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Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, mm hmmm. Welcome back All the Smoke, La

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Speaker 1: Run Serve had a good day, but man, we get

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Speaker 1: to sit down with man the newest member of the

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Speaker 1: All the Smoke production team. Family God, welcome to the

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Speaker 1: team and the show. Ray Johon Rondo Welcome, Man, I

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Speaker 1: mean already, family, we're here. We've been talking for a

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Speaker 1: few months and we're really excited we were able to

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Speaker 1: get this deal done with you, and it just excited

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Speaker 1: to what you bring to this space as far as

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Speaker 1: a lot of knowledge in the game, a lot of

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Speaker 1: years in the game, a champion, a future Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 1: What is your goal in its content space?

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Speaker 2: Mister kind of shared my knowlge of the game. You know,

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Speaker 2: a lot of projects I want to get into eventually,

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Speaker 2: but you know, first off, I want to say thank

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Speaker 2: you to y'all taking a chance with me, and I

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Speaker 2: feel like it's going to be a great fit. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: our personality are similar off the court and how we

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Speaker 2: a lot of synergy in this group and it's glad

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Speaker 2: to be a partist.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're glad to have you.

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Speaker 3: Bro.

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Speaker 1: Last time we talked, you were fresh off a bubble

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Speaker 1: championship in twenty twenty. What's new? What's going on? I

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Speaker 1: know you're going back to school right now. I know

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Speaker 1: you haven't officially retired. Like, what's going on in your

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Speaker 1: day to day?

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Speaker 2: Day to day? Man, I'm actually I'm on spring break.

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Speaker 2: So I'm out here on spring break.

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Speaker 1: Students in LA for spring break.

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Speaker 2: So I am in school, full time student.

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Speaker 1: Now money not to cut you off Monday through Friday online?

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Speaker 2: No got I got two in person and two online.

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Speaker 1: So actually back in Kentucky, back.

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Speaker 2: In the University of Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: Man, that's done.

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Speaker 2: I go twice a week. I take the drive down.

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Speaker 2: But as fun loving this new adventure. They're definitely paying

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Speaker 2: for it. The NBA is paying for it. Right to

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Speaker 2: speak to that, because I don't think a lot of

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Speaker 2: guys you and I talk. I don't think a lot

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Speaker 2: of guys realize that the NBA will pay for you

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Speaker 2: to go back and get your degree. I don't know

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Speaker 2: if Jack has a chance because he never even started

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Speaker 2: his ship. But for those who already tiptoed in college,

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Speaker 2: even not if you haven't tiptoted, I mean, the league

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Speaker 2: still I think up to like maybe six years of

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Speaker 2: but I encourage guys that aren't playing anymore or havn't played.

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Speaker 2: But school for me has been fun. I'm actually enjoying

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Speaker 2: it more now than I did, you know, eighteen years ago,

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: So what is it like being back on campus at

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously our mindsets are way different from when

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Speaker 1: Now you're a grown man with the family and the

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Speaker 2: Day to day, you know how I'm moving. I'm pretty

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Speaker 2: I said, my earliest semester classes, like last year there

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Speaker 2: I don't give you time, but I go to class

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Speaker 1: So we're going to see your son, your coach now,

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Speaker 1: I get a chance to coach my kids. Jack coached

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Speaker 1: what's that journey like? It's a different way. I want

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Speaker 2: It's a joy. It's definitely a joy to coach my son,

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Speaker 3: No more more.

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Speaker 1: I like the Jamal Crawford made a post a few

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for me, that's what it's about. Like I said,

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty strip on the road. Obviously, I'm a lot

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Speaker 2: I take the phones. I said, always say, we don't

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Speaker 2: It's like I said, we come here, we ain't getting

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Speaker 2: there for business. We watch film more than any probably

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Speaker 2: And they get to coach themselves, and not only you know,

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Speaker 1: I love it, So talk to us about I mean,

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Speaker 2: You can't teach the game from just playing or just

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Speaker 1: I feel like there needs a little be a little

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Speaker 1: Love it. Paul recently said on Draymond's podcast, you went

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Speaker 1: to ticket University. Early on, I did, what does that mean?

