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Speaker 5: introduce a brewing legend, NBA champion. Mister, I'm not a
Speaker 5: shot a tough shot taker. I'm a tough shot maker.
Speaker 5: See a bucket, be a bucket, certify, bucket getter, my dog,
Speaker 5: Los Angeles Clipper Guard and NBA All Star candidate Norman Powell.
Speaker 6: What was going on?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 7: Appreciate the interview and the intro. Man excited to be here.
Speaker 1: It's great to see you having a year. You haven't
Speaker 1: because I feel like every time we would play all
Speaker 1: you would bust our ass anyway, So it's good to
Speaker 1: see you doing it to everyone else now and everyone
Speaker 1: get a taste of what you've been doing to the
Speaker 1: Warriors for years, brother, but the year you haven't.
Speaker 3: Man, it's great to see.
Speaker 7: Him appreciate that. Man, especially coming from you, Man, it
Speaker 7: means a lot.
Speaker 3: Norm.
Speaker 1: I remember your pre drift workout with the Warriors, sitting
Speaker 1: in the locker room dropping you after the workout.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a minute ago, man, Damn ten years.
Speaker 3: I thought there was a chance. I thought there was
Speaker 3: a chance you would end double.
Speaker 6: Else that would have been See. The problem was back
Speaker 6: then I couldn't shoot.
Speaker 3: That is true, and we needed shooting at that time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I remember us at school at us C
Speaker 5: l A and like he was a slasher, defensive player.
Speaker 5: Just talk about really your evolution, you know what I
Speaker 5: mean from you know U c l A. Coming in
Speaker 5: as a dunker, highlight dude, to like your senior year
Speaker 5: being the score one of the top scorers on the team,
Speaker 5: and then your NBA progress.
Speaker 7: I think just the development piece, you know, I mean,
Speaker 7: especially going to UCLA, like all of us coming out
Speaker 7: of high school, he was a guy. You know what
Speaker 7: I'm saying, We're scoring, We're doing everything. King's playing through us,
Speaker 7: you know, going to u c l A. You know,
Speaker 7: I still thought I was going to be that be
Speaker 7: that guy. But being under coach Holland, you know, Holland
Speaker 7: was in the half court. You know, it was all defense,
Speaker 7: slowed down, grinded out run sets. You know, it really
Speaker 7: didn't tailor my game. But I thought those two years
Speaker 7: under him helped me defensively, and then when we got
Speaker 7: coach Alford, it really opened up my game offensively, you know.
Speaker 7: But I think still by that time, like I wasn't
Speaker 7: shooting the three ball that well, you know, still slashing
Speaker 7: transition getting to the basket, you know, getting on the rim,
Speaker 7: and then going to pre draft and working out, we
Speaker 7: did a high emphasis on just making sure my shooting
Speaker 7: was consistent. And we knew that, you know, for me
Speaker 7: to get drafted and me to make it on the
Speaker 7: NBA floor is going to be the defensive side of things.
Speaker 7: So I was just focused on that, you know, and
Speaker 7: then once I got my foot in.
Speaker 6: The door, it was all about showing them a little
Speaker 6: bit more.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: I always felt like I was a scorer. I always
Speaker 7: was able to put the ball in the basket. I
Speaker 7: just wasn't able to do that and show that consistently
Speaker 7: in my college career and once I got a chance
Speaker 7: to do that. You know, the floor in the NBA
Speaker 7: opens up. There's nobody sitting in the paint. You know,
Speaker 7: they got a lot of rotations and things. So I
Speaker 7: think just going in the Summer League it really opened
Speaker 7: up my game fully, you know, and being able to
Speaker 7: show that I can score and I think I averaged
Speaker 7: twenty right off the bat in the Summer League and
Speaker 7: that really kind of put the eyes in that I
Speaker 7: can you know, don't have the ability to put the
Speaker 7: ball in the basket on the NBA level. And then
Speaker 7: it was just continuing to work, uh, you know, and learn,
Speaker 7: learn and grow the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 5: Hey, before you say something, Trey, you know, you talked
Speaker 5: about the league.
Speaker 4: You talked about I solls like.
Speaker 5: You know, I like to throw on these icebreakers, you know,
Speaker 5: Norm you know before we move to the next you
Speaker 5: know this this is about you. But I got to
Speaker 5: talk about defensive players and my boy Draymond Green's play
Speaker 5: against Rudy Gobert walk.
Speaker 4: Them down Norman Powell style. You feel come dunk.
Speaker 7: Then on Monday night night night celebration, you feel well,
Speaker 7: mon that come from went back to the fount.
Speaker 1: Of you, you know, I don't dunk anymore. Man, if
Speaker 1: I have the opportunity, I just lay the ball up
Speaker 1: going run back.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: But I knew I don't know, man, I turned that corner.
Speaker 1: I knew I had to turn that on.
Speaker 7: The funny The funny part is it was the perfect
Speaker 7: setup because it was against Rudy too.
Speaker 6: It was against him. He's backing up to I know
Speaker 6: what time he's about to go at him.
Speaker 1: Hey, man, he started throwing elbow. He kept throwing elbows
Speaker 1: at me. I wasn't trying to cause no issues, and
Speaker 1: he kept throwing elbows at me. Bro even the one
Speaker 1: word where he flopped like man, man flop like before
Speaker 1: he took off.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 1: He threw this crazy boy. Man, I'm like, man, y'all
Speaker 1: keep that broth throw elbows at me. This is crazy.
Speaker 1: They don't know, man, Rudy, Rudy sneak, sneak dirty. Man,
Speaker 1: Rudy sneak dirty.
Speaker 3: It's crazy, Broud just be throwing elbows.
Speaker 4: But howd off? I want to know? I know you
Speaker 4: gotta walk, you gotta walk ups through the setup?
Speaker 5: What made you? You know what I mean? Like what
Speaker 5: you saw Rudy go bear? You know what I mean?
Speaker 5: So I know Norton though as an isold dude. Oh
Speaker 5: my god, this is the dude I have problems with
Speaker 5: on the island because because you went between.
Speaker 4: The legs, you had a bob about yourself.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna take you to the whole thing.
Speaker 1: So we go to we go to the time out
Speaker 1: and Seth Cooper tells me like, yo, you should get
Speaker 1: it and go and like you're gonna have Rudy on you.
Speaker 3: And so I'm like, all right.
Speaker 1: I'm like all right, but I ain't about to say
Speaker 1: that to Steve, like, yo, Steve, get me the ball.
Speaker 3: So I'm like all right. Sure enough.
Speaker 1: He comes from behind the bench and he tells Steve, like, yo,
Speaker 1: you should get dra Like, get a ball to Draymond.
Speaker 1: He gonna have Rudy on him. He can just set
Speaker 1: the offense. Everybody else, Jaydon McDaniels, all they gonna be
Speaker 1: pressuring everybody. He's like, so, get the ball to Draymond.
Speaker 1: He can set the offense. And so I go in
Speaker 1: to it. I started going to tweing tween. Now what
Speaker 1: I'm initially thinking is he dropping I'm gonna hand this
Speaker 1: ball back to step. But once he started dropping, the
Speaker 1: step start coming up. I just took the rug rub screen,
Speaker 1: step said screen. I turned that mug over and then
Speaker 1: I hit him with the Night Night. And it's crazy
Speaker 1: because I really start doing the Night Night because I
Speaker 1: thought they called the file because Jade mcdaine's pushed the
Speaker 1: shit out of me, so I thought they called it
Speaker 1: and one, but I couldn't hear it. So I started
Speaker 1: doing the Night Night, and then I realized we needed
Speaker 1: to run back.
Speaker 3: And it's crazy. Kad text me last night.
Speaker 1: The first text I saw was Kate saying, Yo, you're
Speaker 1: a fool for running down at court full speed doing
Speaker 1: Night Night.
Speaker 3: I didn't know I blacked out.
Speaker 1: I didn't known til I watched the video.
Speaker 4: Many somebody.
Speaker 5: Wigte it was like at night Night mixed with a
Speaker 5: shock come back down the court.
Speaker 3: I appreciate.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the big fella and stuff and letting me
Speaker 1: do a rendition of what they do. Man, I appreciate it. Hey, Norm,
Speaker 1: speaking of going back to college, you just spoke about
Speaker 1: Coach Howland and I have an issue. You know, oftentimes
Speaker 1: teams have shoot around practices when they're in.
Speaker 3: L A U C l A.
Speaker 1: And every time I walk in that gym, I get offended,
Speaker 1: and I want to know how you feel about this.
Speaker 3: I get offended because.
Speaker 1: Everybody's on the wall is a first pick and it's
Speaker 1: just like it's no like respect for second round picks.
Speaker 1: And I look up there and I'm like, damn if
Speaker 1: I'm a second round Like if I went here, y'all
Speaker 1: wouldn't even have me on y'all wall. I think that's
Speaker 1: quite dumb. And so then I immediately think about you, Norman.
Speaker 1: I'm like, y'all not gonna have Norman Pollow y'all wall.
Speaker 1: Now you become an All Star this year possibly if
Speaker 1: that happened, and then it really looks stupid, like, wow,
Speaker 1: y'all don't have Norman Pollow y'all. I get offended every
Speaker 1: time I walk in there. So I just want to
Speaker 1: know how you feel about that. Because b D was
Speaker 1: just talking about man, I come into UCLA football game
Speaker 1: and Norman Norman go to that seat, I go to
Speaker 1: the ball, but that all got you on the wall,
Speaker 1: and I personally feel some type of way about that,
Speaker 1: So I need to know how you feel about it.
Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, I do feel some type of way
Speaker 7: about it, but at the same like, at the same time,
Speaker 7: like I respect the tradition of U s LA.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, Like you got like all
Speaker 6: time greats there.
Speaker 7: It's it's so hard to crack that that uh that
Speaker 7: door open, man, you know.
Speaker 4: What I'm saying, Like even liked but BD is like
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 6: What I'm saying, They like on five points come out
Speaker 6: of there, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Like you know, and but I ain't cracked nothing. Norm
Speaker 5: I ain't cracked nothing. I ain't got no final four.
