Speaker 1: I'm Daniel House Junior and you're listening to the seventy
Speaker 1: six is inside of podcast Welcome Back. I'm Matt Murphy,
Speaker 1: joined by Lauren Rosen. Our player interview series continues in
Speaker 1: the lead up to the playoffs for the Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers. On this edition, Lauren, it's fan favorite, teammate
Speaker 1: favorite Daniel House Junior, a guy that always brings the
Speaker 1: vibes to this year's Sixers group. In particular about this interview,
Speaker 1: I really liked his answer to the dream dinner table
Speaker 1: because he went on and on and on, and he
Speaker 1: has an interest in well not an interest part of
Speaker 1: He's a rapper, so a handful of his picks were
Speaker 1: fellow rappers. But it was more of like a dinner
Speaker 1: party than a dinner table, which I feel like for
Speaker 1: the house for the team that like that matches the
Speaker 1: brand to throw a whole dinner party instead of most
Speaker 1: players have picked like two people at the table. Maybefore
Speaker 1: PJ Tucker episode coming later this week, also had a
Speaker 1: really good table with a one specific guest that really
Speaker 1: warmed my heart. So teaser for pj's episode, but looking
Speaker 1: forward to hearing wode House wanted to have at the table,
Speaker 1: and Matt you said it multi talented, life of the party,
Speaker 1: life of the bus, life of the plane. He's really
Speaker 1: just been a joy to get to know and be around.
Speaker 1: We talk about the Tyrese Maxi's of the world who
Speaker 1: appear to have never had a bad day, and ideologically,
Speaker 1: I actually have a problem with the idea of someone
Speaker 1: who's never had a bad day. I don't think that exists.
Speaker 1: But in terms of bringing the same energy into the
Speaker 1: locker room every day and bringing consistency and holding yourself
Speaker 1: accountable to being a certain type of person the way
Speaker 1: that Tyrese Maxie does, d House does the same way
Speaker 1: in a totally different way. But you know what you're
Speaker 1: getting from him every day. His teammates know that he's
Speaker 1: going to be a source of light, a source of joy,
Speaker 1: a source of fun, and it's been so cool to
Speaker 1: observe that. In his first year as a sixer, he
Speaker 1: said the dinner table would be a big round table,
Speaker 1: both for the house for the team. Let's hear it.
Speaker 1: Daniel House Junior starting that combo guard fort sixty seven
Speaker 1: from the Legendary University of Texas, Daniel or technically Texas
Speaker 1: a and M University number twenty five, DANU host Junior.
Speaker 1: Let Carl go crazy before we jump into the U,
Speaker 1: said Texas A and M. What about that NCUBAA tournament
Speaker 1: come back that you guys had. Alex Caruso was on
Speaker 1: your team. You were down twelve, I think with a
Speaker 1: minute and change left, and you guys beat Northern Iowa
Speaker 1: twelve forty four twelve points forty fourth seconds. Wow, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what was that? Like? It's weird. It's it's it's weird
Speaker 1: because it's a game that don't get respected acknowledged that much.
Speaker 1: I feel like I felt like I should have wanted
Speaker 1: to ask me or something. We should have want to
Speaker 1: ask me or something because it's like it's still technically
Speaker 1: the greatest comeback in years. It was that we was
Speaker 1: supposed to win that game, like a one in a
Speaker 1: million chance to win that game because catch back up
Speaker 1: and win that game, and we did it. So we
Speaker 1: used the first one in the million to to conquer
Speaker 1: the odds. You had a big role in it too.
Speaker 1: You had a few of those down twelve. You had
Speaker 1: a couple of buckets, right yeah, man, I mean they
Speaker 1: did shouts out to you and I. They did the
Speaker 1: best they could. They they was switching up defensive seed.
Speaker 1: Were you guys and what seed it was? It would
Speaker 1: have been an upset if they beat you, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: would have been an upset. I think it was like
Speaker 1: a three got We know you're a great basketball player.
Speaker 1: What else are you great at? Rapping down the mic
Speaker 1: and and and energy and it? Well? To be honest
Speaker 1: with you, I'm good with a lot of things. Uh.
Speaker 1: I got my own little doll business, I got my
Speaker 1: own label business. Uh. I'm really talented with with with people.
