Speaker 1: From my high school team. We have five guys make
Speaker 1: the NBA. We had the County Rocket gets some meta
Speaker 1: of basketball. Here are those who come before us, upon
Speaker 1: whose shoulders we stand. It's nothing that you can do
Speaker 1: to stop the competitive and that'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 Brodie with the
Speaker 1: virtual handshake, I'm gonna tell you something that I never
Speaker 1: told nobody. I want to out the smoke. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to another Quarantine edition of All the Smoke with my
Speaker 1: brother Stack five. What's up with you, bro? Quarantine on
Speaker 1: the scene. What's going on? Bro? Quarantine? And mean staying
Speaker 1: off that green you did? Yeah, I'm I'm full of
Speaker 1: that constantly. You get a chance to watch uh Hardwood
Speaker 1: Classics had our game four on last night against Dallas
Speaker 1: Oh seven, Hey, and what a co Wincid is and
Speaker 1: crunch time. I backed little Jason Terry down, spin off
Speaker 1: of him and they collapsed on me and I kick
Speaker 1: it to the right guests. Who's there? My brother page Row.
Speaker 1: I got a lot of homes off that. I got
Speaker 1: a lot of Hey, I got a lot of holes
Speaker 1: off that shot. I might have got the twins based
Speaker 1: off that shot. Yeah, that shot were popping. Man was crazy. Man.
Speaker 1: We got a special guest man, one of the best
Speaker 1: young talents in the game. Uh, one of my favorite players.
Speaker 1: You had been straight up been one of my favorite
Speaker 1: players since he came in the league. Boston Celtics very
Speaker 1: own Jason Tatum. Welcome to the show, bro Bro St. Louis.
Speaker 1: What's up? And I appreciate you. I haven't we Uh
Speaker 1: we got a chance to interview Bradley Beale earlier today too,
Speaker 1: so we know he had on the St. Louis had
Speaker 1: to come on. Many boys hold it down. That's one
Speaker 1: thing about us. And you know somebody from St. Louis,
Speaker 1: they're gonna let you know about it. Shout out the
Speaker 1: mouse straight up. So how are you, man, How how
Speaker 1: are you in the family holding up right now? With
Speaker 1: the you know, with the world coming to a halt.
Speaker 1: I'm doing good. Um, you know, every day seemed about
Speaker 1: the same. Um. You know, I got my mom my
Speaker 1: son up here, so I'm getting good and I'm just
Speaker 1: enjoying quality time. So I'm trying. Are you still able
Speaker 1: to work out at all? Yeah? I got it like
Speaker 1: a little gym, in the in the in the garage. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I make it do do what they do.
Speaker 1: But um, I just got a hoop in the in
Speaker 1: the driveway. Uh, get some shots because I ain't touched
Speaker 1: the ball since since our last game and I think
Speaker 1: it was Indiana. What was that scared like knowing that
Speaker 1: one of your being a father first to form us,
Speaker 1: but knowing that one of your teammates got sick. Was
Speaker 1: there was there a panic or you knew you were
Speaker 1: in the near him and talk talk to me what
Speaker 1: your thought wasn't in the locker room? Stop when Marcus
Speaker 1: Smart came down with the Yeah, so we was when
Speaker 1: the season got suspended. We was in Milwaukee, uh, because
Speaker 1: we're about were supposed to play him the next day
Speaker 1: and the season got suspended. So the next day we
Speaker 1: flew home and I think that was like a Thursday.
Speaker 1: And then that Saturday we all got tested because we
Speaker 1: just played the Jazz about like a week ago. So, um,
Speaker 1: all the test didn't come in at the same time.
Speaker 1: They were like they got mixed in with I guess
Speaker 1: you know, other people's tests. So it took like a week,
Speaker 1: week and a half of our test to come back uh,
Speaker 1: and Smart was kind of one of the first guys
Speaker 1: to get his results back in and we all knew.
Speaker 1: So when when he found out, I still didn't know yet,
Speaker 1: So I was still I was nervous, but at the
Speaker 1: same time, like I wasn't around my mom or my son,
Speaker 1: Like I just stayed at my house because they told
Speaker 1: us to, you know, stay inside for about two weeks.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, Smart said he was doing fine,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, luckily nobody else tested positive, so
Speaker 1: we was a right, Yeah, that's a scary time, especially
Speaker 1: being a father, you know, I mean I couldn't imagine
Speaker 1: having to Chris Paul told us a story where similar
Speaker 1: he was getting tested, he came home to l A
Speaker 1: and he hadn't got his results yet, so he had
Speaker 1: to sit in his car and his driveway until his
Speaker 1: kids went to sleep, and then when the kids went
Speaker 1: to sleep, he snuck and stayed in the isolated bedroom
Speaker 1: until the end. He happened to get his results that
Speaker 1: next morning. You know, So that ship is scary, especially
Speaker 1: you know when when when you could possibly bringing home
Speaker 1: to the fam. M hmm. Recently you teamed up, you know,
Speaker 1: was a fellow of St. Louisan Bradley Beal uh and
Speaker 1: raised almost three hundred thousand dollars for uh St. Louis
Speaker 1: Area Food Bank. Um, you guys have teamed up and
Speaker 1: and and did pizzas recently. Tell us where that charitable
Speaker 1: stuff comes back came from, because we we often don't
Speaker 1: get a chance to highlight that. And not that you
Speaker 1: do it to get highlighted, but I think it's great
Speaker 1: when guys like yourself are really out there in the
Speaker 1: community trying to help people. Yeah, so we I did
Speaker 1: it with through my foundation, um, the Jayson Tatum Foundation.
Speaker 1: I was sitting here with my mom. We was thinking
Speaker 1: of a way that we could, you know, help and
Speaker 1: get back to where I'm from. And you know, for me,
Speaker 1: that's all I'm always thinking about what can I do,
Speaker 1: you know, for the people back home in St. Louis,
Speaker 1: because you know, for those that don't know St. Louis Is,
Speaker 1: it's not like any other you know, one of those
Speaker 1: big cities. Um, you know, people a lot of people
Speaker 1: from St. Louis. We don't come from much. You know,
Speaker 1: we don't have a lot and you know, growing up,
Speaker 1: you know, we all kind of grew up in the
Speaker 1: same area. So you know, Brad is another person that
Speaker 1: you know really helps and give us back to St. Louis.
Speaker 1: And he's like my big brother. So when I called him,
Speaker 1: you know, with the idea, you know, how we can
Speaker 1: help raise money and donate money back home to help
Speaker 1: those in need during this time that that's not going
Speaker 1: to work and don't know where the next meal coming from. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, he was on board. And you know for St. Louis,
Speaker 1: the raised three hundred thousand dollars in two weeks. Like
Speaker 1: that was that was incredible, you know because you know,
Speaker 1: like you said, St. Louis Is, you know, a small city.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of crime and poverty. So
Speaker 1: for them to come together and raise that type of
Speaker 1: money and that's the donated was a big deal. It's
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing. Hall of Fame class KG Kobe Tim
Speaker 1: duncan tell me some of your memberies and what's your
Speaker 1: thoughts of that elite group man? Well, for me, you
Speaker 1: know obviously, you know, especially watching this Jordan documentary and
Speaker 1: and hearing people like around you guys age and older,
Speaker 1: like how my dad talked about Jordan's really made me
Speaker 1: realize like that was Kobe for me, Like Kobe was
Speaker 1: was my Jordan's the reason. He was the reason I
Speaker 1: started playing basketball. Like you know, I had all the jerseys,
Speaker 1: all the shoes. I want to be just like them.
Speaker 1: So you know, Kobe was Jordan's for me, um and
Speaker 1: and Kevin Garnett was Kevin Garnett was was my dad
Speaker 1: favorite player. So I remember anytime anytime the Celtics played
Speaker 1: the Sons and him and the mart started, Marrow matched up,
Speaker 1: like my pops will call me, like yo, turn on TV.
Speaker 1: The two animals playing against each other. Jens is man
Speaker 1: and the March started. Mark was was againster too. You
Speaker 1: got to spend time with Cobe and and talk to
Speaker 1: him and and help work on your game. Talk to
Speaker 1: us a little bit about that, because I think that
Speaker 1: is that's amazing. Yeah, it was. I met Kobe a
Speaker 1: couple of times growing up. Um my dad best friend
Speaker 1: Larry Hugh. So when Larry played on Cleveland one time
Speaker 1: for my birthday, like fourth grade, I went to when
Speaker 1: they played the Lakers. I took a picture with Code.
Speaker 1: Then I met him at the sps UM when I
Speaker 1: was in college, and then after my rookie year, during
Speaker 1: my rookie year in the playoffs, has when he started
Speaker 1: doing a detail thing and I remember he did one
Speaker 1: on me in the playoffs and he and he texts me.