Speaker 7: I ain't got saying so hard, like the requirements, like
Speaker 7: even like they have a setup. I don't know if
Speaker 7: you've been in like the like the poly hallway going
Speaker 7: to the basketball the men's side, like they have.
Speaker 6: A whole wall of like the All Americans and.
Speaker 7: It's like four time uh n C double a whatever
Speaker 7: like first election, it's e three time this And I'm like, dudes,
Speaker 7: ain't even like in school long enough to get that y'all.
Speaker 7: Neither one of y'all did nothing, Like the standard is
Speaker 7: so crazy. But the standard is crazy.
Speaker 5: I was I was gone dog beat it, but I
Speaker 5: did all. Yeah, I know I'm sparking. I know it's
Speaker 5: it's tough, bro, Like you know what I mean at
Speaker 5: U c l A is tough. It's just tough to
Speaker 5: crack that code. You gotta win the national championship.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: It's like it's Kevin Love man, he would he like
Speaker 1: Russ Love, like we can go down the line like
Speaker 1: nobody like Drew.
Speaker 6: None of those guys Jersey will ever be retired.
Speaker 3: Who's the lost Jersey to be retired?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't ban it.
Speaker 3: Jesus Awesome.
Speaker 4: Nineteen ninety. Hey, hey, bro, I.
Speaker 1: Just want I just want all y'all to know you,
Speaker 1: nor Russ Kay Love Drew.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: I just want all y'all to know that you too,
Speaker 1: uh Loan, I just want to.
Speaker 3: I just want all y'all to know Bro. Y'all you
Speaker 3: know as.
Speaker 4: Far as I ask.
Speaker 5: Yeah, got y'all gotta get them ships up, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean, y'all gotta y'all gotta get them ships up.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 7: You without it, man, Literally, if you're not winning a championship,
Speaker 7: they're not even hanging up like anything less like sweet sixteens.
Speaker 7: Don't get hung up like the lead, don't get the
Speaker 7: final fours, none of that. If you the championship is
Speaker 7: not going and if it's ni championship whatever it is,
Speaker 7: like it's going to the student recreation center. Like we're
Speaker 7: not putting that up in poll. It's it's crazy.
Speaker 5: Come on, man, we we lead the universities and the
Speaker 5: most champions you know what I mean. We are a championship.
Speaker 5: You know, Draymond, you don't want.
Speaker 4: To do this. I don't want to do this right.
Speaker 1: Actually, know what's ironic about u c l A is
Speaker 1: we don't live too far away from l A.
Speaker 3: My kids like like DJ loves u c l A.
Speaker 1: And so it's it's you know, I'm staring at I
Speaker 1: don't worry.
Speaker 3: About it, Michigan State, you know.
Speaker 1: But he why I passed there every day and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's u c l A. D that's u c l A.
Speaker 1: I go work out there.
Speaker 3: That's you c l A. Like Daddy, we're going to
Speaker 3: u c l.
Speaker 1: A samiliarity with it for him. But y'all, but I
Speaker 1: will say, as much as I love u c l A,
Speaker 1: I love the campus, I'm appreciative, Like, uh, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's going to be very hard for u c l
Speaker 1: A to reach that level of success again, like it's
Speaker 1: just too competitive.
Speaker 3: So why like what's happening, Like because.
Speaker 6: Y'all, my biggest thing is I think it's tough.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 7: We it's no knocking, Like we are tough with adapting
Speaker 7: to change, like the standard that John Wooden, like the
Speaker 7: pyramid of success, like the core found like foundation of
Speaker 7: Like the fans and like the donors and boosters and
Speaker 7: stuff are like so stuck on the old days, you know,
Speaker 7: and like the times have changed and how you recruit
Speaker 7: and how you get players.
Speaker 6: What's going to attract you?
Speaker 7: Like, yes, like being a champion and the history of
Speaker 7: USLA is still appealing and it's at an all time high,
Speaker 7: but a lot of players still don't have that mindset
Speaker 7: like I'm going to stay four years.
Speaker 6: I want to win an NT double, a championship, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean. I want to be Player of
Speaker 6: the Year.
Speaker 7: You know, they're trying to get to the next level,
Speaker 7: and like how can they do that the most efficient
Speaker 7: the fastest way possible. Like they're not really focused on
Speaker 7: the tradition as much as it was back in the day.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, what it.
Speaker 7: Means to be a bruin, what it means to be
Speaker 7: a spark night like and carrying that with you, you know,
Speaker 7: they looking at what is the best avenue to get
Speaker 7: me to that next level? So what the standards of
Speaker 7: what USLA has doesn't really fit where the game is today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for the modern day athlete.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was always say we gotta we got to
Speaker 5: remix the tradition, you know what I mean? And I
Speaker 5: think to j MOS's point, it's like we got to
Speaker 5: show that Norman Powe, Zach Levine, Jew Holliday, all of
Speaker 5: these people, right, even though they didn't win national championships
Speaker 5: at UCLA, but final fours, sweet sixteen's like whatever, however
Speaker 5: you've been decorated, should be you know, overmarketed, especially for
Speaker 5: these new kids coming in because they're still looking at
Speaker 5: you and coming up to you, especially you playing for
Speaker 5: the Clippers and being like, yo, I'm in LA. I
Speaker 5: can have the same career, uh Norman power.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 5: And so I think UCLA, you know, won the school
Speaker 5: shit kind of remix the tradition and we got to
Speaker 5: make sure that people like you are coming back, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean, Zo k Love, all these people
Speaker 5: are coming back. And and really so these young kids
Speaker 5: can be like yo, I want to go to u C.
Speaker 5: L A and I want to win, and then we
Speaker 5: get that influx of talent because people want to be,
Speaker 5: you know, closer to the stars.
Speaker 1: Were missing that, we're missing that exactly. These kids today
Speaker 1: don't know who ed Obanndon is. So you walk me
Speaker 1: in that gym and I look up. No disrespect to
Speaker 1: Ed O'Bannon by the way, but the young.
Speaker 5: Kid today, every every n I L kids should know.
Speaker 3: Every n I L kids should know who Ed O'Bannon is.
Speaker 1: But let's face it, these kids don't educate themselves on
Speaker 1: things like that, so we can say what they should know,
Speaker 1: but the reality is that they don't.
Speaker 3: And today's kids sadly don't care. And so.
Speaker 1: To the point, they don't know who Ed O'Bannon is.
Speaker 1: But even if they know who Ed O'Bannon is, they
Speaker 1: know who Ed O'Bannon is.
Speaker 3: From the trouble.
Speaker 1: The court and won, they wouldn't know about Ed O'Bannon
Speaker 1: and the basketball player that won in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 1: And so there's a huge gap in between Ed O'Bannon
Speaker 1: in twenty and twenty four and like the guys you
Speaker 1: just named, and if you don't showcase any of those
Speaker 1: guys because of your tradition when John Wooden was there,
Speaker 1: Like the tradition is rich, but there's a big gap
Speaker 1: and you're just not going to attract.
Speaker 3: The top kids, like because.
Speaker 1: The kid today is just the kid today is impressed
Speaker 1: by something totally different than I was normal. It's like
Speaker 1: be they you're what ten years before us, But the
Speaker 1: kid today is even not impressed by what we were
Speaker 1: impressed by.
Speaker 3: Social totally different ballgame.
Speaker 1: And you gotta go all the way back to Ed
Speaker 1: O'Bannon and like that's how you go to hell to
Speaker 1: the kid. I just think that's going to be tough
Speaker 1: to do and compete at the level that y'all going
Speaker 1: to want.
Speaker 3: To compete that.
Speaker 1: So you're going to look up, it's going to be
Speaker 1: forty years and y'all ain't gonna have to nobody.
Speaker 3: And that's that's tough.
Speaker 5: I think every kid in I l it should have
Speaker 5: been three percent went to the Ad o bannon Foundation
Speaker 5: or something, because.
Speaker 7: That is that everybody. He is responsible. I got anybody
Speaker 7: now they're walking around with So come on, man, it's insane.
Speaker 5: N c AA all you know, And O'Bannon said, you know,
Speaker 5: and you just think about Bruin's Brewing Legacy. Shout out
Speaker 5: to Ed O'Bannon. You know, you know it's he just
Speaker 5: he just changed the game, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: And to your point, Jay, there is a huge gap,
Speaker 5: and I think that the n C a A and
Speaker 5: U c l A and everybody should, you know, really
Speaker 5: think about, you know, what he did and the impact
Speaker 5: he has because it basically changed the whole way that
Speaker 5: we look at you know, n I am nor can
Speaker 5: you imagine you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Going to school now.
Speaker 7: With crazy like it was funny because you know I
Speaker 7: talked to the I say, young dudes now because I'm
Speaker 7: on year ten, it's crazy, uh like talking to Kobe
Speaker 7: and Jordan and Trenton and Cam the young guys we
Speaker 7: got on the team. You know they already got design
Speaker 7: on and everything. I'm like, man, y'a don't even understand
Speaker 7: the struggle that I went through. Man, Like my first
Speaker 7: my first for me, Like when I got to the league,
Speaker 7: I thought I was going to be living, you know
Speaker 7: what I mean, And like my first check was less
Speaker 7: than when I got in college, and when I got
Speaker 7: in college was five thousand dollars. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: For till grant and I'm like, man, y'all around here
Speaker 7: with a hell cat. Man, I got proud of shoes
Speaker 7: on and LV bag go yard, this thing and the other.
Speaker 7: I'm like, man, I can't even imagine what it was
Speaker 7: like if I do that, because when we're like when
Speaker 7: we's in the UH in college into double A had
Speaker 7: the dumbest rules, like you get you can get bagels,
Speaker 7: but you can't get cheese. I mean, like it's an
Speaker 7: extra benefit to get cream cheese on a bagel.
Speaker 1: Is crazy, right, They don't understand the struggle, man. I
Speaker 1: always say when I when I first came into the league, Man,
Speaker 1: I was one day. I was one day away from
Speaker 1: taking the loan from one of my home boys, real worthy.
Speaker 3: He was about to look out for me.
Speaker 1: He had just got drafted in the second round to
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 3: And you know they get a signing boss, they get
Speaker 3: money right away.
