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Speaker 1: This is an exciting I am Wrapp Reports Stereo podcast.

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Speaker 1: For new listeners of the Iron Rapp Reports Stereo Podcast,

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Speaker 1: this is Michael Rappaport a K the Grego Man Dingo

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Speaker 1: And we pride ourselves on no fact checking. Okay, we

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Speaker 1: Can't emphasize this anymore, especially if you're a grown up.

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Speaker 1: we always get booed and yelled at and traditionally it's

422
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Speaker 1: like I loved it. So when so did you grow

423
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,439
Speaker 1: up in New York City? I grew up right outside

424
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 1: of New York City. And but and like New York

425
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:09,119
Speaker 1: City basketball, you know, the days of like us like

426
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:13,400
Speaker 1: being everything, the Mark Jackson, Roder Strickland, the and one

427
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,719
Speaker 1: mix tapes, you know, the Boo Harvey's, the you know,

428
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 1: the the whole, you know Rucker. It's it's not the same.

429
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,879
Speaker 1: It's not like we don't we don't have it like

430
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 1: we used to know. And I think it's a lot

431
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 1: of to do with prep school. Prep school is a

432
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 1: big thing now because I went to prep school as well.

433
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 1: And if you look a lot of guys, you know,

434
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 1: they go from like a lot of gods in the

435
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,119
Speaker 1: Westchester area, especially to go to a prep school because

436
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,360
Speaker 1: the one they play against old competition. So if I'm

437
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 1: eighteen and I'm playing against a twenty year old twenty

438
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:41,679
Speaker 1: one years on the high school, a college coach is

439
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,120
Speaker 1: gonna take that and be like, wow, he's doing this

440
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 1: in high school. What's he gonna do when he played

441
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,359
Speaker 1: it's a twenties year old red shirt or twenty five

442
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 1: year old red shirt senior who's in the six year college.

443
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 1: You know. So college coaches kind of take that and

444
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 1: kind of look at it. In the basketball, in my opinion,

445
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:56,800
Speaker 1: has got it's got a little bit better, and in

446
00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,640
Speaker 1: prep schools much better. You know. R Brewster Acvin where

447
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 1: I went to cool where in New Hampshire. Okay, So

448
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: like we have Chris McCullough went' there, Mitch McGarry, Will

449
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 1: Barton Rum, we have a lot of guys that went there,

450
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,400
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like, um, what's the one down

451
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 1: south Monk. Okay. It's like we have post grads. So,

452
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 1: Okay doesn't have post grad That's the only difference with Brewster.

453
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 1: So what does that mean? Post postcribe means you have

454
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 1: you graduated and you do one more year in high school.

455
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 1: So it's like to get you ready for college. Okay,

456
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:27,879
Speaker 1: that's why I say, like the prep school basketball, the

457
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 1: one that that that I played in with the post

458
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,159
Speaker 1: grads is a lot tougher because I came in as

459
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 1: a seventeen year old playing against Chris and Jared Terrell

460
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: who were twenty two and two shoo at that time.

461
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,359
Speaker 1: These dudes are pushing the limited how many years you

462
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 1: can stay in the school and it's it's nothing. That's

463
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,160
Speaker 1: not like they did anything like illegal or think. It's

464
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 1: just you're allowed to do a post grad now. So

465
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:56,439
Speaker 1: I'm going against guys I'm small, are small from for

466
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 1: my for for that team, and I'm coming there guarding

467
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: against guys who were to twenty huge, you know, going

468
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: out there and you know Jalen Adams who goes to

469
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 1: ukon justin Simon. We had so many good players come

470
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: out of that program whom gonna do big things. And

471
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 1: what about like is because I told you I played

472
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: for Riverside Church. This is eight you know, and it

473
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 1: was everything like what is Riverside Church and the Gauchos

474
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: and like you know that the A A U teams

475
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 1: in New York City? Are they are they dope? Are

476
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:25,719
Speaker 1: they not dope? Is at all? La is in Vegas

477
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 1: or is it just not the same thing. It's I

478
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 1: don't think it's the team so much anymore. I think

479
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,199
Speaker 1: it's where you play. I mean I think and I

480
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: say that, I mean, like if you play and I

481
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 1: don't know the tournaments anymore, that's I feel like I'm

482
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 1: getting out of it. But like if you playing PHHM,

483
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 1: like PHM is big. Um. The Players was always a

484
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 1: big team, the New Jersey Players, Lightning is always a

485
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,879
Speaker 1: big one. Scan. Uh, these are not in the city.

