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Speaker 1: Up. This is Michael Rapport. You are now listening to

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Speaker 1: the I M Rapp Reports Stereo Podcast. On today's I

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Speaker 1: Am Rapp Reports Stereo Podcast, we have some fantastic six

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Speaker 1: fucks of the week. Lebron blames updates and Starbucks is

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Speaker 1: not just a coffee place anymore, It's a fucking public bathroom.

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Speaker 1: Plus special guest. We are rebuilding the Beast with Golden

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Speaker 1: State Warrior World champion Festus a Zeally. He's rocking with

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Speaker 1: me on the Iron Rapp Reports Stereo Podcast. We're talking

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Speaker 1: about cadaver surgery. We're talking about graduating high school at fourteen,

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Speaker 1: coming to the United States from Nigeria, being six ft

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Speaker 1: wind up getting drafted by the Golden State Warriors. A

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Speaker 1: couple of years after that, he's an NBA champion. This

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Speaker 1: guy's life should be a movie. Festus a Zeally is

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Speaker 1: rocking with me on the Iron Rapp Reports Stereo Podcast.

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Speaker 1: We are rebuilding the Beast with Festus, But first me

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Speaker 1: and g Moody got a whole bunch of ships to

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Speaker 1: talk about. We're ranting, We're raving Miles Jordan's I need

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Speaker 1: something funky I need something lovely. I'm hyped up. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. That's something funky. See Iron

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Speaker 1: Reports Stereo Podcast coming live and direct. My name is

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Speaker 1: Michael Rapport a K. The Gringo Man Dingo a K.

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Speaker 1: The Jake La Matta of podcasting. You are now rocking

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Speaker 1: with the best. I'm here with the three time podcast

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Speaker 1: co host of the Year. The man name is g Moody.

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Speaker 1: His last name rhymes with duty. Yeah, Gimo, Nettie always ready. Um,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Iron rapp Reports Stereo podcast, the home

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Speaker 1: of disruptive behavior and the anti social network. UM. How

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Speaker 1: are you, Mr Moody. I'm good. Everything's good, looking, looking, good,

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Speaker 1: feeling good. Everything gets good man, I can't complain. Okay, UM,

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Speaker 1: that's fantastic. As I told you earlier on the show,

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Speaker 1: today we have world champion from the Golden State Warriors,

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Speaker 1: festus A Zili. Uh. This is one of the most

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Speaker 1: bugged out interviews. Festis Zili played on the Golden State

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Speaker 1: to Lebron James the famous three to one series. UM

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Speaker 1: and he's got a bugged out story. The dude came

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Speaker 1: totally fish out of water story. Um, five years later,

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Speaker 1: a bugged out story. So we are rebuilding the Beast

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Speaker 1: and getting the full Festus a Zeally later on in

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Speaker 1: the Iron Wrap por Stereo podcast, anybody who could talk

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Speaker 1: about the the the pain and suffering of Lebron, James

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Speaker 1: festus Azeally breaks it all down because he was there

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Speaker 1: when they kicked his ass and he was there when

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Speaker 1: out interview, not just about Lebron but his story. I

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Speaker 1: swear to God it should actually be a movie. Like

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Speaker 1: coming from Nigeria being this he talks about it. I

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Speaker 1: He talks about being a big black fourteen year old

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Speaker 1: um So, Mr Moody, you made yet another completely bogus prediction.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how long people can still refer to

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Speaker 1: no they don't. They don't do it in in all

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Speaker 1: was the last time you were right? Yeah? I didn't

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Speaker 1: make too many predictions. Uh after that? Right now, the

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Speaker 1: Um that you made a prediction and it wasn't just

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Speaker 1: you to go on the train, the subway and scream

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Speaker 1: aloud and I quote I love the I Am Rappaport

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Speaker 1: three times I love, I love, and then I fucking love.

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Speaker 1: So now you have to go on the train and

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Speaker 1: and basically, uh speak your truth, but scare and and

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Speaker 1: essentially embarrass yourself because because because because of another bogus

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Speaker 1: I will give you the floor, a few days ago,

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Speaker 1: you predicted that Lebron Blames, Lebron Blames and his Cleveland

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Speaker 1: know that that that didn't happen Game one. They got

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Speaker 1: the snot beating out of them, they got the ship

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Speaker 1: beating out of them. Now I've learned that it's only

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Speaker 1: it's all about that. No nothing from you right now,

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Speaker 1: my friend. Please, you will get the fucking microphone. I

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Speaker 1: will turn my Michael if you could talk about it.

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Speaker 1: You said that they would get swept. They're not getting swept.

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Speaker 1: They're not getting swept. I am not gonna say that

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Speaker 1: Boston's gonna win this series. I'm not gonna say that yet.

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Speaker 1: I was burned many times. You buy this. Fuck you

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Speaker 1: don't got no balls. If you're so, I don't got

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Speaker 1: no ball. It's that's what these balls another thing to

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Speaker 1: You you're fucking balls. Where are your fucking bulls? I

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Speaker 1: always say, I always come out with it. You like Boston,

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Speaker 1: statue of limitations ran out for that first bet. No,

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Speaker 1: it didn't suck you. They made the playoffs. It's a

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Speaker 1: playoff time. You gotta make that video. You made your

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Speaker 1: fucking dunk video, and that caused the whole uproar. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna say, and I quote I love the Iron Rapp

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Speaker 1: I fucking love the Iron Rapp Reports Stereo podcast because

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Speaker 1: the first two probably won't get that much attention. But

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Speaker 1: when you curse loudly on a train, people are gonna say, whoa,

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Speaker 1: we gotta fucking nut shop, and then you could creep

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Speaker 1: off the train, and that the end the for and

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Speaker 1: any further humiliation. All right, So you pick it, Boston.

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Speaker 1: You you you rode with him? Yes, why why can't

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Speaker 1: you just ride and say? Yo? I got them to

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Speaker 1: win it? And I said, a sweep. But when you

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Speaker 1: that's a gentleman sweep. So we're still we're still rocking

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Speaker 1: with Mi amigo, Mi amigo and I am I am

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Speaker 1: I know what a gentleman sweep is. I was the

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Speaker 1: not forget I was that guy. I was that guy.

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Speaker 1: you fuck You're not allowed to bring your broom in, right?

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this Thursday the seventeen. Make sure you

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Speaker 1: bringing a dust buster, I'm bringing all that ship. Because

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Speaker 1: that's soft ship. Why don't you come out with it?

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, I'm gonna come out and with it. Boston

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Speaker 1: is gonna beat the fucking Cavaliers. Okay, they might sweep

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Speaker 1: These are just other great athletes. He's out of that.

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Speaker 1: So that Barry Bonds, that Ben Johnson, yod the dude.

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Speaker 1: They win in another game. Man. So so you're okay

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Speaker 1: because because Wednesday, we don't you know what? Okay, here

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Speaker 1: and G Moody Gerald. You fuck, I'm telling you I

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Speaker 1: am going to be in your ass. No Bruno, I

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Speaker 1: this and I don't give a funk. Would nobody say

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Speaker 1: you straddle the fits? Oh they might win one and

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Speaker 1: is True Romance. You know who happened to be in

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Speaker 1: True Roman Me? You fuck you me, yo? But Homeboy

419
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Speaker 1: through me for a loop with that ship home. Homeboy

420
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Speaker 1: at that Starbucks getting galvanized because he know, yes, yo,

421
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Speaker 1: they put that company in a retreat. It's the race mafia.

422
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Speaker 1: Money was in there acting like I don't want someone

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Speaker 1: to throw me out. I'm looking for this smawsuit. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's that's the new hustle. Because I don't care if

425
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Speaker 1: he's white or black. Home Boy who was in there

426
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Speaker 1: like talking loud, He's face timing, screaming, yelling, yeah, get

427
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Speaker 1: the funk up out of here, dude. See, that's how

428
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:44,639
Speaker 1: you're supposed to deal with it. And no matter what

429
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Speaker 1: color you are, White, Black, Asian, Chinese, fucking Puerto Rican, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Australian.

430
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Speaker 1: You in here talking loud, face face timing, like this

431
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Speaker 1: is your house. Get the funk up out of here,

432
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Speaker 1: a duke, You're just you're disturbing customers. What would I

433
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Speaker 1: yellow say to him? Hey, you cook sucker. Hey, So

434
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to drink my fucking Vanilla Lottey and you're

435
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Speaker 1: over there screaming and yelling. Did you buy a coffee?

436
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Speaker 1: Don't worry, I got my fucking lot they did you

437
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,440
Speaker 1: buy a fucking coffee? They? Get the funk outta here.

438
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,160
Speaker 1: I don't know the fucking joke. I don't give a fuck.

439
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: You're disrupting me and everybody else. I'll buy you a

440
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: fucking bulberry muffin. Get the funk outta here, exactly. I

441
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 1: want to put this out in the zeitgeist. I did

442
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Speaker 1: a podcast with Ben Bohler, It's Coming Up Dope podcast,

443
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: and he asked me, point blank, why isn't the Iron

444
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Speaker 1: Wrapp Reports stereo podcast sponsored by a cough drop? If

445
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: anybody should be the sponsor of a cough drop, and

446
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: if and if anybody wants to test drive a cough

447
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: drop to see, Oh well, I make the best cough

448
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 1: drop in the world. And to prove it, I gave

449
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: Michael Rappaport a cough drop for a week and boom,

450
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: his cough disappeared. I mean, it sounds like an off

451
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: the beaten path sponsorship, but I mean I am Rapports

452
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Speaker 1: stereo podcast cough drops. If somebody has a cough drop

453
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Speaker 1: that can cure this cough, the cough of life, there'll

454
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Speaker 1: be a billionaire. Looten's Where you at Looten's Where you

455
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Speaker 1: at Looten's. Um totally agree with you on that Moody totally,

456
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 1: and and really I think that is some bullshit across

457
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Speaker 1: the board. Uh. And I think that you know, a

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Speaker 1: public uh, you want to use a public bathroom, it

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00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 1: should be a public bathroom. But in my opinion, listen,

460
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Speaker 1: there's other places to go. No disrespect to the less fortunate,

461
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: no disrespect to the homeless, But Starbucks is a place

462
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Speaker 1: of business. It's not a fucking public bathroom. It's not

463
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Speaker 1: a place you're coming in and brush your hand. It's

464
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 1: not a pace you're coming and clip your toenails and

465
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 1: all that other ship. Hey, that's what I say. And

466
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,400
Speaker 1: you see how they presented it as race. But it

467
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,120
Speaker 1: wasn't about that, you see, and got people all up

468
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Speaker 1: in arms and all that. I knew what it was

469
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: about bathroom, and they make it seem like, oh, black

470
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Speaker 1: people can't We're sitting there and and and and they

471
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Speaker 1: called the cops on us because we're black. Get the

472
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 1: funk out of here. It was about the bathroom heads

473
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Speaker 1: the policy changing. Oh that that's in response to, Uh,

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Speaker 1: this is what we're gonna do. We're gonna open up

475
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Speaker 1: the bathroom. You didn't say it was about the bathroom.

476
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 1: This was another thing that got me robbed up. And

477
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: I can only do so much. I can only I

478
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: can only amp it up so much, moody, you know

479
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Speaker 1: what I mean, Like I I blow a fucking gasket

480
00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: doing this ship. Okay, um. But the other day I

481
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: saw this was all over the news. There was a

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Speaker 1: quote unquote sex expert. Oh she quote unquote sexual sexuality expert.

483
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Speaker 1: Not sex, but but like on sexuality. And this is

484
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Speaker 1: just I don't know how you get. I don't know

485
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Speaker 1: if this is it's just a woman had a degree

486
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Speaker 1: or not. But she was on some show. Her name

487
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: is Dianne Carson, and she she was saying in a

488
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Speaker 1: way to like have boys and little girls. Uh, respect

489
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Speaker 1: boundaries and all that and all that stuff. I agree

490
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Speaker 1: with you know, obviously, you know we need to teach

491
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Speaker 1: these things at home. But she was suggesting this sexuality

492
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Speaker 1: expert who may or may not even have kids herself.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if this woman has kids herself, Deane Carson,

494
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Speaker 1: she I don't. I have no idea. I have no idea.

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Speaker 1: I that's not the point. But the point is that

496
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Speaker 1: if she had kids, she couldn't make this outrageous suggestion

497
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Speaker 1: that it parents starting immediately fresh out of the hospital

498
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Speaker 1: with a three day old, one year old, two year old,

499
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Speaker 1: six month old, nineteen month old whatever, should ask their

500
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Speaker 1: kids with their ship diaper, with their diarrhea diaper, with

501
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: their piss diaper. Do you remember when your kids little,

502
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 1: how many diapers you change a day? You're you're you're

503
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: a diaper changing shit changing machine. Any parent who's changed diapers,

504
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Speaker 1: any aunt, any grandparent, any babysitter who has changed little

505
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Speaker 1: kids diapers has gotten shot on and pissed on right

506
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Speaker 1: in their face. Now. I don't have little girls. I

507
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Speaker 1: had little boys. I don't know if women little girls

508
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: pe The trajectory goes like that, but my two sons

509
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Speaker 1: pissed in my face numerous times. That's just the nature

510
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Speaker 1: of the beast rest the shore. I pissed in my

511
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: mom and father's face as you did. A. G. Moody

512
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Speaker 1: and we know your last same rhymes with dudy. This

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Speaker 1: lady said, testing with infants and all that we should

514
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Speaker 1: ask our little kids when they're sitting there with a

515
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: diarrhea diaper? Can I change your diaper? To sort of

516
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Speaker 1: develop a voice for the kids? Listen, crazy lady, ship listen,

517
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: listen you have you ever been in a movie theater?

518
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: Have you ever been on an airplane? Have you ever

519
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: been on a New York City train? And all the

520
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: other places I changed my kids diapers, And you talk

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00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,719
Speaker 1: about public bathrooms. When you have to change that ship diaper,

522
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: you'll go anywhere. I've changing on park benches. Listen. I

523
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Speaker 1: I love babies. Everyone knows about me. I love my

524
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: my son's carrying them around. To have my own kids

525
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: to carry all the time fantastic. But I draw the

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Speaker 1: line at a ship diaper. We're gonna change that ship diaper,

527
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: and I'm not asking a nine month old boy, can

528
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Speaker 1: daddy change the ship diaper? I'm changing the ship diaper.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know what this lunatic is talking about

530
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: and how how they're supposed to answer. That's what I

531
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: was saying. What what language? Since they have informed language,

532
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: how do you know the answer is yes or no?

533
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: Have you have you gotten to that part of the thing.

534
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: I would hedge my bet since gambling is gonna be

535
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: legal and say this woman doesn't have kids, don't know

536
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: what this is just some wacky ship to get her

537
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: on CNN. Yeah, yeah, you can't have kids with that

538
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: type of Uh, that's not even logic. That's ridiculous. How

539
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: did they come up with that? Though? If you're a

540
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: sexuality expert, how did you come up with that? What? Wait? Where?

541
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: Where's the case study that they can understand English that

542
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: I can ask a question? See? That's that. That's that

543
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: millennial bullshit. We used to well, how do you feel?

544
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: Do you want to go to the movies? What? What

545
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: do you want to do? What do you want to eat? Listen,

546
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: here's the food. Listen. When I was sixteen years old,

547
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 1: my father. By the time I was sixteen, my father,

548
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: when I was lucky enough to have a home cooked meal,

549
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: he'd put a bowl of pasta. He wouldn't even heat

550
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: the sauce up. He put it outside my door, literally

551
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: knock on the door, like I was in jail, and

552
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: it would be on the floor outside my door. Okay,

553
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 1: all this great a bunch of ship that people are talking, Oh,

554
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: we're gonna have this and like, and we were gonna

555
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: give their voices. You give their fucking voices, and you

556
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,239
Speaker 1: know what, you wind up with a study that just

557
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: proved that just said that millennials, teenagers and early twenties

558
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: are suffering from more depression than ever. And I feel

559
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: bad about it, but it's because we're giving these fucking

560
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: kids too much of a voice before they've earned the

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00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: right to have a voice. Imagine, remember how dumb you

562
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 1: were at nineteen, Moody, Remember how I know how dumb

563
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: I was at nineteen. I was at my dumbest, probably

564
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: at but at nineteen, you think my father could give

565
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: two ships about what I wanted to eat for dinner.

566
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: He wanted me fucking out of the house. I want

567
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: you out of this fucking house. Get the funk out.

568
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: I don't give a funk where you go. You're lucky.

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00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: I give you five dollars, Get the funk outta here. Yeah,

570
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: you're asking a two year old at too. My kids

571
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 1: were still wearing diapers. Imagine asking it. So if you

572
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 1: asked the two year old, do you want daddy to

573
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: change the diaper? And the two year old says, no,

574
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: am I supposed to listen? Yeah, look at and you're

575
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 1: starting by doing that according to her. Now she's not.

576
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 1: You can still get him put her on the sick

577
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: funk of the week because yo, you gotta give him

578
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: a rash. He said no, don't change it. Two days later,

579
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: it's caked up on him. He listened to him. Remember

580
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: you gotta listen. That's how he's motherfucker's listen. Yeah, and

581
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 1: then he got he got a bad he got a

582
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 1: nice diaper rash. And then he'll learned what can I

583
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: fix it? Well? Can daddy put ointment on it? No? Okay,

584
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: get out of my face, listen. That's participation trophies, all

585
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: of it. Imagine there with with the Brownsville Jets of

586
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 1: participation trophy. Imagine asking the late great uh Jocko Jocko

587
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: Jackson Greg Jackson for a participant while I was on

588
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 1: the team jack. Imagine that, Oh man, you'd be cussed out.

589
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: But I'm glad I came up. When I came up,

590
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: I'm glad I'm able to see the sucker ship, all

591
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 1: that dumb ship and just laugh at it and say, Yo,

592
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: that's gonna turn turn these motherfucker's into something else. Wait

593
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: twenty years, these motherfucker's gonna grow up. Watch what happens.

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Speaker 1: I thought I heard it. Yes, Oh yeah, you hear

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Speaker 1: Week theme news Lock them up? How could you do it?

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Speaker 1: Don't let him out? Damn the door? You want you

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Speaker 1: fuck the door? Why would you fuck the dog? Why

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Speaker 1: would you fuck your girlfriend's dog? Sick fuck the sick

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Speaker 1: playing the second game of sick Fuck or Beyond. But

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Speaker 1: let's stay focused. Let's stay focused. Right now, we are

627
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Speaker 1: playing the traditional the award winning sick fuck of the

628
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 1: week and is award that is not given. It as

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00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,479
Speaker 1: an award that has earned not given. I have been

630
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: given several requests to give this man the award for

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00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: sick funk of the Week in Florida. You know, if

632
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: it starts off at Florida, it's gonna be good. A

633
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: man was arrested for practicing karate in a park. Let's say, well,

634
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,399
Speaker 1: what's wrong with that? What's wrong with that? The way

635
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: he was practicing karate was by kicking swans in the

636
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:35,280
Speaker 1: head in a park in downtown Orlando. Uh a swan,

637
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: damn yo. They're so grateful. And that's a strue blue

638
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 1: sick fuck of the week. And there's nothing more, nothing less.

639
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 1: That is a sick funk of the week. You listen.

640
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 1: You want to go to the park and do your

641
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: tie cheek. You want to go to the park and

642
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: do yoga. You want to do the park. Go to

643
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: the park and do your cross fit, do your win sprince.

644
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: You want to go to the park and practice karate.

645
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: You you want to get crunk. You want to practice

646
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: your kicks. Kick a tree, tough guy, sits just such

647
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: a fucking badass kick a tree. You go to the

648
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: park and you kick swans and you obviously kills them

649
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: a piece of shit. You have to think about that.

650
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go here and kick these guys, kick them

651
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 1: in the head. Apparently he had been doing it a

652
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 1: few times and then he was caught. Uh. This guy,

653
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: his last name is Mantella. And if you look him up,

654
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: look this sick funk of the week up. Take a

655
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: guess what he looks like. Gee? Uh what what does

656
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 1: he look like? A sick fuck? Rocco Manteller actually looks

657
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: like a bug eyed sick fuck who shaves his eyebrows.

658
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 1: He looks totally off the fucking wall. Looks totally fucking nuts. Congratulations, asshole.

659
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 1: I hope somebody practices karate on you while you're locked

660
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: up in the pen. Next up, and if you want go,

661
00:39:55,200 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 1: go please. A female student from court Neil University took

662
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: offense to the professor suggesting that maybe they should dress

663
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: up to give their senior thesis. So she got really

664
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: upset about that. How dare you say we dress up?

665
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: So what she did is she stripped down to her

666
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 1: underwear and delivered her her senior thesis in front of everybody.

667
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 1: As a blow to patriarchy. So everybody, you're everybody's a

668
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 1: fucking freedom fighter, right yeah, social justice and how dare

669
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: you tell me to get dressed up? That millennial bullshit?

670
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: So you're getting mad that the guy said you should

671
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 1: look your best. See what I'm saying, that's just these

672
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 1: people should be just she showed up in her bra

673
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 1: and underwear. F you didn't do what I asked you.

674
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: I'm the professor. See that's the thing. You don't get

675
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 1: to make the rules. If that's your protests, great, Now

676
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 1: you got an F in the class, asshole. And I'm

677
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: sorry that your parents asked you should they change your

678
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: diarrhea diaper? Exactly? An Indiana woman. I gotta I gotta

679
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: be honest. I'm hedging this woman right now now, not

680
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 1: in fact check. I know we had some crazy stuff

681
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 1: all year, and you know the the coveted sick Funk

682
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 1: of the Year award. Uh we're only in May, but

683
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: but I got my eye on this chick, all right.

684
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: I mean she looks the part. Uh. Kelly Cochrane from

685
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: Indiana who admitted to injecting her husband with a lethal

686
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:37,280
Speaker 1: dose of heroin, which probably wouldn't get you on the

687
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: on on the chart of just a sick fuck. She

688
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:44,800
Speaker 1: may have killed nine other people, definitely beyond the sick fuck,

689
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: But what makes her stick out to me? This is

690
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: way out there? And and then again a lot of

691
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 1: fans of the Iron Rapports stereo podcast who are sending

692
00:41:55,840 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 1: me six fox. She is also suspected of serving her

693
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 1: husband's remains the remains of her dead husband. She is

694
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 1: suspected now through an investigation, of serving her husband's remains

695
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: at a barbecue. Oh damn, so so so she killed him.

696
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: She cooked him little kosha saut, a little Hungarian pepperrika,

697
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: and spice it up and throw it on the skillet.

698
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: You got a finger, a thumb, freak, a seed thumb.

699
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 1: But that's the guy you love. Do you see what

700
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: is love? What is not love? She killed him, she

701
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:43,320
Speaker 1: cooked him, and she served him up at a barbecue. Listen, people,

702
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 1: I suspect that all the listeners out here have have

703
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 1: better friends than this fucking nutcase. Kelly M. Cochrane from Indiana.

704
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 1: But when when you go to when you go to

705
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: a barbecue, now, you gotta keep your head on a

706
00:42:55,960 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 1: swivel because you don't know what the fund you're getting eat. Yeah, yeah,

707
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: imagine that. Um, now this I was gonna leave this

708
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 1: up to you, Mr Moody. Do you think this is

709
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 1: a sick fuck or do you think this is a

710
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 1: boss that is needed and these times of millennials because

711
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 1: her her employees were young. A real estate firm in China,

712
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: and it's all caught on video. This isn't made up.

713
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: A real estate firm in China. Um, you know the

714
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: real estate is incentive. You know, you sell, you make money.

715
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,360
Speaker 1: You sell, you make money, you get your percentage. The

716
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 1: company makes money. A boss in China in order to

717
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: keep her employees online for the employees that we're making money. Uh,

718
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: they line up the employees that we're not making money.

719
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: They line up in front of the boss, who's a female,

720
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,959
Speaker 1: and she smacks the ship out of them one by one,

721
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 1: not love taps, smacks their fucking faces repetitively as hard

722
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: as she can. The videotape it, and then she makes

723
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 1: them on their knees and like do humiliating. This is

724
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: in a legitimate business. This legitimately happened. Do you think

725
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 1: this is a sick fuck or do you think this

726
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: is a necessary evil in order to run big business

727
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: in the world that we live in. I'll give you

728
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 1: the floor. Moody. Yeah, I think it's China. It's in China, right, Yeah,

729
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 1: different culture, so my judgment is different. I like it.

730
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:26,719
Speaker 1: It likes to fire up under the employees to say, listen,

731
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: if you don't make these sales and you don't get

732
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: this real estate, should go and be You're gonna get

733
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: smack and we're gonna smack. Fire out you ass in

734
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 1: front of everybody, which will give you more initiative to

735
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 1: make those sales and to close those deals, knowing a

736
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: slap is looming if you don't, I like it. They

737
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: should have implemented here. No problem with your with your

738
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: take on this. Um. Finally, we all know how I

739
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:59,800
Speaker 1: feel about about feral cats, wild animals. You know I

740
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 1: I I would never hurt one of these animals. I

741
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: don't like rats. I don't like mice. As much as

742
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 1: I can appreciate their beauty, I I don't like, uh,

743
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 1: you know, seeing deers walking by me. If I'm in

744
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: a car and I'm riding out to Jersey and I

745
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,760
Speaker 1: see DearS, I will stop and take in their beauty.

746
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 1: I like to be in a car. You never know

747
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: when and you could get one of these crazed fucking deers.

748
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 1: They can attack you. You never know. I don't like

749
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 1: coyotes historically, this is well documented. I don't like water bugs.

750
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: I don't like any of it. Okay, I don't like

751
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 1: any of it. This sick fuck a police officer, a

752
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: sheriff's deputy, walked up to a groundhog. You know what

753
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 1: a groundhogs is a small little animal. Yeah. Now, even

754
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do something like this, even I if push

755
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: came to shove, I would move it along, even if

756
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: I have to use it with my foot or something.

