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Speaker 1: Jaden Springer, so thank you so much for sitting down.
Speaker 1: We're here at summer League. It is your third Summer
Speaker 1: League correct, every one?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: And this morning, coming out of the gym, we sort
Speaker 1: of argued about what made you a veteran of this
Speaker 1: team because you're still younger than some of your teammates,
Speaker 1: but you have the most Sixers experience on this roster.
Speaker 1: Do we agree about that?
Speaker 2: That is true?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, So what does it feel like to be
Speaker 1: in the experience that you've had and to still be young,
Speaker 1: but to be a veteran and a leader on this
Speaker 1: Summer League team?
Speaker 2: It's kind of weird to hear myself be called like
Speaker 2: a vet or something like that. Coyle used to be
Speaker 2: around a guy so much, but being here and being
Speaker 2: one of the oldest guys here or the most experienced
Speaker 2: guys here has been pretty good. Definitely different adjusting having
Speaker 2: guys that's new and I'm gott to be the one
Speaker 2: to kind of lead a little bit and guys coming in,
Speaker 2: so it's fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's that like? When they come to ask you questions.
Speaker 1: How does it feel to be the one that's providing
Speaker 1: the answers instead of asking the questions.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's cool, definitely cool to me. It's definitely
Speaker 2: different though, because I'm so used to being the youngest guy,
Speaker 2: being the new guy and stuff like that, so it's
Speaker 2: it's actually fun. Though.
Speaker 1: You have North Carolina connections with a couple of our
Speaker 1: newest players on this team, right, Ricky, you guys are
Speaker 1: all from North Carolina for sure. How have you bonded
Speaker 1: and what was it like playing against those guys growing up?
Speaker 2: It's been cool. You know. I didn't get to really
Speaker 2: play against them too much, but you always heard of them,
Speaker 2: like I'm pretty sure they heard of me. I heard
Speaker 2: of them like stuff like that. We got mutual friends
Speaker 2: that we all talk about, so we all kind of
Speaker 2: know the same people and stuff like that. So being
Speaker 2: able to chop it up with them, it's been pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Have you made any connections with PJ about North Carolina?
Speaker 2: For sure? PJ and we had treads too, so all
Speaker 2: of us were from North Carolina and we just always
Speaker 2: talking about whose city's better and stuff like that. Little things,
Speaker 2: but nothing too crazy.
Speaker 1: What's the verdict, what's the best North Carolina city?
Speaker 2: Charlotte, for sure, they wouldn't agree. They're not gonna agree
Speaker 2: with that. But I say, Charlotte, what do they all
Speaker 2: say where they're from? Raley?
Speaker 1: I was in Durham for college. I love Durham, but
Speaker 1: I love Chapel Hill too, And people will get mad
Speaker 1: at me for that. But like Raley, Durham, Chapel Hill
Speaker 1: are all great.
Speaker 2: That's all like kind of same area, true.
Speaker 1: But to them it's different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about being a vet. Right, you're you're
Speaker 1: a young player on the Sixers. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: year three. You've been the youngest thus far. Tyree talks
Speaker 1: about being the youngest in a lot of situations he's
Speaker 1: been in. So before we started recording, we were talking
Speaker 1: a little bit about what it's been like to grow
Speaker 1: with him. Can you tell us what it's like to
Speaker 1: sort of be his teammate and be young together. But
Speaker 1: looking up to him.
Speaker 2: It's been pretty cool, you know, just watching him how
Speaker 2: he handles everything. You know, he's always got a positive
Speaker 2: attitude even when things might not be going to best,
Speaker 2: like during the game anything, but he always smiling. I
Speaker 2: think we all we all can see that he always
Speaker 2: a good move, So be able to watch him through
Speaker 2: adversity and stuff and what everything like he's facing anything like,
Speaker 2: he's just smiling. He's going at it and he's given
Speaker 2: one hundred percent energy every time, so and things seem
Speaker 2: to work out his way every time.
Speaker 1: So I want to ask you about Joel as well,
Speaker 1: observing the way that he played this season. He and
Speaker 1: Tires are sort of personality wise, they're very different, but
Speaker 1: they've both been really successful. They've bonded quite a bit.
Speaker 1: You got to watch Joel in his MVP season. A
Speaker 1: lot of players never get a chance to be teammates
Speaker 1: with an MVP in their active MVP year. What was
Speaker 1: that experience? Like, what are you gonna remember about it?
