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Speaker 1: So the first question we asked everybody when come on

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Speaker 1: the show, when you first got to the league, who

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Speaker 1: was the first person to bust your head?

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Speaker 2: Damn first person? You know what? It was? Mellow Man.

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Speaker 3: It was Mellow my rookie year, Denver Nuggets, Denver Mellow.

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Speaker 3: He went for like thirty or forty. Danny got hurt

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Speaker 3: that game. Danny had to sit out, so he didn't play.

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Speaker 3: So I got all the minutes and that was that

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Speaker 3: was That was the real like welcome to the league moment.

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Speaker 2: Right there was Guarden, mellow ass. He got me everything

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Speaker 2: too all. Let me and range in between bully.

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Speaker 3: Ball bullyball, and that's when he was at his finest

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Speaker 3: of that bully ball like the New York years, you

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Speaker 3: know what I mean. You could tell it was starting

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Speaker 3: to take a toll on him.

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Speaker 2: That was prime time. Mello, Yo, yo yo.

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Speaker 4: We live on location, live from Quarantine. We got PG

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Speaker 4: thirteen in the Land of Angels. We got good with ourselves.

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Speaker 4: We in Orlando right next to me in a like

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Speaker 4: you know, I got the blackest one, but we.

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Speaker 2: Got my man PG.

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Speaker 4: Thirteen in the building and were about to do this

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Speaker 4: man tune in.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate you bro yess. I appreciate that, y'all having a.

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Speaker 4: Stay your ass at home in quarantine.

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Speaker 2: That's stuff.

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Speaker 1: Palmdale High School they only got one high school on Pdal.

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Speaker 3: No we got uh, we got about three or four.

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Speaker 3: I went to p Night High School in Palmdale. There

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Speaker 3: is a Palmdale High School, but I went to it

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Speaker 3: was a new school. My senior year was the second

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Speaker 3: graduating class. Okay, so we were new up and coming

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Speaker 3: school and.

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Speaker 1: He was he was like a Lake bloomer in high school.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Super.

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Speaker 3: I didn't play AAU until really going into my senior season.

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Speaker 3: My senior summer, that was, uh, that was really like

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Speaker 3: the first time I got on the AU circuit. I

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Speaker 3: practiced a but actually with Lamar Oldham's I CAN team

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Speaker 3: my junior year.

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Speaker 2: I remember when he had that team.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was, you know, I was working out and

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Speaker 3: practicing with those guys my junior year. But then my

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Speaker 3: senior years where I really stepped onto the scene. That's

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Speaker 3: when he had like Greg and Maul them running that team.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well Rock, I was with Rock and I forgot

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Speaker 3: other I forgot buddy name. But but I don't know

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Speaker 3: if you're familiar with Rock Now I knew.

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Speaker 2: Who he was too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so Rock, and I forget the

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Speaker 3: other dude, Lionel. I think Lionel oh yeah yeah yeah

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Speaker 3: yeah them too is they was really the dudes I

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Speaker 3: was under.

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Speaker 1: So coming out when you had to choose like colleges

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Speaker 1: and stuff, like you committed to Santa Clare, Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: you went to I've been on their campus. They got

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Speaker 1: a dope, they got a dope, do.

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Speaker 5: A photo shoot, and I was.

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Speaker 3: Like, man, yeah, So how the Santa Claric came about?

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Speaker 3: So when I was playing AAU, I was playing Pump

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Speaker 3: and Run, one of the assistants for the Pump and

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Speaker 3: and I just became super tight with him, so, you know,

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Speaker 3: it was like, I'm gonna stick with you.

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Speaker 2: So I verbal, you know what I mean, soft verbal?

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Speaker 3: Then, uh, you know, my sister went to Pepperdine, so

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Speaker 3: I grew up on that campus from like thirteen to seventeen.

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Speaker 3: I'm seeing stars.

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Speaker 2: I'm blown away. So I remember.

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Speaker 3: That that night they coaches was there. They gave me

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Speaker 3: the offer on the spot. I'm in a wild moment.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm coming here, Coach, I'm coming, send me

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Speaker 3: the letter, send me the letter in tent. By that

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Speaker 3: I committed to Pepperdine. Coach ended up resigning, so I

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Speaker 3: when I'm went the Fresno But that's how that's how

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Speaker 4: Tho, it's crazy you say that because when we when

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Speaker 4: It was like an overnight camp. We had our nephews

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Speaker 3: And I'm saying I grew up there, like I used

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Speaker 3: what is that like when you're coming from where you

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Speaker 4: Now you're stepping out, you on your own. You just

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Speaker 4: what was that experience like for you?

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Speaker 3: It was cool, to be honest, you know, I grew

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Speaker 3: So I still felt like I was at home. My

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Speaker 3: But it still was like, all right, I'm out of

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Speaker 2: Now you feel me.

