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Speaker 1: Welcome to this League Uncut in the world of twenty

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Speaker 1: four hour NBA news. This is you, Chris Haynes. It's

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Speaker 1: so telling Bert Stein, it's so time This League Uncut

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Speaker 1: is underway and on fire.

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Speaker 2: It should be a good one.

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Speaker 3: Everybody, welcome to another episode of this League on Cut

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Speaker 3: feature and myself Chris Haynes and my brother Mark Stein.

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Speaker 3: You know, every now and there on the show, we

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Speaker 3: like to highlight new talent, new up and coming talent

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Speaker 3: that you're probably gonna be familiar with within the NBA

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Speaker 3: as early as next season, probably two years from now,

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Speaker 3: you never know. But this kid that we're bringing on

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Speaker 3: right now, he's definitely on the cuts of doing something

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Speaker 3: special and it's gonna be a name that you're going

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Speaker 3: to hear about in the near future. And without further ado,

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Speaker 3: I like to introduce to you Tyler Smith, who played

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Speaker 3: in the Overtime Elite this past few years and now

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Speaker 3: he's taking his talents to the g League Ignite. And

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Speaker 3: you know about that program that's produced some of the

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Speaker 3: top NBA rookies and future NBA stars, you know over

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Speaker 3: the last I don't know, four or five years, and

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Speaker 3: now Tyler has taken his talents there and he's he's

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Speaker 3: one more step away from being in the NBA, a

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Speaker 3: league that me and Mark Stein has covered for countless

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Speaker 3: decades between the both of us. So, Tyler, I want

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Speaker 3: to say thank you for having us, I mean thank

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Speaker 3: you for having us on like this is Joe Show,

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Speaker 3: thank you for coming on our show. Tyler, just first

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Speaker 3: of all, we want to get to know you, want

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Speaker 3: to get to know your background, so you know, when

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Speaker 3: you do make that lead to the NBA, you do

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Speaker 3: hear your name called, people will have a clue of

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Speaker 3: where you came from and what you're about. So Tyler,

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Speaker 3: tell me just a little bit about your path to

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Speaker 3: getting to this point. And congratulations by the way.

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Speaker 4: Oh appreciate it. Appreciate it. So started off in Houston

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Speaker 4: High School at Georgia Bush. Then I went to overtimeing

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Speaker 4: lead for the last two years and played good over

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Speaker 4: there my last season, and I'm here with Ignite.

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Speaker 3: So can you tell me about you know you've taken.

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Speaker 3: This is two unconventional paths by a top prospect like yourself,

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Speaker 3: choosing to go to overtime and then G League at night.

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Speaker 3: Can you tell me take me back to high school?

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Speaker 3: At that point. So you're what fifteen or sixteen when

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Speaker 3: you made that decision.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, got over yep, sixteen.

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Speaker 3: Tell me about the thought process of making that move.

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Speaker 4: The thought process was planning for the NBA scouts early,

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Speaker 4: like just so I could showing my skill set and

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Speaker 4: stuff like that. The stuff that was telling me, like

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Speaker 4: NBA scouts at practices at games, so you wasn't gonna

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Speaker 4: get them high school because they really couldn't come to

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Speaker 4: the caupsil just during the summer, so all season I'll

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Speaker 4: said why not?

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Speaker 5: So obviously the basketball reasons to go the overtime route

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Speaker 5: and now to join the ignit. I mean, we could

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Speaker 5: list twenty five basketball reasons. But when you're fifteen and

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Speaker 5: you're leaving high school, just how hard is that to

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Speaker 4: It wasn't really that hard for me because I was

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Speaker 5: Nelse and what age were you when you kind of knew,

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Speaker 5: you know what, I don't want to go to college route.

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Speaker 5: I want to try these other avenues to get ready

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Speaker 5: yourself is when you knew that you were going to

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Speaker 5: go these new modern paths that are available to young

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Speaker 4: I remember ninth grade. I was like fourteen, I'll see

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Speaker 4: Ignite then come out. That's what I said I wanted

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Speaker 5: And people in your life, what did they say when

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Speaker 5: But like, how did people react when you told them?

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Speaker 4: It was just with me, Like my mom, she was

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Speaker 2: I was going like.

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Speaker 4: Developing at a high rate. So it was already like, man,

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Speaker 3: So so Tyler tell let everybody know, like what's what's

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Speaker 3: your height right now? What's your height weight? If you

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Speaker 4: I'm six ' ten twenty two, well like with a

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Speaker 5: Wow, you know what they say, Chris Haynes. You know,

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Speaker 5: he this young man is a Texan and he's a lefty.

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Speaker 3: I do you're gonna say that? I know you, I

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Speaker 5: You know who they compare him to. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 5: and it's you know, it's it's obviously it's a great thing,

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Speaker 5: but also it's a you know, it's a tough thing.

