WEBVTT - Bones Hyland | Playing For Denver, Clippers Trade, Trash Talk | EP 39 | KG Certified 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.559 Hey, man, y'all know what it is. Man's KG certified today. 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:04.960 We were the great Bones guy. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.600 Man. Pleasure to be here. 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:09.680 Hey look man, welcome to certified. 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:10.719 You know what I'm saying. 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:12.680 I got to ask you, Bones, where'd you get your 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:13.520 nickname from? Man? 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:17.400 Man, I got it from a childhood friend. She goes 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:20.599 by the name Chicken, and uh, so I was new 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:23.000 coming around to the city. I was originally born in 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:26.040 North Carolina. I came to Womington, Delaware, and I was 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:28.120 a new kid in town. And I had went to this, 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:30.159 uh to the to the gym, and it was a 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:31.720 bunch of kids. You know, I'm just starting to get 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:34.120 used to everybody. And a couple of days passed by, 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:36.360 I ain't have a nickname. Everybody else had a nickname. 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.040 And they're like, they seen how skinny I was. The 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.159 girl says her name Chicken. She's like, uh, you know, 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.360 I'm gonna call you Bones, and she's like, because you're skinny, 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:45.600 I'm like, man, that can't fit me for real. Yeah, 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:47.199 And ever since then, I just been This was like 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.760 I was like a No. Ten And ever since then, 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:51.440 I've just been my name. I ain't really go by 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:53.640 my government name, and this bones has been my name 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:54.200 ever since. 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:56.600 Oh wow, so so in the in the sense of 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:58.720 you've been playing balls since like eight or nine then. 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.360 Really like before that, for real, I had the bottom line, 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:03.200 I was too. 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:05.240 Yeah, I just love basketball ever since. 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:09.760 Who and your family with the connection of basketball, mom, dad, anybody. 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:12.000 Just picked it up? 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.040 And there's one from there. My brother used to play basketball. 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:15.760 He played all way up to the high school. You know, 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:17.720 he showed me the ropes and stuff like that. Ever 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:19.839 since then, I just you know, going around the city 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.000 of the city, you know, tournaments and tournaments and just 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:23.840 playing and just you know, I got better working on 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:24.319 my craft. 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:25.520 And you know, now I'm here. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:27.400 You come from a big family. 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:28.680 Yeah, a big. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.760 Family, but you know it's very it's a small city, 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:35.560 but like it's family in different states. But we all 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.120 really ain't that like lockdown like then certain states. Yeah, 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.800 but like not everybody, but like not really a big family, 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:42.640 but it's a big family. 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.480 You know, I got you, I got you, I got you. 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:48.800 Moving parst to it too, Yeah, Now is it true? 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.200 Growing up you were a huge Hot Sauce fan. 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:53.760 Yes, huge, Yeah. 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.480 Everybody always asked me, like, you know, my favorite player 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:00.840 growing up. Everybody thinks you know me, you know, and 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:02.600 I just be like, you know, I'm gonna make people 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:04.440 laugh about this, but it was hot sauce. And it's 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.720 a funny story. I always like, I always talk about this. 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.480 I come on from school and like, I eat the 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.160 bowl cereal and I put hot sauce up while watching 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.040 it while eating like foot pels or something. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:16.839 I put hot sauce up on my on my little 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:17.520 phone or whatever. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:19.760 And then after I'm done eating, I go in the 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.200 mirror with the ball and I just started to his moves. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.120 And then after that, I go to the gym and 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:25.920 I just start like working on all his moves and 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:27.720 just from there, like that's just been the guy who 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:29.680 just showed me how to, you know, just just be 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:30.880 creative with the basketball. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:31.120 You know. 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.360 He showed me how to you know, through all the churches, 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.440 through the crossovers between the legs, and just get the 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.600 crowd into the game, you know. And ever since then, 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:39.120 I always shot out hot sauce. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.680 Sauce was different. It was crazy different, and you know 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.560 it's crazy bones. His name went with his moves, you 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:47.880 know what I'm saying. He was his moves felt like 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.600 Hot Sauce. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, he shout 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:52.840 the Sauce Man. He was a huge fan of the 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:54.119 whole an One Movement. 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:58.079 And One Movement, Professor, all of them, little, all of them. 