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Speaker 3: I did?

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Speaker 1: What did that mean? And what did you learn?

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Speaker 2: And I learned so much? You know, he was the

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Speaker 2: one guy that when I did fuck up, you know,

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Speaker 2: he always called me to be like yo, you he's

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Speaker 2: a writer. You was wrong and he always kept it

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Speaker 2: real with me. And I appreciate that from a from

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Speaker 2: a vet standpoint, because a lot of people wouldn't tell

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Speaker 2: me the truth, you know what I mean, They probably

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Speaker 2: continue to kiss my ass or not hold me accountable

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Speaker 2: to the level I need to be held accountble to

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Speaker 2: if I wanted to be great discipline. You know, he's

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Speaker 2: a probably the most disciplined guy I've ever played with,

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Speaker 2: you know, doing the ship every day, in the weight room,

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Speaker 2: every day, being a professional, taking care of his body.

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Speaker 2: You know, he might be in getting massage for two hours,

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Speaker 2: then he might go to the kolto. Then he might

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Speaker 2: get shot up.

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Speaker 1: So he was he does.

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Speaker 2: He did everything consistently every day, and I think that

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Speaker 2: helped me become a better professional understanding I had. I

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Speaker 2: had him every day. I had Raid that was showing

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Speaker 2: up at four o'clock on game days getting shot up

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Speaker 2: before the lights came on. And then I had part

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Speaker 2: that would I would come in a midnight thinking I'm

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Speaker 2: in the gym by myself. He'd be upsels on tripmill.

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Speaker 2: So it's like I had all these vets that it

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Speaker 2: was like damn okay, like oh okay, and I was

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Speaker 2: just a sponge write everything down possible to try to,

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Speaker 2: you know, implement in my pot and be great.

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Speaker 1: You spoke to something that has gone from the game

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Speaker 1: these days, is vets. How important do you feel like

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Speaker 1: or how do you feel like the NBA is lacking

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Speaker 1: by not having these? And we've said this before. When

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Speaker 1: we came in the league, there could be guys that

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Speaker 1: are thirty six, thirty seven, thirty eight, pushing forty some

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Speaker 1: some some you know, some help on the court, but

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Speaker 1: some just help in the locker room, on the flights bridge,

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Speaker 1: the guests with the coaches. What is the NBA missing

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Speaker 1: by not having Vets anymore.

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Speaker 2: They're missing a lot and I said, they're missing a

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Speaker 2: lot of discipline off the court for the young guys,

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Speaker 2: knowing how to move, knowing how to work, you know,

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Speaker 2: and knowing how to be great teammates, you know what

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Speaker 2: I mean, Like the game isn't always just about the game,

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Speaker 2: you know. I think back in the day when Vets

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Speaker 2: were around the team, you know, we had like a

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Speaker 2: lot more events off the court, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 2: Like it was more together and this more camaraderie off

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Speaker 2: the court as a team. And again it may not

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Speaker 2: always have to like each other, but you show it

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Speaker 2: for each other's events. And now it's kind of like

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Speaker 2: it's about me, my brand, it's all, you know, it's

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Speaker 2: nothing else about the team or outside of anything else

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Speaker 2: but me versus you know, being a team. So you know,

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Speaker 2: the the NBA knew what they were doing. They wanted

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Speaker 2: people that could control and you know, with the Vets

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Speaker 2: in the locker room, you know, that's not as many

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Speaker 2: yes men or people that are just say you know,

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Speaker 2: you can say anything to them and not have any resistance.

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Speaker 2: So they had to get the best out of in

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Speaker 2: my and my my thinking. A lot of my boys

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Speaker 2: went out at that particular age because I feel like

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Speaker 2: they can't control them anymore.