Speaker 1: I ain't got no money from college and I don't
Speaker 1: get paid to November fifteen, and I ain't know when
Speaker 1: I was gonna, like, you know, second round pick, like yourself,
Speaker 1: so dang sign me till later in the summer. Didn't
Speaker 1: wait on the advance. I have no money and uh man,
Speaker 1: I I had I had to. I ain't have enough
Speaker 1: money to get a car, so I had to rent
Speaker 1: a car from its crazy. But because they because they
Speaker 1: would let me, because Enterprise would let me rent, and
Speaker 1: like the Warriors at the time, was able to take
Speaker 1: care of it. Because like just some rules of rookie,
Speaker 1: I end up with like a twenty some thousand dollars
Speaker 1: bill on Enterprise rental. I couldn't have put that sore
Speaker 1: as a car, but I couldn't afford to get a car,
Speaker 1: and so I had the bill.
Speaker 3: And then Jared Jack end up.
Speaker 1: Jared Jack had a lease a least range Rover twenty
Speaker 1: ten range Rover, and he had like nine thousand miles
Speaker 1: on it, so he was about to turn his lease
Speaker 1: back in.
Speaker 3: Jack, let me take over the lease.
Speaker 1: It was only like thirty seven thousand dollars left to
Speaker 1: pay on the truck of forty seven thousand dollars left
Speaker 1: on her incredible supercharge twenty ten range Roller.
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, Jack, I'll take that over.
Speaker 1: And I didn't have enough money to put on a
Speaker 1: down payment to get a car. So that's how I
Speaker 1: got my first car in the NBA. Like it was,
Speaker 1: it was rough. Man. I like, for a while, I
Speaker 1: ain't had no furniture. Then I got the advance. I
Speaker 1: was at the biggest furniture it was.
Speaker 6: It sounded just like just like me, man.
Speaker 7: I had from from pre draft to draft to why
Speaker 7: I had to go to Toronto. I had to get
Speaker 7: a rental card just like itself, and it was I
Speaker 7: remember it was a Chevy Impala from Enterprise and I
Speaker 7: had that for the whole summer. Man, and I had
Speaker 7: to take out a line of credit just to be
Speaker 7: able to pay the rental fee off and then just
Speaker 7: to have some money for I could be able to
Speaker 7: move and get my stuff to Toronto and everything like that. Man,
Speaker 7: it was crazy. I'm like, bro, this cannot be what
Speaker 7: the league is. Like, there's no way I got.
Speaker 6: Drafted and I still have no money in my pocket.
Speaker 7: And then the first check like man, that first check,
Speaker 7: man was less than what I got in college.
Speaker 6: Man, Like you know, a second round pick.
Speaker 7: I'm like, there's no way, but I'm getting taxing Canada
Speaker 7: and colleague, so like I got nothing, nothing.
Speaker 6: It was crazy.
Speaker 7: The only bonus I had is that in Canada, uh,
Speaker 7: the conversion rate, so like we're getting paid in the
Speaker 7: American and so you know, you got money coming into
Speaker 7: a Canadian account.
Speaker 6: And that money is double at the time. You know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: So like I knew my Canadian account, I'm like, oh man,
Speaker 7: I got money, now I can I got I got
Speaker 7: breathing room.
Speaker 6: But it was crazy.
Speaker 5: You gotta complain now because you're both paid. Were we well?
Speaker 5: We're doing well?
Speaker 1: The struggles, the struggles all speaking of the NBA. All
Speaker 1: by the way, before we move all the way on
Speaker 1: from u c l A. I love my Brewers. Shout
Speaker 1: out to my man, Bob Myers, Mattel Chips was hospital,
Speaker 1: they are investing their Shout out to them, right Eric,
Speaker 1: incredible man, Shout out to him.
Speaker 3: I got a lot of deep love for the u
Speaker 3: c l A. Bruis my brother.
Speaker 5: He definitely tapped in. He he tapped in. That's why
Speaker 5: DJ going to u c l A.
Speaker 3: I was smarting through it through but I got I
Speaker 3: got love for the Bruis.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the big ten fas uh you know, but
Speaker 1: you know, and speaking of now we're in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Earlier this year, you had an interview where you said
Speaker 1: that it's a dish a box attraction.
Speaker 3: Did you think it would become this big of a.
Speaker 1: Deal that you say that you play how you can
Speaker 1: play Philly, look how they like and everybody blowing that up?
Speaker 3: Like what did you think of that when you said that,
Speaker 3: did you know?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 7: I didn't think it was gonna be as blown up
Speaker 7: as it was, you know what I'm saying, Like honestly,
Speaker 7: was just looking like as as just motivation, you know
Speaker 7: what I'm saying, get I'm finally get the opportunity, you know,
Speaker 7: Like I always felt like I was the guy that
Speaker 7: like the team's a lot on you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 7: as that X factor to help, you know, get us
Speaker 7: wins or push us over the top, you know. But
Speaker 7: I always had to feel in that, you know, I
Speaker 7: could be in that position, you know. And when I
Speaker 7: you know, the moves that were made and that opening
Speaker 7: was there, it was just like auditioned by subtraction because
Speaker 7: like I can I can feel that void, you know
Speaker 7: what I'm saying, Like I can be the one to
Speaker 7: step in and have that same production or impact, you know.
Speaker 7: And it was just like a mentality approach to it. It
Speaker 7: wasn't like the Stow shot at PG and and do
Speaker 7: all that. You know, it was just like like I'm
Speaker 7: here now, you know what I'm saying. I get an opportunity,
Speaker 7: you know, to be one of the guys that I've
Speaker 7: always wanted to be.
Speaker 6: But then you know, media takes it in and runs
Speaker 6: with it.
Speaker 7: You know, you got people talking about it, and then
Speaker 7: Philly starts the way they start, got people mad at
Speaker 7: PG for leaving, and then like it just turns into
Speaker 7: this like NORM versus PG. Norms playing better than PG.
Speaker 7: Right now the Clippers are better than the Sixers. Like
Speaker 7: it just turned into this whole crazy thing. And it
Speaker 7: was just like nah, like wet, like not only myself,
Speaker 7: but we got other guys who were scratching the corn
Speaker 7: is well. We had four Hall of Famers on our team,
Speaker 7: you know what I mean for two seasons, and we
Speaker 7: had to figure out how to how to make it work.
Speaker 7: If you know, you've got to take a lesser role,
Speaker 7: you know, and play to help the team win. And
Speaker 7: now that that's a that's not here anymore. Like you've
Speaker 7: got the addition of these other guys in the audition
Speaker 7: of me to be able to step into a larger role.
Speaker 5: No, I like it, man, because you know I've been
Speaker 5: I was calling baller vision for a couple uh, I
Speaker 5: think two seasons and just to watch your evolution just
Speaker 5: coming off the bench, you know, candidate for six man
Speaker 5: in a year, you know, coming in and being focal
Speaker 5: in the offense, right, being a focal point in the
Speaker 5: offense over the last two years, and now becoming you
Speaker 5: know that guy I remember, you know, I would say
Speaker 5: my third year when I kind of stepped into the role,
Speaker 5: like hey, it's up for grabs. There's five, six, seven
Speaker 5: more points for me. There's more responsibility, you know, So
Speaker 5: talk about this for you know what I mean, this
Speaker 5: big year, you know, to be able to show what
Speaker 5: you can do and not that it was something that
Speaker 5: you know you've been waiting for this moment.
Speaker 4: You know you can pretty much say nine years of
Speaker 4: your career, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: Yeah, man, Yeah, I think you know, it's just being
Speaker 7: ready to stay prepared and continue to have faith and belief,
Speaker 7: you know, like in yourself throughout this grind. You know,
Speaker 7: like I said, like I've always been the guy that
Speaker 7: teams like value in terms of like a winning player
Speaker 7: you know that can come in and help a guy
Speaker 7: that you can plug and play in situations, you know.
Speaker 7: And I've had sparks and moments in stints in my
Speaker 7: tenure career where like guys get hurt and now I'm
Speaker 7: playing for fifteen straight games starting averaging twenty plus shooting efficiency,
Speaker 7: good everything. But then guys come back and I'm at
Speaker 7: the end of the bench and I got to fill
Speaker 7: that role again. Just being up and down with that.
Speaker 7: But like I said, I always believe that I could
Speaker 7: do this, you know, and I always wanted the opportunity,
Speaker 7: Like talking to AJ, my trainer. Let y' all know,
Speaker 7: you know, it's just like man like we just have
Speaker 7: conversations in the summer, like I really want to see
Speaker 7: what it's like when when I got the range, you
Speaker 7: know what I mean, Like like because I feel that
Speaker 7: I can I can produce, I can do this, Like
Speaker 7: I've seen it up close, like I've had it in
Speaker 7: stints and spurts.
Speaker 6: I've learned.
Speaker 7: I've watched the guys in front of me tomorrow, Kyle
Speaker 7: Kawhi operate, Dame CJ. Like I've seen how these franchise
Speaker 7: players and organizations that hold these guys to a high
Speaker 7: standard operate and approach the game.
Speaker 6: And I have the same mentality, have the same approach.
Speaker 7: I have the same work ethic, if not more in
Speaker 7: some cases, like like I want to see what it
Speaker 7: looks like. But it was just about staying ready and
Speaker 7: staying prepared and believing in myself through all the ups
Speaker 7: and downs and just waiting, you know, and having talks
Speaker 7: with with l and Mark when they traded for me,
Speaker 7: you know about my value, you know, Like I just
Speaker 7: came from starting from Portland. I don't really want to
Speaker 7: come off the bench again. Like I'm trying to keep
Speaker 7: elevating my career, you know what I'm saying, to hopefully
Speaker 7: become one of those guys, you know. And they said
Speaker 7: it like we see you as a starter, you know,
Speaker 7: but like in terms of how our team is configured
Speaker 7: right now, like we think it's the best for you
Speaker 7: to come off the bench, you know and be that
Speaker 7: spark plug and help us in that way because we
Speaker 7: need fire power off the bench and me being I
Speaker 7: want to win at the end of the day, no
Speaker 7: matter what what it is, like, I want to win.
Speaker 7: I want to win championships, I want to win games.
