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Speaker 1: I'm kidding, Michael Key, and the NBA Draft is finally here.
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards and Tyrese Maxie will become professional athletes today
Speaker 1: November eight, both our first round prospects, and both will
Speaker 1: end up making somewhere between ten to forty million dollars
Speaker 1: on their rookie contracts. So the thirty four million dollar
Speaker 1: question is when and where will they be selected. In
Speaker 1: addition to the money, the draft is all about the
Speaker 1: right fit for playing time and long term development. With
Speaker 1: all this in mind, agent Rich Paul is up early
Speaker 1: calling NBA general managers to gather intel about where Tyrese
Speaker 1: and Anthony may get picked. Shouts with up, Happy Draft Day,
Speaker 1: what's going on? What you're hearing? Hey, Mitch, how's it going?
Speaker 1: Just calling? Obviously is draft day? Just to see you
Speaker 1: know if if Anthony's dare at three, do you take him?
Speaker 1: Happy Draft Day, Troy, The Pistons. The Pistons first draft.
Speaker 1: I got one question for you, and I won't I
Speaker 1: won't take up too much of your time. But if
Speaker 1: Maxi's there when you guys pick, do you take him?
Speaker 1: Is he one of three? Is he won of five?
Speaker 1: Is he not on your board at all? Gathering information
Speaker 1: is only a part of an agent's job. Use that
Speaker 1: info to manage your client's expectations and nerves is an
Speaker 1: even more important duty. And that means Rich's next phone
Speaker 1: call is to Tyrese. Happy Draft day. Rees. I've been
Speaker 1: up calling and teams this morning, just checking the traps.
Speaker 1: That's all. How you feeling at right now? So we
Speaker 1: are you gonna be a little nervous. Everyone starts to
Speaker 1: feel at least a little nervous once the draft begins,
Speaker 1: especially when the five minute countdown clock for each pick
Speaker 1: begins to tick away, which is part of the reason
Speaker 1: why Rich wants to prepare Tyrese for whatever happens today.
Speaker 1: The other reason he wants to prepare Tyrese is because
Speaker 1: NBA Draft Day is notorious for surprises. Last year, fourteen
Speaker 1: of the sixty players drafted were Roughly one out of
Speaker 1: every five players taken were chosen with picks that were
Speaker 1: traded that day, and those fourteen players were swapped through
Speaker 1: ten different Draft day trades. This sort of thing happened,
Speaker 1: It's almost every year in the NBA. Even some of
Speaker 1: the NBA's all time greatest players like Scottie Pippen, Ray Allen,
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant, Dirk Nowitzki, Kawhi Leonard, and Bill Russell all
Speaker 1: got traded on Draft Day. Anything is possible, and Rich
Speaker 1: wants his client to take a business like approach to
Speaker 1: whatever happens. This evening just another day a day office man.
Speaker 1: I told you the draft is just to beginning of
Speaker 1: what's gonna be a long, successful career for you. Don't
Speaker 1: get caught up into who go before, who go behind.
Speaker 1: Comparisons are the thief of joy. Enjoy your time with
Speaker 1: your family. You work hard to get to this point.
Speaker 1: You dreamed about this as a little kid. This is
Speaker 1: a dream that your father had and it didn't happen
Speaker 1: for him. So to see you make it is an
Speaker 1: unbelievable thing for your family and France. And like I said,
Speaker 1: there's no negative. A lot of times we get so
Speaker 1: caught up into trying to one up the next person
Speaker 1: that the joy is stolen from the actual moment, it's
Speaker 1: only sixty picks, thirty of them in the first round.
Speaker 1: It's only thirty teams. There's only four fifty players in
Speaker 1: the world. And I'm not just saying this because because
Speaker 1: I'm your agent. I'm saying this as a brother. And
Speaker 1: that's somebody who's just been through a lot of life. Man,
Speaker 1: you know, enjoy this kick back, get your honor palmer
Speaker 1: because you don't drink. Just watch the festivities. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you're good, bro, And I told you think about all
Speaker 1: the guys. It's fit over pick one. Thing people don't
Speaker 1: understand is they look at the numbers. Everybody always look
Speaker 1: at how much money somebody making. But if I made
Speaker 1: ten million dollars today and no money for the next
Speaker 1: twenty years, what good is ten million due to me? Nothing? Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: gotta be consistent. It's hard to stay in the NBA.