757
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 1: A groundhog was was blocking traffic. The sick fucking sheriff,

758
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 1: instead of moving it using his baton, use like a

759
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 1: stick to move it off the road, shot and killed

760
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 1: a groundhog on camera in front of people to move

761
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: traffic along. Oh hey, so you you got a problem

762
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 1: with the cop. Yeah, he's a sick funking week because

763
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: you know, you know how small a groundhog is. I know,

764
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 1: but hey, man, yo, it's either him or you're gonna

765
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: stop all the human beings from getting home and for

766
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 1: this animal. Hey, we're not talking about rush hour on

767
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: the four old five. We're talking about like if you

768
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 1: see the videotape of it. Why I would make him

769
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:35,799
Speaker 1: the sick fing week. First of all, groundhog is like

770
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,800
Speaker 1: it's half the size of a small cat, and so

771
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:43,359
Speaker 1: he could just shoot it away, shoot it away. He could,

772
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: He didn't have to execute it. Is what you're saying.

773
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 1: In the middle and broad daylight, in the middle of

774
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 1: the road, there's no reason to shoot the fucking groundhog.

775
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:52,319
Speaker 1: You sick fuck You're a sick funk of the week,

776
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 1: No questions asked. Listen because you are going to want

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00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:05,600
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00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:09,400
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Speaker 1: after graduating high school at fourteen, all that and more.

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00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, this guy's story should be a movie.

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Speaker 1: I want to I want to get into that in

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Speaker 1: a second. Caldaver surgery, cold ever surgery on your on

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00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,400
Speaker 1: your on your knee. A couple of questions about the

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Speaker 1: cadaver number one, Uh, do you know any background on

804
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 1: the on where they got the cadaver? For number two? Uh?

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00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 1: Did the people like of the family of this person

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00:48:58,080 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 1: that they were used like they might be like Yo,

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Speaker 1: the Sky's NBA player, they might come for some money.

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Speaker 1: How does this work? What was the surgery? And and uh,

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00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,360
Speaker 1: how are you all right? So I'm gonna give you

810
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: a background first, because, um, this is the first time

811
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: I've actually talked about this since I had the surgery.

812
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 1: I had it, I had had a media thing about

813
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 1: it a year ago, and I haven't had I've been

814
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:26,280
Speaker 1: underground for the last year and I said I didn't

815
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 1: want to do anything media until I was ready to go.

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00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 1: And uh, you asked me how I'm doing. I'm doing well.

817
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 1: I'm doing really well. Um running feeling really good. Before

818
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: I had to have it. You know what it is?

819
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,839
Speaker 1: It was it was a carlage transplant and they put

820
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: it into my knee and they got it from somebody else.

821
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: It was this really crazy surgery. What is it called.

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00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:54,439
Speaker 1: They call it OATES. It's osteochondro alligraphed transplant surgery. Yeah,

823
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 1: so it's um they have to get it from somebody else,

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00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 1: and it's a relatively new procedure that just happened recently

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00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: and it just came up recently. Um. I had it

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Speaker 1: in Colorado. And how the surgery goes is this is

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00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: why it's crazy. Is that obviously like everything else, right,

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00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: if you tell your a cl to get it from

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00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:15,919
Speaker 1: somebody else, they put it in your kneed and that's good.

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00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 1: That's what this is a carlage. So this is different

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00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 1: is that it has to be fresh. So this is

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00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,839
Speaker 1: the different stipulations to get the surgery. First of all,

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00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:32,479
Speaker 1: the person has to be the same size as me, right,

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00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 1: that's that's that's one crazy aspect of it because the

835
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:40,880
Speaker 1: persons like in the weight range because they have to

836
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 1: be it has to be able to handle my weight, okay,

837
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 1: but they don't have to be the same height, No,

838
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:47,399
Speaker 1: not necessarily the same height, just like that same weight.

839
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 1: And then you have to have the surgery a week max.

840
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:55,280
Speaker 1: A week after the person passes away, and the organists

841
00:50:55,280 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 1: have it harvested. So I'm literally and you never know, right,

842
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: So I literally, so I go through the whole procedure

843
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 1: of preparing for it, right, And how it goes is

844
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 1: you know you you you get on the list and

845
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: you literally have to just sit there by your phone

846
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,360
Speaker 1: waiting for the doctor to call you and say hey,

847
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 1: it's come in. So it could take anywhere from tomorrow

848
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: to a year from now. That's crazy, especially for a

849
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,800
Speaker 1: big dude, especially for an NBA player that needs to

850
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 1: get back to playing doing his job right, But like

851
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 1: it's not like you're like six ft like it's like

852
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,759
Speaker 1: we're seven ft d Yeah, So so when did you

853
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: get the coal? Like what was the process like, and

854
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:36,319
Speaker 1: like how does the whole thing work for you? Well,

855
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: for me, I was waiting and uh it took me

856
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: three months. I'm literally staying there by the phone and

857
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: I know they must have been I was. I was waiting.

858
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 1: I was in Portland at the time, and um, I

859
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:52,799
Speaker 1: was waiting by my phone for three months, and UM,

860
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: you know what it was was I just I really,

861
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:56,239
Speaker 1: you know, I got to a point where it just

862
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:58,799
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I just couldn't push it anymore, you know,

863
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 1: and uh, I really need to do something to to

864
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 1: get back to playing and playing at the level that

865
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: I was playing at. So um, that was the that

866
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:10,799
Speaker 1: was the procedure that the doctor recommended and it was

867
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 1: very very experimental. So for me, I was like, yo,

868
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: like I'm really just giving it everything I got at

869
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:20,440
Speaker 1: that point. And yeah, I was waiting by the phone

870
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:23,799
Speaker 1: and um eventually they called me after three months. But

871
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: before that, three months, every couple of weeks, every every

872
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Every few days I would call him

873
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 1: like Hey, what's going on, and just making sure you

874
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 1: know my number still works, like you all just called

875
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 1: and I was just waiting and waiting, and at some

876
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: point I was just like, Yo, this is crazy, Like

877
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:39,399
Speaker 1: I need to get this done so I can get back,

878
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 1: you know, the sooner I get it done, the sooner

879
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 1: I get back. But they couldn't do anything about it.

880
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: And yeah, I got it done last year, last March.

881
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: And so how are you feeling like today? Because I

882
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 1: see you, you know you you're I love when athletes

883
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:54,759
Speaker 1: because I think it's inspired, because you know, if you're

884
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 1: a fan, you know, it's like we we we think

885
00:52:57,640 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 1: that you guys are just out on the court, uh

886
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 1: and and you know, doing your thing. But you know,

887
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 1: I've had the privilege of you know, being in practices

888
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 1: and you see the work. I've had a privilege of

889
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:09,319
Speaker 1: being a Golden Day practice. You see the the work

890
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: that the clays and the steps and and that all

891
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 1: you guys um you know put into you know that

892
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:18,840
Speaker 1: we don't see, you know when we tune into you know,

893
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 1: T and T, d HPN and you you've been sharing

894
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:24,360
Speaker 1: your videos so how do you feel now? And where's

895
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 1: your body at now? And I feel good? Man. And

896
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:29,320
Speaker 1: and that's the thing is, you know, when you have surgery,

897
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:31,839
Speaker 1: it takes you a while to get back to where

898
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:35,440
Speaker 1: you feel good about you know, good about yourself. But

899
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:37,359
Speaker 1: I was already at a place where, you know, I

900
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,919
Speaker 1: needed to get something done. So when I got it done,

901
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: I had no I didn't know what to expect. I

902
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:45,760
Speaker 1: just know that given that it's me and my mindset

903
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: and the way I put so much effort and work

904
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:49,879
Speaker 1: until what I do, I knew that it was gonna

905
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:51,799
Speaker 1: work out. I just didn't know whin I didn't know how,

906
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 1: you know, And so um going through the process. You know,

907
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 1: I'm I'm in bed. I'm bed ridden for two months

908
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 1: after Yeah, and that was probably you know, two seventeen

909
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 1: was probably one of the toughest years of my life.

910
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 1: And that's saying a lot, because you know, coming you know,

911
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 1: me as a kid coming from Nigeria and moving out

912
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,320
Speaker 1: here and learning to play the game in a different country.

913
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 1: You know, I mean this my story has been so

914
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:19,560
Speaker 1: crazy already that when I added last year into it,

915
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:21,840
Speaker 1: it was just like God, like I do everything the

916
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:24,279
Speaker 1: right way. I try to you know, I work hard.

917
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:25,719
Speaker 1: I'm a great I mean, I try to be a

918
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 1: great guy, you know, and I'm in this position now.

919
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:31,439
Speaker 1: You know, that was one of the toughest, toughest years

920
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 1: of my life. So so what is that like being bedridden?

921
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: You're an athlete, you're a young guy. No, it's it's

922
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:41,839
Speaker 1: it's tough. It's um yeah, yeah, I'm the first. Um,

923
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 1: the first two weeks I was by the hospital so,

924
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: which is in Ville, Colorado, and then um, yeah no.

925
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:50,360
Speaker 1: So actually for a lot of the year I was

926
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:52,880
Speaker 1: in Ville, Colorado. This is where I had my surgery.

927
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 1: And um, I'm sitting there and you know, it's kind

928
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 1: of a weird thing. It's almost like a resort style area.

929
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 1: But I couldn't enjoy any of it because I'm in

930
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:04,719
Speaker 1: bed and it was so literally that you couldn't walk.

931
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: I could not walk. Could they wheelchair you like? Could

932
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 1: you go out and just to move around like you

933
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 1: know what it is? It was snow and at the

934
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 1: time too, so I was really stuck. Stuck. I didn't

935
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: want to risk anything going out there on crutches or

936
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: on my wheelchair and fault. And so the only thing

937
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 1: I could do the only thing I wanted to do

938
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:25,320
Speaker 1: was to go to rehab. I would go to rehab

939
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:27,839
Speaker 1: and come home, and the rehab is literally learning how

940
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:31,359
Speaker 1: to bend my leg, you know, and so um, yeah,

941
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:32,960
Speaker 1: it was. It was a really really it was a

942
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:35,320
Speaker 1: really interesting process. Man. You learn a lot about yourself.

943
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 1: That's a lot of that's a long time to sit

944
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 1: there with your thoughts and just sit there and talk.

945
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:42,840
Speaker 1: You know, I had. I'm so grateful that I have

946
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 1: family because you know, it was it was a really

947
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:48,719
Speaker 1: it was a tough time for me to, you know,

948
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 1: really face myself because your identity is a basketball player.

949
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:53,320
Speaker 1: Like this is what I know. I'm always active, I

950
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:55,759
Speaker 1: always do stuff. I work hard, I'm always in the gym.

951
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:59,360
Speaker 1: So now I'm just sitting here and I can't be active.

952
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 1: I can't move, I can't walk. Did you ever think

953
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 1: like fuck it, like I don't need this, Like I

954
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:07,280
Speaker 1: you know, I played, I'm educated. I graduated high school

955
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 1: with them fourteen, which I want to get to like

956
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 1: I don't or dude. A lot of times I sat

957
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 1: there like, yo, what the funk? Like I'm tired of

958
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,359
Speaker 1: this ship, Like I can't take this ship anymore. But

959
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: the thing about that though, is, um, this is where

960
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:24,840
Speaker 1: we're building the Beast came from. Because the mindset and

961
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:28,040
Speaker 1: what it is is that this movement I started, the

962
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: mindset is, um, I'm sitting there and I'm laying there

963
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 1: and I'm crying, right and I'm not even somebody who's

964
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:39,319
Speaker 1: an emotional person like that, but in this moment, I'm like, yo,

965
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 1: like what the fuck? Like what is going on? And

966
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:46,239
Speaker 1: as I started crying, my mom who's with me, My

967
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:49,400
Speaker 1: parents were with me, but my mom starts crying and

968
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:51,879
Speaker 1: she's like, oh my god, I can't believe what's going on?

969
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 1: You know, that was there was a switch that turned

970
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: on in my head at that moment. It's like, I

971
00:56:57,640 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 1: have to be stronger than this. I have to be

972
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 1: stronger than the moment. And that's fucking life, man Like.

973
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:07,240
Speaker 1: In life, like things happen, things are gonna happen. And

974
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 1: there's been so many moments in my life where I've

975
00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:11,720
Speaker 1: been knocked down, even my my trip coming to America,

976
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 1: moving here by myself and learning a new you know,

977
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 1: learning a new culture, being in a new environment, being

978
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:20,360
Speaker 1: with somebody i'd barely ever known, you know, living with

979
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:22,680
Speaker 1: my uncle, I've never met him, you know, and so

980
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:25,040
Speaker 1: we you know, it was all these different things that

981
00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:26,919
Speaker 1: have happened in my life already to make me feel

982
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:29,840
Speaker 1: like something great is coming after this, Right, I just

983
00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 1: got to be strong, especially being strong for the people

984
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 1: who love me and who there is to support me.

985
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: I just I can't quit you. So you're feeling good.

986
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:39,920
Speaker 1: I feel good, man, I feel good. I'm right now.

987
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to come back next season and has

988
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:48,440
Speaker 1: been has been a hell of a journey. Man. You

989
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 1: know what's what's funny man, is um you know, a

990
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 1: few people send me the article of so now I

991
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:56,440
Speaker 1: missed two seasons and a few people send me the

992
00:57:56,520 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 1: article of America Oca for and Mecca cow for. Is

993
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 1: the way to say if I really want to use

994
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:04,360
Speaker 1: my Nigerian accent, but you know that comes out every

995
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:08,280
Speaker 1: once in a while, but uh, Meca okra for. He

996
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 1: plays for the New Orleans Pelicans. He took a few

997
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:13,000
Speaker 1: years off because he had a hernated disk in back.

998
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: And that's actually a friend of mine. He actually recruited

999
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 1: me a long time ago to go to Yukon seeing

1000
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:21,160
Speaker 1: him go through his journey. I was actually with him

1001
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:23,080
Speaker 1: last summer. We did a camp together in New York

1002
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:26,720
Speaker 1: and uh seeing him going through his process and not

1003
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:30,240
Speaker 1: giving up is so inspiring for everybody, you know. So

1004
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 1: what I want to do and what I want to

1005
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:34,200
Speaker 1: be able to do is you know, part of life

1006
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 1: is everybody goes through these tough times, right. I want

1007
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:40,919
Speaker 1: to be able to inspire with my story. I'm gonna

1008
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:43,160
Speaker 1: get through my ship. I'll be back next season. I'll

1009
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: be doing what I do. But I don't want it

1010
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 1: to go for not like, I don't want it to

1011
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 1: just be a wasted story. I want to be able

1012
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 1: to tell this story and have other people tell their

1013
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:53,080
Speaker 1: stories as well. I know you coming from New York

1014
00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 1: and you know, fighting your way up in the rags,

1015
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 1: Like dude, I watched you. I watched you and Hitch

1016
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 1: Friends all these different things. You know. Friends is actually

1017
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 1: the reason why my accident has changed because I used

1018
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 1: to watch Friends all every night before I went to sleep.

1019
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:15,040
Speaker 1: When I got here, was so thick when sounded like ross. Yeah,

1020
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:17,720
Speaker 1: uh no, my my accent was so thick. When I

1021
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:20,760
Speaker 1: came to America. That my way of learning how to

1022
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:23,360
Speaker 1: speak like this because I wanted people to understand the

1023
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:27,560
Speaker 1: whole point about his communication. And I would sit by

1024
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,800
Speaker 1: the TV every night and just watch TV and repeat

1025
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 1: whatever they say. So some of my comedy, actually some

1026
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 1: of the stuff my humor is actually that dry comedy

1027
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:40,959
Speaker 1: from friends. That's crazy, but that makes sense because also

1028
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:42,800
Speaker 1: like the way they spoke, it was very sort of

1029
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 1: clean American dialect, and it was you know, it was

1030
00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 1: sanitized and it's humorous and it's that that's funny. Man.

1031
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:53,959
Speaker 1: So yeah, man, and uh, I actually kind of missed

1032
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:55,760
Speaker 1: my accent now because every once in a while break

1033
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:58,160
Speaker 1: out the niger and excent and girls are like, wait,

1034
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 1: hold up now, But when you speak up with a

1035
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:03,320
Speaker 1: Nigerian accident, it's just when you're around family or when

1036
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 1: you're around people. So it's actually automatic for me when

1037
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:08,240
Speaker 1: I'm around family, when I around Nigerians. A matter of fact,

1038
01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 1: I was with a few Nigerians a couple of nights

1039
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:13,480
Speaker 1: ago um Ivonne Orgy, who was you know, one of

1040
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:16,560
Speaker 1: the actresses out here in l A. She Um She

1041
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:18,920
Speaker 1: had a game night and I didn't know what to expect.

1042
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:20,640
Speaker 1: I went out there and there was a bunch of Nigerians.

1043
01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:22,480
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, we all just you know, it's

1044
01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:25,520
Speaker 1: we're like all cousins and why don't we meet each

1045
01:00:25,520 --> 01:00:28,720
Speaker 1: other all the family, So it was it was a

1046
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: good time and then accident comes out. My first name

1047
01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 1: actually is Ifani and after when I when I came

1048
01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:40,720
Speaker 1: to America, I would introduce myself, try to say it.

1049
01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:44,480
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. That was actually that was actually the

1050
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:46,600
Speaker 1: best I've heard so far. It was pretty good because

1051
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:48,360
Speaker 1: but if I could do it ten times, I probably

1052
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:50,400
Speaker 1: won't get no. But you did wait better than people.

1053
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:53,479
Speaker 1: People started calling me Ifany after a while. I can't

1054
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 1: really be a sinner, a tough guy with a name.

1055
01:00:57,160 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 1: If you will probably be working with me on the sidelines.

1056
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:03,280
Speaker 1: So that's that. That was, you know, for me, I

1057
01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 1: felt like Festus was a great first that's my middle name.

1058
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:10,160
Speaker 1: Is my middle name is also my dad's name, so

1059
01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 1: I felt like I felt some kind of uh. It

1060
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:16,760
Speaker 1: made me feel good to bear my father's name and

1061
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:19,360
Speaker 1: go by that, and it gave me a lot of responsibility.

1062
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:22,720
Speaker 1: And you can variations of fast is fast, you know,

1063
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:27,280
Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah in Nigeria, I finally people call me any.

1064
01:01:27,720 --> 01:01:31,520
Speaker 1: So it's not a common name in Nigeria. Yeah, so

1065
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 1: what it is? What it means. So every time you

1066
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 1: get a name in Nigeria. You don't just get a

1067
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:38,400
Speaker 1: name because you get a name because it's cool. You

1068
01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:41,640
Speaker 1: get a name based on it actually means something. So

1069
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:43,600
Speaker 1: for me, it took my mom a few years to

1070
01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:48,080
Speaker 1: have me, and when she had me, my grandfather actually

1071
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:52,760
Speaker 1: named me. My name is if it means, actually it

1072
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:56,440
Speaker 1: means with God, nothing is impossible. And that's been the

1073
01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:58,360
Speaker 1: story for my life, all my you know, all my

1074
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:02,200
Speaker 1: journey so far, be able to overcome adversity. It's kind

1075
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 1: of it's kind of my life still ready, you're you're

1076
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:06,440
Speaker 1: used to it. Yeah, So for me like going through this,

1077
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:09,240
Speaker 1: it's it's really just a part of the story with

1078
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:15,400
Speaker 1: your rehab and your your recovery is making baskets, shooting baskets.

1079
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:17,520
Speaker 1: The least of it is it like all like about

1080
01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:22,960
Speaker 1: like planting, jumping knee, you know, being in shape, like

1081
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:26,720
Speaker 1: like is touch like in basketball skills even like a

1082
01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 1: part of it, you know what I'm saying, Like a

1083
01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:32,160
Speaker 1: part of my rehab of Dude, the day I think

1084
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:35,080
Speaker 1: so the day after I have surgery, I'm in bed

1085
01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:37,680
Speaker 1: right and the first thing I have them do is

1086
01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 1: is buy me a basketball that I can just hold

1087
01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 1: onto because I couldn't do anything. As soon as I

1088
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 1: was able to crutch. This isn't about two weeks I

1089
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:48,120
Speaker 1: was out there. A matter of fact, there's videos on

1090
01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:49,800
Speaker 1: my Instagram if you guys want to go check it

1091
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 1: out at Fezzi Fail. You know, there's videos of me

1092
01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:55,680
Speaker 1: shooting on the box. This is a year ago. You

1093
01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:57,600
Speaker 1: go back a year and see me. I'm on the

1094
01:02:57,640 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 1: box and I'm shooting. I'm telling people, yo, listen, like,

1095
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:02,360
Speaker 1: I don't care what it is I'm going through. This

1096
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 1: is where my mind is at. You know, I gotta

1097
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 1: figure out ways to get better. When I first had surgery,

1098
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:09,320
Speaker 1: it was hard for me to watch basketball. I'm not

1099
01:03:09,320 --> 01:03:11,000
Speaker 1: gonna lie, it was it was. It was something that

1100
01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: was very hard for me because it almost seemed like nothing,

1101
01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:18,000
Speaker 1: like like nobody cared rights. This just goes on, the

1102
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:20,400
Speaker 1: whole world goes on in terms of like you're just

1103
01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 1: sort of out of it. Yeah, you're out of the circle,

1104
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 1: You're out of the fraternity. It's like everybody, everybody's just

1105
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:29,240
Speaker 1: doing what they gotta do right now to win. And

1106
01:03:30,440 --> 01:03:32,520
Speaker 1: it was hard for me to watch. But you know,

1107
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:36,760
Speaker 1: after a while, you're my mind switches again. It was

1108
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:39,720
Speaker 1: just like, yo, I gotta get back, like my, my,

1109
01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 1: I gotta get back to work. And so it was like, now,

1110
01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:45,000
Speaker 1: let me watch, let me watch and see there's so

1111
01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 1: many bigs that are doing their thing in the NBA.

1112
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:50,200
Speaker 1: You know, I watched Joel and Be last night with

1113
01:03:50,240 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 1: the game. Granted they didn't win, and you know they

1114
01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:56,120
Speaker 1: but his whole story about his comeback and his you know,

1115
01:03:56,200 --> 01:03:58,560
Speaker 1: being able to do what he's doing right now is amazing.

1116
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:01,640
Speaker 1: He missed three years, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's crazy came

1117
01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:04,680
Speaker 1: back and you know it's amazing what he's doing. Um,

1118
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:07,400
Speaker 1: but I have a theory right now. I have a

1119
01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:13,640
Speaker 1: theory of great players minus one person so far. But

1120
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:18,920
Speaker 1: great players, Yes, they always have this defining moment that

1121
01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:21,640
Speaker 1: has something to do with injury. They always have some

1122
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:25,200
Speaker 1: injury that keeps them out, and I feel like during

1123
01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:28,000
Speaker 1: that moment, you really get to ask yourself that question,

1124
01:04:28,040 --> 01:04:30,800
Speaker 1: like do I really want to do this ship? And

1125
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:33,760
Speaker 1: the answer is because they always come back and they're

1126
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:37,240
Speaker 1: grant and they're better. Is I love this game. I

1127
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:40,200
Speaker 1: love what I do and I can't take it for granted.

1128
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:42,240
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna do everything to be as best as

1129
01:04:42,280 --> 01:04:44,080
Speaker 1: I possibly can be because I can't take it for

1130
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:46,520
Speaker 1: granted I can't walk at this time or I can't

1131
01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:49,360
Speaker 1: do this, so I appreciate every aspect of this. That's

1132
01:04:49,440 --> 01:04:51,280
Speaker 1: I think that's what it is for me right now

1133
01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:54,680
Speaker 1: where I'm at, I think that's dope and it's crazy.

1134
01:04:54,760 --> 01:04:56,120
Speaker 1: I mean, well, I want to get into the little

1135
01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:59,280
Speaker 1: Bron because obviously you played against him in two iconic

1136
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:03,520
Speaker 1: series and I mean and watching him, you know you

1137
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:05,960
Speaker 1: had thought like when you guys beat him, he was

1138
01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:08,160
Speaker 1: like at an apex and then like now it's like,

1139
01:05:08,440 --> 01:05:10,440
Speaker 1: I don't know what the apex. I don't know, like

1140
01:05:10,480 --> 01:05:14,080
Speaker 1: it keeps going, going going, but it's unreal. It dudes,

1141
01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:16,520
Speaker 1: he's unreal. I want to I want to come back

1142
01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:19,600
Speaker 1: to Lebron. I want to stay on you. You graduated

1143
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:22,919
Speaker 1: high school when you were fourteen years old? Graduate high

1144
01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:25,960
Speaker 1: school at fourteen now in Nigeria, is it just a

1145
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:29,760
Speaker 1: different timetable or were you? Were you smart? Like? And

1146
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:33,120
Speaker 1: it is what it is is? Um So fourteen is early.

1147
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:35,920
Speaker 1: It's very early. I was in a class with you know,

1148
01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:39,960
Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen eighteen, So you're smart even in Nigeria. Well,

1149
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:42,760
Speaker 1: I had I had a mom. I'm never gonna self

1150
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:45,920
Speaker 1: promote myself right. I have a mother who who was

1151
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 1: an educator, and she really pushed me. I didn't go

1152
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:50,440
Speaker 1: to her she owns a school. I didn't go to

1153
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 1: her school. But being that that was my mom, you know,

1154
01:05:54,080 --> 01:05:56,960
Speaker 1: she held me to send standard. You know. She always

1155
01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:59,400
Speaker 1: told me, like, yo, this is your meal ticket. You

1156
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:01,360
Speaker 1: have to be able to be to be able to

1157
01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:03,600
Speaker 1: read and be smart. And she told me that from

1158
01:06:03,600 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 1: a Brilli young game. But then she pushed, She pushed me.

