Speaker 1: Welcome back.
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Speaker 2: been chasing this guy since he got drafted. We almost
Speaker 2: locked him down last year. He slipped away from us,
Speaker 2: but we caught his ass this year. Man, welcome to
Speaker 2: the show. Check holme, grin chat, what up?
Speaker 3: Baby? Appreciate you all having me.
Speaker 2: Man, thank you for coming through number two pick of
Speaker 2: last year's draft. Suffer a foot injury and it was
Speaker 2: it Jamal Crawford Summer League.
Speaker 3: Yeah, crossover, Yeah.
Speaker 2: The Crossover Summer League last What was it like, first
Speaker 2: and foremost being drafted number two, but then having to
Speaker 2: sit and watch the entire season.
Speaker 3: I don't know. It was a lot of emotions.
Speaker 4: Obviously, you guys know what it's like, you know, to
Speaker 4: come into the league. You know, you guys got these aspirations,
Speaker 4: all the shit you've worked hard for, and then it
Speaker 4: was like it's like just ran into a wall and
Speaker 4: there's nothing I could do about it. Just kind of
Speaker 4: an instance thing. And then after that it was just
Speaker 4: trying to figure out how to get back what was
Speaker 4: the actual injury? Is your foot right, Yeah, So it
Speaker 4: was a list Frank injury. So it's basically a mid
Speaker 4: foot injury, and it was injury to a small ligament
Speaker 4: in my foot. But somehow to process of recovering just
Speaker 4: you know, a long time.
Speaker 3: It takes a long time.
Speaker 2: So how long were you actually off your foot before
Speaker 2: you were able to put weight back on and do anything.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was a process.
Speaker 4: You know, I had surgery and then for six weeks
Speaker 4: I was on a scooter, just shooting on a scooter
Speaker 4: every day, literally did the same routine every single day.
Speaker 4: And then from the was like crutches and then one
Speaker 4: crutch and then walking with the boot and then you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, it was just step after step.
Speaker 4: I probably wasn't walking normal until I mean, I had
Speaker 4: a second surgery to get the hardware out, so you know,
Speaker 4: it was it was months.
Speaker 2: So what is the last year been like? Obviously, drafted, hurt,
Speaker 2: watched the whole season healthy. Now you're you're in the
Speaker 2: midst of summer league right now, going into your rookie season,
Speaker 2: so to speak, What is this last year been like
Speaker 2: for you?
Speaker 4: It obviously looked a lot different than if I was playing,
Speaker 4: but it had all the same ups and downs. You know,
Speaker 4: I had the hard days, the good days, you know,
Speaker 4: the days where I felt like I was making a
Speaker 4: lot of progress, and then the days where it felt
Speaker 4: like the same day as yesterday. You know, I just
Speaker 4: tried to kind of stay level headed through it and
Speaker 4: just you know, not let it become a curse. You know,
Speaker 4: obviously you don't want that to happen, but you can
Speaker 4: either make it a blessing and make you know, make
Speaker 4: something good out of it, or just kind of just
Speaker 4: sit there and not do nothing with it, and then
Speaker 4: you know, it just continues to get worse and worse.
Speaker 2: So recently you said you've been trying to add weight
Speaker 2: to your frame. What is that process been like? Kind
Speaker 2: of just devotment. You're still so young, you just turned
Speaker 2: twenty one in May. What has been like just trying
Speaker 2: to add some muscles to your body?
Speaker 3: Now? Like you said, it's not just about being big.
Speaker 4: You know, there's so much into the game now, Like
Speaker 4: you got to be able to move still and do
Speaker 4: so many different things. It's not necessarily about gaining weight.
Speaker 4: It's really just trying to work on my body. You know, stronger, yeah,
Speaker 4: stronger and more athletic. Really the way kind of comes
Speaker 4: with it. As you add some muscle and you know,
Speaker 4: get older, you always, you know, add weight, but I
Speaker 4: don't want to add the wrong weight and just get
Speaker 4: you know, some big broad shoulders and now moving slow,
Speaker 4: can't move my knees hurt, you know.
Speaker 3: So you know, the.
Speaker 4: Focus been just working on my body all around and
Speaker 4: like how it plays into my game and how it plays.
Speaker 2: How do you feel about your game right now? Obviously
Speaker 2: coming into the draft, he was cooking great, great year
Speaker 2: in college, number two pick, playing well in the summer league,
Speaker 2: A long layoff. Where do you feel like your game?
