WEBVTT - Enes Kanter 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:05.760 Welcome to the No Sports Report, a production of I 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:14.200 Heart Radio Entry Fort Media. My name is Jensen Carbon. 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:16.680 I'm a sports fan, so I'm concerned about a lot 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.720 of things, the NBA Playoffs, the start of a baseball season, 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.119 the Stanley Cup. But above everything else, I'm most concerned 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.960 about the high five. It's an athletic institution. It was 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:29.640 arguably invented by l A Dodgers outfielder Glenn Burke and 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:34.200 Dusty Baker after home run, and now it's entire future 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.800 is under review. Will germs take away the easiest way 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.360 to celebrate your favorite player doing something cool? Will it 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:41.840 be replaced by a head nod, or a polite bow, 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:44.440 or like a running man from six ft away. It's 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:46.280 things like this that keep me up at night, and 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.680 I need my rest because I'm continuing to talk to 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:52.279 athletes and sports industry professionals about what they're doing in quarantine, 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:54.960 hoping to figure out if famous competing as much as 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.440 I miss watching it. This is the No Sports Report. 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.840 One of my favorite NBA players is Ennis Cantor, and 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.399 for many reasons. You see, this guy went through a 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.160 lot to play professional basketball in the United States. He 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.800 left his family behind in his dangerous homeland of Turkey, 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.919 a country whose government he's criticized publicly and as a result, 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:17.880 received serious death threats and been completely disavowed from speaking 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.440 to his relatives still living there. And on top of that, 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:22.360 at seventeen years old, he had to hop from high 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:24.280 school to high school trying to find a program that 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.960 would find him eligible to play, despite having a professional 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.759 contract at one point in another country, and after finally 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.479 playing in a senior year at a school in Simi Valley, California, 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.560 he committed to Kentucky, the basketball institution that planned to 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:37.640 thrust him into the spotlight and get him ready for 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:41.520 professional competition. Well, that is until they found him ineligible too. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.360 The good news about Cantor is that since these false starts, 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.640 he's put together quite an oppressive NBA career. Drafted by 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.040 the Utah Jazz and then traded to the Okay See Thunder, 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.360 where he was the first player in franchise history escore 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.680 at least thirty points and grabbed twenty rebounds in a game. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.920 He since made himself a dependable utility player, especially in 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.600 the playoffs, with stops in New York, Portland and the 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:04.000 team he signed with right before the season the Boston Celtics. 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.840 He's been a fan favorite at every stop, even though 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.000 his true passion seems to be that of a despicable 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.919 w W e heel. I talked to Ennison depth about 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.800 his eventual career in pro wrestling, the Lovable Enigma, that 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.919 his Taco fall, the end of Ramadan and Quarantine, and 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.120 if the Undertaker's eye roll thing is real get ready 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.520 to have a brand new favorite basketball player. On this 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:35.239 episode of The No Sports Report, from It's Cancer to 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:40.120 accept Press one. Hello, Annie, Hello, how are you doing? 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.040 I'm good? So I wanted to start off by asking 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.680 where are you currently quarantine? And how is it going 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:50.640 for you Chicago right now? Okay? And and how would 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.480 you say you're surviving pretty good? You know, because right 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:56.880 now we have in our houses and and literally just 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.280 doing nothing. I'm not gonna lie I gained seven to 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:04.880 eight pounds. Great, But the good thing is it is Ramadan, 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.919 so like I'm probably having like the easiest romba I've 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.880 ever had. See now, I was gonna ask you about that. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:12.720 We're talking on one of the last days of Ramadan, 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.160 and I wanted to know it seems to me now 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.680 here's my thing. It would be harder for me during 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.359 quarantine because I have more time alone to think about food. 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:24.880 Well true, that's that's one way to look at it. 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:28.720 But like, well, if you're playing a game, if you're practicing, 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.160 if you are walking out, trust me, it is so 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.400 much harder than just been at home fit just thinking 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.160 about food. Right But like right now, I'm obviously I'm 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.400 still trying to work out and stuff, but it's definitely 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.120 the easiest I've ever had, so I know, such a 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.600 big part of Ramadan is staying connected with the community 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:47.680 and being able to meet and go to a mosque, 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.160 and that is something that has been taken away, uh 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.520 this year from you. How are you being how are 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.520 you trying your hardest to stay connected? I mean it's 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.360 definitely tough because my man is all about the lacing 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.920 your body and soul and also focus on your inner 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.760 robe and listening to yourself to be a better person. 