Speaker 1: The volume. Hi, I'm Sloan and I know basketball. Today's
Speaker 1: guests are on the verge of achieving their lifelong dreams
Speaker 1: of being drafted into the NBA. Their unique journeys to
Speaker 1: the greatest league in the world are stories you don't
Speaker 1: want to miss. Let's welcome the stars of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four NBA Draft class to Sloan Nurse. What's up, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm here in Santa Barbara for preparation for the NBA Draft.
Speaker 1: What is your name and what is your hometown.
Speaker 2: I'm Alex Saw and I'm from Toulouse, France.
Speaker 1: Love it, Hi, Alex, thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 1: So let's start off. Who is your favorite NBA player?
Speaker 2: My favorite NBA player?
Speaker 1: Okay, your brother brother Lee Love who's your favorite NBA
Speaker 1: player that's.
Speaker 2: Not your brother growing up? He was Kan Duran Probably okay,
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 1: What do you think it's going to be like when
Speaker 1: you play Katie for the first time.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Actually, it's going to be a good game. Probably.
Speaker 1: What was your first interaction ever with an NBA player?
Speaker 2: It was meeting boys, Joe, I think at the train station.
Speaker 1: Actually, really like you just ran into each other. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. What are you going to do with your
Speaker 1: first NBA check?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I actually don't have to plan. Come on, I might
Speaker 3: get a car. I guess what.
Speaker 1: Type of car? I still have to Okay, you can
Speaker 1: get me one too if you want to thank you?
Speaker 1: Thank you. What is one word you would use to
Speaker 1: describe your your game?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: And what's one French word you would use to describe
Speaker 1: your game?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Okay, I like it. I like it. That's versatile, you
Speaker 1: say both? Okay. Who is the most famous NBA player
Speaker 1: to reach out to you during this time period?
Speaker 2: Nobody? Actually nobody?
Speaker 1: What are they doing?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well on draft night, you know they're gonna call.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So what will it mean for you to be drafted
Speaker 1: to the NBA?
Speaker 4: You mean a lot.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like a nice achievement.
Speaker 1: That's all I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 1: Okay, I like it. Now we're gonna move into rapid fire.
Speaker 1: So you need to answer these fasts. Okay, what is
Speaker 1: your favorite food?
Speaker 2: I love their lobster.
Speaker 1: What is your go to cheat meal? Like after a game?
Speaker 2: What are you eating after game? Chip mill chickil a?
Speaker 1: I love it, me too, Not on Sundays though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: a Sunday game. If you could go to dinner with anyone,
Speaker 1: dead or alive, who would you have dinner with?
Speaker 2: I have dinner with Michael Jackson.
Speaker 4: Cool.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite movie?
Speaker 2: I like Avatar?
Speaker 1: You've seen all them?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite video game?
Speaker 2: Probably two K you're gonna.
Speaker 1: Play with yourself?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What do you think your rating should be?
Speaker 2: I think it should be a seventy nine, so humble,
Speaker 2: I like it?
Speaker 1: Okay. Who's your favorite player to play.
Speaker 2: With on T I like playing with Luca? Okay?
Speaker 1: Who's your favorite artists?
Speaker 2: They're artists, brother Drake.
Speaker 1: You have to describe your style in one word? What
Speaker 1: would it be?
Speaker 2: I think I have very versatile.
Speaker 1: Style for you love that word?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 1: Okay, So wait, versatil like that? Okay? What's your favorite
Speaker 1: sneaker on and off the court?
Speaker 3: On the court, I like playing with Kobe's of the
Speaker 3: court air Forces.
Speaker 2: I'll say classic. Okay.
Speaker 1: So now, even in America for a couple of years,
Speaker 1: what is your favorite American thing that they don't have
Speaker 1: in France?
Speaker 2: They don't have fruit snacks in.
Speaker 1: France, Okay, like welches all that. Yeah, I was just
Speaker 1: in France over the summer, and my favorite thing is
Speaker 1: the idea that anywhere you go, every single baget is
Speaker 1: fire like here. That's not the case. Like that's definitely
Speaker 1: my favorite. And the nutella, like the food there just doesn't.
Speaker 1: But I guess then they don't have stuff.
Speaker 2: Like you, right, it's different.
Speaker 1: Okay, Alex, this is a rough one one on one
Speaker 1: with Wemby. What's the score. Let's say we're going to eleven.
