Speaker 1: I know mom had hesitance, was a little hesitan at
Speaker 1: the beginning, but on draft night you can see how
Speaker 1: proud she was. Bro Like, that's one thing on this
Speaker 1: side of the field, be on the aging side of
Speaker 1: seeing the sacrifices the parents make and the fact that
Speaker 1: he had the balls to reclass and do what he did.
Speaker 1: But on on draft night, mama was I mean, dad
Speaker 1: was nervous to my mama was super proud. Man.
Speaker 2: It was also she was excited, but like you said,
Speaker 2: she was nervous. Uh after they called my name, she
Speaker 2: was just she wanted to cry, but she kind of
Speaker 2: knew the cameras was on her, so she like kind
Speaker 2: of held it in a little bit. And then to
Speaker 2: have the party, she ended up like finally letting the tears.
Speaker 3: Yea, the party let the tears out.
Speaker 4: So is it safe to say your mama's boy, It's okay.
Speaker 2: I'm a little bit of both, yea, yeah, a little
Speaker 2: bit of both. I wouldn't say I'm too much of
Speaker 2: mama's boy. I'm a dad boy as well, So fifty.
Speaker 3: Fifty attitude atude.
Speaker 2: Now, my dad notionaliant, So I get a little bit
Speaker 2: of that from him.
Speaker 1: Don't want tell you those funny man and you do
Speaker 1: you really appreciate this? And I feel like I'm interviewing
Speaker 1: you right now. But young fella here is like the
Speaker 1: nicest dude, the humble dude right now on that court.
Speaker 1: Here be an asshole now, yeah, as he should be.
Speaker 1: No here, asshole, No friends.
Speaker 4: If I give you one piece of advice, don't help
Speaker 4: nobody up. If he fall on the ground, let his
Speaker 4: ask get up or let his team help him up. No,
Speaker 4: don't be helping. No, you're not out there for that.
Speaker 4: After the game we could just shake hands and talk. Man,
Speaker 4: I'm not out here to be helping you up. Guess
Speaker 4: what every time he follow you got to get up.
Speaker 3: That take energy.
Speaker 4: That's my for forty eight minutes. If you got to
Speaker 4: have to get up fifteen times, why would you help
Speaker 4: him up? I slapped you. Go over to help somebody up,
Speaker 4: I help him up get up on his own.
Speaker 2: Yeah, y'a colpeeding you. You don't want to be helping
Speaker 2: the opposing keep that.
Speaker 3: Don't lose that asshold. Yeah, you lose, you lose that.
Speaker 3: You lose me. It gets me, It gets me going
Speaker 3: to washing the asshole.
Speaker 4: So let me ask you a question. Being on the
Speaker 4: other side as an agent, when you're sitting in that
Speaker 4: green room or whatever that situation, because I ain't never
Speaker 4: been there, undrafted, by the way, undrafted, ain't have been
Speaker 4: in the green room, Like Michael, tell me about it.
Speaker 1: We will, We'll tell you about it. We'll actually tell
Speaker 1: you about that after you asked this question.
Speaker 4: So when you're sitting in that green room with him,
Speaker 4: you're getting phone calls from different players, you're getting phone
Speaker 4: calls from different organizations. When you finally get to call
Speaker 4: that the organization is gonna pick your plane, you tell
Speaker 4: them right away. Yeah, okay, I hadn't know.
Speaker 3: I thought you might wait for what happened.
Speaker 1: What happens though, is like literally and when you're in
Speaker 1: the green room you wouldn't know this because you were undrafted, But.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't What happened.
Speaker 1: What happens that those cameras come over there on the
Speaker 1: table and they tell the story before we even know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, before y'all even know, the cameras has already told us.
Speaker 3: Then you get the call exactly right then you tell cool.
Speaker 4: So if he didn't tell you that, if you ain't
Speaker 4: getting called about three more picks his ass.
Speaker 3: You ain't get that called about.