Speaker 1: And if you put all your eggs in the basket
Speaker 1: and getting drafted, we're in trouble because we got work
Speaker 1: to do. Because guess what, it's another draft next year.
Speaker 1: I got no time. I got to get on my
Speaker 1: horse and gallop. And you in Texas, so they got
Speaker 1: great horses in Texas. So that's what you need to do.
Speaker 1: As soon as you get drafted, go down to the
Speaker 1: nearest stable and get your thoroughbred and get on it.
Speaker 1: You went to Kentucky, so you know a lot about horses.
Speaker 1: We got to ride the horse of life, and we
Speaker 1: needed Clydesdale. You can't get no pony. The race starts
Speaker 1: right away because most guys barely make it to a
Speaker 1: second contract in the NBA. The average career is only
Speaker 1: four and a half year, and that's skewed by Hall
Speaker 1: of famers like Lebron, Kobe or Vince Carter who played
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty two seasons. That's why Rich wants Tyrese
Speaker 1: to already start thinking about what happens after the draft
Speaker 1: and after his first rookie deal. Like Rich and the
Speaker 1: others keep saying, there are only four and fifty spots
Speaker 1: in the NBA, and sixty new players get drafted every year.
Speaker 1: Tonight is only the beginning. We'll be right back. Rich
Speaker 1: and Tyrese continue their call about Tyrese's draft knight plans
Speaker 1: and how many you are expecting over You got to
Speaker 1: wrap ad COVID test. Yeah, I got the rappid COVID
Speaker 1: because I think it's gonna be like eight downstairs, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be me and my family. Oh, that's a
Speaker 1: lot of people. Mum hum, And what's COVID teest you'all
Speaker 1: doing the one up the nose? All right? Forty eight
Speaker 1: hours forty eight hours or or less before COVID says,
Speaker 1: and they get todd rappid COVID do Okay, okay, Denise
Speaker 1: ain't playing, no, and they gotta wein a mathshole time
Speaker 1: except when they Denise Maxie ain't playing. I like her style.
Speaker 1: You're not going on now, you know what you're talking
Speaker 1: about that. I know, I know, I know Denise ain't
Speaker 1: gonna play. I gotta call her. I gotta get to
Speaker 1: a hundred push ups before I called her because I
Speaker 1: got to be ready. Yeah. Well, I'm gonna be checking
Speaker 1: in with you periodically, bro, I got you, all right,
Speaker 1: but it's going I'll get her. Yeah, yeah, you're talking
Speaker 1: to me all day, all okay. Inside the Maxi House
Speaker 1: in Garland, Texas, Tyse's mom Denise continues orchestrating the family's
Speaker 1: draft day preparations. They're not only a few hours from
Speaker 1: the drafts eight pm Eastern start time on ESPN Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got me moved couches on draft day. Get the
Speaker 1: rest of the gere you get that. Please tell me
Speaker 1: you got that. You've been trying to hold that in
Speaker 1: all day. Yeah, he got that. Get your over here.
Speaker 1: That's why you're supposed to have are your mom on
Speaker 1: nice kimoodos, Mamas shoes, real quick mamas shoes right there?
Speaker 1: You know, like we had a cleaning crew, we had
Speaker 1: a moving crew, and we had an actual crew. We
Speaker 1: had a family. Going to the NBA doesn't excuse Tyrese
Speaker 1: from Denise's orders or chores, not even on the day
Speaker 1: of his draft. But Clutch agent Mark Murray arrives early
Speaker 1: to help Tyrese with some of the set up. Let up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is where when you get picked and you
Speaker 1: start doing the NBA media, like you'll be in front
Speaker 1: of this. This will be like the background. They just
Speaker 1: set that up. You did it? Yeah, bro, I told
Speaker 1: him that you can't send They sent it to you
Speaker 1: like I can't even blew your mind. Uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, we brought it up there, like who wouldn't
Speaker 1: know how to It wasn't that it wasn't that bad.