Speaker 2: I don't know eleven eleven?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay? Who are your top five French players of
Speaker 1: all time? I am Alex, That's what I do.
Speaker 3: Uh, Olivia Sar, Alex Saar, Becom, Dad Dyer, h.
Speaker 2: Elan Feble and Tony Parker.
Speaker 1: Okay, no Wemby, no Rudy Gobert.
Speaker 2: I said players I knew, Oh you knew?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, I guess. Okay, bigger list, you can do.
Speaker 1: Top ten? Okay?
Speaker 5: Cool?
Speaker 1: Well, Alex, thank you so much. This is so much
Speaker 1: fun to meet you.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Cody for being here. This is
Speaker 1: really exciting. So first I just want to start off,
Speaker 1: who is your favorite NBA player? And it cannot be
Speaker 1: your brother?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: I was about to say him right off the bat
Speaker 5: is all time?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all time.
Speaker 5: Definitely have to be Kobe.
Speaker 6: I grew up in a Laker householdt family from LA,
Speaker 6: so yeah, you know, Kobe just played a huge background
Speaker 6: or a huge part of my background.
Speaker 5: And that's my brother's favorite player too, so it kind
Speaker 5: of just translated to me.
Speaker 1: I love that. Who was the first NBA player you
Speaker 1: ever met or interacted with?
Speaker 6: Oh, I'd say probably interact with probably say Chris Paul
Speaker 6: just because I was invited to his to his like
Speaker 6: elite camp going into my Juice is my senior year,
Speaker 6: so him, Devin Booker drosh Christ football there. I remember
Speaker 6: they took us bowling and got the interact, so I'd
Speaker 6: say that for sure. Or meeting Brandon Jennings. I got
Speaker 6: to sit down and talk to him and he kind
Speaker 6: of was at the McDonald's game and he kind of
Speaker 6: showed us what he does and how he kind of
Speaker 6: found a life after basketball, which isn't really talked about.
Speaker 5: It was nice to kind of spend some time with him.
Speaker 1: I love that. And is there a player that you
Speaker 1: think you've all your game off of a little.
Speaker 6: Bit, I'd say I get a lot of Brandon Ingram
Speaker 6: comparisons just just my length. Yeah, I really try and
Speaker 6: incorporate a lot of Kevin Durant, just how he uses
Speaker 6: his pull up kind of gets to a spot so
Speaker 6: he really can't guard him. So I feel like those
Speaker 6: aspects are, you know, stuff I try to put in
Speaker 6: my game. And then defensively, I get a lot of
Speaker 6: Jane McDaniels.
Speaker 1: Just because you know, those are good comps.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, So he's guarding one through five out there,
Speaker 6: So I feel like those some you know, pretty good players.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and people I can try to model my game around.
Speaker 1: Talking about Jane McDaniels. And after the Timberwolves just swept
Speaker 1: the Suns? Who do you think is the favorite to
Speaker 1: win the.
Speaker 5: Championship Oklahoma City?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I feel like that's a no brainer. So okay, okay, okay, see.
Speaker 1: I think she's gonna get that finals MVP. Do you
Speaker 1: think your brother's gonna do it?
Speaker 4: Either?
Speaker 2: One?
Speaker 6: I can get it, to be honest, but yeah, he's
Speaker 6: got focus on winning and then all that stuff will
Speaker 6: come with.
Speaker 1: Lock in lock in? Who or Okay? What will it
Speaker 1: mean for you to be drafted to the NBA?
Speaker 5: I to the biggest thing is kind of just for me.
Speaker 6: It's kind of a way for me to know that,
Speaker 6: like the decisions I've made, all the sacrifices I've made,
Speaker 6: I've kind of put it, you know, hanned out all
Speaker 6: the nights I spent working out, all the sacrifices my
Speaker 6: parents had to make, you know, working late jobs, still
Speaker 6: taking me to practice, you know, barely getting any.
Speaker 5: Sleep is to you know, do it throughout the whole
Speaker 5: week for years.
Speaker 6: So just hearing my name get called and knowing that
Speaker 6: all the sacrifices putting as a family my dream, it'll
Speaker 6: finally have paid off.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So that's kind of like the big thing I'm
Speaker 5: looking And.
Speaker 1: If your ten year old self wouldn't know that you
Speaker 1: would be here, now, what do you think you would think?
Speaker 6: But I think I think it would just push him
Speaker 6: more to kind of be the best version of yourself.
