Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Slum and I know the NBA. Today's guest
Speaker 1: is an international sensation who started his basketball career in
Speaker 1: his home country of Spain before making the move to
Speaker 1: play college ball in the US at Loyola Marynott. He's
Speaker 1: one of the hottest young players on the Grizzlies. And
Speaker 1: today we have Santy al Dam. Okay. So, Santy, I'm
Speaker 1: sixteen and I'm in tenth grade, and I think you're
Speaker 1: the youngest player I've ever interviewed, which is pretty exciting
Speaker 1: because usually when I ask this question, I say, what
Speaker 1: were you like when you were sixteen? I take people
Speaker 1: like way back, but for you, this was only six
Speaker 1: years ago, so this is like very like fresh in
Speaker 1: your mind. So I know, like you're gonna have the
Speaker 1: best answers for this. So, Santy, what were you like
Speaker 1: when you were sixteen?
Speaker 2: Well? I was.
Speaker 3: I was still tall and not that tall, like six
Speaker 3: y two or so, was even skinnier. And I don't know,
Speaker 3: I was a pretty responsible kid, but you know, just
Speaker 3: having fun back home, and I don't know, I was different.
Speaker 2: Life was way easier, definitely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure. And growing up in Spain, I know
Speaker 1: your dad and your uncle played professional basketball, but with
Speaker 1: soccer your favorite sport or you just like always loved basketball.
Speaker 3: Not always basketball, but I used to play soccer all
Speaker 3: the time, like in the playground and stuff. And I
Speaker 3: feel like everybody plays soccer in Spain, like yeah, even
Speaker 3: if you don't like it that much, like I like
Speaker 3: watching it playing like I was not that.
Speaker 1: Good, okay. I feel like you're a little too tall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a bit too. I would just like post
Speaker 3: people up and just tried to score around them. It
Speaker 3: was it was weird, but it worked for me.
Speaker 1: Okay. I'm a little offended that you haven't talked about
Speaker 1: how much like shirt says Barcelona yet, because, like, you know,
Speaker 1: I was doing that because you're from Spain to like
Speaker 1: represent But it's fine, it's whatever. But which which LaLiga
Speaker 1: team did you support?
Speaker 3: Las Palmas, which actually they just lost to Barcelona.
Speaker 4: Today, Okay, but weren't they up like two zero.
Speaker 3: At half time or some Yeah, they were up one
Speaker 3: zero and one zero then they came back.
Speaker 2: It was her. I was watching it on the way
Speaker 2: here and it okay, so.
Speaker 1: That's why you don't like my Barcelona ya, Okay, that
Speaker 1: was such a bad choice.
Speaker 2: Mom.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have done that. Okay.
Speaker 4: So you were saying at sixteen you were six two.
Speaker 2: About six two six three? Yeares?
Speaker 1: So then how quick I don't get it, you just
Speaker 1: like shot up to seven foot one day?
Speaker 2: Well, actually, yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: Maybe I was like six three when I was fifteen,
Speaker 3: and it was just like from where year to another
Speaker 3: like five inches, and then from then like the next
Speaker 3: year it was another five inches.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I remember with the national team, they will just
Speaker 3: like measure you every summer, And when I got back
Speaker 3: the summer, I was like seventeen, they measured me twice
Speaker 3: because they couldn't believe how much.
Speaker 2: I agree, they thought they missed something up.
Speaker 1: And how tall are your parents?
Speaker 2: My dad's seven feet and my mom's like five eleven, okay, so.
Speaker 1: This is expected.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is two siblings, Yeah, a little brother. And
Speaker 2: how tall he He's like six.
Speaker 1: Six okay, But is he still growing.
Speaker 2: Or oh no, I feel grow he hopes he's still growing.
Speaker 1: Whatever your brother's name is, I hope for him that
Speaker 1: he's still growing. So usually I like to ask players
Speaker 1: this question where I'm like, when you were sixteen, what
Speaker 1: during AU did you play against any other NBA players?
Speaker 1: But knowing that your situation was a little different being
Speaker 1: in Europe, being in Spain, did you have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to play against any other up and coming NBA players?
Speaker 3: I mean I played under eighteen, so it was the
Speaker 3: day before the year before I went to college against
Speaker 3: Shannggoon from the Rockets. I played with Garuba from the Warriors.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I if I played against anybody else.