Speaker 1: But I told the crew to set up and they
Speaker 1: said okay, and I walked in. I saw that. I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, they set it up. I was like, wait,
Speaker 1: that's not it sitting there in the box. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot of confusion over the audio your video set up.
Speaker 1: Since this is the first and hopefully only virtual NBA draft,
Speaker 1: no one has done any of this before. Here's Mark
Speaker 1: on some of the challenges. As the draft got closer
Speaker 1: and closer. There was a lot of little things that
Speaker 1: we had to do, you know, making sure the ESPN
Speaker 1: audio set up, the other technical equipment, making sure our
Speaker 1: our stream and our visual is good, to the TV truck,
Speaker 1: and they had a few hiccups that, you know, we
Speaker 1: were able to get through. While Mark helps Tyras and
Speaker 1: Brandon set up in Garland, Rich continues working the phones
Speaker 1: from l A. His next call is one of the
Speaker 1: most important of the day, so he used his face
Speaker 1: time to talk with this V I p oh, there
Speaker 1: it is. Uh huh, I knew it. I got to
Speaker 1: call Granny because I know her hair pop today. That's
Speaker 1: Tyrese's grandma. I'd oh the niece because I thought you
Speaker 1: got it done yesterday. I said, Grain has slept standing
Speaker 1: up last night because she dashed. Ain't about to lay
Speaker 1: on that hair. I know it's not about to happen.
Speaker 1: You got to get it together. Yeah, did you see
Speaker 1: did you see ty Teresa's suit? That boy, That boy's
Speaker 1: gonna be cleaning the Board of Health. O. I said
Speaker 1: it's gonna be cleans the board of health tonight. Granny
Speaker 1: know what's happening. Yeah, I listen. I'm I'm waiting on
Speaker 1: him to wear it because I told him I'm going
Speaker 1: back to get it myself. It looks so good on him.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be danger bet on sports and Nigger Twins.
Speaker 1: Where the twins at? Where the twins at the draft?
Speaker 1: Don't have nothing in this story for the twins. They
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on. Rich keeps things light because
Speaker 1: he knows the emotional toll draft it can take on
Speaker 1: a family, and that's under normal conditions. On top of
Speaker 1: the usual stress, the Maxis have the work of hosting
Speaker 1: a virtual event at their home during a pandemic, and
Speaker 1: that makes it easy to see why they would be
Speaker 1: stressed out. To help with the nerves, Rich makes one
Speaker 1: last call to the president and CEO of the Maxi
Speaker 1: Draft party. Tyrese's mom Denise. Have the draft day, Denise,
Speaker 1: how you feeling. I don't know. I've been crying all day,
Speaker 1: have you? Yeah? I thought he will be ready anymore?
Speaker 1: You know, yes he will. Yeah, it's hard to let go.
Speaker 1: You'll see You've got you know, three owners. You know, yes,
Speaker 1: he will be a man and that in many ways,
Speaker 1: tonight's draft is like Tiras's graduation. He had his college
Speaker 1: experience and now he'll be moving to a new city
Speaker 1: to become a full time working professional with a lot
Speaker 1: of responsibility. His new life is an adult, starts tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I had a good conversation with him this morning and
Speaker 1: I told him, I said, Tyreese, I want you to
Speaker 1: enjoy this day. Man. Your mom and dad work hard,
Speaker 1: your family gonna be there, your friends kicked back having
Speaker 1: on a palmer, and when your name get called, you
Speaker 1: will be an NBA. And now in the real work start.
Speaker 1: I really think his rain starts right around twelve twelve.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're like twelve to twenty four, So just relax.
Speaker 1: Let the people get their chicken and biscuits and their
Speaker 1: bellies spaghetti fish. You and Tyron I want you all
Speaker 1: to put on a song to night Frankie, Beverly and
Speaker 1: Mays and kick it. I want you all to kick
Speaker 1: it tonight. And I don't know it's gonna be all good.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to relax because not relaxed, dense, relaxed.
Speaker 1: You're gonna cry. Listen, You're gonna cry. Did did? Did?