Speaker 2: Job to do.
Speaker 3: It's like you got a job to do.
Speaker 4: He can't tell you if you don't get buckets, and
Speaker 4: that can't do nothing for you if he ain't doing
Speaker 4: his job and you can't get paid.
Speaker 3: I'm telling noth thing as an agent.
Speaker 4: Tell you this. No, let me tell you something that's agent.
Speaker 4: A lot of agents like to give us advice, but
Speaker 4: they work for you.
Speaker 3: Well, well I already told them now, I ain't just
Speaker 3: like to give us advice because we players. Yeah, just
Speaker 3: know that that's what makes me. They work for you.
Speaker 3: Keep it in the back of my head.
Speaker 2: You tell me, I get it.
Speaker 4: You my agent, you're an advisor for me.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So, but you always remember that with your agent you're
Speaker 4: dead ass, right though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 4: A lot of young fellas you come into this situation
Speaker 4: eighteen nineteen years old. You signed with a forty five
Speaker 4: year white man and something like that. No, no disrespect,
Speaker 4: I have a forty.
Speaker 3: Five year.
Speaker 4: You signed forty five your wife. But all of a
Speaker 4: sudden he starts telling you how to do this and
Speaker 4: that and the third at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: like I get it. Some of these things are good.
Speaker 4: But some of these things you need to learn on y'awnbody.
Speaker 4: Some of these steps you need to take on your own.
Speaker 4: You need to fall, you need to get up, you
Speaker 4: need to understand.
Speaker 3: I disagree a little at though.
Speaker 4: No listen, some of these things you do need to
Speaker 4: learn on your own.
Speaker 3: No, you do.
Speaker 1: But but at the end of the day, what you
Speaker 1: got to interview harming a second. But what you do
Speaker 1: gotta do is you gotta take experiences from people that
Speaker 1: have lived it too, right like that. That's what makes
Speaker 1: my situation over here being a little bit different. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm the same way, I'm over for you. At the
Speaker 1: same time, my responsibility and role and one of the
Speaker 1: things that I think you guys saw value and is
Speaker 1: the fact that I lived it. So the stuff is like,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I'm with you the
Speaker 1: other forty five year oday man. Yeah, I wouldn't sten
Speaker 1: to either.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Hey, anyway, let's go back to this.
Speaker 1: So we talked about how mom and dad were and
Speaker 1: how excited they were on draft night.
Speaker 3: But you need just a little backstory. He came. I
Speaker 3: met him a.
Speaker 1: Couple of years ago, coming to summer leagues and watching
Speaker 1: summer leagues and so just talk about like he was
Speaker 1: so locked in even as a well he's such a
Speaker 1: young kid now, but like fifteen sixteen years old, he's
Speaker 1: watching He's like, yo, I can't wait to be out there.
Speaker 1: That's whereas mine was. Then, talk about all that stuff
Speaker 1: that kind of went into between summer league going and
Speaker 1: playing a zy compass, skipping your senior year, and then
Speaker 1: excitement for you because you put I mean obviously family
Speaker 1: and everyone's sacrifices.
Speaker 3: But you put a lot of stuff into this. Man.
Speaker 3: You're a grinder and a worker. Man.
Speaker 1: Talk about the kind of the enjoyment of hearing your
Speaker 1: name called on draft night with all this stuff going
Speaker 1: into it.
Speaker 2: And it was crazy, Definitely one of those things you'll
Speaker 2: never forget, just seeing all the kind of hard work
Speaker 2: you put in and all the workouts, all the early
Speaker 2: mornings or the late nights, all the phone calls, the
Speaker 2: checking the latest rankings and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: It's like it was crazy.
Speaker 2: So hearing your name called is something that you will
Speaker 2: never forget, and it's something that will kind of motivate
Speaker 2: you to like keep going, like it's only the beginning
Speaker 2: and you don't want to just get there.
Speaker 3: And then the next.