Speaker 2: Well, it was great just being able to see how
Speaker 2: he prepare every day and step on the court, Like
Speaker 2: every time he step on the court, he's getting a
Speaker 2: job done. He handles his business day in and day
Speaker 2: out through an eighty two game season. So being able
Speaker 2: to have the consistency to go out there and do that,
Speaker 2: a lot of people don't have that. So I feel
Speaker 2: like that's what separated him and like what made him
Speaker 2: the MVP being able to go out there every single
Speaker 2: night and kill and compete.
Speaker 1: So you and Joel are obviously very different types of players, right,
Speaker 1: But if you could take one piece of Joel's game
Speaker 1: and add it to yours, what would it be.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's smooth with the face of If I
Speaker 2: get that face up, you know that night, a little
Speaker 2: toucher in the mid range, I can take that heat.
Speaker 1: Has he tried to teach you anything?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Are you able to ask him about this stuff?
Speaker 2: Nah? But we played one on one a couple of
Speaker 2: times here and there. I'll just see like he loved
Speaker 2: to draw him fouls and stuff like that, so I
Speaker 2: can pick up on that from him.
Speaker 1: Playing one on one on one with Joel embid for
Speaker 1: people that will never get to do that, which is
Speaker 1: the vast majority of the population. What is it like?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's fun, you know, It's just it's tough
Speaker 2: when he you know, he's seven foot and he tried
Speaker 2: to get to the baskets. That's a little tough. But
Speaker 2: other than that, you know, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Who else do you play one on one with? Most often?
Speaker 1: On this roster?
Speaker 2: So we won't play one on one too often, but
Speaker 2: when we do, it's probably be me p read. I
Speaker 2: remember last year Tuck jumped in with us and then
Speaker 2: Joe that was that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So you're always playing against bigger guys, Yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: what's that like?
Speaker 2: It's cool? I mean the NBA, everybody's pretty tall, so
Speaker 2: you gotta be able to adjust, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: If you could take something from Tyresee's game, who's more
Speaker 1: of like similar stize wise, also a guard, what would
Speaker 1: you take from him?
Speaker 2: Uh? The way he attacks, like, you know, his energy,
Speaker 2: So I feel like that's been pretty big for him
Speaker 2: and transition, getting it downhill, getting to his floaters, and
Speaker 2: just using his speeds to his advantage. That's pretty big.
Speaker 1: New head coach this year for all of you guys.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting you're actually sort of getting the first
Speaker 1: reps being coached by Nick Nurse. Yep, those guys that
Speaker 1: we're talking about on the roster for the Sixers haven't
Speaker 1: had that experience yet. What's it been like you're a
Speaker 1: little around a weekend now with a new coach. What
Speaker 1: does it felt like?
Speaker 2: It's been great? You know, the whole staff like it's
Speaker 2: a great staff, everybody is. The energy's there every single day.
Speaker 2: Everybody's locked in then learning the details and everything. So
Speaker 2: like you can just learn, you can tell you can
Speaker 2: learn and get better in this environment. And so it's
Speaker 2: been great.
Speaker 1: When you think about training camp to come with this team,
Speaker 1: what's it going to be like to get together and
Speaker 1: understanding that you might play a bigger role yourself this year.
Speaker 1: When you think ahead to joining training camp in September,
Speaker 1: what are you most looking forward to about bringing yourself
Speaker 1: your skill set, the staff their skill set, and the
Speaker 1: guys that you remember playing with from the last couple
Speaker 1: of years.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm actually pretty excited seeing how this is going.
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see how everybody blend together, the energy
Speaker 2: and just the competitiveness, Like I can't wait to see
Speaker 2: how that is, especially with the staff we have now.
Speaker 2: So I just want to see how everybody interacts and
Speaker 2: how it goes. So that's gonna be exciting.
Speaker 1: To see two full seasons under your belt. Do you
Speaker 1: favorite NBA cities, like favorite cities to play in, our
Speaker 1: favorite cities to explore, hotels, restaurants. Where do you look
Speaker 1: forward to going on the circuit?
Speaker 2: Let me think I don't know anywhere with one weather
Speaker 2: like one weather is always great, you know, going to Florida, Orlando, Miami,
Speaker 2: also California, those cities also like Toronto, going out to Canada,
Speaker 2: it's like a different vibe a little bit, you know,
Speaker 2: and then going back home to Charlotte. Can't go wrong
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 1: Do you bring? Do you have lots of fans come
Speaker 1: and sit and cheer for you when.