486
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: These are all in the city. Players is in New Jersey,

487
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:56,399
Speaker 1: Scanning Lightning Lightnings in Long Island. Scan is in Queens,

488
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 1: I believe, or the Bronx something like that. But there's

489
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:01,880
Speaker 1: so many teams out of New York that played there

490
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: but that have like Thomas Bryant played for SCAN, Chris

491
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: mccolor played for SCAN, um Tis Battle play for SCAN.

492
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: Who else played on Players? Kyle Anderson played on Players.

493
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think so so it's still the same,

494
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: It's just they're more. There's still dudes that could play.

495
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: The Carolinas are doing pretty well with AU basketball right now.

496
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 1: I always giving them. The Carolinas are doing doing real well.

497
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 1: Okays as I've gotten older, it's been the Carolina down

498
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 1: south that's pretty much taking over a lot. And that's

499
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,399
Speaker 1: hard for me to admit being from New York. But

500
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 1: down south there's a lot of a lot of guys now.

501
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: And what about the Rutger is it is it? Did

502
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 1: you ever play in the Rock when you were how old?

503
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 1: I played in there A few times I played. The

504
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 1: last time I played in there, I played in the

505
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: Reebok All Star Game and Shack was my coach. That's

506
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: going against Cameron. That's that's with Cameron the Rapper like

507
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: and he was he was the opposing head coach. Okay,

508
00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: he wasn't playing because he used to be able to play. Yeah, No,

509
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: I wasn't playing against him. It was me, Dwayne Bacon,

510
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 1: Corey Sanders, Adman Gilder. There's so many different guys, Me

511
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: and Dwayne, only ones that are in the NBA right now.

512
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: Derrick Jones was in it too. Yeah, we play against

513
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: what would be the New York team. Alright, So so

514
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: you get drafted number thirteen. Talk to me about the

515
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,640
Speaker 1: the the NBA draft and how that happens, and like

516
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: it wasn't like you were like lighting it up like

517
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 1: There're like, you're gonna go second round? Like what was

518
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 1: the process of you going? And how much does Patino?

519
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,959
Speaker 1: How much you involve your parents? What's the process of

520
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 1: like a guy who's not like a star star star

521
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: star going into the NBA draft. Um it starts with um.

522
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: I didn't think this was any gonna happen, Like I

523
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: wasn't planning on leaving until or like even thinking about

524
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: leaving until the end of more like maybe the last

525
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 1: game of the season. Like it wasn't a thought, Like

526
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: I had heard of NBA news, you know, and all

527
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 1: that stuff, but I had heard so many times that

528
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: the guys let the NBA nois kind of affect their

529
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: college game. So you know, I just kind of the

530
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: only time I would hear about the NBA's if my

531
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: mom would uh would bring it up and be like,

532
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: do you see what this person put? Do you see

533
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 1: what you are now in the mock draft? You know,

534
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: like that stuff, But I would I wouldn't listen to it.