Speaker 2: Are you one hundred percent back or where do you
Speaker 2: feel your game?
Speaker 1: Is that right now?
Speaker 4: I mean, I definitely feel like I'm in a good
Speaker 4: groove right now. But you know, whether I never got
Speaker 4: hurt or I'm in the position I'm in now, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm just you know, out there trying to learn from
Speaker 4: my mistakes as a young player and kind of grow
Speaker 4: through it. You know, my game isn't finished. I don't
Speaker 4: think it'll ever be finished. It's like a puzzle with
Speaker 4: unlimited pieces, you know. So to add that this piece
Speaker 4: over and over, and that's kind of where I'm at.
Speaker 4: I definitely feel like I'm in a different flow than
Speaker 4: I was last year when I got hurt. But I
Speaker 4: feel like I'm doing some things better. Some things, you know,
Speaker 4: I got to kind of get caught back up with.
Speaker 4: But uh, you know, I just got no complaints.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: I'm blessed to be back out, absolutely.
Speaker 5: And I'm gonna tell you too, it ain't too much
Speaker 5: about gaining weight. Like, as you play, you're gonna learn
Speaker 5: how to take those bumps and bruises, hitting the floor
Speaker 5: and all that. Your body gonna get used to us.
Speaker 5: So they just too much about gaining weight. It's about
Speaker 5: getting used to the game too. Yeah, exactly, thunder Sga
Speaker 5: Case and Wilder's I coached a lot of these guys.
Speaker 5: Lou Dark, gey Ja Jaalen Williams, y'all got a stacks
Speaker 5: How you feel about next year?
Speaker 4: Man, I'm excited just because you know, our management does
Speaker 4: a great job of putting great guys in the locker
Speaker 4: room as well as on the staff. But we're also
Speaker 4: so young, like everybody has room to grow. Shae, everybody
Speaker 4: saw what he did last year, but you know, he
Speaker 4: just turned twenty five.
Speaker 3: Like two days ago.
Speaker 4: You know, he's going to continue to get better, and
Speaker 4: you know it's just gonna be on us to get
Speaker 4: in the lab together and build that chemistry and figure
Speaker 4: out how to put the pieces together, because you know,
Speaker 4: we got we got a lot of talent.
Speaker 5: Talk about SGA. I mean, he had a great year.
Speaker 5: You got a chance to watch him for a whole season.
Speaker 5: What's so special about him?
Speaker 4: I mean, you see what's so special about him on
Speaker 4: the court, you know, and he picks that ball up.
Speaker 4: But honestly, if you didn't see all the highlights and
Speaker 4: the Instagram followers and stuff, if you were just around
Speaker 4: him every day and didn't know about all that, you
Speaker 4: think he's a regular person. You know, he laughs and
Speaker 4: jokes with us, you know, the same as the last
Speaker 4: guy on the roster, you know, which I think is
Speaker 4: great for our team because you know, it doesn't create
Speaker 4: that hierarchy, doesn't you know, nobody feels like they're not
Speaker 4: good enough to talk to this person about this. You know,
Speaker 4: we're kind of just everybody's on the same level, which
Speaker 4: is huge for us.
Speaker 3: And that's and that's good when your stars like that.
Speaker 5: Definitely leading too on such a young team, what players
Speaker 5: have been able to teach you about life in the NBA?
Speaker 3: Like, do you have any any og.
Speaker 1: Like that team?
Speaker 4: I mean we had, we had Mike last year and
Speaker 4: then he ended up in Boston. We got k Rich
Speaker 4: with us, but like, like, we don't even really have
Speaker 4: rookie duties because.
Speaker 3: You look like an O G. He just a young boy,
Speaker 3: but he looked like O G.
Speaker 1: Y'all just got the lot blind leading the blind.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much, but.
Speaker 4: Right now, and I feel like we do a pretty
Speaker 4: good job of not having to learn through mistakes off
Speaker 4: the court. Like, like I said, we got great dudes
Speaker 4: in the locker room, and obviously mistakes happened, but you know,
Speaker 4: we do a pretty good job of looking out for
Speaker 4: each other and making sure you know we're not doing
Speaker 4: too much.
Speaker 5: I've been I've been telling people about you since I
Speaker 5: was able to give you coach. You had the opposite game,
Speaker 5: and I got you from my rookie at this year.
