WEBVTT - #thisleague UNCUT: LIVE with Davion Mitchell 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.320 Welcome to this League Uncut in the rule of twenty 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:10.160 four hour NBA News. This is you, Chris Haynes's telling 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:18.800 Mark Stein, it's so time. This League Uncut is underway 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:19.840 and on fire. 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.000 This should be a good one. 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:27.560 Yes, sir, Yes, sir, this is gonna be a good one. 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.000 Look, I feel like Mark Stein because mark Stein usually 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:31.440 gets to come off it. 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:32.440 Let's spot out the intro. 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:34.919 But this is me this time, Chris Haynes right here 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.159 of this league gonna cut my guy Mark Stein. I'm 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:41.560 doing the intro and I'm doing it live from my store, 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:43.920 me and my wife's store here in Elk Grove, California, 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:49.840 Sacramento area. That Charlote's Booty supply got Sacramento kingsguard Davon Mitchell, 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:51.840 so he's gonna be a This is gonna be a treat. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.960 I hope you guys enjoy. We got mark Stein still 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.720 in Dallas. He couldn't make it, but look he pulled through. 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.000 He still came on to do the show, and I 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.880 appreciate my brother mark Stein for that. But without further ado, 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.960 let's go this League Uncut with Davion Mitch. Come on, 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:16.760 d let Daveyon get settled in here. So we got 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:21.280 Mark Stein, who couldn't be here, but that's my co host. Uh, 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.440 so he'll he'll be jumping in from here and there, 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.959 and then we'll open up for the crowd to come, 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:29.920 you know, to ask a few questions as well. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.399 So go ahead and pick that up there and pick 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:38.960 that up so you could talk in that mic. So yeah, 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:39.600 you can move there. 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:44.880 Yeah, So d this is let's let's just talk about 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.720 first of all, the way to the season ended. It 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.680 was a tough you know, a tough series with the 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:55.200 Golden State Warriors. When you think about that series now, 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.120 now that you're a couple of months removed, what comes 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:00.800 to mind about I guess what could have been or 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:04.360 any second thoughts on how things were handled or whatever. 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.200 I mean, I think overall, we end up playing a 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.880 good series. We end up playing a really good, talented team. 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.200 Of course, they got a lot of experience, a lot 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.960 of Hall of Famers on their team, just a lot 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.120 of good pieces. Man where they've kind of been together 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.119 for a long time. So we knew it was gonna 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:22.800 be tough, and I mean I think we made it 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.760 the toughest for him, taking them to Game seven, Steph 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.480 had an unbelievable game with fifty points. I mean, a 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.639 lot of people that's what great to do, so we 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.960 kind of expect that, but they just got the best 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:34.280 of us. I mean, I think we learned a lot 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.880 from it, though, Like coming into the next season, we 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.400 know what to look for, we know that the game 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.480 plan we should have come into the next playoffs we 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:42.639 end up going again. 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:44.600 So I mean, I think we learned from it. But 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:45.680 it was a good series all inough. 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.440 So you brought up Steph. We're gonna get to him 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:48.960 later on. 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.960 But you know, for you in particular, you leave that 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.680 season that was your second year, So you leave that 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.520 season thinking what do you have to improve upon? How 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.200 can you get better? What is the aspect of your 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:04.800 game that you learned about? Okay, I need to step 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:06.000 it up in this area. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:11.679 I think every year, it's something that's always been talked about, 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.400 is just developing my jump shot. That's kind of just 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.880 been the biggest piece every year, and I mean I 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.760 think it's making progress. Even when I was in college, 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.240 I kind of had the same problem my first two years. 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:24.960 Then I kept getting better and better each year, and 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.680 then the more comfortable I get the more confidence I have, 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.200 the more the shots go in, the better percentages, and 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.000 the more I play because I can be on the 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.280 floor because I can shoot the ball and be good defensively. 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.040 So that's just an aspect that I've been working on 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.240 even this whole summer. That's kind of like been my 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.880 main focus is working on a jump shot. So they 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.240 have no reason not to have no reason for me 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.040 not to be on the floor. I'm saying it's defensively. 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:47.640 You know, I'm gonna do what I have to do, 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.120 and I think offensively, then then I can just kind 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:51.080 of be on the floor the whole time. 