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Speaker 3: And they taught us how to be professionals, right, I know.

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Speaker 4: That's one thing I give credit to Steve Smith and

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Speaker 4: Kevin Willis and even Steve Carrlem they taught They taught

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Speaker 4: me how to be a professional bro to deal with

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Speaker 4: getting taken out the game and being mad at coaching,

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Speaker 4: all those types of things. Not not having that in

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Speaker 4: your career, that's.

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Speaker 3: Your career short.

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Speaker 1: No, That's definitely helped us. The Gap Celtics this year,

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Speaker 1: I think right up there with odds on favorite to

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Speaker 1: win it. Uh, do you think they are are real contenders? Uh?

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Speaker 1: To bring home that first ring with this this Jason

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Speaker 1: Tatum and Jalen Brown group.

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Speaker 3: I do.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously I'm biased, but being real as well.

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Speaker 2: They they have a great group of young men, and

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Speaker 2: I think they have enough guys that are hungry that's

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Speaker 2: almost been there, and they have a champ and Drew

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Speaker 2: that has been there. And Uh, Sam Cassels on the sideline, Joe,

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Speaker 2: I love, you know, working with him when I was

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Speaker 2: out there just learning fromhim a couple of days in Boston,

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Speaker 2: watching how he works and how he's able to get

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Speaker 2: guys to buy in and when he speaks, everyone is,

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Speaker 2: you know, all eyes up and paying attend to if

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Speaker 2: he has he has the locker room, he's commanded their attention.

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Speaker 2: And they also mixed with the auhoor for the type

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Speaker 2: of vet like guys that, like I said, haven't always

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Speaker 2: made it to the top, but have been right there

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Speaker 2: at that particular time. And now I feel like now

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Speaker 2: they have the group in mind that that's done it.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, they were so close last two years.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully this is year they get it done.

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Speaker 1: Porzingis's health is going to be important. Definitely, gazingis is

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Speaker 1: a problem, but you just got to stay healthy. What

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Speaker 1: does the global game You've touched on this earlier, but

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Speaker 1: what does the global game of the NBA look like

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Speaker 1: in the next ten to fifteen years. I mean, they're

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Speaker 1: already in Africa, they're trying to expand, you know, to

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Speaker 1: these different continents. What is the game as a whole

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Speaker 1: look like when our kids are old enough to play.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's gonna be it's gonna be crazy. I

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Speaker 2: mean I don't think there's gonna be many Americans in

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Speaker 2: the NBA. Possibly in ten fifteen years. It's gonna be

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Speaker 2: tough to say, you know, predict the future, but I

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Speaker 2: think possibly a percentage of the NBA games would be

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Speaker 2: in these different parts of the world, right you know,

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Speaker 2: like I said, it may not be eighty two games.

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Speaker 2: That might be shortened by then sixty two, maybe twenty

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Speaker 2: guys are touring over and you know, and you're turning

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Speaker 2: over in Africa playing you know, two three weeks at

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Speaker 2: a time and then coming back to the States. I

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Speaker 2: think it'll be a rotation of that possibly, but I

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Speaker 2: don't know what he's gonna do a lot too, That's

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Speaker 2: a lot. It can change really quickly, as it has

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Speaker 2: since you know I've started, and now where the game

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Speaker 2: is going now, so you know, it's all about the

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Speaker 2: dollar and they're gonna do what it takes to continue

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Speaker 2: to make it and get the pie bigger, which is

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Speaker 2: why we're able to see these type of contracts in

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Speaker 2: these deals.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, you feel strong about Boston coming out of the

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Speaker 1: East in the West, Denver, Clippers, anyone you think as a.