Speaker 1: He texts me, he was like, you know, keep doing
Speaker 1: your thing. I'm watching, you know. After the summer, after
Speaker 1: the season, you know, hit me up anytime you in
Speaker 1: l A. We get to work together. I was like,
Speaker 1: I like dropped my phone. I couldn't believe it. So
Speaker 1: I remember, I remember the first day, the first day
Speaker 1: that summer I got to l A. As soon as
Speaker 1: I landed, I texted. I was like, yo, I'm in
Speaker 1: l A for a couple of weeks. You know, I
Speaker 1: know you're probably busy, but if you got any time,
Speaker 1: I let it in the gym. I remember he ain't
Speaker 1: text me back for like four days, Like it was
Speaker 1: in four days. Let him texting me. And as soon
Speaker 1: as he texts, I texted like twenty seconds back, like
Speaker 1: I responded fastest ship. And then uh, you know, we
Speaker 1: we met like twice before we actually worked out. Like
Speaker 1: I went to us his office and he showed me
Speaker 1: around when he was writing books and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and then uh, and then we got to work out.
Speaker 1: So it was like that was a dream come true
Speaker 1: for me. Tell us a little bit about what those
Speaker 1: workouts were liking and what you took away, because like
Speaker 1: we all know, I mean, his attention to detail is
Speaker 1: second and none. Uh my kids were lucky enough to
Speaker 1: work out with him for their little tenth birthday surprise,
Speaker 1: but he was putting them through some real NBA footwork.
Speaker 1: Pivot attention to detail. How precise was he and what
Speaker 1: did you take away from those workouts with him? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did a lot of at tension to detail. Um,
Speaker 1: it was it was it wasn't really anything that I,
Speaker 1: you know, I couldn't do. It was you know, a
Speaker 1: bunch of moves that I that he's seen me do
Speaker 1: and that he did, and it was all like little
Speaker 1: little things to think about the uh you know that's
Speaker 1: what That's what I really took like took from It
Speaker 1: was like the little things like what that he would
Speaker 1: think about that I really never heard anybody else like
Speaker 1: how they approached the game. But maybe it's like some
Speaker 1: of the greats there, but you know, for him to
Speaker 1: to to give me some of that knowledge right then
Speaker 1: and there, and and just the little things and on
Speaker 1: on the jab step and you know, creating separation and
Speaker 1: getting this little bit of space and it was like
Speaker 1: I was, I was just like a kid in the
Speaker 1: candy start. I was like, I kept like talking to
Speaker 1: myself like, you know, I'm working out with Kobe, Like
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it at the time. That's dope. And
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen you signed with Jordan's. Jack used to
Speaker 1: be a Jordan Brand They cut his boxes off though.
Speaker 1: Tell me how that how that situation came about it,
Speaker 1: how excited you wore for that opportunity? No, I was.
Speaker 1: I found we started, my agents started working on it,
Speaker 1: uh like in a offs my second year, so last year,
Speaker 1: and then, um, you know, when it finally came about,
Speaker 1: when we finally you know, negotiated and figured everything, I
Speaker 1: was on board. I was excited, and um you know,
Speaker 1: we took a trip. The jordan Brand family took a
Speaker 1: trip to to Monte Carlo and Paris this summer and
Speaker 1: that was kind of like my introduction to Jordan Brand,
Speaker 1: to the world and meeting all the guys. And the
Speaker 1: first time I really like sat down and talked to
Speaker 1: m j Uh. I got a funny story. I was,
Speaker 1: I was in I was in Paris and I met
Speaker 1: I met mja earlier this morning to the introduction, and
Speaker 1: like I did a bunch of media and then that
Speaker 1: night we had a dinner. So it was like Meller
Speaker 1: was there, Blake was there, Russ, Spike Lee, like it
Speaker 1: was everybody was there. So I remember, I'm still nervous, right,
Speaker 1: So I walked in MJ sitting down his white next
Speaker 1: to him and Spike next earth. So I walked in
Speaker 1: and I was, I'm gonna stay what's up to him?
Speaker 1: Far I sit down? So I'm like I talked to
Speaker 1: him earlier, like we had like a whole conversation, like
Speaker 1: I kind of know him. But then I'll walk over
Speaker 1: to him and like my hand starts sweating, and I
Speaker 1: was like, what's uping Mike? When I went to go
Speaker 1: shake his hand, I knocked over his knocked over his
Speaker 1: wine glass on the table when it broke. Uh, I
Speaker 1: was like, let me get a nack and let me
Speaker 1: let me help you out. He was like, he's like, young,
Speaker 1: fella's cool. It's good right. I turned throughout like, yo,
Speaker 1: I'm tripping the fun that I just speaking to Mike.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts being able to see? Because you
Speaker 1: were young, very young? Uh, you know when Mike was
Speaker 1: making his run. Uh, Me and Jack have loved reminiscent
Speaker 1: and kind of scene because Mike was the one superstar
Speaker 1: for us that we never really got to see the
Speaker 1: other side that we saw m J the hooper and
Speaker 1: then we see the businessman, but we didn't really get
Speaker 1: to see the personal side of him. What have you
Speaker 1: What have you been able to take away from seeing
Speaker 1: the Last Dance? It's really it's been. It's been incredible.
Speaker 1: Um because I was born in so I never I
Speaker 1: never saw MJ play live. Really maybe it's last year
Speaker 1: in like oh three, when I was like four or five.
Speaker 1: I don't really remember much, but you know, growing up,
Speaker 1: my dad like it was all m J highlights. He's like,
Speaker 1: I know you love Kobe, but Kobe got got all
Speaker 1: this from Mike. I used to watch show Me Mike
Speaker 1: highlights all the time, so I understood. I always understood, like, no, Mike,
Speaker 1: Mike the greatest, like he'd got for a reason. But
Speaker 1: just like actually, you know, watching it in real time
Speaker 1: now and and this documentary has been Uh, I loved
Speaker 1: this so far. I can't wait till next Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: straight up, to take us back to your early days,
Speaker 1: what was it like growing up being raised by a
Speaker 1: single mom. Uh, it was it was tough. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I grew up with a single mom. You know, my
Speaker 1: dad was around, but I lived with my mom. Uh
Speaker 1: you know, they had me. I think they were seniors
Speaker 1: in high school or right like right after they graduated
Speaker 1: high school, so you know, they was young and you know,
Speaker 1: growing up in St. Louis with you know, not having
Speaker 1: much and um just kind of being in that environment. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, you, like most people, you don't really know
Speaker 1: that you you you pour you don't have it until
Speaker 1: you grow up or until get around people. Yeah, until
Speaker 1: you do things like that. So, uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: love St. Louis. St. Louis Is is the biggest, one
Speaker 1: of the biggest reasons you know why I am who
Speaker 1: I am today and always, you know, go home as
Speaker 1: much as possible and and show love whenever I can. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just because it it got me to where
Speaker 1: I am. And you know, we all we all got
Speaker 1: stories and situations of you know a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that came from the same place as us, but you
Speaker 1: know a couple of mistakes of a way that they
Speaker 1: didn't you know, make it. And you know, I tell
Speaker 1: people all the time people ask me like, you know why,
Speaker 1: you know, why are you so confident? Or you know,
Speaker 1: what was your biggest fear? You know, growing up? And
Speaker 1: I always want to, you know, play basketball and being NBA,
Speaker 1: and I never felt like I wasn't good enough or
Speaker 1: I didn't have the talent, you know. My I tell
Speaker 1: people my biggest fear all the time was just going
Speaker 1: up in St. Louis. Just being at the wrong place
Speaker 1: in the wrong time. I was. That was for me
Speaker 1: going up. You know, it's just always all the time. Bro. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really like being at the wrong place at the
Speaker 1: wrong time. It's scary, especially you know, back in St. Louis.
Speaker 1: So I think God every day. You know, I was
Speaker 1: able to live up my dream. It sounds like your
Speaker 1: mom was a superstar. You know. I lost my mom
Speaker 1: and that's how Jack and I became brothers. But you know,
Speaker 1: your mom was taking college classes and taking you with her,
Speaker 1: was able to earn her bachelor and law degree, all
Speaker 1: while working two jobs and never missing the game or
Speaker 1: practice for you. So, I mean, definitely shout out to
Speaker 1: moms for all the sacrifice when you're at today, man,
Speaker 1: for sure, Yeah, my mom she super mom. She my mama.
Speaker 1: She a gangster for real, Like I tell that, imam.
Speaker 1: When did you fall in love with the game? What
Speaker 1: age man is like? When I was probably like two
Speaker 1: or three, as long as I can remember, like my
Speaker 1: dad played the St. Louis University played overseas. You know,
Speaker 1: from my earliest memories, I had always had a ball
Speaker 1: in my hand at ball in the crib and then
Speaker 1: as soon as I could start watching and remember like
Speaker 1: Kobe was he was it for me? Like I was like,
Speaker 1: and I want to be I want to be Kobe.
Speaker 1: And my mom was like, no, you you want to
Speaker 1: be a player, like you want to be an NBA
Speaker 1: like Kobe. I'm like no, Like I want to be Kobe.
Speaker 1: I want to with a frow, I wont number eight.
