Speaker 1: Drafted as a production of tree Ford Media, Clutch Sports
Speaker 1: Group and I Heart Radio is over three. Another number
Speaker 1: one pick, another number one pick for us, another one.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Draft It. I'm keeping Michael Key and
Speaker 1: this is our tenth and final episode of the season.
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards has just been selected number one overall in
Speaker 1: the NBA Draft. He silenced any criticism and doubt about
Speaker 1: his abilities, his supposed poor performance of the Clutch Pro Day,
Speaker 1: and even the last minute questions about his passion for
Speaker 1: the game. At the end of the day, none of
Speaker 1: that affected his standing so much for the bass showing
Speaker 1: at the pro day. Why don't we do that? That's
Speaker 1: Clutched Sports founder and CEO Rich Paul. He's watching the
Speaker 1: draft in Los Angeles with the Clutch team while continuing
Speaker 1: to work the phones as the next few draft picks
Speaker 1: get announced. Oh is up, bro, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: We're still in it. We're still in it. Yeah, listen,
Speaker 1: I got one more down the board, Tyrese MAXI. We
Speaker 1: should be now stage. At this point, the first sixteen
Speaker 1: picks have come and gone and Tyrese Maxie is still
Speaker 1: on the board. Riches intel from around the league is
Speaker 1: that Tyrese could be selected anywhere from pick twelve to
Speaker 1: twenty four, so he should be drafted at any moment,
Speaker 1: and right now, the Minnesota Timberwolves are on the clock
Speaker 1: again with pick seventeen. They reportedly want another guard, meaning
Speaker 1: Tyrese and Anthony could end up as teammates in the NBA.
Speaker 1: This unlikely outcome suddenly seems very possible until the timber
Speaker 1: Wolves trade the pick to Oklahoma City, who select a
Speaker 1: forward from Greece. Pick eighteen and nineteen also go by
Speaker 1: without Commissioner Adam Silver calling Tyrese's name. This puts the
Speaker 1: Miami Heat on the clock with a pick twenty. ESPN
Speaker 1: pundits and analysts say the Heat could be a perfect
Speaker 1: home for Tyrese. Here's j Billis on the ESPN draft broadcast.
Speaker 1: They've had a lot of success with Tyler Hero out
Speaker 1: of Kentucky, Bam out of Biota, Kentucky. Don't you just
Speaker 1: take Tyrese Maxie egoistic when this Kentucky thing is working
Speaker 1: its Rich Paul watches on as Adam Silver arrives with
Speaker 1: the pick. In two thousand twenty NBA draft, Miami Heat
Speaker 1: select presses Chewa from Port Churt Nigeria and the University
Speaker 1: of Memphis. The year of the American at Loving Conference
Speaker 1: the White Plus and you mention blocks I didn't watch
Speaker 1: enough progrowns. Now, the Philadelphia seventy Sixers are on the
Speaker 1: clock with pick one, another team that has been rumored
Speaker 1: to need a guard. If Tyrese is feeling nervous, he's
Speaker 1: not showing it or saying much about it. Commissioner Silver
Speaker 1: returns with the seventies sixers selection with the pick in
Speaker 1: the two thousand twenty NBA Draft in Philadelphia, seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: select Tyrese Maxi from the University of Kentucky for Julian
Speaker 1: and Ride flu and Silver. Tyrese Maxi out of Pinsucky
Speaker 1: from traps going in June and texcellent situation with Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: After the cheering stops, Tyrese and his parents do their
Speaker 1: interview with the ESPN. Tyrese, your mom says that your
Speaker 1: parents knew that you would be an NBA player when
Speaker 1: you were five years old. What do you want to
Speaker 1: show your family that you can do in this league.
Speaker 1: I just want to show them that I compete and
Speaker 1: do it. I know that I can do. I trust myself.
Speaker 1: I put the work in and I'm just so excited.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm so thankful. What have you learned from the
Speaker 1: time you've spent playing with raw Gen Rondo and the
Speaker 1: like about learn to mine? I'm sorry, it's a big moment.
Speaker 1: I learned so much to Rondo. I really appreciate with me.
Speaker 1: Took the time out the end day every single monted
Speaker 1: and teach me to trick to the trade. And uh,
Speaker 1: I just I want to say thanking so much and
Speaker 1: I thank feel. But if opportunity I from me, it
Speaker 1: won't be real great. Nobody in the draft was more
Speaker 1: prepared for this moment than Tyrese, and it still overwhelms him.