Speaker 6: I know That's how I felt when Jayalen started getting
Speaker 6: the recognition he deserves obviously, when he got drafted. So yeah,
Speaker 6: just I feel like the way I saw him get
Speaker 6: drafted and it pushed me and motivated me to become better.
Speaker 6: I feel like it was do the same thing my
Speaker 6: younger self, you know, whatever became today.
Speaker 1: So today to know you a little better, we're gonna
Speaker 1: do some rapid fire. Okay, you have to be fast.
Speaker 1: I got what's your favorite food?
Speaker 5: Probably sushi.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite cheap meal?
Speaker 5: Ooh, probably Freddy's.
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 5: It's a I think it's like a Midwest thing. It's
Speaker 5: just like burgers fries.
Speaker 4: Okay, so okay for sure.
Speaker 1: If you could go to dinner with one person dead
Speaker 1: or alive, who would it be?
Speaker 2: Kobe Bryant?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite movie?
Speaker 5: Ooh, probably say Blade Runner twenty forty nine.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that.
Speaker 2: You should?
Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel like every time I asked that question,
Speaker 1: I realized I've seen like not enough movies.
Speaker 5: I'm looking like a movie head. So like I'll just
Speaker 5: sit down, like what you nervous?
Speaker 4: I don't know? Yeah, I say I'm a movie okay movie.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite TV show?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: Probably Blowjack, Horseman or Snowfall those two necks.
Speaker 1: Favorite video game.
Speaker 5: Might have to be a Call of Duty Black Ops
Speaker 5: three and a Fortnite guy. I used to be crazy,
Speaker 5: me too, Me too. I grew up.
Speaker 1: I had one solo win ever in Fortnite.
Speaker 6: And that was like the most proud I can't even
Speaker 6: tell you last time I got a win. That's how
Speaker 6: I knew. I was just put the controller down. Basketball
Speaker 6: was your thing, exactly my game.
Speaker 1: Who's your favorite artist?
Speaker 5: Either a Little Dirk or Lucky?
Speaker 1: Okay, describe your style in one word.
Speaker 5: I say vintage.
Speaker 1: I like you thrift.
Speaker 6: I'm starting to get into it. Jalen put me onto thrifting,
Speaker 6: so I'm kind of diving in that.
Speaker 5: Room a little bit.
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna be on League fits one day?
Speaker 5: I made it there once you did?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: I was actually I.
Speaker 1: Feel like that's in your blood. Your family has to
Speaker 1: be on the fits, right.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 6: It was the Thunder's last regular season game and I
Speaker 6: was sitting court sid that must that's probably a good
Speaker 6: Jayalen's mags.
Speaker 5: He was like, you know, he's like, it took me
Speaker 5: one years ago.
Speaker 1: You get it that quick.
Speaker 7: Hm.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
Speaker 5: I'd say you the conon candy or salty cal.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy you said cotton candy. I always go
Speaker 1: can candy.
Speaker 5: Everyone hates yeah, like that real.
Speaker 1: Life people like that's not a real ice cream flavor,
Speaker 1: but it is.
Speaker 5: There's not like it's too sweet.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they just hate because they don't they don't
Speaker 1: know exactly exactly what is your favorite sneaker on the
Speaker 1: court and what is your favorite off the court?
Speaker 6: Sneaker on the core had to be GT's or Sabrina's
Speaker 6: like those off the court, I feel like forces or
Speaker 6: sombers just because like you can put them on.
Speaker 5: You got to show your twins, you see.
Speaker 2: I think that's.
Speaker 1: Yes, I love it.
Speaker 5: Let's custom, I believe so I stole from jam. Okay,
Speaker 5: yeah they probably are.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite like go to emoji?
Speaker 5: Oh the crying crying laughing, Yeah, that's favorite candy.
Speaker 6: Probably Sickless. I know you have ever heard the sicklest
Speaker 6: but I don't know if you heard. It's like almost
Speaker 6: like Eminem's. Basically, it's just like chocolate, like the same
Speaker 6: like outside coating. It's like chocolate, but it's not but
Speaker 6: it's not.
Speaker 4: I don't know how to describe it.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's basically.
Speaker 1: I'm not getting this, but I'm sure I will after once.
Speaker 1: If you look at it, Like, what would your job
Speaker 1: be if you weren't a hooper?
Speaker 5: Oh, I always wanted to do something medical. I want
Speaker 5: to be a surgeon.
