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Speaker 1: Welcome back. All the smoke coming to you from Sacramento.

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Speaker 1: Sack down Sacramento Kings training camp as they prepare for

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Speaker 1: the upcoming season.

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Speaker 2: Like them on that ass.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was doing a lot of beam lighting

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Speaker 1: last year, even though I wasn't on Yeah, I wasn't

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Speaker 1: on the court lightning being with him, but I was

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Speaker 1: lightning the being. But uh, you know, today we got

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Speaker 1: a one of my brothers, someone I got a chance

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Speaker 1: to play with. Uh, someone I've just just just.

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Speaker 2: A good dude. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's when you find good people want to make sure

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Speaker 1: you stay in contact with them. And our next guest

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Speaker 1: is one of those fifteenth year or sixteenth year sixteen

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Speaker 1: oh boy, yeah, yeah, sixteen and we'm talking about it.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show man, JaVale McGee, Welcome man. Thanks,

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Speaker 1: Let's let's get to Let's let's talk about some content

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Speaker 1: before we get to basketball. You just dropped the documentary.

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Speaker 1: What is that about?

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Speaker 3: So I just I just dropped the I just dropped

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Speaker 3: the show on my YouTube. Everybody remembers my show in

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Speaker 3: the bubble.

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Speaker 2: What's your YouTube had?

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Speaker 3: My YouTube? Javel McGee, Yeah, I had a show during

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Speaker 3: when I was in the bubble. I was. I was

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Speaker 3: vlogging and everybody loved it, so I was I definitely

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Speaker 3: had to put my content up again. And now I

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Speaker 3: got a show called Ranked already on my on my YouTube.

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Speaker 3: It's ten episodes, it's become once a week. It's about

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Speaker 3: a fifth grade the number one fifth grade team in Dallas,

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Speaker 3: and it's just showing the real deal how to be

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Speaker 3: the best in AAU. I don't feel like everybody's really

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Speaker 3: showing that. It's a lot of cookie cutter basketball out here,

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Speaker 3: and we got cursing in it and everything like that,

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Speaker 3: which everybody's like, oh, faux paul about. But one big

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Speaker 3: thing that I'm really happy about it is all the

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Speaker 3: boys have their fathers in their home. That's that's something different. Rare, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: very rare. It's very rare in our community. But that

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Speaker 3: was one thing that really really drew me to it.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, the first episode came out today, so that's

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Speaker 3: gonna be pretty cool. So just log into that, you know,

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Speaker 3: subscribe like all that good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Any other stuff coming down the pipeline. Obviously, the more

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Speaker 1: years you get in the league, the more you kind

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Speaker 1: of obviously keeping basketball first, but you start dabbling in

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Speaker 1: the other spaces content or something your seriously, and I've

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Speaker 1: been seeing you on Players TV with some kind of

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Speaker 1: wig on and some other shit. Yeah, so what uh

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Speaker 1: you know any other thing we could be looking out for.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I mean I'm getting the acting, man, the acting.

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Speaker 3: I've always been producing music and movies, so I mean

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Speaker 3: I'm doing it all, man, especially when it comes to

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Speaker 3: like the media and things like that. I've always loved it.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 3: There's something that I've always been been passionate about, even

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Speaker 3: in like college and shit. So yeah, so.

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Speaker 1: You're sixteen, three time NBA chant. When you hear that, like,

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Speaker 1: you have to pinch yourself because you're still in the mist.

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Speaker 1: So I don't I know you haven't sat back and

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Speaker 3: It really is like that, man, Sometimes you do have

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Speaker 3: to wake up and be like because I remember. I remember,

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Speaker 3: first of all, I wasn't one of those in high school,

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Speaker 3: and I wasn't one of those like new I was

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Speaker 3: going to the NBA. You know what I'm saying. It

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Speaker 3: was all Paul McDonald's or all American or any of that.

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Speaker 3: So when I was in the NBA, I made it

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Speaker 3: to about six seventh year and I was in the

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Speaker 3: average three to four. When you hear that rookie transition program,

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Speaker 3: you're like, well, shit, the average three to four. So

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Speaker 3: if you make it pass forward, you did pretty well.

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Speaker 3: So I got to around seven or eight, and I

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Speaker 3: believe I got injured, and I remember calling people and

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Speaker 3: This shit over, like for real, because like you don't know, especially,

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Speaker 3: I had a real energy injury. I had a ride

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Speaker 3: putting my shine because I had a stress fracture. So

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Speaker 3: I was having pain for about two years after that,

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Speaker 3: so I was playing through the pain. I just didn't

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Speaker 3: have pain. So the fact that I'm here at year

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Speaker 3: sixteen crazy, blessing, Man, blessing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a rarity now. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously to beat the odds, but you know, we played

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Speaker 1: fifteen and fourteen years respectively. There's not too many bets

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Speaker 1: in this game anymore.

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Speaker 3: It's a young man's game.

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Speaker 1: It's a young man's game. We was talking about that

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Speaker 1: as we were watching you guys in practice, Like what

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Speaker 1: kind of honor do you carry? Knowing that, man, I've

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Speaker 1: been through fifteen of these training camps. This is your sixteen.

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Speaker 1: I'm here with the new young team that has championship aspirations,

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Speaker 1: won three titles myself. What kind of veteran leadership and

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Speaker 1: not only the game, but just kind of the mental side,

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Speaker 1: do you feel like you can help this Sacrament of

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Speaker 1: Kings team with.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I definitely, I definitely bring that leadership on

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Speaker 3: on been there, being a player that's been there, being

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Speaker 3: a player that knows exactly what it took. Clearly I

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Speaker 3: wasn't the superstar and the team the number one guy,

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Speaker 3: but there's there's fifteen guys on the team, so it's thirteen,

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Speaker 3: maybe twelve other guys that are in the same position,

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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, And we don't win a game.

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Speaker 3: We don't win a game off of just two people.

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Speaker 3: So so I mean, coming into this role, I embraced it.

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Speaker 3: Mike call me, uh he was the first one to

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Speaker 3: call me, and it was just a beautiful, beautiful conversation

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Speaker 3: that we had and the role that he wanted me

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Speaker 3: to come in here and play. I was. I was

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Speaker 3: excited to play it, to come be a leader, to

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Speaker 3: come show on the defensive end what we can do

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Speaker 3: and hold down that paint. Yeah, I mean you want

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Speaker 3: me to run the floor of block shots and dunk. Hey,

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Speaker 3: you call the right guy, Darren.