Speaker 1: That was like it was. I loved like that he
Speaker 1: was he was Jordans for me, and he was like
Speaker 1: the reason I started playing basketball. What was it like
Speaker 1: being a high school basketball star? Like I played in
Speaker 1: the McDonald's All American Game, I went to Old Kill
Speaker 1: You know, I think having that exposure definitely gave me
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence in myself. But what what was
Speaker 1: it like to you? What what was being a high
Speaker 1: school star, like for you, I think being a high
Speaker 1: school star, especially growing up with with social media. Um,
Speaker 1: I feel like it was differ from kind of when
Speaker 1: y'all girl because we had social media, camera phones was out,
Speaker 1: So I wasn't like a normal high school kid. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I grew up where I grew up. I
Speaker 1: went to a different high school. I went to my
Speaker 1: mom for me in a private school, uh college, Shamana
Speaker 1: College Prep. So it was an all boy Catholic school,
Speaker 1: and um, you know the kind of like really have
Speaker 1: me focused? And it was all boys school, so you know,
Speaker 1: wouldn't girls weren't a distraction and you know I was
Speaker 1: focusing on my books. Yeah. I mean I had a
Speaker 1: son when I was nineteen, So I'm glad. I'm boy
Speaker 1: boy had a couple of them before that. Huh yeah
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, Now trust me too. He might if I
Speaker 1: went to a public school, he might have been like five,
Speaker 1: he might do or or he might have had he
Speaker 1: might have had a brother or sister with him. Already,
Speaker 1: you're you're going into going into your senior in high school.
Speaker 1: You verbally commit to Duke over North Carolina over Kentucky,
Speaker 1: and and your mom and dad's alma mater St. Louis.
Speaker 1: What was that process like? In White Duke, it was
Speaker 1: tough because I had built a relationship with Roy Williams. Um,
Speaker 1: I built a relationship with Jim Cruz who was at
Speaker 1: SLEW and Caliperia Kentucky. But only I only took one
Speaker 1: official visit. I took the official visit of my junior
Speaker 1: year UH two Duke, and UM, I wanted. I wanted
Speaker 1: to commit on the spot. UM, I love I love
Speaker 1: Coach K to death. UM, you know, just being in
Speaker 1: that environment and and talking to all the players and
Speaker 1: the amount of the guys that graduated that that come
Speaker 1: back to games and practices and you know, just the
Speaker 1: bond that they all had. I really wanted that. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, growing up, I didn't really think that like
Speaker 1: guys from St. Louis like we'll go to Duke. I
Speaker 1: didn't think. I didn't think that was like a thing.
Speaker 1: And then when I started getting recruited by like, uh
Speaker 1: it was cool, and just talking to Coach K and
Speaker 1: and being in Cameron and um enjoying the game there.
Speaker 1: I wanted to commit on the spot. And my dad
Speaker 1: was like hold on, Like we ain't been to other
Speaker 1: schools yet relaxed and I was like, no, I need
Speaker 1: to go to another school, like I want to know.
Speaker 1: And that in my junior year, they won the national
Speaker 1: championship and like two or three days later after they won,
Speaker 1: Coach k Um, they flew to my house, UM Coach
Speaker 1: Capood and John Shire and when I had an in
Speaker 1: home visit. Now I remember, it was like in April
Speaker 1: and I told him. I was like, Coach, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: coming to Duke and uh, you know, I didn't commit
Speaker 1: till later that summer like nationally, but I told him
Speaker 1: in April that I was I was coming to do
Speaker 1: So once you're there, what's your experience? Like? Tell me
Speaker 1: what that college experience is like? Because you weren't there
Speaker 1: very long, But what was it like when you were there? No, man,
Speaker 1: I do that was like the most fun I ever
Speaker 1: had in my life. Um, just being a college kid,
Speaker 1: first time away from home, UM kind of you know,
Speaker 1: got more responsive abilities, becoming like a young man, UM,
Speaker 1: living on your own. That was that was new to
Speaker 1: me and you know, I enjoyed it. I had fun. Um.
Speaker 1: I still I'm close with a lot of the guys
Speaker 1: on the on the team that I was. I was
Speaker 1: there for a year. UM, I still talked to the
Speaker 1: coaches all the time. I go back, uh in the
Speaker 1: summertime when I can. And after the season after we lost, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, I talked to coach K and obviously I
Speaker 1: wanted to go to the league, but it was a
Speaker 1: part of me that wanted to come back to Duke
Speaker 1: for another year. Like I had that much fun just
Speaker 1: being a college basketball player and and and enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: But Coach K was like, no, yeah, you gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta go. It's the one to get out out. You
Speaker 1: gotta get up out of here. Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: What was it like planning that UNC robbery with Duke
Speaker 1: and that Duke and UNC robberie. What was that like?
Speaker 1: Oh man, it's it's it's way better than than what
Speaker 1: you could imagine. Um. At Duke, they kind of like
Speaker 1: they got this thing called the the K Bill. Um,
Speaker 1: it's it's in front of our gym and and students
Speaker 1: literally like for forty forty five days before the game,
Speaker 1: they set up tents and like you gotta like you
Speaker 1: have a tent outside the arena to get in the game.
Speaker 1: So they sleep outside for like forty forty five days,
Speaker 1: forty five nights or something like that just to be
Speaker 1: able to get in the student section at the Duke game.
Speaker 1: M hm, that's insane. That's sane. Hey. You keep in
Speaker 1: mind it's cold. It's cold as funk out there. Too cold.
Speaker 1: They'd be outside. It's like it's like a hundred tents
Speaker 1: outside and you can have up to like four or
Speaker 1: five people in the tent. That's insane. You played the
Speaker 1: fourth position at Duke. You played the four position to Duke.
Speaker 1: Did that help you or put you behind heading into
Speaker 1: the NBA? It helped me out a lot, because I
Speaker 1: think that's kind of where I came in that, you know,
Speaker 1: with the Celtics UM. You know, at first I didn't
Speaker 1: I didn't know if it was gonna work. When I
Speaker 1: got to do UM, you know, and they put me
Speaker 1: at the floor. But you know, when I they looked
Speaker 1: fast forward to when I get to the Celtics UM.
Speaker 1: You know, my first the first game we played, you know,
Speaker 1: it was al Horford at the one. I was at
Speaker 1: the four, Gordon was at the three, JB was at
Speaker 1: the two, and Kyle was at the one. So I
Speaker 1: kind of been in that same position, you know since
Speaker 1: I've been in the league, and I mean, that's kind
Speaker 1: of where basketball is at now. You got probably one
Speaker 1: big man and then three or four guys all around
Speaker 1: the same MICUs and a changeable one year in college
Speaker 1: you declared for the NBA draft. Was that it was
Speaker 1: that an easy, easy decision. I know you said your
Speaker 1: coaches like, now you gotta go and get this money.
Speaker 1: But that's an easy decision for you? Or was it
Speaker 1: was it highly influenced by coach? It was it was
Speaker 1: like it was an easy decision because it's like, man,
Speaker 1: ever since I was three, I was like I wanted
Speaker 1: to play in the NBA. But then it was like,
Speaker 1: once I got the opportunity, I actually thought about it
Speaker 1: for a second, Like, man, I like part of me
Speaker 1: want to come back to Duke and and and try
Speaker 1: to win a national championship because I like, I really
Speaker 1: enjoyed my time to Duke that much, in the relationship
Speaker 1: I built with my teammates and like that that's real.
Speaker 1: So but then you know, then it's like, no, I
Speaker 1: made the best decision for me and my family. And
Speaker 1: at the time I knew that, you know, I was
Speaker 1: about to have a I was expecting expecting the Sun.
Speaker 1: So that was the best decision for myself and my family.
Speaker 1: With the recent change of the game basically with Jalen
Speaker 1: Green and Isaiah Todd jumping uh straight to the D
Speaker 1: League and then you being like me, like, I absolutely
Speaker 1: love my time in U c l A. You said
Speaker 1: you loved your time at Duke. If you were in
Speaker 1: a position to do that, what what what would you do?
Speaker 1: Knowing what you know about college? Would you take the
Speaker 1: money and go to the G League or would you
Speaker 1: go ahead and go to do It's tough because like,
Speaker 1: now knowring would I know? Now? I think I still might.
Speaker 1: I still might have went to do But if I like,
Speaker 1: if you just rewind four years and I'm eighteen coming
Speaker 1: out of high school from St. Louis and it's five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, like I'm I'm going right to the G
Speaker 1: League for sure. I mean they gotta I need that.