Speaker 7: I want to be known as a winning player. So
Speaker 7: I'm gonna do whatever it takes for the team to win,
Speaker 7: whether that's me taking a lesser role, me stepping up
Speaker 7: into a bigger role, like like I'm all about winning
Speaker 7: and that's what it is. And with this opportunity here,
Speaker 7: I told Elle in the summer, like I'm ready for
Speaker 7: the ups and downs, like you can lean on me,
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. I'm gonna be ready for
Speaker 7: I'm not going to shy away from everything. Like it's
Speaker 7: gonna be a learning experience because this is my first time,
Speaker 7: you know, in the league, actually having this leadership role for.
Speaker 6: A full season, you know, and being looked upon.
Speaker 7: So it's not gonna be pretty every single game, every
Speaker 7: single night, but like you know, you got somebody that
Speaker 7: you can lean is going to continue to put the
Speaker 7: work in and go out there and try to help
Speaker 7: this team win.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of just y'all team and what you brought to
Speaker 1: that team, what has Jeff Van Gundy coming back to
Speaker 1: the NBA as a coach on your staff? What has
Speaker 1: he brought to the mix. It just seemed like y'all
Speaker 1: have a different energy in a different way about y'all.
Speaker 1: And I note that I feel like he has He's
Speaker 1: right in the mix.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Nah, definitely, man, Jamie g Man, I loved that dude,
Speaker 7: Probably not before when he was done, you know, talking
Speaker 7: to the games and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it was him or or his brother,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: I think there was a little bit of some some
Speaker 7: hate going on, But nah.
Speaker 6: I mean he's been great for us.
Speaker 7: Like honestly, he's a little bit annoying with the guys
Speaker 7: just because how how.
Speaker 6: Much he loves the game and like his attention to detail.
Speaker 7: You know, some guys like a yeah, But I always
Speaker 7: tell him, man, like we need it, you know what
Speaker 7: I'm saying, Like we need that that fire power and intensity,
Speaker 7: that passion that he comes in with every single day,
Speaker 7: like we're here t WHU talking about it like man,
Speaker 7: sometimes I gotta pull himself like yeah, man, go home,
Speaker 7: like stop watching the tape and everything.
Speaker 6: But he's so detailed.
Speaker 7: I mean, like a walk through that I've had before
Speaker 7: him as a defensive coach would probably be like fifteen
Speaker 7: twenty minutes, we go through here, dis rotations. Right here,
Speaker 7: we're gonna send this person left like he come through
Speaker 7: like now he's pulling your jersey, Like now we need
Speaker 7: you right here. The ball is gonna be right here.
Speaker 7: They're going to turn around do this, and when you
Speaker 7: come here, you've got to be a step higher, not
Speaker 7: a step back, but a step higher.
Speaker 6: Like he's like so detail oriented.
Speaker 7: And then just his approach of like we're gonna attack,
Speaker 7: like we're not gonna sit back on our heels, were
Speaker 7: playing against y'all, Like we're not gonna let Steph come
Speaker 7: down and do what. We're gonna pressure him. We're gonna
Speaker 7: blitz him, we're gonna pick him up. We're gonna we're
Speaker 7: gonna do things different like they're but dribbling. We're gonna
Speaker 7: attack the ball if they're if they're doing the dh
Speaker 7: O like like we're gonna we're gonna jump it. Like
Speaker 7: everything he's doing is talking about being aggressive and playing
Speaker 7: hard and being the one, uh to attack the basketball,
Speaker 7: to attack the game. I think we have a group
Speaker 7: of guys one we got younger too. We got guys
Speaker 7: that got something to prove, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 7: that have bounced around the league, have their own own
Speaker 7: story and their own journey, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: And they're trying to make a name for themselves. They're
Speaker 6: trying to stay put.
Speaker 7: And you got guys that are locked in and want
Speaker 7: to play basketball the right way. And everybody's feeding off
Speaker 7: his energy, like him being back. It's definitely uh the
Speaker 7: energy and what we needed, you know, the the jump
Speaker 7: start this uh, this the start of the season for.
Speaker 4: Us is coming off the bench. Do you have any advice.
Speaker 6: They man on that bike, get on that Aradigne bike,
Speaker 6: on that Kaja bike.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: No, but serious, you know, having that role and then
Speaker 5: you know, Drey and I we talk about it. You know,
Speaker 5: I think it's you know Draymond con you know type
Speaker 5: of player can do anything similar and norm you're showing
Speaker 5: it coming from the six man to starting, but you know,
Speaker 5: just the importance to like and both of y'all talk
Speaker 5: about it, right because like norm here you are, you know,
Speaker 5: six man, six.
Speaker 4: Man of the year.
Speaker 5: Now you are in new terrain Dre Hall of Fame, career,
Speaker 5: Hall of Famer, Defensive Player.
Speaker 4: Of the Year candidate. You know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Uh, injuries, you know, getting older now looking at the
Speaker 5: young dude, mentoring coming off the bench and being more explosive. Yeah,
Speaker 5: just talk about the role and how important it is,
Speaker 5: you know, to have that conversation with with yourself. But
Speaker 5: also like you know what is like how do you
Speaker 5: reinvent yourself?
Speaker 4: You know what I mean? And stay hungry.
Speaker 6: Being first go ahead, yeah, you go.
Speaker 7: I think the biggest thing is is one to make
Speaker 7: it in the NBA, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 7: I always tell the young kids, like everybody is not
Speaker 7: going to be the number one option, Everybody's not going
Speaker 7: to be the franchise player.
Speaker 6: So how do you stick?
Speaker 7: You know, how do you how do you find success
Speaker 7: in the league and still work your way, you know,
Speaker 7: into the player that you believe in yourself or see
Speaker 7: yourself as being.
Speaker 6: You know, and it's all about about.
Speaker 7: Finding that role that the team needs and maximizing that
Speaker 7: because once you maximize that role, you're going to get
Speaker 7: more opportunity to showcase your game.
Speaker 6: Right. But a lot of kids today, you know, they
Speaker 6: do it backwards.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: They think they should be the franchise player and get
Speaker 7: all this, that and the other, and they're trying to
Speaker 7: figure out why they don't have success, you know, and
Speaker 7: it's like, Okay, if the coach is asking me to
Speaker 7: be this pick up ninety four feet and be this
Speaker 7: scrappy defender guy, then like, and that's what I got
Speaker 7: to do to get on the court. Like I'm gonna
Speaker 7: do that, you know. But the mentality is not like
Speaker 7: I want to score. I want to do all these things,
Speaker 7: like people don't want to get down and dirty. But
Speaker 7: it's really important in the league to find that niche.
Speaker 7: Like I wasn't a scoring guy when I first came
Speaker 7: in the league. It was man, I was picking up Kyrie,
Speaker 7: prime John Wall, like prime Russ, like like ninety four feet,
Speaker 7: like they were putting me on Porzingis mellow, like I'm
Speaker 7: six three, you know what I mean, I'm Guarden.
Speaker 6: I'm Guarden. Porzingis in the post, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: Like, but but that's what got me on the floor,
Speaker 7: you know, And like as I'm doing that, it's like, okay,
Speaker 7: Like I'm an opportunity score, I'm a defender, energy guy,
Speaker 7: opportunity scorer. Okay, So now I'm gonna take this defense
Speaker 7: and I'm gonna create my opportunities for myself. So I
Speaker 7: was like, oh, damg Oh he can't shoot. Oh he
Speaker 7: can't get to the basket. Oh he can't put up
Speaker 7: ten fifteen points, you know what I mean. So it
Speaker 7: was all about this is my role, and I'm going
Speaker 7: to execute this role. But I'm also going to continue
Speaker 7: to strive for more, you know what I'm saying to
Speaker 7: show that I can't I can and will do more
Speaker 7: for the team. And that's how I've been able to
Speaker 7: find my success. But it was all about, you know,
Speaker 7: taking a step back, you know, and having that honest
Speaker 7: conversation with yourself, like what are you going to do?
Speaker 7: And how are you going to get to where you
Speaker 7: want to be? You know, And and a lot of
Speaker 7: people aren't really ready to have those conversations, right to
Speaker 7: take that step back and be like my path to
Speaker 7: where I envisioned myself long term. Might not be the
Speaker 7: exact path that I have set out for myself, but
Speaker 7: it's going to be a path that I'm willing to take,
Speaker 7: you know, to achieve that. And it might be a
Speaker 7: longer road, you know, but I'm ready to endure that
Speaker 7: journey and that grind to get to where I'm at.
Speaker 7: But for me, it was everything about filling that role
Speaker 7: and finding out how it's going to be successful in
Speaker 7: this league. And I had the honest conversation with myself
Speaker 7: and I was ready for that, for that grind.
Speaker 1: I think I had a very similar coming in as
Speaker 1: well with me, whether it was to go in and
Speaker 1: Andre Miller, who was taking the last shot for Denver,
Speaker 1: or obviously you know, going in to stop cod if
Speaker 1: you know we playing against the Lakers on the last
Speaker 1: second shot, Like sometimes that was my only way onto
Speaker 1: the floor. Garden La Marcus as your garden, Blake, Garden
Speaker 1: z Bow, Guarden, Mark Gasol, like an older Tim Duncan,
Speaker 1: Like that was my way, power Gasol, like that, that
Speaker 1: was my way onto the court.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 1: Then you start to do that and like you said,
Speaker 1: you add more, and you add more, you show more.
Speaker 1: But I always tell young young people and people in general,
Speaker 1: when you add more, you can never not.
Speaker 3: Do what you started off doing.
Speaker 4: So m hmm.
Speaker 3: You can never just become a scorer and not check
Speaker 3: it all. And you came in the lead, check it right.
Speaker 1: Nobody gonna respect you no more, be like, oh, but
Speaker 1: he lost it because he can't guard no more.
Speaker 3: You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It ain't gonna be like, oh nah, he's scoring like
Speaker 1: at this and so that's why he No, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be like, yo, he's s going down because not Look,
Speaker 1: he can't even stay in.
Speaker 3: Front of that guy.
Speaker 1: And remember when he used to do this, right, So
Speaker 1: you can never not do what you came in do.
Speaker 1: And so for me then I had to grow from there.