Speaker 1: I feel like I can captivate the room and get
Speaker 1: people to be outside themselves, to to really see themselves
Speaker 1: as more than what they usually see themselves as a
Speaker 1: special talent. What makes you a great rapper? I would say,
Speaker 1: because it's I'm I'm giving the truth. I'm giving you
Speaker 1: real life pain. I'm telling you just stuff that that
Speaker 1: has happened that I didn't grew up and saw personally.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So it's it's straight facts
Speaker 1: that ain't no cap So I feel like that's the
Speaker 1: beauty and that, you know what I mean to get
Speaker 1: to express the pain and stuff that I saw and
Speaker 1: share with other people, to let them know that they
Speaker 1: can make it out too, you know, and that that
Speaker 1: happiness that you elicit from other people. Did you know
Speaker 1: that your coach, Doc Rivers recently said on the road
Speaker 1: trip that you're one of the funniest human beings out there.
Speaker 1: Ain't man, This theme is funny, Pee, I ain't the
Speaker 1: only one. This team is funny. Pee. It seems like
Speaker 1: you might be the straw that stirs the funny drink, though,
Speaker 1: I think you might be the captain Captain funny something
Speaker 1: like that. Um, what was your childhood like? Oh, it
Speaker 1: was tough. It was tough, wasn't really accepted by too
Speaker 1: many family debacle, was kind of missy. So mom and
Speaker 1: pops did the best that they possibly could try to
Speaker 1: teach me as much as they could. Uh, once I
Speaker 1: met God man basketball never look back. When was that
Speaker 1: man God that got baptized at seven? Started really hooping
Speaker 1: like thirteen fourteen? With this idea that you guys kind
Speaker 1: of have an idea of what people are saying about you,
Speaker 1: Like the public is saying. What's something that you think
Speaker 1: they get right about you and something that the public
Speaker 1: gets wrong about you. To be honest with you, I
Speaker 1: can't really say too much that they get right about me,
Speaker 1: because all the stuff I see about me it's wrong.
Speaker 1: So it's cool though, I mean, people perception of me
Speaker 1: is that, But my family and friends and colleagues know
Speaker 1: me as something else, so I feel like it's cool.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's one of the ones you can't contest
Speaker 1: everyone and be like, hey, you're wrong, so you gotta
Speaker 1: keep moving. The only thing I can do is just
Speaker 1: try to put up a better effort the next time
Speaker 1: to potentially change your view of me. That's it. What
Speaker 1: do you think like the most regular thing about you
Speaker 1: is the most normal thing? Perhaps I play the game.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm lazy too, I'm I'm just like you at home.
Speaker 1: You're saying video games, video games, sit on the couch,
Speaker 1: chill every day, knowing every day, no, I gotta sit
Speaker 1: at the house, gotta gotta watch Netflix. So game days,
Speaker 1: travel days, off days. What's something you look forward to
Speaker 1: on a game day? On a game day, I'm playing,
Speaker 1: travel day. What do you look forward to get into
Speaker 1: the destination safely? What do you look forward to on
Speaker 1: an off day? Kicking my feed up, what's the favorite
Speaker 1: gift that you've gotten for someone else? Favorite gift I
Speaker 1: got for us. I mean, I haven't got so many
Speaker 1: people so many gifts, to be honest, and I do
Speaker 1: it from the heart, so I can't even honestly remember
Speaker 1: because I do everything from the heart. So what's the
Speaker 1: favorite thing you've purchased for yourself? Uh? Well, I'm in
Speaker 1: a mist of like restoring my old school wheep somobile. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: with the skirts, that's awesome. How many cars do you have?
Speaker 1: I got four. That's great for the team, for the house,
Speaker 1: for the team. So four was your number, right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: In Houston. Yeah, I couldn't wear it here because it's yeah,
Speaker 1: noted all respect, all respect. If you could wake up
Speaker 1: in the morning with a new skill on the court,
Speaker 1: what would it be? A new skill? New basketball skill? First?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, I say, handle the ball better. If I
Speaker 1: can wake up with better handles, I'll be who getting
Speaker 1: to the right duggy? Yeah yeah, yeah, I get that anyway,
Speaker 1: But you know, so I get there more efficient, more smooth, effortless.