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Speaker 3: So I took that to heart, like, you know, everything

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Speaker 1: FRESNOE being a small school, you know, like the bigger

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Speaker 1: you really wanted to prove yourself at Fresno. Like what

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Speaker 3: So Fresno, you know, at the time, they was coming

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Speaker 3: me like I felt I was like the savior, you

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Speaker 2: I felt I had a lot.

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Speaker 3: you know, uplift the school. Now, we didn't really do

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Speaker 2: Well. So that was that was like a big motivation

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Speaker 4: So how was it for you when you got to

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Speaker 4: you know, after your sophomore year you balling out? What

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Speaker 4: at what point did you decide like, all right, I'm ready,

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Speaker 4: it's time for me to take this next step. And

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Speaker 4: I can do here at college. It's time for me

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Speaker 4: to go to the league. And did you know or

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Speaker 4: did you expect to be the high of a pick

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Speaker 4: or what was your thoughts surrounding that whole process for you?

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Speaker 3: After my sophomore year, I honestly I wanted to stay

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Speaker 2: So after my sophomore year. I had a real like

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Speaker 3: My moms and pops and I'm like, now I really

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Speaker 2: What I mean, here and there coming going.

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Speaker 3: They've been hearing the talk, and I knew I could have,

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Speaker 3: but I just didn't feel accomplished at that point to

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Speaker 2: So you know it, time passed, Time passed.

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Speaker 3: I started working out training, then I started to come

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Speaker 3: My name was doing well. I'm facing you know, the

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Speaker 3: big time players now. And growing up where I came from,

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Speaker 3: I used to watch the ABCD camp. I used to

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Speaker 3: I was on them, you ain't no need but.

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Speaker 2: I knew them, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: You literally got to actually go against some of the dudes,

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Speaker 4: it was like, yeah, you can't work out against this guy.

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Speaker 2: You can't. They don't they not send them again.

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Speaker 4: It was like, that's cool that you actually got to

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Speaker 3: I'm about to look the Yeah. Yeah, I had my

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Speaker 3: draft year. I had eighteen workouts. So I started working

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Speaker 3: out for late second round or men second round. Then

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Speaker 3: I started working out early second late first. Then I

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Speaker 3: moved into the mid twenties, then the late teams.

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Speaker 4: Me and you him right here here, right here to

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Speaker 4: the box next to me. He came in had like

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Speaker 4: two workouts and was going to dinner.

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Speaker 2: Right, he can't relate now.

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Speaker 4: Talking with people having conversations. He ain't got no real

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Speaker 4: he was already the chosen one. Yeah, I had more

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Speaker 4: than two. Man, I had more than too.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't many like to the callbacks. He had the

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Speaker 1: Hey, when you were getting drafted, did you think you

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Speaker 2: You know what I thought?

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Speaker 2: You just made me think about it.

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Speaker 4: I think I saw you was Jimmy Kimmel or something

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, y'all that was you know, I just thought

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Speaker 3: Y'all played hard, y'all have fun with it, And that's

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Speaker 3: You played you know what I mean, You played for

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Speaker 2: With the game. And I used to love that. This

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Speaker 1: You played the Miami Heat and you went toe to

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Speaker 5: That that solidified that year? Was it before then? Nah?

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Speaker 3: That was I think twenty fourteen, twenty thirteen fourteen season.

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Speaker 3: That was my second time matching up with Bron, and

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Speaker 3: after the wounds, I felt like I was I was ready,

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, realistically, I was never the same

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, from your injury, did that

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Speaker 2: That shit did? That shit did?

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Speaker 5: Because you just were doing nothing but shooting shooting.

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Speaker 2: I was in a chair. I was in a chair.

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Speaker 3: They when they was starting camp, they used to put

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Speaker 3: form shooting form shooting. Yeah, the whole practice, working on

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Speaker 1: It looks so effortless now, like seeing your jumper before

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Speaker 5: And that's why I was like, man, he probably shot

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Speaker 2: You done it.

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Speaker 1: Don't need too much. Sometimes you come off your move

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Speaker 3: And yeah, it's he used to tell me, you get

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Speaker 2: You just got to free your hands up.

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Speaker 5: You don't even see them, No, I don't even see

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Speaker 2: Exactly.

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Speaker 4: I want to know, like what was your like, take

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Speaker 4: to return the form all starting all that. What was

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Speaker 3: I ain't gonna lie it was it was a roller

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Speaker 3: I had Roy at his prime, g Hill at his prime.

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Speaker 2: In my life. I can't even imagine bro I'm.

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Speaker 1: Glad you back, and you ain't worth for him, man,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that should do it to you when

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Speaker 4: Tell me about when it came time for you to

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Speaker 3: That was this is what people want to lower right here.

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Speaker 2: Once everything rolled out, at.

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Speaker 3: That's how I felt God should look at it. So

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Speaker 2: I don't like front.