Speaker 5: This year, talk about Jayleen Williams. He was second and
Speaker 5: Rookie of the Year of voting. Talk about him.
Speaker 3: Man, he's a hooper.
Speaker 4: I knew, I knew he was really good before you know,
Speaker 4: all the NBA stuff. We played against him and uh
Speaker 4: in conference play in college and you know we smacked
Speaker 4: his team by like thirty but he had twenty each games.
Speaker 4: So like I knew he could hoop. Uh, you know,
Speaker 4: not trying to take too many shots at Santa Clara,
Speaker 4: but you know we're kind of on top of the.
Speaker 3: W c C. So, but yeah, yeah, he can hoop.
Speaker 4: He can do it all. You know, big body with skill.
Speaker 4: You know, that's that's what the NBA is about.
Speaker 5: So for those yeob don't know, he is eligible for
Speaker 5: Rookie of the Year since he didn't play last year,
Speaker 5: I got him winning it. I was going to say,
Speaker 5: but yeah, he's both of our he's both of our
Speaker 5: picks for Rookie Year.
Speaker 3: Sure love appreciate y'all.
Speaker 2: Any teams or players you're looking to go against. Former teammates,
Speaker 2: guys you played against AU's current superstars, anybody you're looking
Speaker 2: forward to playing against this year.
Speaker 4: I mean, every single game is going to be like, oh,
Speaker 4: I want to play this dude, I want to play
Speaker 4: this team because like where the league is that every
Speaker 4: team's got talent, right, there's no team where it's like
Speaker 4: you look at them and they're like, you know, the
Speaker 4: ten win bobcasts or something like that.
Speaker 2: Outside of yourself obviously looking to have a big year.
Speaker 2: Anybody on your team, younger guy you think will have
Speaker 2: a breakout year this year.
Speaker 3: Man, we just got so much talent on our team.
Speaker 3: Like it's gonna break out the team.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be like a new guy every single game,
Speaker 4: somebody's you know, the ball is gonna bounce this dude's
Speaker 4: way this game.
Speaker 3: This dude's gonna hit shots this game. You know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Like we got we got dudes who you know, didn't
Speaker 4: get the most opportunity last year or just got with
Speaker 4: the team or whatever that you know, when you watch them,
Speaker 4: some games you're just gonna see like this dude can
Speaker 4: hoop from from case and to to ooze to to tray.
Speaker 3: To, you know, all the way down, all the way
Speaker 3: down the roster. Like like, we got dudes. That's what
Speaker 3: I'm excited about.
Speaker 5: To see SGA go to the too in casing at
Speaker 5: the point, I'm definitely you know, excited to see you
Speaker 5: play with both of those. But to have HG at
Speaker 5: the two, well, he ain't got to run the offense.
Speaker 5: That's gonna be scared.
Speaker 4: I mean, you don't haven't run offense anyways, Like he
Speaker 4: don't even you don't even talk to coach about you know,
Speaker 4: I want this play run for me.
Speaker 3: He's like, you know, I'm gonna touch the ball. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna touch the ball. That's all. You know.
Speaker 4: If you touch the ball, you're gonna get thirty. So
Speaker 4: he's one of those dudes for sure.
Speaker 1: Uh, first year coming in.
Speaker 2: Are there any goals you set for yourself Rookie of
Speaker 2: the year, play a certain amount of games or rookie
Speaker 2: anything like that.
Speaker 1: Or is it more team focused for you?
Speaker 4: I mean, I'd say it's a little bit of both,
Speaker 4: you know, like the personal stuff like I kind of
Speaker 4: keep to myself, but obviously, like winning is the first
Speaker 4: and foremost thing all the time. You know, if you
Speaker 4: don't win, you don't really give respect. So you know
Speaker 4: the number one thing is winning. Helping figure out how
Speaker 4: to win with my teammates too, you know, because if
Speaker 4: they see I'm just out there to try and reach
Speaker 4: personal accolades, like they're not gonna rock with that, you know,
Speaker 4: And I wouldn't rock with that either, if you know
Speaker 4: I saw somebody trying to do that. So, uh, you
Speaker 4: know it's gonna start day one the training camp. I
Speaker 4: mean it already has started, really, but you know, between
Speaker 4: us play coaching staff, you know, we just got to
Speaker 4: figure out how to win as many games as we.