Speaker 1: But I think they got to change what I think
Speaker 1: I feel like they need to change in college. Um No,
Speaker 1: I think you should be able to make money off
Speaker 1: your likeness, Like if you if you're at a school,
Speaker 1: and like if I was at Duke and I woul
Speaker 1: want to say, like, hey, I want to host the
Speaker 1: autograph session on Saturday, you know, for for three hours
Speaker 1: and a signature, Like, I feel like you should be
Speaker 1: able to do that. M I completely agree. I think
Speaker 1: I think their outdated rules are going to have more
Speaker 1: and more people making that jump, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: To me, there's there's no other alternative because they're not
Speaker 1: gonna know what we know about college and how dupe
Speaker 1: college is. They can hear it. But then that five
Speaker 1: thousand sounds amazing plus a trainer, plus they're giving you
Speaker 1: money to go back to school if you really want
Speaker 1: to do that, you know what I mean. So that
Speaker 1: ship is hard to pass up. And I like the
Speaker 1: fact that the NBA is can get into their own
Speaker 1: hands now, like let's sweeten this pot and get these
Speaker 1: kids right on them. But I think soon it's gonna
Speaker 1: be you're gonna be able to jump right back to
Speaker 1: the NBA straight out of high school. Anyway, two two
Speaker 1: thousand seventeen, the draft comes. Uh, Danny A just playing
Speaker 1: some mind games trades picks able to get you uh
Speaker 1: in the third spot. Uh. This is where Fluke Marquet
Speaker 1: went first, Zoe went second, You went third. I think
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell went thirteen whatever. Particularly, do you remember about
Speaker 1: Draft day in in in that rookie experience. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: he definitely played some mind games for sure. Um because
Speaker 1: it was like five, five days before the draft, because
Speaker 1: I remember Boston had the number one pick, and you know,
Speaker 1: everybody it was kind of like known, like the media
Speaker 1: was saying like Marquelle was going number one and Alonzo
Speaker 1: was in l A. So everybody knew Alonso was going
Speaker 1: to the Like I didn't even I didn't even work
Speaker 1: out for the Lakers because I just knew me and
Speaker 1: my agent was like, it's probably it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: waste of time, like everybody, no lines are going to them.
Speaker 1: But two. So at the time, Philly was three and
Speaker 1: Phoenix Suns was four. So Philly, Phoenix, and Boston they came.
Speaker 1: I was in l A working out, so they came
Speaker 1: to watch me work out, and I remember, you know,
Speaker 1: I sat down and talked to him, and after I
Speaker 1: met with him, all I remember I was like, I
Speaker 1: think I'm going to Philly, like they had the third pick.
Speaker 1: You know, I had a good workout and I talked
Speaker 1: to Brett Brown and everything was cool. So I thought
Speaker 1: I was going to Philly. But then I remember I
Speaker 1: went to Phoenix. This was a week before the draft.
Speaker 1: I went to Phoenix just to meet with Earl Watson
Speaker 1: and talk to the to the GM and see the facility.
Speaker 1: I didn't work out. I just wanted to go meet
Speaker 1: with everybody. Remember girl, Yeah, shout out Earls my god.
Speaker 1: Like I went out to I went to dinner with
Speaker 1: him the next day. I remember he picked me up.
Speaker 1: He had a white g wagon. He drove me around
Speaker 1: and showed me, like all the houses where the players
Speaker 1: live at. I'm like, they just dope out there, ain't it.
Speaker 1: Phoenix is beautiful. The girl was my college girls, my
Speaker 1: point guard A C. L A. Yeah. I remember, I've
Speaker 1: called my I called my family, my mom. Like, I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: I think I want to go to Phoenix. Like you.
Speaker 1: He's like you you come up, you come to Phoenix,
Speaker 1: you know you and the book Like he's like to
Speaker 1: light skin killers. I'm gonna let you all walk out.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm I'm sitting in the g I'm sitting
Speaker 1: in a car like, man, this sounds good. Like yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I think I want to come here. So I
Speaker 1: remember I get back to my hotel. I'm about to
Speaker 1: fly back home for like two days ago before I
Speaker 1: go to New York and I'm sitting and my agent
Speaker 1: called me. He like Danny Danny Age called and said
Speaker 1: they're gonna trade their pick. They're gonna go to three
Speaker 1: and they want you to come to Boston and the
Speaker 1: next day to work out. I'm like, no, I don't
Speaker 1: want to go to Boston. Like I'm like, I like
Speaker 1: it out in Phoenix, Like it's cool, the weather knights,
Speaker 1: I get a big house, I get a pool. My
Speaker 1: mom's gonna be all right. He's like, he's like brass
Speaker 1: Stevens a great young coach and they got a great history.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not trying to hear that, like I
Speaker 1: want to go to Phoenix. So then he like my
Speaker 1: agents like just think about it. And then I'm so
Speaker 1: we hang up. I'm like, I'm not going to this
Speaker 1: workout like I'm cool. So then Coach Kay called me.
Speaker 1: Coach Kay called me right after my my agent did.
Speaker 1: He like, Jason, you know, the Celtics call, they want
Speaker 1: you to come work out. You know, I think Brass
Speaker 1: Steves is a great coach, and you know, it's a
Speaker 1: great place to be. You'll learn a lot something like, uh,
Speaker 1: I'm like all right, so I go. So I remember
Speaker 1: that I flew to St. Louis that night. The next
Speaker 1: day I flew to Boston for another workout in Boston.
Speaker 1: So that was like, this is like three days before
Speaker 1: the draft. I took the train from Boston to the
Speaker 1: draft because I had I had a sinus infection, so
Speaker 1: like the air pressure like made me sick. So I
Speaker 1: took the took the train to the draft. And when
Speaker 1: I didn't, I didn't know where I was going, Like
Speaker 1: I figured it made Boston or Phoenix, and uh, you
Speaker 1: know when I finally heard my name called, I was
Speaker 1: it was like it was it was about far the
Speaker 1: best day of my life because it's like that's what
Speaker 1: I've been working for for sixteen years. But it was
Speaker 1: a part of me that didn't really want to go
Speaker 1: to Boston because they just was the number one team
Speaker 1: in the East. They had Isaiah Thomas out Orford Smart, JB.
Speaker 1: Jay Crowder. I was like, I mean, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: play like I'm trying to. I'm trying to get buckets.
Speaker 1: I mean, everything worked out. It was the best decisions.
Speaker 1: So it worked out. You thought you thought long and hard,
Speaker 1: about being that second LFE skin killer out there in
Speaker 1: Scott's Dale. Huh that have been crazy him and could
Speaker 1: you imagine him and book? Oh wait, that would have
Speaker 1: been nasty. So you're rookie Phoenix. Yeah, you're rookie again.
Speaker 1: A man, shout out my man, Earl Watson. Man, he
Speaker 1: got he got done dirty out there. But it's it's
Speaker 1: it's refreshing here and all the players speak about it
Speaker 1: because players really fucked with him, just the owners of
Speaker 1: clown and you know management is sucked up. But I'm
Speaker 1: glad to hear that the Earl had convinced you that
Speaker 1: you wanted to be in Phoenix. That's what's up. Uh
Speaker 1: your rookie debut. You play against Lebron, come out and
Speaker 1: drop a double double. Tell me what that was like. Man,
Speaker 1: I ain't getting no sleep the night before the game. Uh,
Speaker 1: because it was Kyrie. It was co first game coming
Speaker 1: back to Cleveland. You know, we got a new team,
Speaker 1: and you know I saw this hype. So I mean
Speaker 1: we I don't think I'm nervous, Like we're going through
Speaker 1: warm ups. We went on the court. The cast still
Speaker 1: ain't running the court. Yes, So I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm laying the ball up, playing cool, and
Speaker 1: then I remember the Calves run on the floor and
Speaker 1: then Lebron was the last person in warm up, and
Speaker 1: when he ran on the court, he ran past me.
Speaker 1: I said, damn, I just start getting nervous. I started
Speaker 1: shaking my first like my first, the first shot I
Speaker 1: ever took in the game. I set a screen for
Speaker 1: Cors slipped it caught through me a float pass, and
Speaker 1: I thought I was wild, hoping something like iring to
Speaker 1: get my first bucket, like I'm gonna calm down, and
Speaker 1: I tried to lay it up him. He can't. I
Speaker 1: don't know where Brin came came since to the fifth row.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't score it to the second half.
Speaker 1: I didn't get my first bucket to the second half.
Speaker 1: What what was that your welcome to the NBA moment?
Speaker 1: That was for sure my welcome to the NBA. My
Speaker 1: first shot Bron came out of nowhere. I was. I
Speaker 1: was so now, once you're here, you're Boston. You know,
Speaker 1: you had mixed feelings. But going into someone's place with
Speaker 1: so much tradition, so many championships, what it was it
Speaker 1: like being a part of that organization? Once you know,
Speaker 1: realize that's where you're going and that's where you're at. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It kind of reminded me of being a duke. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, just so much winning history and tradition and
Speaker 1: seeing all the banners they got up there and you know,
Speaker 1: all the media attention. Uh duke really you know, really
Speaker 1: prepared me to go to go to Boston and you know,
Speaker 1: everything happened for a reason and it worked out really well.
Speaker 1: So you know, I really enjoyed being in Boston so far.
Speaker 1: And um, you know, playing in the Garden is it's
Speaker 1: like no other place. Um. The fans are amazing and
Speaker 1: just looking up there as a seventeen championships that we
Speaker 1: have and all the great players that come before me
Speaker 1: to put on their uniform is, um is crazy? What what?
Speaker 1: What for my Celtics. Have you been able to speak
Speaker 1: to our build a relationship with because I know when
Speaker 1: we play for the Celtics, like talking to Paul, all
Speaker 1: the former players, all the great to be around sometimes,
Speaker 1: have you ever got a chance, even if it's Paul,
Speaker 1: have you ever got a built a relationship with a
Speaker 1: set a great Yeah, it would it would be Paul
Speaker 1: and uh, Paul and KG. But you know, Paul is,
Speaker 1: Paul is always. Paul Is around a lot more, especially
Speaker 1: you know, working with ESPN, So I talked to him.