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Speaker 5: But you know, the Chris Bosh comparison gets thrown around

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Speaker 5: mean that that you know, I'm sure you're it's flattering

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I like it.

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Speaker 4: You know, I've been watching him since junior year, just

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Speaker 4: people realizing that. Uh, I take bits and parts of

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Speaker 2: So it's pretty good for me, that comparison.

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Speaker 3: I like it.

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Speaker 5: Have you had a chance to meet him yet?

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Speaker 2: Not not yet. Hopefully one day though.

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Speaker 5: And I'm sure you'll I'm sure you'll cross paths with

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you'll get there eventually, uh, Tyler. So when you

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Speaker 3: look at again, we're here with Tyler Smith playing, going

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Speaker 3: to be playing with the G League to night. He

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Speaker 3: NBA d And just for context, Stean like this G

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Speaker 3: has started. So, Tyler, when you when you made your decision,

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Speaker 3: get kind of competitive too. So how do you expect

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Speaker 4: I mean, this season should go really good for everybody.

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Speaker 4: You know, Coach puts is in the right positions. Not

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Speaker 4: so I mean it's been working out good. We went

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Speaker 2: Everybody was eating, everybody was eating.

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Speaker 3: It was something you said about the G League Knight

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Speaker 3: for UH, for players to really consider it and make

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Speaker 3: it a legitimate, you know option, But it took off

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Speaker 3: right away. And you said yourself like you was fourteen

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Speaker 3: when it came about, and he was like, that's where

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Speaker 3: if the ge League Knight wasn't an option.

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Speaker 4: I probably would have went to college or Australia because

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Speaker 4: I've seen people like Arjie Hampton and I'm going over

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Speaker 3: Me too, so this kid, Tyler Stein, Tyler was he

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Speaker 3: was about his business. He was He's about whatever it

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Speaker 5: I was hoping, I was hoping to hear cal State

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Speaker 5: went right. I don't think option, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he's heard of a school.

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Speaker 5: That's all right, that's all right. I'm not gonna take

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Speaker 5: it personal, Tyler. I actually listened to a couple podcasts

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Speaker 5: you did with Rafael Barlow, who's a good friend of

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Speaker 5: mine who runs NBA Big Board, and he you told

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Speaker 5: NBA guys you went up against, and how do you

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Speaker 4: I think I did really good, like making open shots

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Speaker 4: Jalen Green in the gym, Pascal Siakam, Scottie Barnes, Uh,

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Speaker 4: So I feel like I messed up pretty well with them,

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Speaker 5: How competitive are those games from your perspective?

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's definitely competitive, especially we're younger than everybody.

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Speaker 4: They don't want us to like show them up and stuff,

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Speaker 4: so they're going hard against us every time, and you know,

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Speaker 4: they put us and you go to the third court

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Speaker 4: So it's really competitive over there. You got to win

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Speaker 3: So so that's how it is. So it's there's a

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Speaker 5: That three three three courts at UCLA every every day

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't know. How's the physicality, Tyler? How how

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Speaker 3: how you manage that?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 3: What do you thought about it?

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Speaker 2: Going overseas was more physical than here?

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie, but like here, I gained like

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Speaker 4: twelve pounds, so I mean the physicality hasn't really been

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Speaker 2: Used to because they know some tricks and stuff.

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Speaker 4: They've been the Eleaite for a minute, and people that's

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Speaker 3: Stan, I know you love to hear that him say,

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Speaker 3: is more physical playing overseas.

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Speaker 5: Actually, I'm really I'm really hung up on this the

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Speaker 5: UCLA Summer League because I mean, I haven't lived in

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Speaker 5: I used to go to some of those games, but

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Speaker 5: I haven't been. I haven't been to some you know,

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Speaker 4: There was definitely helping us after the game, like they'll

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Speaker 5: You don't know the Thompson Twins.

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Speaker 3: What Thompson Twins? Tell me? Who?

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Speaker 3: I was born as Yeah, I'm unfamiliar with myself. Did

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Speaker 4: Next summer they came back like swall all of and

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Speaker 5: In all seriousness watching them both get drafted so high.

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Speaker 4: I'll say, like anywhere from like fourteen to twenty fourteen

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Speaker 3: When when you when you think about your NBA career,

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Speaker 3: bother you? Because it's always people are always prisoners of

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Speaker 3: the moment. You know, if anybody does anything great at

444
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Speaker 3: that time, they're kind of praising them and calling them

445
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Speaker 3: the next great thing because they're in the spotlight right now.

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Speaker 3: And I think that's probably the one advantage college probably

447
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Speaker 3: has over peoples. Like during that time of year, it

448
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Speaker 3: gets all of love. How are you able to manage that?