Speaker 1: New skill off the court? You could add anything, new
Speaker 1: skill off the court. H a new skill off the court,
Speaker 1: I would say, uh, you know what I've been watching lately, um,
Speaker 1: like people building stuff like fixtures on house, like cutting
Speaker 1: the wood down of the true you have an old
Speaker 1: tree and chiseling it down and taking the wood planes
Speaker 1: from it and building something from it. So that would
Speaker 1: be a new skill for me to learn how to build,
Speaker 1: like actually build. What's something about life on the road
Speaker 1: that would surprise people? The time flies so like you
Speaker 1: can get discombobulated and sometimes you can forget your room
Speaker 1: numb if you want to road for solos. So and
Speaker 1: you have a pretty big family too, right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got a huge family my pops, my pops, my mother
Speaker 1: and father had fourteen my mom that my mom was
Speaker 1: one of eight, and then I think she had a
Speaker 1: few more other siblings. I think probably Levin Moore. So
Speaker 1: I got a real big family from my mom and
Speaker 1: then my close brothers and sisters. I got two older brothers,
Speaker 1: a younger brother, and a younger sister. How do you
Speaker 1: make sure to nurture the closest relationships that you have
Speaker 1: in your life? Life you gotta give quality time and
Speaker 1: it can't be about you. So when I'm trying to
Speaker 1: nurture my relationships with others, I'm making sure that I'm
Speaker 1: focusing on them and the issue that they have of
Speaker 1: him versus myself or talking about myself or anything relying
Speaker 1: or relating to me, unless the situation happens to deal
Speaker 1: with me or I've done it, you know from a
Speaker 1: meal with your dream table. Who is at the table
Speaker 1: living or Tupac got MJ, Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, Michael Micks.
Speaker 1: I won't Biggie there too, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: so we can chop it up. That'll be pretty much
Speaker 1: young Dolf. Gotta have Dolf at the table, flip flip,
Speaker 1: or gotta be at the table too. So when you retire,
Speaker 1: what do you want people to say about you? That
Speaker 1: that this guy gave us more than like him? You
Speaker 1: can ever imagine that whatever you think or say about
Speaker 1: him don't really matter because I know the real him.
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. I appreciate the time i'm him. Thanks
Speaker 1: again to Daniel House Junior. Really fun conversation with him,
Speaker 1: and he keeps it real. So we talk a lot
Speaker 1: about his energetic personality, but at the same time some
Speaker 1: of these questions about public perception and how he wants
Speaker 1: to be remembered. A very thoughtful guy that at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, he does bring the positive energy
Speaker 1: and he wants to be remembered in that type of way.
Speaker 1: And Lauren, one thing that I've noticed is in our
Speaker 1: tiktoks throughout the year, and if people aren't following the
Speaker 1: sixers on TikTok, you should be a great job from
Speaker 1: our whole team with Julie, Becca and Ali on our
Speaker 1: social team. He Daniel House Junior is the pick from
Speaker 1: a lot of his teammates for various questions including recently,
Speaker 1: who would you want to be for one day? He
Speaker 1: was the answer from a lot of the guys, which
Speaker 1: is just such a good way to describe the type
Speaker 1: of attitude he brings and the mindset that he has.
Speaker 1: I think the other players just want to spend some
Speaker 1: time in his head. And yeah, he's also a I'd
Speaker 1: say a one hundred percent rate participant in each of
Speaker 1: the like goofy content things that we do throughout the year,
Speaker 1: which for a little bit of context, guys are constantly
Speaker 1: being asked to participate in different things, whether it's for content,
Speaker 1: or for community, or for season ticket members or for
Speaker 1: basketball things Like there's a lot that's asked of these
Speaker 1: guys every single day. So to say yes to everything
Speaker 1: is truly like a hard to do. I certainly couldn't
Speaker 1: do it, but be such a delight when guys like
Speaker 1: d House are just always excited to participate. So yeah,
Speaker 1: if you haven't followed the Sixers on TikTok, make sure
Speaker 1: you do so a great opportunity to see D House's
Speaker 1: personality and see the way that his teammates relate to him.
Speaker 1: We're talking a lot about this, and we can talk
Speaker 1: about his on court game here in a second. But
Speaker 1: one other thing that an inside or insight from the
Speaker 1: road is that when House gets on the bus, he
Speaker 1: always has a comment to the coaches, his teammates, staff, trainers, etc.
Speaker 1: And oftentimes it's something like either for the house, for
Speaker 1: the team, or one thing I've heard him say a
Speaker 1: lot is what's the deal? So you'll have your head
Speaker 1: down and whatever, listening to music, and you always hear
Speaker 1: him say what's the deal. When he gets on the
Speaker 1: bus before a game, he's goofy. He brings the good vibes.
