more kids
Speaker 1: are about to start doing this going straight to the
Speaker 1: uh I mean G League or taking the overseas route
Speaker 1: rather than going to n C A A and sitting
Speaker 1: out a year uh, basically missing out a money, especially
Speaker 1: with that likeness, and they're gonna be bringing that school
Speaker 1: with so much money, um and not getting anything back
Speaker 1: from it. I mean, I see how this it's going
Speaker 1: to change. Yeah. That's interestingly because we were, like I said,
Speaker 1: I was talking about this earlier. I have a U
Speaker 1: c L A group chat with guys that I went
Speaker 1: to college with. Shouldn't never you know, fifteen twenty years
Speaker 1: ago we were talking about how fun college was. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean like that was kind of like
Speaker 1: our chat chance to kind of be adults but not
Speaker 1: necessarily have adult responsibilities. And outside of having kids, there was,
Speaker 1: you know, some of the funniest times in my life.
Speaker 1: So kids won't get to experience that from a standpoint.
Speaker 1: But today the game is more about the business. It's
Speaker 1: the business of basketball. Back then it is just pure
Speaker 1: college although guys were getting paid, we're still doing our thing,
Speaker 1: but it was the pureness of it. You know. Now
Speaker 1: it's about question if you have this opportunity. Now, if
Speaker 1: you were coming, you know, the top high school player,
Speaker 1: would you have still gone to Oklahoma for a year
Speaker 1: or would you have taken possibly another money route. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's it was a different situation for me. I was
Speaker 1: in that kind of middle middle tier pack. I was.
Speaker 1: I mean I was as American, but I was. I
Speaker 1: mean they had me fourth fifth at my position, had
Speaker 1: me going into school three maybe four years. Um. And
Speaker 1: for me, it's it's just the people that it's hard
Speaker 1: to to really base what I would have done. Um,
Speaker 1: I think I needed college just to really show people.
Speaker 1: I needed to show people that with that platform that I, uh,
Speaker 1: the college basketball brings. I think for me, that's that's
Speaker 1: what helped me become a top five pick. And so
Speaker 1: for me in my my situation was totally different. So
Speaker 1: but I can see why guy like Michael Porter would
Speaker 1: have would have sat out, I mean a year and
Speaker 1: went straight to the G League and got more help
Speaker 1: on his back or whatever, just just to sit out.
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know. It's just for me, It's
Speaker 1: just a different situation. Yeah, well, I mean I definitely think.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, you took the world by
Speaker 1: storm and raised to a lottery pick, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So I completely get you know your decision
Speaker 1: in your choice, and obviously you made the right one.
Speaker 1: Let's move to go ahead, Jack, Let's move a little
Speaker 1: bit forward though, closer to the draft. Draft night, what
Speaker 1: was that moment? Like? Yeah, Draft night was crazy, it was.
Speaker 1: It was exciting. Obviously the dream comes true. Always always
Speaker 1: envisioned myself and dreamed of walking across that stage and
Speaker 1: getting that that jersey from the commissioner. It was a
Speaker 1: great night. It was bess enough to have my family
Speaker 1: over there. I had a lot of family that stands too,
Speaker 1: So it was a great night and it was fun.
Speaker 1: You would swapped for Luca, Luca, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and are arguably the best to UM draft picks in
Speaker 1: that draft. Um, what was your thoughts? I mean even
Speaker 1: looking at it now, you know and see how both
Speaker 1: of y'all have developed in the league and both became stars. Like,
Speaker 1: go back to that night then come back to present
Speaker 1: day and what was your thoughts the same? Or do
Speaker 1: you look at that different situation different now? Yeah? So
Speaker 1: ill me on draft night, you don't really really focus on,
Speaker 1: I mean the trade as much just because you're so excited.
Speaker 1: I was a fifth pick. I was excited. I knew
Speaker 1: I got traded before I got drafted. So when the
Speaker 1: fourth pick happened, they my agent tap you on the
Speaker 1: shoulder and told me I'm about to get selected to
Speaker 1: go UM to Atlanta. Um, And so I did you
Speaker 1: have any idea about that? Did you have any idea
Speaker 1: where you were going? No? No, I had no idea
Speaker 1: I was going to Atlanta with you that the whole day. UM.