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Speaker 4: Darren told me when I was talking to him today,

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Speaker 4: he was like, they're they got you making plays and

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Speaker 4: stuff now because they play through the big and I

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Speaker 4: know you enjoy that. So how refreshing is that you

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Speaker 4: because you know we even watched you play. So motherfucker

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Speaker 4: tell you jabill go out there do your ship.

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Speaker 1: I know in the summertime, be playing point forward, bring

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Speaker 3: Yeah for sure. I mean, and I'll be seeing like

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Speaker 3: you people may be thinking we don't be seeing comments

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Speaker 3: not gonna do that in the regular season, so I'll

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Speaker 3: be I'll be assuming that. Do the fans think if

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Speaker 3: you were big that that just block shots, sits in

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Speaker 3: the dunker and and plays defense on in the off season,

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Speaker 3: you just gonna block shot sitting the dunky game my career.

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Speaker 3: My career I would have only lasted a little bit

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Speaker 3: that if that was the case. But I love the

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Speaker 3: game and uh that's not And mostly everybody in the

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Speaker 3: when they weren't when they were in college. Came in

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Speaker 3: so they can get there, you know what I'm saying. So,

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm just passionate about the game, man, and

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Speaker 3: being able to touch the ball as a big when

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Speaker 3: when even if you're not scoring, the ball just it

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Speaker 3: It's just being able to facilitate. And I'm a hell

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Speaker 3: of facilitator that's never really got the opportunity to do it.

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Speaker 3: So just being here and being able to have the

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Speaker 3: I might average three assists this year, which is crazy

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Speaker 3: on my side. So it's just it's fun though, man.

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Speaker 3: Out of anything, man, just being here with these young

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Speaker 3: that they run the floor. Man, it's beautiful pace.

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Speaker 1: Hell of a pace. Dearon Fox, you've played against them

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Speaker 1: for a handful of years. Now you guys are on

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Speaker 1: the same team, not so much as game because we

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Speaker 1: all know how incredible this game is. What if you've

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Speaker 1: seen from him as a leader?

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Speaker 3: Oh, man, hell of a leader man. Uh, He's a

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Speaker 3: vocal leader. But he's more of a he gonna show

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Speaker 3: you on the leader. And one thing, I was surprised

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Speaker 3: that and I watched basketball, but I didn't really realize

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Speaker 3: how good he is on defense. Oh my god, I'm

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Speaker 3: trying to because I'm on the second team. So when

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Speaker 3: the second team played the first team a practice, I'm

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Speaker 3: trying to hand it off. I can barely hand it

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Speaker 3: off to his to the man he guarded because he's

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Speaker 3: shooting the gap and it doesn't even look like he's gonna.

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Speaker 2: Get to it.

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Speaker 3: But he's so fast and he has great hands. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was really impressive just being here every day and being.

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Speaker 1: So Compare your first training camp in Washington with our

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Speaker 1: brother Gilbert Arenas right to camp sixteen out here in Sacramento.

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Speaker 3: Man, this is this is a breeze.

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Speaker 5: It's a kwalk, right kwalk.

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Speaker 3: It's getting easier every year, and that's I mean, clearly

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Speaker 3: that's good for older players. But if these younger players

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Speaker 1: Years ago, to days for like two weeks.

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Speaker 3: But real two days, you know, the second of the

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Speaker 3: two days just shooting.

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Speaker 1: You've got two practices for like two weeks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, straight, you exhausted, So it's totally different. So this

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Speaker 3: is this is a breeze. It's fun.

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Speaker 1: If anything, anything standing out with you on that Washingt

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Speaker 1: team with Gill, I mean we see him now kind

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Speaker 1: of funding his niche in the in the media space

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Speaker 1: and saying wild, outlandish but a lot of factual Ship.

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Speaker 1: Anything you remember about playing with Gill.

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Speaker 3: Oh No, You've always been wild, man, Just say whatever

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Speaker 3: the fuck you want. Man. You give a man that

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Speaker 3: much money, god damn in power, he's gonna say whatever.

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Speaker 3: That's just his personality. So yeah, he always been that

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Speaker 3: way man. One thing about it though, he never, like

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Speaker 3: they always were, would try certain players, certain young players. Motherfuckers.

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Speaker 3: Never tried me ever, I don't know. I had a

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Speaker 3: real short temper when I was when I was really yeah,

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Speaker 3: and it worked against me, but it worked for me

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Speaker 3: sometimes too.

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Speaker 2: You gotta have the best.

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Speaker 1: There used to be that stereotype of light skin was sweet.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know where that came from. I don't

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Speaker 1: know where it came from. I don't know nothing about it. Uh,

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Speaker 1: your observation kind of the state of the league. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you came in Ship sixteen seeds ago, and like we

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Speaker 1: just talked about training camp was night and day different.

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Speaker 1: What is the It's obviously a young man's game, as

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Speaker 1: we spoke to it earlier, but what have you kind

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Speaker 1: of seen, You've you've kind of played in almost three

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Speaker 1: different eras of the NBA, so to speak.

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Speaker 3: When I first got in the league, man, it was

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Speaker 3: it was the beginning. When I got there, it was

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Speaker 3: what's your first five? Wait? Wait, wait, was my first year?

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Speaker 3: Don't try to do that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it didn't even add up on my head.

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to go away to add three years

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Speaker 1: on it. Bad thing, but u but wait, oh wait,

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Speaker 1: it was.

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Speaker 3: It was a big man's game to where like you

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Speaker 3: had bigs and those bigs where you give it to

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Speaker 3: But I'm always be me and come out on top

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Speaker 2: You gotta add, you gotta.

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Speaker 3: Add who my mama is.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: My mom was a beast man. She was, like we said,

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Speaker 1: Well how did I mean your sister who too?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: I mean how did having your mom? You know, normally

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Speaker 1: you become who you became, not only as a man

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Speaker 3: Man, tremendously. Man, it was my mother. I wouldn't have

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Speaker 3: Yeah? So so she automatically and she's always put me

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Speaker 3: I'm gona go. My mama ain't ever sit me wrong

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Speaker 3: She's always put me in positions. I used to be

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Speaker 2: No, you're leaving.

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Speaker 3: Were going to a different a team where they're not

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Speaker 2: So the biggest thing that you haven't said, she's a winner.

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Speaker 3: She's a winner.

