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Speaker 2: And I think it's really dope because you went from

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Speaker 1: So talking about like.

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Speaker 2: You're the mentality right because obviously, like you know, when

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Speaker 2: you go like when you go overseas, a lot of

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Speaker 2: and yeah, it's over like it's harder to come back.

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Speaker 2: It was like the parts like getting over there and then.

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Speaker 1: All right, So I was in Toronto. Uh, I feel

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Speaker 1: like I got stories, bro, but it's really just what

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Speaker 1: be happening. I was in Toronto, got cut in training camp,

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Speaker 1: we went to Japan and everything. I thought I was

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Speaker 1: on the team. I got wave. Last day, last game,

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Speaker 1: I got wave. I was sitting in Toronto, and uh,

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Speaker 1: I went to dinner and I talked to my agent

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Speaker 1: and trying to figure out, you know, you know what

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Speaker 1: my biggest question was like, man, do I take less

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Speaker 1: or do I go overseas make the same NBA money

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Speaker 1: and just you know, like I'm going to work basically

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go over there because I was like, man,

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Speaker 1: G because I think it's fucking hardest fuck to go

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Speaker 1: think it's mad hard. So I was like that, I'm

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Speaker 1: the dude don't supposed to be coming in for he

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Speaker 1: must found out I was coming Bro for forty point

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Speaker 1: triple doubles every night, not missing the night forty point

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Speaker 1: trip does Bro. I'm sitting there watching the game, like

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Speaker 1: Never played a home game out there in China. I'm

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Speaker 1: watching games. Bro. He's cooking though, he's cooking. Then one

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Speaker 1: out by myself for real, Like they ain't got what

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Speaker 1: Eric Moreland was my other teammate. He got thrown out

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Speaker 1: the game and in the third quarter we like beating them,

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Speaker 1: So now I'm out there by myself, so like how

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Speaker 1: to how to China jump work? First quarter? Two Americans

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Speaker 1: Third quarter only one can be in at a time.

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Speaker 1: A fourth quarter, two can be in. It's crazy, so

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Speaker 3: Just to make it more fair if a team, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because like some teams, so like the other team,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, like we end up losing the game,

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Speaker 1: but like I caught like crazy cramps Bro, like whole body. Bro.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't even get out the arena, bro cramp.

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Speaker 1: I'm going back home. Bro, Like I'm not gonna be

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Speaker 1: I finally said, Bro, I'm gonna go to G But

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Speaker 1: So like so like my agent like like, nah, I

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Speaker 1: My first day over there, I had to go to

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Speaker 1: I just really want to win. I'm not. That's why

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Speaker 1: And when I got to the G I was like,

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Speaker 1: that Covid shit happened and I had to go back home,

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Speaker 1: playing for them. They're coming at every game. Bro, I'm cooking.

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Speaker 1: I'm cooking in the G. That's why I don't like

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Speaker 1: I just didn't think it worked because like Dallas round me,

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Speaker 3: It was the Bubble.

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Speaker 1: It was the Bubble. They was trying to get a player.

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Speaker 1: They need a player for the Bubble, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I know they getting me. Trey Burke so he was

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Speaker 1: They called him, and I was I was hot, Bro.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, how they gonna you? Man, I'm playing in

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Speaker 1: They seeing me cook, They calling everybody like he cooking, like,

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Speaker 3: So I'm not playing the Bubble right And the first

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Speaker 3: Bubble game, I'm back home in Jersey like watching it

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Speaker 3: because I had got like COVID right before they went

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Speaker 3: I'm not playing anyway. So it was some point going

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Speaker 3: to the Bubble. It's ben Trey burd had thirty one

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Speaker 3: Make it because because next year, like this is when

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Speaker 3: some type of contracted session after the season. So I'm like, man,

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Speaker 3: obviously the way he was playing, they're going to bring

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Speaker 3: him back. I'm just like, so my mind, I'm like,

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Speaker 3: and he was hooping. This is my opportunity. Like you said,

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Speaker 3: this is opportunity. His man was hooping. And I forgot

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Speaker 3: because we were in training him together year because you

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Speaker 3: went to you were in doubt, you were in the legends, right,

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Speaker 3: you came up for a day and then maybe I remember.