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Speaker 3: Office people, like the front office stuff. I'm not that

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Speaker 3: Like I'm cool with anything. That's not my position to be, like,

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Speaker 2: Just let me know. That's all I asked, Just let

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Speaker 3: and this is this is my last year there that

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Speaker 3: New Orleans that that All Star weekend, so we could

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00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:24,159
Speaker 3: sit down and we could talk like if I'm being traded,

441
00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:28,080
Speaker 3: let's let's talk about this. Like the president and the

442
00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:32,359
Speaker 3: GM meet me in UH, which is Larry and Herb Simon.

443
00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:34,320
Speaker 3: They meet me in New Orleans to talk about my

444
00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:38,080
Speaker 3: name being in the trade deadlines and Kevin Pritchard and

445
00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:40,080
Speaker 3: they like, nah, we would never trade you. You're not

446
00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:42,680
Speaker 3: movable like you this you that you are star, You're

447
00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:44,800
Speaker 3: our future. So I'm like all right, cool, cool, Like

448
00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:47,000
Speaker 3: this is where I want to be. So that's fine.

449
00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:50,680
Speaker 3: Then you know, trade deadline is before All Star weekend

450
00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,959
Speaker 3: is over with, right, so after all Star weekend. I'm

451
00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,040
Speaker 3: feeling good. I had this convo with them. Then again

452
00:19:57,080 --> 00:19:58,840
Speaker 3: I hear my name in the trade talks again. My

453
00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:02,240
Speaker 3: agent come to me like, oh, these teams are inquiring

454
00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,879
Speaker 3: for you, and the patients are talking like they're just

455
00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,639
Speaker 3: you know, hearing other teams out. So I'm like, we

456
00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:11,720
Speaker 3: just had this convo and they still looking to make trades.

457
00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:13,720
Speaker 3: So that didn't sit well with me, But I know

458
00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:15,760
Speaker 3: it's a business. At the same time, I'm not naive

459
00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,119
Speaker 3: to after that conbo. Now all of that goes on

460
00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,640
Speaker 3: after that year is over with, you know. I came

461
00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:24,160
Speaker 3: out publicly like this is I want to be here.

462
00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:25,679
Speaker 3: I want to be here, Like this is where I

463
00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:29,359
Speaker 3: want to be. So now it's that summer and I

464
00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:34,320
Speaker 3: do this baseball softball league or softball charity game every

465
00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,439
Speaker 3: year every summer in Indiana. So I go back to

466
00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:39,879
Speaker 3: Indy I do this softball game. They asked me again,

467
00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:41,320
Speaker 3: like what do you want to do? You want to

468
00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:42,800
Speaker 3: be here. I'm like, yeah, I want to be here.

469
00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:44,439
Speaker 3: This is where I want to be. So I had

470
00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,160
Speaker 3: a phone call with them that night and mind you,

471
00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,119
Speaker 3: mind you while I'm there. You know how it goes

472
00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:51,800
Speaker 3: cash Like yo, I want pee, I want to play

473
00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:52,960
Speaker 3: with you the miles.

474
00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:55,320
Speaker 2: I would love to come come here and play with y'all.

475
00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,000
Speaker 3: Like I ain't gonna say the names because I'm gonna

476
00:20:58,040 --> 00:20:59,240
Speaker 3: keep their business private.

477
00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:01,200
Speaker 2: I'm gonna just say it like this.

478
00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:05,240
Speaker 3: I had at the time, the best power forward saying

479
00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:07,159
Speaker 3: he wanted to come to Indian team up with me.

480
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:09,919
Speaker 3: They like, we are major, we're a small market. Like

481
00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,120
Speaker 3: we can't do it. We're a small market. We can't

482
00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:16,439
Speaker 3: afford that. I'm like, the best power forward wants to

483
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:20,000
Speaker 3: come play here, like y'all can't make that work. They

484
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,520
Speaker 3: didn't want to do it. So I'm like, now I'm

485
00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:25,920
Speaker 3: pissed because it's like what am I doing here?

486
00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,080
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like they don't want to win.

487
00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:30,520
Speaker 3: I got the best power forward that want to come

488
00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:34,440
Speaker 3: play here, Like not everybody choose any to come play

489
00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,840
Speaker 3: at this. This dude wanted to come play here. They

490
00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,879
Speaker 3: didn't want to do it. So fast forward back to

491
00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 3: after that softball charity game.

492
00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:45,840
Speaker 2: They call me up.

493
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,520
Speaker 3: They're like hey, and again I'm gonna leave the names out,

494
00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,200
Speaker 3: but now this person that they talk about is maybe

495
00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:56,480
Speaker 3: top twenty power forwards, top twenty five power forwards, they

496
00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:57,080
Speaker 3: put him.

497
00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,040
Speaker 2: Up like, hey, do you how do you feel about

498
00:21:59,080 --> 00:21:59,600
Speaker 2: this person?