Speaker 1: Can outside of your teammates. Three guys you like.
Speaker 4: To watch current or like former just whatever period. I
Speaker 4: mean Duran, I've been watching Durance since I started playing.
Speaker 4: I got to hoop against from last summer hopefully again
Speaker 4: this summer too. You know that's always good bump, be
Speaker 4: able to work on your ship with. You know, dudes
Speaker 4: who got what you're trying to you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So, uh, guys like Durant.
Speaker 4: My first year started watching NBA basketball was was Dirk
Speaker 4: in twenty eleven, so you know, I've always watched a
Speaker 4: lot of his bump. And then like I could name
Speaker 4: ten dudes for the third spot, from Mike to Kobe
Speaker 4: to like dudes like Book, you know, all the super
Speaker 4: skilled guys and you know, try to take something from them.
Speaker 1: Fans.
Speaker 4: I used to watch a little Matt Barnes and stack
Speaker 4: back and then you.
Speaker 5: Got this when we caused a little Rucords there and
Speaker 5: then growing up in Minneapolis.
Speaker 4: Like it's cool, Like we had a good amount of
Speaker 4: talent coming out of there the last few years.
Speaker 3: It's just, uh, you.
Speaker 4: Know, kind of once you get up, get up out
Speaker 4: of there and kind of move on to the different
Speaker 4: hoop scenes. Especially when all the other dudes have gotten
Speaker 4: out of there too and they're hooping here, hooping there,
Speaker 4: it's tough to you know, kind of find runs out
Speaker 4: there just because everybody's all over the place. So you know,
Speaker 4: I'm wherever the runs are at, really, So you know,
Speaker 4: I spent a lot of time in La or uh,
Speaker 4: you know, wherever I can find runs really, But you know,
Speaker 4: we got a lot of talent that came out of there,
Speaker 4: whether I played with them or against them. You know,
Speaker 4: it's all love back in Minnesota. Yeah, I hope everybody
Speaker 4: succeeds from there.
Speaker 5: You know, you blew up in high school. You had
Speaker 5: a viral moment when you was at Steph Camp. Is
Speaker 5: that when you blew up and everybody knewho you was?
Speaker 5: That's that was your viral moment.
Speaker 4: I say, like my internet fame, I guess picked up
Speaker 4: in that moment. But like the beginning of that kind
Speaker 4: of AU season was when I like took the basketball
Speaker 4: world kind of figured out who I was. You know,
Speaker 4: I came out that first first tournament on seventeens and
Speaker 4: average like a triple double blocks. So like after that
Speaker 4: it was kind of just you know, an uphill trajectory.
Speaker 4: And then that moment happened, and that's when like all
Speaker 4: the little kids you know, and started knowing my name,
Speaker 4: and like everywhere I would go, I'd get like little
Speaker 4: people screamed my name, ask for signatures and stuff, which
Speaker 4: was probably good that I had that early on because
Speaker 4: I kind of got used to it, learned how to move,
Speaker 4: how to you know, how to deal with it in
Speaker 4: regular life.
Speaker 5: You know, you ended up landing at Gonzaga. What makes
Speaker 5: Gonzaga such a basketball powerhouse.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot of reasons. They've had a
Speaker 3: lot of talent come through there.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, you know, the coaches figure
Speaker 4: out how to piece that talent together and figure out
Speaker 4: how to win with it. So, you know, I say,
Speaker 4: that's that's one of the main reasons being able to
Speaker 4: get talent there. You know, all the way back in
Speaker 4: the days with Tommy he's at Arizona now, but he
Speaker 4: got a lot of international guys in there, and then eventually,
Speaker 4: you know a lot of dudes from you know in
Speaker 4: America started showing up and you know, they were able
Speaker 4: to make some good runs with it, and you know,
Speaker 4: I see that going forward. They got a good squad
Speaker 4: coming up this year too. Transferportal shits all all different
Speaker 4: game completely.
Speaker 5: Yeah, even though you know this position is basketball. Now
Speaker 5: you're seeing more guys been able to do more things
Speaker 5: on the court. You know, we were two way players,
Speaker 5: but you're seeing guys like you, your size been able
Speaker 5: to do things guards do with your skills set. How
Speaker 5: do you look at the evolution of the game with
Speaker 5: more big guys like you, when beyond the guys that
Speaker 5: coming in the game that can do it all past
Speaker 5: seven foot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's huge. Like if you look at
Speaker 4: some of the more old school offenses, like like it's
Speaker 4: slower and the ball gets stuck more because two people
Speaker 4: have to have the ball the whole time. There's two
Speaker 4: people on the court, can't do shit with the ball.