Speaker 2: You're in Charlotte's Oh for sure. My mom gonna make
Speaker 2: sure everybody pull up?
Speaker 1: How many even so, like how big is the section
Speaker 1: and who's in it?
Speaker 2: It could be anybody. I could have aunts, uncles, friends,
Speaker 2: close friends, some of the homies, Like, anybody could be
Speaker 2: out there. You never know.
Speaker 1: So you've been back in Charlotte training between when the
Speaker 1: season ended and coming out here this summer league. We
Speaker 1: saw a viral video of you making one hundred out
Speaker 1: of one hundred and twenty one threes. How let's say,
Speaker 1: how normal is that for you? Like is your what
Speaker 1: does your regimen look like? And how frequently are you
Speaker 1: making threes at that rate?
Speaker 2: Oh? Pretty often though, But all season that's definitely been
Speaker 2: the main focus is shooting the ball. That's pretty much it.
Speaker 2: That's all. I've been working on my handling, just trying
Speaker 2: to sharpen up my whole game. Been in the weight room,
Speaker 2: working on my explosiveness and speed and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So just trying to take my overall game to another level.
Speaker 1: That clip went pretty viral though, like were you paying attention?
Speaker 1: How online are you? Do you pay attention when that
Speaker 1: stuff happens.
Speaker 2: I'll be on line, but I don't use Twitter, so
Speaker 2: I feel like everything's on Twitter, so I don't really
Speaker 2: be seeing nothing like that, so I don't know. I'll
Speaker 2: be on Instagram though, that's.
Speaker 1: Your favorite, that's your app of choice. Yeah, when you
Speaker 1: communicate with people, is it text? Is it FaceTime? Is
Speaker 1: it DM?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: How do you communicate with people you actually know?
Speaker 2: Let me think? I think, I don't know. Sometimes I'll
Speaker 2: be going to go some people. Sometimes I gotta stop that.
Speaker 2: I do, I gotta stop that. But I say text
Speaker 2: text the most DM. Sometimes it just depends on the
Speaker 2: mood I'm in. Some days I don't feel like like talking.
Speaker 2: I'd be hanging out with my dogs. Sometimes I just
Speaker 2: be chilling.
Speaker 1: So, oh wait, tell me about your You have one dog,
Speaker 1: you have multiple dogs?
Speaker 2: I have three dogs.
Speaker 1: Okay, introduce us, introduce the fan base to your dogs.
Speaker 1: Tell us about them, all right.
Speaker 2: So I got I got three French bulldogs. I got
Speaker 2: two girls. One name is eleven, one name is Chrome.
Speaker 2: Now I have a boy and his name is Hero.
Speaker 1: Tell us where the names come from? My theories, but
Speaker 1: I want to hear it from me.
Speaker 2: So eleven is my name. I mean, eleven is my number.
Speaker 2: So she got that name, and then I got Chrome,
Speaker 2: and then her color is like a chrome color, so
Speaker 2: that's what I went with that, and then Hero, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I just wanted the boy dog name them heroes.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. It kind of fit.
Speaker 1: Did you watch Stranger Things? I did because I was
Speaker 1: wondering if people eleven was you or that eleven?
Speaker 2: No, people always ask that I got eleven because that's
Speaker 2: just my number. That's always been my numbers.
Speaker 1: Fair enough. What do you What do you stream?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What do you watch?
Speaker 2: I watch everything I watched, I watched everything. I don't
Speaker 2: know Snowfall, I have seen power Ozark is kind of
Speaker 2: scary creepy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have a really low tolerance though, for like, that's
Speaker 1: that's not too bad.
Speaker 2: That's not too bad. I watched. I can. I can
Speaker 2: name probably a hundred shows I don't watch.
Speaker 1: What's the best thing that you watch, Let's say this year.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I can't pick. I see so many shows,
Speaker 2: like it's all like a blur.
Speaker 1: Is that like, what are your sort of past times?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Did you find yourself sitting watching TV? Is that like
Speaker 1: one of the go tos?
Speaker 2: Because outside of basketball, I'll get my work in, I
Speaker 2: go home, I might I grab some food, I hang
Speaker 2: out with my dogs and watch TV. That's literally how
Speaker 2: it goes. I'm not a big gamer or nothing like that.