499
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:01,440
Speaker 3: This the other person that they was gonna sign in

500
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:03,480
Speaker 3: free agency was a dude coming off injury. So I

501
00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 3: didn't feel comfortable about that. After that phone call, I'm like,

502
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:09,520
Speaker 3: they don't get it. I call my agent, like, man,

503
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,600
Speaker 3: get me up out of here. They don't want to win.

504
00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,800
Speaker 3: So that's how everything kind of transpired to sum the

505
00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:18,119
Speaker 3: whole thing up. That's basically how that whole thing went about.

506
00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 3: And I got up out of Indiana.

507
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 1: What did you initially think about when you got traded

508
00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,040
Speaker 1: with Mellow and west you finna go over there with Westbrook?

509
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 2: I felt good.

510
00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,240
Speaker 3: I was like thrilled about it, like all alone, That's

511
00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:30,200
Speaker 3: that's what I wanted.

512
00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:31,200
Speaker 2: I wanted another dog.

513
00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,840
Speaker 3: I was with Lance, and Lance was a dog, and

514
00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:37,080
Speaker 3: that's what I wanted. Like I feed off of you

515
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:38,760
Speaker 3: know what I mean, that kind of energy and that

516
00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 3: type player.

517
00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 2: Like I was excited to play with Russ and then.

518
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 3: I get Mellow at the same time, like we just

519
00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,159
Speaker 3: I felt we didn't have enough time together.

520
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,000
Speaker 2: But I felt good about that trio.

521
00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, I believed in that that combo too.

522
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:50,679
Speaker 2: I liked it.

523
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess especially you and well.

524
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,119
Speaker 4: I felt like that was just like you said, like

525
00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 4: a crazy year where everything was kind of out of

526
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,760
Speaker 4: whack and then you know, we all know how that

527
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,159
Speaker 4: unravel you.

528
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,480
Speaker 2: How has it been so far being back home in

529
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 2: LA and you know.

530
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 4: What I'm saying, y'all, y'all got the team, y'all got

531
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:07,560
Speaker 4: y'all doing what y'all been doing.

532
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 2: But how has that been for you?

533
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 5: Oh?

534
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 3: It's been great, man, it's been great. I feel like

535
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 3: everything aligned at the right time. You know, year ten

536
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,640
Speaker 3: for me, I'm playing with a Hall of Fame coach,

537
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:21,400
Speaker 3: I'm playing with a Hall of Fame player, multiple of them.

538
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 2: Man.

539
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:23,440
Speaker 3: You can have a case for Luke, you know, being

540
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 3: a Hall of Fame player too with his career. So

541
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,879
Speaker 3: I just feel like everything lined up. I'm back at home.

542
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,199
Speaker 3: It's easy on my mom my parents. Like, I just

543
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 3: felt like everything was positioned where it was supposed to

544
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:35,919
Speaker 3: be for year ten for me.

545
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:37,640
Speaker 5: And what about like the movement.

546
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 1: You know, everybody in LA is like the Lakers winning

547
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,399
Speaker 1: the championships and they compete for the championships, but like you,

548
00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 1: starting off history, this is the first time we have

549
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:51,200
Speaker 1: a dominant squad for the Clippers, and right, you represent

550
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 1: another crowd in LA.

551
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 3: You know what I mean, It's cool it's LA, so

552
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,160
Speaker 3: you already know this is Laker town regardless just being

553
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:03,600
Speaker 3: out man. Remember first getting here, I went to Universals

554
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,919
Speaker 3: for Horror Nights and all I'm here, Like if I

555
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 3: was that type of dude, bro, I probably would have

556
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 3: threw hands with about five people that night just because they.

557
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 2: Like Laker is Laker that Clippers. We like this Lakers Town.

558
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 3: I mean, it is what it is. Our play is

559
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 3: gonna you know what I mean. We know the Stix

560
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 3: team to no championship, Like we know the history behind it.

561
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 3: So that's fine. Our players what's gonna do the most talking.

562
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,560
Speaker 3: I think it's just cool to be from here and

563
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,919
Speaker 3: to be able to see two good LA teams, Like

564
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 3: I think the city needed that. I think, you know

565
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:40,199
Speaker 3: what I mean, Cali needed that, so you know, especially

566
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 3: when the Warriors get back on their feet, like I

567
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 3: think California needed that and were delivering that. It sucks

568
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:47,479
Speaker 3: that we had a pause right now because of COVID,

569
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,359
Speaker 3: but I think it's just good for the city man,

570
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 3: to have two really good LA teams.

571
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,879
Speaker 4: You bringing up the COVID thing I've seen something I

572
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 4: don't think I've seen from anybody else, Like with y'all

573
00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:01,360
Speaker 4: owner Bomer, Is it true that he's saying everybody a

574
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 4: full weight room and everybody a hoop to their home.

575
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:06,200
Speaker 2: That is facts.