Speaker 2: Two years you out of there. So just continue to
Speaker 2: keep putting in and work. Listening to the people that's
Speaker 2: been doing it for a long time still guys like
Speaker 2: Brian and them playing so obviously you're gonna play against them,
Speaker 2: and then afterwards probably could ask them a couple of
Speaker 2: questions like, yeah, what you think I could kind of
Speaker 2: do better or what you think can kind of helped
Speaker 2: me in certain situations, And just the overall college and
Speaker 2: high school high school experience it was. It was crazy,
Speaker 2: and then it's getting my senior year. Sometimes I still
Speaker 2: think back, like, man, to be in college right now,
Speaker 2: I'm playing.
Speaker 3: At Homies, going to Prime, you go in to the draft.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was definitely crazy, and just trying to live
Speaker 2: in the moment. You don't you don't get to go
Speaker 2: through this again and you don't get to hear your
Speaker 2: name called another time. So just enjoying everything and trying
Speaker 2: to take everything day by day and step by step.
Speaker 1: I think one thing you need just to touch on there,
Speaker 1: like he talked about, which is great awareness to have. Man,
Speaker 1: It's not about getting there's about staying there. Yes, that
Speaker 1: man over there played twenty years, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: like and picking those guys' brains and understanding like what
Speaker 1: it takes because he and I and I don't know
Speaker 1: what he can tell you, and I can say the
Speaker 1: same thing. I've seen a lot of talented walk through
Speaker 1: that door in that locker rooms that are drafted really
Speaker 1: really high, and it took me a week to figure
Speaker 1: out they ain't gonna be here long. Yeah, But then
Speaker 1: you'll see another dude that was either undrafted, second round
Speaker 1: or even lottery picks that come in and you see
Speaker 1: the professionalism, the habits, routines, like identifying those things early
Speaker 1: as of that once you started getting like seven eight
Speaker 1: years and understand that that matter. After draft night, you
Speaker 1: see those guys in the next month, after summer League,
Speaker 1: they walk through within a week, you can tell if
Speaker 1: they're gonna be here, yes, yes, So keep that mindset
Speaker 1: because that's the biggest thing, right It's not about getting there.
Speaker 1: It's great being the seventh pick, but we got to
Speaker 1: do now. And I told you this th other day,
Speaker 1: it's gonna go fast. Every day you're proving yourself, you
Speaker 1: prove yourself to be the seventh pick. Then after you
Speaker 1: win rookie the year, so you're gonna prove yourself while
Speaker 1: you're a rookie of the Year. Then they're gonna be
Speaker 1: a big ass contract and you got to prove that.
Speaker 1: But you got to understand the process is the best part.
Speaker 1: You do touch on that for.
Speaker 4: And I love the process and the best part about
Speaker 4: it because you got to understand you got drafted number seven,
Speaker 4: and it's always like me, yeah that you didn't get drafted.
Speaker 5: That's looking for opportunity. I guess after the summer league
Speaker 5: right now. Yes, in summer league right now, looking for
Speaker 5: an opportunity. You know what I'm saying. Just I guess
Speaker 5: to make his name against a guy like yourself. I
Speaker 5: guess a guy like Cooper Flagg, I guess all these
Speaker 5: other guys. It's always a guy like me.
Speaker 3: So you're not.
Speaker 4: Playing against you, your your your opponents, you're playing against yourself.
Speaker 4: Youve got to stand it for yourself and you hold
Speaker 4: yourself to a standard that has nothing to do with
Speaker 4: nobody else. Before the coach tail you play like you
Speaker 4: didn't already tell yourself time. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: He shouldn't have to tell you nothing. But I think
Speaker 4: your mentality and you can correct me if I'm wrong
Speaker 4: because everything I'm hearing about Mike, I'm listening to what
Speaker 4: he's saying, and you're beyond your your years mentally, you
Speaker 4: got mental fort two, your mentality and everything.