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Speaker 2: She can't just play basketball. She's a winner. She was

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Speaker 1: You've been around a lot of greatness throughout your career. Uh,

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Speaker 1: to have KD, Steph, Dre Clay, Iggy, Steve's a rock

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Speaker 1: star explain that environment and how much fun you had

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Speaker 3: Oh, it was amazing, man, it was amazing. One thing

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Speaker 3: three of them, Clay, Steph, Draymond, Iggy like they have

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Speaker 4: We we we had a chance to experience that because

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Speaker 2: We played that in Golden State.

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Speaker 4: But I think that has a lot to do with

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Speaker 2: He cared about where we want to stay, we want

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Speaker 4: So that's a big reason why the players have a

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Speaker 2: I know they have way more influence than we had

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Speaker 4: But the House has a lot to do with that

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Speaker 3: That's and that's rare, that's very rare. You got players,

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Speaker 3: You got players on teams that literally have no say

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Speaker 3: in this city. Stuff like that. A lot of teams

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Speaker 3: we had fun last night, but all right, come on,

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Speaker 3: let's go to work, you know what I'm saying. So

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Speaker 1: To get your first two rings, what does that mean everything?

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Speaker 3: Man, it was beautiful. Man, it was a beautiful thing.

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Speaker 3: And I was going through that that that that stigma

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Speaker 3: that was on me of of oh, he's he's a

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Speaker 3: He's not a leader.

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Speaker 1: Can't be a dumb player. Playing in Golden State period

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Speaker 1: That was a smart player. He may make some ship

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm I'm a caged animal. They want me to

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Speaker 3: do it just dribble, hand off and roll and let

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Speaker 3: I want to shoot the three. I want the motherfucking

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Speaker 3: jab step, you know what I'm saying. I want to

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Speaker 3: That's a lot of things I want to do and

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Speaker 3: and I've never been able to do that, like been

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Speaker 3: I'm just take this one player. You know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 3: all right, let me get let me get this all.

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Speaker 3: It ain't never been Okay, I'm gonna just continue to

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Speaker 3: fuck some ship up like that. But they trying to

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Speaker 3: that's we control our own native you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: COVID hits uh you with the Lakers, guys are playing

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Speaker 1: really well.

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Speaker 3: Amazing. We're playing amazing, by the.

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Speaker 1: Way, Yeah, playing really well. You guys go inside that bubble. First,

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Speaker 3: Hated it, hated it, hated it with a passion. I'm

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Speaker 3: I'm not a person that likes Like on the road,

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00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:08,240
Speaker 3: I like hanging out with my teammates and they don't

434
00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:10,160
Speaker 3: like to be confined. I don't like to be confined.

435
00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:11,960
Speaker 3: But on the road, I like hanging out my teammates

436
00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:13,920
Speaker 3: and going places and everything. But at home, I don't

437
00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:16,120
Speaker 3: like hanging out with my seeing my teammates every day,

438
00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:20,199
Speaker 3: Like after practice cool, I mean during practice cool, blah blah.

439
00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:22,639
Speaker 3: After that, I'm going to the crib, I'm going to

440
00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:24,760
Speaker 3: the mall. I'm gonna go somewhere. I'm gonna just go

441
00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:28,240
Speaker 3: have dinner with friends and things like that. But so

442
00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:32,360
Speaker 3: when we're in the bubble, it's just like practice, practice, practice,

443
00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:34,560
Speaker 3: go back to the hotel room, Practice, back to the

444
00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:36,920
Speaker 3: hotel room. Game, back to the hotel and walk around.

445
00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:38,879
Speaker 3: I see other NBA players. I'm like, why do I

446
00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:43,800
Speaker 3: see players from Houston players from Milwaukee, Like, I don't know.

447
00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:44,840
Speaker 2: I don't want that.

448
00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:49,280
Speaker 3: I need my freedom. But I felt really confined in

449
00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:51,440
Speaker 3: the bubble. And I didn't like that aspect of it.

450
00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:54,160
Speaker 3: But I mean we were there for a goal, so

451
00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:57,720
Speaker 3: and that goal was to win the NBA Championship. So

452
00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:00,960
Speaker 3: that aspect of winning I love. I loved every part

453
00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,320
Speaker 3: of that and it was fun on that aspect, but

454
00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,280
Speaker 3: just the isolation thing I didn't like that.

455
00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,520
Speaker 1: Well, some people try to put an asterisk on that

456
00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,760
Speaker 1: championship and for us as former players in the outside

457
00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,000
Speaker 1: looking in, to me, there should be a star by

458
00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,439
Speaker 1: that championship for every reason you just said, and the

459
00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,240
Speaker 1: fact that players are such creatures that habit we get

460
00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:21,400
Speaker 1: in our routine. We have our families. Like you said,

461
00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,320
Speaker 1: you like to go home and chill, walk around the mall.

462
00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,840
Speaker 1: When you're confined to a small space with no the

463
00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,560
Speaker 1: outside world is burning down while you literally while you

464
00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,400
Speaker 1: guys are in the bubble plane, you're checking on family,

465
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,320
Speaker 1: you can't really see them. Like to me, that adds

466
00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,600
Speaker 1: a lot more pressure and a lot more I guess

467
00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,439
Speaker 1: glory once you guys finally do make it and do

468
00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:41,919
Speaker 1: win it.

469
00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,119
Speaker 3: And we were coming from La, so you know, La

470
00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,520
Speaker 3: is always something to do. Always right after the game,

471
00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:50,800
Speaker 3: are we going to dinner? Dinner? Dinner? Spies, stay up

472
00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,359
Speaker 3: until one or two we want in Oklahoma or something

473
00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,879
Speaker 3: like that, you know what I'm saying. So that isolation

474
00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:59,680
Speaker 3: was literally a day and night just okay, do whatever

475
00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:03,919
Speaker 3: you want into nothing and lock in and focus on

476
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,800
Speaker 3: what we got going on. So it was definitely different.

477
00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,080
Speaker 3: But I don't think it should be Astras like you said.

478
00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:10,880
Speaker 3: I think it should be a star for sure, because

479
00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:12,600
Speaker 3: that's definitely harder than it would have been if we

480
00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:14,640
Speaker 3: was playing regular season, it would have been smooth home

481
00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:18,520
Speaker 3: crowds and home crowd We had bro one time when

482
00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:20,800
Speaker 3: we were in the bubble. It was so funny. I'm

483
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:26,840
Speaker 3: on the bench and cheering, and then the crowd noise skips,

484
00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,760
Speaker 3: like it stops, and then I realized, like, wait, that's

485
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,879
Speaker 3: they're dumping in crowd noise. We're really the only people

486
00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:40,800
Speaker 3: here now, Like this is an open gym, right, it's

487
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,520
Speaker 3: an official open gym. That's all this really is. Like

488
00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:45,760
Speaker 3: it was so weird, and then it came back, and

489
00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,160
Speaker 3: then the crowd noise came back, and I was like, Bro,

490
00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:51,160
Speaker 3: this is like Truman show show.