Speaker 4: Now now it's like shit's moving constantly, decide back and forth.
Speaker 4: You got actions happening on the weak side, and then
Speaker 4: you got dudes who just catch the ball and just
Speaker 4: do some crazy ship.
Speaker 3: It's like, how did that just happen?
Speaker 4: You know, because it's like now all five dudes on
Speaker 4: the floor got to be able to play with the
Speaker 4: ball and make decisions. So like that's part of that.
Speaker 4: And the three point shooting, I say, is part of why,
Speaker 4: like the offensive offenses have taken off so much, and
Speaker 4: like the points per game has gone up so much.
Speaker 4: But I think it's great for basketball too. If people
Speaker 4: wanted to watch big dudes run into each other, they
Speaker 4: go to the w W match, you know, right, you
Speaker 4: know it's about watching skill and you know, seeing ship
Speaker 4: that like you don't really see regular people do at
Speaker 4: the park.
Speaker 5: You know, Well, it's gonna be good for me because
Speaker 5: I used to see Tim Duncan and David Robbins run
Speaker 5: a pick and roll four or five pick and roll
Speaker 5: to say that, right, I.
Speaker 3: Was like back then that before you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna be able to see a lot of
Speaker 3: that with guys like you and with me, So it's
Speaker 3: gonna be good for the game.
Speaker 5: I think AI Classic alumni, that's where we met. We
Speaker 5: I formed a relationship with a lot of guys. Just
Speaker 5: talk about during the pandemic, how important that game was
Speaker 5: because a lot of games wasn't going on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that was the only one we got. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so like that was like the last chance in high school.
Speaker 4: It's like me and Pete got to play against each other.
Speaker 4: All these dudes who like are you know, everybody got
Speaker 4: something to prove, you know, so it's like, uh, we
Speaker 4: all get to play against each other one last time
Speaker 4: before we go to college. And uh, you know, it's
Speaker 4: always great to compete. So you normally get McDonald's, you
Speaker 4: get the Nike hoops something, you get Jordan's brand, you
Speaker 4: get Iverson, you get you.
Speaker 3: Know, whatever it is.
Speaker 4: We only got that one, so like that was, you know,
Speaker 4: our one chance to go at it. And you know,
Speaker 4: shout out to y'all putting putting together the event man.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, thank you Chip for coming.
Speaker 6: Or I just want to appreciate you in the brand
Speaker 6: daily from showtime or they you know, really put on
Speaker 6: the great Evendo Jelani Jelani. Uh you really listen to
Speaker 6: me this time. I know you kind of got frustrated
Speaker 6: me telling you to turn the music, Dan, but I
Speaker 6: understand you projunction your methods.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you your landing. He was impersonated, but.
Speaker 1: That was Bobby.
Speaker 3: That makes sense.
Speaker 2: It makes sense that anything you picked up you know,
Speaker 2: obviously working on your craft, getting healthy, but anything you
Speaker 2: picked up from just sitting a whole year and watching
Speaker 2: the game from the front row.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I picked up a lot of things, like not
Speaker 4: only from a team sense of just like how the
Speaker 4: NBA game works and like how our team kind of
Speaker 4: works as a team, but also like their shit you
Speaker 4: see up close that you do not see on the TV,
Speaker 4: like all the elbows Chris Paul be throwing, and you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, like all the little tiny shit
Speaker 4: that the TV don't really pick up, but you see
Speaker 4: all that when you're twenty feet away. So like picked
Speaker 4: up all that, you know, some full work shit, Like
Speaker 4: you know I couldn't play, but you know I tried
Speaker 4: to focus as much as my ADHD would allow, and
Speaker 4: you know, again try to make something of it because
Speaker 4: you know I couldn't really do shit. That's the hard
Speaker 4: part of it. Like, you know, you get drafted. Front
Speaker 4: office believes in you, your friends and family believe in you,
Speaker 4: the fan base believes in you. And then it's like
Speaker 4: now you got to sit down and it's like you
Speaker 4: can't really go out there and do like you can't, yeah.