Speaker 1: Did Felicia call you? Oh? Yeah? All theb A moms,
Speaker 1: I'm say yeah. Chris Paul's mom called twice. You got
Speaker 1: his morning? Hey, how are you robbing? How argued? What
Speaker 1: are you doing? That was about cleaning? Right, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm good. I feel fine, Just nervous thing. He's leaving,
Speaker 1: you know, Okay, he's leaving. It's excitement. Today is about
Speaker 1: proud mom. I told Tyreees you were the one I
Speaker 1: was worried about. Well, in most cases, I would be
Speaker 1: a little bit more. I get pulled together, but at
Speaker 1: this point I'm just like, Okay, it's here. I have
Speaker 1: no control, but I know that I have had to.
Speaker 1: But just in God, man and letting God do you woman,
Speaker 1: and You're going to do it. As the hours wind
Speaker 1: down and the draft approaches, the Maxi's arranged everything in
Speaker 1: it's perfect place. Couches audio video equipment, food and drinks.
Speaker 1: Every detail is addressed, every question is answered, and for
Speaker 1: possibly the first time in Tyrese's basketball career, there's nothing
Speaker 1: else he and his family can do to prepare. Denise
Speaker 1: had truly the full draft. You felt like you were
Speaker 1: almost in New York. She had a red carpet, she
Speaker 1: had the big stage, catered chefs, COVID testing to get
Speaker 1: through the door. They had a bunch of family over.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe you know people safely spaced out. I mean,
Speaker 1: they did a really good job and making it a
Speaker 1: special night, and they did it the right way, which
Speaker 1: is no shocker. If he knows Denise, she does everything
Speaker 1: above and beyond and goes all out. Then as the
Speaker 1: draft comes around, it's a unique situation because we've put
Speaker 1: in all this work, and Tyrese has put in all
Speaker 1: this work, and you're at a point where there's no
Speaker 1: and left you can do. You have to sit back
Speaker 1: and truly watch and just see what happens. You can't
Speaker 1: do another workout, you can't do another interview, another conversation,
Speaker 1: another zoom. You've already done it all. All the work
Speaker 1: has been put in. So Tyrese is someone not maybe
Speaker 1: necessarily being able to control your own destiny is hard
Speaker 1: for someone like him, who normally does. Tyrese's approach has
Speaker 1: been three workouts before noon, writing down his goals every
Speaker 1: morning since middle school, and a lifetime of practicing before practice.
Speaker 1: The prospect of sitting still and watching his fate unfold
Speaker 1: in someone else's hands goes against who he is, but
Speaker 1: that's exactly what's going to happen tonight as Tyrese waits
Speaker 1: to find out his NBA future. Well, Tyrese worked out
Speaker 1: in Garland this morning. Draft Day was also getting started
Speaker 1: bright and early in Atlanta. Here's Auton Holland, Anthony's friend Trey,
Speaker 1: and Uncle Drew as they arrived at Anthony's apartment. Hello,
Speaker 1: what he's drafting? Mean he's drafty? You see that smoke?
Speaker 1: Abas may What Anthony is still starting this morning and
Speaker 1: isn't quite as fired up as just in this early Babies? Hello, babies,
Speaker 1: dram date dram nates when it's like, damn, I don't drive?
Speaker 1: Do got working a third? And probably are you on it? Jee?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, I don't basics. That's Uncle Drew complaining
Speaker 1: about Anthony not being ready to go and about not
Speaker 1: having jelly or ketchup for his biscuit. They have an
Speaker 1: eight thirty a m workout plan, and he doesn't care
Speaker 1: if it's draft day or not. There's still work to
Speaker 1: do even today. As they head to the gym, Justin
Speaker 1: calls coach Rob Allen, who was texting him earlier in
Speaker 1: the morning. Hey Man, Hey Man, don't don't text me. Man,
Speaker 1: it don't be texting me man like anybody else. Oh Man,
Speaker 1: don't don't don't take me like like we got one
Speaker 1: of them, one of them SURFINGCE level relationships. Man, don't
Speaker 1: do that. Okay. I'm Justin plays around with coach Rob
Speaker 1: because if anyone has free rein to interrupt him on
Speaker 1: draft day, it's Robbed. He's been an integral part of
Speaker 1: Anthony's journey and their family at the god be Rod
Speaker 1: Gym for years. No bro, no bro. Like, Hey man,
Speaker 1: I'm proud. I'm proud of us. Man, we find look
Speaker 1: this this to day we've been working for man, like
Speaker 1: for real, for real. I know the mann't care like
Speaker 1: the out on one. Man, I'm happy for that, and
Speaker 1: no matter what we go, I don't even care. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm that proud that that we here man that
Speaker 1: we've made it before, so you know we're bled. Hey, man, bless,
Speaker 1: bless more than we know, brother, more than we know.