1159
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:09,440
Speaker 1: That's what it is, you know. And if you know

1160
01:06:09,520 --> 01:06:12,120
Speaker 1: my mother, she you know, she she always gives. She

1161
01:06:12,240 --> 01:06:14,520
Speaker 1: empowers the people around her. But it started with us

1162
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:18,800
Speaker 1: as kids. And what does it take to graduate high

1163
01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:22,760
Speaker 1: school in fourteen? And then tell me how after graduating

1164
01:06:22,840 --> 01:06:27,160
Speaker 1: high school in fourteen you got to America? So, um,

1165
01:06:27,200 --> 01:06:30,400
Speaker 1: I started school really early, okay, um, I started the

1166
01:06:30,440 --> 01:06:32,640
Speaker 1: first grade. I can't remember what age at this point,

1167
01:06:32,840 --> 01:06:34,840
Speaker 1: but the first grade normal like six right, yeah, no,

1168
01:06:34,920 --> 01:06:38,800
Speaker 1: I started way before that. UM. I think that what

1169
01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:41,480
Speaker 1: also helped was I skipped the fifth in sixth grades,

1170
01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:46,840
Speaker 1: they said I was way way double skipped. Do you skipped? Yeah?

1171
01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:51,040
Speaker 1: You went from fourth ship? Yeah, that was that was

1172
01:06:51,200 --> 01:06:53,800
Speaker 1: that was something that you know, um, they came to

1173
01:06:53,840 --> 01:06:56,080
Speaker 1: my mom and said, because my mom would always teach me,

1174
01:06:56,120 --> 01:06:58,560
Speaker 1: I would come home and I would be doing school

1175
01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:00,760
Speaker 1: work at home. I got you. I would be you know,

1176
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:03,280
Speaker 1: as a little kid. I would be reading to my mom,

1177
01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:05,920
Speaker 1: reading the Bible actually, but I would be doing all

1178
01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:08,480
Speaker 1: these things that other people, older people were doing my

1179
01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:11,080
Speaker 1: math classes. I was doing way more advanced things at

1180
01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:13,600
Speaker 1: home and I was in school. And so they came

1181
01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:15,480
Speaker 1: to my mom one day and said, I was bored.

1182
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:18,600
Speaker 1: Like I looked like I was bored in class because everything,

1183
01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:21,360
Speaker 1: my grades were excellent. I got all the awards, I

1184
01:07:21,400 --> 01:07:23,520
Speaker 1: got all, but it's just like this kid is bored

1185
01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:26,120
Speaker 1: because he's just you know, it takes him. He's the

1186
01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:29,680
Speaker 1: first one out of every exam and things like that. So, um,

1187
01:07:29,760 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 1: they thought it was a good idea for me to go.

1188
01:07:31,920 --> 01:07:33,760
Speaker 1: They felt they tested me and saw that I was

1189
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:37,120
Speaker 1: at and that in in Nigeria, we have first through

1190
01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:40,440
Speaker 1: sixth grades primary school and then we have high school

1191
01:07:40,480 --> 01:07:45,040
Speaker 1: starts in seventh grade seventh, seven, eight, nine is junior highest,

1192
01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:48,640
Speaker 1: senior highest nine twelve. But that's a big skip like

1193
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:50,960
Speaker 1: going to high school. Just go you go from the

1194
01:07:50,960 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 1: fourth grade to high school and just socially, I mean,

1195
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:56,520
Speaker 1: you must was the hardest part, but you're still like

1196
01:07:56,520 --> 01:07:59,520
Speaker 1: like a kid. I'm a kid and I'm with people

1197
01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:03,040
Speaker 1: like talking about talking about sex, they're talking about girls,

1198
01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 1: and I'm looking around like I don't, I don't know

1199
01:08:05,360 --> 01:08:07,440
Speaker 1: anything by any of that, you know, and shot a

1200
01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:09,360
Speaker 1: little kid. I was kind of a chubby, so you know,

1201
01:08:09,480 --> 01:08:13,000
Speaker 1: I wasn't, you know, socially awkward in that regards. But um,

1202
01:08:13,280 --> 01:08:15,840
Speaker 1: I just I was good at school. And then so

1203
01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:18,920
Speaker 1: when you graduate high school and four at fourteen years old,

1204
01:08:19,240 --> 01:08:23,080
Speaker 1: how do you wind up in America? I came to

1205
01:08:23,120 --> 01:08:26,519
Speaker 1: America by mistake. Actually, well I didn't come here about

1206
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:29,840
Speaker 1: the wrong bus. No, So we actually came here as

1207
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:33,240
Speaker 1: a family, um to celebrate my graduation. We all came

1208
01:08:33,240 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 1: here on the trip thousand and four on a trip.

1209
01:08:36,160 --> 01:08:37,960
Speaker 1: So when I came here, it was it wasn't by

1210
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:40,000
Speaker 1: mistake that we landed here, but was by mistake that

1211
01:08:40,120 --> 01:08:42,960
Speaker 1: stayed right because they ended up when I came here.

1212
01:08:43,040 --> 01:08:45,120
Speaker 1: My uncle who I told you, we we came to

1213
01:08:45,200 --> 01:08:47,640
Speaker 1: visit family who were here? And what part did you

1214
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:51,559
Speaker 1: go to? We were in sacrament the Sacramento area, So yeah,

1215
01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:55,280
Speaker 1: so we came to we came out here, actually landed

1216
01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:56,880
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. So I don't know if this is

1217
01:08:56,920 --> 01:09:00,280
Speaker 1: foreshadowing or not, but we landed in San Francisco. Obviously,

1218
01:09:00,320 --> 01:09:02,040
Speaker 1: you guys know I played with the Golden State Warriors.

1219
01:09:02,680 --> 01:09:06,240
Speaker 1: Um I you know, we we stayed with the family

1220
01:09:06,280 --> 01:09:09,400
Speaker 1: over there. Uncle saw me everywhere we went during this trip.

1221
01:09:09,439 --> 01:09:13,200
Speaker 1: Everybody asked me if I played basketball, and I've never

1222
01:09:13,200 --> 01:09:15,080
Speaker 1: played basketball before in my life. I told you I

1223
01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:17,679
Speaker 1: was a chubby kid. I didn't know nothing about no sports.

1224
01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:19,760
Speaker 1: My dad actually used to get so mad because we

1225
01:09:19,840 --> 01:09:23,240
Speaker 1: had athletics back in Nigeria. We would have these events,

1226
01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:26,640
Speaker 1: you know, and he would come. He would come just

1227
01:09:26,720 --> 01:09:28,720
Speaker 1: hoping that I would be doing something. I would be

1228
01:09:28,760 --> 01:09:31,640
Speaker 1: on the sidelines, you know. And it was something that

1229
01:09:31,720 --> 01:09:33,759
Speaker 1: always kind of because my dad was a super athlete

1230
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:39,160
Speaker 1: like everything. He's about six four or six, and he

1231
01:09:39,640 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 1: just wanted those genes used and so it was it

1232
01:09:43,400 --> 01:09:45,360
Speaker 1: was hard for him, you know, being a party. But

1233
01:09:45,680 --> 01:09:47,320
Speaker 1: you know, for him, it was just more about like

1234
01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:49,479
Speaker 1: I want to see my my kid do something. You know.

1235
01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:51,840
Speaker 1: I had man boobs, you know, a little kid, and

1236
01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:54,280
Speaker 1: how told you at that point I was I was

1237
01:09:54,400 --> 01:09:58,080
Speaker 1: fourteen years old. And I was six five, so I

1238
01:09:58,120 --> 01:10:00,800
Speaker 1: was I was a really tall kid. See pictures from

1239
01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:04,320
Speaker 1: me and you kid, No, not at all. And so

1240
01:10:04,439 --> 01:10:07,040
Speaker 1: when I came to America, my uncle saw me and

1241
01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:10,360
Speaker 1: he thought, let's you know how He convinced me, Actually,

1242
01:10:11,320 --> 01:10:13,200
Speaker 1: it's time to go to college. Right. So I said,

1243
01:10:13,240 --> 01:10:15,160
Speaker 1: I wanted at this point, I wanted to be a doctor.

1244
01:10:16,320 --> 01:10:19,719
Speaker 1: And I said, um, I don't want to play basketball.

1245
01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:22,200
Speaker 1: I just want to be a doctor. So he said, listen,

1246
01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:24,479
Speaker 1: you know what basketball can do for you. He can

1247
01:10:24,520 --> 01:10:26,599
Speaker 1: give you a scholarship. You don't have to pay a dime,

1248
01:10:26,640 --> 01:10:29,479
Speaker 1: and you go to college for free. So that's why

1249
01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:32,920
Speaker 1: I started playing basketball. It's because he said, I can

1250
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:34,840
Speaker 1: go to college, I can get a scholarship. And this

1251
01:10:34,880 --> 01:10:37,320
Speaker 1: is what that's that's my story. That's how it started.

1252
01:10:37,640 --> 01:10:40,640
Speaker 1: That's crazy. And then so it only gets worse, it

1253
01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:45,080
Speaker 1: only gets Crazier'll give it to me. So I fourteen,

1254
01:10:45,160 --> 01:10:47,840
Speaker 1: You never played You know, people over here they start

1255
01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:50,920
Speaker 1: playing basketball and sports in general. So there's a certain

1256
01:10:50,960 --> 01:10:54,080
Speaker 1: amount of did you play soccer anything? We played soccer,

1257
01:10:54,120 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 1: but soccer was more of like a social thing. Me

1258
01:10:56,320 --> 01:10:58,080
Speaker 1: and my friends would be out, will be waiting for

1259
01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:00,000
Speaker 1: you know, all right, you can pick us up after school,

1260
01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:01,840
Speaker 1: so we would just be outside playing all you need.

1261
01:11:03,360 --> 01:11:05,519
Speaker 1: It's not sports wasn't my thing. I just I just

1262
01:11:05,600 --> 01:11:07,679
Speaker 1: like to be with my friends. I played video games.

1263
01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:10,240
Speaker 1: But now I didn't know it wasn't sports. Wasn't my

1264
01:11:10,320 --> 01:11:15,000
Speaker 1: thing until I came here and I started playing basketball. Um,

1265
01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:17,000
Speaker 1: but you know the way it all started and the

1266
01:11:17,040 --> 01:11:18,840
Speaker 1: way it kind of like it's a it's a whole

1267
01:11:18,880 --> 01:11:21,360
Speaker 1: long story we don't have all the time on this podcast.

1268
01:11:21,400 --> 01:11:25,840
Speaker 1: But my first basket was against my own team. What

1269
01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:28,360
Speaker 1: do you mean, so mat fact, let me, let me

1270
01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:30,439
Speaker 1: I can this part of the story is actually important.

1271
01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:33,200
Speaker 1: So I tried. So what what he convinced me to do?

1272
01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:34,880
Speaker 1: I was fourteen years old, So he made me go

1273
01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:37,280
Speaker 1: back to high school and redo my senior year. The

1274
01:11:37,320 --> 01:11:39,759
Speaker 1: thought process was, if I go back to high school,

1275
01:11:39,760 --> 01:11:42,280
Speaker 1: I can learn start learning with my people, my age.

1276
01:11:42,479 --> 01:11:44,559
Speaker 1: Instead of going to college. It's not even possible to

1277
01:11:44,640 --> 01:11:46,519
Speaker 1: How can you get a scholarship and just go to college.

1278
01:11:47,439 --> 01:11:50,040
Speaker 1: So the plan was I would go to Jesuit High School,

1279
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:53,080
Speaker 1: which is a Catholic school and Sacramento, and I would

1280
01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:55,040
Speaker 1: play basketball there. I played there for a couple of

1281
01:11:55,080 --> 01:11:57,080
Speaker 1: years they would teach me how to play and somehow

1282
01:11:57,200 --> 01:12:00,120
Speaker 1: because the school was good at basketball. So he was like,

1283
01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:01,880
Speaker 1: this is where you need to go. This is the plan.

1284
01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:04,600
Speaker 1: It's all full proof. We got this down right. I

1285
01:12:04,640 --> 01:12:07,519
Speaker 1: get to the school, I'm going to school there, I'm

1286
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:10,920
Speaker 1: taking these classes, and then I get cut from the team.

1287
01:12:11,840 --> 01:12:15,240
Speaker 1: I wasn't good, Like you don't understand, Like the scouting

1288
01:12:15,320 --> 01:12:17,000
Speaker 1: report for me or the way they talked about me

1289
01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:19,200
Speaker 1: is he cannot chew gum and walk at the same time,

1290
01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:23,200
Speaker 1: and so it was very, very awkward. I wasn't coordinated

1291
01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:25,920
Speaker 1: at all. Hand eye coordination was literally zero. If you

1292
01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:28,960
Speaker 1: want to go on two K it was zero. And

1293
01:12:29,560 --> 01:12:32,920
Speaker 1: people don't understand what it is to go from that

1294
01:12:33,360 --> 01:12:37,800
Speaker 1: to the NBA five years later. That's fucking nuts. It's

1295
01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:40,720
Speaker 1: they don't understand. But it's it's not it's not just

1296
01:12:40,760 --> 01:12:43,479
Speaker 1: a great story in terms of Wow, this is amazing.

1297
01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:46,880
Speaker 1: It's like there's a lot of sweat equity. There's a

1298
01:12:46,920 --> 01:12:49,760
Speaker 1: lot of tears and blood and everything that you leave

1299
01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:52,400
Speaker 1: on that court on the track and like all these

1300
01:12:52,400 --> 01:12:54,719
Speaker 1: things that I had to do to get there, and

1301
01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:58,080
Speaker 1: who actually helped me out was you know, there was

1302
01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:00,920
Speaker 1: a random, just stranger. He walks up to me one

1303
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:03,080
Speaker 1: day after school and he's his son was gonna be

1304
01:13:03,080 --> 01:13:05,280
Speaker 1: on the team. And this guy walks up to me

1305
01:13:05,320 --> 01:13:09,120
Speaker 1: and he says, um, he's talking with the coach of

1306
01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:11,040
Speaker 1: the team, the high school team at the time. So

1307
01:13:11,240 --> 01:13:13,800
Speaker 1: he goes up to the coach. Wow, like because he

1308
01:13:13,840 --> 01:13:16,040
Speaker 1: sees me a big black kid. Obviously I can play

1309
01:13:16,040 --> 01:13:19,720
Speaker 1: basketball because I'm big and black. So he says that

1310
01:13:19,760 --> 01:13:21,280
Speaker 1: he sees me. He's like, wow, you guys are gonna

1311
01:13:21,320 --> 01:13:23,160
Speaker 1: be really good this year. The coach is like yeah,

1312
01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:25,360
Speaker 1: but you know, he said, why you say that. It's

1313
01:13:25,400 --> 01:13:27,760
Speaker 1: a big kid, y'all? Guy, he said, yeah, not because

1314
01:13:27,800 --> 01:13:30,599
Speaker 1: of him. He's a kid. He's not He's not even good.

1315
01:13:31,280 --> 01:13:33,519
Speaker 1: He said, what are you talking about? Asking the coach

1316
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:36,880
Speaker 1: coaches like, he can't play. He just came from he

1317
01:13:36,920 --> 01:13:39,960
Speaker 1: can't play, came from Nigeria. What's wrong with him? Can

1318
01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 1: he run? Guys like yeah? Can he jump? He was

1319
01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:46,479
Speaker 1: like yeah, so what's the problem. He's no good? Can

1320
01:13:46,520 --> 01:13:48,920
Speaker 1: I have him? Which is a weird thing to say

1321
01:13:48,960 --> 01:13:51,800
Speaker 1: because he tells me this story all the time, and uh,

1322
01:13:51,880 --> 01:13:54,000
Speaker 1: he actually somebody who has become a really good friend.

1323
01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:55,880
Speaker 1: So he comes up to me at the time and

1324
01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:59,000
Speaker 1: he um tells me and I don't know what AU

1325
01:13:59,200 --> 01:14:01,519
Speaker 1: is at the time. So he comes up to me

1326
01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:04,000
Speaker 1: and says, hey, you I wanted you to play on

1327
01:14:04,040 --> 01:14:06,320
Speaker 1: my team. Do you what are you interested in playing basketball?

1328
01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:08,320
Speaker 1: I said, I mean, I don't know. I just will see.

1329
01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:12,960
Speaker 1: So he says, he you you travel with me. We're

1330
01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:15,200
Speaker 1: all sleep in the same hotel. See how this sounds

1331
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:16,920
Speaker 1: still a fourteen year old kid, I'm like, yo, my

1332
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:22,479
Speaker 1: mom warned me about mothers and when I went home,

1333
01:14:22,479 --> 01:14:24,519
Speaker 1: and at the time, my parents are still in Nigeria.

1334
01:14:24,600 --> 01:14:26,760
Speaker 1: So I called him and say, hey, you know I

1335
01:14:26,800 --> 01:14:28,800
Speaker 1: met this guy. You know, he says that he can

1336
01:14:28,840 --> 01:14:31,200
Speaker 1: really help me in terms of basketball if I play.

1337
01:14:31,400 --> 01:14:34,160
Speaker 1: You with him, and we got to travel and we

1338
01:14:34,280 --> 01:14:36,080
Speaker 1: stay in the same hotel room. My mom hung up

1339
01:14:36,120 --> 01:14:40,360
Speaker 1: the phone. What you're talking about? And you know we

1340
01:14:40,439 --> 01:14:44,200
Speaker 1: got to you know, explore a little further. But you know,

1341
01:14:44,320 --> 01:14:47,160
Speaker 1: playing on his AU team it took me to a

1342
01:14:47,200 --> 01:14:49,599
Speaker 1: whole you know, like this is a whole new world

1343
01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:52,280
Speaker 1: for me. You know, I had you know, teammates, I

1344
01:14:52,320 --> 01:14:54,679
Speaker 1: had all these like things I had never had before.

1345
01:14:54,680 --> 01:14:57,559
Speaker 1: This is this is new, especially being in America at

1346
01:14:57,600 --> 01:15:00,240
Speaker 1: this point, I'm new here. I don't really have any friends.

1347
01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:02,040
Speaker 1: I don't know anybody. I'm commuting an hour and a

1348
01:15:02,120 --> 01:15:05,439
Speaker 1: half every day each way to go to school. Like

1349
01:15:05,720 --> 01:15:08,880
Speaker 1: everything about this journey has been crazy. And so now

1350
01:15:08,920 --> 01:15:10,560
Speaker 1: I'm with this team and I'm hanging out with the

1351
01:15:10,600 --> 01:15:13,880
Speaker 1: summer with these kids my age, traveling and doing the stuff.

1352
01:15:14,200 --> 01:15:17,439
Speaker 1: Like I said, my first basket during this time was

1353
01:15:17,479 --> 01:15:19,599
Speaker 1: against my own team. You put it in the wrong basket.

1354
01:15:19,720 --> 01:15:21,800
Speaker 1: I didn't know you switch halfs at the you know,

1355
01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:24,600
Speaker 1: you switch sides of the half. So I got a

1356
01:15:24,640 --> 01:15:27,360
Speaker 1: defensive rebound and put it right back in and everybody's

1357
01:15:27,400 --> 01:15:29,160
Speaker 1: looking like, what the fund is going on? Like you

1358
01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:33,280
Speaker 1: didn't know what's going on? Yeah, because I got the rebound. No,

1359
01:15:33,640 --> 01:15:36,240
Speaker 1: I couldn't dunk at the time. Man, Yeah, So I

1360
01:15:36,280 --> 01:15:39,360
Speaker 1: got the rebound and my teammates are running out for

1361
01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:41,640
Speaker 1: the outlet. I take it and I put it right

1362
01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:45,040
Speaker 1: back in, and they were looking at me like like

1363
01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:46,880
Speaker 1: and what are you doing? What are you doing? What

1364
01:15:47,600 --> 01:15:49,439
Speaker 1: are you doing? It's a tight game, like we're trying

1365
01:15:49,479 --> 01:15:54,599
Speaker 1: to win this game. But um, I didn't really care.

1366
01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:57,640
Speaker 1: I was happy I'm gonna I was happy that was

1367
01:15:57,720 --> 01:15:59,599
Speaker 1: my first basket. I don't care what you're talking about.

1368
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:02,120
Speaker 1: This is my first This is it for me, you know,

1369
01:16:02,360 --> 01:16:04,519
Speaker 1: which made it ain't so the injury. You're running up

1370
01:16:04,520 --> 01:16:07,240
Speaker 1: the court, They're like, oh man, there's there's cussing me

1371
01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:09,240
Speaker 1: up smiling. I don't know what the heck is going on.

1372
01:16:09,439 --> 01:16:12,880
Speaker 1: I'm smiling at that age when you're you're still learning.

1373
01:16:13,040 --> 01:16:16,080
Speaker 1: What was the first thing about basketball, the game of basketball?

1374
01:16:16,640 --> 01:16:20,400
Speaker 1: The skill that clicked with you that you remember going

1375
01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:23,559
Speaker 1: I could do this? Was it dribbling? Was it a jump?

1376
01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:25,400
Speaker 1: Was it a drop step? Like? What was the dun

1377
01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:28,559
Speaker 1: to dunk? Um? All right? We were in the gym

1378
01:16:28,600 --> 01:16:31,080
Speaker 1: working for a long time. This is for hours, and

1379
01:16:31,120 --> 01:16:32,680
Speaker 1: we were trying to teach me how to dunk. And

1380
01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:34,439
Speaker 1: at that time I can only dunk on one hand.

1381
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:36,760
Speaker 1: And this is like after a gather step. I had

1382
01:16:36,760 --> 01:16:39,840
Speaker 1: to run up and like lift, you know. And I

1383
01:16:39,960 --> 01:16:42,400
Speaker 1: worked on it for so long and when I could

1384
01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:44,920
Speaker 1: finally do it, I kept doing it over and over

1385
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:47,040
Speaker 1: and that's like this the first step. Just like I

1386
01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:49,680
Speaker 1: had a taste of success. I got you for me,

1387
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:51,840
Speaker 1: and I think that that kind of drew me in

1388
01:16:51,880 --> 01:16:54,679
Speaker 1: a little bit. You the first dunk in a game.

1389
01:16:55,040 --> 01:16:57,280
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I still remember it too. It was

1390
01:16:57,320 --> 01:16:59,679
Speaker 1: a two handed dunk. This is after I've been working

1391
01:16:59,680 --> 01:17:01,760
Speaker 1: where you working. One of the times I got an

1392
01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:04,200
Speaker 1: offensive rebound and I'm under the basket and I just

1393
01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:06,880
Speaker 1: hear somebody else dunk it, dunk it. I don't even

1394
01:17:06,920 --> 01:17:09,280
Speaker 1: know what came over me. I just rose up. I'm

1395
01:17:09,360 --> 01:17:11,799
Speaker 1: right underneath the basket. I literally had to reach behind

1396
01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:15,040
Speaker 1: my head to dunk this ball. But I'm dunk it

1397
01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:17,720
Speaker 1: in the crowd of people. That was the first time

1398
01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:21,280
Speaker 1: I realized one thing how strong I was and how

1399
01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:24,760
Speaker 1: athletic I was. And so it kind of started this

1400
01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:27,040
Speaker 1: chain of man, maybe I can do something with this.

1401
01:17:27,200 --> 01:17:29,479
Speaker 1: You know. It kind of lit that little, that little

1402
01:17:29,479 --> 01:17:32,160
Speaker 1: flame in my head of like, okay, let me try. Granted,

1403
01:17:32,280 --> 01:17:35,640
Speaker 1: was still very raw, very very raw, and um, I

1404
01:17:35,680 --> 01:17:40,799
Speaker 1: played two summers like this. This story gets it gets crazier.

1405
01:17:41,040 --> 01:17:44,439
Speaker 1: So I played the first summer after this. I'm done

1406
01:17:44,479 --> 01:17:45,800
Speaker 1: with the high school because I don't want to go

1407
01:17:45,800 --> 01:17:48,160
Speaker 1: there anymore. I don't I've already already had my diploma

1408
01:17:48,200 --> 01:17:50,120
Speaker 1: from high school. I only went back so I can

1409
01:17:50,120 --> 01:17:54,720
Speaker 1: play basketball. Couldn't play anymore. I am at this time.

1410
01:17:54,760 --> 01:17:58,400
Speaker 1: I'm fifteen, turned sixteen in the fall. When I turned sixteen,

1411
01:17:58,400 --> 01:18:02,559
Speaker 1: I go to a junior college at sixteen. Because it's

1412
01:18:02,760 --> 01:18:05,040
Speaker 1: crazy because remember I was I was still trying to

1413
01:18:05,040 --> 01:18:07,920
Speaker 1: be a doctor, but I couldn't play basketball. It's what

1414
01:18:07,920 --> 01:18:10,040
Speaker 1: they told me. So my whole thing was, you know,

1415
01:18:10,080 --> 01:18:12,360
Speaker 1: I can go back to school. I can go you know,

1416
01:18:12,520 --> 01:18:17,440
Speaker 1: work it, get a scholarship, academic scholarship. Crazy, like you're sixteen,

1417
01:18:17,520 --> 01:18:22,000
Speaker 1: you're six eight, you're from Nigeria, Like there's so many

1418
01:18:22,080 --> 01:18:26,599
Speaker 1: wild different things. You know you're dealing with. You stand

1419
01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:29,559
Speaker 1: out because you're tall, but you're not really a great

1420
01:18:29,640 --> 01:18:32,800
Speaker 1: basketball player. And then you and even if even if

1421
01:18:32,800 --> 01:18:35,120
Speaker 1: you're just a regular size sixteen year old, and that's

1422
01:18:35,120 --> 01:18:38,479
Speaker 1: always weird, like some Doogie Houser ship. You know, you're

1423
01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:41,519
Speaker 1: around adults eighteen, ninet, twenty year old people in the

1424
01:18:42,439 --> 01:18:46,599
Speaker 1: old people Like there's like there's forty year old junior college. Everybody.