Speaker 1: But also all season long, not to get lost in
Speaker 1: the conversation about his vibes, is the way that he's
Speaker 1: stayed ready all year. It's something we've heard Doc Rivers
Speaker 1: talk about a Ton recently, de have someone who's been
Speaker 1: in and out of the rotation more than a few
Speaker 1: times this season, but always is ready for the opportunity
Speaker 1: to come back, as he has lately again as the
Speaker 1: regular season winding down, the House has had some of
Speaker 1: his better performances of the year towards the end of
Speaker 1: the season. I wanted to though, harken back Matt something
Speaker 1: we talked about when we did the Shake Paul re
Speaker 1: Duo episode. Check that one out if you haven't already,
Speaker 1: But that time when the Sixers were in Orlando without
Speaker 1: their top three scorers at the time, no Joe l
Speaker 1: emb no James Harden, no Tyrese Maxie, we remember Shake
Speaker 1: Milton stepping up in a huge way. We don't as
Speaker 1: often talk about the way that d House stepped up.
Speaker 1: I remember, particularly in that second game at Orlando that
Speaker 1: was his season high nineteen points in that one, five
Speaker 1: or eight from the field. But he also brought like
Speaker 1: a seriousness to the court. He brought an intensity to
Speaker 1: the court that the team needed to get those wins
Speaker 1: done absent their best players, and cool to see him
Speaker 1: show what he can do when given the opportunity, and
Speaker 1: to see that he maintains that positive attitude regardless of
Speaker 1: what his opportunities look like. So it's been really cool
Speaker 1: to cover him this year, sort of on and off
Speaker 1: the court, and he does bring it to the court,
Speaker 1: that energy and the way that he celebrates his teammate
Speaker 1: success on the floor, the way that he celebrates his
Speaker 1: own success on the court. The shooting is one thing.
Speaker 1: He's a good three point shooter, obviously unlimited volume this
Speaker 1: year when he's been in and out of the rotation,
Speaker 1: it's somewhere around league average from three, but over his
Speaker 1: career a capable shooter that defenses are aware of when
Speaker 1: he checks in. He's often on the court end of
Speaker 1: quarter situations for defense a lot of the time, and
Speaker 1: he's made some good defensive plays as well. He's been
Speaker 1: around this league, even though he's not that old. He's
Speaker 1: got a veteran presence about him, someone who's played with
Speaker 1: James Harden in his career before. Guys kind of know
Speaker 1: what to expect from him when they're sharing the court
Speaker 1: with him. One thing he mentioned in the interview was
Speaker 1: maybe an on court skill that he wishes he could
Speaker 1: have overnight or develop to an elite level would be
Speaker 1: his ball handling, and he said that it would allow
Speaker 1: him to just get into the lane and dunk more.
Speaker 1: And I'm reminded of all the massive dunks he's had
Speaker 1: this year. Some have been waved off for fouls, some
Speaker 1: have been misses. But a guy that is very athletic too,
Speaker 1: and I always say tries to bring the house down
Speaker 1: with some of these dungs. Love love, love when he
Speaker 1: does bringing the house down. And and Matt, we're looking
Speaker 1: ahead to the playoffs. De House has a breadth of
Speaker 1: the playoff experience twenty nineteen, twenty twenty twenty two. So
Speaker 1: he's someone who, if called upon in the playoffs, can
Speaker 1: draw back on plenty of playoff experience over these last
Speaker 1: four or five years, some of which were alongside James Harden,
Speaker 1: who has play alongside in these playoffs once again. So
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing how he a brings the energy
Speaker 1: and the vibes, but be if he's given the opportunity,
Speaker 1: how he steps into it in the playoffs and in
Speaker 1: real time as we speak at the end of the
Speaker 1: regular season, a lot of matchups for the Sixers against
Speaker 1: fellow playoff teams, and some minutes during this stretch for
Speaker 1: House that should give him some confidence heading into actual
Speaker 1: postseason contests. My last thing on the way out is
Speaker 1: you'll see him do that bow and arrow celebration when
Speaker 1: he makes threes. Way back at the beginning of the season,
Speaker 1: I asked him about it, and he has a number
Speaker 1: of children, and he said, for his sons is the
Speaker 1: reason that he does the bow and arrow celebration because
Speaker 1: they really like superheroes. So really, no matter the score,
Speaker 1: he says, he does it on every three pointer that
Speaker 1: he makes, at least for the last number of years,
Speaker 1: and I think it's a really nice gesture for them,
Speaker 1: a nice little wink to the kiddos. So shout out
Speaker 1: to the house, Shout out to the house kids, the
Speaker 1: house brethren, if you will, and Matt, with the drop
Speaker 1: of the word brethren, I think we can get out
Speaker 1: of here all right. Brethren, Thanks everybody, thanks for listening.
Speaker 1: Bye guys,