491
00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,080
Speaker 1: I want you to speak to these two real quick.

492
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,720
Speaker 1: First of all, a bubble a D because Bubble a

493
00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:57,640
Speaker 1: D was on some other ship. What did you see

494
00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:00,000
Speaker 1: from Anthony Davis playing alongside of him and being.

495
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 3: He was like the man he was like in real

496
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,480
Speaker 3: like then getting a lot of shots up, really focused

497
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,960
Speaker 3: on him on what he had to do. But I

498
00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:12,480
Speaker 3: feel like everybody was likeed in on the team. Tell

499
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,760
Speaker 3: the truth, like it was everybody and it's his time

500
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 3: to shine, and he showed up for sure.

501
00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 1: Lebron's greatness.

502
00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,200
Speaker 3: Oh man, it's it's It's not just on the court though.

503
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,440
Speaker 3: That's the craziest part, you know what I'm saying. It's

504
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,480
Speaker 3: just so meticulous. I don't know how his brain works,

505
00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,399
Speaker 3: but it's so meticulous to where it's on the court,

506
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,360
Speaker 3: then it's talking on the court, then it's talking off

507
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,360
Speaker 3: the court, then it's talking Uh, it's it's it's it's

508
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,960
Speaker 3: group dinners. It's it's just so much that goes into

509
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 3: it that he makes you feel like, Okay, we're all

510
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,439
Speaker 3: a part of this team and we're all going to

511
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,960
Speaker 3: win this championship. You know what I'm saying. Even motherfuckers

512
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 3: who wasn't even playing, they locked in like, yo, what's

513
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,920
Speaker 3: up what we need to do? So it's beautiful.

514
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,920
Speaker 1: Man. Brief stint with the Nuggets, Jokic.

515
00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 2: What are.

516
00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:01,560
Speaker 3: A beast? A beast? Beast? He got it all. He

517
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,160
Speaker 3: got it all, man, he got it all. And then

518
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,879
Speaker 3: his pace is so slow you think, like, where's this

519
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,679
Speaker 3: coming from? Like how is this? But he knows. I

520
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,919
Speaker 3: feel like I feel like he sees the game at

521
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,120
Speaker 3: a at a slower pace than the rest of us.

522
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 3: They say this is a random fact. By the way,

523
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,040
Speaker 3: they say, cats see in like sixty sixty frames per

524
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 3: second or something. So when y'all moving, the cat just

525
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,399
Speaker 3: already know like where you're going. Come on, bro, Like,

526
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,680
Speaker 3: I feel like he sees like in a different frame

527
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 3: per second or something. Yes, he'll he'll literally you're a

528
00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,720
Speaker 3: step you in there just way while you're in the air,

529
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 3: and then throw the floater, shake you, pump fay and

530
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,400
Speaker 3: just no facial expressions at the same time, you don't

531
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 3: look tired or nothing. I'm just like, how's he doing this?

532
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,400
Speaker 3: And then after those games he'll get thirty and fifteen.

533
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,160
Speaker 3: He'll go lift after you lift after every game heavy too,

534
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,679
Speaker 3: So I'm like, Okay, he locked in. Yeah, he deserves

535
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 3: all the glory he's getting, for sure. Luca and Kyrie,

536
00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 3: Luca and Kyrie man Kyrie's handled Oh my god, his

537
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:03,359
Speaker 3: feel for the game, the way he can put people

538
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 3: in position and then at the at the job of

539
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,400
Speaker 3: a dine decided to go get buckets is amazing. It's

540
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 3: truly amazing. Luca just the all around score. I don't

541
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,920
Speaker 3: think it's weird just being there and seeing it, and

542
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,440
Speaker 3: and truthfully, last year I don't think he was even

543
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,400
Speaker 3: in his best shape so and he averaged went thirty two.

544
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,680
Speaker 3: So I think I think if he had the team

545
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:30,240
Speaker 3: that bron had behind him, Luca could averaged forty two,

546
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 3: like forty average forty two points like it's so he

547
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 3: does it so easy, it's crazy.

548
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 1: Obviously a current member of the team, but you know,

549
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: you've been in the league for a long time and

550
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: Sacramento hasn't been a very good team. It's it's a

551
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 1: whole new face now and a whole new energy. Shout

552
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 1: out to management and Mike Brown who they brought in

553
00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 1: and then the players they brought in. What did when

554
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 1: when the Kings were making their run last year, Like

555
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: what did you think about them and how they kind

556
00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 1: of captured the NBA.

557
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,479
Speaker 3: I mean, I was in preser, I was definitely impressed. Uh,

558
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,919
Speaker 3: for them not to have been in the playoffs for

559
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 3: so long, and then for them to work so hard

560
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 3: and get so far into playoffs at at at the

561
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,160
Speaker 3: at the pace that they were running was the number

562
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 3: one offense.

563
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,400
Speaker 1: In NBA history and the NBA history.

564
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 3: History and history seventy five seventy six years lead has

565
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 3: been around. That's hard to do. But Mike did a

566
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,359
Speaker 3: great job when he came here. He put guys in

567
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 3: the right position and were running the right plays to

568
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 3: make sure that their pace was unmatched.

569
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:39,119
Speaker 1: Hm, well, we appreciate your time. We got quick hitters

570
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 1: right here. First thing to come to mind, let us

571
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 1: know an album or song that's on repeat for you

572
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 1: right now.

573
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 3: The new Drake album is on repeat right now. For sure?

574
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 2: You like it?

575
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm rocking with it for sure.

576
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:53,920
Speaker 2: What's what's upending on the state of hip hop?

577
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 5: Uh?

578
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,199
Speaker 2: Because I know your music, guy.

579
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 3: Man, I just wish we had more conscious rappers. Get

580
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 3: the pedestal away that all the other rappers there's no

581
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,400
Speaker 3: substance at all, Like we need at least like two

582
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,440
Speaker 3: two conscious rappers who aren't talking about killing each other

583
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:18,360
Speaker 3: for sure, not even J Cole or like like like yeah,

584
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,400
Speaker 3: like like or even rappers that make love songs.