Speaker 1: I would say, it's a wind regardless. Man. The kids
Speaker 1: get to change their life. You know, they look they
Speaker 1: stayed true to who they are, even even just keeping
Speaker 1: keeping us around halfway. Shoot, you know that boy, we
Speaker 1: can say for up for a lot of people. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a testament, testament to the work. Man. I want
Speaker 1: you know, I'm say, definitely gone, y'all. Definitely gonna see
Speaker 1: ya all later to night. Justin heads into the gym
Speaker 1: for Anthony's morning workout. Meanwhile, at the house in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: where they'll be hosting Anthony's virtual draft, Clutch head of
Speaker 1: basketball Omar Wilkes worries about a much bigger issue and
Speaker 1: setting up cameras and microphones. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys have been paying attention to the news today about
Speaker 1: his quote basically saying that he didn't uh, he wasn't
Speaker 1: in the basketball. It's been on ESPN and everything all today.
Speaker 1: That's what they've been talking about all day on the shows.
Speaker 1: Have you been seeing it? Yeah, here's Omar. We had
Speaker 1: that curveball of the ESPN article saying that he didn't
Speaker 1: love basketball. The actual clickbait or SoundBite that everyone used
Speaker 1: came out the day of the draft, so people start
Speaker 1: coming out of the woodworks with their conspiracy theories and thoughts,
Speaker 1: which you know how that goes. A breaking article on
Speaker 1: ESPN quotes Anthony Is saying he's not really that into basketball.
Speaker 1: This is understandably concerning because NBA teams are considering paying
Speaker 1: him tens of millions of dollars to play that exact sport,
Speaker 1: and in about two hours they have to decide whether
Speaker 1: or not to draft him. So if team executives consider
Speaker 1: this a red flag, or if it raises new doubts,
Speaker 1: especially for the team's picking in the top five, then
Speaker 1: this quote might have just turned the entire draft upside down.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Omar calls Rich Paul to talk
Speaker 1: about the potential fallout from the ESPN article. Up RP
Speaker 1: heads up that you're being recorded, so don't say anything. Fine,
Speaker 1: foul um, there's been a quote that said doesn't love basketball,
Speaker 1: doesn't care about basketball. Don't stress. None of the teams
Speaker 1: are tripping on it. And I look, you wanted to
Speaker 1: call Alex Scarborough and big, what do you come on, bro?
Speaker 1: Like you took that out of contract the headline though
Speaker 1: we know what he was saying. He was saying, it
Speaker 1: doesn't define him. Yeah, you know, it's not like I'm
Speaker 1: spending every day of my day watching basketball, right right.
Speaker 1: But he was like, I love once I've seen the
Speaker 1: ball book, that's all I needed. I think you hit
Speaker 1: it on the head. So uh yeah, but that's my approach.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna do no statement or anything before hands.
Speaker 1: It just makes it bigger than it needs to be.
Speaker 1: But nothing to worry about. Okay, al right, everything else,
Speaker 1: good your way, any new news, no nothing? Know you
Speaker 1: know Ti Rees, you know he's one of three and
Speaker 1: like fourteen fifteen sixteen, good good, okay, all good, man,
Speaker 1: appreciate you. Here's Omar on his attempt at damage control.
Speaker 1: So basically a few calls ESPN just picking their brains
Speaker 1: on how to best handle this, how this came out,
Speaker 1: when it did, how it did, and how was misinterpreted.
Speaker 1: I was just on the phone with you know, the Warriors,
Speaker 1: the Wolves, and the Hornets all day. I know thatly
Speaker 1: the people that mattered in that situation, with the teams
Speaker 1: drafting him and they had been around him and know
Speaker 1: him and know his fervor for the game and his
Speaker 1: kind of appetite to get better. You know, I also
Speaker 1: kind of want to manage perception, but sometimes study of control.