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Speaker 2: Man this, sir, uh top My top three right now

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Speaker 2: would probably be Minnesota, Denver, and the Clippers. I can't

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Speaker 2: I can't choose I think I feel like Minnesota has

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Speaker 2: a Clippers number, particularly one player. When you go against

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Speaker 2: some boys, Like I said, he he's gonna give me

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Speaker 2: the best shot and he wants it. So I think

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Speaker 2: they have a great chance of getting it done. But

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Speaker 2: again I can't. I can't connut the champs. You know,

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Speaker 2: Yokers is the man. Then, like I said, his sidekick Murray,

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Speaker 2: he's going crazy. Then you got Michael Porters getting more

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Speaker 2: and more confidence. A g Yeah, I mean they got

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Speaker 2: a whip. And then like I said, they they're will

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Speaker 2: the well or the World machine. They've been there before.

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Speaker 2: They are missing a big piece I believe in Bruce

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Speaker 2: Bruce Brown Brown.

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Speaker 1: And they're trying to fill that boy with Peyton Watson

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Speaker 1: and bron I Liken the from Kansas. Yeah, a little

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Speaker 1: white boy's night Brown Brown.

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Speaker 3: I like it.

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Speaker 2: We'll see how it works out, because you know, I

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Speaker 2: think the Sebjics do the same thing. And we thought

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Speaker 2: we could reply Tony Allen.

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: It was like, yeah, we get back you. Obviously Kevin

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Speaker 2: doesn't get hurt.

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Speaker 3: What if? What if?

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Speaker 2: But those type of guys, you know, you can't just

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Speaker 2: replace and think there aren't is value I mean whether

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Speaker 2: maybe you're on the courter off the court, those guys

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Speaker 2: are key pieces to championships.

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Speaker 1: You're on campus with some superstars, Reed Shepherd, DJ Wagner,

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Speaker 1: Rob Dillingham, you get a chance of running to them

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Speaker 1: at all, And what do you think about this group

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Speaker 1: of kids and you know they're talking about you know

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Speaker 1: at least two or three of them, two of them

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Speaker 1: are going to be lottery picks.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: Funny thing is, uh, before my child was born, my

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Speaker 2: baby girl six months ago, I had class with Dellingham

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Speaker 2: and I think Bradshaw. So we had a journalist class.

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Speaker 2: That was fun, and of course me and Rob kind

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Speaker 2: of clicked right away. First day walking to school, we

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Speaker 2: kind of looked up and I was like, I've been

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Speaker 2: looking for you. Then obviously you wanted to holler me

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Speaker 2: to as well. So that was fun, fun moment. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: my baby girl came, I had to drop a class

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Speaker 2: and now back down to twelve hours. But that was

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Speaker 2: a class I had with those guys. One of my

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Speaker 2: good friends, John Welch coaching Kentucky. So I was in

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Speaker 2: Sacramento with John and I go to this office from

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Speaker 2: time to time, sit in and talk watch the game,

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Speaker 2: watch him work out Read, you know, Dylan Ham every

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Speaker 2: once in a while. So it's been great having those

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Speaker 2: guys around, you know, like seeing their stardom grow and

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Speaker 2: the way they play the game. You know, I've actually

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Speaker 2: taken a couple of AU teams to see Kentucky play

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Speaker 2: and always tell them to watch Red. You know, everybody

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Speaker 2: loves Rob and want to be you know, yeah, because Rob,

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Speaker 2: you know, he got he has moved. I tell him

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Speaker 2: watch Rob obviously for the one on one game, but

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Speaker 2: I'm like, watch how Read controls the gainst the game,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, you know, he knows

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Speaker 2: the game. He's always in the right spot. You know,

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Speaker 2: he's not the most athletic, he's not the fastest, but

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Speaker 2: it's IQ bingo his i Q is able to meet

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Speaker 2: up at the game. And now he's talking about being

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Speaker 2: some Pixie's number one pick in the game. I mean

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Speaker 2: was anyway, he shoots the basketball and I've seen him work.

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Speaker 2: They got some stuff down at Kentucky and I can't

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Speaker 2: wait to get my son up there against some working

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: I love it. The women's game in college basketball has

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Speaker 1: grown tremendously. Have you been able to catch any of

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Speaker 1: these young female stars on the rise.