Speaker 2: Speak to the mental side of that, because obviously you
Speaker 2: were physically hurt. But as you're touching on right now,
Speaker 2: that shit is a mental drain. It's mentally frustrating. I'm
Speaker 2: like you said, there's up days, there's down. There's probably
Speaker 2: a lot of down days. We talked to Klay Thompson
Speaker 2: when he had to miss nearly two and a half years,
Speaker 2: and he said it was the hardest thing he had
Speaker 2: ever gone through in his life. That's probably the first
Speaker 2: time basketball's really been taken from you. Right.
Speaker 4: In fact, before that, I'd never been hurt for longer
Speaker 4: than a week or two weeks.
Speaker 3: I've never really missed basketball.
Speaker 4: And you know, that's tough when you're not hooping, especially
Speaker 4: like that's the first time I've ever not been able
Speaker 4: to hoop. And it's tough because, like you know, whenever
Speaker 4: you know something doesn't go my way or you know
Speaker 4: I'm pissed off or something, you know, I just go hoop,
Speaker 4: go compete, let it all out.
Speaker 3: At the gym or whatever.
Speaker 4: And you know, not being able to do that, you know,
Speaker 4: it's tough, and you know I was I'm thankful that
Speaker 4: good people around me, and you know, I know a
Speaker 4: lot of times that can kind of lead to bad
Speaker 4: things for people looking for the outlets. So you know,
Speaker 4: I just tried to keep my focus on basketball, like
Speaker 4: I couldn't really compete, but you know, I was more
Speaker 4: just kind of competing with myself at that point to
Speaker 4: stay locked in.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you, though, being hurt, the bonus side
Speaker 5: from that is you have to think and see and
Speaker 5: dream your success in basketball before you got that.
Speaker 3: Even if you're not hurt.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like you're all going to
Speaker 4: vision myself getting to the NBA before I could exact, you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. So like it's just like doubling
Speaker 4: down on that process really of it. And you know,
Speaker 4: I feel like I did that pretty well. You know,
Speaker 4: I didn't kind of let my focus slip at all.
Speaker 4: And again like great people around me who continue to
Speaker 4: believe in me, Like it's it's it's easy to think like, oh,
Speaker 4: I got hurt, you know now, Like I know Jamal
Speaker 4: Murray went through the same thing. I saw something he
Speaker 4: was saying like, oh I'm damage good, y'all gonna trade
Speaker 4: me now? Like all those thoughts go through your whole Yeah,
Speaker 4: So it's just good having like the people behind you,
Speaker 4: not only like my family and friends who've like always
Speaker 4: been behind me, but like you know, from the medical
Speaker 4: staff and the front office and the coaches. Just seeing
Speaker 4: like the process that we went through every single day
Speaker 4: and like how much they worked with me. Like it
Speaker 4: really showed like how much they you know, valued me,
Speaker 4: and you know I had to. I couldn't take that
Speaker 4: for granted, so like it helped me lock in evenmore.
Speaker 2: You know, give us a summertime day in the life
Speaker 2: of chat. So if you're in LA for a month,
Speaker 2: give me a typical grind day.
Speaker 1: What time you up? What are you doing until you
Speaker 1: go to sleep?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's gonna be different every day. You know.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately in LA there's traffic and shit, so you got
Speaker 4: to factor all that.
Speaker 3: But usually I'm up at eight am.
Speaker 4: You know, I got to get a big breakfast in
Speaker 4: and I can't go straight from eating at the food
Speaker 4: to on the court. So you know, I'll eat my
Speaker 4: breakfast and then you know, I'll either get treatment or
Speaker 4: get a stretching or something like that, and then from
Speaker 4: there I'm in the weight room and then I go
Speaker 4: from the weight room to the court.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm planning to play two to three days
Speaker 4: a week out of LA this year.
Speaker 1: U c l A.
Speaker 2: Uh you need to stop by, yeah, U c l
Speaker 2: A where one of the runs will come here.
Speaker 3: I can't overdo it again.
Speaker 4: I gotta make sure I'm on that that court for
Speaker 4: the real games, you know. But I still gotta work
Speaker 4: on my ship. So you know, I'm I'm gonna try
Speaker 4: and sharpen the knives and be out there as much
Speaker 4: as I can.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm gonna figure it out.