535
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: And I tell the story of the time I went

536
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: to l a workout and I paid for my flight,

537
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 1: paid for my hotel, pay for the paid to train,

538
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: paid to work out, and see if I was ready

539
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: and work out with who don McLean the trainer dude, Yeah,

540
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: McLean And it was me, Luke Canar, John Collins, Jordan

541
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: Bell and they had already signed. They had already signed

542
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 1: with CIA was an agency and they were gonna come out. Yeah,

543
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: they were coming out. So I had to pay for

544
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: everything snortia because so my room, my dorm room was

545
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: still had my stuff in it, like I didn't. I

546
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: didn't know what to expect. And I worked out there

547
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: for four or five days and then I worked out

548
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 1: with CP and Paul George as well as the guys

549
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: that just named. So so when you're working out with them,

550
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 1: what is that like? Like are you like? I remember

551
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 1: the first time I played CP, he scored on Luke

552
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: and the first game of five from the elbow without dribbling.

553
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: So the game is he just gets to pass and

554
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: then we got to guard him and he didn't dribble.

555
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: He could have, but he didn't, Okay, and he scored

556
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: five times in a row. And that's when I was like, like,

557
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm ready. He's jab stepping, Like

558
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: what is like he doesn't have a shot pocket. That's

559
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 1: one thing like in one on one games. He could

560
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 1: shoot it from left side, right side, doesn't matter. He's

561
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: worked on shooting it from all different sides. So like

562
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: when you see him, that's what he told me, and

563
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,239
Speaker 1: that lowis once he said it. I'm watching and I'm like,

564
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: he's not shooting it from the same spot at any time. Okay,

565
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: hold on, had you ever played against other pros yet

566
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: at that point? Yes? In your life like that are

567
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: actually in the pros? Like, No, you never played against

568
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: pros at that point, not that I can remember. Not. Okay,

569
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: So you go out there to work out, You're not

570
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: even you're you're flying yourself out there. You flew coach,

571
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: would you get some miles boost talking like like Jeff

572
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: Blue Delta, Delta, shout out to Delt Delta, Delta, McDonald's, listen,

573
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 1: I know you're CIA, but I might be getting more

574
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: deals at CIA. So who might be signing with Delta

575
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: and McDonald's. So you fly out there, coach, you work out.

576
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: So Chris, do you know he's gonna be there? Chris

577
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: Paul I knew. I didn't know he was gonna be

578
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: working out. They had they had the SA had I

579
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: had a meeting because you know, you meet with the agencies,

580
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: and yeah, they told me that, like these guys come

581
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: and train, but you know, you don't listen to agents

582
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: like and who knows if they're going to show exactly.

583
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: And he came. It was were you bugging out? I

584
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 1: was free. I was like, like, what is happening? Like

585
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: it was? It was ridiculous. Um, I've never ever expected

586
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: any this to happen, like to be able to see

587
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: like Chris Paul in person let alone play gets let

588
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: it on form of relationship with him, you know. And

589
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: I think once I started doing well, and I think

590
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: it was a game with him, Paul, George, Corey mcgetty

591
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 1: and Julius Randall and we were playing three on three

592
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: and a half court and I did really well that day.

593
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: So it's what's one are the teams? If you can remember,

594
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: because you have to remember. Don't give me that I

595
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: don't remember. It was just a few months ago. If

596
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: let me say, what are the teams? Man? You have

597
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: to remember the teams? You just name is you Corey mcgetty,

598
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: who was my guy in the Big Three? You probably

599
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: saw me in the Big Three. I was the Howard

600
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: Coast all the Big Three. Okay, before you got injured.

601
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: So it's you, Corey mcgetty, Paul, George, Chris Paul, who's

602
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 1: the other one, Julius Randol mean Luke John and okay,

603
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 1: so the changes it wasn't like us against okay, okay,

604
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: so and they're moving the teams around okay, and Chris

605
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: Paul was killing us in picking roll him and PG,

606
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: which is finding a way I don't know. I don't

607
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: know how. And I was like, it's just just killing

608
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: and you're but you're playing basketball, you're guarding him, and

609
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: so you're like, yo, I'm shutting you down in your

610
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: head mentally, Yeah, I'm like that. And I wasn't doing

611
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: anything on defense, but offensively, I don't think I missed

612
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: that day at all. And if time about like I

613
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: didn't miss I think I made nine threes in a row.