Speaker 2: So I just watched TV shows.
Speaker 1: Who takes care of your dogs when you're on the road.
Speaker 2: I got family that look out for me. I got
Speaker 2: some family in Jersey and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So who moved out with you? When you came
Speaker 1: to Philly for the first time?
Speaker 2: Oh? I was by myself? Yeah, I was by myself.
Speaker 1: Okay, what was that like? Was that the first time
Speaker 1: that you were on your own?
Speaker 2: Nah? I was on my own in high school and
Speaker 2: in college. So high school I went to like my
Speaker 2: sophomore I know, my junior year and my senior year
Speaker 2: went to school called IMG in Florida, So it was
Speaker 2: like a boarding school. You got to take care of
Speaker 2: your stuff, do your own clothes and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So you learned early.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then Tennessee, Tennessee.
Speaker 1: What are the big things you'll remember about your time
Speaker 1: at Tennessee because it was short, but you probably got
Speaker 1: a lot out of it. So what were the big
Speaker 1: things from Tennessee?
Speaker 2: I don't know. My college was different. I went during COVID,
Speaker 2: so everything was like so restricted. It was so weird.
Speaker 2: Even times we would have to practice on FaceTime, Like
Speaker 2: like on FaceTime you have to it would be like
Speaker 2: two or three people at a time because the COVID
Speaker 2: outbreak we hit or something. So we're doing sprints on
Speaker 2: FaceTime with the train that Like college is different from.
Speaker 1: Me, but you'd be going into the gym and the
Speaker 1: trainer wouldn't be there.
Speaker 2: No, he'll be on FaceTime. We had to set up
Speaker 2: the phone and he has to watch us do our
Speaker 2: sprints and stuff like that. It was crazy.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're sort of just now getting to
Speaker 1: the point where we can like reflect on COVID and
Speaker 1: we can all talk to the weird stuff that was happening.
Speaker 1: I mean, in my job, I was interviewing all you guys,
Speaker 1: but only on zoom, like I was never seeing anyone.
Speaker 1: And so like you think back, you're gonna tell your
Speaker 1: children about that one day. Yeah, they're gonna be like, Dad,
Speaker 1: you were what you were being taught on FaceTime?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was crazy.
Speaker 1: So how much of a relief was it? Then? When
Speaker 1: you got into the NBA and we're able to sort
Speaker 1: of work with people in person again.
Speaker 2: It was great. You know, I feel like everything started
Speaker 2: to open back up again. You know, even my first year,
Speaker 2: we still have to wear our masks, but once the
Speaker 2: second year hit, nobody was really wearing our masks on
Speaker 2: the bench and stuff like that. They kind of started
Speaker 2: easing up a little bit. So it was kind of
Speaker 2: like a relief.
Speaker 1: You know, you've had some good vets, You've had some
Speaker 1: sort of like esteemed veterans. I'm thinking about Danny Green
Speaker 1: and PJ Talk. Really those guys are kind of gonna
Speaker 1: go down in history as as like really great. That's
Speaker 1: people that stayed in the league for a long time.
Speaker 1: Is there anyone I'm missing When I think about like
Speaker 1: sort of who I see as your vets?
Speaker 2: I like DeAndre Jordan, you know, He's cool. DeAndre Jordan
Speaker 2: was cool for sure.
Speaker 1: So when I when we talk about let's say those three,
Speaker 1: maybe Dandy, PJ, DeAndre, what's something you've learned from each
Speaker 1: of those three that you might want to take with
Speaker 1: you as your career.
Speaker 2: Continues being a professional.
Speaker 1: No, no, I'm gonna make you do all three of them.
Speaker 2: Oh individually? Oh? Man, Tuck, Let's start with Tuck. Tuck.
Speaker 2: You all see it like he just how can I
Speaker 2: describe How can I describe Tuck? What as you say
Speaker 2: about Tuck?
Speaker 1: Like we all see it like he's just he's a
Speaker 1: big presence.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we could say that for sure. He's always there.