Speaker 4: But you know, after that, right back to the meals
Speaker 4: and you know, figure out something to do in the afternoon,
Speaker 4: whether it's you know, dinner with some friends or go
Speaker 4: shopping a little bit, go to the beach, whatever kind
Speaker 4: of get your mind off it. And then uh, you know,
Speaker 4: at night, I got my my supplements routine, and you know,
Speaker 4: I'll usually sit down either watch highlights or some film
Speaker 4: or something, and then uh, yeah, that's like a typical
Speaker 4: Monday through Friday for me.
Speaker 2: First big thing you bought, you got some good money. Boy,
Speaker 2: what's the first big thing about something for your family,
Speaker 2: something for yourself? What's the first big thing you bought.
Speaker 4: Uh ship, I mean I bought a house, uh, which
Speaker 4: in Oklahoma City is a lot different than buying one.
Speaker 4: And it's like a twenty million dollar house for like
Speaker 4: a millions less.
Speaker 3: You know what I say? One five?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean thankfully I got a little deal going
Speaker 4: where I don't gotta you know, buy my cars. I
Speaker 4: got a little come on, man, that's like that's usually
Speaker 4: the stupid ship people throw money at.
Speaker 3: It's just like buying yeah stuff, But before they made it,
Speaker 3: I had it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: My first big purchase was probably the chain I had
Speaker 4: on Draft night.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, I got a little watch collection that's grown
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 3: I got a few yeah we see you shining. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just got a frosted ap one of two hundred,
Speaker 4: so that's a special piece.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then I'm working on something from from my pops
Speaker 4: right now. But uh, I don't want to like spoil Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the worst just know it's coming, pops.
Speaker 3: Is that a day date you got on or uh?
Speaker 3: They just yeah, yeah, this.
Speaker 1: Is just sola camera right here.
Speaker 2: Talk to your Oklahoma City fans and what they should
Speaker 2: expect from me this year.
Speaker 4: Man, Oklahoma City, I told you all this when I
Speaker 4: got drafted. But uh, you know, man, I'm still ready.
Speaker 4: H y'all gonna get my all, you know, day and
Speaker 4: day out, game in, game out. Uh you know, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna do what I gotta do, whatever it takes to,
Speaker 4: you know, help us win these games.
Speaker 3: So I can't wait to be out there. They got
Speaker 3: a good one coming there, Yo.
Speaker 2: Goa Oklahoma quick hitters before we get you out of here.
Speaker 2: One album on repeat for you.
Speaker 3: Ship.
Speaker 4: I got a few just because y'all waited to a
Speaker 4: little dirt. That's the blue one right, Yeah, yeah, that one,
Speaker 4: I say, PTSD g Herbo. I put Futures last album
Speaker 4: on there for like Drake's next album gonna be a hitter,
Speaker 4: So I gotta put that.
Speaker 1: On so you put it on there before it even.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that shit. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I got a few others on there, bro Quick hitters,
Speaker 4: Quick hitters, Yeah, m J, bron Kobe, the one A,
Speaker 4: one B, one C.
Speaker 1: I mean does it matter the names?
Speaker 3: It's just like, why what is the comparison? Do you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying? It's the comparison. It's like it's
Speaker 3: like it's the comparison.
Speaker 4: I mean I understand that, but I'm saying, like me
Speaker 4: sitting here and arguing and saying you're wrong versus I'm right.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, it's all opinion, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And like each of them did so much for the game,
Speaker 4: It's like I feel like it kind of just diminishes
Speaker 4: the respect that we should be given.
Speaker 5: To anybody's that that's debating on the three those you
Speaker 5: were better than all of us.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So it's it's like a compliment to each of them
Speaker 4: that you're even arguing about it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: And Joan was better.
Speaker 2: Okay, if you could rewatch one game or sit courtside
Speaker 2: for any game in history, what game would that be?
Speaker 4: Shit, I'd have to say, uh uh, Mike's Game six
Speaker 4: and ninety eight with.
Speaker 1: That in Utah right, Blue Game, Yes, Game five.
Speaker 3: The game Winner games. I'm talking about the Yeah, when
Speaker 3: do you put it on? B Wrussell? Yeah, what stuff?
Speaker 3: I'm asking you a question.
Speaker 5: Five Dinner guests Dead or Alive.
Speaker 3: Alie.
Speaker 4: Tyson, Mike Kobe, Shawn Lynch.
Speaker 1: I like it's a good call.