1425
01:18:46,640 --> 01:18:49,200
Speaker 1: Everybody's there. And it was weird because I'll be in

1426
01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:51,840
Speaker 1: chemistry class and I would have older people Like I

1427
01:18:51,880 --> 01:18:54,680
Speaker 1: was actually a tutor. That's how I got I got

1428
01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:56,839
Speaker 1: a little bit of money, is I was a tutor

1429
01:18:56,880 --> 01:18:59,200
Speaker 1: in the school. So I was. I was tutoring math

1430
01:18:59,320 --> 01:19:02,519
Speaker 1: and biology. Almost did chemistry, but it was too much

1431
01:19:02,560 --> 01:19:05,680
Speaker 1: lowered with my my So I was tutoring while I

1432
01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:08,400
Speaker 1: was going to school and I'm walking around school. One

1433
01:19:08,479 --> 01:19:11,160
Speaker 1: day I guess the coach, the basketball coach at the

1434
01:19:11,240 --> 01:19:14,679
Speaker 1: team there you be college, had heard about me. So he,

1435
01:19:14,800 --> 01:19:16,840
Speaker 1: you know, somehow, it tracks me down and sees me like, yo,

1436
01:19:16,880 --> 01:19:18,880
Speaker 1: what's going Like, where'd you come from? Who are you?

1437
01:19:19,479 --> 01:19:21,080
Speaker 1: And I tell him a little bit of my story.

1438
01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:23,920
Speaker 1: I got to go to class, bro. So he convinced

1439
01:19:23,920 --> 01:19:26,200
Speaker 1: me to come to the gym and talk to him.

1440
01:19:26,200 --> 01:19:27,680
Speaker 1: So I come back to the gym and we talk

1441
01:19:27,720 --> 01:19:29,920
Speaker 1: a little bit. He somehow this dude is I mean,

1442
01:19:29,960 --> 01:19:32,200
Speaker 1: his name is Doug Cornelius. He's still a really good

1443
01:19:32,200 --> 01:19:35,200
Speaker 1: friend of mine until today. And he's the coach there still.

1444
01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:42,600
Speaker 1: And he convinced me to try taking basketball classes. Basketball

1445
01:19:42,600 --> 01:19:45,960
Speaker 1: class is a thing you've a college, you but community

1446
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:49,639
Speaker 1: colleges where I went to school, and basketball was the thing.

1447
01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:51,799
Speaker 1: And so I take yoga like it's like a workout.

1448
01:19:51,840 --> 01:19:57,360
Speaker 1: They have yoga as well. But yeah, that you actually

1449
01:19:57,479 --> 01:19:59,719
Speaker 1: learned how to play, you actually play pick up, I got,

1450
01:19:59,720 --> 01:20:03,120
Speaker 1: you know, And so this this was my first kind

1451
01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:05,519
Speaker 1: of you know, interaction with him and his team. And

1452
01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:08,720
Speaker 1: as I started to do it and learn more, and

1453
01:20:08,760 --> 01:20:10,760
Speaker 1: he actually took a lot of you know, he was

1454
01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:15,000
Speaker 1: teaching me, and I started liking the team and liking him,

1455
01:20:15,080 --> 01:20:17,320
Speaker 1: especially because he was my guy. Like he was like

1456
01:20:17,520 --> 01:20:21,800
Speaker 1: taking me through all this. He wanted me to play

1457
01:20:21,920 --> 01:20:25,680
Speaker 1: on his team eventually. All right, so, um, what he want?

1458
01:20:25,760 --> 01:20:29,240
Speaker 1: What he His plan was, you know, you great shirt

1459
01:20:29,280 --> 01:20:30,960
Speaker 1: with us for a couple of years. I can get

1460
01:20:30,960 --> 01:20:34,160
Speaker 1: your college scholarship. Just play with me. I played with

1461
01:20:34,200 --> 01:20:37,200
Speaker 1: my school, play with my team, Play with us, and

1462
01:20:37,240 --> 01:20:39,360
Speaker 1: we'll get your college scholarship. So he convinced me the

1463
01:20:39,400 --> 01:20:41,280
Speaker 1: great shirt. If I don't know if you guys understand that,

1464
01:20:41,320 --> 01:20:44,320
Speaker 1: but great shirting is you know, going under twelve years.

1465
01:20:44,320 --> 01:20:47,320
Speaker 1: I never heard of shirt. It's red shirting. This great shirting.

1466
01:20:47,360 --> 01:20:50,680
Speaker 1: Red shirting is you are a full time student. You're

1467
01:20:50,720 --> 01:20:54,240
Speaker 1: just not playing great shirting is. I never heard that

1468
01:20:54,600 --> 01:20:57,880
Speaker 1: you're a part time student. The clock doesn't start for

1469
01:20:57,960 --> 01:21:00,840
Speaker 1: you when you're red shirting. You have have four years,

1470
01:21:01,320 --> 01:21:05,200
Speaker 1: you have five years to play four in college. But

1471
01:21:05,240 --> 01:21:07,920
Speaker 1: if you're gray shirt, then that clock doesn't start. You

1472
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:10,880
Speaker 1: just go part time, which is under twelve units. It's

1473
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:13,760
Speaker 1: a whole it's a whole scheme, which he explained to me.

1474
01:21:14,240 --> 01:21:16,360
Speaker 1: And so that was a tough decision for me because

1475
01:21:16,520 --> 01:21:18,519
Speaker 1: I wanted to go be a doctor and I felt like,

1476
01:21:18,560 --> 01:21:23,960
Speaker 1: you're so that's why I had to go see let

1477
01:21:23,960 --> 01:21:25,640
Speaker 1: me try and see if this works out. And so

1478
01:21:25,720 --> 01:21:27,640
Speaker 1: I when I when I talked to my parents about this,

1479
01:21:27,680 --> 01:21:29,919
Speaker 1: talk to my uncle. My uncle is a doctor himself

1480
01:21:30,120 --> 01:21:33,280
Speaker 1: at this point in here, United States. Here, that's what

1481
01:21:33,439 --> 01:21:35,320
Speaker 1: I was living with you. So when I told him

1482
01:21:35,320 --> 01:21:37,120
Speaker 1: about this whole thing, he was like he had already

1483
01:21:37,160 --> 01:21:39,320
Speaker 1: given up the dream. So he was like, Yo, why

1484
01:21:39,320 --> 01:21:41,000
Speaker 1: are you wasting my time? And why are you wasting

1485
01:21:41,240 --> 01:21:43,040
Speaker 1: you know, we don't want to pay for school. If

1486
01:21:43,040 --> 01:21:45,400
Speaker 1: you're going to be going part times, go get a job.

1487
01:21:45,439 --> 01:21:48,400
Speaker 1: Then so that was a whole deal. And that was

1488
01:21:48,400 --> 01:21:52,160
Speaker 1: a whole deal. But you know, he eventually came around.

1489
01:21:52,680 --> 01:21:55,439
Speaker 1: You know, um what what how it actually happened. I

1490
01:21:55,479 --> 01:21:57,960
Speaker 1: was a part of the team, but I was the

1491
01:21:58,080 --> 01:22:02,000
Speaker 1: videographer team. Like I told you the story, I keep saying,

1492
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:04,240
Speaker 1: the story is crazy and people don't believe it, and

1493
01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:06,320
Speaker 1: I don't even believe. Sometimes I talk, when I talk

1494
01:22:06,400 --> 01:22:08,280
Speaker 1: about it. The way for me to travel with this

1495
01:22:08,320 --> 01:22:11,200
Speaker 1: basketball team at Uba College was to be the videographer.

1496
01:22:11,439 --> 01:22:13,559
Speaker 1: And so when we would travel to games and I

1497
01:22:13,560 --> 01:22:15,519
Speaker 1: would be this big black dude come off the bus

1498
01:22:15,520 --> 01:22:17,240
Speaker 1: and people are like, holy ship, we were in for

1499
01:22:17,320 --> 01:22:23,280
Speaker 1: it tonight. And now I bring out my camera back cameras. Yeah,

1500
01:22:23,360 --> 01:22:26,840
Speaker 1: and that was my that was my journey man, that

1501
01:22:26,920 --> 01:22:30,400
Speaker 1: was my story. And um, the next summer I was

1502
01:22:30,439 --> 01:22:32,960
Speaker 1: at home. I didn't really have much going on. Mind you,

1503
01:22:33,040 --> 01:22:36,920
Speaker 1: I'm sixteen this whole time, so I'm still like I'm

1504
01:22:36,960 --> 01:22:40,559
Speaker 1: still young. I go back and play with that same

1505
01:22:40,640 --> 01:22:44,360
Speaker 1: guy from the summer before hear you again. This time

1506
01:22:44,400 --> 01:22:47,040
Speaker 1: I'm better, right because I've been taking those basketball classes, right,

1507
01:22:47,280 --> 01:22:54,200
Speaker 1: that's crazy basketball classes. So when when I come back,

1508
01:22:55,000 --> 01:22:56,720
Speaker 1: first of all, my body is different. Now I'm a

1509
01:22:56,720 --> 01:22:59,040
Speaker 1: little skinnier because I've been running these sprints, I've been

1510
01:22:59,040 --> 01:23:01,000
Speaker 1: doing all these things with as I've been playing pick up.

1511
01:23:01,479 --> 01:23:04,960
Speaker 1: I'm still very raw, but now I'm athletic. Know how

1512
01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:07,240
Speaker 1: to block shots. That's something that I don't know when

1513
01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:09,800
Speaker 1: that came about, but it just it seems like it's

1514
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:12,040
Speaker 1: always been in nate in me knowing how to block

1515
01:23:12,080 --> 01:23:16,400
Speaker 1: shots and So when I come back that summer, my

1516
01:23:16,400 --> 01:23:19,160
Speaker 1: team and I we go to the Sweet sixteen of

1517
01:23:19,320 --> 01:23:21,800
Speaker 1: you know, the Big Time tournaments in Vegas. I don't

1518
01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:24,080
Speaker 1: know if you know about it, and they still have

1519
01:23:24,160 --> 01:23:27,920
Speaker 1: that yeah it's yeah, but now it's like everybody it's

1520
01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:31,439
Speaker 1: created as crazy as the whole scheme now. But at

1521
01:23:31,479 --> 01:23:33,200
Speaker 1: the time, like we had, the Big Time was the

1522
01:23:33,360 --> 01:23:35,040
Speaker 1: that was the that was the tournament to go to.

1523
01:23:35,120 --> 01:23:36,960
Speaker 1: Everybody from all over the country came there. It was

1524
01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:38,679
Speaker 1: like three D teams and we went to the Sweet

1525
01:23:38,720 --> 01:23:41,120
Speaker 1: six team, my team and I. We had some some

1526
01:23:41,520 --> 01:23:43,880
Speaker 1: lot of cats from Sacramento. My AU team was called

1527
01:23:43,920 --> 01:23:46,840
Speaker 1: the North cal Farareos, so obviously with a name like that,

1528
01:23:46,880 --> 01:23:50,800
Speaker 1: nobody takes us seriously, the North cal Farres. But we

1529
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:54,280
Speaker 1: came in and we actually, um, we had we we

1530
01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:56,920
Speaker 1: had a mash up with our team and Play Hard

1531
01:23:56,920 --> 01:24:00,000
Speaker 1: Play Smart, which had some other guys from Sacramento who

1532
01:24:00,000 --> 01:24:03,360
Speaker 1: were some killers. So our our teams together, I mean

1533
01:24:03,760 --> 01:24:05,519
Speaker 1: me and the other big kid on my team his

1534
01:24:05,600 --> 01:24:07,959
Speaker 1: name was he was Terence Jennings. He went to Louisville.

1535
01:24:08,520 --> 01:24:09,920
Speaker 1: All you have to do is throw the ball up

1536
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:14,160
Speaker 1: and somebody's dunking it. Him everybody's dunking, and so my

1537
01:24:14,240 --> 01:24:18,320
Speaker 1: team was actually really good. And um, so going through

1538
01:24:18,360 --> 01:24:20,439
Speaker 1: that whole process and people come in to see them.

1539
01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:22,760
Speaker 1: The other team guys on my team who were prospects,

1540
01:24:23,120 --> 01:24:26,479
Speaker 1: people saw me like yo, who is that kid? And

1541
01:24:26,680 --> 01:24:29,680
Speaker 1: I get invited to the Top one fifty camp in

1542
01:24:29,720 --> 01:24:31,960
Speaker 1: Philly or New Jersey. I can't remember one of those

1543
01:24:33,240 --> 01:24:35,960
Speaker 1: and uh I looked at the letter. I was like,

1544
01:24:36,040 --> 01:24:40,040
Speaker 1: I don't me one top one kids And that's crazy, right,

1545
01:24:40,920 --> 01:24:45,840
Speaker 1: And um when I go to the camp, almost felt

1546
01:24:45,880 --> 01:24:48,080
Speaker 1: like I was big foot. Like people were like taking

1547
01:24:48,080 --> 01:24:49,880
Speaker 1: pictures of me, like, yo, who is this kid? Where

1548
01:24:49,960 --> 01:24:53,160
Speaker 1: you I mean? Because they didn't know where I came.

1549
01:24:53,240 --> 01:24:55,400
Speaker 1: I literally just came on the scene. Because remember I

1550
01:24:55,439 --> 01:24:59,280
Speaker 1: was at junior college. I didn't play basketball. So who

1551
01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:01,559
Speaker 1: were the players, Like who were the other players there?

1552
01:25:01,560 --> 01:25:05,759
Speaker 1: Like who were the best players? Oh, like Aaron Gordon's

1553
01:25:05,760 --> 01:25:08,240
Speaker 1: brother Drew Gordon was like one of the top dudes

1554
01:25:08,280 --> 01:25:10,559
Speaker 1: of that camp we had. Um Isaiah Thomas was on

1555
01:25:10,680 --> 01:25:12,639
Speaker 1: my team. So we had like all star team, which

1556
01:25:12,680 --> 01:25:16,680
Speaker 1: I made at the end. And because he looks like

1557
01:25:16,720 --> 01:25:19,639
Speaker 1: he was just a killer, like he could just score man,

1558
01:25:19,680 --> 01:25:22,080
Speaker 1: he could he was doing this since he probably came

1559
01:25:22,080 --> 01:25:24,280
Speaker 1: out of the womb scoring. You know, Isaiah was doing

1560
01:25:24,400 --> 01:25:28,880
Speaker 1: the same thing. Brandon Jennings, uh, Ernardo Sydney. I don't

1561
01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:32,840
Speaker 1: know if you know that is um Man. There's so

1562
01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:35,439
Speaker 1: many kids. I don't remember everybody at this point, but

1563
01:25:35,479 --> 01:25:39,200
Speaker 1: it's all the top kids and we're all going at

1564
01:25:39,240 --> 01:25:41,639
Speaker 1: it and I'm just happy to be here because I

1565
01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:44,479
Speaker 1: you know, I don't but I always had a little

1566
01:25:44,520 --> 01:25:47,719
Speaker 1: competitive edge. I always like Quincy a c Is Actually

1567
01:25:48,160 --> 01:25:50,200
Speaker 1: that was my first So during the All Star Game,

1568
01:25:50,680 --> 01:25:52,719
Speaker 1: I was dunked on for the first time in my career.

1569
01:25:53,960 --> 01:25:55,600
Speaker 1: I try to help off of the week's side. I

1570
01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:57,880
Speaker 1: saw Quincy. I was like, I've always been the most

1571
01:25:57,880 --> 01:26:00,920
Speaker 1: athletic guy, and so I tried to jump with Quincy

1572
01:26:00,960 --> 01:26:03,680
Speaker 1: a C at the time, and he dunked on me

1573
01:26:03,920 --> 01:26:08,000
Speaker 1: so crazy with two hands. It was. It was probably

1574
01:26:08,040 --> 01:26:10,720
Speaker 1: the craziest. So after I went through that feeling, I

1575
01:26:10,760 --> 01:26:13,479
Speaker 1: was like, yo, I don't want to experience this thing again.

1576
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:17,000
Speaker 1: This sucks. Is embarrassing my first time being dunked on.

1577
01:26:17,120 --> 01:26:19,639
Speaker 1: So you must have learned so much because now you're

1578
01:26:19,640 --> 01:26:24,040
Speaker 1: playing with more athletic just as big as you competitive.

1579
01:26:24,040 --> 01:26:26,360
Speaker 1: They grew up like this is their life, their blood,

1580
01:26:26,400 --> 01:26:29,280
Speaker 1: like this is their whole thing. So did it? Did

1581
01:26:29,320 --> 01:26:31,720
Speaker 1: it awaken something? And you're like, yo, I really like

1582
01:26:31,840 --> 01:26:34,559
Speaker 1: I want to do this ship. That's That's exactly what

1583
01:26:34,640 --> 01:26:37,400
Speaker 1: it was. You know, coming through that camp, knowing where

1584
01:26:37,439 --> 01:26:38,920
Speaker 1: I came from. They don't know who I am, but

1585
01:26:39,160 --> 01:26:41,400
Speaker 1: knowing where I came from again to this point, all

1586
01:26:41,439 --> 01:26:44,160
Speaker 1: it did was fuel that fire of wanting to do more.

1587
01:26:44,320 --> 01:26:46,439
Speaker 1: Like look at all these dudes, look at what they're doing.

1588
01:26:46,920 --> 01:26:50,439
Speaker 1: I want to do more, you know. So um, But

1589
01:26:50,479 --> 01:26:51,960
Speaker 1: when I came from that camp, I got a bunch

1590
01:26:52,000 --> 01:26:54,840
Speaker 1: of scholarships. That was my first time I got um.

1591
01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:57,200
Speaker 1: I had I think the year before I had played

1592
01:26:57,320 --> 01:26:59,880
Speaker 1: you people saw me. I had two scholarships, one to

1593
01:27:00,120 --> 01:27:03,360
Speaker 1: UNLV and went to Oregon State. I left that camp

1594
01:27:03,400 --> 01:27:06,599
Speaker 1: with about forty some scholarship from all over the place.

1595
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:08,680
Speaker 1: It was I couldn't gun anywhere in the country, to

1596
01:27:08,720 --> 01:27:11,240
Speaker 1: be honest, and and they knew you were a good student.

1597
01:27:11,800 --> 01:27:15,320
Speaker 1: That was you getting recruited by Harvard, Princeton all the whole. Yeah,

1598
01:27:15,360 --> 01:27:17,439
Speaker 1: so Harvard is actually one of the college business I took.

1599
01:27:18,439 --> 01:27:21,160
Speaker 1: And for Nigerian, you know that for a Nigerian family.

1600
01:27:21,360 --> 01:27:24,160
Speaker 1: My mom still has that letter printed till today. She

1601
01:27:24,200 --> 01:27:26,479
Speaker 1: wants you to go to Harvard. It was, it was

1602
01:27:26,560 --> 01:27:28,360
Speaker 1: that was the conversation that we had to have as

1603
01:27:28,360 --> 01:27:30,519
Speaker 1: a family. You have thought somebody died, Like I literally

1604
01:27:30,520 --> 01:27:33,240
Speaker 1: had to sit down with my family and say, hey, listen,

1605
01:27:34,160 --> 01:27:36,400
Speaker 1: I can't go to Harvard. I don't think that that

1606
01:27:36,439 --> 01:27:38,640
Speaker 1: fits my vision or what I want to do. I

1607
01:27:38,760 --> 01:27:41,200
Speaker 1: love the school is such an amazing honor that you know,

1608
01:27:41,280 --> 01:27:43,479
Speaker 1: I was able to get accepted, but it's not something

1609
01:27:43,520 --> 01:27:44,760
Speaker 1: that I want to do. I want to Actually, you

1610
01:27:44,840 --> 01:27:47,840
Speaker 1: got accepted, you got a scholarship offer, Your grades are good,

1611
01:27:47,880 --> 01:27:51,000
Speaker 1: like the whole it's it's incredible. But you knew as

1612
01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:54,280
Speaker 1: a basketball player like that wouldn't answer it. I've always

1613
01:27:54,320 --> 01:27:56,920
Speaker 1: been very in tune with my energy, Like I always known,

1614
01:27:57,040 --> 01:27:59,439
Speaker 1: like if I walk into a room, I can always

1615
01:27:59,479 --> 01:28:03,200
Speaker 1: feel like I don't feel good here? Right? I think

1616
01:28:03,439 --> 01:28:05,000
Speaker 1: that was how are you feel in here right now?

1617
01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:09,479
Speaker 1: Doing the podcast? I felt man, doors here, tall doors

1618
01:28:09,520 --> 01:28:11,280
Speaker 1: here at the house. This is this is nice, this

1619
01:28:11,360 --> 01:28:15,720
Speaker 1: is good? Alright, cool, alright, cool? So you chose Vanderbilt.

1620
01:28:15,840 --> 01:28:19,439
Speaker 1: I chose which is a good school? Is a top

1621
01:28:20,080 --> 01:28:22,400
Speaker 1: well it still is it's a top twenty school in

1622
01:28:22,439 --> 01:28:25,439
Speaker 1: the country, and at the time, it was an up

1623
01:28:25,479 --> 01:28:27,800
Speaker 1: and coming basketball program. The year before I got there,

1624
01:28:27,840 --> 01:28:30,160
Speaker 1: they just went to the Sweet six team and so

1625
01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:32,840
Speaker 1: meeting with the coach, meeting with the players. I think

1626
01:28:32,880 --> 01:28:36,120
Speaker 1: I went to a lot of schools. One of the

1627
01:28:36,200 --> 01:28:39,200
Speaker 1: things that was a stipulation that I wanted to happen

1628
01:28:39,280 --> 01:28:41,320
Speaker 1: that one of the things that I said to every

1629
01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:44,080
Speaker 1: coach is like, hey, like, I want a red shirt.

1630
01:28:44,439 --> 01:28:46,880
Speaker 1: That was the thing I told everybody because at this time,

1631
01:28:47,000 --> 01:28:51,439
Speaker 1: right now, I'm six, I'm seventeen, right, so I'm seventeen

1632
01:28:51,520 --> 01:28:54,679
Speaker 1: years old, and I felt like I wanted to rest.

1633
01:28:54,680 --> 01:28:57,040
Speaker 1: I wanted to learn. I've never been on a team,

1634
01:28:57,040 --> 01:28:59,320
Speaker 1: I never played organized basketball before. I don't know what

1635
01:28:59,400 --> 01:29:02,240
Speaker 1: that's like. I feel like I need a year to

1636
01:29:02,320 --> 01:29:04,519
Speaker 1: adjust to and this is just in your head, Like

1637
01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:07,160
Speaker 1: you're like you knew that. Yeah, Like I felt like

1638
01:29:07,160 --> 01:29:10,640
Speaker 1: like I needed more time. And people didn't understand what

1639
01:29:10,680 --> 01:29:12,680
Speaker 1: I was talking, like, you don't choose to rest your

1640
01:29:12,760 --> 01:29:14,800
Speaker 1: we if we think that you should rest here, that's

1641
01:29:14,840 --> 01:29:16,680
Speaker 1: what we choose to resture you. Or you have an

1642
01:29:16,720 --> 01:29:19,960
Speaker 1: injury transfer or whatever. But I was like, no, like

1643
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:21,479
Speaker 1: I feel like, this is what I need to do,

1644
01:29:21,840 --> 01:29:24,719
Speaker 1: and they said, um. A lot of coaches weren't weren't

1645
01:29:24,720 --> 01:29:27,680
Speaker 1: happy with that. They were like the you know, like

1646
01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:30,519
Speaker 1: we need you right now, like we but I was like, yo,

1647
01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:34,040
Speaker 1: I know, like, but I'm very raw, like I know

1648
01:29:34,120 --> 01:29:36,479
Speaker 1: that this time would really help me, which ended up

1649
01:29:36,520 --> 01:29:39,040
Speaker 1: being the case because I really needed that the extra time.

1650
01:29:39,479 --> 01:29:43,639
Speaker 1: And so when I got to Vandy and I took

1651
01:29:43,680 --> 01:29:45,880
Speaker 1: my visit there, it's just like it was a different field.

1652
01:29:45,920 --> 01:29:47,920
Speaker 1: I know the coach. I felt his energy and his

1653
01:29:47,960 --> 01:29:50,759
Speaker 1: passion towards the game, and he told me from the start,

1654
01:29:50,840 --> 01:29:54,080
Speaker 1: he said, listen, you're a project. I'm not gonna lie

1655
01:29:54,080 --> 01:29:56,800
Speaker 1: to you like it's your game needs a lot of work,

1656
01:29:56,960 --> 01:29:58,360
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna work with you. I'm not going to

1657
01:29:58,439 --> 01:30:01,439
Speaker 1: recruit over you. You're going to be my guy right now.

1658
01:30:01,479 --> 01:30:04,120
Speaker 1: We have a starting center, but you're going to be

1659
01:30:04,200 --> 01:30:06,439
Speaker 1: my guy. I'm not recruiting anybody else to come over you,

1660
01:30:06,760 --> 01:30:10,760
Speaker 1: right And having that conversation with him and having to

1661
01:30:11,240 --> 01:30:13,160
Speaker 1: meeting my teammates, and it was dope because a couple

1662
01:30:13,200 --> 01:30:14,720
Speaker 1: of other visits I went on. I went on a

1663
01:30:14,840 --> 01:30:18,439
Speaker 1: visit to a school where the other center I dunked

1664
01:30:18,479 --> 01:30:20,200
Speaker 1: on the center and he tried to fight me just

1665
01:30:20,240 --> 01:30:22,719
Speaker 1: during the game. So like, I went on some business

1666
01:30:22,800 --> 01:30:25,720
Speaker 1: with guys that like they didn't really rock with me

1667
01:30:26,680 --> 01:30:28,400
Speaker 1: just because they felt I was going to take their spot.