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Speaker 2: On the highlights, but not you know, specifically studied the game.

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Speaker 2: And I'm a big fan of the women's game. But

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Speaker 2: like I said, with my schedule, kids, school, new baby,

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Speaker 2: new baby, gratulations by the way, playing the wedding in

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Speaker 2: a couple of months, I mean, appreciate.

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Speaker 1: We gotta we got to send some mess to the wedding.

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Speaker 3: We got to be there.

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Speaker 2: It's in Italy, so.

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Speaker 1: You don't know, say what when you get back.

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Speaker 3: Congratulations on being inducted.

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Speaker 2: Appreciating.

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Speaker 3: Brother, yea, yeah, that mean a lot to me.

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Speaker 4: Tell me, you know, first of all, congratulations, but how

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Speaker 4: does it feel to you to be you know, in

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Speaker 4: the Okay Hall of Fame, best high school ever.

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Speaker 2: Best high school ever? You know, being there looking at

652
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Speaker 2: that wall, all the names on that wall, it's it's

653
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 2: definitely a humbling experience, and it's the honored to be

654
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,200
Speaker 2: on that you know, that ballot especial guys like yourself,

655
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 2: all the greats that has such impact on the league

656
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 2: as well. But being at that school, like I said,

657
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,200
Speaker 2: if you know, you know, and it's uh, it definitely

658
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 2: changed my life one thousand percent.

659
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 3: Would you send your son there, But.

660
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 2: I said my son there. If my son was top

661
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 2: ten in the country, maybe it just depends on what

662
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 2: the talent that he was playing with at a particular time,

663
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 2: you know. For me, like I said, Okill, I wasn't

664
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 2: playing with the best talent where I'm from Little Kentucky.

665
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 2: So mean, I'm playing with guys my big the biggest

666
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,160
Speaker 2: guy my team was six, you know, six y three.

667
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 2: When I got to go to o'kill, I got Brian

668
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 2: Johnson sixty ten, Josh Smith sixty eight, forty five in

669
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:28,119
Speaker 2: vertican me.

670
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 3: So it's like I got really crazy.

671
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 2: I got to really you know what I mean, like

672
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 2: explore my game to where I just have to just

673
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,159
Speaker 2: go try to score sixty every time, Like I was

674
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,439
Speaker 2: able to now become a real true point guard, being

675
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 2: able to get guy. I think that's pretty much where

676
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 2: it started for me at Okill. So I was able

677
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 2: to niplate the game and get guys open, keep guys happy,

678
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,359
Speaker 2: and then be an extension of Coach Smith on the

679
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 2: court to where I need to do what I needed

680
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 2: to do for him.

681
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 4: Put your out of all the players went to Okill that,

682
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 4: you know, put make your own starting five, starting five, Yeah,

683
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 4: out of all the players that it's been there, starting five.

684
00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 3: I'll tell you mine because I had, I had, I had.

685
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 1: I tell you mynther Rod Strickland said he was a

686
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:02,399
Speaker 1: big fan of you.

687
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, let's go starting five.

688
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 1: Don't be bashful.

689
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 3: I'm not.

690
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 4: I mnna have to go with I can't remember. You

691
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 4: can't use Katie because he didn't graduate from I can't

692
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,360
Speaker 4: use KD. He didn't graduate from Okill.

693
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,640
Speaker 1: Say less, Okay, Jack bringing.

694
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 4: If you was a ok kill, that's how we go,

695
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 4: that's how we got respect it.

696
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 2: Let's go with stack Jerry stack House.

697
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 3: He's I knew who he was talking about. I knew

698
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 3: who he was talking about.

699
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 2: I gotta go with Josh Smith, Camello, Ryan Mercer.

700
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: Who's running the show. Who's running the show. It can't

701
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 1: be me, Yeah, it can't be. So I said, don't

702
00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 1: be bashful, can you oh to me?