Speaker 2: I got a chance to kind of first meet you
Speaker 2: as a person at a legend event at Snoop's crib.
Speaker 3: What was that?
Speaker 2: I think I met your uncle that night too. Huh
Speaker 2: was that your uncle that was with you? Was that
Speaker 2: your pop?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I call him Okay, what was.
Speaker 2: It like, I mean, Snoop had you guys out there,
Speaker 2: You guys got a chance to play.
Speaker 1: What was that experience?
Speaker 3: Like, so that's dope. He turns into other things.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't want to put that out there.
Speaker 2: He's too you like you said you met him as
Speaker 2: a person. Is he anything else? I said the first
Speaker 2: time I met you, I met you. You know you
Speaker 2: said as a person. I'm not trying to get fine
Speaker 2: as a person.
Speaker 3: I'm just telling you what you said.
Speaker 1: You said as a person.
Speaker 3: I didn't know he was something else besides a person.
Speaker 1: My dad talk about that that day.
Speaker 2: Getting a chance to meet playing, Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4: I mean it's dope because like that was probably my
Speaker 4: first time in l A too. You get to meet
Speaker 4: like it was kind of sketchy because, like, you know,
Speaker 4: his compound, it's in the middle of l A and
Speaker 4: it looks like wouse in the hood. Yeah, Like you know,
Speaker 4: you think you're getting like abducted or something. When you
Speaker 4: roll in there and then you see you see his
Speaker 4: whole little line of classic cars and you're like, okay,
Speaker 4: this is spot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you know we got in there. He's
Speaker 3: got everything.
Speaker 4: He's got the court, he's got the green room, the
Speaker 4: game room, and it's just like the green room for
Speaker 4: It's like it was like hard to really even focus
Speaker 4: on playing basketball.
Speaker 3: I mean the hoops eight feet and it was a
Speaker 3: little MoU snoopy fooling us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when he's dunking out there, he definitely lowers the.
Speaker 2: Hoopoop being dunking on tailor to expose you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we ain't telling your secrets, but yeah it ain't.
Speaker 4: But it was a great time be out. That's dope.
Speaker 4: So shout out, shout out. Still putting that together.
Speaker 1: That's family. That's family.
Speaker 2: Give me five players in the league you like to
Speaker 2: watch outside of your teammates.
Speaker 4: I mean keV Book, Luca, a d B. You know,
Speaker 4: go down the line like the bigger skilled dudes.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, I feel like I feel like I could
Speaker 4: take something from anybody's game and you know your own, Yeah,
Speaker 4: be able to kind of work with it, but you know,
Speaker 4: seeing what they do and how they do it, you know,
Speaker 4: I feel like it really applies.
Speaker 5: If you could see one guess on all the smoke,
Speaker 5: who would it be? But but you have to help
Speaker 5: us get them on the show.
Speaker 4: I mean, y'all network probably deeper than mine, my young
Speaker 4: and in this game, I'm still.
Speaker 1: You gotta still shaking hands. But you gotta. You got
Speaker 1: a teammate we ain't had yet.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, I should have all we're going with that.
Speaker 3: You know I should have test.
Speaker 1: Just tell it we looking for him. He probably been
Speaker 1: looking for us.
Speaker 3: Give him a good shout out real quick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, we already know you want of the
Speaker 2: coldest guards in the game. Bro, We've been waiting on you.
Speaker 2: Fashion who seemed cool, come sit down on the.
Speaker 5: Couch, and they love us in Canada, So let's set
Speaker 5: up something to pull up.
Speaker 1: On you in the summertime out in Canada.
Speaker 3: It don't even matter popping all year around called Drake.
Speaker 3: I'll just tell him to watch that. That's it.
Speaker 2: Well, chat man, We appreciate your time. Glad you're back healthy.
Speaker 2: We got a Legends gift bag for you. Shout out Legends, Legends, Legends. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but man, thank you. Wish you the best of luck.
Speaker 2: Glad you're healthy. Looking forward to you winning again. Jack
Speaker 2: and I both you. Ever, he was Rookie of the
Speaker 2: Year man, so don't let us down.
Speaker 1: God damn it. Well that's a wrap chat home.
Speaker 2: Grin all the smoke, Las Vegas, give it up one time.
Speaker 1: We want to.
Speaker 2: Thank everybody for coming out today. We appreciate you, obviously,
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Speaker 1: We appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Baby.
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