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.240 Okay, let me give a shout to Lance Wood's just 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.800 popped up in here, man, Sacramento's top. 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.920 For media, and hey, y'all better get to know him. Man, 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.960 he's just going place. Man, I think you'll just sneak 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:02.440 up in here. 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:04.880 I want to give a shout out to my wife, 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.640 Charlotte Haynes is her store, Charlotte's by Supply. 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:08.760 Uh. 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.280 Now, you're doing a good job, and you know I'm 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.320 trying to help and support you the best I can. 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.600 So with that, Saidee, A lot of people don't know 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:21.280 that that NBA ball. The NBA basketball is different from 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:25.080 college basketball and high school basketball. It takes a lot 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.560 of people a while to get used to just the 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:31.200 feel of it. Can you explain that transition from college 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:32.160 to the NBA basketball. 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.040 Yeah, that's funny because I was a couple of weeks ago, 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:36.520 a week and a half Agard, I was at Baylor 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:40.000 practicing with their team, playing against their guys and playing 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:41.359 five and five, and they don't. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:42.040 Play with the NBA ball. 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.160 They play with the Nike ball, and it was just 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.240 a completely different feeling, Like the ball is just a 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.919 lot thicker, you got more grip on it. It's just 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:50.920 it was hard for me to play with Honestly, I was. 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:52.840 I was missing a lot of shots. I couldn't really 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:54.520 dribble it, and I'm like, man, I cannot play with 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:58.000 this ball no more. But it's a huge transition, especially 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.960 because that ball, Like when I was growing up, I 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.799 always played with Wilson Evolution, kind of like Hosco Ball's 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:06.640 growing up, and then when the NBA came, it was 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:07.359 it was different to me. 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:08.960 I was like, man, I can't really grip the ball. 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:10.960 Then I got used to it when I started working 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.320 on more and then you realize when the ball get wet, 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.000 you can you got more grip, and the more you 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.360 play with it the better. The better it is because 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:19.840 no one, no one likes to play with a new 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.640 NBA ball. So but it's it's just a it's a 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.120 different feeling, a huge feeling. 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:24.760 Davion. 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.000 Obviously, you just said this is your second year, so 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.440 you know half of your life is a king. You've 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:34.320 you've tasted the playoffs, but when this season started, being 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.760 just a player on the team, how much did you 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:41.800 feel the playoff drought and just how long the community there, 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.640 which has always been one of the wildest fan bases 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.720 in the league, just how impatient they were. I mean, 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.279 I still remember the pictures from summer league when you 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.960 know they were running and running around outside saying we're 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:56.920 gonna we're gonna go five hundred, and they were, you know, 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.640 they were so pumped about some summer league success. As 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.680 a player on the team, what did that feel like 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:02.760 when the season. 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.800 Started, Yeah, I think that, Uh. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.280 I think the biggest thing Mike Brown did when coming 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.920 in being a new coach, he kind of addressed it 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.200 like the elephant in the room that you know, we 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.520 got to make the playoffs. But I think what he 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.800 did a really good job is trying to look look 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:19.920 over that trying to make the championship. 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:21.880 He always kind of talked about that. He didn't really 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:22.279 just talk. 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.839 About the playoffs because it's easy to make mistakes and 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.360 just and just lose a couple of games or lose 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:28.760 a couple of games in a row. You don't make 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.000 the playoffs by a couple of games. So we knew 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:32.520 that if we're trying to get to the championship, the 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.279 playoffs was kind of got kind of kind of going 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.479 to be in that way. So he kind of just 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:37.760 looked at it like that, and I feel like the 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.560 team kind of just roll with it. We thought we 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.840 was good enough to make it to the championship and 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.039 the playoffs is gonna come, come and go. And I 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.279 think the fans is it's different from the from the 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.280 when the fans looking in because they're not really it's 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:51.839 kind of hard to say that they don't. They're not 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.280 really there every day with you as far as the team, 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.000 So we didn't really try to look at the fans like, man, 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:58.520 we're just gonna make the playoffs. For our fans, We're 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.640 gonna make it for the organization, for the community, for 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.000 ourselves because we felt like we were good enough. 