614
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: And while that's happening, are you in the groove or

615
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: is there a party? Like yo, I'm playing with is

616
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: there ever a party? Like I'm just like effort, I'm

617
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: not losing. Like that's just I get sometimes like especially

618
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: when because you're so mild manner, do you're like so chill,

619
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: But when I see you when you play, you're you're

620
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: not chill, but I mean you're super chill. You might

621
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: be the youngest and the most chill person to ever

622
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: be on this podcast. When we when losing is involved,

623
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: like it's it's the worst. Like I I get that

624
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: from like when we played at Louisville, Like if we lost,

625
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: we ran a lot and I hate running, So it

626
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: was like, look, we're not losing this game, Like I'm

627
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: not gonna run Monday through Thursday and play on Friday.

628
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 1: Like So that's the fourth thing from Coach p That's

629
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: that's another thing that I developed and I had it before,

630
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: but like I said, he heightened it, he sharpened it.

631
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: Does that make sense? Okay? But before we hear about

632
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: this three on three, I just want to write this down. Uh,

633
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: if you lost, what kind of running do you gotta do?

634
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: Like what would be like, oh, we're doing are we doing?

635
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:09,320
Speaker 1: Are we doing suicide? It was miles, It was within practice,

636
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: so we would have a long so like we lost

637
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: to Virginia. I tell the story of the time we

638
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: lost to Virginia and I played terribly. It was the

639
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: only game in my life where I gave up, where

640
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: I gave up, and I can admit that gave up.

641
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: We were down twenty five getting booed, and I was like,

642
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: you know what whatever, Like I'm never being Virginia either.

643
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: Keep that in. It's my time in college. So I'm like,

644
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,880
Speaker 1: you know what, like whatever, that's it. And we watched

645
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 1: the film and we're getting individuals and we do a

646
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: lap and um, he's just like, you know what, just

647
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: going to treadmill. So I run the treadmill. He tells

648
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 1: you specifically day and I yeah, we we had our

649
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: worst game ever at Louis and we ran the treadmill.

650
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: This is the individuals in the morning. This is about

651
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: ten o'clock. Then, um, now they're telling you are someone

652
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 1: monitoring you on the treadmill. It's not like me at Equinnox. No,

653
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 1: I'm like five minutes here, get some water. We're going

654
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: like not in Tim was Tim and and there's a

655
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: coach there and assistant or somebody. We're doing that and

656
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: then we'll coach. He always looks out. He looks out

657
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: for us, so like whose coach coach? The strength coach

658
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:13,919
Speaker 1: Like if he sees everybody like fall, like, let's slow

659
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: it down right as they should, you know what, as

660
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: they should. It's not like it's not like I don't like,

661
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, this is not hell, Like I

662
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 1: love playing there, but it's tough. It's basketball. It's hard,

663
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 1: like it's it's it's not, it's not it. I got

664
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 1: it for ruinning a little bit. We don't I got

665
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 1: you up. That's not I got your thing. So then

666
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: we after that, we finished individuals about forty five minutes,

667
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: a lot of one on one on one. He's this

668
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: game called knockout. It's what is it? To give me

669
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: the details the game, it's one on one where you

670
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,479
Speaker 1: you if you score, you get pass from the coach

671
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 1: on each side and you play and if you miss

672
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 1: the guy, you walk off and the guy runs all

673
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 1: the way, dribbles to half court to allow the guy

674
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: comes to the baseline to play defense, and you go

675
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 1: back at him. So now if you score like five

676
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: six times in a row, you're gas. But they have

677
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 1: all the energies people on the baseline, so we're danging out.

678
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,959
Speaker 1: We were scoring, but like we were gassed. So then

679
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: I think it was VJ individual Like they all have energy.

680
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 1: That's interesting. So like he's always trying to get you

681
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 1: play against a fresher player. So it's almost like the

682
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: offensive player in that drill is a disadvantage after if

683
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: he scores a life punished for scoring. Yeah, but it's

684
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 1: it's it's just like if you if you can score,

685
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: what it's called, it's just called knockout. Did he invent this?