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.040 And then also again just because of this is happening, 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.320 it is not possible to just go out there and 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.640 do iftar if mus like breaking your fast with family 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.680 and love MOUs because if you don't know anything about Ramada, 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.800 this is how I explain it. It is thirty Thanksgiving 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:23.000 Day dinners in a row, you know, because because you 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.520 fast all day and the end of the night, you 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.599 come with brands and families and you know love, they're 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:30.680 the ones you care about and they just just have 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.479 little bit them and share things with it. So it 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.520 is more than just food. But just because of this, 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.200 pandemics happened. Obviously it's not possible, but you know, we're 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.440 still trying to do to some kind of connection over 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:45.360 the zoom or something right. And speaking of celebrating, you, 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.200 like many of the people I've talked to on this podcast, 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.120 which is startling to me, you celebrated a birthday while 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.880 in quarantine. What did you do? What did you do 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:58.320 for the big day? It was a sad birthday obviously, 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.760 because like birthday is all about go out there, hanging 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.520 out with your friends, celebrated with your loved ones. But uh, 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.000 I was just set out home. I had a lot 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:11.480 of cookies, like a lot. I had a lot of cookies. 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:13.159 It was like it was like a cheat day for 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.240 me for sure, But you know, it was just like 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.600 it was a quite birthday. Okay, I don't because I 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.600 don't want to imagine and a scancer, just a loan 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.920 at a table with a cupcake with one you know, 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.279 candle in it. Well, I wanted to know. I've read 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.680 that you are a big reader. You love documentaries. What 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.080 have you watched? What have you read during this time? 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.279 There's actually a show on Netflix. I really like. It's 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:37.960 a dirty Money. I don't know if you ever heard 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.240 that before. I did a little bit because there's a 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.640 big Jared Kushner episode right there you go, and I 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.560 mean they did they talk about lots of things. I 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.640 mean obviously said of just watching a movie and getting 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:49.400 nothing out of it. I was just like, you know what, 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.400 this is like quarantine time. So I'm just gonna like 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.960 not waste my sound was actually use it in good 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.680 so like I'm actually watching that. There's actually a really 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:02.240 interesting show called The Family on that Flix too, and 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.120 I know the people, so like that's why I wanted 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.120 to watch it. But but the books, you know that 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.479 there's a really good motivational book that Coach Bred bread 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.520 Steams actually give it to us during the season Lettles 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.599 Eat Last, you know, I mean it's especially on this 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.880 time you need motivation because like when you're sitting in 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:21.839 your house and it's like you don't want or you 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.600 don't feel like just going out and working out, you know. 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.440 So like right now, I think that book has been 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.719 amazing to me. And I'm sure there other book players too, 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.080 So it's, um, it's been a very productive you know. Yeah, 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.760 did did you get into the Last Dance at all? Last? 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.039 I did actually watch it? Yeah? Were you talking about 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.000 goose Bumps Man? And it's like when you watch that documentary, 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.159 I'm like, like, right now, I want to just go 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.480 out there and stuff playing basketball, like right now. But 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:49.960 like it was the best time they put it out 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.640 there because everyone at home they are dying to just 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:54.920 watch any kind of sport activities. But I think the 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.480 last sense was that's only like a breath, you know. Yeah, 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.479 was there anything? I mean, Jordan's mind frame was so 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.480 rare and so unique. Did it bring to mind any 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.000 teammate you've ever had? Was there when you saw it? 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:08.840 Did it? Did it bring back any memory of someone 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:13.440 you've played with? I will say maybe Lass Westbrook, But 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.960 if you look at his mindset, if you look at 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.320 his mentality, I will say Kobe Bryant for sure, because 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.040 I mean, obviously they just give them some percent. They 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.160 don't care about no haters or distraction. They focus on 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.640 what they need to focus on, and it just becomes 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.080 not just like a support that they played, becomes like 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.600 a lifestyle, you know. So it's not like going to 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.119 practice and work out two hours or going to playing 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.080 play two hours and leave. No, it just becomes a lifestyle, 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.720 you know. I think it's just with mentality that what 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.560 they do on an offtok. It was just amazing. You 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.920 