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.280 Like I used to watch literally them every single I 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.480 never really watched no NBA players I was watching just dumb. 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:07.200 The Professor actually lives out here, real, he lives out here. Uh, actually, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.680 we're gonna do something with him. I'm a huge fan 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.040 of professor. The Professor I used to be with an one. 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.200 Yeah and uh yeah, right. When are you familiar with 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:17.519 the N one mixtaping all that? 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.000 Yes, yes, for sure. I got to catch up on 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:22.040 the documentary that's his job. I watch that dope, no doubt. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:23.560 They gave you a bunch of insight to what was 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.079 going on with it. Man, that stuff to hear. Man. Now, 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.000 I got to ask you, now, who was your NBA 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.800 kind of influence? If Hot Sauce was kind of your street, 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.440 who's your NBA kind of player you went to that 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.800 kind of like you know, I love his game. 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.040 For for like you know, I always love watching AI, 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.720 but I didn't never watch him live on the television 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.800 like I was always watching the highlights and stuff like that. 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.840 But and like I ain't gonna lie like it, like 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:49.840 through high school all of that, I always always is 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:50.760 big on this hot sauce. 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.080 Bro, I'm notin't gonna lie KG. And then as the. 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:54.360 Time going, like when I was in college, I had 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.280 to study different players. Then I started getting you know, 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:57.960 the Jamaal Crawfords and stuff like that. 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.360 You know, guys who was similar type of gaming I have? 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:01.720 So you know, it. 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.320 Really wasn't like, oh, I was a diehard fan. I 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.240 was little and now like damn we in the league. 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:07.800 I'm playing to against him and stuff like that. It 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:09.480 wasn't like that. But like you know guys like of 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.480 course we all watched like Lebron and you know. 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.160 Kobe MJ. But like they wasn't like my favorite players. 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:14.360 You know. 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.040 I feel like they didn't like have what I had, 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.960 Like the Flairs. I feel like Jamal it was more 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:20.640 similar games. 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.640 Do you like the street Ball? Did you like the 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:27.480 street Ball style? What do you like the yah? One 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.160 of one of my favorite parts of your game, Bro 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.719 is the creativity. Yeah, I'm thinking you about to take 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.040 the layoff? How you know, look nigga, the floor up 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:40.000 how you come down, bro, Bro, tell me how do 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:43.240 you emulate street ball and actually put it into the 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.760 professional game without the coach ripping your you know what 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:47.200 I'm saying. 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.400 You know exactly what you're saying for For for me, 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.560 like it's honestly it comes from playing, you know, and 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.080 the hud you know, playing you know, outside and just 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.159 working and just playing and not like overdoing certain moves 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.240 and stuff like that, learning how to keep certain moves simple, 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.760 but also keeping that flair and that swag with you, you know, 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.679 and you know, guys like Ai had it, Jama stuff 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.080 like that, And I just took stuff from different people's 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:11.400 game and try to put it in my own flair. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.320 And now it just came, you know how it is now. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.599 But you know, sometimes in the game, I just know 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.080 when to get a little saut see and no look 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:19.480 past or something that, you know, so I know how 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.279 to get the crowd into it, but at the same 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:22.240 time not doing too much. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:22.480 You know. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.640 You know who I like to bring up when you 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:26.960 talk about this. I don't know if you know, the 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.599 great Skip to my little you know, right for for sure. 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:33.200 So so Skip got a rep right. It took Skip 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.320 a minute to get into the league. But he went 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.800 to college. He had this crazy street rep. Yeah, so 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.440 when he got in the game, we was all like, 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:48.200 he was look, he was like this, you know, he 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.520 was like this, I can't really get it off. 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:51.159 You know what I'm saying. 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:53.680 Every now and then, like at the end of the game, 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.080 you know how garbage got like a minute left, he 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.800 was skipping, come there, skip And he played for a guy, 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.240 George Cart. George Cart be like, look, I'm gonna put 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.640 you in the game. Strip to my louse ship and 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.080 so ray for the BEI here here pass the ball 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:13.120 and we'll be like, nigga, what're you gonna bring out 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:14.800 the skins? Like, I can't really get this. 