Speaker 1: Anthony seems to be taking the surprise headline and stride,
Speaker 1: and after talking with team executives, Omar believes everyone in
Speaker 1: the league knows the truth. But do the timber Wolves
Speaker 1: truly know and the Warriors and the Hornets. There's obviously
Speaker 1: at least some small concern that this could cost Anthony
Speaker 1: and move him out of the top of the draft,
Speaker 1: especially when ESPN confirms Minnesota is considering trading the top pick.
Speaker 1: Even as the draft is about to begin, What are
Speaker 1: you hearing about the timber Wolves, who shortly will be
Speaker 1: on the clock at number one race. The timber Wolves
Speaker 1: are still on the phones fielding calls, talking to teams
Speaker 1: about potential trades out of that number one spot. This
Speaker 1: wouldn't be unprecedented. The team with the number one pick
Speaker 1: has traded it seven times in draft history, often on
Speaker 1: the day of the draft. Fortunately, there isn't much time
Speaker 1: left to stress about the situation because after all the
Speaker 1: build up and late breaking headlines and all the phone
Speaker 1: calls and preparation. The draft is only thirty minutes away.
Speaker 1: Tyrese takes his seat on the couch in Garland, Texas. Well,
Speaker 1: Anthony settles onto his couch in Atlanta, surrounded by his
Speaker 1: family Justin Omar, Uncle Drew, coach Rob Trey, and others.
Speaker 1: Anthony tries to stay calmy baby in the first thing
Speaker 1: in the two D draft belongs to the Minnesota Temperwolf,
Speaker 1: where five minutes to make their selection. Now the nerves
Speaker 1: kick into high gear. Were working at a little sweet Yeah.
Speaker 1: As someone said in the room, five minutes is a
Speaker 1: long time under these circumstances. Here's justin talking about the
Speaker 1: excruciating final moments. I wasn't nervous the entire draft process.
Speaker 1: I wasn't nervous the week leading up to the draft.
Speaker 1: I wasn't nervous the day of the draft. But I
Speaker 1: was nervous five minutes when the broadcast came on. I
Speaker 1: think Adam Silver came on and and I'm thinking he's
Speaker 1: about to call the number one pick, and I am nervous.
Speaker 1: So I kind of looked over and Anthony and he's
Speaker 1: like his leg is bouncing, and he's like I might cry.
Speaker 1: And the whole time he's like, I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna cry, but he's like, I might cry, you know,
Speaker 1: And I'm looking over and his eyes are kind of
Speaker 1: welling up with tears, and I'm sure he just had
Speaker 1: so many emotions going into that day, the pictures of
Speaker 1: his mom and his grandma and everything, and these worked
Speaker 1: so hard for and and at that moment, I think
Speaker 1: everything is hitting you at one time, and you got
Speaker 1: your nervousness, Am I gonna be number one? Then you
Speaker 1: you have the other piece of I've just worked so
Speaker 1: hard for this moment to be right here, and then
Speaker 1: it's just one of those things. But he yeah, he
Speaker 1: definitely was nervous. I think we both were, Like my
Speaker 1: stomach was in a not And then he says, we'll
Speaker 1: be back in five minutes for the number one draft.
Speaker 1: So everybody in the room like, oh uh, you know,
Speaker 1: so that was like the longest five minutes of my life.
Speaker 1: In addition to his friends and family who have joined him,
Speaker 1: Anthony is also surrounded by two massive paintings portraits of
Speaker 1: his mom and his grandmother he had made just for
Speaker 1: this moment. He sits on the couch in between both
Speaker 1: wearing a custom designed shirt with their names printed on it.
Speaker 1: They're physically and figuratively with him now, and they all
Speaker 1: wait in this room together, agonizing for the pick to
Speaker 1: be announced. All right, we had a little thing in control.
Speaker 1: We handled everything in control. We gotta live with it,
Speaker 1: live it all on the court. I can live with anything,
Speaker 1: live with anything. What a commission? What a comissioner? Won't here?
Speaker 1: What a commission? And let shine if I am designed? Sigh?
Speaker 1: I can't get right? No one sign every side? He
Speaker 1: just go ahead, We're good, We're good. I had had
Speaker 1: a grind for everything. I had a grind for everything.