Speaker 1: At this point in my career, I'm thirteen. In the
Speaker 1: chase for greatness is still there right like or I
Speaker 1: wouldn't do it. The capability is still there. I've continued
Speaker 1: to show that, but the attitude that was is not
Speaker 1: coming up young in this league. To a certain extent,
Speaker 1: you got to be here like just to make it.
Speaker 1: Like y'all both know, to a certain extent, you have
Speaker 1: to have some of that. It's about me and you
Speaker 1: in order to do it.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 1: You go through and you learn and you experience, and
Speaker 1: with everything I've experienced, at a certain point, you got
Speaker 1: to know when to let go of it just being
Speaker 1: about me, like and not just about me, because I've
Speaker 1: always been a team guy, but you.
Speaker 3: Got to know when to let go of the me
Speaker 3: and at me.
Speaker 1: At this point in my career, I am very well
Speaker 1: accomplished and I still got a lot left in the team,
Speaker 1: but a lot.
Speaker 3: It's also I also noticed business like the back of
Speaker 3: my hand.
Speaker 1: And so Johnathan kamingas in year three, which means he's
Speaker 1: extension eg with this summer, he's in your four, and
Speaker 1: you know he can be he'll be restricted free agents
Speaker 1: this summer.
Speaker 3: And so you look at it from the business side.
Speaker 1: He has to he has to get the opportunity to
Speaker 1: show his worst, like just so you know, as as
Speaker 1: an organization, like, he has to get that opportunity. And
Speaker 1: he's earned the opportunity. He's more than earned the opportunity.
Speaker 1: So you take those two things into account.
Speaker 3: I know the.
Speaker 1: Business, stand down, bro like, stand down, check this out.
Speaker 1: I'm also a fan of Johnathan Camicia, and I am
Speaker 1: Jonathan Cominga's vet. I want to see the Jonathan Comedica
Speaker 1: do well, so me and you're thirteen, Dad, this is
Speaker 1: going to happen, but could decide tomorrow. I don't want
Speaker 1: to play anymore. Why would you stand in the way
Speaker 1: of his opportunity?
Speaker 6: That's real?
Speaker 1: Mh. Like I'm not gonna sit and like, ah, this
Speaker 1: is because at the end of the day, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: finish game, I'm gonna close games. I'm gonna be in
Speaker 1: wh when it matters. Not that he's not gonna be in,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna be in when it matters, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do what I do. So whether I start or not,
Speaker 1: I've started so many games in the NBA.
Speaker 3: My ego isn't in it.
Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, I'm all for because
Speaker 1: I want to see young fella get off and guess what,
Speaker 1: I know, starting to him mean something. You know why
Speaker 1: I know starting to him mean something because when I
Speaker 1: was in year four, starting to meet mean something, and
Speaker 1: so you David Lee took the back seat for me.
Speaker 1: And not that he took the back seat like he
Speaker 1: could have said, Oh no, he still supported me. He
Speaker 1: still taught me when I was coming up again, starting matchups. Hey,
Speaker 1: this guy because he's seen them so much, Like, it
Speaker 1: was never yo, I can't do this sor it was
Speaker 1: never that. And so, like I said, being a product
Speaker 1: of that, Pete Myers would always tell me, you owe
Speaker 1: it to the game to get a young fellas back.
Speaker 1: You owe it to the game to leave it in
Speaker 1: a better place than it was when you found You
Speaker 1: got to get back to the young fellas. You gotta
Speaker 1: pour into them. I'm at the point of my career
Speaker 1: now where I am one thousand percent of starter in
Speaker 1: the NBA. I know that not tripping on that at all.
Speaker 1: But if this is going to help Jonathan Kamenka, and
Speaker 1: this is going to help this team, then let's check
Speaker 1: it out. And if it don't pan off, we always
Speaker 1: know we can go back to me started at the
Speaker 1: fore on five, like we can always go back to that.
Speaker 1: Let's see what he got. He deserved that. And I've
Speaker 1: never respected guys who's like if it comes down to
Speaker 1: that and it's like I'm not I would to say respect,
Speaker 1: But I've just always been like, if it's me in
Speaker 1: the position and it comes down to yo, now, maybe
Speaker 1: two years ago, I wouldn't feel like this like I mean,
Speaker 1: you're thirteen.
Speaker 3: Like so.
Speaker 1: If it comes down to you and this kid getting
Speaker 1: the opportunity to change his life, to change his family life,
Speaker 1: move on, like give it back to the game. And
Speaker 1: like I said, then you're adding the personal relationship that
Speaker 1: I have with Jonathan Kaminga. I can't look him in
Speaker 1: this eye, tell him all the love I got for
Speaker 1: him and be the person standing in the way his opportunity.
Speaker 3: I can't do that. That don't work for me.
Speaker 7: It's crazy that you say that because I was in
Speaker 7: a similar situation as Kamina in Toronto, you know what
Speaker 7: I mean, Like we're opportunity.
Speaker 6: Like I worked my way.
Speaker 7: I was grinding down to the D League at the time,
Speaker 7: back up, and they were trying to figure out what
Speaker 7: they wanted to do for the starting role with Demark Carroll.
Speaker 6: He had a messed up me so he wasn't playing
Speaker 6: back to backs, you know.
Speaker 7: And I had Chance Ross and James Johnson and Patrick
Speaker 7: Patterson in front of me, you know.
Speaker 6: And then I was the second round pick.
Speaker 7: I had Delawn Wright, you know, he was the twentieth pick,
Speaker 7: you know, like the first round, and the team went
Speaker 7: with me, you know, and mind you at the time,
Speaker 7: like James Johnson was my vet, and uh, you know
Speaker 7: all the stuff that I was going around the league
Speaker 7: about him, like all that year years ago, you know,
Speaker 7: so you know I felt some type of way. I
Speaker 7: was like, damn, it's my vet, Like you know, he's
Speaker 7: shown me love, like he's taking me around, taking me
Speaker 7: under his wing, gave me so much advice, you know,
Speaker 7: and you know I got whin that, you know, whatever
Speaker 7: was going on, if it was true or not. But
Speaker 7: I went to him like, you know, like I didn't
Speaker 7: want him to be mad at me. You know what
Speaker 7: I'm saying, for the opportunity. You know, they ever started me.
Speaker 7: And the one thing he told me was like, bro,
Speaker 7: I'll never be mad at you. You know what I'm
Speaker 7: saying for getting your opportunity. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 7: I want to see you do great. You know, there's
Speaker 7: enough out of here for all of us. You know
Speaker 7: what I'm saying, I want you to be successful. So like,
Speaker 7: don't don't trip. I'm rooting you on every step of
Speaker 7: the way. You know what I'm saying. I'm be in
Speaker 7: your ear, you know, making sure that you know you
Speaker 7: stay you stay focused and locked in and He always
Speaker 7: got me ready, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: After practice, he was playing one on.
Speaker 7: One, you know, talking shit to me, you know, like
Speaker 7: getting that that fire, that dog, making sure I was
Speaker 7: you know, picking up and pressuring and not backing down.
Speaker 6: But like similar situation, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: He event in the league like he should be, you know,
Speaker 7: getting his opportunity as well. But you know, they want
Speaker 7: to go with somebody younger and see what he had
Speaker 7: and see what I had and what I was working
Speaker 7: with and how I could help the team, you know.
Speaker 7: And he was a full supporter of that, you know,
Speaker 7: and really like helped me along the way along.
Speaker 6: With damorro and knows the other guy.
Speaker 7: But you know, I had that conversation with him, you know,
Speaker 7: and he removed himself, you know, like you know, like
Speaker 7: this is this is about you.
Speaker 6: It's not about me. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: I want to see you be successful and like and
Speaker 7: you need that, you know because then now you know,
Speaker 7: from that experience with him, and tomorrow I'm talking to
Speaker 7: those guys. I'm one, you know, passing down game and
Speaker 7: knowledge and giving the young guy some some uh strategies
Speaker 7: on how to navigate being a professional and waiting for
Speaker 7: their opportunity and being ready for it and stepping into
Speaker 7: that role.
Speaker 6: You know, like I got Jordan Miller.
Speaker 7: As as my as my youth, my uh as my rookie,
Speaker 7: and you know, now he's getting the opportunity to play.
Speaker 7: You know, he had to go through the G League grind.
Speaker 7: You know, he was an older guy coming out of college,
Speaker 7: you know. And now I'm telling them in the game, like, bro,
Speaker 7: take this shot, take this three. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 7: attack down here right here, you know, be aggressive, you know,
Speaker 7: because because that's what we need. I'd rather you make
Speaker 7: mistakes being aggressive than being passive and worried about you know,
Speaker 7: making a mistake or coach is going to pull you out.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: So like to your point, DG, you know, just about
Speaker 7: leaving the game in a better place and passing down
Speaker 7: that knowledge and we're moving removing the me. You know
Speaker 7: what I'm saying that the personal of I got to
Speaker 7: get this like like this is about me, Like how
Speaker 7: do I prove that?
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: I feel like like I don't have all the accomplishmition
Speaker 7: things like that, but like I've I've become a household
Speaker 7: name where people know what I can do every single night.
Speaker 6: This is what norm is going to bring to the tables.
Speaker 7: So if it's not my night and my young fellow
Speaker 7: got it going, man, I'm I'm.
Speaker 6: A fiene carry a team tonight.
Speaker 7: Well, I ain't backing out like like I want them
Speaker 7: to be successful because I know, you know, when I
Speaker 7: was in that role, I had somebody else passing that
Speaker 7: knowledge and that confidence down to me. You know, that's
Speaker 7: the that's the biggest thing, you know in terms of
Speaker 7: you know, passing the knowledge down and leaving the game
Speaker 7: in a better place and removing that meat. You know
Speaker 7: what I'm saying, Like the same situation that you're talking
Speaker 7: about experience and now having to be that vet and
Speaker 7: do the same thing.
Speaker 3: One thousand percent. I think that's dope.
Speaker 1: I've heard several guys now that's come upers from under
Speaker 1: James Johnson wayn't talk about him as they VET and
Speaker 1: how he took them under their way and that's done.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 5: You know this year you've been having a kick ass year,
Speaker 5: you know, all Star year. I want you to tell
Speaker 5: everybody you know why you believe you're a.