Speaker 3: I know I played against Well, I didn't play. I
Speaker 3: was way too young. I was fourteen. There were sixteen
Speaker 3: against Lucas team, but obviously he was too good. He
Speaker 3: was playing with the pro team already. So yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't know. I probably played against somebody else, but I forget.
Speaker 1: Now, okay, okay, And when did you go to your
Speaker 1: first was your first game that you'd been to the
Speaker 1: first game you played in? Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I had only been in the US
Speaker 3: for college. Really, yeah, i'd never been. Well, I'm my
Speaker 3: official visit.
Speaker 2: That was it. I knew nothing about it.
Speaker 1: In speaking of that, I know you had offered from
Speaker 1: Barcelona or Real Madrid.
Speaker 2: What was it like?
Speaker 1: What was can you take us through sort of that
Speaker 1: decision going like the NCAA route and then also going
Speaker 1: to Maryland. You know, like that's not probably Spain the
Speaker 1: example of what you think about when you think about America.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It was a long process obviously, like you know, proteins
Speaker 3: recruit pretty hard in Europe. But like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: I felt like I was in my high school team.
Speaker 3: Like the like the stuff that we got going on
Speaker 3: there was easy and and I mean I never saw
Speaker 3: any benefit to go into a protein And then when
Speaker 3: I had to make the decision, I was like, well
Speaker 3: should I go to dance double A? I wanted to study,
Speaker 3: and I was like, you know sometimes in Europe they
Speaker 3: don't give you the opportunity when you're that young.
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, let me go.
Speaker 3: And I knew this assistant coaches with the Raptors now,
Speaker 3: Ivo Simovich. He I mean we're super close now, and
Speaker 3: I just decided to go to Loyola Maryland with him,
Speaker 3: and I mean he like it's a small school. Obviously
Speaker 3: I had other offers, but I mean it was it
Speaker 3: was great for me. My first year I got there,
Speaker 3: Uh you know, then we had COVID, So it's like
Speaker 3: I feel like everything's like a blur, but it was.
Speaker 3: It was super good and that's something I'll never regret.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. You went a different path. That's
Speaker 1: so cool. And when you got to Maryland, what was
Speaker 1: your biggest culture shock. What was the biggest difference you
Speaker 1: saw between Spain and Maryland.
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, for sure, the time out which people
Speaker 3: eat dinner. Like in Spain, I would eat dinner like
Speaker 3: nine ten, and we had to eat dinner at six
Speaker 3: And I remember, like the whole whatever, it would close
Speaker 3: like super early, so I was not hungry at the
Speaker 3: time we were eating dinner, so we have to eat
Speaker 3: without being hungry.
Speaker 2: And then I like tens that's when you can bulk up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it worked right, but then everything closed, so like
Speaker 3: I had to figure out ways of getting food. I'm
Speaker 3: a terrible cook. Actually I'm not even a cooker, Like
Speaker 3: I don't. You can't cook anything anything like well, chicken
Speaker 3: or rice. That's the only thing I can.
Speaker 4: Okay, to be fair, I can't even do that.
Speaker 3: So that's better than Oh yeah, I had to do
Speaker 3: it for survival purposes.
Speaker 2: But now I'm good.
Speaker 1: I love it now. This is my last question about you.
Speaker 1: When you were sixteen, I'm very curious about this. Did
Speaker 1: you know that Memphis existed when you were sixteen?
Speaker 3: I mean I did because of power Mark. Yeah that's
Speaker 3: the only reason. If not, Like, I had never thought
Speaker 3: about Memphis, and when I got drafted, I was like,
Speaker 3: well that's cool, but like I didn't know much about
Speaker 3: the city.
Speaker 1: If I'm being honest, can you explain, like what when
Speaker 1: you got drafted, Like were you scared or like, this
Speaker 1: is this place that I've never been. I didn't really
Speaker 1: know like existed, you know, Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was it was cool because I mean I didn't
Speaker 3: know much about Memphis, like I said, but like I
Speaker 3: knew Spanish players had been there and we've it has
Speaker 3: like the Spanish back background or whatever. So I was like,
Speaker 3: it's cool because at least people will know like Spanish
Speaker 3: culture in some type of way.