686
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 1: I would believe? So Okay then, and a lot of

687
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: stuff we did, and it all when I look back

688
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: at it and I'm like like wow, Like I can

689
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: see like if you can score, and if you can

690
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 1: keep scoring and you're dead tired, then like can imagine

691
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: when the other person is tired. That's gonna be tired

692
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 1: when we pressed, and I mean, they're gonna be exhausted.

693
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,919
Speaker 1: So that's when you start scoring. So we did that

694
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: and then we had practice, which is three and a

695
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,479
Speaker 1: half hours, and so that was that was the worst

696
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: week I've ever had at Louis. After I gave up,

697
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: like I gave up in the game and I've never

698
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: done that since. And I really just so is that

699
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: something You'll never forget that game and the practices never

700
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: forget it. All Right, So these three on threes you

701
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: were just saying you were destroying Chris Paul, you were

702
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: killing You said, it's on the tape you said you were.

703
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: Paul George was like a Bacheeriospen, it's on the tape,

704
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 1: all right, so what what else? Like what else do

705
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: you remember from that thing? Because I could imagine as

706
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: a basketball player and someone who's looking to play pro,

707
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: like how exciting and how thrilling that is. And then

708
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: you're showing up, you know, with them at that level

709
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: and obviously for them it's just to work out. They

710
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,840
Speaker 1: probably even know who you are. And I'm on my

711
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: agent one Ty was telling me, he was like, look,

712
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: look you did really well. Like again like I was

713
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: always told like agency and that I was supposed to

714
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 1: keep you hyped up. I hadn't signed yet, so I'm

715
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:47,879
Speaker 1: thinking he's just telling me what I want to hear,

716
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 1: so then I'll sign. Like I'm like, all right, cool,

717
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna listen to you, but I'll listened to you.

718
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 1: And then I tell them this all the time, Like

719
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 1: there was a point that was like the first week

720
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 1: I didn't listen to anything else said. I just listened

721
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: to everybody else because they like, what did Chris Paul

722
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 1: has to live by telling me I was gonna make

723
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: se me like I'd have to see him like four

724
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: times a year, and you know what I mean, Like,

725
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 1: you know, so like, bro, you were wrong, you know,

726
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: so like he once he said it and PG We're like,

727
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 1: look like you can do some really big things. You know.

728
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 1: That's from my confidence from that workout. It was like

729
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,839
Speaker 1: a few workouts after that. Yeah, and um, who else came?

730
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: Did anybody any of the pros come? PG, C, P Julius, Um?

731
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: Now I think that I think that was those were

732
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: the only ones I came for that for that for

733
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: pre draft. All right, so draft playing in the NB.

734
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: So you're just go out the workout, But do you

735
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 1: walk away from these workouts with changed in your know?

736
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: From these workouts with George changed everything I didn't in

737
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 1: your head? Are you like, like, who are you talking

738
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,439
Speaker 1: about this with besides your like like are you telling

739
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: your parents, like your best friend, like your sister? Are

740
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: you like yo, like who are you saying? Like not

741
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: talking crap? But like, y'all, I was out there playing

742
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: with these guys. My best friend Eric probably passed. He

743
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 1: plays on Villaneva And you're telling him what, like, Bro,

744
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: like I think I might do this, Like I think

745
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: they might be it, you know, I had, and you see,

746
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: like he like asking you the question, like you like,

747
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: what what what kind of kicks was Paul George wearing? Yeah?