1668
01:30:28,600 --> 01:30:30,280
Speaker 1: When I went to Vendi, they were like, Yo, we

1669
01:30:30,360 --> 01:30:32,920
Speaker 1: need like your athletics and what you bring, like we

1670
01:30:32,960 --> 01:30:36,360
Speaker 1: feel like it will be good for us, and so

1671
01:30:36,560 --> 01:30:38,200
Speaker 1: um that couple of a couple with the school. I

1672
01:30:38,200 --> 01:30:40,200
Speaker 1: went to school in Nashville, which is a whole different

1673
01:30:40,280 --> 01:30:42,000
Speaker 1: vibe from what I was used to. So I was like, man,

1674
01:30:42,040 --> 01:30:44,719
Speaker 1: this is really like I like this, But the school

1675
01:30:44,760 --> 01:30:48,120
Speaker 1: I really wanted to go to with Stanford, that was

1676
01:30:48,200 --> 01:30:51,280
Speaker 1: my dream school. I wanted to go to Stanford. And

1677
01:30:51,280 --> 01:30:55,600
Speaker 1: it's not like I picked like coming from Sacramento. I

1678
01:30:55,640 --> 01:30:58,800
Speaker 1: wanted to go to Stanford. That's how I envisioned everything.

1679
01:30:58,840 --> 01:31:01,000
Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, I'm going here. It's grade school,

1680
01:31:01,040 --> 01:31:04,080
Speaker 1: grade basketball program, and I'm gonna become a doctor. So

1681
01:31:04,160 --> 01:31:06,200
Speaker 1: see how my mind is. You're not even thinking playing

1682
01:31:06,200 --> 01:31:08,639
Speaker 1: in the NBA. How how can I think about playing

1683
01:31:08,680 --> 01:31:10,720
Speaker 1: the NBA. I just started playing basketball. I didn't think

1684
01:31:10,720 --> 01:31:15,720
Speaker 1: it's a possibility. So when I think that, you know,

1685
01:31:15,920 --> 01:31:17,840
Speaker 1: that was one of the schools and they had the

1686
01:31:17,880 --> 01:31:21,280
Speaker 1: two bigs in the Lopez twins, and so they didn't

1687
01:31:21,320 --> 01:31:23,360
Speaker 1: need me, but everybody else is calling me. So it

1688
01:31:23,439 --> 01:31:26,080
Speaker 1: was like this crazy conflict in my head, like they

1689
01:31:26,120 --> 01:31:29,240
Speaker 1: want me, but you don't want that crazy one of

1690
01:31:29,240 --> 01:31:30,800
Speaker 1: the reasons why I didn't want to go to school

1691
01:31:30,840 --> 01:31:33,519
Speaker 1: in California, Like I was like, not forget that, I'm

1692
01:31:33,560 --> 01:31:35,080
Speaker 1: gonna go somewhere else and I'm gonna go do what

1693
01:31:35,120 --> 01:31:37,840
Speaker 1: I need to do. And so like the SCS, the

1694
01:31:37,920 --> 01:31:40,599
Speaker 1: u c l As, the cal Berkeleys, although they were

1695
01:31:40,640 --> 01:31:42,680
Speaker 1: great schools, but I was like, now I want to

1696
01:31:42,720 --> 01:31:45,920
Speaker 1: go somewhere else. And so even taking I didn't know

1697
01:31:45,960 --> 01:31:48,160
Speaker 1: what to expect going to vander but Vanderbild was actually

1698
01:31:48,160 --> 01:31:49,840
Speaker 1: one of the first schools I crossed off my list.

1699
01:31:49,880 --> 01:31:51,439
Speaker 1: I didn't know what it was. I was like, vander

1700
01:31:51,760 --> 01:31:54,559
Speaker 1: Vander what that was? Jr. College was, I'm not going

1701
01:31:54,600 --> 01:31:57,800
Speaker 1: to another Jerry college. But I went there. I was

1702
01:31:57,880 --> 01:32:00,960
Speaker 1: so blown away by first of all, the city and

1703
01:32:01,000 --> 01:32:04,160
Speaker 1: the culture. Right, country music that's not really it wasn't

1704
01:32:04,280 --> 01:32:06,479
Speaker 1: really my thing because my parents actually listened to a

1705
01:32:06,479 --> 01:32:08,920
Speaker 1: lot of country music and I hated it. And I

1706
01:32:08,920 --> 01:32:10,599
Speaker 1: was like I don't want to hear this shit anymore.

1707
01:32:11,240 --> 01:32:13,080
Speaker 1: But when I got there, it was just cool people.

1708
01:32:13,160 --> 01:32:15,760
Speaker 1: Southern hospitality is a real thing, man. They really really

1709
01:32:15,800 --> 01:32:18,200
Speaker 1: took care of me, and it was like I enjoyed

1710
01:32:18,240 --> 01:32:20,439
Speaker 1: my my time. So you know, when it came down

1711
01:32:20,520 --> 01:32:23,360
Speaker 1: to it and I chose Vanderbilt, I thought that would

1712
01:32:23,360 --> 01:32:25,519
Speaker 1: be the place to go. And I felt like there

1713
01:32:25,560 --> 01:32:27,720
Speaker 1: was something calling me there. And did you did you

1714
01:32:27,800 --> 01:32:31,160
Speaker 1: stay four years? I graduated? Yeah, so you read shirted

1715
01:32:31,160 --> 01:32:33,519
Speaker 1: the first year, so I actually stayed five because I

1716
01:32:33,840 --> 01:32:37,800
Speaker 1: resturated the first year. So I resturated my first year

1717
01:32:38,000 --> 01:32:40,400
Speaker 1: and I played four years. The first two years I

1718
01:32:40,479 --> 01:32:43,280
Speaker 1: barely played. I was coming off the bench five minutes

1719
01:32:43,439 --> 01:32:46,080
Speaker 1: and in ten minutes the next year. The guy in

1720
01:32:46,120 --> 01:32:49,519
Speaker 1: front of me is an Australian player, which is funny

1721
01:32:49,560 --> 01:32:51,439
Speaker 1: because I also played with the Australian player when I

1722
01:32:51,479 --> 01:32:55,200
Speaker 1: got to the league. But in bog but um a

1723
01:32:55,360 --> 01:32:59,040
Speaker 1: j ogilvie big guys some foot or I mean skilled,

1724
01:32:59,240 --> 01:33:02,439
Speaker 1: very skilled, was supposed to be lottery his freshman year,

1725
01:33:03,200 --> 01:33:06,280
Speaker 1: he got some He has some injury issues at the time,

1726
01:33:06,360 --> 01:33:09,400
Speaker 1: so he decided to leave and go back to Australia.

1727
01:33:10,040 --> 01:33:12,080
Speaker 1: When he leaves the coach kind of hands me the

1728
01:33:12,160 --> 01:33:15,599
Speaker 1: keys to the car, and at the time, um, it

1729
01:33:15,680 --> 01:33:18,439
Speaker 1: was between that we had. It was another center who

1730
01:33:18,479 --> 01:33:20,880
Speaker 1: was another backup as well. His name was Steve chan Gang,

1731
01:33:21,040 --> 01:33:24,000
Speaker 1: who's actually one of my best friends now. And the

1732
01:33:24,000 --> 01:33:27,400
Speaker 1: difference between me and Steve starting the starting center spot

1733
01:33:27,400 --> 01:33:29,559
Speaker 1: the next year our junior year was a flip of

1734
01:33:29,560 --> 01:33:32,640
Speaker 1: a coin. He said, you guys have been killing it

1735
01:33:32,720 --> 01:33:35,400
Speaker 1: all practice, all preseason, Like, I don't know what to do,

1736
01:33:35,680 --> 01:33:38,759
Speaker 1: So you guys are gonna actually switch back and forth

1737
01:33:39,400 --> 01:33:43,760
Speaker 1: game the game I started, he starts. But as after

1738
01:33:43,920 --> 01:33:47,000
Speaker 1: like three games, there was just something about you know,

1739
01:33:47,080 --> 01:33:50,160
Speaker 1: the my defensive presence in the paint that just you know,

1740
01:33:50,240 --> 01:33:52,360
Speaker 1: they took it, took our team to another level. And

1741
01:33:52,439 --> 01:33:54,880
Speaker 1: he was like, hey, you know what kind of like

1742
01:33:54,920 --> 01:33:57,200
Speaker 1: doing what he did with Lebron, Like hey, man, like

1743
01:33:57,360 --> 01:34:00,920
Speaker 1: we both need each other. I will be the backup

1744
01:34:00,960 --> 01:34:04,639
Speaker 1: for the team and seeing somebody like that, because initially

1745
01:34:04,680 --> 01:34:07,000
Speaker 1: we didn't like each other, but we were really like right,

1746
01:34:07,120 --> 01:34:09,240
Speaker 1: But for him to be say that's the type of person,

1747
01:34:09,360 --> 01:34:12,320
Speaker 1: like I like to surround myself with people like that

1748
01:34:12,479 --> 01:34:14,840
Speaker 1: because you see the big picture for us to win,

1749
01:34:15,680 --> 01:34:19,200
Speaker 1: like we need each other and so he gave me,

1750
01:34:19,320 --> 01:34:21,519
Speaker 1: you know, that starting position. That's when I became an

1751
01:34:21,600 --> 01:34:24,600
Speaker 1: NBA prospect. That year was because I came in there

1752
01:34:24,760 --> 01:34:27,320
Speaker 1: before that summer. I've never put in work like that

1753
01:34:27,400 --> 01:34:29,360
Speaker 1: like I have in my whole life. Because my coach

1754
01:34:29,400 --> 01:34:31,439
Speaker 1: told me, Hey, this is gonna be a year and

1755
01:34:31,479 --> 01:34:33,479
Speaker 1: I went home. I did everything. Like if you're talking

1756
01:34:33,479 --> 01:34:35,720
Speaker 1: about working out, I don't think there's any workout that

1757
01:34:35,760 --> 01:34:37,439
Speaker 1: you can look at out there with us, running on

1758
01:34:37,479 --> 01:34:40,759
Speaker 1: the dunes, whether it's boxing with us, yoga, were doing everything,

1759
01:34:41,240 --> 01:34:44,519
Speaker 1: running out night, whatever. Like I'm doing everything and my

1760
01:34:44,640 --> 01:34:48,120
Speaker 1: body feels like crap, but like I'm I'm ready to

1761
01:34:48,160 --> 01:34:51,880
Speaker 1: go next year. And I come in my junior and

1762
01:34:52,120 --> 01:34:55,200
Speaker 1: I became an NBA prospect. That's kind of how the

1763
01:34:55,200 --> 01:34:59,720
Speaker 1: whole thing started. So when I talked about adversity, I've

1764
01:34:59,760 --> 01:35:02,800
Speaker 1: seen a lot of it and this next phase was

1765
01:35:02,880 --> 01:35:05,600
Speaker 1: my biggest that that was one of my another adversity

1766
01:35:05,640 --> 01:35:08,479
Speaker 1: I hit. So after my junior year, I had the

1767
01:35:08,560 --> 01:35:09,920
Speaker 1: chance to come to the NBA. I was gonna be

1768
01:35:09,920 --> 01:35:12,720
Speaker 1: a lot of people and what year was this? This

1769
01:35:12,800 --> 01:35:17,400
Speaker 1: is my third and uh, I had a conversation with

1770
01:35:17,439 --> 01:35:20,240
Speaker 1: my mom and I think two thousand level was also

1771
01:35:20,280 --> 01:35:25,360
Speaker 1: the lockout year. So that couple with the fact my

1772
01:35:25,400 --> 01:35:28,519
Speaker 1: mom and my my parents actually there was no way

1773
01:35:28,520 --> 01:35:33,320
Speaker 1: I was leaving college early. I wasn't gonna leave halfway through.

1774
01:35:34,240 --> 01:35:36,880
Speaker 1: I also missed to say I wasn't missed saying that

1775
01:35:36,960 --> 01:35:40,120
Speaker 1: after two years. Um I decided that basketball was going well.

1776
01:35:40,560 --> 01:35:44,200
Speaker 1: So I switched from premed because I couldn't dedicate all

1777
01:35:44,200 --> 01:35:46,720
Speaker 1: my time to both. I switched from premed and I

1778
01:35:47,320 --> 01:35:52,360
Speaker 1: chose another professional degree, which is economics. I just couldn't

1779
01:35:52,360 --> 01:35:55,160
Speaker 1: do both anymore. So this time I'm like, I'm invested

1780
01:35:55,240 --> 01:35:57,920
Speaker 1: like I want to do, but my parents felt like

1781
01:35:57,960 --> 01:36:00,920
Speaker 1: I needed my degree right. I didn't really argue with

1782
01:36:00,960 --> 01:36:03,799
Speaker 1: him because I actually love college. A good time in college.

1783
01:36:04,400 --> 01:36:07,599
Speaker 1: Um So the next year, my senior year, I get

1784
01:36:07,680 --> 01:36:11,719
Speaker 1: hurt before in the preseason, I tear like I land

1785
01:36:11,960 --> 01:36:15,559
Speaker 1: like some um it's in practice, somebody undercuts me, and

1786
01:36:15,760 --> 01:36:18,120
Speaker 1: um I land. I tear my my m C on

1787
01:36:18,160 --> 01:36:21,840
Speaker 1: my PC, on my knee. Holy fuck, Like this is

1788
01:36:22,040 --> 01:36:25,080
Speaker 1: this is this is real. This is like the thing

1789
01:36:25,160 --> 01:36:27,200
Speaker 1: you hear about movies, like you come back and get hurt.

1790
01:36:28,160 --> 01:36:30,280
Speaker 1: My coach was so distraught because he was one of

1791
01:36:30,320 --> 01:36:32,000
Speaker 1: the people that told me I should come back. So

1792
01:36:32,080 --> 01:36:33,559
Speaker 1: he was like he didn't even know how to act.

1793
01:36:34,680 --> 01:36:36,400
Speaker 1: And one of the first I just like I just

1794
01:36:36,479 --> 01:36:39,000
Speaker 1: laid there. I was like screaming, like paining all this

1795
01:36:39,080 --> 01:36:43,280
Speaker 1: crazy stuff. And later on that night, I'm sitting there

1796
01:36:43,280 --> 01:36:45,960
Speaker 1: and I'm like the same thing, like I'm tears running

1797
01:36:46,000 --> 01:36:49,519
Speaker 1: down my eyes. I just started laughing. I was like

1798
01:36:49,840 --> 01:36:51,840
Speaker 1: it was just like it was so it was like

1799
01:36:51,880 --> 01:36:55,080
Speaker 1: a movie to me. I felt like something something changed

1800
01:36:55,080 --> 01:36:57,439
Speaker 1: in my mind that night. It was just like this

1801
01:36:57,479 --> 01:37:00,160
Speaker 1: is where I'm at. This is where I'm at, So

1802
01:37:00,160 --> 01:37:03,800
Speaker 1: what am I gonna do about it? And from that

1803
01:37:03,880 --> 01:37:08,200
Speaker 1: point that night, I had my I had my knee

1804
01:37:08,280 --> 01:37:12,240
Speaker 1: fixed there I was supposed to be out for I know,

1805
01:37:12,360 --> 01:37:14,840
Speaker 1: I didn't have to fix Actually I had a choice

1806
01:37:14,840 --> 01:37:18,400
Speaker 1: to do the surgery or to leave it. And it

1807
01:37:18,479 --> 01:37:20,960
Speaker 1: kind of heels on its own if you if you

1808
01:37:21,040 --> 01:37:24,439
Speaker 1: keep it for six weeks locked up. I played in

1809
01:37:24,479 --> 01:37:28,760
Speaker 1: a game six weeks later with my knee bandaged up,

1810
01:37:29,200 --> 01:37:31,439
Speaker 1: like I couldn't even bend my knee, that's how much

1811
01:37:31,439 --> 01:37:33,080
Speaker 1: it was bandaged up. But I was like, yo, like

1812
01:37:33,120 --> 01:37:35,960
Speaker 1: I watched my team like I've always been a team

1813
01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:38,519
Speaker 1: first guy, and my team struggled a little bit, and

1814
01:37:38,520 --> 01:37:40,400
Speaker 1: I was just like, you know what, getting me out there.

1815
01:37:41,960 --> 01:37:43,799
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it was a smart decision

1816
01:37:43,840 --> 01:37:45,639
Speaker 1: or not, it's just that that's kind of the thing

1817
01:37:45,680 --> 01:37:47,800
Speaker 1: that's in me, Like I want to be out there.

1818
01:37:47,800 --> 01:37:50,120
Speaker 1: I'm a competitive dude, and I would be out there

1819
01:37:50,120 --> 01:37:52,080
Speaker 1: on the court with my knee like that. Actually played

1820
01:37:52,080 --> 01:37:55,160
Speaker 1: against step School and it was after after he left

1821
01:37:55,479 --> 01:37:58,080
Speaker 1: and I had I might have had like seventeen and

1822
01:37:58,200 --> 01:38:01,120
Speaker 1: nine with my with not being able to jump like

1823
01:38:01,160 --> 01:38:04,040
Speaker 1: I couldn't. And you didn't get the surgery, No, I didn't.

1824
01:38:04,520 --> 01:38:08,519
Speaker 1: I didn't. And you know, one of the one of

1825
01:38:08,560 --> 01:38:13,720
Speaker 1: the most one of the most precious things about that

1826
01:38:13,760 --> 01:38:18,720
Speaker 1: process for me was that right after I had that surgery,

1827
01:38:18,960 --> 01:38:21,200
Speaker 1: up until I didn't play at in practice, I was

1828
01:38:21,240 --> 01:38:23,839
Speaker 1: there with my team every day. One of the most

1829
01:38:24,720 --> 01:38:28,040
Speaker 1: my amazing, most amazing accomplishments that I had was that

1830
01:38:29,240 --> 01:38:32,720
Speaker 1: I got voted by my team unanimously to be the

1831
01:38:32,760 --> 01:38:36,840
Speaker 1: team captain. My attitude through that whole process, I don't

1832
01:38:36,880 --> 01:38:38,759
Speaker 1: even know where I got the strength to be honest,

1833
01:38:38,800 --> 01:38:41,720
Speaker 1: because I just felt like they needed me. I was

1834
01:38:41,800 --> 01:38:44,840
Speaker 1: gonna be there. I've always been the team first guy

1835
01:38:44,960 --> 01:38:48,240
Speaker 1: and so um going from that and then you know,

1836
01:38:48,400 --> 01:38:50,479
Speaker 1: playing with my team, we played the whole year out.

1837
01:38:50,680 --> 01:38:52,920
Speaker 1: You know, we were SEC were the first time we

1838
01:38:52,960 --> 01:38:55,479
Speaker 1: won the SEC championship. That year we actually beat Anthony

1839
01:38:55,560 --> 01:38:58,559
Speaker 1: Davis in the Kentucky Wildcasts. We beat them that year

1840
01:38:58,560 --> 01:39:02,439
Speaker 1: in the SEC Championship and that year was so amazing

1841
01:39:03,320 --> 01:39:06,160
Speaker 1: and everything. They kind of but it came from that moment,

1842
01:39:06,200 --> 01:39:08,559
Speaker 1: like let's just go back and rewind to the start

1843
01:39:08,560 --> 01:39:10,400
Speaker 1: of the season when I had that's when I had

1844
01:39:10,400 --> 01:39:13,000
Speaker 1: that injury. I really was like I could have just

1845
01:39:13,120 --> 01:39:17,840
Speaker 1: quitt you you know, and I take all these experiences.

1846
01:39:17,880 --> 01:39:21,040
Speaker 1: I was drafted about the Golden State Warriors, UM five

1847
01:39:21,120 --> 01:39:24,639
Speaker 1: picks before Draymond Green. Yeah. Yeah, So when you get

1848
01:39:24,960 --> 01:39:26,760
Speaker 1: when you go through the process, you go through the

1849
01:39:26,800 --> 01:39:29,280
Speaker 1: draft camps and also then you go get you get drafted,

1850
01:39:29,439 --> 01:39:34,080
Speaker 1: You've been playing basketball five years. It was insane at

1851
01:39:34,120 --> 01:39:35,840
Speaker 1: that point. I've been playing for five years. I've been

1852
01:39:35,840 --> 01:39:39,360
Speaker 1: playing organized basketball for five years, So I just get drafted.

1853
01:39:39,960 --> 01:39:43,160
Speaker 1: I mean, coach Kurk calls the Draymond the future Hall

1854
01:39:43,200 --> 01:39:46,880
Speaker 1: of Famer, So you mean think about that. But to me,

1855
01:39:46,920 --> 01:39:49,439
Speaker 1: it was just like I just couldn't believe where I

1856
01:39:49,479 --> 01:39:51,640
Speaker 1: was at, how I got there. I worked hard, so

1857
01:39:51,720 --> 01:39:54,320
Speaker 1: I can do all that. But when I got drafted

1858
01:39:54,360 --> 01:39:58,960
Speaker 1: in it's insane. And was was David Stern? Or was

1859
01:39:58,960 --> 01:40:01,519
Speaker 1: it David Stern? So it's like the last like almost

1860
01:40:01,520 --> 01:40:05,360
Speaker 1: like the yeah, so you get that was his last Yeah,

1861
01:40:05,680 --> 01:40:07,720
Speaker 1: so I was the last. Last time he calling them

1862
01:40:07,760 --> 01:40:11,479
Speaker 1: that that was the last regime. Wow? And they never

1863
01:40:11,520 --> 01:40:13,360
Speaker 1: thought about that. Yeah. I mean and now now you

1864
01:40:13,439 --> 01:40:19,880
Speaker 1: got my man, Adam Silver. That's incredible, that's crazy, that's historic. Wow.

1865
01:40:20,040 --> 01:40:22,559
Speaker 1: So so you get drafted by Gold, stay words, you

1866
01:40:22,680 --> 01:40:26,200
Speaker 1: get drafted ahead of Draymond Green? How how often does

1867
01:40:26,280 --> 01:40:29,720
Speaker 1: Draymond Green remind you you got drafted before me? Like? What? What? What?

1868
01:40:29,800 --> 01:40:32,639
Speaker 1: Did he be? Honest? We never to be honest, Like

1869
01:40:33,120 --> 01:40:35,080
Speaker 1: Draymond is one of the best teammates I ever happened.

1870
01:40:35,120 --> 01:40:38,120
Speaker 1: What is he like? He's such a sort of controversial figure,

1871
01:40:38,160 --> 01:40:41,720
Speaker 1: like you him? I love him. I love Draymond Like

1872
01:40:41,800 --> 01:40:43,639
Speaker 1: that's probably one of the best team that's ive ever had,

1873
01:40:43,720 --> 01:40:47,559
Speaker 1: just because um, his passion for the game, Like he's

1874
01:40:47,600 --> 01:40:50,360
Speaker 1: passion for life, Like dude is he's on ten all

1875
01:40:50,360 --> 01:40:53,320
Speaker 1: the time? Me and Draymond got into it a lot

1876
01:40:53,479 --> 01:40:55,360
Speaker 1: while we were there, but it was always loved like

1877
01:40:55,400 --> 01:40:57,519
Speaker 1: it was like when we're on the court like all that,

1878
01:40:57,760 --> 01:41:01,759
Speaker 1: like all that. He talks a lot, even in practice.

1879
01:41:01,800 --> 01:41:04,080
Speaker 1: There's even worse than practice, you know, people see it

1880
01:41:04,120 --> 01:41:05,880
Speaker 1: on the court like, oh man, this is just no

1881
01:41:06,080 --> 01:41:07,800
Speaker 1: like this is him all the time on the court

1882
01:41:08,200 --> 01:41:10,920
Speaker 1: and match my own energy, which is like yo, when

1883
01:41:11,000 --> 01:41:13,519
Speaker 1: it's time to go and we're being competitive, like we're

1884
01:41:13,520 --> 01:41:16,240
Speaker 1: about to fight, like you know, like there's no ifs

1885
01:41:16,240 --> 01:41:20,400
Speaker 1: the bus about it. So I think that that's, you know,

1886
01:41:20,520 --> 01:41:23,920
Speaker 1: being a person like that, being someone who will do anything.

1887
01:41:24,160 --> 01:41:26,559
Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest thing I love about him.

1888
01:41:26,600 --> 01:41:28,679
Speaker 1: He will do anything to help if you're on his side,

1889
01:41:29,240 --> 01:41:33,280
Speaker 1: dream rise with you. That's all it is. And he

1890
01:41:33,360 --> 01:41:36,479
Speaker 1: makes that team go. He makes everybody get better. He's

1891
01:41:36,520 --> 01:41:39,080
Speaker 1: not afraid to call you out. But that was why

1892
01:41:39,120 --> 01:41:42,559
Speaker 1: that team works so well, is because there was no egos, right,

1893
01:41:42,800 --> 01:41:46,000
Speaker 1: there's egos to be better. Like obviously Steph is you

1894
01:41:46,040 --> 01:41:48,640
Speaker 1: know this, the Houston Rockets going stay serious about to

1895
01:41:48,640 --> 01:41:51,840
Speaker 1: start right. Obviously Steph is going against Chris Paul like yo,

1896
01:41:51,880 --> 01:41:54,080
Speaker 1: I'm coming for you. Clay is going for James already,

1897
01:41:54,080 --> 01:41:57,240
Speaker 1: like yo, there's egos in that regards. There's no egos

1898
01:41:57,240 --> 01:41:59,360
Speaker 1: when you're coming to your team. You all have to

1899
01:41:59,360 --> 01:42:01,600
Speaker 1: work together. So having a guy like dream out on

1900
01:42:01,640 --> 01:42:03,960
Speaker 1: that team works very well because he's not afraid to

1901
01:42:03,960 --> 01:42:06,080
Speaker 1: call you out and tell you you're not trying hard.