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Speaker 3: Or how you think you're going to be able to

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Speaker 3: manage that and stay focused.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's gonna be easy to manage it.

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Speaker 4: Just play basketball and just be the best of my position, really,

453
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Speaker 4: and then in the draft workouts too, you got to

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Speaker 4: show what you could do.

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Speaker 2: Also, you can surprise scouts. So I mean, I'm not

456
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Speaker 2: really too worried.

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Speaker 4: I've been having talked with my people that stuff really

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Speaker 4: don't matter right now all what you do on the court.

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Speaker 3: Do you have a NBA mentor NBA player that has

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Speaker 3: been in your ear like giving you a guidance throughout

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Speaker 3: this time, or you know a current NBA player, form

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Speaker 3: NBA player, anybody significance in your ear that we would know.

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Speaker 4: No, not really, just like TJ. Ford been opened me

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Speaker 4: out stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: So okay, Texas, yep.

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Speaker 5: You know you spoke about trying to make the playoffs

467
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Speaker 5: and trying to be the first Ignite team that gets

468
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Speaker 5: to the G League. Playoffs, but not with the veterans.

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Speaker 5: I realized the veterans joined the group later. But but

470
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Speaker 5: the young guys on the team in your age bracket,

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Speaker 5: You guys have played a fair bit together this summer,

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Speaker 5: So what I mean you've gotten a You've gotten a

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Speaker 5: head start on really the rest of the G League.

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Speaker 5: When you ask people what and what your coaches are

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Speaker 5: telling you, how feasible is it that you guys could

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Speaker 5: be that first team to make the playoffs? What what

477
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Speaker 5: do the coaches say about your chances?

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Speaker 2: I mean, we already played five games together.

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Speaker 4: We know what we need to work on as a team,

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Speaker 4: so I mean, you know it's easy fixes And they

481
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Speaker 4: say in the G League, it's like I'm not gonna

482
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Speaker 4: I'm not gonnay the resident bad, but like like sometimes

483
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,360
Speaker 4: the risk can make back calls and stuff. So sometimes

484
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Speaker 4: the game is gonna be with us, or we're gonna

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Speaker 4: be within the game because they call a lot of

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Speaker 4: thousand and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: So it's gonna be winnable games for us a lot.

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Speaker 3: So who are you who are you closest with on

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Speaker 3: a G League in night team?

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Speaker 4: I'll say everybody, But really I bail him for two

491
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Speaker 4: years also at overtime.

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Speaker 3: So that's right, that's right, that's the easy one. I

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Speaker 3: saw that I should have I should have knew that

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Speaker 3: from from the beginning. So I don't know, ty like,

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you like Stott mark Stein. Just

496
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Speaker 3: to give you his credential style, this is your what

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Speaker 3: year covering the NBA?

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Speaker 5: This is gonna be my thirty first season. But I

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Speaker 5: think I've already I think after asking my musical question,

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Speaker 5: I think everybody gets it. I'm I'm just an old

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Speaker 5: old man, and you know what i am. When I

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Speaker 5: meet the Thompson Twins, I'm not gonna be able to

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Speaker 5: resist asking them that same question. I will embarrass my

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Speaker 5: I will embarrass myself again.

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Speaker 3: I think you'll get to say, and Detroit.

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Speaker 5: Is actually in Dallas early or not? Detroit is the

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Speaker 5: only is the only is the MAVs only preseason game

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Speaker 5: in Dallas. So I will soon get my chance with Stein,

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Speaker 5: half of the Thompson Twins.

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Speaker 3: Stein's based in Dallas and I'm based in California. By

511
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Speaker 3: I'm all over the place. So I'm the guy. You know,

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Speaker 3: I'm an NBA reporter about twelve years. In thirteen years

513
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Speaker 3: in I'm also the sideline reporter for T and T games,

514
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 3: So if you watch the TNT games, you'll see me

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Speaker 3: interviewing the players at the end of the game on

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Speaker 3: the court. But uh, I think like when you think

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Speaker 3: of the let's let's okay, so let's say a year

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Speaker 3: from now, exactly a year from now, at that point,

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Speaker 3: what do you think will be if somebody asked you

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Speaker 3: a year from now, Tyler, what was the one thing

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Speaker 3: you did, What was the one crucial decision you made

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Speaker 3: that got you to this point? Or who was the

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Speaker 3: most inspirational or integral you know or you know, just

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Speaker 3: just person that was really an integral peace to how

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Speaker 3: you got to this stage. What would be your answer.

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Speaker 5: The most important decision besides coming on this podcast?

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Speaker 2: He meant, Oh, probably my mom? My mom?