Speaker 1: I talked to him pretty often. Um. So you know,
Speaker 1: just you know, watching because I watched him growing up
Speaker 1: as well, you know somebody, and you know I kind
Speaker 1: of took a little bits and pieces from the game
Speaker 1: and his footwork. His footwork is unbelievable. Yeah, he's the truth,
Speaker 1: the truth. So just being able to talk to him
Speaker 1: and you know, him giving me little insights and in
Speaker 1: words of encouragement, uh, you know, go a long way,
Speaker 1: because you know, oftentimes, you know, sometimes older players, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes talk down on the new generation or stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And and it's a good feeling when you know somebody
Speaker 1: like Paul peers Is, you know, welcomes you and uh,
Speaker 1: you know tells you that you know, you could be
Speaker 1: the next you know self degrade or whatever like that.
Speaker 1: You know, Um, you know, that's an incredible feeling. That's
Speaker 1: what's up. So going from being nervous in your first game,
Speaker 1: getting your first shot, throwing back to St. Louis by
Speaker 1: Lebron too too, doing your thing in the playoffs. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean, beat the Bucks in the first
Speaker 1: round in seven games, beat the Sixers in five games,
Speaker 1: and like I said, battled the funk out of the
Speaker 1: Calves and in seven games, and so close to hed
Speaker 1: at that game. I was at the game. You saw
Speaker 1: the first thing my kids said when that came in
Speaker 1: the first thing My twins said, when you're gonna dunk
Speaker 1: on Brian again, you know what I mean? So that
Speaker 1: was that was a crazy moment. But tell us what
Speaker 1: that was like also considering Kyrie was out, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, so it was all up to the young
Speaker 1: guns to kind of do your thing. And you got
Speaker 1: stepped on that stage man, and and really one over,
Speaker 1: I said, the world with the way you played the confident,
Speaker 1: the way you played Duncan on motherfucker's bumping braun after
Speaker 1: you dunked him, Like talk to us about that whole
Speaker 1: first year run. Yeah, that was that might have been
Speaker 1: like probably the most fun I ever had playing basketball
Speaker 1: because Gordon Gordon got hurt the first game and I
Speaker 1: got hurt with like probably it was like we played
Speaker 1: like twenty games in the regular season at the end
Speaker 1: without cost, so we we kind of was starting to
Speaker 1: form our own identity. That we was gonna go into
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and it was weird, like we was a
Speaker 1: two seed, but like every nobody thought we was gonna
Speaker 1: beat the Bucks, like because I was I was team
Speaker 1: and JB was in his second year and we had
Speaker 1: Terry and Smart and move, we had like a bunch
Speaker 1: of like underdogs and things like that, and that really
Speaker 1: like that really like boosted our confidence because we had
Speaker 1: the home court advantage and you know, we were just
Speaker 1: like we we just felt like we had nothing to lose.
Speaker 1: So we we beat the Bucks in seven. So then
Speaker 1: they was like, all right, you know, that was a fluke.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna beat They're not gonna beat Philly, Philly
Speaker 1: just I think Philly beat Miami like four one, you
Speaker 1: know before that. So they was rolling. So they was like,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be Philly. So then we was up.
Speaker 1: We was up on Philly three zero, and then they
Speaker 1: came back and we beat them in five. So now
Speaker 1: we like and like you said, we kind of won
Speaker 1: the world over like just how we was playing, and
Speaker 1: you know, I was leading the team in points. I
Speaker 1: was having like nineteen, but like JV was giving us seventeen,
Speaker 1: Terry was giving us seventeen and Horford and and my
Speaker 1: man Muke was hooping. So we was really playing just
Speaker 1: like free, like we had just nothing. Nobody had nothing
Speaker 1: to lose. We were just going out and playing every
Speaker 1: night and we was having so much fun. We was
Speaker 1: locking up, you know, everybody was it was involved, and
Speaker 1: you know once we played the Calves, yeah, we had
Speaker 1: we could feel it like everybody was rooting for us,
Speaker 1: like everybody, you know, it was like kind of a
Speaker 1: feel good story, like people wanted us to see wanted
Speaker 1: to see us do well, and even you know, to
Speaker 1: take us to take them to Calves of Game seven
Speaker 1: and play against bron like my first year in the league,
Speaker 1: and that's like, that's that's something I'll never forget. Like
Speaker 1: that that really has taught me a lot. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know it really you know, Bill's character and boosted
Speaker 1: you know, my confidence going into you know, you know. Now,
Speaker 1: it was good to see Matt because like I said,
Speaker 1: I was there, but to see two young guys in
Speaker 1: the young team without without Kyrie, it was refreshing to me.
Speaker 1: And it was it was one of my favorite series
Speaker 1: to watch because I was happy to see some young
Speaker 1: guys compete and take that challenge and been thrown on
Speaker 1: the stage at a young age against Lebron. They didn't
Speaker 1: back down. I see someone see so many guys in
Speaker 1: the league that don't take the challenge, that back down.
Speaker 1: But it was good to see two young guys that
Speaker 1: I knew that was from that from that culture. They went.
Speaker 1: Then they stepped up. They didn't win, but I think
Speaker 1: the world was just happy to see some some young
Speaker 1: talent come and compete and see the future getting ready
Speaker 1: to rise in the league. That was That was refreshing
Speaker 1: for me to see Bro. No question, that ship was
Speaker 1: beautiful to watch. Talk to us a little bit about
Speaker 1: that one particular play, you know the dunk, the bump.
Speaker 1: You know that ship was on Sports Center top ten
Speaker 1: what like. You know how I talked to how that dunk.
Speaker 1: You know, I was talked about it and kind of
Speaker 1: change things even no lot to this day, people either
Speaker 1: tag me on Instagram or Twitter, like I see the
Speaker 1: dunk every day since it some how many people straight
Speaker 1: up now it's I gotta listen. I got a post
Speaker 1: of it upstairs in my in my hallway, like my
Speaker 1: mom got a post of it. My pops got one
Speaker 1: in his house. Uh, it was crazy because you know,
Speaker 1: I remember, I remember like it was yesterday. It was
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. It was a low scoring game too,
Speaker 1: so like those teams was kind of struggling a little bit,
Speaker 1: and Brad caught the time out and he like, we're
Speaker 1: settling too much for jumpers, you know, let's let's try
Speaker 1: to get one. Let's try to get to the foul
Speaker 1: and attack the rim. So I remember Smart had the
Speaker 1: ball out comes set a pin down for me and
Speaker 1: he was like, Jay, Tim, you get it. You know,
Speaker 1: attack down here to make a play for yourself or
Speaker 1: somebody else. So I remember I got it, and I
Speaker 1: turned the corner and it's like everything kind of slowed
Speaker 1: down for a second because I've seen Brian. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's like I gotta try to dunk it, because if
Speaker 1: like I didn't think I was on dunk on my mind, like,
Speaker 1: let me just try to dunk it. Hopefully I get
Speaker 1: the foul or something. So I'm like, oh, So like
Speaker 1: the first for like five seconds, everything slowed down and
Speaker 1: as soon as I jumped. As soon as I jumped,
Speaker 1: it was like and then I'm coming down on the
Speaker 1: ground and I don't I don't know why But I
Speaker 1: bumped him and I yelled in his face and I
Speaker 1: remember looked at me. I loved it. He after I
Speaker 1: bumped him, he looked at me like, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: let me get back on defense. That wasn't look though,
Speaker 1: that was to look like, oh oh, this motherfucker is
Speaker 1: for real. That was a look around, how how dare you?
Speaker 1: But there's a look a little bit of respecting that
Speaker 1: look too, like this little motherfucker came to hoot Man
Speaker 1: for sure. And then you know, after that season, he
Speaker 1: gave me one of the you know, the best compliments
Speaker 1: you can get is you know you're built for stardom.
Speaker 1: He saw the star in you obviously throughout the season,
Speaker 1: especially in that in that playoff series, And what did
Speaker 1: that mean to you to kind of be stamped by
Speaker 1: arguably one of the greatest players of all time. He
Speaker 1: gave me the problem M Yeah, like like you said, um,
Speaker 1: you know, when I when I stepped on the floor,
Speaker 1: like I don't, I don't. I never back down from anybody.
Speaker 1: I tell myself like when I step on the floor
Speaker 1: like I'm the best player out here, Like That's how
Speaker 1: I approach it. But like I still I understand like
Speaker 1: Lebron is what he means the basketball and what he
Speaker 1: means the players like myself, and you know, just basketball
Speaker 1: in general, like what he's done so much for the game.
Speaker 1: So to get that, you know, that nod from him,
Speaker 1: it's a big deal. Um, you know, you you you
Speaker 1: appreciate that, you know, just getting recognized. But you said
Speaker 1: one of the one of the greatest. How important was
Speaker 1: the team us say experience to you? That was super important.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I was able to be a part of it. Um.
Speaker 1: I got hurt in our second game, so I didn't
Speaker 1: I didn't get to play. Uh you know the rest
Speaker 1: of the turning we end up we end up losing.