576
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,399
Speaker 4: That's all can tell me how easy to be playing

577
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 4: for him own it with that much excitement and support

578
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 4: for the team. And we know he got the big pipes,

579
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 4: but the more important really about how he You know,

580
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 4: we've been there, they brought us back for the first

581
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,679
Speaker 4: time since that regime has come in, and just to

582
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 4: see how his energy is toward the guys and the

583
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 4: team and raising the Clippers as an entity of their own,

584
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,400
Speaker 4: like for us to have been there during the time

585
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 4: before we even had a practice facility, practicing at Southwest

586
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 4: College Junior College, know what I'm saying, Like where it

587
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 4: is now and where y'all headed with the Arenas and

588
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 4: just how he pours into y'all like that makes us

589
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:45,399
Speaker 4: feel good for y'all.

590
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:47,199
Speaker 2: So how was that for y'all to be able to

591
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 2: experience that.

592
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 3: On that type of level because he going all that,

593
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 3: you know what, it's honestly, it's dope, man, because it's

594
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 3: not a show. It's not like an attention seeking like

595
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 3: that's him, you know what I mean. He one hundred

596
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 3: percent energy and it's about the culture that he wants

597
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 3: to build here.

598
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 2: Like he tell us multiple times.

599
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 3: Whatever it is that we need, whatever's not in the

600
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 3: locker room that y'all want, come to me. Like at

601
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 3: the end of the day, I want this to be

602
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 3: the destination for every player to want to come to.

603
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 2: I want to build a history here.

604
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 3: I think he understood the owner that was here before him,

605
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:26,879
Speaker 3: and he wants to separate himself from him. It's been

606
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 3: a blessing. Like after games, man, he'll send us a text,

607
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 3: you know, good job you guys, hung in there. Y'all

608
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 3: fought hard, whatever the case may be for that particular game.

609
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 2: Like he's always a part of us, you know what

610
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:38,200
Speaker 2: I mean.

611
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,879
Speaker 3: After games he waits in the hallway when we finish

612
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 3: our games, he high five and like we feel like

613
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 3: he's a part of us. Like he's not the owner,

614
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 3: he's a part of his team. And so it's a

615
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,680
Speaker 3: real joy to go out and want to play for him,

616
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, want to do well for him,

617
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 3: want to bring a championship to him because of everything

618
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 3: that he's done for us and how much he's involved in,

619
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 3: how much genuineness it is from him, and it's all

620
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,159
Speaker 3: factionals man, I do got about five thousand worth of

621
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 3: equipment that he sent.

622
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 5: I got hundreds of pair of Jordan's.

623
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,120
Speaker 1: I got two pair of Kobe's and I just purchased

624
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: me two praer of pgs.

625
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 5: Like I got two pair of the Jos and them.

626
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 1: Like the most comfortable shoes, yeah I got. I rocked

627
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: them every day. I had an all white part of them,

628
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 1: so dirty, so much. But how does it feel to

629
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,159
Speaker 1: like have a shoe in your name and like have

630
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,919
Speaker 1: a dope shoe, like a comfortable shoot that like folks

631
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: on the rock.

632
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, to be honest, bro, it's it's a humbling thing

633
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,679
Speaker 3: every day, Like it still gets me, like taking a

634
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 3: box out and putting a pair on, like that never

635
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:45,399
Speaker 3: gets old just because of you know, where my story started,

636
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 3: Like it just always is crazy and surreal. But when

637
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 3: the process came of putting a shoe together, like I

638
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 3: played in you know, obviously a bunch of different shoes

639
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 3: and I wanted to shoot that, like dudes, felt great

640
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 3: and felt good performance wise, felt good if they just

641
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 3: wanted to pop them on and walk around in Like,

642
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 3: I just wanted the shoot that was gonna feel great

643
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 3: at all times. And that was like, really the first

644
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 3: starter of my base was comfort and cushion.

645
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 2: Really, that's so, that's all I wanted out of the

646
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 2: shoe was comforting.

647
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 5: I were eighteen, and I got the ones with the

648
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 5: zip the.

649
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 2: Floors, okay, the zip.

650
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 5: Oh man, they loving me.

651
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to represent the clip clip You

652
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 1: got me looking nice.

653
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 2: My dog, I got you whatever you need to re up.

654
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 2: Let me know, God, I appreciate it. This is what

655
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 2: I wanted to ask.

656
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 4: Like we spoke on like the quarantine and everything that's

657
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 4: going on, and clearly that's why we here instead of

658
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 4: pulling up. But for you, you you know, you was

659
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 4: going through little knickknack injuries and stuff like that. How

660
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 4: has this been for you? Have you had the chance

661
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 4: to like get your body right and do some do

662
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 4: some strengthening up on injuries and if everything was to

663
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 4: start back, how you think your body would be feeling

664
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 4: the rest of the way.