Speaker 6: Dang man, you know, be there. I don't like talking
Speaker 6: about myself, man.
Speaker 4: I know, you know, like to I mean, I could
Speaker 4: do it for you, but.
Speaker 5: You know, just talk about you know, the role, the
Speaker 5: role you stepped into, you know where people didn't think
Speaker 5: you know, uh, let's say with PG, right, and you
Speaker 5: know Russ not being there as well, and then you
Speaker 5: know the Clippers not being you know, h thought of
Speaker 5: as tender, you know, James Harden saying I am the system,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, like, you know, talk through
Speaker 5: all that and then how you've emerged, you know, as
Speaker 5: their counterpart. You know, I think you know, I want
Speaker 5: to hear from you, but also the fans want to
Speaker 5: hear from you, you know just about your get them,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, and your press this year
Speaker 5: and you know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think for me, you know, I
Speaker 6: think I'm an All star.
Speaker 7: Just like you said, like where the team and where
Speaker 7: they saw us at, you know, like we just think
Speaker 7: second to last in the West, Like they had no
Speaker 7: belief that we're going to be a good team because
Speaker 7: we lost PG, we lost Russ and then the whole Kawhi,
Speaker 7: you know, being out and being hurt and then the
Speaker 7: narrative around James.
Speaker 6: You know, he's not the same player that he was.
Speaker 6: He's not going to be able to carry.
Speaker 7: A team that you know, the his best basketball days
Speaker 7: you know, are behind him, you know, and for me
Speaker 7: and him to you know, come together, you know, and
Speaker 7: be the two guys that he is leading this team,
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying on a nightly basis, and
Speaker 7: making sure that we're competitive, you know that that's a
Speaker 7: testament to who we are as a players. And then
Speaker 7: just my production as well, you know, from being able
Speaker 7: to be in a role of six man behind four
Speaker 7: Hall of Fame guys, you know, still putting up production
Speaker 7: in points last year, to stepping in and increase some
Speaker 7: my averages across the board, being super efficient from the
Speaker 7: field from the three point line, and still being competitive.
Speaker 7: DG said at the beginning, like, if we can stay
Speaker 7: in that top five in the standings, you know, I
Speaker 7: have a good chance. But just mere emerging it as
Speaker 7: a guy that you know, people didn't think we'll be
Speaker 7: able to do this in year ten.
Speaker 6: You know that I was just fitting this certain role.
Speaker 7: I think that's the strongest candidate, that my strongest pitch
Speaker 7: that I have, you know, I'm producing every single night.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm doing my thing.
Speaker 7: I'm holding it down against the top dogs, the top teams,
Speaker 7: and my mentality and approach has always been the same,
Speaker 7: you know, my work ethic hasn't changed. I think the
Speaker 7: biggest thing that I've done going into the season knowing
Speaker 7: that I'm going to have a bigger role and more
Speaker 7: pressure and stuff on me from myself. I never much
Speaker 7: external because like I don't really care what media and
Speaker 7: stuff talking about because they don't really know. But just
Speaker 7: with myself was just a mental approach, you know, just
Speaker 7: like what is my going to be? What's going to
Speaker 7: be my daily approach to the game, you know, good days,
Speaker 7: bad ads day days, and games like am i gonna
Speaker 7: be somebody that rises a wave? I'm not gonna be
Speaker 7: even killed, you know what I'm saying and going at
Speaker 7: it the same way. So I put a lot of emphasism,
Speaker 7: just like the mental part of the game, making sure
Speaker 7: that my mind is ready night in the night out
Speaker 7: because I know my body, yeah can do it. You know.
Speaker 7: I stressed my body out all summer long, three workouts
Speaker 7: a day, five days a week, you know, going at
Speaker 7: it three weeks on one week off, traveling, still still training,
Speaker 7: still getting it in, so I know my body's up
Speaker 7: for the grind, But where's my mental going to be?
Speaker 7: You know, when you know you're go one night, you
Speaker 7: know I got thirty thirty seven and then the next
Speaker 7: night I got twenty two or fifteen, I'm shooting five
Speaker 7: for nineteen, you know, like I'm oh, man, like the
Speaker 7: team needed me tonight, man, Like I can't do this
Speaker 7: or it's going to be like, you know this happens,
Speaker 7: Like how do I get better?
Speaker 6: How do I improve? How do I, oh, I still
Speaker 6: get the best from the team.
Speaker 7: So that's the biggest thing that I changed going into
Speaker 7: this season is just making sure that I'm mentally strong
Speaker 7: no matter what, no matter what it is, whether I'm
Speaker 7: playing great for a stretch of games or you know,
Speaker 7: I have a few games where you know, the ball's
Speaker 7: not going into the basket.
Speaker 6: How can I still be that leader?
Speaker 7: How can I still be impactful and keep this team,
Speaker 7: you know, as one of the top teams in the conference.
Speaker 7: And I think I've been able to do that so far,
Speaker 7: even with being out with injury and things like that,
Speaker 7: still being in guys ears, still bringing that competitive fire
Speaker 7: and grit to the game. But when I'm on the floor,
Speaker 7: like like we're hanging in there, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 7: We're gonna figure it out. We're gonna be competitive every
Speaker 7: single night. I think that's what makes me an All
Speaker 7: Star this year.
Speaker 4: I agree, Bro, I definitely think you having an All
Speaker 4: Star season.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean. To me, there's so many
Speaker 5: All Stars, you know what I mean, And just putting
Speaker 5: your name on the board and putting your name in
Speaker 5: that category is just like that next level. And as
Speaker 5: I continue to watch you, I just see you keep
Speaker 5: leveling up, you know what I mean. And as a Brewing,
Speaker 5: I'm proud, you know what I'm saying. As a OG,
Speaker 5: I'm proud. And shit, you got my vote, Brom. I'm
Speaker 5: campaigning because you know what you guys are doing with
Speaker 5: the Clippers and the type of year that you haven't
Speaker 5: is I call it is to show improve you right
Speaker 5: every every game, you know, showing up, y'all, showing up
Speaker 5: of campaigning for j for Defensive Player of the Year
Speaker 5: because you're showing up, you know what I mean? And
Speaker 5: I think that you know, I love the young guys.
Speaker 5: I love the young guys, the young energy, in this league.
Speaker 5: But it's also you know, we gotta recognize veterans that
Speaker 5: take that journey, that take that step, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean, and reinvent theyselves, you know, multiple times, because
Speaker 5: that's that's really the staple of the league.
Speaker 4: And you know, I fight for veterans, more vets, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean.
Speaker 5: But we definitely gotta, you know, make sure we shine
Speaker 5: a light on you know, the vets that's in here
Speaker 5: because y'all showing up every night, y'all prove it, and
Speaker 5: you know that's really the cornerstone of the game.
Speaker 4: You feel what I'm saying. And these young guys are
Speaker 4: the energy.
Speaker 5: And so when I'm watching the game, I'm really watching
Speaker 5: you know, basketball at his finess that is purest with
Speaker 5: a fine tooth, con with a fine eye.
Speaker 4: And I love what the young guys are doing.
Speaker 5: But you know, I just from the respect level and
Speaker 5: how you've been getting down all year, I'm just I'm
Speaker 5: just loving your get down most definitely.
Speaker 1: I've had a lot of battles with James Harden over
Speaker 1: the years, with James Harden playing like James Harden playing this.
Speaker 3: Year, and you can imagine.
Speaker 1: Six years younger and playing how he playing this year, Ah, crazy,
Speaker 1: crazy battles, fine battles, A lot of respect for James.
Speaker 1: What have you seen differently from him from him this
Speaker 1: year as opposed to what you saw last year when
Speaker 1: he was with you guy, I just.
Speaker 7: Think it's approached man like honestly, like a little different,
Speaker 7: you know, you know, like guy coming in. You know,
Speaker 7: we wasn't crazy long into the scene. I think we're
Speaker 7: like three games in or whatever it was, and then
Speaker 7: when he finally gets on, we're probably like eleven games,
Speaker 7: but you know, just trying to get acclimated, you know,
Speaker 7: and figuring it out. Like everybody got to take an
Speaker 7: adjustment period, you know, so he's trying to figure out
Speaker 7: the guys and you know how he can insert himself
Speaker 7: into the team. So you know, we went to that
Speaker 7: sixth game losing street, you know when he started playing,
Speaker 7: and you know, it was just a full adjustment period
Speaker 7: and then we got a little rhythm and stuff. But
Speaker 7: I think this year his approach overall, you know, I
Speaker 7: said it in the media, like during the summers, like
Speaker 7: he was working on with the young guys, you know
Speaker 7: what I'm saying, Like we're doing the beep test, conditioning
Speaker 7: and running up and down the floor, you know, after
Speaker 7: their individual workouts.
Speaker 6: And he's right along with them.
Speaker 7: You know, he's going through the coverages and talking to
Speaker 7: him and being vocal, you know, on how we need
Speaker 7: to play, who we have to be this year, and
Speaker 7: you know, can do whatever they want. You know, nobody's
Speaker 7: checking in on James to see if he's getting his work,
Speaker 7: and you know it's trusted. You know that that's for
Speaker 7: the young guys that have to come in and be
Speaker 7: seeing every single day underneath the coaches, you.
Speaker 6: Know, and he's there.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: I think that builds trust, that builds the chemistry, you know,
Speaker 7: you know, saying like if James is in here doing this,
Speaker 7: then then I have to as well. And then just
Speaker 7: his care with his body, you know, I see him
Speaker 7: getting his workouts in, I see him getting his treatments,
Speaker 7: you know, and being really vocal about what he needs,
Speaker 7: you know, after the game's lifting and doing all the
Speaker 7: things to make sure that you know, he's able to
Speaker 7: be ready to lead and play every single night. I
Speaker 7: think that's been the biggest thing, Like even just being
Speaker 7: in the locker room throughout the course of the games,
Speaker 7: start their games, halftime in the games, like talking about
Speaker 7: what we need to do, the adjustments, keeping our heads up,
Speaker 7: you know, on on tough nights when we let let
Speaker 7: games slip away from us or we get blown out,
Speaker 7: you know, just refocusing everybody. He's been amazing with that,
Speaker 7: and that's what we need, you know, seeing that side
Speaker 7: of things from him and being, like you said, an
Speaker 7: opposing player. You know, you don't really know what goes
Speaker 7: on behind the scenes, and all the articles and things
Speaker 7: that were being put out about him leaving Philly and
Speaker 7: all that, like, you know, you get a one sided narrative,
Speaker 7: but then actually being on a in the locker room
Speaker 7: with him and talking to him. Our locker room lockers
Speaker 7: right next to each other, so there's a lot of
Speaker 7: dialogue on the game.