Speaker 1: I guess my agent knew, my dad knew, but they
Speaker 1: didn't want to tell me. They wanted me to experience
Speaker 1: the whole draft night and keep it between them, So
Speaker 1: they kind of knew I was going to Atlanta all day. Um,
Speaker 1: but whenever it happened, it happened. And then we go by,
Speaker 1: I'm starting hearing about this trade even more and more,
Speaker 1: and then obviously our rookie years happened, and that's all
Speaker 1: I hear about, and that's all we talked about. So
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's got asked about it a lot. Do
Speaker 1: you guys have a close friendship, you and Luca? Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: we were talk every now and then we talked, talked
Speaker 1: frequently for sure. How do you describe his game? Very smooth,
Speaker 1: very smooth. Uh, He's he could score from all three levels,
Speaker 1: can pass it. Um. Just just super smart. Um, he's
Speaker 1: just a super smart player. And it's uh, I think
Speaker 1: him playing overseas, playing against grown men, I mean, his
Speaker 1: whole life, I think that. I mean that really prepared
Speaker 1: him to come over and making the media impact in
Speaker 1: the n b A. I mean that's such a young
Speaker 1: gage too, so it's uh, it's good to see. Um,
Speaker 1: he's he's super smart player. You started getting compared to
Speaker 1: Steph Curry, you know once you kind of made the scene,
Speaker 1: and that's a tough person to be compared to. But
Speaker 1: to me, you've handled it. Well, you've done your thing.
Speaker 1: You've obviously obviously created an old lane for yourself. Like
Speaker 1: I said earlier, like people compared you to stuff, but
Speaker 1: you know your Trey, you'r you. You. You don't need
Speaker 1: to be compared to no one else. You do your
Speaker 1: own thing. You recently went on Shack's podcast. You feel
Speaker 1: like in the next year you can take over that
Speaker 1: number one slot from Steph. Talk to us about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody's talking to me about that. Ah, so ya know Shock, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean youall know Shack. I I answered it. I
Speaker 1: mean I gave a lot of respects to to Stath,
Speaker 1: which I have a lot of respect for staff. He's done,
Speaker 1: I mean so much. I mean m VP. I think
Speaker 1: for if it wasn't for Steath, there wouldn't be maybe
Speaker 1: I mean Trey Young, I mean he's deaf, the first
Speaker 1: to do I mean do what he's doing, and so
Speaker 1: the baby face killer. I got a lot of love
Speaker 1: for Death and uh everything he's done. But for me,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm very confident. Shack was trying to get
Speaker 1: that out of me. Uh, you know, it's not confident.
Speaker 1: I am myself and my work and what I put in.
Speaker 1: So that's what that's what it is. I love that.
Speaker 1: Who are some other players that you studied growing up?
Speaker 1: You know, obviously step is someone that who who who
Speaker 1: a lot of kids look up to? But are there
Speaker 1: any other guys you looked up to or or trying
Speaker 1: to patting your game after as you were working in
Speaker 1: developing your own skills. Yeah, yeah, I mean obviously step
Speaker 1: is one, but Steve Nash was the main guy. Uh,
Speaker 1: Steve Nash is one of my favorite players. Uh, He's
Speaker 1: someone who I watched a lot of film off of
Speaker 1: Chris paul Um, I mean a lot of guys, Chauncey Billups.
Speaker 1: That's why it was fun playing against him in the
Speaker 1: Horse because he was one of my my role models.
Speaker 1: My my auto is growing up too, So it's uh,
Speaker 1: those those those few guys are my my main guys
Speaker 1: I watched growing up. That's what's so. That's dope. So
Speaker 1: look your second year you have his twenty nine nine
Speaker 1: and twenty nine and nine, God damn twenty nine and
Speaker 1: nine the second year, right, that's crazy. Yeah, what's the
Speaker 1: most what's the most memorable moment of your second year?