665
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,959
Speaker 3: Yeah, this was, uh, this little pause, man, I needed

666
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 3: this because I feel like the whole year I was

667
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 3: playing ketchup I was just trying to catch up with

668
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 3: the team.

669
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 2: It took like when I did build myself up.

670
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 3: To be able to start playing, it was something else

671
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 3: that went down, and when I got that back healthy,

672
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 3: something else went out. It was just tough because I

673
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 3: couldn't do nothing this whole summer. I literally took four months,

674
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 3: five months off of just anything any basketball movement of

675
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 3: activity because I couldn't lift my shoulders up. I couldn't

676
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 3: do nothing, So I really lost a lot of like

677
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 3: just getting my body going.

678
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 2: So building it up and then going through the.

679
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 3: Season was a toll on me because you know, you

680
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 3: can't replicate that type of movement, you can't replicate that

681
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 3: kind of conditioning. So that really affected me. But then

682
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 3: this little pause right now has been perfect. I feel

683
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 3: amazing right now. My shoulders literally, like two three weeks

684
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 3: ago finally like loosened all the way up to where

685
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 3: I don't really got to do shoulder rehab no more.

686
00:29:57,960 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 3: I was still doing shoulder rehab all the way up

687
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 3: until about three weeks ago, and this was almost a

688
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 3: full year since I had them done. You feel me,

689
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 3: It's just been a process and my body just feels

690
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 3: great right now.

691
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 2: It's responding.

692
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 5: Well.

693
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 3: I've been lifting and working out every day, staying ready,

694
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 3: but I needed this little break. You do something different

695
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 3: than a lot of people, Like you talked about your

696
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 3: softball baseball charity gang.

697
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 2: But you you have a huge fishing charity event.

698
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 4: How did you tell me about how you got into

699
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 4: that and what does that do for you? Because it's

700
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 4: not something that you see a lot of people doing

701
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 4: in their off time and stuff like that, or at

702
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 4: least having charity events.

703
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 2: Right, So, fishing.

704
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 3: I got into fishing because of my pops. My parents

705
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 3: is from the South. My dad from Houston, my mom

706
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 3: from Louisiana. So I grew up here in Cali, but

707
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 3: I grew up like a country kid, camping, fishing, hunting

708
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 3: like that was me growing up as a kid. So

709
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 3: it just, you know, that was that was really how

710
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 3: my dad and I spent a lot of time bonding

711
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 3: with just being outdoors. Then I just got a real

712
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 3: love for the real passion for it. My dad whole side,

713
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 3: like everybody fishes, my uncles, my aunt, my cousins, like

714
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 3: everybody fish on that side, and on my mom's side

715
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 3: as well. So it just became a part of me

716
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 3: and then I saw like, you know what I mean,

717
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 3: CP got his bowling event and other players got little

718
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 3: events that they do. Nobody's done it fishing, and I

719
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 3: wanted to really like bring that together with having celebrities

720
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 3: come out being on the water. It's a cool, chill day,

721
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 3: Like you get to be on the water, you get

722
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 3: to fish, have a couple of.

723
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 2: Cold ones, you know what I mean. It's just a chill,

724
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 2: cool environment.

725
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 3: To be around when you're fishing, and it's a cool

726
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 3: getaway for me. I'm not thinking about nothing. All you're

727
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 3: thinking about is a bike and trying to feel for

728
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 3: a fish on the hook. So's it's just a cool

729
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 3: getaway for me. It's a cool outlet for me.

730
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 5: How do you feel to be a part of this era?

731
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: You have so many kids from California, like the top

732
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 1: players like you, Westbrook, Kawhi, James Harden. It's like a

733
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 1: lot of California kids, a lot of kids who came

734
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: up through the circuit with you that you kind of

735
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: familiar with their face from young allway to now. Like

736
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: how does it feel to be like a part of

737
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: that group of guys who representing California and seeing kids

738
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: in California. Now that you in California to see, like, man,

739
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: these guys came from here.

740
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 3: Right, I think, you know what I mean. I think

741
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 3: Kobe played a big partner. Y'all played a big partn

742
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 3: that b D played a big part. That we was

743
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 3: fortunate to grow up in California and have great role

744
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 3: models and leaders in front of us that we could.

745
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 2: Watch on a daily basis.

746
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 3: So I think a lot of that movement came from

747
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 3: what was going on in Cali. There's just so many

748
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 3: dudes out there from you know, dudes that ain't you

749
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 3: know in the league right now, like d Jennis was

750
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 3: a monster d Right, Trevor rees right, T Treill. Yeah, man,

751
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 3: we we just you know, it was just a culture

752
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 3: because of what we were seeing every day, and that

753
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 3: really just I think what just birthed a whole new

754
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 3: you know, from myself, Tomorrow, Russ, James, Tames, you know,

755
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 3: it's just so much good hoops here that you know,

756
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 3: I think y'all had a partner and even like Gil

757
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 3: and Nick Young, like it was just so many hoopers

758
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 3: that we was able to see that kind of burst

759
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 3: at that next generation who you grew.