703
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,120
Speaker 2: I'd love to play with it, but I mean it's

704
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 2: not me. I might have to go with a bigger

705
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 2: line up. I mean, you know, shout out the strict

706
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 2: Jack Brandon Jennings. I mean, it's so much. It's a

707
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:12,640
Speaker 2: lot of Yeah, like.

708
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 4: If you ask Themboudy, if you ask somebody, it's gonna

709
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 4: be different every time. Think I would go since we

710
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,959
Speaker 4: since you here, I would go you uh me at

711
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 4: the two stack, at the three, mellow at the four,

712
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:23,160
Speaker 4: Josh Smith at the five.

713
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: That's this day.

714
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 3: That's yeah, fel right now, yeah.

715
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 1: Now dogs and Buckie Getters. Is it true you have

716
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 1: a superstition about showering?

717
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 3: I do?

718
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,479
Speaker 1: Is what is it to us?

719
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 2: I always showered forty five minutes on the clock right

720
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 2: before you know. I depend on what time you did meetings.

721
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 2: But you meeting was at thirty five. I was shower

722
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 2: ten minutes before myself about seven minutes in the shower

723
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 2: and then come out and I'll put my humble as

724
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 2: the coach is talking. Some coaches liked it, something didn't.

725
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 2: But for the most part I was able to put

726
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 2: my vet move and get it done. But I showered

727
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 2: on game days usually probably about five times, five times,

728
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 2: five times. Yeah, and what does this dude just kind

729
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 2: of reset you? Last year it kind of refreshed me.

730
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 2: Like obviously showering, you get up, come back home and

731
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 2: shoot around, take a nap, get up, shower, and they

732
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 2: go to arena showered, and after game shower. So it

733
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 2: was you know, it's about right, that's about I would

734
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 2: hope you take at least three yeah, yeah, three old game.

735
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: So now not playing anymore? Do you still have the

736
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: superstition of having to get a certain amount of showers?

737
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 3: Now?

738
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 2: And I'm just focused on trying to work out every day.

739
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 3: Okay after that, but no, that's it.

740
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: Sixteen years, two time champ, four time All Star, four

741
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: time All defensive, top fifteen all time and all assists

742
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 1: along with John Stockton, Magic Johnson, Steve Nash, one of

743
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: four players average eleven assists for four or more seasons

744
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: and turn out hell of a hell of a resume

745
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 1: is have we seen? Have we seen the last of

746
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 1: Rajon Rondo in the NBA?

747
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's official.

748
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: You're done.

749
00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm done. I can't. I can't now, I gotta

750
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 2: spend time. I'd rather spend time with my kids. You

751
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 2: enjoyed it that, you know, make me two hundred million dollars,

752
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 2: and you know, telling them certain things, they're like a like,

753
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 2: now I'm gonna go with.

754
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 3: My kids over here.

755
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 2: Yeah.

756
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, when you sit back and look, because most

757
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: of the time in the moment, we never get a

758
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: chance to when we just read your accolades, and I'm

759
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 1: sure there's a bunch of other shit we didn't list,

760
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: but just the plane rides, the locker rooms, the bus rides.

761
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 1: Like when you sit back and look out over it,

762
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: what do you think?

763
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 2: What a time? You know what I mean? Like, it

764
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 2: was definitely something I would never took for granted. You know,

765
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 2: while I was in the game, I loved every minute

766
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 2: of it, and I appreciate the brotherhood that I was

767
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 2: able to share and bond and grow with over the years.

768
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 2: You know, I mean, I learned so much in this game,

769
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 2: and this made me the man who I am today,

770
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, all the all the ups and

771
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 2: downs part of my life, but being able to for me,

772
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 2: it wasn't necessarily about the money. Was about When I

773
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 2: first was introduced to this game, my mentors, Mike Bibbi

774
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 2: Dereck Anderson, it was just that free time in the summertime.