Speaker 1: The most memorable moment has to be all Star All
Speaker 1: Star weekend, being in the All Star game starting. I
Speaker 1: saw it. I saw it on your face. Bro, we
Speaker 1: was down. I saw it all on your face. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was. I was excited. Man, I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't get nervous like I always getting
Speaker 1: anxious for games, like I'm just ready to play, like
Speaker 1: I'm just ready for it to go. But I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna lie. All Star night was the first night in
Speaker 1: a long time that I was like, all right, man,
Speaker 1: like kind of like, this is this is I'm starting
Speaker 1: to like. I think it's a difference in being just
Speaker 1: a just an All Star and the starter too. It's
Speaker 1: like it's a different feeling. So for me, I was
Speaker 1: afraid to go out there and put on the show
Speaker 1: and have fun. And for me to be my second years,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a blessing the people that have been
Speaker 1: around for sure, No congratsman, like you said, to to
Speaker 1: get voted in, to be a starter is a whole
Speaker 1: another level, especially in your second year with however many
Speaker 1: you know, there's so many talented guards now, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so many talented guards for you to be on
Speaker 1: the scene. Is your second year as a starter man.
Speaker 1: That's definitely hats off to all the hard work you
Speaker 1: put in, man, and what you've been able to accomplish.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. So you, uh, you got caught slipping
Speaker 1: with a little bit of ship talking with Jimmy Butler
Speaker 1: saying that the game was over a little bit too
Speaker 1: early and they came back and snagged you guys in
Speaker 1: that game. Talked to us a little bit about that
Speaker 1: because I personally love I've talked about it before. I
Speaker 1: love your confidence. To me, it's not cocking, it's it's
Speaker 1: confidence because you know how hard you've worked in the
Speaker 1: work you've put in. But talk to me about that
Speaker 1: particular exchange. Because Jimmy is a dog too. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: and I love it. I love it. That's why I
Speaker 1: love about Jimmy. He's a dog. And uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember that game like it was yesterday. We scored, I
Speaker 1: made it past my big man, he dumped it and
Speaker 1: caught the time out. It was like we were about
Speaker 1: six with like fifty seconds left and the game should
Speaker 1: have been over. I said it was over, and then
Speaker 1: they come down here two threes and y'all know what happened.
Speaker 1: And he tweeted he tweeted after the game, and I
Speaker 1: get on the bus and everybody's talking to me about
Speaker 1: what he said and all this and uh, what he
Speaker 1: said in the media, and for me, I was thinking
Speaker 1: about what I should super respond, like after I saw
Speaker 1: his tweet and I saw his Instagram post. Um, I
Speaker 1: was wondering what I should respond. And I always asked
Speaker 1: my team, like like my team young, like, just what
Speaker 1: I should say, like before I actually posted, and they
Speaker 1: were like, just just wait till you playing agains, let
Speaker 1: that do the talking. And so I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: say anything after that game and came along and somebody
Speaker 1: got the payback talk to us. That's your first, that's
Speaker 1: your first fifty ball and it's big. Like you said,
Speaker 1: you you let your work do the talk for you.
Speaker 1: How did that feel? It felt great? It felt great.
Speaker 1: I was the first game out to All Star. Uh,
Speaker 1: first came out the All Star coming back. I had
Speaker 1: this date circle and I was ready to play this
Speaker 1: game and I just wanted to when it come out,
Speaker 1: and uh, I mean win. Um. I wanted to come
Speaker 1: out and put on the show and try to win.
Speaker 1: And that was what I did. And um, it was
Speaker 1: a great night and I had. That's when I was
Speaker 1: able to say something back. So it was fun. I
Speaker 1: love I love it. I love it again. Uh, competition, right,
Speaker 1: But what I loved most about it was reporter asked
Speaker 1: you because you ended up giving Quevo shout out Quevo. Uh,
Speaker 1: you ended up giving Quevero your jersey after the game,
Speaker 1: and someone asked like, why did you keep that? What
Speaker 1: was your reply? Oh, I only get another fifty point
Speaker 1: again was coming. That's not the only one now, it was.
Speaker 1: It was Quevo night in Atlanta. Uh. It was the arena.
Speaker 1: It was all decked out and Quevo stuff, and so
Speaker 1: that's my boy. I just wanted to give it to
Speaker 1: him on his night. Uh put a fifty fifty point up.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to give a definite Man. Is
Speaker 1: it is it true that that you keep negative tweets
Speaker 1: and uh in comments like that in your phone from
Speaker 1: using motivation? No. I I used to when I was
Speaker 1: in high school and college, and especially in college, Like
Speaker 1: that's me being a nineteen year old taking everything that
Speaker 1: everybody says and just greenshotting and keeping it to myself
Speaker 1: and using the motivation. So I used to do that
Speaker 1: a lot. I don't do it anymore, obviously in the NBA,
Speaker 1: but I used to do that all the time when
Speaker 1: I was in college. Coming into the league. Keep that
Speaker 1: ship on your shoulder. You're obviously the Nutmeade king you.