1902
01:42:06,080 --> 01:42:08,240
Speaker 1: To day when you finally make it to the NBA

1903
01:42:08,400 --> 01:42:11,439
Speaker 1: and you're a Gold State Warrior, and I say to you,

1904
01:42:11,760 --> 01:42:14,800
Speaker 1: what's your first memory of playing in an NBA game?

1905
01:42:15,439 --> 01:42:18,439
Speaker 1: And you know, you're still learning about the game, You're

1906
01:42:18,479 --> 01:42:20,760
Speaker 1: still learning about the history of the NBA. What is

1907
01:42:20,800 --> 01:42:23,760
Speaker 1: your first memory of being on the court, Like, oh, ship,

1908
01:42:24,000 --> 01:42:28,560
Speaker 1: I'm out here. My first memory, man, was was preseason.

1909
01:42:28,680 --> 01:42:33,599
Speaker 1: Actually we're playing in Ontario. My first game NBA game

1910
01:42:33,800 --> 01:42:36,240
Speaker 1: was against the Lakers. And this is the Lakers team

1911
01:42:36,320 --> 01:42:39,920
Speaker 1: with Kobe, Dwight Howard, Pau Gasol, Steve Nash. And I'm

1912
01:42:39,920 --> 01:42:42,160
Speaker 1: talking about people that I've been watching. I mean my

1913
01:42:42,320 --> 01:42:46,120
Speaker 1: short lived, my short career, but I've been watching these guys.

1914
01:42:46,200 --> 01:42:48,599
Speaker 1: I know Kobe a matter of fact, I've known Kobe

1915
01:42:48,640 --> 01:42:51,519
Speaker 1: scells in Nigeria. I didn't know what like, I didn't

1916
01:42:51,560 --> 01:42:53,639
Speaker 1: know much about it, but I've I've heard his name

1917
01:42:53,680 --> 01:42:58,080
Speaker 1: on video games many times, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neil, Like

1918
01:42:58,160 --> 01:43:00,439
Speaker 1: I heard these names growing up, and so, you know,

1919
01:43:00,439 --> 01:43:02,880
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, when Kobe retired, I wrote a

1920
01:43:02,960 --> 01:43:06,960
Speaker 1: little excerpt um that it was called before I knew

1921
01:43:07,040 --> 01:43:10,439
Speaker 1: the game. I knew your name, you know, because back

1922
01:43:10,479 --> 01:43:12,840
Speaker 1: then I would hear people shoot paper in the trash

1923
01:43:12,960 --> 01:43:15,720
Speaker 1: can and said Kobe, but I didn't know who he was.

1924
01:43:16,160 --> 01:43:19,800
Speaker 1: I come to learn about basketball, and then he inspires

1925
01:43:19,880 --> 01:43:22,160
Speaker 1: me to be a better player because of how much

1926
01:43:22,200 --> 01:43:24,639
Speaker 1: he puts into everything. A matter of fact, he's dealt

1927
01:43:24,680 --> 01:43:26,920
Speaker 1: with a couple of injuries as well, came back and

1928
01:43:27,040 --> 01:43:31,920
Speaker 1: was a killer. So my first game was against the Lakers,

1929
01:43:32,280 --> 01:43:35,200
Speaker 1: and I'm walking to the center circle. I'm starting. I

1930
01:43:35,320 --> 01:43:39,479
Speaker 1: walked to the center circle and I'm tapping up Kobe Bryant,

1931
01:43:39,880 --> 01:43:42,400
Speaker 1: like my fist touched his fist. I felt like I

1932
01:43:42,520 --> 01:43:44,719
Speaker 1: was like, I just I had to play it cool.

1933
01:43:45,280 --> 01:43:47,559
Speaker 1: But I'm a rookie and I just got to the NBA.

1934
01:43:47,840 --> 01:43:50,599
Speaker 1: So what I'm dapping up this future Hall of Favor

1935
01:43:50,720 --> 01:43:55,120
Speaker 1: best player in the planet, Like this is crazy out man, Dude,

1936
01:43:55,120 --> 01:43:57,800
Speaker 1: I'm in the game. I'm almost like about to call

1937
01:43:57,880 --> 01:44:00,519
Speaker 1: somebody call a ball boy. Yo, get my let's take

1938
01:44:00,560 --> 01:44:02,720
Speaker 1: this picture with the game, you know what I mean?

1939
01:44:03,560 --> 01:44:06,519
Speaker 1: And that game started off and it was so like

1940
01:44:06,680 --> 01:44:09,200
Speaker 1: I was still so much in awe. I didn't even

1941
01:44:09,240 --> 01:44:10,840
Speaker 1: know how to Like, I think I forgot how to

1942
01:44:10,840 --> 01:44:12,840
Speaker 1: play basketball for the first five minutes of the game

1943
01:44:13,240 --> 01:44:15,000
Speaker 1: because like, do I Howard caught the ball on the

1944
01:44:15,040 --> 01:44:16,920
Speaker 1: post and I'm like, oh my god, I'm guarding do

1945
01:44:17,000 --> 01:44:20,800
Speaker 1: I Howard? You know what I mean, that's crazy. I

1946
01:44:20,920 --> 01:44:24,000
Speaker 1: think that those kind of memories. I really cherish those

1947
01:44:24,080 --> 01:44:28,479
Speaker 1: memories because it takes it's a lot. It's a lot

1948
01:44:28,600 --> 01:44:32,040
Speaker 1: to go from being in all of these guys to

1949
01:44:32,160 --> 01:44:34,519
Speaker 1: being a competitor against these guys. How do you flip

1950
01:44:34,600 --> 01:44:38,680
Speaker 1: that switch where we're competition. It's at a certain point,

1951
01:44:38,720 --> 01:44:41,200
Speaker 1: there's no more fandom. It's like, what's point. It's like

1952
01:44:41,720 --> 01:44:44,160
Speaker 1: you're trying to beat me, like I'm not if I'm

1953
01:44:44,240 --> 01:44:46,719
Speaker 1: over here messing around, like I'm gonna lose. I hate

1954
01:44:47,479 --> 01:44:50,400
Speaker 1: I hate losing. That's another thing about me, another thing

1955
01:44:50,479 --> 01:44:53,320
Speaker 1: that really pushes me to be better. I hate losing.

1956
01:44:53,680 --> 01:44:57,960
Speaker 1: Who who were there in your first year? Obviously you're

1957
01:44:57,960 --> 01:45:00,800
Speaker 1: playing with Draymond, We all playing with I'm playing with Clay.

1958
01:45:00,840 --> 01:45:03,120
Speaker 1: I'm playing with Draymond, I'm playing with David Lee, I'm

1959
01:45:03,120 --> 01:45:08,840
Speaker 1: playing with Bogets, I'm playing I mean, uh shoot Barnes right,

1960
01:45:08,960 --> 01:45:11,719
Speaker 1: this is this is the true my classes, Harrison, Barnes,

1961
01:45:11,960 --> 01:45:15,680
Speaker 1: Draymond Green, Camp bays Moore, you know. And so we're

1962
01:45:15,680 --> 01:45:17,599
Speaker 1: all on the same Golden State Warriors team in two

1963
01:45:17,640 --> 01:45:19,639
Speaker 1: thousand and twelve. But when when you get in league,

1964
01:45:20,320 --> 01:45:23,400
Speaker 1: especially the earliers who were the biggest trash talkers, like

1965
01:45:23,439 --> 01:45:25,040
Speaker 1: who are like, who are the dudes that like you were?

1966
01:45:25,080 --> 01:45:28,400
Speaker 1: Like k was in the league? C KG what what

1967
01:45:28,560 --> 01:45:31,519
Speaker 1: came at you? Crazy? I just remember the people I

1968
01:45:31,680 --> 01:45:35,920
Speaker 1: was Garden, right, That's what I'm saying. Ah shoot do

1969
01:45:36,040 --> 01:45:37,960
Speaker 1: I I would just be smiling all the time and laughing.

1970
01:45:38,000 --> 01:45:41,639
Speaker 1: Actually used to annoy the crap out of me because

1971
01:45:41,680 --> 01:45:43,840
Speaker 1: he would be busting my busting my tail and just

1972
01:45:43,920 --> 01:45:48,559
Speaker 1: smiling the whole time. The biggest smack talker, Kobe could

1973
01:45:48,600 --> 01:45:54,120
Speaker 1: talk to watch our young fellow. Oh no, I don't jump, man,

1974
01:45:54,200 --> 01:45:56,719
Speaker 1: I can't to be honest man, Like I know, Kenyan

1975
01:45:56,760 --> 01:45:59,680
Speaker 1: Martin was another person, right, he was. He was with

1976
01:46:00,040 --> 01:46:02,160
Speaker 1: Nicks of the time. So they just they just had

1977
01:46:02,320 --> 01:46:05,640
Speaker 1: they had I mean to go from there, right to

1978
01:46:05,800 --> 01:46:08,760
Speaker 1: go from fandom and the guy who was who was

1979
01:46:08,800 --> 01:46:11,880
Speaker 1: admiring these Lakers teams. And I remember before that season started,

1980
01:46:11,880 --> 01:46:14,280
Speaker 1: they had already given the Lakers the championship that year

1981
01:46:14,520 --> 01:46:17,800
Speaker 1: before the season started. Do I Howard Kobe, Steve Nashal

1982
01:46:17,840 --> 01:46:20,800
Speaker 1: on the same team. That's a done deal. Rybody's playing

1983
01:46:20,800 --> 01:46:24,920
Speaker 1: for second place didn't work going from that to us

1984
01:46:25,000 --> 01:46:28,040
Speaker 1: now being the Hunted and being the team that won

1985
01:46:28,200 --> 01:46:31,479
Speaker 1: seventy three games that broke the record in history. Like,

1986
01:46:31,960 --> 01:46:36,680
Speaker 1: I mean, people don't understand that. It takes a lot

1987
01:46:36,800 --> 01:46:39,200
Speaker 1: of work. Man, Tell me about like that that Sea,

1988
01:46:39,320 --> 01:46:42,719
Speaker 1: that team and that season and obviously losing the Lebron

1989
01:46:42,840 --> 01:46:44,920
Speaker 1: And listen, I'm a Knicks fan, but I am a

1990
01:46:45,320 --> 01:46:49,759
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors adopted redheaded child fan. Since the world

1991
01:46:49,840 --> 01:46:52,960
Speaker 1: be free, Uh, since you know Chris Mullen the run team.

1992
01:46:53,040 --> 01:46:56,320
Speaker 1: See like I was like, yo, and you know, like

1993
01:46:56,400 --> 01:46:58,400
Speaker 1: as much as I can't, as much as I respect Lebron,

1994
01:46:58,439 --> 01:47:02,920
Speaker 1: I wanted you guys kick their fucking ass. But before

1995
01:47:03,000 --> 01:47:08,120
Speaker 1: that two so yeah, I mean you win, So yeah,

1996
01:47:08,160 --> 01:47:10,360
Speaker 1: we get there. The year before we get there as

1997
01:47:10,400 --> 01:47:13,040
Speaker 1: a class, you know, Steph was dealing with injuries. Um,

1998
01:47:13,200 --> 01:47:16,240
Speaker 1: the team wins fifteen games out of eighty two. They

1999
01:47:16,280 --> 01:47:19,759
Speaker 1: win fifteen games through in the lottery. Um, so Harrison

2000
01:47:19,960 --> 01:47:23,920
Speaker 1: me Draymond, Kim Baysmore then we get bog It. And

2001
01:47:24,120 --> 01:47:26,200
Speaker 1: so this team now is like a brand new team.

2002
01:47:26,240 --> 01:47:28,880
Speaker 1: Nobody knows who we are. Mark Jackson is the coach

2003
01:47:28,920 --> 01:47:31,560
Speaker 1: at the time. I mean, that's probably one of the

2004
01:47:32,160 --> 01:47:34,000
Speaker 1: I still don't understand how he doesn't have a job

2005
01:47:35,160 --> 01:47:38,640
Speaker 1: at the time. He comes out and he says proclaims

2006
01:47:38,680 --> 01:47:41,519
Speaker 1: to everybody Steph Curry and Claytowns and best shooters in

2007
01:47:41,560 --> 01:47:45,560
Speaker 1: the world, everybody. I'm pretty sure you thought he was

2008
01:47:45,600 --> 01:47:48,040
Speaker 1: crazy when he said that. I mean when he I

2009
01:47:48,040 --> 01:47:50,479
Speaker 1: think where he said the best backclass, he said the

2010
01:47:50,560 --> 01:47:53,040
Speaker 1: best backcourt in the history of the game. Yeah, it

2011
01:47:53,200 --> 01:47:54,720
Speaker 1: was like it was like, yeah, this is not what

2012
01:47:54,840 --> 01:47:57,760
Speaker 1: are you talking about. We're talking about Michael, We're talking

2013
01:47:57,760 --> 01:48:01,920
Speaker 1: about it. But everybody, now, oh, is this so crazy now?

2014
01:48:03,360 --> 01:48:05,160
Speaker 1: And so that was the type of person he was.

2015
01:48:05,439 --> 01:48:07,880
Speaker 1: He was a visionary Mark for us. Mark Jackson was

2016
01:48:07,960 --> 01:48:10,559
Speaker 1: a visionary for our team. And so he told us

2017
01:48:10,560 --> 01:48:13,679
Speaker 1: our rookie year, I've never been around this much talent

2018
01:48:14,000 --> 01:48:17,400
Speaker 1: on one team. We're so young, but we have everything

2019
01:48:17,439 --> 01:48:19,240
Speaker 1: we need to win the championship. We thought we were

2020
01:48:19,240 --> 01:48:21,519
Speaker 1: gonna win the championship my rookie year. So we came

2021
01:48:21,560 --> 01:48:23,840
Speaker 1: in two thousand twelve the third team. We thought we

2022
01:48:23,880 --> 01:48:26,479
Speaker 1: were gonna win an NBA championship. We came through. We

2023
01:48:26,520 --> 01:48:29,800
Speaker 1: got to the playoffs, first time, making a second time

2024
01:48:29,840 --> 01:48:32,280
Speaker 1: making the playoffs in twenty years. We get to the

2025
01:48:32,320 --> 01:48:36,639
Speaker 1: playoffs and we're facing the Denver Nuggets in the first round.

2026
01:48:37,760 --> 01:48:40,639
Speaker 1: Nobody picked us. I had the picture. We all posted

2027
01:48:40,680 --> 01:48:43,720
Speaker 1: it up on the board of all the different analysts

2028
01:48:43,760 --> 01:48:46,840
Speaker 1: and everybody who's so supposed to be smart and basketball

2029
01:48:47,720 --> 01:48:50,240
Speaker 1: that picked the Denver Nuggets to beat us. The nether

2030
01:48:50,360 --> 01:48:52,639
Speaker 1: Nuggets at the time had the record for home court

2031
01:48:53,320 --> 01:48:55,479
Speaker 1: like they they broke a record the year for home

2032
01:48:55,840 --> 01:49:01,479
Speaker 1: home court wins. And we're going against in high altitude Denver.

2033
01:49:03,040 --> 01:49:06,559
Speaker 1: First two games I remember as a rookie, my first

2034
01:49:06,600 --> 01:49:10,719
Speaker 1: two playoff games, they said, the playoff atmosphere is crazy.

2035
01:49:10,720 --> 01:49:12,639
Speaker 1: You don't even know what to expect. It's so crazy.

2036
01:49:13,800 --> 01:49:19,760
Speaker 1: We get to Denver and the atmosphere was it was cool.

2037
01:49:19,880 --> 01:49:22,160
Speaker 1: It was I mean none more than anything that we

2038
01:49:22,280 --> 01:49:25,880
Speaker 1: in any high power game we played in Oakland. Game three,

2039
01:49:26,720 --> 01:49:29,880
Speaker 1: we played at home in Oakland. I have never heard

2040
01:49:30,000 --> 01:49:34,800
Speaker 1: an arena that loud in my whole career, one game

2041
01:49:34,920 --> 01:49:40,479
Speaker 1: in my whole, my whole life. That game, because it

2042
01:49:40,600 --> 01:49:43,600
Speaker 1: was the first time we had and granted, like you

2043
01:49:43,720 --> 01:49:47,719
Speaker 1: have to remember, like tickets start getting expensive. That then

2044
01:49:47,960 --> 01:49:51,479
Speaker 1: was like the core. That was like the fans who

2045
01:49:51,560 --> 01:49:54,640
Speaker 1: have been there for twenty years, starving or something, and

2046
01:49:55,280 --> 01:49:57,920
Speaker 1: they came out the whole I couldn't hear Ship on

2047
01:49:58,000 --> 01:50:01,160
Speaker 1: the court, like, dude, the energy she was. After I

2048
01:50:01,240 --> 01:50:03,040
Speaker 1: got done with that game, after we got done we

2049
01:50:03,120 --> 01:50:06,000
Speaker 1: beat them. That was the first time step shot the

2050
01:50:06,080 --> 01:50:09,080
Speaker 1: ball and turned around and smack somebody like it was

2051
01:50:09,160 --> 01:50:11,479
Speaker 1: the you I've never seen Steph play like that. He

2052
01:50:11,800 --> 01:50:14,240
Speaker 1: turned superhero. Actually I had seen him played like that

2053
01:50:14,280 --> 01:50:15,960
Speaker 1: a couple of times. He played like that in New

2054
01:50:16,080 --> 01:50:20,519
Speaker 1: York actually when he had fifty five. But um, there

2055
01:50:20,600 --> 01:50:22,120
Speaker 1: was the first time in the world has seen him.

2056
01:50:22,520 --> 01:50:24,800
Speaker 1: And so going from so that team, we had the

2057
01:50:24,920 --> 01:50:27,559
Speaker 1: belief in ourselves. We we got injured as the year

2058
01:50:27,600 --> 01:50:30,680
Speaker 1: went on. People got injured. I got hurt, Bogan got hurt.

2059
01:50:30,960 --> 01:50:33,120
Speaker 1: You know, Harrison has so a bunch of people. So

2060
01:50:33,320 --> 01:50:36,920
Speaker 1: the team got depleted. Andre Goodala comes in the next year,

2061
01:50:37,800 --> 01:50:41,120
Speaker 1: we go to seven games with with the Clippers in

2062
01:50:41,240 --> 01:50:43,559
Speaker 1: the finals and none of the finals in the first round.

2063
01:50:44,200 --> 01:50:47,240
Speaker 1: That that year, I was hurt missed that whole season.

2064
01:50:49,320 --> 01:50:55,120
Speaker 1: The following year, the third year, it's fourteen fifteen, and

2065
01:50:55,240 --> 01:50:58,560
Speaker 1: we come into that season with everybody intact, and that

2066
01:50:58,800 --> 01:51:01,479
Speaker 1: was the season that we on and we didn't know

2067
01:51:01,520 --> 01:51:04,160
Speaker 1: what to expect. I was coaching curse first year, so

2068
01:51:04,240 --> 01:51:08,240
Speaker 1: we didn't know what to expect. That. Yeah, that's the

2069
01:51:08,320 --> 01:51:11,200
Speaker 1: next year. And so that that the year was when

2070
01:51:11,479 --> 01:51:13,560
Speaker 1: you know we had you know, Steph coming in his

2071
01:51:13,680 --> 01:51:18,080
Speaker 1: own Um. I think was that the year after step signed.

2072
01:51:18,120 --> 01:51:22,880
Speaker 1: I can't remember, but no, um, yeah, So everybody was

2073
01:51:23,000 --> 01:51:26,200
Speaker 1: like everybody was was ready, like we were just promtly

2074
01:51:26,280 --> 01:51:30,000
Speaker 1: ready to to play some ball. And we went through

2075
01:51:30,040 --> 01:51:34,320
Speaker 1: that year, we got to the playoffs and everybody was healthy.

2076
01:51:35,360 --> 01:51:38,280
Speaker 1: The first time we had that happen, and I think

2077
01:51:38,360 --> 01:51:40,360
Speaker 1: New Orleans was the first time you got to really

2078
01:51:40,439 --> 01:51:44,439
Speaker 1: really see Steph the step and then from there it

2079
01:51:44,520 --> 01:51:47,040
Speaker 1: was just like, to me, it's all a blur. After that,

2080
01:51:47,360 --> 01:51:53,000
Speaker 1: the Russell Westbrook k D Oklahoma City thunder Um and

2081
01:51:53,080 --> 01:51:57,080
Speaker 1: then the finals versus Lebron. Who's that wasn't that was

2082
01:51:57,240 --> 01:51:59,040
Speaker 1: that year though? That was the next year that you're

2083
01:51:59,040 --> 01:52:00,479
Speaker 1: talking about the next year. This is the year we

2084
01:52:00,560 --> 01:52:02,840
Speaker 1: won the championship. The year we go through we go

2085
01:52:03,000 --> 01:52:07,479
Speaker 1: through New Orleans, we go through Memphis, we go to

2086
01:52:07,560 --> 01:52:12,400
Speaker 1: Houston within then we go to the Calves and playing

2087
01:52:12,439 --> 01:52:15,800
Speaker 1: against the Calves, and and Lebron and that team what

2088
01:52:16,040 --> 01:52:17,920
Speaker 1: what what I mean? He was so good in that

2089
01:52:18,120 --> 01:52:20,360
Speaker 1: and that he I mean he that was the series

2090
01:52:20,400 --> 01:52:24,960
Speaker 1: where he had lost Kyrie and Kevin Love. And I've

2091
01:52:25,080 --> 01:52:29,280
Speaker 1: never seen a human being do what he did in

2092
01:52:29,400 --> 01:52:33,120
Speaker 1: that series. Like you pretty much have this one guy

2093
01:52:33,240 --> 01:52:36,000
Speaker 1: where you have everybody trying to stop it. We literally

2094
01:52:36,080 --> 01:52:40,960
Speaker 1: are switching four different guys on him, Draymond Harrison, Andre

2095
01:52:41,320 --> 01:52:44,280
Speaker 1: everybody go guard this guy and let's try to get

2096
01:52:44,360 --> 01:52:48,880
Speaker 1: him tired. And it didn't. He was averaging what forty

2097
01:52:50,400 --> 01:52:54,160
Speaker 1: It was the craziest And when we won and before

2098
01:52:54,439 --> 01:52:56,960
Speaker 1: the final game six of that series, you know, we

2099
01:52:57,040 --> 01:53:00,160
Speaker 1: had a team meeting. Um, we were up three two

2100
01:53:01,600 --> 01:53:03,600
Speaker 1: or three one at a time or something like that,

2101
01:53:04,640 --> 01:53:06,760
Speaker 1: and we're about to win and we're about to win

2102
01:53:07,000 --> 01:53:11,120
Speaker 1: Game six. We had a conversation the locker room like

2103
01:53:11,240 --> 01:53:15,800
Speaker 1: y'o listen, like, this is it. Andre said, I have

2104
01:53:15,960 --> 01:53:17,880
Speaker 1: nothing left to give y'all. This is it. I'm giving

2105
01:53:17,960 --> 01:53:20,400
Speaker 1: y'all everything this game. And that was where he won

2106
01:53:20,479 --> 01:53:24,040
Speaker 1: the finals, started that last game, but he won finals

2107
01:53:24,080 --> 01:53:27,360
Speaker 1: EP for basically keeping Lebron and sort of that's but

2108
01:53:27,520 --> 01:53:29,599
Speaker 1: that's what it is, though, Like that's what the finals

2109
01:53:30,080 --> 01:53:32,360
Speaker 1: at this point, Now, the finals MVP goes to the

2110
01:53:32,400 --> 01:53:37,560
Speaker 1: person who stops Lebron Kauai, Like that's that's what it

2111
01:53:37,680 --> 01:53:40,439
Speaker 1: is because it's such a task. The dude isn't amazing.

2112
01:53:40,520 --> 01:53:42,760
Speaker 1: What what is it like being on the court with

2113
01:53:42,840 --> 01:53:45,160
Speaker 1: him and he's cooking like that? I mean, and like

2114
01:53:45,240 --> 01:53:47,360
Speaker 1: I would say in his prime, but he's he might

2115
01:53:47,400 --> 01:53:49,680
Speaker 1: be in his prime right now. Like I don't know

2116
01:53:49,760 --> 01:53:52,000
Speaker 1: how he can. I don't know. It's fifteen years of

2117
01:53:52,400 --> 01:53:55,720
Speaker 1: you know, taking care of your body, fifteen years of

2118
01:53:55,920 --> 01:53:58,040
Speaker 1: you know, keeping your mind shop and studying the game

2119
01:53:58,080 --> 01:54:00,640
Speaker 1: and understanding and just getting better and that regards. But

2120
01:54:01,920 --> 01:54:04,479
Speaker 1: physically what he's able to do and and play the

2121
01:54:04,560 --> 01:54:07,280
Speaker 1: amount of minister he's able to play, Um, I just

2122
01:54:07,479 --> 01:54:11,840
Speaker 1: I don't understand it. Yeah it's nuts. Yeah I don't

2123
01:54:11,880 --> 01:54:15,519
Speaker 1: get it. But I don't understand why the conversation of

2124
01:54:15,640 --> 01:54:18,960
Speaker 1: him by some Michael Jordan's cannot be had. We had that,

2125
01:54:19,360 --> 01:54:22,639
Speaker 1: We started having that conversation eight years ago and people

2126
01:54:22,680 --> 01:54:25,720
Speaker 1: were saying, well, Lebron MJ. Well he's not there yet.

2127
01:54:26,680 --> 01:54:29,320
Speaker 1: Eight years later, the things that he's been able to accomplish,

2128
01:54:29,520 --> 01:54:32,200
Speaker 1: I still don't understand why you can't have that conversation.

2129
01:54:34,200 --> 01:54:36,080
Speaker 1: He's not going to have the same career as m J.

2130
01:54:36,440 --> 01:54:38,680
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's just it's not gonna be the exact same.