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.320 And I feel like it's certain moments when you can 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.720 do it, you know, like you know, when he jumping 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:21.880 in the air he skipped, I feel like you can 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:23.159 do that and transition. 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:23.200 Here and there. 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:24.719 But like I feel like, if you're coming down the 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:26.159 set play, you can't do that. 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.840 He's gonna looking right exactly, the coach's going pull. You're 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:31.960 like what you're doing all there? 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:33.840 So I feel like it's certain moments where you can 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:35.839 you know, have that flare and you know, same just 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:37.640 be yourself. You know, that's how you grew up playing. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.599 You can't change that for you know, you can't change 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.320 who you are. That's what got you here, you know, 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.240 So you never let somebody just change who you are. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.680 I'm saying this because all your kids out here are 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.919 pulling out your your moves at the wrong time of 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.280 the game. If you're coming down and it's tied up 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.240 and you want to do this, skip to my loose 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.560 roll over and ship lord, it's time. There's times when 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.719 you can. You can't pull that ship out first two quarters, 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.800 you pull it out, third fourth quarter, This winning time. 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:02.640 I agree. 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.240 Let me ask you man, why VCU? Man? 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:07.360 I picked VCU because they was one of the first 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.360 teams that really recruited me, and I mean first colleges 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:11.000 that recruited me. 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:12.160 And also like I was. 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.320 Going through a tragedy where I experienced the house fire 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.600 and there was one like coaches who were just there 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.120 for me, you know, through it all, and I felt 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.000 like I just had that connection with them. And I 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.000 had all the schools in the country at the Michigan 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.239 Kansas you know, and stuff like that, but I felt 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.880 like I had a real like close bond with them, 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:29.680 and for me, it's always bigger than basketball for me, 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.400 So I'm big on loyal t and family and just 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.880 you know, having that type that type bond because everything 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.800 always goes bigger than basketball, and having somebody you can 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:39.680 go talk to and just have a real one on 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.840 one conversation, you know, not speaking about any basketball you 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:44.800 just speaking about real life situations. And for me, I 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.400 never had a father figure, you know, in my life. 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.640 So going to the coaches and talking to them about 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:50.960 real life stuff, that's all I needed, you know, Like 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.000 I'm away from my mom, you know, she's four hours 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.360 back in Wilmington, Delaware, away from her, and I just 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:00.240 needed somebody who was like a father figure, who can 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.520 you know, talk about like the stuff because I never 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:02.800 had that. 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.080 So that was big for me. Man. That's that's really 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:06.440 one of the reasons why I committed there. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.800 And ever since then, like I'm still locked in and 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.080 tapped in with them, and uh, it's been just I 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:12.960 feel like I never made the wrong decision going there. 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.080 That's what's up. Man. What was what was playing at 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:17.960 like good atmosphere, good basketball school. 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.080 Yeah, so my first year, my rookie year, my freshman year, 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.520 I had. It was really fun. The fans was there, 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:25.880 one of the like the best fans in the country. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:27.840 But the second year, though, we got hit with the 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:31.280 COVID and we had no fans. So we're just hooping 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.080 with no fans. But with me, like, I ain't ain't 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.040 mad to me. We opened baby like it's open gym. 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:42.640 Now kg open, it's open gym. We got fans, it's 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.480 no fans. Were just hooping, so it ain't really matter 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:46.960 to me. And that was, you know, one of my 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:48.839 best years. And I was just you know, my guy, 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.240 I was just going to be drafted after my second year. 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.160 What was it life? Being drafted? Bro? 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.880 That's true, man, that was like the biggest mom in 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:57.240 my life. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.920 Man, like just from everything that you know, like really 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.040 like the whole process. I was coming out like the 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.640 sixty six pick, like in a sixty six prospect coming 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.559 out for the draft. But you know, I went through 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.720 and I just better on myself, you know, and everybody 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:13.280 was asking me, and I, you know, two feet in 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:14.719 my one feet in. I always tell everybody, like, you 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:16.319 gotta be two feet in if you're believe me, So 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:17.880 you can't be one foot in and one foot out 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:19.880 like if you believe in yourself, go do it and 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:21.040 prove everybody wrong, you know. 