Speaker 2: So I was more relieved in that sense.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it was definitely definitely weird going to somewhere
Speaker 3: I had never even like been to or like heard of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure that's crazy. So now let's move on
Speaker 1: to you and your NBA career. What was your welcome
Speaker 1: to the League moment?
Speaker 3: I mean probably I probably have a couple, but I
Speaker 3: would say my second year. That's really the first time
Speaker 3: I started playing like real minutes against the nets. It
Speaker 3: was like early on in the in like the season,
Speaker 3: and I had to guard KD for like four possessions,
Speaker 3: and literally he scored the four possessions. And I was like,
Speaker 3: you know, you tried to get players to shoot the
Speaker 3: mid range. Shock is probably like the least efficient, or
Speaker 3: that's what they say, but like, I mean, not with KD. Definitely,
Speaker 3: you try to deny him and make sure he doesn't
Speaker 3: touch the ball, and he just scored four straight. Coach
Speaker 3: ca all the time. I was like all right, Like
Speaker 3: I literally I remember asking one of my guys like, yo,
Speaker 3: what can I do.
Speaker 4: He's like nothing, nothing, yeah, and so okay.
Speaker 1: So a little birdie showed me a picture of you
Speaker 1: when I think you were about like ten or eleven maybe,
Speaker 1: and you took a picture with Derrick Rose, who is
Speaker 1: now your teammate on the Grizzlies. Like, can you take
Speaker 1: me through that, because I cannot imagine telling whatever eleven
Speaker 1: year old Saunty that that guy that you were taking
Speaker 1: a picture with as a fan is now your teammate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was crazy. And I remember when we signed
Speaker 3: him the first thing.
Speaker 2: I think. I think it was my mom or my aunt.
Speaker 3: They send it in the family group chat and I
Speaker 3: couldn't believe it because I look crazy, like super young.
Speaker 3: I was there with my cousin some friends, and I
Speaker 3: was really Derek, like, you know, there was the team
Speaker 3: USA in the Islands, and I showed it to Derek actually,
Speaker 3: and he thought it was super cool. But really, I
Speaker 3: mean at that moment, if you remember, I mean he
Speaker 3: definitely didn't remember, but he remembered being in Spain spending
Speaker 3: time there. But like, if you would have told me
Speaker 3: that day that I was going to be there one day,
Speaker 3: I would I would have thought you crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm going to use the term for my English class,
Speaker 1: which is foreshadowing because I noticed when I saw that picture,
Speaker 1: I was like, first off, that's crazy, like that's literally
Speaker 1: something written in the movie. And then we'll put the
Speaker 1: picture up. But a kid standing next to you is
Speaker 1: wearing a Steph Curry jersey, and I'm just just thinking
Speaker 1: about how cool that is. Not only the Derek Rosers
Speaker 1: in the photo, but that also like just shows how
Speaker 1: cool your progression was that he went from a fan
Speaker 1: all the way in Spain and now an NBA player
Speaker 1: here in America.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, like you said, it's pretty cool because
Speaker 3: I remember my first NBA jersey was Apocastault like Laker jersey,
Speaker 3: and I got to experience his retirement ceremony. So I
Speaker 3: mean that is like a full circle moment that it's crazy.
Speaker 2: To think about.
Speaker 1: And I know you're close with Pow. Can you take
Speaker 1: us through a little bit of your mentorship like type relationship.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I haven't spoken with him that much,
Speaker 3: but like obviously, as a Spanish kid growing up, if
Speaker 3: you look up to someone, it's probably power and like
Speaker 3: he's one of the reasons I've enjoyed basketball so much.
Speaker 3: Obviously his time in the NBA, uh, you know, his
Speaker 3: Hispanish kid. You watch it as much as much as
Speaker 3: you can, but it's at like two three am, so
Speaker 3: it's not great sometimes that my mum will get mad
Speaker 3: at me if I tried to watch the NBA game.
Speaker 3: But obviously with the national team, he's he's one of
Speaker 3: the best ever and and just watching him every day
Speaker 3: was huge for me. And obviously getting to talk to
Speaker 3: him and meet him and then see everybody you know,
Speaker 3: praising him for his career as me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for me, that's so special. So earlier, I know
Speaker 1: you talked about how hard it was to guard KD.
Speaker 1: But I'm curious, who's the hardest player you've had to
Speaker 1: guard that was extremely unexpected?