Speaker 3: Is that a Chicago thing?
Speaker 4: Because when I look back at the guys that came
Speaker 4: out of Chicago and the guys I had the opportunity
Speaker 4: to play with, and the guys that I, you know,
Speaker 4: competed against that's from Chicago, they all had that toughness,
Speaker 4: that mental toughness. They've had the physical toughness too, but
Speaker 4: they all had that mental toughness. When I think about
Speaker 4: d Wade and I think about Bobby Simmons, and we
Speaker 4: talk about d Rose and we talk about you know,
Speaker 4: the grandfather over there locking up. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 4: it's just a list of Chicago guys and they all
Speaker 4: got that mental toughness. Like what is in y'all water,
Speaker 4: what's in the war in Chicago? I got it. Y'all
Speaker 4: got that mental toughness.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I think it's just kind of like Chicago. It ain't
Speaker 2: easy trying to make it out and just continue to
Speaker 2: keep putting yourself.
Speaker 3: On the right path.
Speaker 2: So I feel like everybody that you just they a
Speaker 2: kind of went through something and they know it's like
Speaker 2: to be hungry and to be chasing something. So just
Speaker 2: continue to keep chasing that, and like you said, staying there,
Speaker 2: that's that's the goal. A lot of people do get there.
Speaker 2: A lot of talents that people get there and they
Speaker 2: make mistakes and they out within the next one or
Speaker 2: two years. So just continuing to stay hungry. And man,
Speaker 2: you just had something crazy like you was undrafted.
Speaker 3: It's people coming for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta know they coming for you. So staying
Speaker 2: in gym, keep working, and then every time you stop
Speaker 2: on the floor, you got to kill them.
Speaker 4: Like that's what I'm saying, your fuck you gotta know
Speaker 4: what motherfucker. Let me sitting at home watch your TV,
Speaker 4: shopping and my knife. I see I didn't get drafted.
Speaker 4: I want my opportunity to gets him, and you got
Speaker 4: to you got to make sure I ain't you want. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you might pick somebody else, you won't jack. You know,
Speaker 4: after about two Pia rolls you poppins as I ain't
Speaker 4: the one you want. So you just got to know
Speaker 4: that people are gonna be coming for you.
Speaker 3: Man, you ain't made it.
Speaker 4: You think I mean people outside think you made it.
Speaker 4: To yourself mentally, you ain't. You make nothing. This is
Speaker 4: is just the beginning. I've scratched the curtain. You just
Speaker 4: got to see at the table. Now they got to
Speaker 4: give you a menu or let you order. You know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. But you got your seat at the table.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: It's cool to be at the table. But I don't
Speaker 4: want to just be at the table. And it's just
Speaker 4: not basketball, it's business in life. I'm just sitting at
Speaker 4: the table so I can watch y'all order. I want
Speaker 4: to have a say, so when I sit at this
Speaker 4: TABLEW go what I can do. I want to dictate
Speaker 4: the out coming isshit. Being the number seven pick, you're
Speaker 4: gonna have that opportunity. You're gonna right now. Everything for you,
Speaker 4: and I know it sound like I'm apreciing, but everything
Speaker 4: for you is building on your development, getting one percent better.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 4: look at the statue at the end of the night.
Speaker 4: Please don't worry about your scoring. Don't worry about your
Speaker 4: scoring because we know you can score the ball. Your
Speaker 4: feel on the weak side, are you in your right
Speaker 4: spots defensively on the weak side. All right, when you
Speaker 4: come off that pick and roll, are you making the
Speaker 4: right reads? You damn sure did. When they went under,
Speaker 4: I saw you make them breathing pop there, So you
Speaker 4: got it. Now, next time he's gonna go in there again,
Speaker 4: you might cross back and twist it. Now, you might
Speaker 4: get down here and get in the paint and lay
Speaker 4: it up. Now the next time, if he going there again,
Speaker 4: you might cross back, twist it, get in the pain
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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