have a very rare perspective on the global pandemic and 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.160 the globe in general because you have a grasp on 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.720 so many cultures, whether it's Swiss or Turkish or or 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:53.920 these I wrote down the United States you've lived, and 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.120 I've probably missed some, but here's here's a list I 0:07:56.120 --> 0:08:01.200 wrote down quickly. Nevada, West Virginia, California, Kentucky, Utah, Oklahoma City, 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:06.040 New York, Boston, Chicago. Right, okay, So what have you 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.040 noticed about the differences in these states and what you're 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.560 seeing happen during this major event amongst people that the 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.920 reactions that people are having. I mean, I'll just say 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.560 this first, our world are experiencing stuffing like every experience 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.720 before and whenever you turn on the news man, it's 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:27.080 like there's so much negative news and people forgetting the 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.240 main goal that when you turn on the news there's like, okay, 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:34.120 decided attacking this side the market, Democrats attacking the Republicans, 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.360 people attacking this like we have forgeten our main goal. 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.160 Main goal should be like Okay, how can we get 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.199 through this together? You know. I feel like around this 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.640 time it's a lot of positivity. But every state, every 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.440 city does some different things. I mean I watched I 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.760 think it was the mayor of Vegas. I was talking 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:56.040 to Anderson Cooper, and I was like heartbroken by what 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.560 she said. It was like, oh my god. And in 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.920 the same time I listened the mayor of Chicago. I mean, 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.280 she is just well, probably right now like doing one 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:10.160 of the most funniest and the safest I guess may that. 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:12.520 I don't know if you follow her on Twitter, She's like, 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.880 your jump shot was broke and it's going to stay 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.720 broke after quarantine, So just like stay in the house. Yeah, 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.160 I feel like, you know, just people are forgetting the 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.840 main goal. It's just like we should just stay as 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:27.400 one and fight against this together, not like oh there's 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.160 there's said this, you know absolutely. I mean you have 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.720 lived in both red states and blue states your entire 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:34.800 time here in America, and I guess you've been able 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.120 to see both sides, and like you're saying, the best 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:38.839 best case sterio is that we could at least work 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:43.240 together to beat a global pandemic. Exactly. Yea, yea. When 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.720 you were growing up, your mother was a nurse. Nowadays 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.640 we depend on them more than other. This is clearly 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:53.280 a sacrificial job. It really shined a light for me 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.120 on medical workers on the front line. Did you always 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.200 know growing up that your mom was putting her life 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:02.120 on the line actual be not? You know, till this happened, 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.920 I didn't know how. Obviously I knew how, you know 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.800 valuable that the doctors and nurses are brother I didn't 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.599 know this much. I mean literally, they put their not 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:15.240 just their life, their families life online too, to make 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.559 the world better and healthier. And it's it's a huge 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.840 sacrifice because those doctors and nurses have kids in their houses, 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.120 have you know, husbanes and wives in their houses, and 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.640 they literally just say, okay, you know what, I'm going 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.400 to sacrifice for my whole family in my life and 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:35.280 try to make people better. And so now I appreciate 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:39.600 more deafitul. I appreciate teachers, and I appreciate the you know, 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.760 the nurses board up because like you ask anybody. I 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:44.640 don't have a kid, but like whoever I talked to, 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.400 it's at the homeschooling is the words they going kids 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.680 are going crazy, you know. So like so I feel 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.320 like the you know, the teachers and nurses, man, they're 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.080 so precious. I'll throw in supermarket workers as well. I 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.520 never saw them as frontline workers and now now they're 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:03.200 my hero exactly a little bit of basketball talk, the 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.920 NBA season, rumors returning soon. I want to know this 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.240 is a very broad question, but if you had to 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.760 pick somewhere to hang out for about a month or two, 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:13.800 would you go to Las Vegas or would you go 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.600 to Disney World. I have a dis in perspective. I 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:20.360 feel like the West maybe she'll play in Vegas and 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:24.560 Eastern Conference shop play in Orlando, and then after the 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.520 final they can just go to one place, because if 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.960 you're trying to move the whole Lakers to Orlando will 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:32.920 be like a four five hour s thing, you know. 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:34.960 Or if you want to move to I don't know, 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.160 like us all the way to Vegas. It's like four 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.400 five hour thing. But like, I mean, if I have 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:43.079 to pick, obviously I will because of the mayor of Vegas. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.360 I've kind of state of Vegas right now. Might tick 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:50.520 Orlando because obviously because of Disney, they said, obviously cannot 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.400 go out there and hang out. But like I'll probably 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.240 say Orlando. Well, they're saying, I mean, these are again rumors, 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.360 but they're gonna have families there and stuff, so they 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.959 do think they might open some parts of Disney World 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.360 for people to have some life outside of the game. 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.559 So I'm I'm voting for Disney World with you. I mean, 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.480 I don't know how they're gonna do it, but I mean, 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.400 good luck. I mean, and that's that's a that's a 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.520 bigger question for you. After the Adam Silver call, which 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.680 you've been rather candid about, and discussions within your team, 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.360 would you do you feel safe. I would just say this, 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.439 not from my team, not from the Celtics, but there's 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.320 so many players out there that do not want to 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:27.320 play I heard, because like it's a huge risk and 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:28.839 they're saying, I'm not going to risk my life to 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:30.840 just go out and play basketball. But I mean, if 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.839 you're asking me as my other Celtics teammates, I mean 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.400 they trust NBA, and I think Adam Silver been doing 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.440 an amazing job. Especially every other major league are taking 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.760 an example of what NBA is doing. Because India was 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:46.120 the first world first thing to suspend itself. So NBA 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.160 and that have Silver played a huge role on this. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.840 If the NBA opens up, and I know other major 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.640 league going open up to so I mean, if if 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.240 it's all safe to go, yes, I'd love to play. Yeah, 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.280 it's day to day, and I like you said, Adam 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.679 Silver is different than any other league missioner and he 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.120 even just as a fan and players I love like 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.360 you guys in Boston and so many teams. I mean 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.880 it's like I would I trust him enough? Yeah, I 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.360 just tend to cancel the peasion. They should give it 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:16.160 the MVP. Adam still he should should. I also say 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:17.679 that a funny m v P vote would be to 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:19.760 a Lonzo Ball because he was the only guy who 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:21.680 would come out on the court to that game that 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:25.520 they canceled. Did you ever see that he just came 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.400 and practiced by himself. I was like there's your m 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.000 v P. He has nothing else going on. He's he 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.480 doesn't care about a huge pandemic. Uh my big question, 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.400 big question here. Do you miss Taco Fall as much 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.319 as I do? You know, when I saw him first 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:42.520 Ensemble League the last summer when he was playing, I'm 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.480 like this, dude, it's going to be a rock star. Yeah, 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.920 he's not a superstar rock star because like this personality, 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.760 how humble he has helped down to earth his cool. 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.160 His lack room is right next to mine. Yeah, gool 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.880 lacks room guy, always been bringing positive energy. Obviously, now 0:13:57.960 --> 0:13:59.600 we we we do miss the guy. Well, I mean 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:01.960 we based down probably like three full times a week 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.360 and see how like how easily doing that stuff? Yeah, 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.000 he needs a good dude. Man. I like them a lot. 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.199 And you guys as a team have been doing U 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:11.560 Instagram lives. We did do Instagram as well. We do 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:13.360 a lot a lot of Zoom conferences because like you 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.319 still want to build that team chemistry. Right, every Tuesday 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:20.120 we have chapels and every Wednesday actually had this motivational 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.760 with Halt that we invite some celebrities to come and 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:26.160 give us a talk. Right month, Wolburg came Baby ortees On, 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:30.520 Paulits came, and John came from hangover a Terry Crews game. 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.680 So it's been so nice to see your teammates more 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:41.960 within its cantor after this. 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But Feeding America dot org 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:22.240 backslash COVID nineteen and now the rest of my chat 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.680 with the Boston Celtics and its cantor. Well, let's get 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:27.280 into what I really want to talk about, which is 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:29.840 w w E. I am a big fan. I also 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.480 in a prior life, I was a writer of Monday 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.840 Night Raw back in two thousand five. So so I 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:37.880 can hang with you. Yeah, I can hang with you. 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:40.920 When did you start watching and what drove you to 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.680 be such a fan of pro wrestling? Okay, so first 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.880 time I started watching it, I was in college, you know, 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.080 because I couldn't get the college basketball because of some 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.800 you know, eligiblutive stuff because I played professionally whatever. So 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:53.360 and then I was like, wanted to get a hobby. 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.800 And I stopped watching it when I was seventeen years old, 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:59.200 and I'm like, wow, this is like so amazing. And 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:02.120 I actually once to one of the matches in Indiana 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.720 because it's close to Kentucky. It was like, basically my world, 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:07.960 I'm going to become a wrestler. I was watching. I 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:11.080 remember watching it came I'm like, okay, this is amazing. 