Speaker 2: Unexpected?
Speaker 3: That's a tough one because I feel like if you're
Speaker 3: tough to guard, like you know it, you know it's tough.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. Let me let me let me think.
Speaker 3: H I mean, I don't know if it's unexpected, but
Speaker 3: I'll say, like Steven Adams, like in practice, I remember
Speaker 3: my first day, I tried to box him out and
Speaker 3: he literally threw me to the ground.
Speaker 1: It's awkward, man, Like what can you do?
Speaker 3: I know, but he threw me to the ground. I'm like,
Speaker 3: you really didn't have to do that. It was first
Speaker 3: NBA practice. But he was like, yeah, welcome, and that's
Speaker 3: you're welcome to the league.
Speaker 1: Look at you answering questions from before, like going back,
Speaker 1: welcome to the league. Love it.
Speaker 4: Okay, So here's my question.
Speaker 1: We all know the movie Hustle right where Wancho Hernangomez
Speaker 1: stars in this movie directed by Lebron with Adam Sandler,
Speaker 1: Like this is a full on Hollywood production and they
Speaker 1: picked a Spanish basketball player to be the star. Did
Speaker 1: you try out for the movie and not get the part?
Speaker 3: No, I don't know when they started I was. I
Speaker 3: don't think I was in the NBA, But I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think he's probably better at the acting than I am.
Speaker 3: So so he got it, But.
Speaker 1: So you don't think you could have done it.
Speaker 3: I want to try one day. I want to act
Speaker 3: one day. But obviously I think he got that part.
Speaker 3: He did a good job.
Speaker 1: Hustle Part two for an Oscar. I can feel it.
Speaker 1: I can feel it. Okay, So I know you, right,
Speaker 1: we know you, we know your stats, but let us
Speaker 1: know a fun fact about you that we probably don't know.
Speaker 2: M that's a tough question.
Speaker 1: I asked tough questions. That's like Sloan nose, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I played golf, I played the office
Speaker 3: a kid. I mean, not a lot, just with my
Speaker 3: like my cousin, I was never good. I'm not good,
Speaker 3: but I'm really trying now and I want to. I
Speaker 3: want to get to a point where the day I retire,
Speaker 3: I'm good enough to like, like play like mid level tournaments.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's such high aspirations. Yeah, that's why I mean,
Speaker 1: clearly NBA players have done it. Like Steph's a really
Speaker 1: good golfer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's really good. I don't know if you don't
Speaker 2: think you're going to reach that point.
Speaker 4: No, no, close enough, Okay, cool, I have faith in you.
Speaker 4: Maybe we'll I've never like really played, but maybe we'll
Speaker 4: like go out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe you can do like a golf podcast.
Speaker 1: At that point, and that'd be great and you could
Speaker 1: be my first guests your career. Love it. Okay, can
Speaker 1: you name me your top three favorite American foods?
Speaker 3: I don't know, Probably burger that's the easiest. Wings, I'll
Speaker 3: say Old Bay Wings. That's like I heard its like
Speaker 3: from Maryland.
Speaker 1: Okay, not familiar, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I tried to have them somewhere else,
Speaker 3: but like they didn't have like in Maryland. I would
Speaker 3: like destroy them every day, and but I haven't found
Speaker 3: it ever, and I don't know I can give you
Speaker 3: a I couldn't even tell you it's fine.
Speaker 1: I feel like Americans like food is a weird cuisine
Speaker 1: because it's.
Speaker 2: Like just like that food, you know what, I probably
Speaker 2: like stealing.
Speaker 1: Exactly, yeah, exactly, Like we're in Spain, you guys have
Speaker 1: like legit cultural food here. It was just like McDonald's. Anyways. Wait,
Speaker 1: okay after a game because you like to eat late.
Speaker 1: Is there like a fast food place that you ever
Speaker 1: go to?
Speaker 2: Or No? No?
Speaker 3: No, If I were to do fast food after a game,
Speaker 3: I couldn't like play that or practice.
Speaker 2: Okay, tough schedule, it would be impossible, all right.
Speaker 1: So, like I've said many times, I'm sixteen, I'm in
Speaker 1: tenth grade, and Spanish is my worst subject by far.