760
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: Up watching, like the pairing your game after because like,

761
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: I see a whole lot of like t Mac. T

762
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: Mac t like really because it used to be so

763
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: efforless and he'd be like, man, this man, this tall,

764
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: he do everything.

765
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 5: He dunk two three everybody.

766
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 2: T Mac was my number one Kobe, and Kobe was

767
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 2: my number one.

768
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 3: But I felt like I related to t Mac the

769
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 3: most because I was a tall, lanky kid. I was

770
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 3: playing the point all the way through my ears growing up,

771
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 3: and I was always like a foot taller than every

772
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 3: kid growing up. So I feel like I related to

773
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 3: t Mac the most. I was big on Penny, big

774
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 3: Penny fan, a big AI fan, and Josh Howard. I

775
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 3: would say those five was like the guys that I

776
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 3: thought my game was most like.

777
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 2: Josh was a sleeper for me. He was nice. Yeah,

778
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 2: he was nice for me.

779
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I messed with Josh how If you had to

780
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: pick four other players that you played with in your

781
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 1: career to start a team, who was the four players

782
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: that you will pick?

783
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 2: Four players that I played with Man all right, Russ

784
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:26,399
Speaker 2: for show at the.

785
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 3: One, I'll go me at the two, choir at the three,

786
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 3: I could go Male or d West at the four,

787
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 3: and Big Roy at the five, Big Roy, Yeah, go

788
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 3: Big Roy at the five?

789
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 2: One straight up dead though? Who when you're coming up?

790
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 2: Who was a walking bucket? Who was you saying?

791
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 4: You?

792
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 2: Was?

793
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 5: Like, man, it's how I see him. He getting you

794
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 5: know what?

795
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 2: I played a you with.

796
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,399
Speaker 3: People don't know this, bro, Like the best high school

797
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 3: dude I played was Drew. I played with Drew on

798
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 3: my AU team when I first got into the AAU

799
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,399
Speaker 3: I was. I was on a pump and run with Drew,

800
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,240
Speaker 3: and he was by far the best player I've seen.

801
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 4: Bro.

802
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 3: He right handed, but he went left even more than

803
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 3: he do now, you know what I mean, Like some

804
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:15,800
Speaker 3: games he'll shoot left handed.

805
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 2: Like he was just a beast in high school.

806
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 3: He was the best player I seen when at that age,

807
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 3: Like there was nobody next to him. And then I

808
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 3: say Lance, Like as far as peer bucket, Lance was

809
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 3: a peer bucket.

810
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 5: Like Lance, make him dance, man.

811
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 3: Bro, his game was like he pushed me when we

812
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,439
Speaker 3: got to Indy, Like he pushed me, like I ain't

813
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 3: never seen somebody that skilled and had that many tricks

814
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 3: in their back. Damn big boy too and a big body,

815
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:47,760
Speaker 3: big body.

816
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 4: Do you remember the first body you caught like the

817
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 4: first person you kaboom down in the league.

818
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 2: My first body, who was my first body?

819
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 4: You hardly remember that. Sometimes he like to make fun

820
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 4: of my first person.

821
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 2: And his was.

822
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 5: What the fuck is you keep on saying Mookie? But

823
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 5: that's not I'm telling.

824
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:13,240
Speaker 2: People that he ain't really punched.

825
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 1: It was the next person you dunk on the seven

826
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,399
Speaker 1: food because you said Mookie, that's like.

827
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 5: You can dump, That's like, yeah.

828
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 2: I ain't gonna lie. I think my first one was

829
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,479
Speaker 2: like Randy Floyd, Randy Foy.

830
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think my first one was Randy trying to

831
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:31,879
Speaker 3: talk about you.

832
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 2: I can't.

833
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 3: I ain't gonna I ain't gonna be you know what

834
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 3: I mean, proud of about it. But I think the

835
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 3: first like actual body was Randy.

836
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 5: The first one, Randy Foyd tell him it was bird

837
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 5: Man Man first.

838
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 1: After you dunked on bird Man I know, like, no,

839
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: not after you dunk, when you got home, when you

840
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:54,879
Speaker 1: got home or back to the hotel from the game.

841
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 5: You know, they showing this ship everywhere?

842
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 1: Are you see You probably see this every day if

843
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 1: you look at social media, they probably I.

844
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 2: Still see that ship everywhere. I still see it.

845
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 3: I'm still getting tagged in that ship. There's still people

846
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 3: making pictures and drawings of that ship.

847
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:15,399
Speaker 2: Oh my god. You know what, in.

848
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 3: Real time, I ain't really know what happened after I

849
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 3: hear Bron with the hes he the ship just I

850
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 3: don't know ship just like.

851
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 2: Has he one balance? You know?

