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Speaker 1: So, Mari, You've had a lot of moments in your

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Speaker 1: career worth celebrating. Talk about winning the Rookie of the

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Speaker 2: I meant a lot, man. I mean I was I

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Speaker 2: was straight out of high school, right, and I was

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Speaker 2: literally out of high school. I was really a high

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Speaker 2: school kid who didn't have a lot of training in

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Speaker 2: to go out there and play. And then once I

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Speaker 2: strategies in these things, and so my game improved a

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Speaker 2: lot in a short period of time. And my rookie year,

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Speaker 2: I was battling against Yaomin who was a pheenom you know,

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Speaker 2: out of China and the first pick in the draft.

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Speaker 2: He was an All star. And for me, a high

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Speaker 2: school kid, you know, to win Rookie of the Year

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Speaker 2: that year was incredible for me as a great accomplishment.

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Speaker 2: So it was a challenge, but we made it happen.

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Speaker 3: So three you were.

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Speaker 1: That was the year before the lebron Chris Paul Carmelo class.

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Speaker 2: That was four, right, Yeah, they came. That was three.

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Speaker 2: I was drafted o two, okay two oh three, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and O two, I was the first player in history

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Speaker 2: to get Rooky out of the Year from high school

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Speaker 2: and then O three Lebron got it the following year.

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Speaker 2: So him and not only two guys to get Rooky

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Speaker 2: out of the Year from high school to the NBA.

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Speaker 2: Oh three classes good class man, that was Lebron. Mellow

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Speaker 3: Do you think players should come in high school now?

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Speaker 3: Because I think this whole I saw Melo talking about this.

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Speaker 3: I thinel like NAL's mess up a lot of stuff

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Speaker 3: in college sports. So where are you on people leaving

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Speaker 3: from the draft in the high school now or if

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Speaker 3: they no need? I'm saying if you could, if you could,

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Speaker 3: I think I think you should, right. I mean, you

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Speaker 3: have to make sure you do your proper examinations on

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Speaker 3: the players, right, because you want the players to be

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Speaker 3: mature enough to really take on that that responsibility of

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Speaker 3: off the court. But nowadays you don't really have to.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if you're a top player in high school,

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Speaker 3: you can get paid in college, and you may get

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Speaker 3: paid more in college than you will in the NBA

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Speaker 3: depend on you know, they played the bar in agreement

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Speaker 3: for rookies, right, So you know, back when I came out,

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Speaker 3: you couldn't you couldn't get a milkshake in college. You know,

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Speaker 3: you get you get you you know, you become ineligible

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Speaker 3: or something like that. You know what I'm saying. And

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Speaker 3: so the game has changed a lot. But I feel

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Speaker 3: like if players are good enough to go to the

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Speaker 3: NBA out of high school, they probably should.

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Speaker 4: Do you do you think if they had an IO

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Speaker 4: when when you were coming out of high school, do

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Speaker 4: you do you think you would have still went to

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Speaker 4: the pros or do you been like, you know what,

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Speaker 4: let's you know, let's feel these offers and let's see

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Speaker 2: Honestly, it would have It would have depended on the bag, right,

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Speaker 2: or how much on how much I could have made

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Speaker 2: in college or posted the NBA. Right, is when I

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Speaker 2: first pick in the draft can make I think four

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Speaker 2: million a year. And then it broke down from each

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Speaker 2: in IL deals in certain colleges universities you can go

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Speaker 2: how much you can get paid. But for me, I

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Speaker 2: always wanted to go to college. So when I first

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Speaker 2: got drafted to Phoenix, I went to Arizona State time

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Speaker 2: my free time, and when I enrolled to Arizona State

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Speaker 2: and I always wanted to go to college, but I

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Speaker 1: So you basically manufactured your own NIL situation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, technically, I mean I could. I couldn't really

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Speaker 2: enroll for the full semester. I took a few classes

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Speaker 2: for for about three or four weeks. Then I had

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Speaker 1: Talk about your your your process of declaring for the NBA, Like,

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Speaker 1: at what point were you like, Hey, this is what

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Speaker 1: and then who even told who told you in your

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Speaker 2: When I was a freshman in high school at Lake

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Speaker 2: I got I gotta get out of here. I can't

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Speaker 2: stick around. And he said, all right, well there's two options.

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Speaker 2: Oakill Academy, all board school, all board school, not doing

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Speaker 2: that one, and then he said Mount Zion where Trace

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Speaker 2: McGrady went. I was like, then, t Mat, go out

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Speaker 2: that's what I'm trying to do. I'm going there. I

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Speaker 2: want to go there. So for my freshman year, my

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Speaker 2: and so I went to My Zion and then from

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Speaker 2: that point on, my whole, my entire thought process was

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Speaker 4: Do you think mentally it helped you because I feel

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Speaker 4: like you had a clean slate going into the pros

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Speaker 4: Because me and Jaylor was at the school for two years,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, from a basketball standpoint, you know, when I was

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Speaker 2: doing my pre draft workouts and now I remember I

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Speaker 2: I got the ball and took off outside the page,

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