Speaker 1: All the days and years of hard work come rushing
Speaker 1: back in the moment. They're specifically talking about those grueling
Speaker 1: daily workouts with All Star guard Rajon Rondo in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: the ones we heard about in episode six, and even
Speaker 1: that was just one summer out of a lifetime. He's
Speaker 1: committed to get to the NBA. While Tyrese goes off
Speaker 1: to briefly celebrate with his parents and do more media appearances,
Speaker 1: Rich gets on the phone with Tyrese's uncle Brandon. Wow. Wow, Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Bro, listen and don't get no better
Speaker 1: think about it. That's what I've been telling you. I've
Speaker 1: been telling you all the whole time. It's fit over picked.
Speaker 1: When you look at Philadelphia exactly and you get and
Speaker 1: think about this, How did River just play Lou Williams.
Speaker 1: This was I'm trying to tell you. So now you
Speaker 1: got you got Ben Danny Green to Bias Joel and
Speaker 1: then they second unit it's gonna feature Tyrese. They're talking
Speaker 1: about Philadelphia coach Doc Rivers, who has a reputation for
Speaker 1: developing young players and especially guards. In fact, he even
Speaker 1: helped Rajon Rondo win a championship in Boston. This elite
Speaker 1: seventy six years coaching staff and the fact that they
Speaker 1: are contending playoff team who need another guard off the
Speaker 1: bench make Rich and Uncle Brandon thrilled about Tyrese's new home.
Speaker 1: Now Brandon gives the phone to Tyrese, raise you good.
Speaker 1: I'm good man, I'm good. Now. I just say you're
Speaker 1: crying on the thing. I was like, I'm so, I'm
Speaker 1: so happy for you. And I was just telling them,
Speaker 1: telling your uncle man, it's just a great Philly about
Speaker 1: the car. You's just a great I'm so happy you
Speaker 1: went there, man, I'm so happy you there. Appreciate appreciate it.
Speaker 1: So listen and don't worry about anybody that went before you.
Speaker 1: That ain't about nothing, bro, Trust me, trust me, Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Tyrese seems unfazed about being picked near the end of
Speaker 1: his projected range anywhere from pick twelve to twenty four,
Speaker 1: but University of Kentucky head coach John Kellapari has some
Speaker 1: strong feelings about when his former star guard was selected.
Speaker 1: I thought he should have gone earlier. Let me just
Speaker 1: tell you, there's a lot of people we're gonna regret
Speaker 1: that they passed. There's about eight positions that they're gonna
Speaker 1: look back a few years from now and say, look
Speaker 1: where he went and where he could have gone. But
Speaker 1: he goes to Philly. Do you know who the last
Speaker 1: player Doc had for us and how he did with him?
Speaker 1: It was Shane. That's guards shade guilt. Just Alexander, the
Speaker 1: eleventh pick and the draft who played for coach Doc
Speaker 1: Rivers in Los Angeles that season under coach Rivers say
Speaker 1: steadily improved and has continued to do so after being
Speaker 1: traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder He's now averaging over
Speaker 1: twenty three points, five rebounds, and six assists per game.
Speaker 1: His trajectory over his first three seasons is the ideal
Speaker 1: roadmap for Tyrese. Here again is coach cal I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go deeper. You may not understand this. Sam Kissel was
Speaker 1: helping tutor John wallwin Washington Shay, and now he has
Speaker 1: Tyrese so as an assistant in Philly. You got a
Speaker 1: guy that was a point guard played for me, by
Speaker 1: the way, led us to the playoffs, by the way
Speaker 1: one a few championships, by the way docs won championships.
Speaker 1: He's gonna turn around Philly and Tyrese is gonna be
Speaker 1: a part of it. Tyrese, They're gonna have a great run.
Speaker 1: Proud of them. We'll be right back. The first round
Speaker 1: of the draft ends, and then the second sixty new
Speaker 1: players have been given a chance to join the NBA.
Speaker 1: After the entire race will have the night to celebrate
Speaker 1: their life changing accomplishments. Then tomorrow morning their new lives begin.
Speaker 1: Here's justin Holland and just how fast NBA life comes
Speaker 1: at you when you're the number one pick. So after
Speaker 1: his name was called, what they don't tell you is
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. He has to do like two and
Speaker 1: a half hours worth the interviews, so you know, we
Speaker 1: celebrate any everybody hugged and embraced each other, and he
Speaker 1: disappeared for two and a half hours while everybody else
Speaker 1: just kind of watched the remainder of the draft. And
Speaker 1: so I guess he spoke with the team front office
Speaker 1: and they wanted us in Minnesota the next day, so
Speaker 1: they were sending us a jet at at four pm.