585
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 1: You don't love nobody like.

586
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 3: You can't be mad all the time you love somebody,

587
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. And the funny part, like

588
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 3: I love rod Wave too. I love put Yeah. Rod

589
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 3: Wave is hard because he actually like talking about emotions,

590
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,640
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, Especially as black men, bro,

591
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 3: we don't talk about emotions or we just don't know

592
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 3: who to talk to about him. So the fact that

593
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 3: he's making music like that, I honored. Man. I just

594
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 3: got put on the right way too. I've known about

595
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,119
Speaker 3: him and I've heard his popular songs, but actually been

596
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 3: listening to his albums. I'm like, Okay, he actually like

597
00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 3: a black man getting into his but a in a

598
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:01,920
Speaker 3: masculine way. It's an amazing thing.

599
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: Man. One of your funniest teammates in your and throughout

600
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:06,880
Speaker 1: your career, someone who stands out.

601
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 3: Nick Young, he burns.

602
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 2: Out in our head. Coach of the Big three team

603
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,160
Speaker 2: enemies they just want a championship. He's the coach now.

604
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 3: They just want a championship. Swag.

605
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: One player from King's history that you would have liked

606
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:32,360
Speaker 1: to play.

607
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 3: With, uh white Chocolate.

608
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:36,360
Speaker 1: A person said that.

609
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 2: Best player in the world right now.

610
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 3: Uhhesh mm hmm. I'm gonna go y honest man, Yeah, who.

611
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 4: Would you like to see on All the smoke? You

612
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 4: have to help us get your answer on the show?

613
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 3: Is it a uh get my as the show? Who

614
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,479
Speaker 3: doesn't matter if it's an athlete or now baby, we

615
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 3: have everybody, so I don't know if you've been on

616
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 3: here yet, but diplo Yeah, that's that's my homie man

617
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 3: like that.

618
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we love to have Well.

619
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,439
Speaker 1: We want to thank obviously you and the Sacramento Kings

620
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 1: organization for having us here during training camp. Although you're new,

621
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 1: this team has aspirations this year. That's your solo camera

622
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: right there. What can the fans expect from you and

623
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: this team coming this year?

624
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 3: Hey man, sit up?

625
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, talk that ship.

626
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 3: I just feel like the fans gotta be ready to

627
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 3: like that meme every motherfucking game. Man, Just lock in. Man,

628
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 3: we're gonna we just need you'all behind us, and we're

629
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 3: gonna we're gonna go far and hopefully win the NBA

630
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 3: Championship this year.

631
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 1: Man, number four for you, right, big dog. Appreciate you man.

632
00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: Javel McGee, you can catch the show time Basketball you

633
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: in the iHeart Platform Black Effects. Welcome back, all the smoke,

634
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: coming to you from Sacramento, California, Sacramento Kings training camp,

635
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: and it's an honor to be here. Sacramento coming off

636
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: their first Playoff appearance in about sixteen years, and the

637
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: person we're sitting next to had, you know, a lot

638
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 1: to say about that. Welcome to the show, Kevin.

639
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 5: Herder, appreciate you guys having me man.

640
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming Man year six. You're six. Thoughts preparation,

641
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: this summer, expectations for the team, give us a little

642
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 1: bit of all that.

643
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 5: It is like, it's crazy already, you're six. My fast,

644
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 5: right fast. It feels like it was just a rookie. Honestly,

645
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 5: your two in sack, so that's doesn't feel like you're six.

646
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 5: Really kind of fears like you too. Just good year,

647
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 5: you know, feeling a lot more comfortable here. Everything was

648
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 5: moving really fast last year obviously after the trade. Getting

649
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,239
Speaker 5: here in the summer, working out with the team and

650
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 5: the start of the season can just be crazy. It

651
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 5: is my first time going through it, so definite more comfortable.

652
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 5: Obviously excited for the year ahead, but like I feel

653
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 5: like I'm getting old, Like I got to go.

654
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: Right, still feel good though, still moving good. The nickname

655
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: Red Velvet, Where did that come from? That's what I

656
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: want to know.

657
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 5: That was so I tweeted this, I think like a

658
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 5: year ago. It was on Twitter, like I was. I

659
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 5: tweeted it because I actually didn't know myself, like where

660
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 5: it came from. People just started saying it on social

661
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 5: media like Instagram, and I tweeted like, where did it

662
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 5: come from? I forgot what I said, and a bunch

663
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 5: of people tagged this one lady just want to count.

664
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 5: So I guess at the time, like the Hawks social media,

665
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 5: they put out something like we got to find this

666
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 5: guy nickname, and a bunch of people started tweeting.

667
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 2: Out, how do you like it? Though?

668
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 1: And sometimes names are given that we don't really fuck with.

669
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: How did you like it? At first?

670
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 5: I love it at first? I love it first. It

671
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 5: was but it kind of came along and it stuck

672
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 5: like that was kind of something people loved. So it

673
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 5: was one of those things.

674
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 4: It's dope because you never heard nobody with that nickname

675
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 4: so universe, you know in the NBA.

676
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, I think it's dope.

677
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, they had like they're calling me like red Mama

678
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 5: stuff from college, but I feel like that was already

679
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 5: so overused. It was just like you needed something that

680
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 5: was a little bit unique.

681
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: That velvet was original, That was original.

682
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 2: So it's cool.

683
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 1: Last season career highing points and a three point for

684
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: shooting percentage. Obviously coming over from Atlanta, Mike Brown brought

685
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: this system over and you guys were the number one

686
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: offense in the league. You really found your rhythm. One

687
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: thing I found that I wasn't really aware of because

688
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: I didn't get to see you play a ton in Atlanta.

689
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: But you know, obviously a knockdown three point shooter, but

690
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: your ability to make plays out of the pick and roll,

691
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: your ability to get downhill and finish. You think that's

692
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: an underrated part of your game that people don't really

693
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: talk too much about, because I was very impressed with

694
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: just your all around offensive game because your your labels

695
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 1: are just a shooter to me much more.

696
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's definitely underrated, especially coming out of college.

697
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 5: I think it's something I continuously always having to prove

698
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 5: proven just more than a shooter guy. You can't just

699
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 5: run off the line and your job is done. But

700
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 5: like you talked about, our system, like, I think that's

701
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 5: a big part of it, just being really comfortable what

702
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 5: the guys were playing with, the system we have, how

703
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 5: unselfish we play, how fast we play, just like a

704
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 5: system that you know, obviously I really want to be

705
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 5: a part of, but really brings out the best of

706
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 5: my game. And felt really comfortable And it didn't take

707
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 5: too long either, kind of got off to a really

708
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 5: good start and just able to get to my shots

709
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 5: being super efficient, and for how fast we play and

710
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 5: how much we cut and move, it's you know, it

711
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 5: can be it can be anybody's night, and which is

712
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 5: fun to play.