Speaker 6: I don't want to be a stomach surgeon for the longest,
Speaker 6: So either that or a physical therapist.
Speaker 5: That's kind of wow. My mom's a Nurse's cool. So
Speaker 5: I was always watching I like look at her textbooks
Speaker 5: and she'd be taking tests and I kind of yeah,
Speaker 5: I just grew up like it.
Speaker 1: I know there's an NFL player who won the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl a couple of years back. I think he was
Speaker 1: also a doctor. Would that ever be something you'd want
Speaker 1: to do, like go to medical school after the NBA?
Speaker 6: Oh, for sure, that's something I definitely talk about my school.
Speaker 6: My mom balance I definitely go back and get my degree.
Speaker 6: So yeah, you know, if I go back and be
Speaker 6: a doctor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, House Colorado been in the coach prime era.
Speaker 5: It's been crazy.
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna lie, especially like the energy from the
Speaker 6: football game shifted to every other sport.
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, fans would.
Speaker 6: Come out for the volleyball games, come out for the
Speaker 6: basketball games, just because just because of the atmosphere of
Speaker 6: the football games and the energy it brought, it just
Speaker 6: translated to every sport.
Speaker 1: Okay, my last question. It's maybe a little embarrassing for Jalen,
Speaker 1: but what's one thing about him that you can tell
Speaker 1: us that people only you only know because you're his brother,
Speaker 1: like embarrassing, yes, saying, oh, like, I have a lot
Speaker 1: of crazy things I can say about my brother. I
Speaker 1: feel like you do too.
Speaker 5: Let me think I'm just as crazy as him, So
Speaker 5: I'm just as weird. So I gotta I gotta think
Speaker 5: about it. I don't know. I guess I'm trying to
Speaker 5: think like what he does from.
Speaker 1: When you guys were younger, I could throw back, throw back.
Speaker 6: I guess he has a really peanut shaped head. I
Speaker 6: guess that's the only thing I really think of. You
Speaker 6: both tap a little like when we are younger. I
Speaker 6: have one too, But yeah, it's just he just has
Speaker 6: like a little tiny in the head.
Speaker 5: That's kind of That's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 5: Good luck with that reaching.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you so much for being here, Devin.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited about this. So to start off, who
Speaker 1: is your favorite current NBA player?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Book, I like it named twins. If you could share
Speaker 1: the court with any NBA player, current or not current,
Speaker 1: who would it be?
Speaker 2: My dad? I like that.
Speaker 1: Who is the first NBA player you ever met? Or
Speaker 1: interacted with other.
Speaker 2: Than your dad, probably like Kevin Garnett maybe something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is that something you'll like always remember?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it was in Minnesota's okay.
Speaker 1: What is one word that you would use to describe
Speaker 1: your game?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 5: Competitor, competitor?
Speaker 1: Okay, what are you gonna do with your first NBA check?
Speaker 2: I don't know yet. I haven't thought about that.
Speaker 1: You haven't thought about it?
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Money is money? But yeah, I thought about.
Speaker 1: Everyone keeps saying a car food?
Speaker 2: What food?
Speaker 1: Chickfilly, Chick fil A classical? It's a Chick fil A
Speaker 1: order number one?
Speaker 2: No pickles?
Speaker 1: No pickles? Why no pickles?
Speaker 2: She throws off the sandwich. Okay, cheese? Why would you
Speaker 2: Chick fil a sauce?
Speaker 4: I like it?
Speaker 1: Okay, now we're going rapid fire. What is your favorite food?
Speaker 2: Crap?
Speaker 1: What's your favorite cheap meal?
Speaker 2: Uh? Noodles.
Speaker 1: If you could go to dinner with anyone dead or alive,
Speaker 1: who would it be?
Speaker 2: Michael Jackson?
Speaker 1: Growing up? Who's your favorite athlete my dad other than
Speaker 1: your dad?
Speaker 2: Uh? Messy?
Speaker 1: I like that favorite movie Russia, favorite TV show, my power,
Speaker 1: favorite video game? Any hidden talents I can juggle? I hear.
Speaker 1: I'm hearing some soccer fanness situation going on. Who do
Speaker 1: you think is gon to win the Champions League?
Speaker 2: I don't know, honestly, might be, That's what.
Speaker 4: I say too.