Speaker 1: Obviously you're a native Spanish speaker, and so I need
Speaker 1: your help. Okay, you need to teach me Spanish because
Speaker 1: like I have a quiz next week, and like I
Speaker 1: may fail and that would be really bad, and then
Speaker 1: I'd probably blame you, and so I don't want to
Speaker 1: have to blame you. So I want you to teach me.
Speaker 1: Can you teach me how to say in Spanish? Steph
Speaker 1: Curry is the best point guard of all time?
Speaker 2: No, because you're clip there. That's going to come back
Speaker 2: to me whenever we play this.
Speaker 1: Okay, how will we say Santi is my favorite basketball player?
Speaker 2: Santi?
Speaker 1: Oh god, I did not get that. Okay, we need
Speaker 1: to go slurt Santi Santi sudor de Valencesto. Okay, by
Speaker 1: the way, you saw it pretty good.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good good. I know.
Speaker 1: So I'm bad at like speaking it, but I'm my
Speaker 1: accent's good. Wait now, teach me how to say Sloan
Speaker 1: Nose is the best podcaster ever.
Speaker 3: I'll say she has a bad posca there it just
Speaker 3: make sure. Yeah, Sloan Nose, DNA.
Speaker 1: Sloan Nose DNA, podcast el podcastia, dela historia. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: love its Auntie.
Speaker 4: Okay, Oh, that was such a bad Hi five.
Speaker 1: There we go. I'm getting a hundred on my quiz.
Speaker 1: Next up, I want to go through Grizzlies superlatives. So
Speaker 1: this may be an American thing. I don't know your
Speaker 1: high school's Canterbury Academy, right, yeah, look at me, just
Speaker 1: slow nose. Okay, anyways, but this is probably an American thing.
Speaker 1: But in our yearbooks we have high school superlatives, so
Speaker 1: it's like funniest member of the class, et cetera. And
Speaker 1: so I want to do this with you, but with
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies. Okay, So who is the best cook on
Speaker 1: the team?
Speaker 2: Best cook? I don't know.
Speaker 3: I haven't tried anybody's food, but I'll say probably Beiz.
Speaker 3: He seems like a like a doude that knows.
Speaker 1: Good food, just saying, Okay, who would you want to
Speaker 1: be your stylist?
Speaker 3: Probably Jared, he loves that. And anytime I walk in
Speaker 3: with a cool outfit, he'll just start recording me and stuff.
Speaker 1: So, oh my god, your league fits feature once Jaron styles. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, Okay, love it. You have one phone call
Speaker 1: to save your life? Who do you call? And why?
Speaker 3: I'll say, I'll say John con okay, and why I
Speaker 3: think it's reliable.
Speaker 1: Reliable.
Speaker 2: He's goofy sometimes, but he'll pick up the phone.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Okay. Now does the team have a group chat?
Speaker 1: And if so, who on it texts the most?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: We do, and I think it's probably Marcus and it's
Speaker 3: not even close.
Speaker 1: Really and pre Marcus who texted on it the most?
Speaker 2: Pre Marcus, I don't know, probably like Brandon, I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And is there a fun name or is it
Speaker 1: just like Grizzlies gang on gang only love it?
Speaker 4: I should be at it?
Speaker 2: You want to be there? Yeah, because like.
Speaker 1: I'm part of the gang, right, I mean, we we're
Speaker 1: best friends now, so.
Speaker 2: Like I mean, but you're not a Grizzlies fan.
Speaker 1: That's true. I'm a Warriors fan. That's true, but I
Speaker 1: have to say that, like I've always been not when
Speaker 1: you guys play the Warriors like never, but I've always
Speaker 1: been in support of what the Grizzlies are doing. Do
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like Warriors over everything.
Speaker 2: But I've always liked Yeah, but after what happened two
Speaker 2: years ago, on.
Speaker 1: Ok, you can, we'll just make a new group chat.
Speaker 1: I'll just be out the Warriors group Chat's man Garuba,
Speaker 1: you know he canna be my new face.
Speaker 2: He'll probably yeah, we can't do.
Speaker 4: It on the team bus. Who gets the.
Speaker 2: Ox uh Brandon brand?
Speaker 1: Okay, why not you?
Speaker 3: I don't think they like my music, even though I've
Speaker 3: I've started running an experiment with like rpts and it's
Speaker 3: like whenever I put like bad Bunny music on, they'll
Speaker 3: keep it going.