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Speaker 3: How how much was that was that mom that was

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Speaker 3: hooking up everything before you came up, before you came home. Okay,

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00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 3: shout out to moms right there, still still doing things

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Speaker 3: for the baby right there. Uh, tell me about tell

532
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Speaker 3: me about your mom's part and just allowing you to

533
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Speaker 3: try to chase your dreams. Just you can you just

534
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Speaker 3: give me a little glimpse into mom's.

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Speaker 4: My mom she's like my manager too, so I mean

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Speaker 4: she handles everything on and off the court for me,

537
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Speaker 4: puts me in the right situations just like this right now,

538
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Speaker 4: just helping me and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: So she knew everything.

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Speaker 3: No, that's dope, man. And you know, Tyder, I probably

541
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Speaker 3: got like one more question on those Stein has one more.

542
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Speaker 3: But you know one thing, you know again, we're talking

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Speaker 3: with Tyler Smith. You'll check him out. Remember the G

544
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 3: League ignite. He's going to be draft eligible for the

545
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four NBA draft. You know he can go

546
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Speaker 3: somewhere lottery, you know he he's saying somewhere fourteen to

547
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Speaker 3: twenty range. But we know how one year, one season

548
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 3: can change a lot. Workouts can change a lot, so

549
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 3: it could be potentially higher. This is a sixteen to you,

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Speaker 3: eighteen or nineteen eighteen eighteen, sixteen, eighteen years old, two

551
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Speaker 3: hundred and twenty pounds, athletics, left teams of the ball

552
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Speaker 3: left most important. If you ask Steyn, he's a left y.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Tyler does every August on left hand on International

554
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 5: left Handers Day, I put I put out the all

555
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 5: lefty team. It's unofficial, but I like to pretend it's official,

556
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Speaker 5: I put out five starters and a sixth man. So

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00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,919
Speaker 5: will soon you will soon be you will soon be

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Speaker 5: a contender for a spot on that team.

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Speaker 3: So will he be eligible for next August team? Because

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00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 3: he would just have been playing well, he would have

561
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,880
Speaker 3: played some league, He would have some league under his belt.

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Speaker 5: Even if he's the number one pick, he cannot be

563
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 5: eligible till he plays in the NBA. But once he

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Speaker 5: plays in the NBA, he will be eligible.

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Speaker 3: My last question for you, Tyler, when I guess when

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Speaker 3: it's all when it's all set and done, Man, when

567
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 3: it's all set and done, you finally reach that goal,

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Speaker 3: what are you going to think about? What do you

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Speaker 3: think is going to come to your head? Because you

570
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 3: were at the NBA draft and you've seen how lives

571
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 3: changed at that one moment. What's going to be circling

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Speaker 3: around your mind at that point?

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Speaker 2: Talking about right after the draft?

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00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 3: Yep, after the draft? I mean your name, Carl, what's

575
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Speaker 3: going to be circling in your mind?

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Speaker 2: Really? Like the work just be young for that?

577
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 4: Like just all my life been trying to go to

578
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,640
Speaker 4: the league, and I'm here, so I gotta work even

579
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:02,160
Speaker 4: harder now.

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Speaker 3: Mm it works to stop yeah, it works still stop

581
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Speaker 3: and I lie to you, Todd. This is my last question.

582
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Speaker 3: What is something that people may not know about you

583
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 3: that that probably will surprise most if they heard about it.

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Speaker 4: I'm really a simple person. I don't really do nothing

585
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 4: ab outside or nothing like that. So I mean, it's

586
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 4: nothing too crazy. I'll just like chilling in the house

587
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 4: my brother, stuff like that, playing the game.

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00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, all right, well it stein you good? Stan.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I'm really glad that we got this chance

590
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 5: to meet you. And look, I haven't seen him for ages,

591
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 5: but if I somewhere, and I'm sure Chris will do

592
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 5: the same. If if somehow someway we run into Chris Bosh,

593
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 5: we will we will tell him. We will tell him

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Speaker 5: about you and tell him to find you.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, for sure that this is Tyler Smith. Tyler,

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Speaker 3: we appreciate you coming on this League Uncut podcast. Man,

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00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 3: we wish you you know nothing but the best this

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Speaker 3: season to G League tonight and I'll be at the

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Speaker 3: NBA Draft of twenty twenty four. I'll probably see you

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Speaker 3: before then. I'll come to a couple of night games.

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Speaker 3: But man, we wish you the best of luck and

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Speaker 3: most importantly, thank you for coming on.

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Speaker 2: Man, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 5: Good luck to you, Tyler, Thanks Amil, Thanks.

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Speaker 1: And that'll do it for us. See you next time.

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Speaker 1: This league uncutage and iHeartRadio production

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Speaker 2: Christ Haines and Mark Stein,