Speaker 1: You've caught people slipping with that. You hit one of
Speaker 1: my young homies, one of my little little brothers, Trevor,
Speaker 1: reason with it, and he gave you a little forearms shiver.
Speaker 1: And then I go after the after the game, you
Speaker 1: guys talked, but talk to me about that moment, because
Speaker 1: I just I liked both sides. I like the fact
Speaker 1: that you're like funking, I don't care you want a championship,
Speaker 1: You're a veteran defender here, I'm still gonna play with you.
Speaker 1: But then I like Trav with Trav, did you like
Speaker 1: the this little nick You're not just gonna throw this
Speaker 1: ship between my legs and everyone laughing on me? So
Speaker 1: I love, Like I said, I loved both sides of it.
Speaker 1: Talk to us about that situation, and then with you
Speaker 1: and TV talked about that. But but but this on
Speaker 1: the side we missed, Matt with on the side we
Speaker 1: missed was the role me and you would have played
Speaker 1: was after Trav did that to you. Where was the
Speaker 1: teammate to come and take Trav out for you? Where
Speaker 1: was that guy? That's that's the we missed. It's a
Speaker 1: different game now, Jack, it's a different game. Don't you
Speaker 1: don't want this different game? Now? Different game? No, it
Speaker 1: was that that moment was was fun. I mean people
Speaker 1: people look at me, and I mean they may they
Speaker 1: may think it's I mean, it's all funny games and
Speaker 1: and soft, but I'm I mean when I'm on the court,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a dog, like I'm physical, I'm tough. So
Speaker 1: like whenever he did that, I mean I would do
Speaker 1: the same thing, like I time and someone through it
Speaker 1: between my legs in the middle of a game. We're
Speaker 1: in transition, like I ain't about to let that happen.
Speaker 1: I may do the same straight up. So like people
Speaker 1: people want to look at that and say say whatever,
Speaker 1: But I mean, I love it, Like That's what I
Speaker 1: was telling the crowd. I told the crowd to get
Speaker 1: into it, like I love it. Like that next player,
Speaker 1: I felt, like, to be honest, I felt like we
Speaker 1: were at the park because that next possession, I got,
Speaker 1: the ball, got the screen got switched back on. Trevor
Speaker 1: and just went at it and I think I hit
Speaker 1: a floater and I got a tex So like it
Speaker 1: felt like a part like I was just that's just
Speaker 1: that's just what I left. And it was a moment.
Speaker 1: That's dope. You've been one player that I really think.
Speaker 1: It's amazing is you've got photos since you were little
Speaker 1: coming up with all the people you're playing this now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: talk to me one about that. But then also you know,
Speaker 1: having that opportunity with Kobe. Yeah, yeah, no, it's uh,
Speaker 1: I've been blessed. I mean my dad, my dad played
Speaker 1: basketball for a long time, played against a lot of
Speaker 1: best players. He played in College of Texas Tech and
Speaker 1: then uh, I mean a little bit overseas and so
Speaker 1: he knows a lot of people boo um. So growing up. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I'm twenty thirty minutes down from Okay. See, so I
Speaker 1: was going to Thunder games and even when Chris Paul
Speaker 1: was here with the City Hornets, I was going to games.
Speaker 1: That's where I get a lot of my pictures with Chauncey.
Speaker 1: That's where I met Shauncey, Um met Chris Paul. Uh
Speaker 1: and then my my dad and David Vanderpool are really close. Um.
Speaker 1: So that's how they able to meet meet Dame and
Speaker 1: when David was in Okay. See, that's how I got
Speaker 1: to to meet to interact with k D and Russ
Speaker 1: and all these guys that ever came through. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: just the connections my dad had with people in in
Speaker 1: the league really helped me, I mean, be able to
Speaker 1: meet these these players that I grew up, I mean
Speaker 1: idolizing mm hmm. Now you tweeted one time that Kobe
Speaker 1: is your m j um. Obviously you were GI's favorite player.