Speaker 1: But really just learning from from Pop Man was like
Speaker 1: that was so beneficial to myself and and I think
Speaker 1: the way I played this this this season honestly, you know,
Speaker 1: he really challenged He challenged me every day in film
Speaker 1: and in practice. And I remember he sat me down
Speaker 1: one day we was in front of the uh was
Speaker 1: in the elevator and we got off the elevator. He
Speaker 1: sat me down there like one of the stools in
Speaker 1: the hallway. He was like, He's like, can I talk
Speaker 1: to you? Like, yeah, Pop and he's like, I want
Speaker 1: to I want to tell you something, and I hope
Speaker 1: you don't get offended. And I don't know what you're
Speaker 1: about to say, because Pop crazy like, here's say whatever
Speaker 1: you want and you say whatever. Hey, Jack knows. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he like, I hope I don't offend you. But he's like,
Speaker 1: you could be. You could be like Kawhi Leonard And
Speaker 1: I said why would I be? I said, why would
Speaker 1: I be offended? Pop? He's like, oh, I'm just making sure.
Speaker 1: He was like a lot of guys think they are
Speaker 1: two way players, but it's only a few guys that
Speaker 1: are actually good enough and able to do it. And
Speaker 1: I feel like you have the capability of being a
Speaker 1: two way, a real two way player in this league.
Speaker 1: And ever since then, he challenged me every day on
Speaker 1: defense and practice, and that kind of carried into this season.
Speaker 1: That's dope. Well, I just thought overall, like you said,
Speaker 1: the experience, the chance for you, Kimba, Jalen and Marcus
Speaker 1: just to all be around that kind of coaching staff
Speaker 1: and other stars was gonna pay dividends. Because you know,
Speaker 1: Kimba's still young, but you know, especially that your your
Speaker 1: young core just get just rubbing off, you know, rubbing
Speaker 1: you know, being around great coaches, being having that experience,
Speaker 1: and then the confidence is gonna carry over into the
Speaker 1: next season. And I think you touched on that. Um
Speaker 1: in February, you average thirty per game, becoming only the
Speaker 1: fifth self behind some classic names have the check Bird,
Speaker 1: Pierced Isaiah Thomas, you being five. What goes through your
Speaker 1: head when you hear those names and knowing you have
Speaker 1: a place in Celtics history. Uh, that was I mean
Speaker 1: that it kind of like shocked me. You know when
Speaker 1: you when you put those those names up there, those
Speaker 1: are you know, some of the greatest. And even I
Speaker 1: t when he was here for those two years, he
Speaker 1: was he was an animal. Um. But you know I
Speaker 1: was just I was just in a groove. I remember
Speaker 1: it kind of like the switch kind of click for
Speaker 1: me when once I felt when I once I found
Speaker 1: out I made the All Star Game. Um, it was
Speaker 1: like it was like some pressure was was relieved because
Speaker 1: coming into the season, that was like that was my
Speaker 1: main focus was making an All Star Game because I
Speaker 1: didn't make it my second year, and you know a
Speaker 1: lot of people were you know, doubt me in and
Speaker 1: count me out and I felt like this was kind
Speaker 1: of like my my my last chance to like, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of show people like I'm still you know, I'm
Speaker 1: still able and capable to do what I do. So
Speaker 1: making making an off star game was such a big
Speaker 1: deal for me, and I was I was like pressing,
Speaker 1: and it was like messing with me mentally this season.
Speaker 1: You know, if I had a bad game, I'd be sick, like, damn,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make it. But then I have a
Speaker 1: good game. All right, I think I'm gonna make it.
Speaker 1: But once I found out I made it, it was
Speaker 1: just like all right, like let's hoop now. And then
Speaker 1: you know, I think from that point I was averaging
Speaker 1: like thirty thirty something like that. Your mind's got to
Speaker 1: be free. It's a beautiful thing. Talk to us a
Speaker 1: little bit about, like you said, so a successful obviously
Speaker 1: rookie season to run. You guys had the playoff front.
Speaker 1: You have take a step back that second year there's
Speaker 1: the here, there's chemistry issues, and here Kyrie is the problem.
Speaker 1: Me here there's no ball moving you hear a whole
Speaker 1: a bunch of things. What was the difference between that
Speaker 1: second year team in the third year team now where
Speaker 1: you're flourishing as All Star. The chemistry seemed to be
Speaker 1: back on track. Um, what changed? You know, outside of
Speaker 1: changing you know Kyrie, Kyrie and Kimba, who are similar
Speaker 1: players to us sense you know from the outside looking in.
Speaker 1: But what has been the big difference and why are
Speaker 1: you guys back to the chemistry we saw as fans
Speaker 1: your your rookie year. Uh. I think there was a
Speaker 1: lot of things that I think played a part of that.
Speaker 1: My my second year, Like you said, we had that group,
Speaker 1: that young group. You know, we we we almost get
Speaker 1: like a couple of stops away from getting to the championship.
Speaker 1: So it's like we we had a big summer, you know,
Speaker 1: guys are we're filling ourselves. We're excited. We were ready
Speaker 1: to take that next jump. I think, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm ready to be an All Star in my second year.
Speaker 1: But now we got Gordon and Cole coming back, and
Speaker 1: like we we everybody, but we all had good guys,
Speaker 1: Like everybody got along, you know, we we like being
Speaker 1: around each other. But I think it was just like
Speaker 1: everybody had kind of like personal goals, which is not wrong. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we we all were a fault to some degree.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't play great, JB. You know, nobody
Speaker 1: played as good as they wanted, and then we weren't winning,
Speaker 1: So that had it like that affected us as well.
Speaker 1: I remember the first twenty games, we was ten and ten,
Speaker 1: and everybody thought we was gonna have a best record
Speaker 1: in the in the league, and like we we just
Speaker 1: weren't consistent. We have like a stretch where we like
Speaker 1: we're winning five or six in a row, but then
Speaker 1: we'll go one and one in six and I think
Speaker 1: we just it just we just couldn't figure it out.
Speaker 1: And you know, coming in this third year, we lost
Speaker 1: like six or seven guys, and basically the message coming
Speaker 1: into this season was like last year, like let's just
Speaker 1: forget about it. Like last year happened. Um, we can
Speaker 1: learn a lot from it individually and as a team,
Speaker 1: but like, let's just forget about it. We can't change
Speaker 1: what happened, so let's just focus on this year and
Speaker 1: try not to make the same mistakes we did last season.
Speaker 1: And I think we've been doing a pretty good job
Speaker 1: of that, uh so far. So I mean I really
Speaker 1: felt you guys were coming on strong, especially chemistry Rise
Speaker 1: Jack and I both know being able to be on
Speaker 1: championship teams. Chemistry is it is and you really fear
Speaker 1: see and feel like you guys are having fun out there.
Speaker 1: You and JB. You're going back and forth doing your thing.
Speaker 1: Kai does this? Excuse me, Kimba was doing this thing.
Speaker 1: Gordon's getting his footing back under him. You guys are
Speaker 1: playing really well. You know you were to me, you
Speaker 1: guys are not necess the surprise team of the East
Speaker 1: because we know how good and talented you guys were,
Speaker 1: but just coming off that second season, we're just like, well,
Speaker 1: what team are we gonna get? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So you guys are proving in that second half of
Speaker 1: the season man, that you guys are definitely a team
Speaker 1: to be reckoned with. And I was looking forward to
Speaker 1: this playoff from what are your thoughts and how optimistic
Speaker 1: are you about us? Or excuse me, you guys returning
Speaker 1: to the court this season. To be honest, now, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know. It's like one week you hear
Speaker 1: one thing and then the next week you hear something else.
Speaker 1: So I honestly, I don't know. I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like it may be tough to come back. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, so many obstacles and variables that you got
Speaker 1: to put in place and work things out. And you know,
Speaker 1: and I hear like plans, uh plan without fans, Like
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: probably don't know. I don't want to do that because
Speaker 1: I just think that's you lose a lot of the
Speaker 1: passion for the game. And like that's kind of who
Speaker 1: we played for. We played for the fans. We play
Speaker 1: the game energy energy, We feed off of that. So
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, they got people that's gonna try
Speaker 1: to figure it out one way or another. But to
Speaker 1: be honest, man, at this point, I don't know what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. You and Kyrie got a good got a
Speaker 1: good Duke connection, you know, y'all big y'all been brothers.
Speaker 1: What was it like playing with him in Boston and
Speaker 1: now now with him being in Brooklyn. Uh yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's like my big brother. Um obviously the Duke connection.
Speaker 1: And I joked with him all the time he only
Speaker 1: played nine games at Duke, So I like, bro, you
Speaker 1: really didn't what you play, You only what you only
Speaker 1: play you only played, y'all. Both was in and out
Speaker 1: that motherfucker though, But yeah, I'm playing with uh. You know,
Speaker 1: we have to say at the same time, we have
Speaker 1: the same agent. And then you know, playing two years
Speaker 1: with him, Um, you know it, like especially my first year,
Speaker 1: Like I don't people, I don't care, like people might
Speaker 1: think he crazy, but Kai got he got game, like
Speaker 1: he wanted the He one of the most skilled basketball players.