Speaker 6: And the approach and what we have to do. I mean,
Speaker 6: he's a great dude, great teammate.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm honored just to be able to play
Speaker 7: with him on the floor, you know, with all the
Speaker 7: things he's been able to accomplish and looking up to him.
Speaker 6: But he's been great.
Speaker 4: Talk about also, like.
Speaker 5: Your relationship with Kawhi, we know why is out, you know,
Speaker 5: you know, definitely when he comes back. I think y'all
Speaker 5: gonna be one of the most dangerous teams in the league.
Speaker 5: You know, you played, you know, on the same team
Speaker 5: win the championship. You know, hey, man, you get mad
Speaker 5: every time I said that.
Speaker 6: We can't get one bro, we can't get.
Speaker 7: One man.
Speaker 4: To get one my bad, you know what I mean.
Speaker 10: Man, I'm glad that I'm glad that it's still It
Speaker 10: would never bothered me, It would never not bother me.
Speaker 5: But talk about talk about your evolutionist you know, teammates,
Speaker 5: relationship with teammates in Toronto, and now you know how
Speaker 5: that's evolved. And then when his return come, you know
Speaker 5: just how that's going to help you know, uh kind
Speaker 5: of your game and the way you plan, how that
Speaker 5: takes pressure off of you know, him coming back.
Speaker 6: Of course has been great.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 7: I mean I've known Kawhi since I was in high school.
Speaker 7: You know, I was in San Diego. I was at Lincoln,
Speaker 7: he was at San Diego State. San Diego State was
Speaker 7: the first school to offer me a full right scholarship.
Speaker 7: I took my official visit there, being in San Diego,
Speaker 7: respecting coach uh Fisher, Uh Jeremy.
Speaker 6: You know, Kawi is a right hand man.
Speaker 7: He hosted me actually on my my visit to San
Speaker 7: Diego State, so you know, doing Kawhi being around Kauai
Speaker 7: for a while. He's always supported me and showed me love.
Speaker 7: Even when he was in San Antonio playing. You know,
Speaker 7: he put me to like whatever I needed, you know,
Speaker 7: make sure I hit him up, you know, back down
Speaker 7: San Diego, get workouts and and things like that. But
Speaker 7: just being able to shut the flooridam talk to him,
Speaker 7: you know, pick his brain and his approach, because you know,
Speaker 7: everybody thinks he's just like.
Speaker 1: This, like.
Speaker 7: Out would statue robot that has no feelings, no emotions
Speaker 7: and things like that. Man, Like I always try to
Speaker 7: tell people, man, Kawhi is literally like one of us,
Speaker 7: you know what I mean, Like he's just he's just
Speaker 7: quiet and in the media and everything like that. But
Speaker 7: behind him closed doors in the locker room, like he's
Speaker 7: telling jokes, he's talking like he's normal.
Speaker 6: You know what I mean.
Speaker 7: But this is an approach to the game and his diligence,
Speaker 7: you know, and his focus is what I've appreciated as
Speaker 7: a teammate. You know, I've learned so much from just
Speaker 7: no matter what's going on, you know, just the staying
Speaker 7: staying even you know what I'm saying, He's never too high,
Speaker 7: never too low. He always has this like demeanor of
Speaker 7: like effort, you know what I'm saying, Like like I
Speaker 7: miss a shot, like I'm gonna miss another one.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. I'm still gonna approach it.
Speaker 6: I'm still gonna go out it the same way.
Speaker 7: And so that that's kind of like rubbed off on me,
Speaker 7: like where it's like, no matter what's going on, like
Speaker 7: I know who I am, Like I know what player
Speaker 7: I am, Like nothing's gonna change that. So that's what
Speaker 7: I've learned most about so like like being teamage or not,
Speaker 7: like we've always been cool. Him working out with no socks,
Speaker 7: it's crazy. I think that's probably the funniest thing. He
Speaker 7: on the court with full setup in no socks. It's
Speaker 7: probably the funniest thing I've seen.
Speaker 4: What, Yeah, it's nasty. I don't know I'm gonna get
Speaker 4: saying that.
Speaker 7: Man, I was.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, like, what is a kawhi is?
Speaker 4: Like I heard of kawhi is was.
Speaker 5: The coach was saying, like, all right, you know, dude,
Speaker 5: in the game, he can't shoot. He said, well, oh
Speaker 5: my gosh, man, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 7: We in Toronto, right, we just got blown out by Milwaukee,
Speaker 7: and we come in to film the next day and
Speaker 7: Nick's talking about, you know, rolls and how our office
Speaker 7: can get better. You know, we just got blown out
Speaker 7: and you know, and so he's telling everybody what they
Speaker 7: should do. And he gets to Kawhi and he's like,
Speaker 7: he's talking about trying to move the ball, you know
Speaker 7: what I mean. And so he's like, you know, like,
Speaker 7: even Kawhi, you come down, man, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 7: just just moving the ball for the hell of it.
Speaker 7: And I was like, you know, I Devoice is like, yeah,
Speaker 7: I don't think I should move the ball for the
Speaker 7: hell of it. I was like, man, and like like
Speaker 7: like he's like, like, my job is to score the ball,
Speaker 7: and like you know, you know, as a head coach,
Speaker 7: and it usually got something to say back, and you
Speaker 7: don't know what to say because like nobody was expecting it.
Speaker 6: And he's just like nah, and it's Mile trowing his
Speaker 6: hell like like nah, I ain't gonna move the ball
Speaker 6: for the hell of it.
Speaker 7: Everybody just started laughing into Oh my gosh in the
Speaker 7: locker room, I mean, in the theater room. Man, watching
Speaker 7: that film, it was hilarious. But he got a little
Speaker 7: one liners all the time. He got one leonards all
Speaker 7: the time that people don't know he's hilarious. But him
Speaker 7: coming back, man, is gonna be huge for us. I mean,
Speaker 7: just just the attention to detail that teams have to
Speaker 7: have to focus on. You know, it's gonna take the
Speaker 7: pressure off James being picked up, you know, full course
Speaker 7: gonna take the pressure off me getting double teams and
Speaker 7: face guard and boxed and won when you're playing against
Speaker 7: certain teams.
Speaker 6: Uh, you know, having to guard Kawhi.
Speaker 7: You know, he draws double teams like you can't guard
Speaker 7: him one on one for a full course of the game.
Speaker 6: So now I'm getting more catch and shoot threes and more.
Speaker 7: Stuff out the floor of the offense from his double
Speaker 7: teams and stuff like that. I think it's just uh,
Speaker 7: I mean, he's a generational talent when he's on the floor, man,
Speaker 7: and he's healthy. I mean, he's top five in the
Speaker 7: league with his production and his play, and he's gonna
Speaker 7: elevate the team. I mean, he's a two way, two
Speaker 7: way threat offensively defensively, you know, and it's gonna help
Speaker 7: other guys get into their more natural roles to help
Speaker 7: our bench as well. You know, some guys playing in
Speaker 7: the bench starting right now with the lineups, and you
Speaker 7: know when he's back, Uh, it's going to have a
Speaker 7: full team to where we can you know, do a
Speaker 7: lot of different things defensively and offensively.
Speaker 1: Now, new season, new arena. How does it feel to
Speaker 1: have your own arena and not be a visitor at home?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 6: Like, man, it feels great.
Speaker 7: I can't even lie too man, just having like like
Speaker 7: you know, like having your having your own setup, having
Speaker 7: your own locker room, you know, you know, being comfortable
Speaker 7: having your own routine, not having Oh we got to
Speaker 7: get out early.
Speaker 6: We got to move this.
Speaker 7: We got a game at twelve thirty. We got to
Speaker 7: go this way to exit, like you know, we know
Speaker 7: where everything's at, you know, so it's more relaxed, he is.
Speaker 7: And you got your own fans, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: Like we have the wall is a dedicated section for
Speaker 7: just us. So even when y'all travel down there and
Speaker 7: y'all like to bring all your fans and everything down
Speaker 7: to LA, you know, we got our section still rocking
Speaker 7: and competing, you know what I mean. But It's great
Speaker 7: man to have your own identity. The rebrand is amazing.
Speaker 7: Kind of gets away from the whole sterling thing and
Speaker 7: all that, you know, having our own identity. Uh, you know,
Speaker 7: Bomber has been great providing everything that the team needs
Speaker 7: as players and as an organization.
Speaker 6: And the arena is top notch.
Speaker 7: I mean, I haven't been over to the visitor side,
Speaker 7: but I'm sure you ain't complaining about the locker room
Speaker 7: because you know some of these arenas and visiting locker
Speaker 7: rooms being a in a in a box, you know
Speaker 7: what I mean. But yeah, it's amazing. I mean, the
Speaker 7: halo board is probably my favorite thing in that arena.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's incredible. I had walked all the way up
Speaker 1: to the top of the wall when we were when
Speaker 1: we played y'all there. It's just kind of got that
Speaker 1: advantage point at the top of the halo board and
Speaker 1: then kind of cut down a little bit and see uside.
Speaker 3: It was dope to see now, but we we appreciate you, Steve.
Speaker 1: I've heard you know, there's a hot tub and cold
Speaker 1: tub and stuff and the Warriors guess locker room and
Speaker 1: home I got that over there.
Speaker 4: It's great.
Speaker 3: So we appreciate you rather than the weight room train.
Speaker 3: The rooms great. Another thing, the seats. The seats are high,
Speaker 3: like you.
Speaker 1: No, I'm talking about well number one on the bench.
Speaker 1: The bench seats are great. But even in the locker room.