852
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 3: You Howler and I And all I'm doing is is

853
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 3: just with smoke showing my chest. I don't know how

854
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 3: and what happened it. That shit just happened, bro to

855
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 3: be honest, that should just happened.

856
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 2: It was nasty.

857
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, Man, we're rooting for you man like man,

858
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: definitely think y'all gonna win a championship.

859
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,479
Speaker 5: I had y'all this year winning championship. We're gonna see.

860
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: But I definitely think y'all gonna win championship in the

861
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: next couple of years.

862
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 2: Man, I'm definitely rooting for y'all.

863
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:55,720
Speaker 5: Well, we're rooting for y'all.

864
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: How hype past the Last Dance got you and you

865
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 1: can't go.

866
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 3: It's a curse, man, because I watch an episode and

867
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 3: I'm I'm like check up, check ball, like go check ball,

868
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 3: and then you can't do ship.

869
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 2: So it's get on park for real.

870
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 3: Like I grew up while Mike was playing, but I

871
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 3: didn't really get to like see Mike, you know what

872
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 3: I mean. So it was cool to watch this and

873
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 3: be able to just watch him and see who he

874
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 3: was at his peak, because I, as much as I

875
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 3: remember Mike was like his Wizards days, I don't really

876
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,879
Speaker 3: know Mike like that with his Bulls days. So this

877
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 3: was this was honestly cool just to see how he

878
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 3: approached the game, how he got up for games like

879
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 3: it's just awesome, and it was dope to see like

880
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 3: him and Cole split images, like his interviews and his

881
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 3: mindset was the same how I grew up watching Kobe's mindset.

882
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 3: So it's dope. It's dope to see. Like really, it

883
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 3: was a reincarnation of Mike watching cold straight up postest

884
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 3: thing we gonna see too.

885
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 5: It facts straight up.

886
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 2: When you first got that bread, yep, when you first

887
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 2: got that bag? What what? And I ain't talking about

888
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 2: the little you know what you tell them I want?

889
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 4: We all and did it. We all did something that

890
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 4: we ain't that proud, right, some bread. But it felt

891
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 4: awesome in that moment right right right the world. You

892
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 4: got the bag and then you did something. He was

893
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,840
Speaker 4: like I'm doing it. I'm getting this. So what was uh.

894
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 2: You know what I got?

895
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 3: Uh, the escalated trucks was hitting back then like twenty ten.

896
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 3: The Escalate trucks was the ship then, So I got

897
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 3: the truck version you know, to escalate exts.

898
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 2: I thought, yeah, yeah, your.

899
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 3: Head in the back, I got that lifted. I got

900
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 3: I think twenty six is on it. Just dumb big

901
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 3: got it. Matt blacked out. The rims was was painted black.

902
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 3: I had the silver accessories all on it. The ship

903
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:57,359
Speaker 3: was looking stupid black.

904
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 2: The grill out, man, I thought I was big then.

905
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 4: That was.

906
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 3: Uh, that was my big purchase. That was the very

907
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 3: first purchase I made. And then obviously I got my

908
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 3: parents a crib right shortly after that, I think that

909
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 3: next coming year. But yeah, that that escalator truck, man,

910
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 3: that was I wasn't in the drillion ship like that then.

911
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 4: Ain't it amazing how we would take that, take that

912
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 4: one truck and try and do a million things to it.

913
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 5: Get put the whole thirty.

914
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, and trust me, I had it all planned. I

915
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 3: was about to get the TVs in that jont I was.

916
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 3: I was about to get the sound in it.

917
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 4: The whole let me, let me, let me show you

918
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 4: our age a little bit, right, I'm gonna show you

919
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 4: our age just how Yeah these miles are right. When

920
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,800
Speaker 4: we first got out joint, we get the twin escalade,

921
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 4: he got the black, when I got the white one,

922
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 4: he got gold hunting supposed day. But this is what

923
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 4: we did. We show our age. Yet I was talking

924
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 4: about video games that we had a dreamcast.

925
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:05,800
Speaker 3: No dream dream that's crazy.

926
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 5: Six twelves in my ye.

927
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 2: Now that you're good, that's crazy. That's crazy the dreamcast.

928
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 3: Man, that's what two thousand man, I'm telling you.

929
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 2: That's a good time. Man, that was a good time.

930
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:26,359
Speaker 2: So that's a wrap.

931
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 4: Man. We got my main man, PG. Thirteen. We appreciate

932
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 4: you for coming through environment with us.

933
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 5: Man. We are at home, he.

934
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 4: Is out then Cali, we are in Orlando. This has

935
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 4: been dope. We appreciate you man.

936
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 5: We get your Hall of Fame.

937
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for sure, and we.

938
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 4: Wish you good luck if and when this season continues.

939
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 2: Bro, for sure, Can I get an I do one

940
00:41:48,719 --> 00:42:13,520
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