Speaker 1: Drafted is a production of tree Ford Media, Clutch Sports Group,
Speaker 1: and I Heart Radio. With the first pick in the
Speaker 1: two thousand twenty NBA Draft, the Minnesota Timberwolves select Imagine this.
Speaker 1: You've been playing basketball since you were little, dreaming of
Speaker 1: going pro. Then it happens. Life as you know it
Speaker 1: changes with one phone call. Thankity, it won't be very great.
Speaker 1: This is Keegan Michael Key, and welcome to Draft It.
Speaker 1: In our first season of the podcast, we followed eight
Speaker 1: football players through the NFL Draft. In this second season,
Speaker 1: we followed to college basketball phenops, the explosive Anthony Edwards,
Speaker 1: who starred at the University of Georgia, and the University
Speaker 1: of Kentucky's Tyrese Maxie, arguably the hardest working player in
Speaker 1: the draft. The albums the Game upst sing saying, man
Speaker 1: working out with four practice, four ways or four class
Speaker 1: doing what I had to do on the court, doing
Speaker 1: what I'm doing the class room. It's still a hard
Speaker 1: Anthony and Tyreeks will make themselves up and tell their
Speaker 1: own stories, giving us a raw, honest look at what
Speaker 1: it takes to go from childhood dreamer to college star
Speaker 1: to being chosen. Is one of only four hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty NBA players in the world. But I'm so good now,
Speaker 1: Maybe do this. NBA stands for No Boys Allowed. I
Speaker 1: feel like any person, any human being, has been through
Speaker 1: what I've been through. You can't do nothing to me.
Speaker 1: And he's always got a chip on his shoulder. I
Speaker 1: think you need those things to be a great player.
Speaker 1: I just really do. This is their real life as
Speaker 1: it unfolds in real time, and we'll go further behind
Speaker 1: the scenes in this season of the podcast with unprecedented
Speaker 1: access to their agents, Clutch Sports Group founder and CEO
Speaker 1: Rich Paul having Drafted there, what's going on? What you hear?
Speaker 1: And their head of basketball Omar Wilkes. This is a
Speaker 1: draft unlike any before. It's all a game of chess.
Speaker 1: There's always been a mystique to draft day, but in Drafted,
Speaker 1: we live every detail from the player's perspective, before, during,
Speaker 1: and after one of the biggest days of these athletes lives.
Speaker 1: It's draft n I'm not to get drafted, all right,
Speaker 1: and we stay on moving couch. Listen and follow Drafted
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