Speaker 1: You know, you go to these arenas, man may be
Speaker 1: having these chairs that are super low and then fucking
Speaker 1: and you know with you know they do and uh
Speaker 1: in two it they got the ones you can let
Speaker 1: up and they got to warm on them and stuff.
Speaker 1: But I think they should have a rule about the
Speaker 1: bench in NBA arenas. Man, Like, again, you want the
Speaker 1: product on the floor. You want guys to be healthier.
Speaker 1: Part of that is the little things like when you're
Speaker 1: sitting down your hips being level and a lot of
Speaker 1: them benches put you yeah yeah, hips in the wrong.
Speaker 1: Regular stuff plays a part in the injury. Absolutely, So
Speaker 1: the NBA.
Speaker 5: You like, yes, man, hey, bro, y'all still sitting in
Speaker 5: concert seats. You know what I mean, y'all sitting in
Speaker 5: the same seats. We say, you ain't got no upgrade, No,
Speaker 5: you ain't got.
Speaker 6: No gameer cheers.
Speaker 4: Yes you're not, like, uh, that's look nasty. Yeah, sitting up.
Speaker 5: Sitting on kid, I don't even look right, man, let's
Speaker 5: we're gonna have to upgrade them seats. Man, let's find
Speaker 5: let's find a seat of partner or something like that.
Speaker 5: Come on, man, and were putting the a PV out
Speaker 5: anybody who makes DOMP seats.
Speaker 4: We need bet seats. We need the bitch right.
Speaker 3: Ship, Come on, man, ship exactly.
Speaker 4: There your back up. That's a big part of No,
Speaker 4: that's a big part being on that bench.
Speaker 5: You got everything, you got the back thing and then
Speaker 5: and then you still got the hole in the back
Speaker 5: of the morning chair, so you can't really get a proper.
Speaker 4: You know what I man, Yeah, man, you know I
Speaker 4: know all about that.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 4: That is that is not how we wanted to do.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: But back to the end too it. You know, I
Speaker 4: think into it is dope.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's a bad seat in the house,
Speaker 5: you know, being from San Diego, going to uc LA,
Speaker 5: being a clipper, being a part of this new frontier.
Speaker 5: Just talk about you know what this means really because
Speaker 5: y'all pioneering a you know, a whole new system. You
Speaker 5: know what I mean of fans and just what you
Speaker 5: talked about. But just talk about you know, your career,
Speaker 5: where you at the evolution and just you know, just
Speaker 5: I feel like you in the moment of you know,
Speaker 5: being home and also being a part of this, you know,
Speaker 5: this new Clipper regime.
Speaker 6: Yeah, honestly, it's full circle for me.
Speaker 7: You know what I mean to be able to be
Speaker 7: back where the NBA journey started, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 7: going to U s LA, being able to be around
Speaker 7: my family, like you know, having to be away, you
Speaker 7: missed so much time. You know, you got to sacrifice,
Speaker 7: you know, to be successful in this league. You know,
Speaker 7: a lot of that sacrifice means, you know, giving up
Speaker 7: family time, personal time, whether that's with workouts and things
Speaker 7: like that, but also being on the road, you know,
Speaker 7: and then you know, if you play for a team
Speaker 7: that's not in your home market, you know. So I've
Speaker 7: been that's my third season with him now. So for
Speaker 7: three years out of the ten years I've been in
Speaker 7: the league, I've I've been home. The other seven I've
Speaker 7: been on the road. So I've missed so much time
Speaker 7: with family, and it's been amazing these last three years
Speaker 7: just to spend time with my niece, spend Thanksgiving, Christmas,
Speaker 7: and just being able to we have an off day,
Speaker 7: I can shoot down to Sant Diego, you know what
Speaker 7: I'm saying for a few hours, to see my mom's
Speaker 7: and my sister and go to my nephew's football game
Speaker 7: who actually plays for my high school now and support there.
Speaker 6: So it's been amazing, you.
Speaker 4: Know what I mean.
Speaker 6: And then you know, just kickoff uh this season.
Speaker 7: You know, the Clippers started the G League down in
Speaker 7: uh in Ocean Side, you know, so to actually go
Speaker 7: down to San Diego County and uh where you know
Speaker 7: I had my hoop dreams growing up in San Diego
Speaker 7: to play a game there, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 7: and gave the intro uh, you know, the kickoff the
Speaker 7: arena is amazing.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 7: It's something that you know, you can't really put down
Speaker 7: or dream about, you know, as a kid growing up.
Speaker 7: So just to be a part of this whole new redesign,
Speaker 7: you know, and be a focal point in it, noring
Speaker 7: where the Sandel Clippers started, you know what I mean,
Speaker 7: and being from San Diego and that history there, it's
Speaker 7: definitely dope to be a part of it. Like you said,
Speaker 7: it's a it's a moment that I'm in and I'm
Speaker 7: enjoined every second of it. I'm not taking if for granted,
Speaker 7: one because I know the work that it is taking
Speaker 7: to get here, but also just being a part of
Speaker 7: where the organization is trying to go, you know, and
Speaker 7: being a focal point, and it has been truly amazing.
Speaker 5: You face the Warriors twice this year, you know, coming
Speaker 5: into a game, how do y'all team prepare for Draymond Green?
Speaker 3: Prushure the dogs? What are you doing about it?
Speaker 4: Y'all talk about him talking ship? Oh man?
Speaker 7: Yeah, so we say, don't worry about it, don't worry
Speaker 7: about the boyshit he's gonna do.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: He don't come in flailing and was yelling and screaming.
Speaker 7: We're gonna pressure. We're gonna pressure the hell out of
Speaker 7: his handle.
Speaker 6: You know what I mean. And then pressure when he's.
Speaker 7: Driving to the basket, wall up and and go vertical
Speaker 7: and make him a finisher. Literally the set up. Don't
Speaker 7: get drawn into the bs. You what I'm saying, Pressure
Speaker 7: the ship out of him, and don't follow when he's
Speaker 7: going to the basket.
Speaker 6: I just gave you the game plan right there.
Speaker 3: For years.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4: Now j gonna start talking to you the funny thing
Speaker 4: is he got I remember.
Speaker 11: That, Thank you God, I was playing. It was when
Speaker 11: I was in Portland. I remember the ship so vividly.
Speaker 6: Man, because one of the assistant coaches, like you hear this,
Speaker 6: Draymond Green said to you, I said, what are you
Speaker 6: talking about?
Speaker 4: What you say?
Speaker 7: Because I'm ignoring his ass because I know he's gonna
Speaker 7: be I know he's gonna do something. I know he's
Speaker 7: gonna say something. So I try to attack him on
Speaker 7: on the right wing between the LA's crossover. I try
Speaker 7: to body him whatever, you know. I try to get
Speaker 7: my little you know, my break through foul. And I
Speaker 7: don't get the call and bo guard the bounds right
Speaker 7: and I don't even know what the hell he said.
Speaker 7: But you know, Drake, you know he be getting hotype
Speaker 7: when he gets stops.
Speaker 6: You know what I mean, He just ship, you know,
Speaker 6: you know, I just ran back on defense cause I
Speaker 6: know he's about to say some ship. You know what
Speaker 6: I mean.
Speaker 7: He was already into the game, and so then I
Speaker 7: was mad as hell because I would have said something
Speaker 7: if I knew it. But then there was a clip
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying on Instagram and I'm running
Speaker 7: back on defense.
Speaker 6: He get the stop. He getting ready to take the
Speaker 6: ball out.
Speaker 3: He said, yeah, you get your mama. I was like,
Speaker 3: that's what he said.
Speaker 6: I would turn.
Speaker 3: Something I wouldn't. I wouldn't have said that to you,
Speaker 3: but but I know.
Speaker 6: Like, I don't take it person.
Speaker 3: I know that's that.
Speaker 7: You know, that's you, and I like that part of
Speaker 7: the game. You know, But I would have turned around
Speaker 7: and say what you think this is? Man, I'm right
Speaker 7: back to I'm here too, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: But yeah, man, I remember that man. He always says
Speaker 7: something he don't. He don't back down from nobody.
Speaker 1: You get a lot of guys that you know, you
Speaker 1: got him nor may never never ain't never backing down from.
Speaker 4: Listening to you.
Speaker 5: The guys you know listen to I don't listen to him.
Speaker 5: He'll say, he'll say anything.
Speaker 6: I know how I know how to goes.
Speaker 3: Just gotta find angles, Bro, trying to find ain't knowing. Man,
Speaker 3: it's been a pleasure. Brother.
Speaker 1: We appreciation yall you you have you having an incredible year.
Speaker 1: Keep it up, stay healthy, and I hope the best
Speaker 1: for you. Bro.
Speaker 3: Be an all star.
Speaker 1: Keep chasing it, Bro, It's incredible to see you level
Speaker 1: up your team like only Kyle Lowry has leveled up.
Speaker 7: Uh this late, you keep going, my dog, I'm gonna
Speaker 7: try to Pa, I'm gonna try to pass him. So hopefully,
Speaker 7: you know, saying things go right, I'll be right right there.
Speaker 7: All Starring experienced that, man, But I appreciate you'll having
Speaker 7: me on here. You know what I'm saying, taking the time, man.
Speaker 7: I looked at both of y'all careers, and it's an
Speaker 7: honor man to be, you know, talking to y'all and
Speaker 7: being the same category as y'all in some aspects, you know.
Speaker 7: So I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate you.
Speaker 6: Bro.
Speaker 5: Just invite me to the football game so I can
Speaker 5: sit in the lower ball now, I.
Speaker 6: Got you, man.
Speaker 5: I make sure it doesn't take care of you. Hey day,
Speaker 5: I'm sitting up there. Whatever you need, man, he's sitting back.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I'm sitting back like this watching the game and ship.
Speaker 7: I got a beer right here, poor, come on, nor,
Speaker 7: I get you right, man, I get you the floor seats, man,
Speaker 7: and get get right there first of all.
Speaker 4: Take care of I got you.
Speaker 5: Let's go, bro, legend. Appreciate it for All Star All
Speaker 5: Star campaign.
Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Man, appreciate you.
Speaker 5: Bro volume