Speaker 2: They won't change it, which is good.
Speaker 1: I like Bad Bunny.
Speaker 2: If I put anything else, they'll change.
Speaker 1: What is Brandon play like?
Speaker 3: He plays all types of music like. He has the
Speaker 3: widest range for sure, not not necessarily a good thing,
Speaker 3: but he he loves NBA Young Boy and like uh
Speaker 3: some other rappers, but NBA Young Boys like his go.
Speaker 2: To for sure.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you like i'my a young boy.
Speaker 3: Uh, I've it started growing on me because because now
Speaker 3: I've heard of.
Speaker 2: Someone played bad Bunny but no, but I know like four.
Speaker 3: Or five songs, like I know the whole song because yeah,
Speaker 3: I heard it so many times.
Speaker 2: So it's growing on me.
Speaker 1: Brandon, you need to switch it up. Who on the
Speaker 1: team could play another sport professionally? And you can't say yourself?
Speaker 2: Uh, probably David Roddy what sport? Football? Apparently it was
Speaker 2: pretty good at football, and he just jokes.
Speaker 1: The way this was a perfect opportunity for you, even
Speaker 1: though he said not yourself. If then said that you
Speaker 1: could have been like you with.
Speaker 2: Golf, but yeah, but that'd be lying.
Speaker 1: But okay, all right, So you're obviously a superstar from Spain,
Speaker 1: and we've seen many superstars coming out from Spain. Who
Speaker 1: who was next up coming out of Swain?
Speaker 2: We actually have a great group of young guys.
Speaker 3: And I hate to do it because when I was
Speaker 3: like in their spy and like people saying, you know,
Speaker 3: I was next up? Just like obviously it's you know,
Speaker 3: we got is Almansa with Julie Ignite. He's pretty good.
Speaker 3: I like mad A Ucla Baba Miller at Florida State.
Speaker 3: So we have a lot of good names and you know,
Speaker 3: we got some more europe Like, it's about time, and
Speaker 3: I think in like two three years they'll be they'll
Speaker 3: be with us and hopefully in the NBA, but for
Speaker 3: sure with the national Yeah.
Speaker 1: And do you do you take that upon yourself to
Speaker 1: sort of reach out to them and help them with
Speaker 1: this process?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I've had older players reach out
Speaker 3: to me in different points of my career and that's
Speaker 3: huge obviously because you see guys that have the experience
Speaker 3: and obviously having my dad too that that's helped me.
Speaker 3: So anything I can help them with, it's It's something
Speaker 3: I tried to take probably on because I know I'm
Speaker 3: not as outgoing sometimes, but I want to make sure
Speaker 3: they know they got my number for it.
Speaker 1: They need love that. So I know you're only seven
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight, but do you remember anything
Speaker 1: from the two thousand and eight Olympics that featured the
Speaker 1: infamous Kobe running through.
Speaker 3: Pow Yeah, yeah, I've heard that story. It's kind of crazy.
Speaker 3: I don't remember the two thousand and eight once that
Speaker 3: much though, like twenty twelve, that's very vivid, but like
Speaker 3: two thousand and eight is like, so I remember losing
Speaker 3: and the pain I felt that day, But yeah, I've
Speaker 3: watched the game bag for sure, and then I've seen
Speaker 3: that clip and it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Jaw has done some pretty incredible things in NBA games,
Speaker 1: like some insane House of Highlights type moments. Is there
Speaker 1: anything that he's done in practice that you were like,
Speaker 1: that's just I've never seen someone like that.
Speaker 3: I just feel like whenever he does his thing, because
Speaker 3: it's like it's different every single time. Yeah, so in
Speaker 3: practice it's similar. I remember same thing. First practice he
Speaker 3: jumped from outside the paying two feet and like I
Speaker 3: was gonna jump, but I just had to move because
Speaker 3: I was like, it's the first day.
Speaker 2: He just jumped right over. I'm like, oh all right.
Speaker 3: So anything like all the hangtime stuff he does in games,
Speaker 3: like he tries that in practice and it's it's it's
Speaker 3: impressive because I remember walling up against him one of
Speaker 3: the first times guarding him and then he like, I jumped,
Speaker 3: I hit him, I fell and then he was still
Speaker 3: in the air and then he made the legs.
Speaker 2: I was like, it's it's pretty hard to guard him.