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.440 And uh, I went through every workout. I'm going out. 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.679 Busting everybody, like I'm letting people know, like, yo, I'm 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.560 here to stay, Like remember me draft first round, Let's 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:29.920 do it, you know. And ever since then, like I 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.160 always just had that confidence, like you know, ain't nobody 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.200 gonna stop me from you know, achieving my dreams. And 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.080 that moment, you know, being hear my name called on 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.400 that night, I just hugged my mom and cried because 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:40.960 just everything that we've been through, man, like it's just 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:42.559 you know, that was just one of the best moments 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:43.040 in my life. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:43.280 You know. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:44.240 As soon as I heard my name. 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:45.880 Called, we just dropped to the floor, like that's just 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.240 everything that we've just been through, Like damn, like you know, 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.240 we made it, you know now you can you know, 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.200 I could live my live out my dreams. 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:53.560 Mine. Ain't got really worried no more. 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:55.960 And ever since then, like it's just been nothing but 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:57.560 happiness and just blessings. 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:57.719 Man. 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.400 Now, I gotta ask you. Now it's snow in Delaware, right, Yeah, 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.439 so when you got the dinner, you weren't really shocked 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:04.200 that snow and ship. 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.160 Yah no, but when I first landed it was hot 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:07.560 as hell. 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.720 I didn't know it was that out there, and everybody 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.080 be like, you know, everybody think it's always so cold. 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:14.559 Different bro, Yeah, it's so like. 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.440 It feel good out there, and ever says, uh, you know, 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.199 I got jacket there. There's snow for a couple of weeks, 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.200 you know, a couple of times, but after that, like 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.199 it's like it's like sunny for like three hundred or 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:25.120 something like that out of the year. 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:30.280 So Denver gets more sun than any city in the 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.720 United States. Yeah, uber fact, I'm huge on Uber Fact. 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.680 I got to ask you, bro, you play you played 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.440 with the Nuggets. Actually I loved you on there. I 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.600 loved that team with you on it, right, Yeah, tell 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.600 me playing. Tell me what it's like playing with big 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.600 fella man. What's the joker like, bro, Because he's very quiet, 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.760 you don't really give a lot. Yeah, he comes off 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:54.520 very serious and it looked like he was with all the. 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:57.520 Young you know, it's crazy. It's a couple of funny 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.360 stories because of like my rookie year shout to Joe. Yeah, 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:01.240 shut up to the yoke man. 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.120 But when I'm you know, going off in certain games, 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:04.640 he had like you know, tap me in the middle 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.840 of the moment. You know, stay home, stay humble, you know, 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.240 because on the time I'm excitement, I'm a excitement player. 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.360 I want to get the crowd into it. I talk trash, 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.040 you know, That's how I always been. But I'm a 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.600 very humble kid. But you can always remind you, you know, 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:17.800 stay humble, Stay humble, you know. And uh that's something 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:19.720 you know as words, you just always need to hear from. 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:21.160 You know, a guy who was you know, first Battle 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.560 of Hall of Famer already in his career, so you know, 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:25.120 but playing with him, you don't. 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:26.560 Got to worry about, you know nothing. You know, you're 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:27.240 gonna get the ball. 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.079 He don't care if he got you know, ten ten 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:30.480 and ten or forty ten and ten. 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.200 He don't really care. He didn't want to win, you know. 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.520 He don't want to talk about no accolades. He in 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:35.959 the locker room. You know, he's a great guy to 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.120 go talk to. You can talk to any about anything. 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:39.680 Like he just keep it real with you, you know, 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:41.840 And that's he's a guy like you. You want to 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.960 you know, look up after and following his footsteps. Just 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.520 from how he presents himself, how he carries himself, and 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.680 how you know, dedicated he is into his work. And 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.480 you know, for me first coming into my rookie year, 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.800 I didn't have a routine and I'm like, damn, man, 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.480 like the season feeling so long, you know, and I'm 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.480 just looking at him like he just every single game, 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.440 you know, whether if it's a bad game for him, 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.199 it's a good game, he followed the same routine. 