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Speaker 1: Because he called me. He was like, all was cooking bull.

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Speaker 3: I didn't sell all that.

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Speaker 1: I know. I ain't playing him like that.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 1: I was at your many camps, That's what it was.

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Speaker 1: I was at the many camps trying to get on the.

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Speaker 1: I was at the mini camps. And then that's when

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Speaker 1: I did Summer League with Dallas. I did almost something.

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Speaker 1: The name picked me man. I was hot.

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Speaker 4: Wait how many uh months before COVID did you leave China?

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Speaker 1: Probably probably? Let me see I went over there in November, December, January.

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Speaker 4: Imagine you got I mean that lockdown was no joke.

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Speaker 4: Like imagine you stayed a month and after start there.

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Speaker 1: That's what we got.

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Speaker 5: We got the track, your track your movements that year.

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Speaker 1: Bro, I ain't catch COVID until, like I got around

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Speaker 1: NBA player. I was cool all the way up until

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Speaker 1: I got the Phoenix.

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Speaker 3: Bro, I.

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Speaker 1: Was good. I was good. So well you were in

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Speaker 1: it's a bubble. You didn't get picked and well so

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Speaker 1: so the bubble thing before he was talking about Trey Burke.

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Speaker 1: The bubble thing was unique because I was expect in

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Speaker 1: And then literally that day I was like, man, brother,

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Speaker 1: that's so weak. Brother, that was my only chance. I'm

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Speaker 1: go to the gym and like every time something bad happening. Bro,

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Speaker 1: I don't know why. I just go to the gym

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Speaker 1: and then literally something good having right after every time.

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Speaker 1: me like, hey, man, somebody about to call you. Man,

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, hello, what's up man, It's Monty. I'm like, real,

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Speaker 1: that's good. He like, yeah, Man, I only want to

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Speaker 1: talk about basketball, and like that's why I really like money.

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Speaker 1: Super good coach Man. I like him. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to talk about basketball. I just want to know how

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Just really small talk, just checking

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Speaker 1: he was like, are you ready. I was like, what

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Speaker 1: was like he was like yeah, like you've been working out.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, bro, I'll be there tomorrow. Like I'm ready, Bro,

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Speaker 1: I'm bro packed my bag up that night. I'm like

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Speaker 1: give your flight tomorrow. Bro, I'm out of there. First

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Speaker 1: flight gone. I'm in Phoenix for the for like a

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Speaker 1: month and a half, just training with them, trying to

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Speaker 1: get them to like be like, yeah, we're gonna take

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Speaker 1: it was it's been like up ever since.

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Speaker 3: And then you guys are hooping.

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Speaker 1: The player had a point eight percent chance didn't make

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, but we did everything we could do. But like,

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Speaker 1: coming into it, like I was just like, man, I'm

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Speaker 1: of the situation. I actually thought I wasn't even gonna

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Speaker 1: be playing first game, Bro, it might just threw me

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Speaker 1: out there. I'm like, oh, I was ready. Though I

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Speaker 1: was ready, Bro. I was like I practiced this, we scrimmaging.

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Speaker 1: I'm not seeing the court JB. But it was really weird.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, Bri, I ain't even gonna be the show.

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Speaker 1: What I can do? We probably making the playoffs. He

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Speaker 1: only got eight games Like that, man threw the first game, TJ.

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Speaker 1: Warren was with Indiana and yeah, didn't he go off

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Speaker 1: I was, I don't know, man, going to trying to

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Speaker 1: kind of humble me. I was. I finally got excuse me,

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Speaker 1: I finally got to play like I ain't had no

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Speaker 1: Like that kind of made the NBA more clear than me,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm coming out there. We playing every day like

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Speaker 1: I be? You know what I'm saying myself with only

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Speaker 1: like I kind of get to tag Turbo cause it's like, bro,

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Speaker 1: I gotta do. So that's why it's like this. It's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: come on, we gotta score. Come on, come on, we

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Speaker 1: gotta get some assists, Like we gotta gotta play fast.

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Speaker 1: So I know, I don't have thirty eight minutes to

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Speaker 1: Like I got time. I ain't got time. It may

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