713
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: So obviously you mentioned earlier obviously year two, coming into

714
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: year two and sacrament you're feeling a little bit more comfortable.

715
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: But what was year one like? You know, obviously the

716
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: history of this team and the lack of success they

717
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: had in the previous sixteen seasons. You were part of

718
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: a team that kind of broke over the barrier got

719
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. What was last year like? Can you

720
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: sum up just last year as a whole, from the

721
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: excitement from the city to you know, obviously you guys

722
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: going seven games with Golden State, what was last season

723
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: like to you? Personally it was.

724
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 5: To be honest, it was a big change. It was

725
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 5: kind of a culture shot. You know, I was born

726
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 5: in ninety eight, and.

727
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: So damn I graduated high school in ninety eight.

728
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 2: That's crazy.

729
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 5: So born in ninety eight. So I have, I think

730
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 5: in my lifetime growing up playing two k NBA live

731
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 5: like all those games, Like Kings were never good at

732
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 5: those times, and you know, they were good very young

733
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 5: days in my life. And so I grew up not

734
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 5: watching or really following Kings basketball. Get draft in the NBA,

735
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 5: you come out to Sacramento once a year. Usually it's

736
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:27,479
Speaker 5: you know, you're on your West Coast trip. You're going

737
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,959
Speaker 5: to Portland, Golden State, the LA's and you're in and

738
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 5: out of Sack. So I didn't know a lot about

739
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 5: the city, and it just felt like I'm from New York,

740
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 5: upstate New York. So it's complete opposite side of the country.

741
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 5: And so for me, it was a big change. Going

742
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 5: from a say Atlanta's the biggest market, but a bigger

743
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 5: market team to a smaller market was also a change.

744
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 5: But right when I got here, the excitement around the

745
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 5: team obviously, the support that they get from the fans

746
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 5: right away it was super noticeable this, you know, the

747
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 5: way that Domos coming in the year before finishing after

748
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 5: the trade deadline. Half the year, I think Fox was

749
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 5: hurt that year. I missed the second half of the year.

750
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 5: So there was a lot of good momentum going into

751
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 5: the year that was just kind of able to step

752
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 5: into and take off running. And so City made it

753
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 5: really easy to come here. We talked about the way

754
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 5: we play made it really easy to make that adjustment.

755
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 5: But everything off the court, I think at first was

756
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 5: a little bit of a shock, just moving to the

757
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 5: West Coast for the first time, to a city and

758
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 5: a team like I don't really.

759
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,320
Speaker 1: Know much about again. Career numbers during the regular season,

760
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: you struggled in the playoffs against Golden State at times.

761
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: What did that learn Because you know, obviously Jack and

762
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 1: I have been through the wars, both got opportunities to

763
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,720
Speaker 1: win championships, playing a lot of playoff games, those hurdles

764
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: getting you know, when you go through a little bit

765
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: of a struggle in the playoff, that shit weighs on

766
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: you really heavy. What did you learn from your experience

767
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: in the playoff last year with a second win, now.

768
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, just got to continue to get better. You give

769
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 5: Golden State a lot of credit. You know, they have

770
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,399
Speaker 5: stuff were really good at. In our offense, they took

771
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 5: away our first and second options, which as you guys

772
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 5: both know that it's going to happen in the playoffs.

773
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 5: And then you know, individually, I don't think playing as

774
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 5: well as I know it can and efficiency shooting, making

775
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 5: shots to make shots at the level I know it can,

776
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 5: and so you know, just a lot of ways. Got

777
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 5: to continue to add things in my game. Teams are

778
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 5: going to take certain things away. You got to be

779
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 5: able to go to the second and third option, and uh,

780
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:16,800
Speaker 5: just continue to get better as a player.

781
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 4: Did you experience any Atlanta nightlife when he was in Atlanta?

782
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 4: Did you experience the strip clubs.

783
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 2: A little bit? For I just wanted to make sure

784
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 2: you got a little taste for you left.

785
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: Did you see his jersey hung up on any of

786
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: the walls, because his jersey's entire Atlanta strip clubs.

787
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:33,839
Speaker 2: They retired ship.

788
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 5: You know, we played with lou Williams, so Louis I

789
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 5: was for a full year, so uh so he had

790
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:42,879
Speaker 5: the show surround. You know, I was still younger show,

791
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 5: still young guy at the time.

792
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 2: Well, people don't know.

793
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 4: If you go in Magic City today, it's lou Will

794
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 4: has its own section that's glass glassed off in the

795
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 4: corner of Magic sty and is called lou Willville.

796
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 2: Wow, lou Will.

797
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 4: Has its own city on the map in Georgia where

798
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 4: he lives and it's called lou Willville.

799
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 2: That's incredible. He's the gold. He's the gold.

800
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,359
Speaker 5: Was the thing when it like every time you've every

801
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 5: time that I've been there, you go with gone with Lewis.

802
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 5: So that's like the only VIP experience.

803
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,359
Speaker 2: Food is laid out. You got stuff named after him

804
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 2: on the me and you.

805
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: I just wanted how much fun you got to drop

806
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: to have a section named after you in a city

807
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 1: named after you. Know, you gotta you gotta throw some

808
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 1: bread out there.

809
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 2: We just say, lose a legenda's legend. Leave that yeah.

810
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 4: Speak on the environment last year in the playoffs here,

811
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 4: I got a chance to experience thanks to Matt.

812
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 2: I came to one of the game with two of

813
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 2: the games actually.

814
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 4: And the environment was crazy to be in the playoffs

815
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 4: to get that playoff feel back here New Arena.

816
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 2: Talk about the environment in the field from the playoffs

817
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:44,959
Speaker 2: last year.

818
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 5: Incredible Game one when we ran out of the court,

819
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,720
Speaker 5: it literally just sunds chills down your spine, like the

820
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 5: crowd standing up. Uh, you can just feel it, like

821
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 5: you feel how long it'd been and how ready people

822
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 5: were just to see playoff basketball, and like you felt

823
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 5: that the second you walked on the court. And so

824
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 5: I think I spent that whole warm ups. It's trying

825
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 5: to breathe slowly, like like your adrenaline is running.