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.320 You think the Mike Brown you bench, Mike brown first 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.000 year as head coach kind of turned. 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:10.560 Some things around. 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.600 When did you notice At what point during the season 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.600 did you notice that this team was for real? Like 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.040 you knew, like, Okay, this is gonna be different from 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.040 what Kings fans had been used to as of late. 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.440 I think when I first noticed the day he started 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.760 to yell, not really yell, but he kind of got 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.480 on more of Fox and sabonas our best players. He 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.920 helped them more accountable than just like I feel like 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.000 a lot of coaches look at they're the star players. 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.800 They can kind of do whatever and they get away 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:41.080 with it. 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.120 But another player, someone like me that's not really the 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.400 start player on the team, but if he does something, 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:47.360 I'm gonna yell at him. 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.240 But I'm not gonna yell at Fox. Not That's not 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:50.200 how Mike Brown was. 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:52.160 He was kind of like he was even harder on 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.160 them just to make them better because they know they're 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.720 the leaders on our team, so we're gonna follow them. 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.560 So I think when he did that, I was like, oh, 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.200 we're going to be a really good team. 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.280 So was that different from what you've seen and the 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.880 previous regime? They probably wasn't quick to Yeah. 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:10.920 I mean I think I didn't really. 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:12.840 I didn't really notice it as much because, I mean, 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.360 my first year I was just kind of trying to 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.000 just fit in for I was just trying to see 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.600 what the NBA was going to be like, trying to 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:21.880 play my best every game, and then the coaching changes 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:23.200 in the trade, so it was all. 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.280 Kind of new to me. I was kind of like everywhere. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.400 So when I kind of had Mike Brown the official coach, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.040 I knew that it was gonna be fine. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:37.400 So you're regarded as probably the best on ball defender 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:38.400 in the league. 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.400 Did you know you had that skill set coming in 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:42.520 to the league from day one? 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.319 Like what did you did you feel like it might 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.040 have been easy or like, you know, cause some rookies 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.360 been like, oh damn, you know, it's easier than I thought. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.640 Like how was it for you once you started to 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.840 you know, crush down and guard people defensively. 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.959 I think I've always been like a defensive type of guy, 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.320 Like I love that end of the floor. I'm a 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.240 competitive guy, so I don't want no one to score 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.040 on me. I don't want them to be easy. Like 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.200 I always wanted to make it hard for the best players. 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:10.959 I mean, no matter who's driven the ball, no matter 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:12.520 who had the ball in their hands. I always kind 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.679 of been had that competitive nature. So I wouldn't say 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:17.520 it came It didn't come easy, of course, because I 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.520 mean regarding the best players in the world, but I 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.600 would say it was easier for me because I mean, 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.679 I kind of love that end of the floor. I 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.400 enjoy a lot of people don't really enjoy a lot 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.320 of people just do it because they have to do it, 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.360 or just just stay on the floor, but I kind 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.440 of I enjoyed that end of the floor, so I 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.720 take pride in it, and I study the defensive things 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.439 from greats like Marcus Smart that Drew Holliday. So I'm 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.679 kind of looking at the people that made a name 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:41.800 for themselves defensively in the league and I can take 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:43.719 from them, and it just helped my game out. 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.240 Before you got drafted, how much did you know about 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.960 Sacramento And how much had you had you actually ever 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:54.439 been there beyond potential draft workouts, Like how much did 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:55.800 you know about where you were headed. 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.320 So I got a funny story. A lot of people 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:02.080 don't even notice I didn't. I didn't do I don't 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:03.680 know if I can say this, but I just know 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:08.640 I didn't say it. Say it, but I didn't even 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:11.160 do a workout with Sacramento. I didn't talk to Sacramento 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.000 like I didn't like during the draft process, you got 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.120 to certain people who you think you're gonna get drafted to. 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.880 My range was from ten to fourteen, and it was 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.520 it was teams like the Warriors, was teams like Indiana. 