Speaker 1: Like however, like me me getting to see it, especially
Speaker 1: my first year, it's it's a difference being on the
Speaker 1: court with him and seeing it and every day every
Speaker 1: game and then practice, like just some of the things
Speaker 1: he did with the ball, it was just like mind
Speaker 1: boggling to me. And the way he was able to
Speaker 1: finish like he he like he's special. Uh, and he's
Speaker 1: one of the he one of the best players. I've
Speaker 1: got this was able to see and in person and
Speaker 1: play with and you know, his descision to go to
Speaker 1: Brooklyn obviously, I mean a lot of people was mad
Speaker 1: and things like that. But you know, us as basketball players,
Speaker 1: we understand like once you get to a certain level
Speaker 1: and a certain point in your career, like you've earned
Speaker 1: the right to make the decision on what makes you
Speaker 1: happy and what you want to do so I was,
Speaker 1: I mean I was. I was happy for him. You
Speaker 1: know that's he wanted to go back home and be
Speaker 1: close to his family and played, you know, something he
Speaker 1: dreamed about. I think everybody should have the opportunity because
Speaker 1: you know, you know, you can get traded in a
Speaker 1: blink of eye, and and you know, nobody getting mad
Speaker 1: at the organization, but you know everybody pointed the finger
Speaker 1: when somebody wants to go do what makes them happen. Facts. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's the it's the business when you're traded, cut waved,
Speaker 1: But you're a bad guy when you take your happiness
Speaker 1: and freedom into your own hands as a cold game.
Speaker 1: Your first All Star appearance, you you you spoke on
Speaker 1: how nerve wracking it was being up to that, you know,
Speaker 1: leading up to that time you're named an All Star.
Speaker 1: Talk to us about what that was like, and you
Speaker 1: know what kind of the ex heale you took, like ship,
Speaker 1: I'm here now, I was supposed to be here possibly
Speaker 1: last year, but I'm here now. Tell us what that
Speaker 1: was like. Man also was Uh, it's a great experience.
Speaker 1: I was there my first two years with the rookie
Speaker 1: and sophomore game. But it's a different vibe. It's a
Speaker 1: different like I had a different walk about myself this time.
Speaker 1: I was like I'm an All Star now, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we've seen it, straight up, straight up. I had a
Speaker 1: different walk. And I remember the best part about it
Speaker 1: was Sunday during when we got to the game and
Speaker 1: I walked in the locker room and like I got
Speaker 1: to see my jersey and that it was just like like, man,
Speaker 1: like this is what you dreamed about, Like you, I
Speaker 1: finally made it. And I looked at my left lebron
Speaker 1: locker next to me and Chris Paul and Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: and James Harden and Dame Lillard and and Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: you know, all guys that like when I was in
Speaker 1: middle school and high school watching these guys playing. Now
Speaker 1: we're on the same team. I think that's the coolest
Speaker 1: part about being an All Star, Like getting the opportunity
Speaker 1: to maybe whether it's three or five minutes you in
Speaker 1: the game and it's not really meaningful, but just being
Speaker 1: able to be on the court with like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm on the court with Kauai and Chris Paul, you know,
Speaker 1: just being able to play with different guys that you
Speaker 1: know you may not never get to play with uh
Speaker 1: it was was it was incredible. Espec see the way
Speaker 1: that the the format change this year. You know, the last
Speaker 1: couple of minutes of the game was it was crazy
Speaker 1: and I loved. I love the way they did that,
Speaker 1: and uh it was it was in trouble for the
Speaker 1: players and indroable for the fans and everybody watching. So
Speaker 1: you know, I think the nybody did a great job
Speaker 1: with that. Okay, from the All Star Game to a
Speaker 1: regular season or just period. What's the toughest player you
Speaker 1: like to battle with? The toughest player? Uh uh, it's
Speaker 1: it's either like Kauai, Mellow, Paul George. I would say
Speaker 1: Katie was hurt this year. So so it'll be between
Speaker 1: those three because those are all three guys like I like,
Speaker 1: we'll watch film on the high school and you know,
Speaker 1: study their moves and not get to play against me.
Speaker 1: You know, Mellow is a little bit older, but you
Speaker 1: know with Paul George and Kauai being on the same team,
Speaker 1: and especially like Kauai Kauai, he like he he that Dealey.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's not flashy, but he gets the job done.
Speaker 1: So I always like watching him and you know how
Speaker 1: hard he compete on both ends. Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: like watching the Clippers play when I'm not playing. What
Speaker 1: was it like to be able to drop Paul George
Speaker 1: on that move and then still hit the shot. It's
Speaker 1: one of the better defenders in the game. You hit
Speaker 1: him with the old that old move got him and
Speaker 1: then we're still able to knock down the shot. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it was. It was crazy. PG is somebody that you know,
Speaker 1: obviously I looked up to and kind of built a
Speaker 1: relationship with. You know, since I was in college. I
Speaker 1: talked to from time to time, and you know, I
Speaker 1: just remember getting him off that switch, and I mean
Speaker 1: we got tangled up a little bit, so you know,
Speaker 1: he probably stepped on my foot or something. But you know,
Speaker 1: just as he failed, and then it was like I
Speaker 1: gathered myself. I'm like, man, you gotta hit this then,
Speaker 1: but I couldn't celebrate because we it was tied, so
Speaker 1: I just play. It was a hell of a game,
Speaker 1: feel like now, it was a good game. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: a hell of a game. Talk to me a little
Speaker 1: bit about because I see the joy and the pride
Speaker 1: you're taken in in fatherhood and becoming a star simultaneously,
Speaker 1: you know, you bring your son around a lot. Talk
Speaker 1: to us about what that balance is like and how
Speaker 1: rewarding being a father is to you. Yeah, it's it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's don't like anything I thought it was gonna be.
Speaker 1: You know, I knew I was gonna have I found
Speaker 1: out I was gonna have a kid like the end
Speaker 1: of the last month or two of college. Um, so
Speaker 1: it was I was. I was nineteen at the time.
Speaker 1: So I moved to Boston, moved my my family out here,
Speaker 1: and I got drafted. So it's like everything just kind
Speaker 1: of like my words got turned upside down like and
Speaker 1: all in the span of six months. And I remember
Speaker 1: I was so nervous because it was like I was
Speaker 1: so I was so like worried and concentrated, like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be like I'm gonna be one of the best.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a star, like I'm not gonna let
Speaker 1: nothing get in that way. But now it's now it's
Speaker 1: like I gotta I got a son, and I want
Speaker 1: to be the best father I can be. So it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, I look at it as a challenge like
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna do both, Like I'm gonna be one
Speaker 1: of the best in the league, and I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna be there with him every step
Speaker 1: of the way. And it's it's been a joy. I mean,
Speaker 1: I got help. You know, his mom is up here,
Speaker 1: and my mom helps me out a lot, obviously with traveling.
Speaker 1: But you know, any chance I get, I'm always with him.
Speaker 1: And you know, I take more pride and being a
Speaker 1: father than I do playing being a basketball player. So
Speaker 1: there's nothing like it that the joy is is incredible.
Speaker 1: So we salute you, man. We we both all got
Speaker 1: kids and know that feeling. Man, but we can see
Speaker 1: it in your face, in your eyes when you bring
Speaker 1: him around and and and really kind of show him out.
Speaker 1: And I think that's dope. Man. Music today, it's just
Speaker 1: going to music. What's you listen to nowadays? And there
Speaker 1: in the artists a song gonna repeat right now. I
Speaker 1: got like my I got my favorite, like the people
Speaker 1: who are my favorite. But I listen to everybody, so
Speaker 1: it's like whatever is new, like the baby got some
Speaker 1: new little baby, um a boogie. You know, I always
Speaker 1: listened to you know, what's what's latest, So I'm always
Speaker 1: a fan of that. But I still got the guys,
Speaker 1: that's like my favorite. You know who who is? Just
Speaker 1: you know that? List on? Stay there? Who's your goal to?
Speaker 1: Who's your favorites? Who's your top five? You're starting five
Speaker 1: in the rap game, like my start my my five?
Speaker 1: All right? Hold Hold is the HOVI is the he
Speaker 1: the greatest, Hove is he is? He's a goat. I
Speaker 1: got drinking number two. I think Drake my favorite, but Hold,
Speaker 1: I thought I got Hold is the great So I
Speaker 1: got hold Drake. I got little Wayne Wayne Them three
Speaker 1: is goats. Wayne is Wayne is number three? Mm hmmm,
Speaker 1: uh way his money? Yeah Wayne, he he did. He
Speaker 1: would go to them three Biggie biggie number four. Uh,
Speaker 1: I mean I thought, I thought Nelly and that nearly
Speaker 1: number five. He got to Man, you got mad at
Speaker 1: that number five? Country Grandma. Yeah, he puts Come on, man,
Speaker 1: he put y'all on the map for real. Get the
Speaker 1: stomping in the air force once many rappers Diamond, not many.
Speaker 1: He definitely want of him. If any rapper could name
Speaker 1: drop you on the song, what rapper would you want
Speaker 1: that to be? Just one? Mm hmmm who? Because you know,
Speaker 1: because you know whatever you say now not since as
Speaker 1: you say it on here. It's gonna happen. I know
Speaker 1: you can if you want to, you can give us
Speaker 1: two if you want it. You can't just give it
Speaker 1: to I'm I'm not gonna say hold. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say hold because he don't really like make music like that.