826
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:08,479
Speaker 2: I get chills.

827
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: I didn't even play, and I get chills thinking about

828
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 1: like the environment that Sacramento created for you know, that

829
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,800
Speaker 1: the fans created for you guys last year.

830
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 5: It was it was incredible. The uh, my third year

831
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 5: in the league, you know, our first playoff series, we

832
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 5: played at MSG, So that was a COVID year and

833
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,320
Speaker 5: at the time, that was like craziest environment played against

834
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 5: or played in. You guys, your teams run out of

835
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 5: eighteen twenty minutes on the clock and a lot of

836
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,879
Speaker 5: the times and during the regular season, like it takes

837
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 5: a little bit for the crowd to wake up, maybe

838
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 5: tip off a couple of minutes in the game, then

839
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 5: they're finally into it. And uh, we walked out, We

840
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 5: ran out MSG, and it was you know, eighteen thousand

841
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 5: people standing doing us already and right away it was

842
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 5: like this is this is craziest playoff basketball is all

843
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 5: and MSG is like legendary. You know, it's like everybody

844
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 5: knows the crowd should be like that, and like I thought,

845
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 5: our crowd here like running around. I was like, this

846
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 5: is the louder, like this is there's more energy like

847
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 5: it was and where the home team, which obviously helps,

848
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 5: but like it was, I'm getting the chills talking about it,

849
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 5: Like it was an incredible feeling right on for the first.

850
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 2: Time, Like the being, yeah, gonna be a lot of

851
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 2: that this year.

852
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 1: I liked the being indeed.

853
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 4: Talk about Guard and Steph Yeah, fifteen game seven, I mean,

854
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 4: you know, that's what good. That's what that's what good.

855
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 4: It's a great player, that's what go to do, you

856
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 4: know what I mean. But it's being able to share

857
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 4: the court with him and to compete. And that's what

858
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 4: I tell people all the time. I got a chance

859
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 4: to play against Mike, Kobe and Lebron, right, so just

860
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 4: the honor and you know, just to be able to

861
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 4: share the court with them mean a lot to me.

862
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 4: You know, ninety percent of the world can't say they

863
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 4: had that experience. Sharing the court with him is such

864
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:44,399
Speaker 4: a big game.

865
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 2: It didn't.

866
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 4: It didn't go how y'all wanted it. But just talk

867
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 4: about being on the court with such a great player,

868
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 4: such a legend like stuff.

869
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:49,879
Speaker 2: It is.

870
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 5: You know, I think at this point of my career,

871
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 5: you played against these guys enough that, uh, that off

872
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 5: fact of the shock and playing against is gone away.

873
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,840
Speaker 5: But you said, my rookie were playing against the d

874
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 5: wayde lebron kd Staphs of the world. It was first time, Like, man,

875
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 5: I'm on the court with these guys. But like in

876
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 5: the playoffs series like that was you know, a lot

877
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 5: of our game plan for that was keeping someone on it,

878
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 5: like pressuring him the full game. I think what any

879
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:18,800
Speaker 5: any team has tried to do against the Warriors and

880
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 5: the playoffs is try to wear them down. Yeah, and

881
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 5: the Warriors every single time they wear the other team

882
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 5: down just with their fitness line when their offense goes

883
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 5: like they flip it on you. And so we knew

884
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 5: that going into it. And you say we were the

885
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 5: younger team. You know, those guys have been doing it

886
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 5: for a long time. We were a deep team all year.

887
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 5: We had a good bench, and so at least at

888
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 5: the start of that series, we're like, all right, we're

889
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,760
Speaker 5: gonna try to throw bodies at him. Like the games

890
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 5: were two or three days apart, which I think you'll

891
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 5: help them a little bit. But those guys just don't

892
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 5: get tired. And that I think was what was most

893
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 5: impressive about me, is like their efficiency level just never

894
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 5: dropped at any point in that series. We got up

895
00:39:56,200 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 5: to zip and I remember we win game too. I

896
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 5: believe it was close at the end. Steph either missed

897
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 5: a game winner in the first second. Yeah, And so

898
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 5: Clay is like walking off the court kind of like

899
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 5: look at our bench, like nodding, said like like all right,

900
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,839
Speaker 5: like we got a series. I remember like remembering that,

901
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 5: like he knows it's not over. And we didn't locker

902
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 5: room like we went in and it was all it

903
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 5: was all business and we didn't get ahead of ourselves.

904
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 5: But I remember like there was never any wavering from

905
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 5: their side, which was also equally as impressive. And so

906
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 5: to start with Steph, you know, he took thirty eight

907
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 5: shots in that game to have his damn and I

908
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:32,839
Speaker 5: had to be able to do that. And for how

909
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 5: well he can shoot the ball like he's going to

910
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 5: score fifty. You know, he'd have to have a historically

911
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,439
Speaker 5: bad shooting night for him to knock get at least forty. Yeah,

912
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 5: and Clay in the same breath, Like Clay's been through

913
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 5: obviously a couple of injuries so far, but like he

914
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 5: just felt like he never got tired. Wiggins was huge

915
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:49,879
Speaker 5: in that series, coming off he didn't play the second

916
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,320
Speaker 5: half of the year, came in with good rhythm momentum,

917
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 5: and so just a great learning experience, I think for

918
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 5: all of us coming away from that playing against the

919
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 5: champ seeing what it takes to be at that level.

920
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 5: We're close, obviously we had our chances to win that, yeah,

921
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 5: but just great series for us.

922
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you guys had a few chances game

923
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,720
Speaker 1: three and four to win those games, and then obviously

924
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 1: Game seven, you know, was what it was. But you know,

925
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,760
Speaker 1: I saw the growth during that series in you guys,

926
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And those are the kind

927
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 1: of experiences that you guys are going to lean on

928
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: this season, you know what I mean. Going to seven games,

929
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 1: Granted it was the first round you guys went up against,

930
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 1: you know, a dynasty. Although they didn't win last year

931
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: that you know, there's still the dynasty. So I think

932
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: there was so much learning to me. It wasn't really losses.