Speaker 1: I'm a Jude value and girl. Okay, yeah, who's your
Speaker 1: favorite soccer player other than Messy? Okay, that's crazy. I
Speaker 1: feel like Messy that's not usually those who don't usually
Speaker 1: go together.
Speaker 2: I mean you said growing up though.
Speaker 1: Okay, now now, okay, describe your style in one word?
Speaker 2: H uh like dressing or yes, dressing? Uh?
Speaker 5: Calm like it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, calm?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Who's your favorite artist?
Speaker 2: A little baby? Probably?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can do mostiple well ark Okay. What's your
Speaker 1: favorite ice cream flavor?
Speaker 2: Oreo?
Speaker 1: Favorite on the court, sneaker, favorite off for court sneaker?
Speaker 2: None?
Speaker 1: Favorite emoji or go to emoji laughing one which I
Speaker 1: feel like there's multiple laughing like the original, just like
Speaker 1: the Okay, okay, okay, favorite candy.
Speaker 2: Like a little sour worms whatever?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Okay, have you seen the are you on
Speaker 1: TikTok or now a little bit? Have you seen the
Speaker 1: candy salad trend? Do you know what that is? Okay?
Speaker 1: It's like they take a big group of people and
Speaker 1: everyone picks a candy. They throw all together and they
Speaker 1: eat it like a salad. Whatever team you get drafted
Speaker 1: to do me a favor. Do that with them and
Speaker 1: make it TikTok Okay, no, it is not.
Speaker 4: It's so.
Speaker 1: I did it with my soccer team so far. Okay.
Speaker 1: What would you be if you weren't a Hooper?
Speaker 2: Soccer? Football player?
Speaker 1: Football player?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 1: Which football? I got you there? I got you there,
Speaker 1: American football? Okay. Lastly, what is the best advice you've
Speaker 1: ever received?
Speaker 2: I just be yourself. No, never let anybody tell you
Speaker 2: I can't do anything.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Nice to meet you. What's up, guys?
Speaker 1: So I'm here in Santa Barbara for preparation for the
Speaker 1: NBA Draft. Can you please tell me your name and hometown?
Speaker 4: Ron Hollow from Ballast, Texas.
Speaker 1: Love it? Okay, Ron? Who is your favorite current NBA player?
Speaker 4: My favorite current NBA player is my Carroll Bridges.
Speaker 1: And who are you most excited to play against when
Speaker 1: you get to the NBA.
Speaker 4: I'm most excited to play against Lebron if you're still there.
Speaker 1: Okay, if he's still there? Crazy, what do you think?
Speaker 4: I mean he at the age hears he's able to
Speaker 4: keep going. Obviously, he's been taking care of his body
Speaker 4: obviously these past few years, spend millions of dollars on
Speaker 4: his body. Like I said, he's able to keep doing it.
Speaker 4: But at the at the end of the day, if
Speaker 4: it's time to go, it's time to go. He's done
Speaker 4: so much for the game of basketball and he's very
Speaker 4: much appreciated. And like I said, but if I'm able
Speaker 4: to play against him one more year, he got one
Speaker 4: more year in the NBA, I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: It's your goat, yes, Okay, Okay. So I know you've
Speaker 1: obviously spent time with the league Knight in the G League.
Speaker 1: Who's a G League player that you think deserves a
Speaker 1: shot in the MBA.
Speaker 4: G League player, Ignite player that.
Speaker 1: I feel like, or any league player, but you can
Speaker 1: pick on for.
Speaker 4: Ignite, I'm gonna say John Jenkins. Just watching his work,
Speaker 4: work ethic and just knowing just being able to just
Speaker 4: be with him and knowing how he approaches the game
Speaker 4: of basketball, I feel like his work can go without
Speaker 4: being unnoticed.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: That's just I feel like, Yeah, that's why I feel
Speaker 4: like he deserves to sign the NBA. Okay, Okay, he's
Speaker 4: one of the best shooters I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Okay, when you get your first NBA check, what do
Speaker 1: you buy?
Speaker 4: Probably I've been saying a lot of cybertext.
Speaker 1: Lately, so like silver one of the Matte black one.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get my wrap, some like smoke grids.
Speaker 1: You get your initials on it, your number. Okay, so
Speaker 1: when you're like driving around people like, that's okay, I
Speaker 1: like it. That's stuff. What is one word you would
Speaker 1: use to describe your game?
Speaker 4: The one word I used to describe my game is passionate.