Speaker 1: No more so I'm not gonna say hold mm hmmm. Not.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna say Drake neither out for for real.
Speaker 1: If if Little Wayne or Yo Gotti, if Little Wayne
Speaker 1: and Yo gotta said my name in the song because
Speaker 1: my favorites too, so as much as much as Little
Speaker 1: Wayne watched basketball, trust me, it's coming. I need one
Speaker 1: of the next the next mixtapes, Dedication seven or something.
Speaker 1: I need. I need to hear my name. Yeah straight uh.
Speaker 1: You you joked that you got a top five hairline
Speaker 1: in the game back in my day, Like I sound
Speaker 1: the oldest fun I was. You was leading boy, My
Speaker 1: ship was Chris Bonny. It was your top three hair
Speaker 1: lines in the game right now. No, yeah, Matt, you
Speaker 1: was fresh. Yeah we got a hole down, but you
Speaker 1: got like a no bullshit. You gotta like that picture
Speaker 1: perfect hairline though, like your ship is perfect in the
Speaker 1: front and then the drop down in the hooks like,
Speaker 1: I definitely admired your ship. You know, I'll be looking
Speaker 1: at the hairlines like a motherfucker. You gotta got nice
Speaker 1: crispy one. Sure, I got my head all right now,
Speaker 1: she looks crazy right now, I got I gotta mother beano.
Speaker 1: I feel you top top three hairlines myself. Who else
Speaker 1: be fresh? PG? I get it, the PG got you
Speaker 1: gotta seek that sick hairline, the third one, the third one.
Speaker 1: It could be. I ain't gonna lie. Uh. What's my
Speaker 1: man name, fred Fred van Fleet? He keep he keep
Speaker 1: a fresh cut. I peep that. Yeah, I think it's no,
Speaker 1: it's no disrespect to people your complexion, Jack, because sometimes
Speaker 1: we couldn't see the hair on your head. But I
Speaker 1: think when your light skinned with that, I was live
Speaker 1: that when you can see it, you can see hey.
Speaker 1: But that was the one thing, one thing that used
Speaker 1: to funck me up, Jack. And sometimes we couldn't see
Speaker 1: your hair, Like no, your tattoos. I'm like, damn, I
Speaker 1: know the motherfucker's testoo, suff you can't even see them.
Speaker 1: You got some tattoos. The wady could even see them.
Speaker 1: Business all right, man, we're going, we're coming coming down
Speaker 1: the home stretch. We're gonna go into quick hitters. Go
Speaker 1: ahead and start him off. Jack All right, quick kids. Okay,
Speaker 1: now listen before I ask you this question. Your answer.
Speaker 1: If you know or have are connected to the answer
Speaker 1: of this question, you have to plug us and make
Speaker 1: sure what happens. Who would you like to see as
Speaker 1: a guest on our show? As a guest on our show,
Speaker 1: guests on your show, you don't have to be a
Speaker 1: basketball player. No, anybody, No, not at all, anybody I've
Speaker 1: seen my favorite My favorite show so far was KG.
Speaker 1: KG was my favorite one so far. But if I
Speaker 1: could pick somebody, probably that's a tough one. I know, right,
Speaker 1: that's a tough one. Meek Meal, maybe Nick Melill be nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we need to have meek on Hill to talk to
Speaker 1: me about two great call Ya had Denzil on here?
Speaker 1: No ship we wish? Yeah, that's probably not that easy,
Speaker 1: but Denzil that would be dope as hell. Most of
Speaker 1: most most underrated player in the league. He said he
Speaker 1: didn't know neither one of them. He can't hook him
Speaker 1: up with either, one of most underrated player in the league.
Speaker 1: In your opinion, I might be biased, but I think
Speaker 1: I think Brad Bill might be one of the most
Speaker 1: underrated players. Like he averaged thirty one this season and
Speaker 1: he didn't make the Austar game. Yeah, Like I feel
Speaker 1: like if he's probably if he was in a bigger market,
Speaker 1: you know that he would be on ESPN more. But
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is like real basketball fans,
Speaker 1: you know, they know and they know like how good
Speaker 1: he is. But I think he needs more. He needs
Speaker 1: more attention because he's killing killer player with them with
Speaker 1: the most swag. What player has the most swag to
Speaker 1: you off the courter on the court total this period period?
Speaker 1: I ain't my man, my man trow Terry Terry rose
Speaker 1: Yer out there in Charlotte rose Yeah, yeah, hut. And
Speaker 1: he shows you currently binge watching. I've been trying to
Speaker 1: watch that a little bit. I was. It starts off slow.
Speaker 1: It's just starts stick with it, stick with it. It
Speaker 1: starts slow. But that should get going crazy, bro crazy.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm a big I'm a big power guy.
Speaker 1: Power was my shop, great show favorite Quarantine, Snacks a
Speaker 1: race race, Crispy, treat them and them good old honey buns.
Speaker 1: The honey buns go wrong and put them bars in
Speaker 1: the micro You don't look, man, you don't take them.
Speaker 1: You don't take them out the plastic. What you do
Speaker 1: is you open the top part and you leave it
Speaker 1: in the plasts, and you put the whole thing in
Speaker 1: the microwave. You're feeling me. You put the whole thing
Speaker 1: in the microwave by fifteen By fifteen seconds made, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, fifteen seconds. It's over with, It's over Oh jack, Jack,
Speaker 1: you're talking to a fellow stone bro. You don't think
Speaker 1: I know how to heat up a motherfucking honey bun.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, man, I had to to red to
Speaker 1: reenact because it took me the when he said, honey,
Speaker 1: but I went there almost them is fired. Uh. Favorite
Speaker 1: retro jersey, the old school magic Joint with the strike
Speaker 1: with the black joints. The Black Ship was hard shocking
Speaker 1: Penny days. I hope Penny centers that one too. Um
Speaker 1: you have if you can get court side seats to
Speaker 1: any game and any time in any era, what game
Speaker 1: would it be? Oh? Uh, courtside to two thousand one?
Speaker 1: When when when when a I played? When they played
Speaker 1: the Lake Lakers and step stepped over to loo then
Speaker 1: went in to stole that game. That was the only
Speaker 1: game the Lakers lost in the playoffs that year. That
Speaker 1: give me your top five in the game in the
Speaker 1: history of the game, in the history yep, Mike, Mike, Mike,
Speaker 1: Brian Kobe, Mike, Kobe Bryant, like they two and three,
Speaker 1: whatever way you want to put it. Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: tough because it's like I I didn't see Bill Russell player.
Speaker 1: I didn't see what Chamberlain, I didn't see Larry Bird. No,
Speaker 1: go with want you to go with what you know.
Speaker 1: We feel the same way about something the older wy
Speaker 1: we we feel that because so go with what you
Speaker 1: know him? No, I respect him, I just didn't see
Speaker 1: him play. So Magic Johnson and number four and then
Speaker 1: the third for the fifth spot is between Sat Kareem
Speaker 1: and KD for real, he might be in the top
Speaker 1: five already. Katie is a killer, and I think people
Speaker 1: take they take his talent for granted and may like
Speaker 1: not like something about him so they don't give them
Speaker 1: to do. Just as far as his game on the quarter,
Speaker 1: but this game on the court is second to none. Second,
Speaker 1: when he stepped on that when he when he lays
Speaker 1: him up, he he he laces him, he laces them.
Speaker 1: Hold you better have your shoes on tight. All right,
Speaker 1: this is a final segment of the show. It's Stephen
Speaker 1: Jesse Jackson's begging segment. Jack take it away. Yes, I'll
Speaker 1: take it away. So therefore we just talked about how
Speaker 1: I was rudely and abruptly booted from the Jordan family.
Speaker 1: Shout out to my BOI. They still showing me just
Speaker 1: that's just stort me love because Mike. You know, Mike
Speaker 1: understands that I the first person to get his team,
Speaker 1: his organization to the playoffs. Nothing about me, though, Um
Speaker 1: you got I needed. I needed Jersey brod. Could I
Speaker 1: get some Green Player exclusives shoes from you? Bro? I
Speaker 1: know you got. I know you got some green with
Speaker 1: I keep find the green was nowhere, the ones you
Speaker 1: play in, the ones I'm play in. Yeah, I can
Speaker 1: do that. You love. That's love. Appreciate easy, that's easy.
Speaker 1: That's easy love. And I'm gonna hit you up for
Speaker 1: some kids shoes. That's all I want. I don't want
Speaker 1: nothing for me, all right, man. That's around bro. Thanks Bro,
Speaker 1: Jason sator Man, we appreciate you. Thank you for taking
Speaker 1: some time with us. Man. Best of luck if the
Speaker 1: season comes back. Uh, stay healthy, Uh you know, keep
Speaker 1: being a great dad and keep doing your thing. Man.
Speaker 1: We appreciate your time today. Pick up, pick out right
Speaker 1: when you live out, bro, you say, I got keep
Speaker 1: holding it down for the light skins with the good hairline.
Speaker 1: See my love. That's a wrap, Jack the show, good
Speaker 1: day to day stack, good job, my boy. That's a wrap.
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