Speaker 1: The Timber Whoops planned to fly them to Minnesota less
Speaker 1: than twenty four hours after making Anthony the top selection.
Speaker 1: It's agent Omar calls us about twelve. He said, we're
Speaker 1: gonna send an uber at at three forty for four
Speaker 1: o'clock fights. So so I thought that was like the
Speaker 1: weirdest thing in the world because I was my bags
Speaker 1: were packed and ready around noon, you know, busy Atlanta airport,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, they said we're going to the
Speaker 1: Signature Airport. So that was that was pretty cool. And
Speaker 1: the uber let us off and we walked right to
Speaker 1: the plane and you know, and being its normal composed
Speaker 1: something like and you've been on a private j He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we rolled on these at Georgia, and I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, cool, Well, I'm tired of acting like I've
Speaker 1: been here before. I'm taking pictures this time because I
Speaker 1: hadn't taken any pictures this whole process. I'm taking pictures.
Speaker 1: So first we take a picture with the pilot. Then
Speaker 1: we walked on the plane and says, what is this
Speaker 1: I did? He's like, is this what it's like to
Speaker 1: be rich? I don't ever want to go broke again.
Speaker 1: So I was like, well, I guess you ain't really
Speaker 1: been on the jet. He was like, no, the Georgia
Speaker 1: Jett nothing like this. So you know, they had it
Speaker 1: laid out for him, and you know, they had, uh,
Speaker 1: the Minnesota newspaper. He was on the cover of the
Speaker 1: cover up the paper and they had those newspapers sitting
Speaker 1: out on the seat. So for us, like that was
Speaker 1: just like the coolest thing in the world. They arrived
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, and it still feels like they're living a
Speaker 1: dream or perhaps inhabiting someone else's life. Once we landed
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, it just didn't seem really because you know,
Speaker 1: I've been knowing him for so long. You know, it
Speaker 1: goes from like when I when I met him nobody
Speaker 1: really cared who he was. Two years after after that,
Speaker 1: you know, you have people asking for his autograph, And
Speaker 1: for me, I was like, nobody cared who he was
Speaker 1: two years ago. Now you push it back, you know,
Speaker 1: five six years later and he's the number one draft pick.
Speaker 1: So but to me, he still the kid nobody cared about.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, everyone in the league for
Speaker 1: stunded how fast things moved because of the pandemic, throwing
Speaker 1: off the entire calendar this year. Here's Molly McQuaid, manager
Speaker 1: of basketball at Clutched Sports. The flight was at four o'clock,
Speaker 1: so you know, as that night I texted West saying, okay,
Speaker 1: we need some we need some clothes for a press conference.
Speaker 1: And then we literally went to the mall and went
Speaker 1: to get anti jacket, myself a jacket and Omar jacket.
Speaker 1: And then you flew out at four o'clock that night
Speaker 1: and about to Minnesota. And I think that he I think,
Speaker 1: I can't speak Franthony, but you know a real moment
Speaker 1: for him was, you know, when we got to the hotel,
Speaker 1: the whole front office executive team was was there and
Speaker 1: they had their photographer and it was just kind of
Speaker 1: a surreal moment that everyone kind of showed up to
Speaker 1: welcome him to Minnesota. Justin Holland again when we landed,
Speaker 1: you know, it was a photographer capturing photos when he
Speaker 1: was getting off off the plane. And then we got
Speaker 1: into like a really really nice uh like sprinter van
Speaker 1: that drove us through a minute after St. Paul and
Speaker 1: we arrived at the hotel. Uh the entire Minnesota Timberwolves
Speaker 1: organization is outside clapping and waiting on us to get
Speaker 1: off the bus. And it's like, y'all, everybody's clapping for
Speaker 1: this this knuncle head, like you know your fella. So
Speaker 1: for me, it's like, you know, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: really realize, you know, because to me Anthony and Anthony,
Speaker 1: until I see things like that, I was like, well, technically,
Speaker 1: I guess he is used the number one draft pick.
Speaker 1: He is what he is. And and even after that,
Speaker 1: we're on the elevator. Then we're going up the elevator
Speaker 1: and I get off like the thirte floor and we're
Speaker 1: all looking at our keys and he's like, well, I'm
Speaker 1: on the floor one, but the last number said twenty.
Speaker 1: I was like, you're in the penthouse, you know, what
Speaker 1: I mean, so like even him, I think, like it's surprised,
Speaker 1: it's even surprised him. But then I thought about it again.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, they make penhouses for guys
Speaker 1: like the number one draft pick. That's why, that's why
Speaker 1: penthouses exists. Makes sense. But yeah, when when I when
Speaker 1: I see things like that, it's like, wow, do you
Speaker 1: really have you transformed yourself to be, you know, to
Speaker 1: be a somebody. This transition from college kid to being,
Speaker 1: as Justin put it, as somebody would normally occur over months.