Speaker 2: He's a guy. He'll look out and he tries to
Speaker 2: teach too, Like even even the other guy, even the
Speaker 2: other vets, he'll talk to them and tell them be here,
Speaker 2: be there, like details and stuff, now where you supposed
Speaker 2: to be in the court and the timing and all
Speaker 2: the stuff. He's big on that. So I feel like
Speaker 2: that's pretty pretty good.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember his first practice last
Speaker 1: year when we were all in Charleston, South Carolina, and
Speaker 1: it was the first time that any of you had
Speaker 1: really worked with him, because he was coming off of
Speaker 1: an injury also, and I remember being so impressed by
Speaker 1: it was his first day with you guys, and he
Speaker 1: was not shy, like he was pulling guys around. He
Speaker 1: was pulling people aside. Yeah, I feel like that's rather
Speaker 1: unique among players.
Speaker 2: You don't see that too much. So I can definitely
Speaker 2: take that from him.
Speaker 1: Okay, you mentioned DeAndre. What's something you learned from him?
Speaker 2: Dere having a good good energy. You know it'll be Tomsler.
Speaker 2: Maybe he wasn't on the cord or playing and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, but you know, he always was positive, He
Speaker 2: always had fun. He always tried to help out and
Speaker 2: reach out whenever he can to anybody, even me. He'll
Speaker 2: see me, He'll come all right, just check it out,
Speaker 2: play one on one like like little stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So I feel like he's definitely a good guy to
Speaker 2: have in your locker room.
Speaker 1: Danny Green another defensive minded guard, maybe on or off court.
Speaker 1: What's something that you're gonna think of when you think
Speaker 1: about learning from him?
Speaker 2: So Danny Green, he got I feel like he got
Speaker 2: a mixture of both. You know, he got the he
Speaker 2: got his fun side. He can laugh, he can joke around.
Speaker 2: I have a good time and then he got his
Speaker 2: side where he's a series like teaching, teaching, here, go here,
Speaker 2: be there, timing and stuff like that. Just being on
Speaker 2: the court nowhere to be and know how to get
Speaker 2: to your yourself in good position to get to your
Speaker 2: spots and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So, all right, a couple last questions. We think about
Speaker 1: fans that want to get to know Jaden. What's something
Speaker 1: that you think people should know about you that they
Speaker 1: don't already know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's tough. I don't know. I'm pretty simple,
Speaker 2: I hope, and I just watched TV, you know.
Speaker 1: But I feel like a lot of people can relate
Speaker 1: to that. Think about all the kids that are growing
Speaker 1: up and those are the things that they like to
Speaker 1: do too. We're thinking about summer League. Now we have
Speaker 1: a little bit of time left. What are some of
Speaker 1: your goals for the rest of summer league?
Speaker 2: Goals for the rest of some league, win the rest
Speaker 2: of these games. I would definitely want to win the
Speaker 2: rest of these games. Just being able to keep learning
Speaker 2: from the coaches the staff we have around this and
Speaker 2: keep getting better and keep it proving. That's probably the
Speaker 2: biggest things for some ree I feel like, that's what
Speaker 2: it's about, just being able to showcase your talent and
Speaker 2: get better.
Speaker 1: So, and when you think about the season ahead with
Speaker 1: the Sixers, what are some of your goals for this
Speaker 1: third year in the NBA.
Speaker 2: Third year, I want to make a jump for sure.
Speaker 2: Definitely want to make a jump. I feel like I've
Speaker 2: been building each year I've been in the league. My
Speaker 2: first year I built off that, my second year I
Speaker 2: built off that. So I feel like I definitely want
Speaker 2: to make another jump this year.
Speaker 1: Is there anything about being in the NBA that you
Speaker 1: maybe didn't expect that you've learned or something that like
Speaker 1: expectations versus reality is something that I talked to your
Speaker 1: teammates about a lot. So when you imagined being in
Speaker 1: the NBA and what this life would be like, how
Speaker 1: is it different from what you imagine or maybe what
Speaker 1: has has lived up to what you were hoping for.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's been pretty much what I imagine for
Speaker 2: the most part. You know, you got the best talent
Speaker 2: in the world, being able to play against the best guys,
Speaker 2: playing with some of the best guys, So it's fun.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like living in your dream since you
Speaker 2: had as a kid, So be able to make the best,
Speaker 2: make the best out of everything, every opportunity, every day
Speaker 2: is a blessing here. So just be able to get
Speaker 2: better and improve. That's probably the biggest things.
Speaker 1: Living in your dreams that you had as a kid.
Speaker 1: That makes me happy to hear. I'm sure a lot
Speaker 1: of people are going to love hearing that. Jaden Springer,
Speaker 1: thank you for sitting down with us today.
Speaker 2: Appreciate