Speaker 1: She came and watched you. You put on a show
Speaker 1: for her. Um dropped forty five one game when she
Speaker 1: was there. Talk to us just a little bit. Obviously
Speaker 1: we all lost her brothers. But tell me what that connection,
Speaker 1: with that brief connection you had with them, and what
Speaker 1: that connection was like and how much that meant to you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's uh, obviously it's a sad situation. Um Kobe Uh.
Speaker 1: I recently got to meet Kobe um and talked to
Speaker 1: him even more this past year. Uh he Uh. His
Speaker 1: daughter obviously loves loves watching me, loves watching me play,
Speaker 1: and so Kobe got got connected with my trainer, Alex
Speaker 1: Bizell and so that's how uh G G was working
Speaker 1: with my train there and she found out and so
Speaker 1: that's how I got connected with Kobe Is through my
Speaker 1: trainer Alex and so me and Kobe got to talk
Speaker 1: pretty pretty frequently. Um and he just gave me a
Speaker 1: lot of advice. Uh So the two out of the
Speaker 1: three games he went to this season were once when
Speaker 1: I played in l A and then other in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: Uh So it was it's crazy, crazy time. Uh it
Speaker 1: was even more heartbreaking for me knowing that I was
Speaker 1: GI's favorite player to watch. Um So it's uh sad,
Speaker 1: sad for me, sad story. And um, I was just
Speaker 1: blessed I was able to meet him and had that
Speaker 1: type of relationship and relationship with him. So you did
Speaker 1: something that I mean honorable, you know what I mean
Speaker 1: when he passed and in the game, you wore eight
Speaker 1: four second and you dropped forty five and fourteen. Talked
Speaker 1: to us about that because if I'm not mistaken, you
Speaker 1: hit a deep You had a deep shot too, didn't you. Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did. I hit one, uh almost yeah, three quarter court.
Speaker 1: Um And it just felt like everything went in that game.
Speaker 1: And it's crazy. I think Uh, if I remember right, Uh,
Speaker 1: I was the first person to have forty five and
Speaker 1: I think fourteen and shooting and shoot a certain percentage
Speaker 1: against the Wizards since since Kobe, so like that day
Speaker 1: just felt like I mean, he was with me that day.
Speaker 1: It was just a crazy, crazy time. Mm hmm. We're
Speaker 1: gonna We're gonna pay it from Cobe and go to
Speaker 1: Vince Carter. Bro Vince Carter Final season. Any advice he's
Speaker 1: given you. Vinces given me a lot of advice with
Speaker 1: the past two seasons. Uh, this one, I mean many. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was just talking about just how to handle I
Speaker 1: mean startom. I mean he's he's been in that that limelight. Um,
Speaker 1: been a franchise player. So for for me to be
Speaker 1: to have a guy like Vince who has been in
Speaker 1: my position, um, I mean it's been very helpful and
Speaker 1: it's gonna help me moving on. Um. Hopefully we haven't
Speaker 1: seen his last game, but if we have, Uh, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's had a hell of a year, a hell of
Speaker 1: a career, and it was fun playing with him. He's
Speaker 1: a he's been a legend and he helped me a lot,
Speaker 1: especially in this this role that I'm in. Well, it's
Speaker 1: crazy to think you he was in the league before
Speaker 1: you were born or no, right, how do you I'm
Speaker 1: twenty one. Yeah, so he was been in the league
Speaker 1: before you were born. And and to think that his
Speaker 1: longevity to be able to get a chance to obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, you get a chance to play with him,
Speaker 1: with him, to get a chance to play with you
Speaker 1: when he's a full you know, he's twice your age.
Speaker 1: You know, I just think, to me, looking at I
Speaker 1: got a chance to play with Vinca and to me,
Speaker 1: one of the most talented individuals I've ever seen. She
Speaker 1: was regular jump shots from half court, right, left hand,
Speaker 1: and we all know what he could do in the
Speaker 1: dunking game. But for his longevity, be on the last
Speaker 1: as long as he did, and you get a chance
Speaker 1: to play with him, I think, I mean, it seems
Speaker 1: like you have great respect. You got d Wag's jersey
Speaker 1: on his retirement run. How do you look back, as
Speaker 1: you know, with some of the guys you grew up with,
Speaker 1: and and and as they retire, and then looking forward
Speaker 1: to your own future. Yeah, it's it's uh, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a blessing. I mean, Matt, I look as a
Speaker 1: blessing it's uh. I try to I played this game
Speaker 1: for respect. I played this game to get the respect
Speaker 1: I mean from others. Um, I played super hard. I
Speaker 1: try to put on a put on the show every
Speaker 1: time I go out and go out on the court.