Speaker 1: Passionate.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 1: Who's a player that's not a star? Per se that
Speaker 1: you look up to?
Speaker 4: That's not a star? Oh star, it just became a star.
Speaker 4: Tyre's maxie k kind of ham I don't know.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, that's true.
Speaker 5: That's true.
Speaker 1: Okay, ready for the rapid fire. Okay. What is your
Speaker 1: favorite food?
Speaker 4: Impasta?
Speaker 2: Same?
Speaker 4: Chicken Afraid occasion with Broccoley.
Speaker 1: Favorite cheat meal or go to cheat meal?
Speaker 4: Chick fil A?
Speaker 1: Same? What's your order?
Speaker 4: Thirty kind nugget mill thirty yeah, thirty large fry. They
Speaker 4: just came out with this new lemonade, sun Sun Joy
Speaker 4: Bailee that or root beer. Then I'm gonna do a
Speaker 4: of a spicy chicken silence. Wait.
Speaker 1: Sorry, so the thirty piece nugget was in side.
Speaker 4: That's a calm beth. I mean that's a calm meal too.
Speaker 4: That's just on a com Oh my.
Speaker 1: God, on a calm day. Okay. If you could go
Speaker 1: to dinner with anyone dead or alive, who would it be?
Speaker 1: See or lunch breakfast or Chick fil a?
Speaker 4: Uh, Jill Scott, is that embarrassing?
Speaker 1: I don't know who that is.
Speaker 4: It's uh, I'm not an actor singer, singing singer.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay. What is your favorite movie?
Speaker 4: Favorite movie, Boys in the Hood?
Speaker 1: Favorite TV show?
Speaker 4: Definite, favorite video game?
Speaker 1: Any hidden talents?
Speaker 4: I can drum play the saxophone. I can flip flip.
Speaker 4: I want to do it right now, so, uh, hidden talent,
Speaker 4: that's about it.
Speaker 1: Okay. I learned how to play the saxophone once in
Speaker 1: fourth grade and never I didn't continue that passion.
Speaker 4: I lost it. I don't know how to play them.
Speaker 4: I definitely want to get back into it.
Speaker 1: Who is your favorite artist?
Speaker 4: Favorite artist? I'm in the old soul, you can say,
Speaker 4: but I'm right now, I'm gonna say little baby.
Speaker 1: Okay, describe your style in one word, my.
Speaker 4: Style and one word one word. I'm open minded, I'm
Speaker 4: open to what I'm saying. Trying different, yeah, for sure
Speaker 4: and really seasonal.
Speaker 1: Can you I don't know if you can do this,
Speaker 1: but can you give me like a little preview on
Speaker 1: what your draft it's gonna look like? Or is it
Speaker 1: a surprise?
Speaker 4: Let's leave it.
Speaker 1: Let's surprise, Let's leave what's your favorite ice cream flavor?
Speaker 1: Cookies and he's dream Okay? Favorite on the court.
Speaker 4: Sneaker Kobe.
Speaker 5: Sixes, off the court sneaker.
Speaker 4: Jordan Force, these walker around Yeah, phone run is comfortable.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite candy?
Speaker 4: Favorite candy, starbars, gummy salad.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's a good one, Okay. And then what would
Speaker 1: your job be if you weren't a hooper.
Speaker 4: I'd probably be in a medical field. I've been, uh,
Speaker 4: I've been into that. That's what my mom is.
Speaker 1: Cody William said the same thing, doctors together.
Speaker 4: It might be. I mean, like my mom, that's just
Speaker 4: one thing. She always I would always be in her
Speaker 4: business when it came to that part of my life.
Speaker 4: She was just come home telling me all types of
Speaker 4: stories about patients and stuff.
Speaker 1: And lastly, what is the best advice you've ever received.
Speaker 4: The best advice I've ever seved was when when you're
Speaker 4: listening to someone, it's not about how they're saying, it's
Speaker 4: what they're saying. It's don't take really don't take everything personal.
Speaker 4: You know, I've been I've been dealing with a lot
Speaker 4: of passionate coaches and sometimes I take it personally. Just
Speaker 4: get down when they're telling me what I need to
Speaker 4: hear instead of what I want to hear. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: once that advice was told to me, it took my
Speaker 4: game to the next level.
Speaker 1: Love it, Thank you so much.
Speaker 7: My name is Taron Armstrong and I'm from Tasmania, Australia, Tarren.