2131
01:54:39,080 --> 01:54:41,080
Speaker 1: But if you look at the body of work, if

2132
01:54:41,120 --> 01:54:43,560
Speaker 1: you look at the load that he's asked to carry

2133
01:54:43,600 --> 01:54:46,360
Speaker 1: on a daily night and to keep doing it, I mean,

2134
01:54:46,400 --> 01:54:48,600
Speaker 1: people will start having arguments, Like I listened to all

2135
01:54:48,640 --> 01:54:51,160
Speaker 1: these these arguments and it's it's almost like a cult

2136
01:54:51,360 --> 01:54:53,960
Speaker 1: to me. That's how I feel about this Michael Jordan's

2137
01:54:54,120 --> 01:54:58,400
Speaker 1: Lebron conversation, because it's not even about like I think,

2138
01:54:58,440 --> 01:55:00,840
Speaker 1: it becomes like blasphemy. After a while, I was like, no,

2139
01:55:01,040 --> 01:55:04,040
Speaker 1: you can't say that, because that's the But I'm just

2140
01:55:04,120 --> 01:55:06,400
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, look at our generation. What he's

2141
01:55:06,400 --> 01:55:08,560
Speaker 1: able to do. Eight follows in the row, Like I

2142
01:55:08,640 --> 01:55:11,640
Speaker 1: went to two finals in the row, and like I mean,

2143
01:55:12,480 --> 01:55:15,800
Speaker 1: the my body is crazy, like just how I felt

2144
01:55:15,800 --> 01:55:19,400
Speaker 1: after that. So what he's able to do on a

2145
01:55:19,520 --> 01:55:23,920
Speaker 1: nightly basis and still keep getting better. It's still in

2146
01:55:23,920 --> 01:55:27,800
Speaker 1: the m VB Conversation of the year fifteen year, that's amazing.

2147
01:55:28,600 --> 01:55:32,640
Speaker 1: Every year. Well, okay, so specifically I want to go

2148
01:55:32,840 --> 01:55:36,880
Speaker 1: to the two series that I mean they pushed me.

2149
01:55:37,200 --> 01:55:39,480
Speaker 1: I'm not even from Golden State. I just wanted you

2150
01:55:39,560 --> 01:55:44,800
Speaker 1: guys to win the Oklahoma City three. You guys are

2151
01:55:45,160 --> 01:55:49,840
Speaker 1: down three one. That's the series that Clay hits the

2152
01:55:50,360 --> 01:55:53,680
Speaker 1: seven or twenty six and one quarter and then you

2153
01:55:53,840 --> 01:55:56,560
Speaker 1: guys are up three one, and this is I'm sure,

2154
01:55:56,680 --> 01:55:59,040
Speaker 1: like this is this still must get me? Like we

2155
01:55:59,120 --> 01:56:02,960
Speaker 1: were down three one and then we after winning seventy

2156
01:56:03,000 --> 01:56:06,640
Speaker 1: three games like at the end of the year. There

2157
01:56:06,880 --> 01:56:09,640
Speaker 1: it was. It was kind of it was it was

2158
01:56:09,680 --> 01:56:12,120
Speaker 1: a struggle. Did you feel like that the engine was

2159
01:56:12,240 --> 01:56:15,280
Speaker 1: like slowing down? Like did you feel like, okay, so

2160
01:56:15,400 --> 01:56:19,680
Speaker 1: the thunder was so good like they were, you know

2161
01:56:19,760 --> 01:56:21,080
Speaker 1: when we got in the league. A matter of fact,

2162
01:56:21,080 --> 01:56:23,200
Speaker 1: when I was in college watching the NBA, they were

2163
01:56:23,320 --> 01:56:25,840
Speaker 1: what the Warriors are now, which is the running gun.

2164
01:56:26,000 --> 01:56:28,440
Speaker 1: But they have Kevin Durant who was Kevin Duran is

2165
01:56:28,520 --> 01:56:33,160
Speaker 1: their Steph Curry, but he's six eleven, so like I

2166
01:56:33,240 --> 01:56:35,680
Speaker 1: mean talking about not being able to stop somebody. He's

2167
01:56:35,880 --> 01:56:38,680
Speaker 1: you know, he does all what he does, which is shooting,

2168
01:56:39,080 --> 01:56:40,640
Speaker 1: but he goes in the post and you know, so

2169
01:56:40,760 --> 01:56:42,680
Speaker 1: it's just like this dude is amazing. And then they

2170
01:56:42,760 --> 01:56:45,480
Speaker 1: have shot blocking and tearge Ibaka, and then they have

2171
01:56:45,640 --> 01:56:47,880
Speaker 1: a big presence with I think Kendrick was there at

2172
01:56:47,880 --> 01:56:51,400
Speaker 1: the time, and then they have Steven. Steven Adams was

2173
01:56:51,560 --> 01:56:55,080
Speaker 1: raw but he's first when when I yeah, but at

2174
01:56:55,120 --> 01:56:57,240
Speaker 1: this time when we played him, and he's a goon,

2175
01:56:57,360 --> 01:56:59,360
Speaker 1: so he's like a match up with Draymond was like,

2176
01:57:00,120 --> 01:57:02,000
Speaker 1: you know, so it's match up with the bigs that

2177
01:57:02,080 --> 01:57:05,760
Speaker 1: we have. The whole team was set up in such

2178
01:57:05,800 --> 01:57:08,360
Speaker 1: a way that it was they were they were supposed

2179
01:57:08,360 --> 01:57:11,680
Speaker 1: to be in the finals, but given the type of

2180
01:57:11,760 --> 01:57:15,280
Speaker 1: guys that we had and we were always going to

2181
01:57:15,360 --> 01:57:17,280
Speaker 1: try to win, we're almost trying to figure out a

2182
01:57:17,320 --> 01:57:20,640
Speaker 1: way to win, right. Um. They asked Clay the game

2183
01:57:20,760 --> 01:57:22,840
Speaker 1: I mean the game after I think it was Game

2184
01:57:23,000 --> 01:57:25,520
Speaker 1: five where we're supposed to lose over there, or Game

2185
01:57:25,600 --> 01:57:28,440
Speaker 1: six where Clay goes crazy in that one court. I

2186
01:57:28,480 --> 01:57:30,920
Speaker 1: mean it was in this whole second half, but that

2187
01:57:31,080 --> 01:57:35,240
Speaker 1: one quarter when when you're watching that and you're you're

2188
01:57:35,240 --> 01:57:36,800
Speaker 1: you're out there playing with him, you're on the bench,

2189
01:57:36,800 --> 01:57:40,400
Speaker 1: you're watching on things like are you almost like start

2190
01:57:40,520 --> 01:57:43,000
Speaker 1: you almost started watching after a while, because like you're

2191
01:57:43,000 --> 01:57:44,720
Speaker 1: going to set a screen for somebody and they just

2192
01:57:44,800 --> 01:57:47,760
Speaker 1: pull it from half court and what do you do?

2193
01:57:47,880 --> 01:57:51,040
Speaker 1: I go read, Okay, We'll just keep going, just go

2194
01:57:51,120 --> 01:57:55,280
Speaker 1: back when those guys, particularly Stephan and Clay, there's such

2195
01:57:55,360 --> 01:57:58,200
Speaker 1: good shooters and if you're setting the screen like you know,

2196
01:57:58,400 --> 01:58:00,920
Speaker 1: like by the three point area, like, are you just

2197
01:58:01,400 --> 01:58:03,800
Speaker 1: assuming it's gonna go? And you've watched him in practice?

2198
01:58:04,120 --> 01:58:05,440
Speaker 1: You know? I told her I got to watch a

2199
01:58:05,520 --> 01:58:09,440
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors practice and this guy Clay, who's like

2200
01:58:09,480 --> 01:58:11,919
Speaker 1: the guy who gets the least credit because Draymond's alludest,

2201
01:58:12,000 --> 01:58:16,000
Speaker 1: Katie's Katie steps Steph Clay. I'm watching this guy work

2202
01:58:16,040 --> 01:58:19,320
Speaker 1: out full sweat on a game day, like you've seen

2203
01:58:19,360 --> 01:58:21,640
Speaker 1: it every day, Like, are you like that's going in

2204
01:58:22,640 --> 01:58:25,520
Speaker 1: I've seen it. I've seen so much crazy stuff happen

2205
01:58:25,640 --> 01:58:29,400
Speaker 1: in practice that when you get to the game's just like, yeah,

2206
01:58:29,520 --> 01:58:32,240
Speaker 1: that's going I mean, no matter what half court, three

2207
01:58:32,320 --> 01:58:34,840
Speaker 1: point line, lay up like, it's all going in because

2208
01:58:34,920 --> 01:58:37,680
Speaker 1: you see it so much. I mean, Steph made seventy

2209
01:58:37,800 --> 01:58:40,960
Speaker 1: seven three pointers in a row in practice. You saw

2210
01:58:41,040 --> 01:58:43,920
Speaker 1: him do it like we were all there, seventy seven

2211
01:58:43,960 --> 01:58:48,480
Speaker 1: three pointers in a row. But it's just it's it's repetition.

2212
01:58:48,560 --> 01:58:51,000
Speaker 1: They do this every day. It's not like they come

2213
01:58:51,040 --> 01:58:54,040
Speaker 1: in and this is some supernatural ability. It becomes that

2214
01:58:54,160 --> 01:58:57,760
Speaker 1: because they work at this every day. Steph has been

2215
01:58:57,800 --> 01:59:00,440
Speaker 1: doing this. They all work hard. Clay does this every day.

2216
01:59:00,480 --> 01:59:03,600
Speaker 1: They have their routines, and so yeah, they're gonna make

2217
01:59:04,080 --> 01:59:05,960
Speaker 1: a lot in a row because this is what they do.

2218
01:59:06,240 --> 01:59:08,600
Speaker 1: Like this is second nature to me. That's why he

2219
01:59:08,640 --> 01:59:10,400
Speaker 1: can shoot the ball and turn around and know it's

2220
01:59:10,400 --> 01:59:13,440
Speaker 1: going in because I've done this so many times. You

2221
01:59:13,560 --> 01:59:16,840
Speaker 1: can't understand it. I shot this millions of times from

2222
01:59:16,920 --> 01:59:19,400
Speaker 1: this spot. Katie said that last year when he pulled

2223
01:59:19,440 --> 01:59:21,680
Speaker 1: up on Lebron, he said, I've been working on this

2224
01:59:21,800 --> 01:59:25,080
Speaker 1: shot for years. You just happen to see it right now.

2225
01:59:25,240 --> 01:59:26,880
Speaker 1: You know you're not in practice with me, But that's

2226
01:59:26,920 --> 01:59:28,960
Speaker 1: what we do as basketball players. We work on our

2227
01:59:29,040 --> 01:59:32,480
Speaker 1: shots all the time. But they are elite because their

2228
01:59:32,800 --> 01:59:36,280
Speaker 1: their elite level work. Yeah, they're just work ethic. When

2229
01:59:36,320 --> 01:59:38,960
Speaker 1: I asked you about like the the seventy three win

2230
01:59:39,080 --> 01:59:42,720
Speaker 1: series and the up three one against Lebron, is it

2231
01:59:42,880 --> 01:59:47,360
Speaker 1: still hard to stomach how frustrating that series was, after

2232
01:59:47,520 --> 01:59:50,080
Speaker 1: all the highs of the seventy three wins, after coming

2233
01:59:50,120 --> 01:59:53,760
Speaker 1: off a championship, after having this fucking guy down, you

2234
01:59:53,920 --> 01:59:56,960
Speaker 1: had them fucking down. How like, is it still like

2235
01:59:57,120 --> 01:59:59,880
Speaker 1: you like, if if your mind gets on I wou

2236
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:01,680
Speaker 1: You know, you move on with life, you deal to

2237
02:00:01,720 --> 02:00:07,120
Speaker 1: win injuries, but it's it's always going to be something

2238
02:00:07,200 --> 02:00:10,040
Speaker 1: in the back of my mind of like what could

2239
02:00:10,480 --> 02:00:13,760
Speaker 1: I have done? What could we have done? How did

2240
02:00:13,840 --> 02:00:16,440
Speaker 1: that happen the way it was supposed to happen. Um.

2241
02:00:17,640 --> 02:00:19,680
Speaker 1: I was with the guys this year at the start

2242
02:00:19,720 --> 02:00:21,640
Speaker 1: of the first game of the season this year when

2243
02:00:21,720 --> 02:00:25,280
Speaker 1: they got their rings from this past season, and there

2244
02:00:25,440 --> 02:00:27,520
Speaker 1: was a I was so happy for my guys, like

2245
02:00:27,600 --> 02:00:29,960
Speaker 1: those are my brothers. We went through so many battles

2246
02:00:30,000 --> 02:00:33,040
Speaker 1: together and yeah, but they're always gonna be my brothers

2247
02:00:33,080 --> 02:00:35,200
Speaker 1: for life. And I was so happy for them. On

2248
02:00:35,320 --> 02:00:38,320
Speaker 1: the second side of it, is they just got retribution

2249
02:00:38,480 --> 02:00:42,240
Speaker 1: from that. They got retribution from that three one loss,

2250
02:00:42,600 --> 02:00:47,160
Speaker 1: which was the most humiliating everybody. I was in Europe

2251
02:00:48,800 --> 02:00:51,800
Speaker 1: um earlier. I was in Europe, and people know about

2252
02:00:51,840 --> 02:00:54,040
Speaker 1: this all over the world, Like that's what the Warriors were.

2253
02:00:54,160 --> 02:00:56,200
Speaker 1: We were as symbol all around the world. People were

2254
02:00:56,280 --> 02:00:59,120
Speaker 1: rooting for us from everywhere, and so it became we

2255
02:00:59,320 --> 02:01:01,320
Speaker 1: became like a I don't even know what you call,

2256
02:01:01,520 --> 02:01:04,440
Speaker 1: like a rock star group or something. And so for

2257
02:01:04,600 --> 02:01:07,440
Speaker 1: us to lose that series the way we did, uh,

2258
02:01:07,920 --> 02:01:10,560
Speaker 1: we could always talk about Draymond suspension and how it

2259
02:01:10,640 --> 02:01:17,280
Speaker 1: played out, and but the team was beat up and

2260
02:01:17,480 --> 02:01:21,480
Speaker 1: Lebron and Kyrie were just too damn good. They were

2261
02:01:21,600 --> 02:01:24,160
Speaker 1: just too good. There was nothing, There was nothing to

2262
02:01:24,280 --> 02:01:28,640
Speaker 1: do to stop those guys once they got going. What

2263
02:01:28,720 --> 02:01:31,600
Speaker 1: do you remember about the locker room afterwards when they won?

2264
02:01:33,440 --> 02:01:38,280
Speaker 1: What do you say about that? Like were just there's

2265
02:01:38,320 --> 02:01:43,040
Speaker 1: nothing to say it was. It was just like damn

2266
02:01:46,560 --> 02:01:50,200
Speaker 1: like and it put life in perspective, Like I think

2267
02:01:51,120 --> 02:01:53,320
Speaker 1: one of the greatest moments of my life was winning

2268
02:01:53,360 --> 02:01:56,840
Speaker 1: the championship the year before. One of divorce moments of

2269
02:01:56,880 --> 02:02:00,480
Speaker 1: my life was losing that championship the year before. We

2270
02:02:00,560 --> 02:02:03,200
Speaker 1: didn't expect, well, you always expect to win, but you

2271
02:02:03,280 --> 02:02:05,120
Speaker 1: don't expect to win because when you win, it's like,

2272
02:02:05,160 --> 02:02:08,040
Speaker 1: oh my god, this is euphoric. I can't believe this

2273
02:02:08,120 --> 02:02:11,080
Speaker 1: actually happened. And so in that regard, we didn't really

2274
02:02:11,120 --> 02:02:13,920
Speaker 1: expect to win because it's amazing. And then when you

2275
02:02:14,000 --> 02:02:17,120
Speaker 1: expect to win and then lose, probably one of the

2276
02:02:17,200 --> 02:02:21,000
Speaker 1: worst worst moments in my life. Just I said before,

2277
02:02:21,000 --> 02:02:23,240
Speaker 1: I hate losing, but then losing in the way that

2278
02:02:23,320 --> 02:02:26,560
Speaker 1: we did, especially given that I wasn't a hundred percent

2279
02:02:26,600 --> 02:02:28,360
Speaker 1: and able to help my team to what I wanted to.

2280
02:02:29,680 --> 02:02:32,680
Speaker 1: I mean, it's still it haunts me till today. And

2281
02:02:32,960 --> 02:02:35,480
Speaker 1: I don't want to play basketball if that is the

2282
02:02:35,520 --> 02:02:39,000
Speaker 1: way that I get to play basketball, mean physically. Yeah.

2283
02:02:39,760 --> 02:02:43,720
Speaker 1: So I want to win. I want to be I'm

2284
02:02:43,720 --> 02:02:46,400
Speaker 1: a winner, like That's how I I view myself. So

2285
02:02:46,440 --> 02:02:47,600
Speaker 1: I want to be able to do what I do

2286
02:02:47,720 --> 02:02:50,320
Speaker 1: at an elite level. So that's why I put myself

2287
02:02:50,400 --> 02:02:53,200
Speaker 1: through this whole process of I don't care how long

2288
02:02:53,280 --> 02:02:55,280
Speaker 1: it takes me. I will be back and I'll be

2289
02:02:55,400 --> 02:02:59,600
Speaker 1: back at full strength. When you know you're highly educated,

2290
02:03:00,040 --> 02:03:03,160
Speaker 1: your story is so unusual in terms of making it

2291
02:03:03,240 --> 02:03:08,040
Speaker 1: to the NBA, the business of basketball. Katie gets traded

2292
02:03:08,960 --> 02:03:11,680
Speaker 1: or picked up free not traded free agents that gotta

2293
02:03:11,720 --> 02:03:14,360
Speaker 1: make space. Is it a tough pill? Like you're you're

2294
02:03:14,440 --> 02:03:17,160
Speaker 1: drafted by this team, this iconic team. You guys go

2295
02:03:17,360 --> 02:03:20,040
Speaker 1: through everything that takes to make it to a championship,

2296
02:03:20,080 --> 02:03:23,120
Speaker 1: You go through the the losing a championship. Is it

2297
02:03:23,400 --> 02:03:25,920
Speaker 1: like the business of basketball and like having to be

2298
02:03:26,000 --> 02:03:28,440
Speaker 1: separated from something that's so near and dear to your heart?

2299
02:03:29,240 --> 02:03:31,120
Speaker 1: Was that like a hard thing or were you like, well,

2300
02:03:31,240 --> 02:03:34,560
Speaker 1: this is just the way this business works, and we'll

2301
02:03:34,600 --> 02:03:36,520
Speaker 1: have these memories. Like is it hard to sort of

2302
02:03:36,640 --> 02:03:40,680
Speaker 1: separate because it's like, you know when you get traded, Uh,

2303
02:03:41,200 --> 02:03:45,080
Speaker 1: you know you got what I signed with? Right? Okay,

2304
02:03:45,120 --> 02:03:47,520
Speaker 1: so side, but when but when you have to like

2305
02:03:47,840 --> 02:03:50,760
Speaker 1: move on in your basketball career, is it a tough

2306
02:03:51,760 --> 02:03:54,680
Speaker 1: or you like, I mean, like, how do you something

2307
02:03:54,800 --> 02:03:57,880
Speaker 1: so special? A story about the first time I was

2308
02:03:57,920 --> 02:04:03,320
Speaker 1: a part of NBA trade Uh, the my rookie year. Um,

2309
02:04:03,480 --> 02:04:05,880
Speaker 1: we had a few guys on our team, Charles Jenkins,

2310
02:04:05,960 --> 02:04:10,080
Speaker 1: Jeremy Tyler, and I think the camp days will get traded. No,

2311
02:04:10,160 --> 02:04:12,720
Speaker 1: he didn't get traded that year. And so that year,

2312
02:04:13,200 --> 02:04:15,160
Speaker 1: a couple of guys got traded from our team. This

2313
02:04:15,280 --> 02:04:18,360
Speaker 1: is us as rookies, This is me Dreamond Harrison as rookies,

2314
02:04:18,840 --> 02:04:21,560
Speaker 1: and were coming. We were kind of waiting around before

2315
02:04:21,560 --> 02:04:24,080
Speaker 1: the trade DeLine. I think five minutes before the trade

2316
02:04:24,160 --> 02:04:26,240
Speaker 1: DeLine it comes through and so they call us to

2317
02:04:26,280 --> 02:04:28,520
Speaker 1: the locker room and we have a meeting. And during

2318
02:04:28,560 --> 02:04:32,400
Speaker 1: this locker room meeting, like they break down in tears,

2319
02:04:32,480 --> 02:04:35,880
Speaker 1: like we're literally all sitting there like this is crazy, man,

2320
02:04:35,960 --> 02:04:40,080
Speaker 1: this this is wow. Like this us this is our introduction.

2321
02:04:40,200 --> 02:04:41,840
Speaker 1: This is Mark Jackson walking in the locker room. Like

2322
02:04:41,880 --> 02:04:45,840
Speaker 1: we always family, man, We always family. And that was

2323
02:04:46,120 --> 02:04:49,400
Speaker 1: my first introduction to being traded the business of basketball.

2324
02:04:49,920 --> 02:04:53,800
Speaker 1: And it's it's hard for you to take it personally

2325
02:04:53,920 --> 02:04:57,720
Speaker 1: because everybody wants to win and that's it has to happen.

2326
02:04:58,000 --> 02:05:01,000
Speaker 1: But it doesn't make it any easier. So oh um,

2327
02:05:01,320 --> 02:05:04,360
Speaker 1: being through the trenches with my guys and my brothers.

2328
02:05:04,440 --> 02:05:07,080
Speaker 1: They're still my guys still today obviously, and I still

2329
02:05:07,160 --> 02:05:10,640
Speaker 1: talk to him and support them and everything. Um, but yeah,

2330
02:05:10,840 --> 02:05:13,280
Speaker 1: of course, yeah, seen seeing the team broken up, I

2331
02:05:13,760 --> 02:05:16,880
Speaker 1: felt like if we stayed together, we could have we

2332
02:05:17,000 --> 02:05:21,800
Speaker 1: would have absolutely gotten retribution. But um, with the team

2333
02:05:22,000 --> 02:05:24,520
Speaker 1: that they had and seen them winning last year, I

2334
02:05:24,720 --> 02:05:28,200
Speaker 1: was just as happy for them for myself, you know.

2335
02:05:28,400 --> 02:05:32,200
Speaker 1: So it's exciting. It's also inspiring when when so here

2336
02:05:32,240 --> 02:05:35,520
Speaker 1: we are, there's four teams left. Give me your analysis

2337
02:05:35,720 --> 02:05:41,360
Speaker 1: of Cleveland Boston. I'm in a conundrum. I can't. I'm

2338
02:05:41,400 --> 02:05:44,000
Speaker 1: as a New York Knicks fan, i can't root for Boston,

2339
02:05:44,280 --> 02:05:48,920
Speaker 1: but I'll never root for they are hoping. I'm with them.

2340
02:05:49,040 --> 02:05:50,440
Speaker 1: I have to do it, but it's like for me,

2341
02:05:50,600 --> 02:05:52,840
Speaker 1: it's like it's really like I have to like it's

2342
02:05:52,880 --> 02:05:55,600
Speaker 1: a distorted thing, like I'm rooting you just root for

2343
02:05:55,640 --> 02:05:58,920
Speaker 1: the East Coast. That's my excuse. I'm working with different

2344
02:05:58,960 --> 02:06:02,080
Speaker 1: excuses because I'm not room for Cleveland and those dudes,

2345
02:06:02,280 --> 02:06:05,960
Speaker 1: I mean Jayson Tatum and Jalen Brown and that coach

2346
02:06:06,040 --> 02:06:10,640
Speaker 1: and is on a terror right now. I love the

2347
02:06:10,680 --> 02:06:12,840
Speaker 1: way you think he's an understated I think when he

2348
02:06:12,880 --> 02:06:15,320
Speaker 1: signed his contract last year and people are and of

2349
02:06:15,480 --> 02:06:18,360
Speaker 1: of like, why how now you're seeing it last night

2350
02:06:18,440 --> 02:06:22,040
Speaker 1: You're starring the whole team on his back, with young guys,

2351
02:06:22,480 --> 02:06:25,880
Speaker 1: and they have an attitude of you're not going out

2352
02:06:25,960 --> 02:06:28,560
Speaker 1: work us, and you will be surprised at how much

2353
02:06:28,640 --> 02:06:30,960
Speaker 1: that that can win you games and the NBA just

2354
02:06:31,120 --> 02:06:34,520
Speaker 1: that attitude alone. Forget the exces and those the games

2355
02:06:34,600 --> 02:06:36,800
Speaker 1: that the little things like being able to have each

2356
02:06:36,800 --> 02:06:39,920
Speaker 1: other's back defense is the Rosiero goes over to Joell

2357
02:06:40,000 --> 02:06:41,520
Speaker 1: and b gets an officer rebo. At the end of

2358
02:06:41,560 --> 02:06:43,480
Speaker 1: the game, Rosiero goes over and slaps the ball of

2359
02:06:43,560 --> 02:06:46,200
Speaker 1: his hand, goes off his knee out of bounds. That's

2360
02:06:46,240 --> 02:06:48,960
Speaker 1: the game right there, little things like that, that's having

2361
02:06:49,000 --> 02:06:51,120
Speaker 1: the attitude to have your teammates back. I was a

2362
02:06:51,200 --> 02:06:53,200
Speaker 1: part of that, and I know what that is. I

2363
02:06:53,280 --> 02:06:56,120
Speaker 1: know why that wins you championship. That's why you can't

2364
02:06:56,160 --> 02:06:58,200
Speaker 1: count those guys out. So I actually love that team.