Speaker 1: And so for me to I mean, get d Ways
Speaker 1: Jersey his last time in Atlanta, for me to be
Speaker 1: able to to give Vince Carter his last bucket in
Speaker 1: the NBA possibly, I mean, this is this is a blessing.
Speaker 1: Like That's how I look at it. And I don't
Speaker 1: take those moments for granted. And I I'm always gonna
Speaker 1: remember these moments that I have with these these people
Speaker 1: that I looked up, looked up to, and I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna cherish these moments. Dope, Dope, what's your top five
Speaker 1: point guards of all time? Top five point guards all
Speaker 1: the time. You're gonna put me on the spot. I'm
Speaker 1: a I'm gonna I'm gonna go Steve. It's not one
Speaker 1: through five, just your top five, it's not one through five.
Speaker 1: Just okay, okay, okay, good, good, good, all right. I
Speaker 1: got Steve Nash in there, I got Steph, I have Ai,
Speaker 1: I got magic mm hmm, and I got oh Chris Paula.
Speaker 1: That's a good call. I'm gonna put you on the
Speaker 1: spot again. You're all time starting five, all time starting five,
Speaker 1: all right, Steve Nash at the one mm hmmm, Um,
Speaker 1: Kobe at the two, um Man Lebron at the three
Speaker 1: here three, Um, I'm gonna put WHOA The four is tough.
Speaker 1: I want to go KD number four at the four?
Speaker 1: Uh Ei k D or kg Um. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to KD though, and then who puts shock at the five?
Speaker 1: Oh bosh, gotta finish with dieseler diesel Hey. But he left,
Speaker 1: He went with the new shooting. He went with cob
Speaker 1: over MG shooting guard. I'm not mad, Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: not mad. I'm not mad. Man, go man, you got it,
Speaker 1: you got it. So you're really cool with Equavo, right,
Speaker 1: and you dropped the fifth piece of night that his
Speaker 1: little thing at the arena. He also gave your ice
Speaker 1: tray chain. You know what I mean? Okay, besides Quevo,
Speaker 1: because I know that your boy artists and songs that
Speaker 1: you have on repeat right now? What artists are song
Speaker 1: you haven't repeat right now? Oh uh see, I'm a
Speaker 1: big Jake Cole fan, big Jacob. I'm a big Meek fan.
Speaker 1: I'm a big Drake fan. But I love Little Baby's
Speaker 1: new album. Everybody does everybody mostly scars getting played, Um,
Speaker 1: but those are I just like listening to certain artists.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie like I'm I'm big into R
Speaker 1: and B slow jams, like like rappers, like rappers who
Speaker 1: like tell stories and so yeah that R and B
Speaker 1: is that that that that by racial in you? I'm
Speaker 1: the same way. And that's that John be and and
Speaker 1: who's one rapper or rappers you would like to hear
Speaker 1: your name drop? You one rapper? Uh? If I had
Speaker 1: to have someone name dropped me, Oh, that's tough, that's tough. Um,
Speaker 1: jay Z oh he went back and we just had it.
Speaker 1: We just had a job of rent on here. He
Speaker 1: called jay Z old school. What I love to know.
Speaker 1: I mean, but I understand, like y'all boys are young
Speaker 1: for real, So them dudes are really like I mean,
Speaker 1: if you look, if you really think about it, it is.
Speaker 1: But it me and jack Off Garc was like, well damn,
Speaker 1: we grew up with Jay but like that she just real.
Speaker 1: She was real old school right now. So it's crazy,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. I was talking to my dad. I was
Speaker 1: talking to my dad the other day and we're doing comparisons,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, your school, Like, I mean, my dad's like,
Speaker 1: my dad's a just like how was your dad? Your
Speaker 1: minds asking? So we have three He's like Jack yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so he's like uh so he's uh um like his
Speaker 1: his best player was Michael Jordans on the court, jay
Speaker 1: Z and the music industry, and so for me, it's
Speaker 1: like Lebron on the court, Lebron Lebron on the court,
Speaker 1: and then you got i mean, Drake, you name it,
Speaker 1: name it right. What I'm saying like, it's just two
Speaker 1: different generations. I feel like this is this generation. I mean,
Speaker 1: you see the best players of all time. You talked
Speaker 1: about Jordan and braun m. I mean it's it's like
Speaker 1: different generation. You know. Yeah, Top three handles of all time.