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:23.120 It was teams like. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.400 Washington who I thought I was getting drafted to. The 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.240 teams I worked out for in New Orleans. I worked 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.680 out for them, and okay, see, but the teams that 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:31.360 I worked out for, I thought I was getting drafted. 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:32.920 I mean because I had really good workouts and things 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.120 like that. And I never worked out with Sacramento. I 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.319 never knew anybody in Sacramento. I didn't talk to him. 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.600 But he just I think my agency had a really 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.439 good connection with with Monty and kind of Manty know 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.600 about me, and he kind of wanted to change the 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.400 culture and he felt like I could have done that 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.920 as far as on the defensive end because Sacramento has 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:51.880 never been really good defensively, so he thought I could 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.040 change the culture in that way, and so I never 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:55.720 really thought to him. So I didn't never think I 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:56.680 was gonna come to Sacramento. 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:58.640 It was never a thought. I never been before. 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.680 I only been in California one time before I got drafted, 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.000 and I was just the LA for vacation. 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.520 So it was I've never been a Sacramento. 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:10.520 So when you're when you're when you're at that table 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.160 in the green room, like how much advanced your agent 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.000 probably gets a call that says you're going to be 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.560 a king before we actually hear Adam Silver say it. 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.000 But how shocked were you when they said, hey, you're 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:23.480 about ready to go to Sacramento? 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:28.560 So another story? Uh ok, yeah, yeah, another story, go ahead. 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.520 So sitting there at the table, you kind of you 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.120 kind of don't really know, but you kind of know 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.760 because basically, when you get drafted, all the cameras come 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.120 to you, and you know, okay, my name is next, 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.120 because it's a lot of cameras come to you or whatever. 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.040 So after the eighth pick, I forgot who had the 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.320 eighth pick. A pick was probably, uh. 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.360 Who went before man, it might have been Franz Wagner. 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.040 I think might have been Frans Wagner. He was maybe 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:54.200 the eighth pick. The ninth pick came, and I mean, 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.880 I didn't think nothing of it. I'm thinking of a yeah, 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.679 let me see. I think the eighth pick was Franz 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.360 Wagner from if You're right, You're right. 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:02.720 Yeah. 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.760 So it was so the fit came and the Sacramento came, 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:08.160 so I didn't think nothing of it. 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:09.760 I was like, not even paying attention. 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.760 I'm just looking like just talking to my family, and 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.160 all of a sudden, I just see all these cameras 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.760 just coming towards me with the knife pick. The knife 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.280 pick come and all the cameras coming towards me, facing 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.319 towards me. I'm me and my agent look because my 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.120 agent didn't even know either, because he didn't even get 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.760 the call from Sacramento until like after I got drafted. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.600 So my agents was like he was surprised too, because 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.480 no one really came. It came out of shock. And 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:34.920 then then my name got I went on Twitter and 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.000 then they said that yes, Sacramento cames are going with 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.240 Davion Mitchell, and then that's what my name called. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.840 Okay so hold on, take it out because people don't 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.319 know like how the TV, how it works on TV 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.960 at the draft, the camera will go up to the player, 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.480 and that's obviously a sign he already knew. So is 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.280 there some acting that goes on, like you got to 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:54.720 really act like you're shocked to hear you man? 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:55.840 Yeah? 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.920 I mean I think for me, I was like really 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:02.200 shocked because I I think I was Sacramento, So I was. 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.679 I was probably more shocked than anyone because a lot 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.600 of people kind of know they get a phone call, 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.000 but I guess Sacramento want to surprise me too, and 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.040 they didn't even call me till after the draft, So. 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:14.480 I was surprised. 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.240 What number? Did you really think you were gonna go? 