2365
02:06:58,200 --> 02:06:59,840
Speaker 1: I love the way they play. They move and cut

2366
02:07:00,360 --> 02:07:02,160
Speaker 1: just like the Warriors and just like the Spurs, and

2367
02:07:02,240 --> 02:07:05,880
Speaker 1: I love that about their game. It's not standing and watching.

2368
02:07:06,720 --> 02:07:09,720
Speaker 1: So that's basketball. That's that's the that's the real essence

2369
02:07:09,760 --> 02:07:11,560
Speaker 1: of basketball. That's why how it should be played, and

2370
02:07:11,640 --> 02:07:13,400
Speaker 1: that's how what I learned from being with the Warriors.

2371
02:07:13,920 --> 02:07:19,200
Speaker 1: So that style of play, watching them play against Philly, Philly,

2372
02:07:19,320 --> 02:07:21,400
Speaker 1: the way they win and the way they beat people

2373
02:07:21,440 --> 02:07:24,560
Speaker 1: before it's youth, right, So there are this talented group

2374
02:07:24,600 --> 02:07:26,720
Speaker 1: of guys. They make a lot of threes, but they

2375
02:07:26,760 --> 02:07:29,240
Speaker 1: all hustle everybody. That was their thing. They have t

2376
02:07:29,360 --> 02:07:31,680
Speaker 1: J McConnell coming, Darya sars is a beast on the

2377
02:07:31,760 --> 02:07:34,520
Speaker 1: boards understated. I think that's one of the X factors

2378
02:07:34,640 --> 02:07:37,680
Speaker 1: that on that team. JJ Reddick is obviously doing this thing.

2379
02:07:37,760 --> 02:07:39,920
Speaker 1: But all these guys hustle and they outfight you and

2380
02:07:40,000 --> 02:07:42,160
Speaker 1: out work here. And Ben Simmons can't shoot, but he's

2381
02:07:42,160 --> 02:07:44,480
Speaker 1: out there averaging eighteen points a game. How they out

2382
02:07:44,520 --> 02:07:47,160
Speaker 1: fighting you. But they got to the Boston Celts and

2383
02:07:47,240 --> 02:07:49,560
Speaker 1: Boston says, no, you're not gonna work us. You got

2384
02:07:49,680 --> 02:07:52,160
Speaker 1: to do something else. And it's just like, for the

2385
02:07:52,240 --> 02:07:54,120
Speaker 1: first time in the whole year, they got punched in

2386
02:07:54,160 --> 02:07:57,000
Speaker 1: the mouth and they looked like rookies. That's why it's

2387
02:07:57,160 --> 02:07:59,480
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to go through those moments. So I

2388
02:07:59,600 --> 02:08:02,560
Speaker 1: think that's what makes champions. You have to go through

2389
02:08:02,640 --> 02:08:04,560
Speaker 1: those moments of where you get punched in the mouth

2390
02:08:04,600 --> 02:08:06,440
Speaker 1: and you get beat up, and then you come back

2391
02:08:06,480 --> 02:08:08,400
Speaker 1: the next year as a better team. Of Yo, this

2392
02:08:08,520 --> 02:08:10,600
Speaker 1: is what we got. We got the experience. Now, that's

2393
02:08:10,600 --> 02:08:12,360
Speaker 1: what it is to have experience. That's why it's so

2394
02:08:12,440 --> 02:08:14,960
Speaker 1: important for everybody when they say, well that team, they're good,

2395
02:08:15,040 --> 02:08:16,680
Speaker 1: but they don't have the experiences. That's what it means

2396
02:08:16,680 --> 02:08:18,360
Speaker 1: because they don't know what it's like to have that

2397
02:08:18,440 --> 02:08:21,080
Speaker 1: diversity of everything is not going our way? How do

2398
02:08:21,200 --> 02:08:28,240
Speaker 1: we win? Um? So that being said, Lebron is freakier

2399
02:08:28,320 --> 02:08:31,000
Speaker 1: than ever. Yeah, I don't know how you go from

2400
02:08:31,360 --> 02:08:35,120
Speaker 1: a Game seven with the Indiana Pacers um to just

2401
02:08:35,240 --> 02:08:38,000
Speaker 1: sweep in the number one team in the conference. I

2402
02:08:38,080 --> 02:08:39,880
Speaker 1: don't that's just I mean, I don't know if it's

2403
02:08:39,960 --> 02:08:44,080
Speaker 1: mind control or it's it's incredible and he he ruined them.

2404
02:08:44,080 --> 02:08:46,200
Speaker 1: They should have just after that game three shot that

2405
02:08:46,320 --> 02:08:49,920
Speaker 1: that off the back floor. You know what it is though?

2406
02:08:50,000 --> 02:08:53,320
Speaker 1: I think that I think there's something about you know,

2407
02:08:54,240 --> 02:08:56,839
Speaker 1: that game won, the game one that they won in Toronto,

2408
02:08:57,800 --> 02:09:00,520
Speaker 1: that gave that team so much life, that confidence in

2409
02:09:00,560 --> 02:09:03,920
Speaker 1: our sports everything. It gave the Cleveland Cavaliers so much life,

2410
02:09:04,000 --> 02:09:07,400
Speaker 1: so much so that Tristan Thompson came out the next

2411
02:09:07,440 --> 02:09:09,760
Speaker 1: game had twelve and fourteen like yo, I'm back, like

2412
02:09:09,960 --> 02:09:12,720
Speaker 1: you know, like everybody wanted a piece of at that

2413
02:09:12,880 --> 02:09:15,480
Speaker 1: point because of the confidence they give him from every one.

2414
02:09:15,840 --> 02:09:17,440
Speaker 1: And so that was just a tough thing once that

2415
02:09:17,560 --> 02:09:19,840
Speaker 1: train starts rolling. I told you about the even that

2416
02:09:19,960 --> 02:09:22,640
Speaker 1: three one lead. We had him down, but with a

2417
02:09:22,720 --> 02:09:25,200
Speaker 1: suspension of Draymond and us not being the best, bugger

2418
02:09:25,280 --> 02:09:28,600
Speaker 1: gets hurt. I'm hurt. Steph is still hobbling. It's just

2419
02:09:28,720 --> 02:09:32,080
Speaker 1: like it was a train that we couldn't stop, you know,

2420
02:09:32,240 --> 02:09:35,880
Speaker 1: So in our in our sport, it's it's confidence is

2421
02:09:35,920 --> 02:09:38,520
Speaker 1: a huge thing. And I've watched this game. I watched

2422
02:09:38,600 --> 02:09:41,320
Speaker 1: games so much now and I don't know if I'm

2423
02:09:41,320 --> 02:09:44,160
Speaker 1: turning to a basketball analyst, but I can. I can

2424
02:09:44,320 --> 02:09:46,880
Speaker 1: see like I see when somebody, I can see the

2425
02:09:46,920 --> 02:09:49,800
Speaker 1: slump shoulders every damn they got them. Oh man, he's

2426
02:09:49,800 --> 02:09:52,160
Speaker 1: about to miss that free through because I was I

2427
02:09:52,280 --> 02:09:54,760
Speaker 1: was watching something and I think Joel was struggling a

2428
02:09:54,800 --> 02:09:56,840
Speaker 1: little bit, and one of the times he gets fouled,

2429
02:09:56,920 --> 02:09:59,400
Speaker 1: he puts his hands up like, oh man, dude, I

2430
02:09:59,440 --> 02:10:01,360
Speaker 1: can't get a break, and I call it right before

2431
02:10:01,400 --> 02:10:03,120
Speaker 1: that he's about to miss this free throw. Why Because

2432
02:10:03,200 --> 02:10:06,480
Speaker 1: I just have seen so many clips of guys in

2433
02:10:06,560 --> 02:10:09,160
Speaker 1: their body language before different things that I'm starting to

2434
02:10:09,240 --> 02:10:12,040
Speaker 1: read everything I'm reading. I know where where the guys

2435
02:10:12,120 --> 02:10:13,880
Speaker 1: want to go now, I'm watching all these different things

2436
02:10:13,960 --> 02:10:17,839
Speaker 1: that that's how you know I've gotten better through my process.

2437
02:10:18,640 --> 02:10:19,960
Speaker 1: So you know I'm rocking with my boys and go

2438
02:10:20,080 --> 02:10:22,880
Speaker 1: and stay. You know they are. You knew where my

2439
02:10:22,920 --> 02:10:26,680
Speaker 1: next question was they. This next series of them versus

2440
02:10:26,720 --> 02:10:29,440
Speaker 1: Houston is gonna be interesting because it's the best of

2441
02:10:29,600 --> 02:10:32,400
Speaker 1: two different styles of play, go and stair words. They

2442
02:10:32,440 --> 02:10:34,760
Speaker 1: moved the ball every game. After every game, coach would

2443
02:10:34,760 --> 02:10:37,120
Speaker 1: come back, Coach Kurb would come back into the locker

2444
02:10:37,200 --> 02:10:40,200
Speaker 1: room at and we talked about number of passes. We

2445
02:10:40,280 --> 02:10:42,080
Speaker 1: would win the game by twenty and he would say, well,

2446
02:10:42,120 --> 02:10:43,560
Speaker 1: we didn't move the ball as much of this game.

2447
02:10:43,600 --> 02:10:45,280
Speaker 1: We only had two hundred passes. We had to do

2448
02:10:45,360 --> 02:10:48,040
Speaker 1: better the three seventy. I can't remember how many. What

2449
02:10:48,200 --> 02:10:50,320
Speaker 1: was the limit. But this is what we have to

2450
02:10:50,360 --> 02:10:52,120
Speaker 1: do every game. This is how we win. We win

2451
02:10:52,240 --> 02:10:55,920
Speaker 1: playing our style of our style of basketball. That's what

2452
02:10:56,160 --> 02:10:59,880
Speaker 1: I never even heard that term number of passes. Yeah, yeah,

2453
02:11:00,000 --> 02:11:01,760
Speaker 1: we have to We have to make sure everybody touched

2454
02:11:01,760 --> 02:11:03,720
Speaker 1: the ball because that makes when you move the ball

2455
02:11:03,840 --> 02:11:06,520
Speaker 1: like that, it makes everything happen. Now, you make the

2456
02:11:06,560 --> 02:11:08,760
Speaker 1: defense work. Now they're not they're not scoring like they

2457
02:11:08,840 --> 02:11:10,400
Speaker 1: on the other hand, because they don't have any legs,

2458
02:11:10,680 --> 02:11:12,680
Speaker 1: and then you know it's just it's basketball is a

2459
02:11:12,760 --> 02:11:15,080
Speaker 1: total game. But the Gold State Warriors, I think that

2460
02:11:15,160 --> 02:11:17,600
Speaker 1: their style of play works the best for them. And

2461
02:11:17,680 --> 02:11:19,840
Speaker 1: when you have that, you have offense and defense on

2462
02:11:19,920 --> 02:11:22,320
Speaker 1: that team. Now you have the Houston Rockets, who are

2463
02:11:22,480 --> 02:11:24,240
Speaker 1: you know, they call a hero ball, but I think

2464
02:11:24,240 --> 02:11:26,960
Speaker 1: they just have elite scores. They have Chris Paul and

2465
02:11:27,040 --> 02:11:29,920
Speaker 1: James Harden. I've been a part of two series with

2466
02:11:30,000 --> 02:11:32,480
Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets both years for the year we won

2467
02:11:32,560 --> 02:11:35,560
Speaker 1: in the year we lost, and they had Dwight Howard

2468
02:11:35,640 --> 02:11:38,320
Speaker 1: and you know, obviously they had a little chemistry issues

2469
02:11:38,960 --> 02:11:42,120
Speaker 1: in terms of the way they play. I've seen James

2470
02:11:42,240 --> 02:11:46,400
Speaker 1: Harden be the Gold State wars were, Well, they'll wear

2471
02:11:46,480 --> 02:11:49,280
Speaker 1: you out because you have to carry such a load

2472
02:11:49,360 --> 02:11:51,680
Speaker 1: on offense and if you don't play defense, you're gonna

2473
02:11:51,720 --> 02:11:55,280
Speaker 1: get Like everybody everybody shoots, everybody scores. If you're not,

2474
02:11:55,480 --> 02:11:57,440
Speaker 1: they're not scoring. If you have me, they're they're throwing

2475
02:11:57,440 --> 02:11:59,480
Speaker 1: the ball up to me. I'm duncan Like it's just

2476
02:12:00,000 --> 02:12:03,440
Speaker 1: everybody's a threat. And so when you have that, it's

2477
02:12:03,600 --> 02:12:05,960
Speaker 1: so hard for you to play on one side of

2478
02:12:05,960 --> 02:12:08,600
Speaker 1: the ball for the load that he had to carry

2479
02:12:08,840 --> 02:12:12,120
Speaker 1: those years. They keep talking about how he let his

2480
02:12:12,240 --> 02:12:16,240
Speaker 1: team down. He's just like, I'm I'm tired. There's that's

2481
02:12:16,240 --> 02:12:19,400
Speaker 1: what the Warriors do. They make you just he's tired.

2482
02:12:20,720 --> 02:12:24,360
Speaker 1: So now he has Chris Paul. Chris Paul is probably

2483
02:12:24,400 --> 02:12:26,320
Speaker 1: the best, one of the best point guards in the game.

2484
02:12:27,360 --> 02:12:29,240
Speaker 1: I mean, he's playing amazing. He's the guy that he

2485
02:12:29,320 --> 02:12:31,640
Speaker 1: could be the captain of the ship. There's gonna be

2486
02:12:31,720 --> 02:12:33,480
Speaker 1: a great match up with him and stuff because they

2487
02:12:33,520 --> 02:12:37,160
Speaker 1: always go out here every time. Um, obviously there was

2488
02:12:37,200 --> 02:12:38,920
Speaker 1: a point where you know, there was an argument for

2489
02:12:39,120 --> 02:12:41,560
Speaker 1: the best to guard in the NBA and play. Thompson

2490
02:12:41,600 --> 02:12:46,400
Speaker 1: and James Harden were the were the options. Um, if

2491
02:12:46,480 --> 02:12:48,040
Speaker 1: you go through those, then you go through the match.

2492
02:12:48,440 --> 02:12:53,360
Speaker 1: Every matchup is interesting. Matchup is interesting to me. I mean,

2493
02:12:53,400 --> 02:12:57,560
Speaker 1: Trevor Reason is a great defender, He's long, athletic. Can

2494
02:12:57,600 --> 02:13:00,560
Speaker 1: you stopped Katie. That's gonna be a hard, hard task,

2495
02:13:00,760 --> 02:13:04,680
Speaker 1: but he's gonna do his best. Clint Cappella, he's been playing,

2496
02:13:04,760 --> 02:13:07,080
Speaker 1: I mean, he's probably the most improved player to meet.

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02:13:08,320 --> 02:13:11,040
Speaker 1: I mean, Victor Ladipo did his thing, Oh my god,

2498
02:13:11,120 --> 02:13:13,560
Speaker 1: like what Clint Capella is doing. They're running picking rolls

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02:13:13,600 --> 02:13:16,480
Speaker 1: for him. Now, ye, watching this like this is amazing

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02:13:16,600 --> 02:13:19,080
Speaker 1: And watching my African brother do his thing. I always

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02:13:19,120 --> 02:13:22,040
Speaker 1: support you know, Joel, I support him and support Victor Ladipo.

2502
02:13:22,440 --> 02:13:25,760
Speaker 1: All these guys are doing their thing. Um so yeah,

2503
02:13:25,880 --> 02:13:28,440
Speaker 1: so watching him, you know, block shots, rebound, do all

2504
02:13:28,440 --> 02:13:30,280
Speaker 1: these things for their team and then be that outlet

2505
02:13:30,360 --> 02:13:33,880
Speaker 1: which is an officer. Officer rebounds or you know, being

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02:13:33,920 --> 02:13:35,720
Speaker 1: able to get a dunk. Every time they drive and

2507
02:13:35,960 --> 02:13:37,760
Speaker 1: you know they're stuck, they just throw the ball up

2508
02:13:37,800 --> 02:13:40,120
Speaker 1: to them. That's I mean, that's that is the essential

2509
02:13:40,200 --> 02:13:42,480
Speaker 1: point of I guess it's very essential part of the game.

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02:13:42,600 --> 02:13:46,040
Speaker 1: So who's winning this series? You can't I can't go

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02:13:46,160 --> 02:13:49,640
Speaker 1: against what I mean what they're the defendant chimps. You

2512
02:13:49,760 --> 02:13:51,720
Speaker 1: have to get you have to beat them. You have

2513
02:13:51,840 --> 02:13:55,360
Speaker 1: to beat the Yeah, there's no like, we can't support

2514
02:13:55,440 --> 02:13:58,480
Speaker 1: you unless we see them be beaten. They have been beaten.

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02:13:58,480 --> 02:14:03,040
Speaker 1: It first, they have. They haven't had home court advantage

2516
02:14:03,040 --> 02:14:06,680
Speaker 1: since two thousand fourteen, you know, so it's it's hard

2517
02:14:06,760 --> 02:14:08,560
Speaker 1: for me to go against those guys. I mean, not

2518
02:14:08,760 --> 02:14:12,160
Speaker 1: just being biased that they're my dudes. More also, because

2519
02:14:12,400 --> 02:14:14,920
Speaker 1: I mean, they're a good team. They play basketball the

2520
02:14:15,000 --> 02:14:17,440
Speaker 1: way that I know is a very hard way to stop.

2521
02:14:17,800 --> 02:14:20,040
Speaker 1: That's why Pop is such an amazing coach, because he

2522
02:14:20,160 --> 02:14:23,360
Speaker 1: gets people to play basketball that way. Coach Kurve obviously

2523
02:14:23,400 --> 02:14:25,840
Speaker 1: tenured with him, so he played with under coach Pop,

2524
02:14:25,960 --> 02:14:30,000
Speaker 1: so he knows what it is why they are so successful. Well,

2525
02:14:30,000 --> 02:14:31,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be I'm gonna be rooting for a Golden

2526
02:14:32,000 --> 02:14:36,320
Speaker 1: State and then I want Golden State versus Cleveland again.

2527
02:14:36,440 --> 02:14:39,200
Speaker 1: But I hope Boston. I want Boston to kill him.

2528
02:14:39,480 --> 02:14:42,160
Speaker 1: But it's hard to bet against Lebron. I it's like,

2529
02:14:42,280 --> 02:14:45,600
Speaker 1: I like, I would like Boston to to shut it down.

2530
02:14:46,040 --> 02:14:48,480
Speaker 1: But it's like betting against Tom Brady. It's like betting

2531
02:14:48,520 --> 02:14:51,160
Speaker 1: against Sugary Leonard in his prime. It's like betting against

2532
02:14:51,280 --> 02:14:54,440
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson. Like it's it's it's it's hard to bet.

2533
02:14:54,800 --> 02:14:57,720
Speaker 1: Philly would have been such a good match for them, right,

2534
02:14:57,960 --> 02:14:59,640
Speaker 1: but they're just not ready. They didn't you know what,

2535
02:14:59,720 --> 02:15:03,120
Speaker 1: They're fine, these guys twenty years old, Ben Simmons, they'll

2536
02:15:03,160 --> 02:15:04,840
Speaker 1: be all right. You came to myself. I want to

2537
02:15:04,880 --> 02:15:07,560
Speaker 1: watch a good game, but I think Boston's gonna They're

2538
02:15:07,560 --> 02:15:09,640
Speaker 1: gonna be It's gonna be a great I want to see.

2539
02:15:10,680 --> 02:15:14,120
Speaker 1: They say you can't out coach talent, but I still

2540
02:15:14,200 --> 02:15:15,760
Speaker 1: think that it's gonna be a great. I mean it's

2541
02:15:15,800 --> 02:15:17,600
Speaker 1: gonna be a task for Lebron to be able to.

2542
02:15:17,920 --> 02:15:20,280
Speaker 1: You know, everybody talks about how his defense has slipped.

2543
02:15:21,360 --> 02:15:23,480
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about, because he sat

2544
02:15:23,560 --> 02:15:27,000
Speaker 1: there and guarded, grated. You call it what you call it.

2545
02:15:27,080 --> 02:15:30,560
Speaker 1: You said the goaltending. You know your Instagram you're making

2546
02:15:30,600 --> 02:15:33,240
Speaker 1: fun of him goaltending against lot depo. But you know

2547
02:15:33,400 --> 02:15:35,720
Speaker 1: he can still he breaks it out when he needs to. Yeah,

2548
02:15:35,720 --> 02:15:39,120
Speaker 1: and he good, he's straight. Yeah, he don't get No,

2549
02:15:39,280 --> 02:15:43,800
Speaker 1: he's fine there. It's gonna be a good Eastern and

2550
02:15:44,320 --> 02:15:49,520
Speaker 1: Western Conference finals. All right, festus a zeally, I'm gonna

2551
02:15:49,600 --> 02:15:52,080
Speaker 1: let you go. We we talked so much ship and

2552
02:15:52,160 --> 02:15:54,840
Speaker 1: I feel like we could keep going. Um you should.

2553
02:15:54,960 --> 02:15:58,200
Speaker 1: You know, when you're done, you could be an analyst,

2554
02:15:58,280 --> 02:16:00,200
Speaker 1: because just going off the cuff right here, Like the

2555
02:16:00,280 --> 02:16:02,520
Speaker 1: way you talk about the game is is interesting. I

2556
02:16:02,560 --> 02:16:04,480
Speaker 1: like the way you're talking about just watching a lot

2557
02:16:04,520 --> 02:16:06,680
Speaker 1: of basketball and knowing like what it is that I

2558
02:16:06,760 --> 02:16:08,560
Speaker 1: want to get from it. I'm a defensive player, so

2559
02:16:08,640 --> 02:16:11,080
Speaker 1: I have to know all these different tendencies to understand

2560
02:16:11,080 --> 02:16:13,160
Speaker 1: how the game flows. Plus playing with Gold and State

2561
02:16:13,200 --> 02:16:16,840
Speaker 1: Warriors they make you understand that stuff. But last off,

2562
02:16:16,880 --> 02:16:19,120
Speaker 1: I want to give a shout out. Give a shout out.

2563
02:16:19,400 --> 02:16:24,000
Speaker 1: So Rebuilding the Beast is the movement that I started

2564
02:16:24,440 --> 02:16:26,480
Speaker 1: and what it is is for everybody. I think that

2565
02:16:26,720 --> 02:16:29,760
Speaker 1: this whole process became much bigger than myself because people

2566
02:16:29,840 --> 02:16:32,400
Speaker 1: were supporting me from all over the world. And I

2567
02:16:32,520 --> 02:16:34,400
Speaker 1: just want to give a shout out to everybody who

2568
02:16:34,520 --> 02:16:37,360
Speaker 1: was going through some adversities in their life and have

2569
02:16:37,520 --> 02:16:39,840
Speaker 1: to tap into that inner beast to get through it.

2570
02:16:40,280 --> 02:16:42,280
Speaker 1: I think that's what it's about. It's not about just

2571
02:16:42,440 --> 02:16:45,840
Speaker 1: being physically fit and you know, getting through whatever ailments

2572
02:16:45,879 --> 02:16:48,120
Speaker 1: you have. It's also about, you know, challenges, people that

2573
02:16:48,200 --> 02:16:51,560
Speaker 1: can't pay their bills and going through adversities and challenges

2574
02:16:51,600 --> 02:16:54,600
Speaker 1: people who have someone die or someone is sick, and

2575
02:16:55,360 --> 02:16:58,160
Speaker 1: you have to have something inside of you that keeps

2576
02:16:58,240 --> 02:17:01,000
Speaker 1: you going. And I've had people support me and they

2577
02:17:01,160 --> 02:17:03,280
Speaker 1: keep me going and being strong when you can't be

2578
02:17:03,440 --> 02:17:06,240
Speaker 1: strong anymore. That's what it's about. So I want to

2579
02:17:06,280 --> 02:17:08,720
Speaker 1: give a shout out to Rebuilding the beast and everybody

2580
02:17:08,760 --> 02:17:11,000
Speaker 1: who's being a part of process and everybody who's rebuilding

2581
02:17:11,040 --> 02:17:14,680
Speaker 1: their beasts right now. I appreciate that. That's dope. Alright, Festus,

2582
02:17:14,840 --> 02:17:18,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you go keep going. Uh, We're gonna

2583
02:17:18,160 --> 02:17:21,480
Speaker 1: stay in the gym. Uh. We got the cadaverne uh

2584
02:17:21,600 --> 02:17:23,520
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, and I'm gonna see you around

2585
02:17:23,560 --> 02:17:26,400
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, my man. All right, cool, that was dope.

2586
02:17:30,200 --> 02:17:34,720
Speaker 1: I told you it was dope. Hashtag rebuilding the Beast. Festus, zeally,

2587
02:17:35,959 --> 02:17:37,880
Speaker 1: thank you for rocking with me. Thank you for coming through.

2588
02:17:37,959 --> 02:17:39,320
Speaker 1: I want to have him come back and just talk

2589
02:17:39,400 --> 02:17:43,720
Speaker 1: straight hoops throughout the playoffs again. Me and Gee Moody

2590
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Speaker 1: last name rhymes with duty. The dust Brothers Miles and

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Speaker 1: Jordan will be at the Clusterfest Clusterfest dot com for

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Speaker 1: tickets June three in San Francisco. Uh way to bring

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Speaker 1: the noise monetti. Yeah, Festus, thank you for rocking with

2594
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Speaker 1: the best on the Iron Rapports Terry a podcast. You

2595
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Speaker 1: can follow him on social media, talks a lot of ship.

2596
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Speaker 1: You can follow his workout, follow other results of his

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Speaker 1: cadaver surgery, which he talked about all that more. Miles

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Speaker 1: Jordans take us out of here with something funky. Stay

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