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:05.600 That's just greatness. You know. 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.679 You gotta you gotta have a routine. And I'm like, man, 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:09.440 I gotta, I gotta figure out my own routine. But 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.160 obviously you're not gonna have the same as him. You 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.080 gotta figure out something. And I'm like, damn, like you 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:14.480 know what I mean, let me get on the routine. 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:16.520 Ever since then, like I started seeing my game elevate, 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:18.360 you know, much higher and higher. So you know, props 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.400 and yoke. Man, it was a blessing playing with him, 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:21.760 and I had fun playing with him. But you know, 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:23.199 it's a before any basketball. 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.280 He's like a like a great human being. 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.679 Man. Great, that's what's up. So overall, great experience in Denver, 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:29.280 you ye. 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.520 Yeah, yeah, great experience, man, they took a care and 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:33.840 with open arms. You know, kid, from where I come from, 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:35.280 that's just a gyam come true to you know, be 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.400 able to get drafted to NBA team my rookie year 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.640 and you know, amazing moment for me. 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:41.880 I have fun there as soon as I. 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.719 Got to ask you, man, what was that fucking elevation? Like, bro, 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:51.360 is it real? Is it real? It is real? Real? 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.680 You know the games just to funk with your mental 0:12:55.360 --> 0:13:02.160 welcome to Denver. You start feeling faint, it's because you are. Yeah, 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:04.520 you like like, yo. 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.880 Know, hold on, did the nigga say me two thousand 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:18.800 having a panic? I think I feel it. That's really 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.800 really I'm not gonna lie. It's really real. Like if 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:25.320 you're not playing there and you like, we feel it 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.080 when we like coming down, come back, we leave cause 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.880 we feel that elevation, Like damn, bro, we feel like 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:32.640 we got a shame or something. But you know, if 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.160 you're there for a couple of homestrets, you will see 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.680 the other team is definitely an evangel over there for sure. 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:38.160 So it's a real home advantage to that. 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.160 Yeah, it's a real home, man, It's definitely real. 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.800 It's no faking how long does it take you when 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.160 y'all go on two week trips? We you know, you 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.480 leave a week and you right, yeah, we y'all go 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:49.520 for two and a half weeks, two weeks when you 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.520 come back, how long did it take you to acclimate? 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:53.360 Real talk? 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:55.160 Like two days? 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:57.680 You feel it when you feel like, you know, your 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.120 earstart popping when you get back stuff like that. You know, 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:01.800 but I feel like, you know, two days is good, 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:03.800 but you know, you just got to get it work 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:05.280 out and you know, get that and see how it 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.040 feels and chests and stuff like that. You get that 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.160 work out in again, and uh, you know you would 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.400 be good though by game time though, because you already 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.120 in your mind like I'm used to it, you feel 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:14.200 me ain't really nothing crazy. 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.960 I had a teammate threw up in Denver. We came 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.080 through the first time out, you know, first time out 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:20.960 about what minute? 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:33.160 So yeah, man, yeah man, nah, that isn't really real real. 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:38.840 Appreciation to me about LA. Man, you're enjoying l A 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:40.000 so far, so good l A. 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:41.040 I love l A k G. 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:42.640 You feel like this was always a place for me 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.240 to you know, be even when I was first like 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.680 going through the drafting process, the pre draft process. I 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.040 had to work out out here for the Clippers, and 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:52.960 I had to feel like they were gonna take me. 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:54.200 They felt good about it. 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.800 I felt good about it, and you know, and like 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:58.680 a couple of days before, they seemed like it was 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:00.360 a high chante they were taking me, like was no 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.800 discussion about it, and you know, and I and honestly, 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:05.880 I didn't even really work out for Denver, like I 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.320 did the Clippers work out, in the Lakers work out 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:09.000 I had Denver. 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.000 Next I'm like, man, not going that late, you know, 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:11.720 I'm just gonna. 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.000 Go back to the crib and just you know, try 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:14.560 to get ready for the draft and stuff like that. 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:16.240 And uh, you know that night when I. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.880 Got my name called bout Denver, like oh shit, it's crazy. 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:19.120 Yeah. 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.720