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.720 So the surprise of the draft was actually Josh Giddy 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:22.480 because I had a really good workout with okay See, 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.120 and no one knew Josh Giddy was gonna go to 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.679 okay See. And I think he went maybe six, maybe 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.480 said yeah, six because the Warriors had seven. So I 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.880 also had a really good workout with the Warriors, but 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.280 I knew it wasn't gonna seven because Kaminga And then 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.000 if I didn't get picked by Sacramento. It was gonna 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:42.560 be by I think Indiana at thirteen, and then Warriors 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:44.840 had fourteen, So it was gonna be Indiana for thirteen 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.000 and then the Warriors at fourteen. It was gonna be 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:48.760 one of those two. And if I didn't get picked 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.439 by the Warriors, it's gonna be the Wizards. I think 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:51.160 they had fifteen. 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.240 Let me see that fifteen. 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:55.560 You got a good memory. 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:00.000 So for those that don't know, like, it's very unus 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.240 usual to get drafted by a team that you didn't 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.520 work out for. So that's very unusual. I don't think 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.600 you ever, I don't think that story is ever told. 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:09.440 It's probably yeah, I shouldn't have told it. 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:14.319 But the number nine, the number nine pick, it was 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.240 a lottery pick. It all worked out. So you get 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.280 to you get to Sacramento. Is this your first time 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.040 ever being out here and set? 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:23.720 So what was you? Give me? 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.240 Give me your first thoughts, your thoughts of being here? 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.360 Probably two weeks. 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.560 I mean the first two weeks, Like I think for me, 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.640 I was just always trying to be at the gym, 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.000 and then I didn't stay that far away. I stayed 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:37.560 in the toment, So I kind of stayed close to 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.480 the gym and the airport, so it was kind of 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.880 convenient for me when we left, I will always get 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.480 to the airport, probably the first because I was the closest. 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.960 But it was cool, Like I enjoyed the Sacramento. I 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:51.680 enjoyed the city, especially the people who are cool. I 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.240 think they got good food. It's just I enjoy it. 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:55.840 I mean, I don't really do much anyways, but go 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:57.640 to the gym, work, have my hose, playing the game, 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:58.840 so it was cool to me. 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:03.000 So again, we're talking with Davion Mitchell, the Sacramento Kings 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:05.000 here live at Charlene's Beauty Supply. 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.400 For those who are checking this out on the audio. 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.280 Version, please if you're in the sacrament area, please come 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:11.680 out check out my wife's shop. 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:13.560 She's doing unbelievable things out here. 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.800 When again, shout out Davion Mitchell for coming out here 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:18.680 and doing this, because we all know he can be 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.600 in the gym right now. I remember I did a 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.360 You probably don't remember this. I want to say I 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.600 probably didn't, but I did what I wrote one of 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:30.160 your first NBA stories when you got draft. You probably 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.840 don't remember this, but I did a story and Bobby 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.160 Jackson was working with you, was right when you got drafted, 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.760 and I said, uh, your agent at the time told 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.600 me like, man, you need to look at him like 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:42.280 he's a gym rat. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.200 He's a gym rat. I'm like, all right, so let 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:45.400 me see if there's a story there. 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.320 So I go and Bobby Jackson, who was a summer 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.920 league coach at the time, and I'm like, Bobby, what 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.280 is it about Devion? Like I'm trying to write a story. 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.200 I'm trying to get an interested angle. What is it about? 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.320 Shout out to Bobby. He just took an assistant job 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.800 with the Philadelphia seventy six ers, and he's said, dude, 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:02.160 he won't. 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.000 Leave the gym, Like we got to force him to 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:04.640 stay out the gym. 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.600 He comes in there early morning, comes back in the afternoon, 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:09.400 then comes back in the evening. 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.080 And so I'm like, huh, okay, there you go. 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.400 What was like, is that just natural or do you 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.840 feel like you really had to make a great first impression? 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:19.720 Nah? 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.200 I think in college I was like that, you know, 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.400 in colleges you can do that because you don't play 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:25.200 that many games. 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:27.720 You only play like twenty something games. 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.520 And then it's like a game like maybe one time 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.280 a week, so it ain't really putting stress in your body. 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:34.800 So I didn't realize that. 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:36.840 I mean, coming to the league, I'm thinking I should 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:38.760 be doing the same thing that got me here. 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:41.360 Hold on, hold on. So what'd you What did that 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:42.640 change when you realize you got to. 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.720 You starting like the game twenty is like I'm exhausted. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.080 So but nah, Bobby, I mean Bobby helped me out 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:51.480