Speaker 1: And you can throw yourself in that mix if you like,
Speaker 1: who's top three handles of all time? Top three handles, Um,
Speaker 1: gotta go is Kyrie's in there, m A is in there,
Speaker 1: and then the O g rod stricklands in there. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you know about my history. I did you know?
Speaker 1: Did you know that's Kyrie's guard father. Yeah I knew that, Yes, sir, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we're gonna Matt Yeah, quick hitters man, We're
Speaker 1: gonna first thing to come to mind. Answer, Go ahead, Jack?
Speaker 1: Who should be a guest on All the Smoke? Who
Speaker 1: do you think? And like we always say, whoever you say,
Speaker 1: if you had a plug on who you who you
Speaker 1: think should be on the show. You gotta fall through
Speaker 1: with that plug. Yeah, you gotta fall through with it. Okay,
Speaker 1: who I think you'd be on All the Smoke? I
Speaker 1: think Joel and b that's gonna be nice, gonna be good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you if you got that plug, plug us plug it.
Speaker 1: He doesn't get a big fella yeah, hell yeah. Most
Speaker 1: underrated player right now. Most underrated player, Um, Drew Holiday.
Speaker 1: Everybody say Drew Holiday. Fact, everybody, everybody, everybody. We've got
Speaker 1: Drew Holiday the most. We've had some people say c J. McCullough,
Speaker 1: and we've had some people say Bradley Bill, But Drew
Speaker 1: Holiday is the constant. Yeah, you at home right now
Speaker 1: in quarantine? What you being watching? A couple of shows?
Speaker 1: Ozart is one more. Yeah, so those are those are
Speaker 1: the two I've I've watched I'm a big day you're
Speaker 1: a big what stand up comedian? Okay, yeah, I like
Speaker 1: watching hard Mike gets aw them because tech. Yeah, Dave
Speaker 1: Chappelle stand up was good and then the Blue. I
Speaker 1: gotta say, like, someone put me on Deon Cole's stand up?
Speaker 1: Have you seen d I don't want to Ray. De
Speaker 1: Ray stand up was cold to d Ray. Standard was
Speaker 1: funny as a motherfucker. But Deon Cole check our Dean Coles.
Speaker 1: If you ever seen the Standard? That ship was so funny.
Speaker 1: Bro Um quarantine favorite quarantine snack, favorite quarantine snack, powdered doughnuts.
Speaker 1: Jackie eating powder donuts, but he don't eat them. Jackie
Speaker 1: looks to be looking like eating powder donuts, but you
Speaker 1: don't even eat the powder donuts. No, damn Backwoods NBA
Speaker 1: FLA has the most wag oh um de low Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you can go back, maybe before you're born, maybe
Speaker 1: just before you got to the league, and said courtside
Speaker 1: to watch any two superstars go at it? What would
Speaker 1: that matchup be towards any two superstars? Um? Good question.
Speaker 1: I would watch that All Star game when Jordan and
Speaker 1: Kobe played against each other. Was that Kobe's first second
Speaker 1: All Star game. That was his Kobe showed out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was his first one. That would have been what's
Speaker 1: your favorite retro jersey? Uh? The the rats with the
Speaker 1: with the dinosaur on the Damon Stodomer times. That's Carder times. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One player that you didn't get a chance to play
Speaker 1: against its retired that you wish you got a chance
Speaker 1: to go head up with or against. Um uh hey,
Speaker 1: i oh, that would have been a battle. That would
Speaker 1: have been a batting boys would have been yanking each
Speaker 1: other all over the quarter against the answer to hey man,
Speaker 1: that's a wrap man, Trey, We appreciate your time, man,
Speaker 1: Thank you for jumping on with us. Hopefully when all
Speaker 1: this ship comes down, we have you come to the
Speaker 1: studio really funk with us. Man. Of course, any time,
Speaker 1: anytime appreciated, Stay safe, enjoy that family time. That's a
Speaker 1: wrap man, All the Smoke Quarantine edition with our brother
Speaker 1: Trey Young Jack. Great job, Trey. We appreciate you, bro.
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