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.880 And after that, you know, I was just like keep 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:20.040 watching it. But like, my favorite was Undertaker obviously, but 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:24.600 the most heartbroken moment I had, my whole mba and 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.800 the whole American life said when on the Taker loss 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.400 in WrestleMania against Brock last Man, it was so shocking. 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.640 Oh my lord. It's hard to tell people who aren't 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.120 inter wrestling. What it meant you have? Oh my god, 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.000 I really truly felt it was the streak. It was 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.000 the cal Ripken streak. I thought it was supposed to 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.080 be the thing that never gets broken. And and then 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.960 there went away so fast, actually they did that. I 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.040 was so heart broken. You have no idea I actually 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.720 get to meet him. So I was p placed on 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.440 the nick. I actually get to meet a lot of 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.840 the wrestle, like John Cena, and so I actually get 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.000 to me will run the Rousea almost sure the street 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.840 her she was so nice and I'm like, how is 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.040 she like that where she was fighting? She's like one 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.880 of the like the matest person I know. Yeah. Um, 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:10.879 and then I met under Taker. Yeah. Well that was 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:13.040 the weirdest part about writing there. It's like, you know, 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.000 you go in there as someone who just watched on television. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:17.400 I mean I had a different history. I mean most 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.320 kids in America we ended up watching pro wrestling, you know, 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.040 Whole Hogan and such growing up, and you know, good 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:24.879 guys and bad guys. And then there you are in 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:28.080 catering and you know, Ray Mysterio is eating you know, 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.520 a hot dog, and he's he's sitting next to you 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:35.800 know Sean Michaels who's talking about his weekend. It's just 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:39.280 like this is just a workplace and that's the weirdest feeling. Yeah, 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.879 So I actually went to the backstage. I saw some 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.240 of the wrestler's girls and guys. I'm like, oh my god, 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.760 this is so amazing. But say've time is so weird. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:51.000 Actually get to be a Midway undertaker in mastercare Garden. 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:53.840 He came to my locker room and I always wanted 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:55.800 to like know that the eye roll in. Think it's 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.000 fake or not? And I asked him and I took 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:00.760 a video, but it's actually on my Instagram and it's real. 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.720 He did that, So actually I should sat and talk 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:05.880 to him a little bit. He asked me how older 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.080 your kid. I'm like I am back then, I was 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:12.720 like twenty five. He was like, I got boots older 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:16.800 than you. I'm like okay, but like he was my 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.639 like idol. My knees were shaken. Yeah, just because of 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.080 my play for it for the next Paul Human actually 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:24.080 just comes to some of our games and he's actually 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.879 my really good friend. He actually was like, hey, let's go. 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.000 Are we doing this? I'm like the like relaxed I 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.399 gotta finish my basketball career first. Then I am all yours. Oh, 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:35.040 I didn't want to talk about that. At number one 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.240 Hayman Rules. Shout out to Paul him and a great guy. 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.000 You were able to make an appearance in the w 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.520 w E already one of the most historic buildings for 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.320 that business, which is Madison Square Garden. You won the 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:48.680 seven title, even if for just a few minutes. What 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.719 was it like to be in that ring for you? Oh? 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.720 You have no I was so nervous, and Paul Human said, 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:57.320 you're going to be the one of the most hated 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.280 person in New York that night. Are you ready for it? 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:02.720 I'm like, I booned for this. Let's go so like 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:05.800 I've turned them. I want the title. I revealed my 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:09.159 jersey was a Tolpic jersey. The whole crowd was bullying 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:11.400 because I played for the team. They should love me, sir, 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.159 But the whole crowd was bullying for me. It was 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:17.160 just like the lifetime experience. I actually in the backstage, 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.400 I got to meet with and Which McMahon. I talked 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:22.440 to the tchiplation a little bit. He's like, man, sure 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.120 you keep my number in your phone. I'm like, okay, sure, 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:28.960 that's great. Do you feel more confident as a heel 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.760 over a baby face? For sure? Oh my god, I'm 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.080 gonna be healed. I'll be the hill, like the biggest 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:38.399 hill that that that we dout we ever seen. What 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.080 is it that you like about being I mean, I 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.640 know you troll certain people obviously this this last week 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:45.040 you put up a little bit of a troll on 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.440 on Jonas and Harden uh and then you know you 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:50.320