775
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 2: I was like, damn, y'all get that work out morning

776
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 2: and y'all done the rest of the summer, you know

777
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 2: what I mean, gott to get Like I would say,

778
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 2: like it's like a school schedule. I can teach the schedule.

779
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 2: You work all winter and then you work you had

780
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 2: fun in summertimes. So for me, that was what initially

781
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 2: got me to start to motivate it to work and

782
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 2: work and work and try to get to this goal.

783
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 2: Because I tell people all the time like this wasn't

784
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 2: a dream of mine. You know, it was a goal,

785
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 2: and I was able to lock in, stay disciplined. I

786
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 2: didn't party a lot in college where I just don't

787
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 2: party because I now going back out on party off,

788
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 2: so I just I skipped that. But again it was

789
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 2: worth the sacrifice of me getting to where I wanted

790
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 2: to be in life. And I was under underdog my

791
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 2: whole life, you know what I mean. I was always

792
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 2: I feel like a guy to overachieved and was counted out.

793
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 2: But you know I understood what it took to get there,

794
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 2: and I was blessed and fortunate to have the write

795
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 2: people around me to keep me going. You know, when

796
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 2: towns weren't as good and the persevering understood that cream

797
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 2: always rise to the top.

798
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 4: You was involved in the maybe the most historic pickup

799
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 4: game in my hometown. I think whether it was you

800
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 4: when y'all was down up for perks. You so my

801
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 4: hometown and coach got coaches gonna release the footage, just

802
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 4: gonna give it to us.

803
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 3: But it's Kat you, James, Me Perk and a couple

804
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 3: of other pros. Uh.

805
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 4: That was on OKC team, but it was the wholes

806
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 4: people from my hometown and this was the first time

807
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 4: where we had a pickup game with this many pros.

808
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 3: That was the memorable moment in my hometown. Do you

809
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 3: remember that? It was?

810
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 4: It was one of the best pickup games I've ever

811
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 4: played in bro and like for my hometown like that,

812
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 4: that was like a professional game played in Yeah. So

813
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 4: we got footage of it too. I'm gonna see you

814
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 4: to put it. It was unbelievable that game and it

815
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 4: was all on the prime James kad him. They always

816
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 4: in their prime too.

817
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 2: We did the same thing at Kentucky the lockout year

818
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 2: with all the pros. We always had differenceies. We meet

819
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 2: up and hoop like that was. That was a good

820
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 2: old day.

821
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: The lockout was fun because there was a lot of

822
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: legendary pickup games that we're put together and happened. We

823
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: had one in the Baby with that we believe team

824
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: versus the Current, So that was the Young Steph Jeremy Lynn,

825
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: our old squad. It was that lockout time was fun,

826
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: that that game with Mellow and Brown. Cobe had some games,

827
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: it was a lot, had some actions. Yeah yeah for real?

828
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: Who is ray Seon Rondo outside of basketball today?

829
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 3: Man?

830
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 2: Future husband?

831
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: Talk that ship?

832
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 2: Uh a college student you know, going back. I'm trying

833
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 2: to actually what you said about your kids. My daughter

834
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 2: is actually UK has been on her line a looking

835
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 2: really so I told him I'm gonna try to get

836
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 2: at her before you graduate or if I don't, you

837
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 2: know that school together.

838
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 3: Man.

839
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 2: You know, dad, I'm a full time dad as much

840
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 2: as I can be, you know what I mean. I'm

841
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 2: pretty active and say I got a brand new daughter.

842
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 2: So that's me man, Like I said, trying to be

843
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 2: the best husband I can be. Uh, become closer to God.

844
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 2: And it's can you be a better person this day?

845
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: I love it. Quick hitters. One piece of advice you

846
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: would give a young Hooper right now.

847
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 2: Don't chase the money, man, chase getting better each day,

848
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 2: you know, fall in love with getting better each day,

849
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 2: taking one day at a time. Don't look at the rankings,

850
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 2: don't look at the graham like I said, I was,

851
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 2: I was ranked two thousand my senior in high school.