Speaker 1: In twenty nine, the last pre pandemic season, the NBA
Speaker 1: draft was in June, and the first game didn't tip
Speaker 1: off until late October. Rookies and young players participated in
Speaker 1: training camps and played in an entire summer league plus
Speaker 1: a preseason, all before ever playing their first NBA minute.
Speaker 1: This year, those surreal moments like Anthony's first time on
Speaker 1: a private jet or in a penthouse happened as they're
Speaker 1: already rolling into the new season. After eight months of
Speaker 1: waiting for the draft. Tyres and Anthony now have three
Speaker 1: weeks until the first preseason games starts on December eleven.
Speaker 1: Here's Justin again. The turnaround time is so quick, so
Speaker 1: he didn't even have a chance ends to really sitting
Speaker 1: and celebrate or anything. It's it's it's time to go
Speaker 1: to work. Like we we got more goals. We want
Speaker 1: to win Rookie of the Year and we can't win
Speaker 1: Rookie and you're celebrating, and you know, celebrating about something
Speaker 1: that happened two weeks ago. We're living in and now
Speaker 1: we pushed forward, we'll be right back. It isn't just
Speaker 1: Ampthony and his crew who need to find new winter
Speaker 1: coats after the draft. Tyrese flies to Philadelphia almost immediately
Speaker 1: after being selected, and his parents joined him as they
Speaker 1: all try to quickly establish a new life on the
Speaker 1: Chilei East coast. You can't sell him this mask is
Speaker 1: the best right now because of when if even gowing
Speaker 1: in your face up in the Philly you're getting you
Speaker 1: a good taste of Philly today. Oh man, that's snow.
Speaker 1: That snow it's gonna get you late November, and Philly
Speaker 1: shows Tyreese just how different life will be compared to
Speaker 1: his time in Garland, Texas. And it's not only the
Speaker 1: weather that takes him by surprise. How much time you
Speaker 1: spend in the gym or with your teammate or with
Speaker 1: any The organization period is literally you have you have
Speaker 1: like like I said, from so tomorrow, we have practical
Speaker 1: Twitter two. That's the only time that it's not optional
Speaker 1: to be THEO. And then and then Mark just said, oh,
Speaker 1: you have optional breakfast on the road from I got
Speaker 1: you from A to uh eight to whatever time. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It was an optional architect at
Speaker 1: the University of Kentucky. Tyrese had mandatory meals, meetings, practices,
Speaker 1: weight sessions, study hours, and all kinds of other required
Speaker 1: team events and the pros. You're responsible for most of
Speaker 1: your own time and training. In addition, Tyrese will have
Speaker 1: a long and grueling regular season scheduled with constant travel
Speaker 1: along with the off the court commitments like endorsements and
Speaker 1: media appearances. Having friends or family nearby is invaluable at
Speaker 1: this point in his life, especially for someone who just
Speaker 1: turned twenty years old. That's why the Maxis are looking
Speaker 1: for an apartment for Tyrese and Brandon and another one
Speaker 1: for his parents, Denise and Tyrone. Yeah, this is a
Speaker 1: true downtown doctors Now town, but this is New York
Speaker 1: and Chicago. That's why people it's it's a bit different
Speaker 1: when you know, oh my god, it is open clear,
Speaker 1: you see us right out. It is people on top
Speaker 1: of each other like this. That's also true. They don't
Speaker 1: really gather like this in one Yeah, there's so many
Speaker 1: different places to go around. I mean, I'm not still
Speaker 1: not saying they should be open, but not saying it's
Speaker 1: not saying it either, But I'm just saying it's a
Speaker 1: lot more spread out in Dallas and like too tight,
Speaker 1: too tight. Yeah, I agree with that. What I'm saying
Speaker 1: the same James, you were looking at two bedrooms you
Speaker 1: saw would I don't have it with me. That's fine,
Speaker 1: arably both. So that's clutch agent Mark Murray, who came
Speaker 1: along to help the Maxis navigate the New City and
Speaker 1: their apartment hunting trip. You ain't look at the brown songs, Well, mhm,
Speaker 1: it's kind of cool. I ain't gonna. I kind of
Speaker 1: did a little bit of both. I thought maybe if
Speaker 1: I found a one bedroom that's big enough, I like it. Maybe,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I didn't really to uh
Speaker 1: totally shut off the idea of a one bedroom. I
Speaker 1: don't need anything separate, like ter reason trying to do
Speaker 1: for him to Brandon, Tyrese's uncle, Brandon plans to stay
Speaker 1: with him in Philly like he did in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: all summer. The pressure, busy schedules, and lack of structure
Speaker 1: in the NBA often leads to friends or family moving
Speaker 1: in with the young players to help support them like this,
Speaker 1: especially as they get settled in a completely new part
Speaker 1: of the country. Here's Mark again and how this seemingly
Speaker 1: ordinary task of moving felt very different from Tyrese's point
Speaker 1: of view. Tyrese is coming from Texas, so he's not
Speaker 1: used to the city life, and he's not used to
Speaker 1: the high rise skyscraper life buildings. And he was so
Speaker 1: excited to get a nice apartment, you know, a high
Speaker 1: rise apartment, and it's a big deal. It's his first place,
Speaker 1: you know, on his own as a twenty year old kid.