Speaker 1: Is there any players for you that you see them
Speaker 1: like coming at you and you're like, I'm not jumping
Speaker 1: with them, Like I don't want to be put on
Speaker 1: a poster right now. I can't do this, and you
Speaker 1: just like or you're just going at it every time
Speaker 1: and you just like think you can block them.
Speaker 3: I mean, it depends. If I'm early enough, I'll jump
Speaker 3: with everybody. But there's there's some players where it's like
Speaker 3: I mean with Wemby last game, I jumped, tried to
Speaker 3: hit them. I actually hit him in the arm. They
Speaker 3: didn't call it, so it was good, but but I
Speaker 3: hit them. I'm like, well, I hit him in the
Speaker 3: elbow and he jumped, so it's like I wasn't reaching them,
Speaker 3: but I tried.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I feel like that's also impossible, like technically,
Speaker 1: like when you're playing Wemmy, like you're technically short, Like
Speaker 1: that's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm.
Speaker 3: It feels terrible and my I think this was actually
Speaker 3: my rookie year. I had to guard Boban like he
Speaker 3: came out, he came in the game and then I
Speaker 3: had to guard him and I got a rebound right
Speaker 3: here and like he like took it over, I was like, well, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Can't do anything about it.
Speaker 1: Insane. So the last segment of this podcast is trivia. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it's trivia all about you, Santy and just sort
Speaker 1: of your life, your team, things regarding you.
Speaker 4: But it's very difficult.
Speaker 1: You will be the first player that we have this
Speaker 1: new implemented point system with because people get really excited
Speaker 1: and you know, DeAndre Jordan and Chris Paul were like
Speaker 1: texting about who got the best score.
Speaker 4: So feel free to like join in on that.
Speaker 1: We can also make a group chat, but it gets
Speaker 1: very competitive, and I will grade you and there's no complaining.
Speaker 1: I don't curve grades, I don't switch it. So be
Speaker 1: a good sport, please, but just get ready for the challenge. Okay,
Speaker 1: are you ready?
Speaker 2: Do I have scores already?
Speaker 4: Well, so you're the first player who as like a
Speaker 4: real score.
Speaker 1: But just so you know, no one has ever actually
Speaker 1: really gotten the answer right, So like people have gotten
Speaker 1: like close enough, but right has never really happened, so
Speaker 1: you may I have faith that you'll be first. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: so you are twenty two years old. Name the three
Speaker 1: other twenty two year olds on the Grizzlies.
Speaker 3: Alright, desire, Yes, Roddy and Jake Okay, off.
Speaker 1: To a huge start. That is a two points nailed it.
Speaker 1: That's what it says. Okay, love it. How many seven
Speaker 1: footers are currently in the NBA?
Speaker 2: Do I count as the seven foot because.
Speaker 1: They got me a six, they have you a six eleven,
Speaker 1: but I'm counting you, yeah, and I'll say ten very
Speaker 1: far off, so I'm gonna let you get one more.
Speaker 2: Try twenty two.
Speaker 1: Close. Well, so I have here twenty nine, but if
Speaker 1: you I'm gonnaccount used and then that's thirty.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just feel like some people got seven foot written
Speaker 3: down and I'm tader than them, and then.
Speaker 1: It's all crazy.
Speaker 2: I'm fighting for them to give me.
Speaker 1: So there's some like high inflation going on there at
Speaker 1: this point. If I was in the NBA, I could
Speaker 1: like call myself six foot and I'm very clearly five four.
Speaker 2: I think after my fifth year they'll give me this.
Speaker 1: Okay, great, because you're just gonna grow randomly at twenty five.
Speaker 3: I mean I actually grew from my rookiear to my
Speaker 3: second year and I'm seven feet.
Speaker 2: But they haven't good.
Speaker 1: Okay, NBA, you heard it here, he wrote, So that
Speaker 1: was like, unfortunately, like a zero that was nowhere close.
Speaker 1: I gave you the like second question, but pen was
Speaker 1: pretty far. So you're you're at two right now, two points.
Speaker 1: This is more of a bonus. But who are the
Speaker 1: two tallest players in the NBA and they're tied. They're
Speaker 1: the same.
Speaker 2: Height, So Wemby and Bobo.