Speaker 1: Business select grade of what ye the Minnesota Timberwolves select
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards number one. Overall, his has actually come true.
Speaker 1: The promise to his mom and grandmother, all of his
Speaker 1: goals and aspirations, it all happens here in this moment.
Speaker 1: He gets on a video call with the broadcast. Hey
Speaker 1: do you have it? Thank you so much. It's an
Speaker 1: undescribable feeling. I mean, I can't even describe it. My
Speaker 1: family is emotional. I feel like when I get off here,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get emotional. And I'm just blessed beyond measures
Speaker 1: to be in this situation. And you said that your
Speaker 1: mother and grandmother have built you to be who you are,
Speaker 1: and you wouldn't be who you are today without them.
Speaker 1: How are you honoring their legacy today? As you can see,
Speaker 1: my grandmother's my grandmother's right here, and my mother is
Speaker 1: right here. And the shirt that uh, with the collaboration
Speaker 1: I had, I got my grandmother's name and my mother's
Speaker 1: name and my shirts. It wouldn't me at all times.
Speaker 1: Alcony steps into another room to continue his media appearance,
Speaker 1: while the gravity of what they've all accomplished finally starts
Speaker 1: to sink in. For Justin and everyone else. Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn,
Speaker 1: very why it is overcome? Justin embraces his wife Janine.
Speaker 1: Come a long way, It works a hard man. Thank him.
Speaker 1: He worked like damn we did. Did sacrifice who well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. All those sacrifices, the thousands of hours,
Speaker 1: the missed dinners, the late nights, the travel to and
Speaker 1: from games, it all paid off. Anthony returns from the
Speaker 1: interview and he inged, embrace what we worked for. You deserve.
Speaker 1: I ain't wanna never put us in the campill, No, Hey, man,
Speaker 1: We've worked for every fucking everything, and what guy he
Speaker 1: worked for everything? He everything, he got it to us
Speaker 1: everything he too. Ship. Here's Anthony's friend, Trey, and how
Speaker 1: much this moment means to all of them. Anthony told
Speaker 1: me one time, a long time before, he hasn't cried
Speaker 1: since his mom and grandmother died, so and then he
Speaker 1: said he's never gonna cry again. But Justin cried, and
Speaker 1: I looked back at Drew and he just Drew just bawling,
Speaker 1: because it's like, if anybody has seen it the most,
Speaker 1: it's been Drew, and it's seen been with him since
Speaker 1: he was eight years old. I mean, he's, like he said,
Speaker 1: Miss Evet, his mother was the one that told him, like,
Speaker 1: look after my kid, take care of my kid. Makes
Speaker 1: in my case straight, I trusting you, So I know
Speaker 1: that all that stuff was going through Drew's head, like
Speaker 1: damn man, number one pick. Anthony alwards like the number
Speaker 1: one pick. He's the number one pick. As everyone celebrates
Speaker 1: Anthony's surreal, impossible journey to the top of the NBA Draft,
Speaker 1: the broadcast continues with the second pick, and then the third, fourth,
Speaker 1: and fifth into picks ten, fourteen, and sixteen. And back
Speaker 1: in Garland, Texas, is Tyrese watches these other names get called.
Speaker 1: He's forced to do the one thing he's never practiced,
Speaker 1: waiting for someone else to make his dreams come true.
Speaker 1: Next undrafted another number one pick. I got one more
Speaker 1: down the boards with the one pick in two thousand
Speaker 1: twenty NBA draft the Philadelphia seventy six or select Tyres Maxie.
Speaker 1: Now I just say, you're crying on the thing. I
Speaker 1: was like, really about to call You's just a great
Speaker 1: I'm so happy you went there, man, I'm so happy
Speaker 1: you did. They wanted us in Minnesota the next day,
Speaker 1: so they were sitting us a jet at four pm
Speaker 1: when we landed. You know, it was a photographer capturing
Speaker 1: photos and he was getting off the plane. The entire
Speaker 1: Minnesota Timberwolves organization is outside clapping and waiting on us
Speaker 1: to get off the bus. I was about to say,
Speaker 1: is this is this really happening? Is this really happening?
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