Speaker 1: Um obviously, see most people can't even get their own
Speaker 1: place at twenty like that, you know. So it was
Speaker 1: a big deal for him personally, not just professionally, and
Speaker 1: I think he really enjoyed it. They look all over
Speaker 1: the city at all kinds of price ranges and for
Speaker 1: all sorts of communities for Tyreson Brandon and his parents,
Speaker 1: it's alot with some old the old people live over here, mom, yeah,
Speaker 1: fit right in. Yeah, yeah right, that's what I want
Speaker 1: to stay with the old poke aft your home? Can
Speaker 1: we go? Can we go to? Can we did the
Speaker 1: least job over? I gotta see it? What was it
Speaker 1: called on your mom? Yeah? Job over? They see that,
Speaker 1: ain't I ain't got any notes to do it. I'm
Speaker 1: oh the one. Oh yeah, there's one apartment on their
Speaker 1: list that rents for fifteen thousand dollars a month, staggering
Speaker 1: sum of money for almost everyone on earth, but especially
Speaker 1: for a guy who's living in a dorm room eight
Speaker 1: months earlier. So that's where they're headed next. Man actually going,
Speaker 1: I like it's part of that. You take that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna like that with all this silver one. No,
Speaker 1: that's not extravaging it up. They can't be it. Oh man,
Speaker 1: they can't be. It's not they think. Can't worthy man,
Speaker 1: they can't be. Did they say startup and thinking start knockable? Bro?
Speaker 1: She made this say she made me? Yeah? She yes, true?
Speaker 1: Look at that. No, I remember that text that was
Speaker 1: fifteen zero zero zero right here. It's right, what Yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: they pull up to the building. Yeah, ship ship right,
Speaker 1: m Mike. They shouldn't be even allow us in the
Speaker 1: building that fifteen k. They should not have no access
Speaker 1: to it. So yeah, it's good. You can't even get
Speaker 1: in this move ten k. You can't hear right, I
Speaker 1: can afford it a hunt technic flick technic click, that's
Speaker 1: the building and better me. I was about to say,
Speaker 1: is this is this really happening? I'm I'm just is
Speaker 1: this really happening? He's still having a hard time even
Speaker 1: imagining this life where a hundred and eighty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a year could go to an apartment, just like Anthony
Speaker 1: flying on a private jet, or realizing the penthouse is
Speaker 1: reserved for him. Tyrese still hasn't come to terms with
Speaker 1: his dreams actually having come true, and because of the pandemic,
Speaker 1: there was almost no bridge from his old life to
Speaker 1: this new one. There's no time to stop and dwell
Speaker 1: on the changes. Tyrese and his family have to move
Speaker 1: on to the next building, and then the next, and
Speaker 1: after they finished looking at apartments for the day, the
Speaker 1: Maxi's returned to their hotel. Oh yeah, I'm gonna my
Speaker 1: bible a bit oh Man one. He lies down, exhausted
Speaker 1: and turns off his mic, perhaps taking a moment to
Speaker 1: let it all sink in his lifetime of ambition, to
Speaker 1: get here, his new team, his new city, learning a
Speaker 1: new system, finding a new apartment, and transforming from a
Speaker 1: teenager to a multi millionaire professional athlete, all in three weeks.
Speaker 1: For Anthony and Tyrese, the draft ended one chapter of
Speaker 1: their lives and instantly began a new one. All those
Speaker 1: months of waiting and uncertainty are finally over. Their first
Speaker 1: NBA season tips off in only a few days, and
Speaker 1: before long, the next draft with sixty new players will
Speaker 1: be looming on the horizon. Now it's time to get
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