933
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: You guys lost the series, but I think you guys

934
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: learned so much as a team about yourself and where

935
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: you feel like you need to be. Like you said,

936
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: they're stamming a level. Their efficiency level it never wavered

937
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:45,919
Speaker 1: no matter what the series record was. So I think

938
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:47,879
Speaker 1: just kind of from the outside looking in and seeing

939
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: you guys being that younger team that's kind of on

940
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: the climb like we are. Lop City teams used to

941
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,439
Speaker 1: be the older team that would beat those young Golden

942
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: State teams right up, like we literally beat them the

943
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: last time before they went on their run, And I

944
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: remember talking to Dre and that how much it takes,

945
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: say they learned from that. So I think it's really

946
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,320
Speaker 1: dope that you guys got to take to that and

947
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: and really gonna be able to put that to work

948
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 1: this season.

949
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,760
Speaker 5: Hope that's what we definitely do. Just the physicality level

950
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 5: play takes to one at that level for sure, a.

951
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 2: Lot of things gotta work.

952
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 1: Toughest guard at the two spot right now.

953
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 3: For you.

954
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 5: Probably go Devin Booker right now, Donovan Mitchell too, in

955
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 5: the same breath. We play against uh, we play against

956
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 5: book More. Yep, he's just I mean, he's a tough

957
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 5: shot maker. He score score from anywhere, ultimate confidence. Just

958
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 5: he's super aggressive all game. You know, he's he's another

959
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 5: guy who knows he's going to get too spots, you

960
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 5: can score from the mid range, score from deep. Plays

961
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 5: a lot of minutes, plays every game you talking about

962
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:50,319
Speaker 5: the guys. He I don't know how many games he

963
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 5: played last year, but it was over seventy seventy five.

964
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 5: Plays a lot of minutes. So he's good man. He

965
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 5: just credible jump shooter, just gets to spots and makes

966
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 5: a lot of tough shots.

967
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:01,399
Speaker 3: Motherfucker by all.

968
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,359
Speaker 1: Right, quick hitters, about to get you out of here.

969
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: One album you've been listening to on repeat lately or

970
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,240
Speaker 1: a song lately?

971
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 5: I mean the new Drake album just came out. Been

972
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 5: listening to that a little bit. Uh. You know a

973
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 5: lot of these new a lot of the new albums

974
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 5: that are coming out, I'm not a big fan of like,

975
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 5: so I keep going back to like a little bit

976
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 5: older old stuff like Future old Kanye O, Drake, Like

977
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 5: I'm kind of recycling, a lot of the trying to

978
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 5: find new music from albums that were a while ago,

979
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,360
Speaker 5: and like maybe I haven't discovered yet just because like

980
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 5: a lot of the new hip hop now.

981
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 2: I can't get what it is.

982
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 4: I'm with you, So by yourself, who's most likely to

983
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 4: be late for the team bus?

984
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 2: If I was on your team, it would definitely be me.

985
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 2: But who would most likely to.

986
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 5: Be for the team bus? Honestly, Mike, Mike was like

987
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 5: the amount of coach coach really for sure? Mike is

988
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 5: this you guys saw Malik's energy and practice today. Malik's

989
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,720
Speaker 5: always talking some leagu's just great energy all the time.

990
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 5: And uh so, as every team, you know, you have

991
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:04,919
Speaker 5: your fine schedule. You know if you're late, each team

992
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 5: usually individually, Hey you're fine this much. And uh So

993
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 5: Mike set the standard very very early on, like if

994
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 5: you're late, you're gonna get fine. Like there's really no hey,

995
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 5: you give one or two in the bank before we

996
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:19,720
Speaker 5: start doing it. And uh Malik held Mike accountable for everything.

997
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:23,760
Speaker 5: He's like every time literally to the second, like before

998
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 5: games to team meetings and course Mike, he's probably like

999
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 5: a coaches meeting somewhere rushing from something. Actually he's actually late,

1000
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 5: but uh yeah, Mike, he said it to us. It

1001
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 5: was like twenty grand finds last year. You guys get

1002
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 5: to shoot for the fine exactly. That's why we love

1003
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 5: it when guys are late. Like everybody, everybody celebrates.

1004
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:44,840
Speaker 2: Old day.

1005
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:50,360
Speaker 1: Uh one King's player from the past you would have

1006
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: liked to play with?

1007
00:44:53,760 --> 00:45:00,399
Speaker 5: Uh probably Jay Will Yeah, in his highlight It's like.

1008
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 2: And he is super cool, dude, too cool.

1009
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 5: I haven't met him yet.

1010
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:05,879
Speaker 1: He's cool.

1011
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 5: He's the type of guy he's probably still playing.

1012
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: Like question, just the local, the local. Why what do

1013
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 1: you say you got a better chance of pissing in

1014
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 1: a hot so that bottom?

1015
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 2: Best player in the world right now.

1016
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 5: Best player in the world. You gotta go, yo, Ki

1017
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 5: you got I mean, I think you got to put

1018
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 5: winning first. You put Giannis in the same breath, you

1019
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 5: can put Staff probably Katy in the same breath. But

1020
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:32,240
Speaker 5: right now, k he's.

1021
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 4: At the top. I think for sure that's not Who

1022
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 4: would you like to see on our show? All the smoke?

1023
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 4: But you have to help us get your answer on

1024
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 4: the show.

1025
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 5: Like to see Malik? I think you guys would you

1026
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 5: guys are ye been on the show.

1027
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was telling Malik as a wild card. I

1028
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:51,360
Speaker 1: was telling when we were watching, like watching Malak, he's funny, he.

1029
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 5: Is, here's a wild card. He's like, I don't know

1030
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:54,799
Speaker 5: if he does he does a lot of podcasts, but

1031
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:55,800
Speaker 5: he's just he's fine.

1032
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 3: Man.

1033
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:58,720
Speaker 5: He's just like he's always got something to talk about,

1034
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 5: like his energy. He's always just bringing energy exactly. It's

1035
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 5: like every day you know you're gonna hear and see

1036
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 5: the leak, and so it just kind of picks you

1037
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 5: up for the day.

1038
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 1: Shannon, you need to help us get in the leak.

1039
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: Shout out, Shannon. She's in here. She makes everything happens. Hey, Kevin,

1040
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: before we get you out of here, that's your solo

1041
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 1: camera right there speaking to Sacramento fans. What should they

1042
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 1: expect from you guys this year?

1043
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 2: Man?

1044
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 5: Hopefully you can build off your one really excited to

1045
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,400
Speaker 5: uh get out there on the floor again. Hopefully you

1046
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 5: continue to build towards the championship here in sack well Man.

1047
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: That's a rap. Kevin Herder, Red Velvet, Sacramento Kings. You

1048
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 1: can catch us on Showtime Basketball, YouTube and the iHeart platform.

1049
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: Black Effects