Speaker 1: Maybe yes, Okay, I feel like that would have been
Speaker 1: much harder if we hadn't just like randomly talked about it.
Speaker 1: The second we started talking about Wemby, I was like,
Speaker 1: oh god, now I'm gonna give it to him. But
Speaker 1: when I read that stat like, I don't think of
Speaker 1: Wemby and Boba like I think of one me being
Speaker 1: so much taller than Ban because he's so much skinnier,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it's like funny to
Speaker 1: think that they're like the same vipe. Anyways, next question,
Speaker 1: your career high is twenty eight points. What team did
Speaker 1: you score this against?
Speaker 2: Celtics?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 1: Didn't give you two questions whatever, okay too, So right
Speaker 1: now you're at oh no, oh my god, you're at six.
Speaker 2: That good.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think anyone's ever beat that, so wow, Yeah,
Speaker 1: scoring Okay, well whatever, I don't that's still very impressive.
Speaker 1: But now I need to like make the questions start.
Speaker 1: You were drafted thirtieth. Who was drafted twenty ninth?
Speaker 2: Oh? This?
Speaker 3: Maybe I know they are in sharp? Yeah that's great.
Speaker 3: I knew it was, I didn't know who it was.
Speaker 1: Okay, so eight, which I don't know what that even
Speaker 1: means at this point. Eight?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: Okay huge? Okay. Who led the twenty twenty three FIBA
Speaker 1: World Cup Spayton team in point per game?
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's me or Billy? Is it
Speaker 2: Billy Willy? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, yes, okay, Now this is I'm giving
Speaker 1: you this as a bonus because I read this the
Speaker 1: other day. I don't even have this written down. When
Speaker 1: you played in the U eighteen FIBA European Championship, which
Speaker 1: you were the MVP, and it's like who averaged the
Speaker 1: most rebounds per game for the Spain national team? Yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: you're just too good.
Speaker 3: I was truggling with somebody about it, like probably like
Speaker 3: a month ago, so I looked it up.
Speaker 1: And I sung, like, there's like a whole graphic like
Speaker 1: I loved it. Okay, wait, so you got Willy, So,
Speaker 1: oh my god, you're okay, you're ten. You're at ten. Okay,
Speaker 1: now this is the last question. I'm really embarrassed. I
Speaker 1: gave you way too easy questions. Next time, we're doing
Speaker 1: this so much harder.
Speaker 2: You got to put me first.
Speaker 1: Okay, fine, whatever? Can you name the top five best
Speaker 1: teams by rankings in the Feeble World rankings.
Speaker 2: And like the rank yes, like in the World.
Speaker 1: Rankings one through in order I'm doing. I'm giving you
Speaker 1: the in order because you were a cheat code and
Speaker 1: you are too smart. Maybe okay, this is why you
Speaker 1: went to Loyola Maryland?
Speaker 4: Can you because you want to get that to Greeks?
Speaker 1: You're so smart?
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, I don't. I don't have it yet, So.
Speaker 4: I'm like half okay, whatever, close enough we get the Okay.
Speaker 3: So the US is first, Spain a second, Serbia's third. No, Germany, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Germany's third, Serbia fourth, No, oh my god, kind of
Speaker 3: this fourth?
Speaker 1: No, I'm not giving you a hand. You've done too well.
Speaker 1: It's like when the teacher when the kid asked too
Speaker 1: many questions, They're like, no, I'm not answering, No, who's fourth?
Speaker 2: Any of the teams? I mentioned. Are they fifth? Yes,
Speaker 2: it's the fifth?
Speaker 3: Yes, fourth missing I must be I must be missing somebody.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a This is like a basketball
Speaker 1: head question. Kyrie Irving was born in.
Speaker 2: This How damn miss Australia.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, so I don't know. Okay, I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you like zero point five for that. That was pretty
Speaker 1: bad like that like took you a lot of so
Speaker 1: so your final was ten point five. That's like amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Wow, so smart? Love it well, Santi now that you're
Speaker 1: the smartest player I've ever had on this podcast. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. This was so much fun and I
Speaker 1: loved having you on.
Speaker 2: Yep. Thank you for having me. It's been great and
Speaker 2: I'm number one.
Speaker 4: On the leader Wow, big time. You deserve a prize.
Speaker 2: Yeah, think about it.
Speaker 3: I will not a Stepberd Jersey.
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