852
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 2: You know, I went to ol kids. I was able

853
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 2: to exposure. I worked every day. It came to Mickey D's,

854
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:10,800
Speaker 2: and then you know, the rest is history. But like

855
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 2: I said, I was always just a worker. Like I

856
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 2: didn't give it you, I didn't give it about anything else.

857
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 2: But just's getting better each.

858
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 4: Day, same same road. Okay, child crush.

859
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:24,359
Speaker 2: Shout out the left eye.

860
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 3: Man.

861
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: No one said her that's a good call. I like

862
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: that crazy, but God bless herself. One thing you wish

863
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: you were better at.

864
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 2: A better communicator.

865
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,399
Speaker 3: That's like, that's the number one answer. We all are.

866
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:45,240
Speaker 3: We all know we burnt. What's your guilty pleasure?

867
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 2: Fucking with people that be like are you? I'm like

868
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 2: no or I get that a lot. I don't never

869
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 2: really Just like I said, they mess with me. If

870
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 2: they don't ask me to say who I am, I

871
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 2: act like I don't. I get that a lot. Yeah,

872
00:34:58,360 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 2: So seeing people fucking with them.

873
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: Most underrated player you played with or against in your

874
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 1: tenure I.

875
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 2: Have to go with my probably my boy Josh Smith.

876
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 2: I think he was uh that Atlanta Smith, I mean

877
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 2: Atlanta Hawk team he played with. I think he had

878
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 2: a big portion of where they were successful. He did everything,

879
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 2: you know, he ran the floor of block shots, play defense.

880
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 2: I mean he was he was an intangible guy. I

881
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,720
Speaker 2: never made All Star game. Joe was the man obviously,

882
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 2: but like I said, I think after that they had

883
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 2: a lot of good pieces are from Mike Bibbe, but

884
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 2: he was the guy that kind of did it all

885
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 2: that some pretty crazy particularly rebounds everything.

886
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, looked at it. Three point shot.

887
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 4: If you could see one guest on our show, who

888
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 4: would it be? But you have to help us get

889
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 4: your answer on the show.

890
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, get my boy Joshmith for I can get that

891
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,839
Speaker 2: right there to fish you know what.

892
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 4: And he's just like Rondo involved coaching kids program.

893
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 1: We were just together, like I said, we uh yeah,

894
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: that's some of my favorite I mean, getting a chance

895
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 1: to see people we played against as were they're coaching

896
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 1: our kids or as we're they're watching our kids. Like

897
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: that's that to me, that was That's really underrated what

898
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 1: I've enjoyed in this I've been in since seventeen since

899
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,320
Speaker 1: I retired. I've been coaching the boys and you know,

900
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: about to start up again. But getting a chance to

901
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: run into each other at these tournaments and kind of

902
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: catching up and smiling and smiling, and you know, just

903
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 1: seeing our kids, you know, enjoy what they do and

904
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: we enjoy getting back together.

905
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 3: Man.

906
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 1: That's definitely we got to get that.

907
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 2: We gotta get that tournament.

908
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, get get the kids, and we got the

909
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: doctor World way too. So again, man, welcome to the family.

910
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: We appreciate your time. Man, definitely looking forward to working

911
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: and building with you. Congratulations on a tremendous career, Congratulations

912
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: on the new daughter, and best of luck with the

913
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: wedding coming up soon.

914
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 3: Man.

915
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: You can find this man and all the Smoke Productions

916
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,320
Speaker 1: all day every day. I want to thank the Ziggy

917
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: Hotel for the hospitality you guys opened up your doors

918
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,240
Speaker 1: a lot of us to do a photo shoot.

919
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 3: You shooting the.

920
00:36:55,160 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 1: Show burned down, good drink food. Thank you, We of

921
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: you appreciate you. We'll definitely be back. But you can

922
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 1: catch this on all the Smoke Productions YouTube and the

923
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 1: Draft Kings Network. We'll see y'all next week.