Speaker 1: To start off, who is your favorite current NBA player currently?
Speaker 7: Tari Taliba Night.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: If you could share the court with one NBA player,
Speaker 1: current or non current, who would it be?
Speaker 7: Probably Steve Nash Strong.
Speaker 1: Okay, who is the first NBA player in your life
Speaker 1: you would ever like met or interacted with.
Speaker 7: I don't even know. I haven't really met too many
Speaker 7: NBA players. Maybe Deli or don'te x M, something like that.
Speaker 1: And do you have a story about that or it
Speaker 1: was just like a little interaction.
Speaker 7: Just little interactions. I play like pick up with It
Speaker 7: Dante one summer when I was at school.
Speaker 2: So yeah, okay, cool.
Speaker 1: If you'd use one word to describe your game, what
Speaker 1: would it be?
Speaker 2: Unselfish?
Speaker 1: Unselfish? I like that, very humble. What will it mean
Speaker 1: to you to be drafted to the NBA?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, it's something you work so hard for
Speaker 7: for so long. And I'm not really sure how I
Speaker 7: react when it happens, but if it's fortunate enough to happen,
Speaker 7: I'll be excited, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Is there a player in the NBA, it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: an All Star that you look up to.
Speaker 7: I mean, Josh Kitty, that's my guy. We played pretty similar,
Speaker 7: so I've been told. And now you're good and uh yeah.
Speaker 2: So yeah okay.
Speaker 1: And is there a player that you try to model
Speaker 1: your game after.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't say model. I think I just played the
Speaker 7: game the way I think it should be played. But
Speaker 7: I'd say Lonslo Balls a pretty good comparison. I think
Speaker 7: we played similar.
Speaker 1: And a little birdie told me that if you make
Speaker 1: it to the NBA, You'll be the first tas medium
Speaker 1: player ever in the NBA. Correct. What do you think
Speaker 1: that that will mean to Tasmania.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be sick.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 7: You know, just branching those worlds that are so different
Speaker 7: would be something really cool. And I got a kind
Speaker 7: of support back there and especially in the Bostbell community.
Speaker 7: And you know, whether I know him or not, I
Speaker 7: know there's a lot of people that support me and
Speaker 7: want to see me do well.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm grateful for Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, now let's get into the rabid fire ready.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Favorite food uh uh, favorite cheat meal chickle.
Speaker 1: If you would go to dinner with anyone that are alive,
Speaker 1: who would it be?
Speaker 7: I would say Steven Chigan.
Speaker 1: Favorite athlete growing up, your bigg Steve nash Guy. Okay.
Speaker 1: Favorite movie.
Speaker 7: I like The Equalizes. Favorite TV show I wasn't Criminal
Speaker 7: Minds of their.
Speaker 1: Video game.
Speaker 4: You call it Judy.
Speaker 1: Do you have any hidden talents?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Not, I feel like you have to have one.
Speaker 2: Uh? Okay.
Speaker 1: Describe your style in one word basic, Yeah, A little bit,
Speaker 1: the essential shirt jeans. Okay, I feel like you could.
Speaker 1: I like this, but I feel like you could put
Speaker 1: on something like for the draft. You need to like
Speaker 1: really show up.
Speaker 7: I could, I mean, I could do something, but you
Speaker 7: know that's a big extra.
Speaker 1: What do you think you're gonna do with the first
Speaker 1: NBA pitcheck? Are you gonna buy some clothes?
Speaker 7: See if I get one first? But who knows? Actually
Speaker 7: I've got nothing to buy, So I'll.
Speaker 1: Say, what's your favorite ice cream flavor?
Speaker 2: And cream? Okay?
Speaker 1: What is your go to sneaker on the court? And
Speaker 1: go to sneaker off the court?
Speaker 5: Probably forces last question?
Speaker 1: Can you name your Australian all time starting five?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Uh, tough one, just like in their primes. O. I'll
Speaker 7: get giddy some love giddy uh petty meals um all
Speaker 7: good at the five.
Speaker 2: Ingles and I think of four.
Speaker 4: I haven't know.
Speaker 2: Who's currently playing the format. It doesn't have to be current,
Speaker 2: no current.
Speaker 1: Uh wait, okay, here's my question. Does Kyrie count as Australian?
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons Australian?
Speaker 2: You count? Check me in?
Speaker 4: Ok?
Speaker 1: Okay, love it? Thank you so much, nice to meet you.
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