748
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: What kind of kicks was you wearing? He had his

749
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,240
Speaker 1: new pgs before they came out, So like I actually

750
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 1: got a few a few pairs of those two once

751
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 1: I signed with c A. He's two try because I

752
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: didn't signed with the shoe company yet, so I was

753
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: like trying to try them on to see if I

754
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,280
Speaker 1: want to go with Nike, Adidas, under Armor, Jordan's. And

755
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: the biggest thing with me is I'm superstitious. I played baseball,

756
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: so you know that. So like I didn't want to

757
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: talk about it. So I didn't want to talk about

758
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:34,359
Speaker 1: to anybody. So like I didn't want to say, look

759
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,320
Speaker 1: at bro, I'm doing well. I would kind of hide it,

760
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 1: but like what I'm doing all right, Like you know,

761
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: I'm doing okay. I didn't want to say nothing about

762
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 1: it because I thought one I thought that this isn't

763
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 1: gonna keep happening. I had a good day and now

764
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: I'm like I'm having a good week, Like I'm having

765
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: a good month. You know. Now I'm like, all right,

766
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: maybe I am all right, pretty good like I never

767
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: gave myself and I still never do it, never give

768
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: myself the benefit. No I could imagine. It's it's it

769
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: has to be a surreal feeling, like you know when

770
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 1: that moment happens where you're you know, it's one thing

771
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 1: to play in Rucker. It's nothing to play in college.

772
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: Another player played Canyon State. What's with these Grant Canyon

773
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: or Virginia whatever, And then it's another thing to be

774
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: out there with these guys and like from after after

775
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 1: that and then doing the team workouts and I did

776
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,880
Speaker 1: pretty well, and I'm I'm not sure if I'm getting drafted,

777
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: like you know, like no one teams given me a

778
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: guarantee and I tell my agent like if they tell

779
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: you they drafted me, I don't want to hear it,

780
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: Like I don't want to know. Um, I don't care

781
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: if it's the for the sixtieth pick of the first pick.

782
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear it because as much as

783
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 1: guys say it won't affect him, like you know, subconsciously

784
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 1: you'll be like, oh, I don't need this one. I

785
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: got one, you know what I mean. So you show

786
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 1: up to the draft. At this point when I got

787
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: to the draft and I was like, all right, I'm

788
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 1: getting drafted. Did you start working out for teams? I

789
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 1: worked out for fourteen fifteen teams. Fifteen teams in a month. Okay,

790
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: what was the most bugged out thing? Did you work

791
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: out for the Knicks? Was Phil Jackson there right before

792
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 1: I worked out with them right before the the day

793
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: before the draft. Okay, that was my last workout. So

794
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: out of your pre draft workouts, what are the three coolest,

795
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: weirdest surrealist things. I grew up a big lebron fan

796
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 1: to the heat Um locker room. I watched all the

797
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:20,319
Speaker 1: documentaries and all that. So when I walcome to the

798
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 1: heat locker room, I saw like so I envisioned like

799
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 1: people don't think I'm weird for saying no, I got

800
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: you Wayne. When they won the first one DAYNE was

801
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: like this is about to go down, like running down

802
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:34,720
Speaker 1: the hallway walked and I was like, oh, like whoa,

803
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: Like this is this is crazy? That would probably the

804
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 1: be the craziest thing. I walked to the Heat and

805
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: I saw pat Riley. That was crazy and does he

806
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 1: say a load to you? We had we had to

807
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: talk after the pre draft. You and pat Riley did

808
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: he watch you work out? That was my worst workout?

809
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: Were you miss shots? Slower? Got my ass busted to

810
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: be honest with you by a guy named I give

811
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: him credit. Um, people don't like that. I do to

812
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: give people credit. But John Clever, he plays on the

813
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 1: Mavericks and I give him credit, Like he just killed me.

814
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: So you guys are like doing like one on one,

815
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 1: drill on towo on two or three on three, and

816
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: he's not He's just not listening at all. And it

817
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: was just a bad workout for me. I told her,

818
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: I was like, look, this is this is killing me,

819
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, like this it's a rigorous process,

820
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,879
Speaker 1: like it's it's a blessing. And don't don't get me wrong,

821
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 1: but it's a lot to fly from city to city

822
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: workout flying. It's like NBA schedule, right, no, but but

823
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: it's a little bit even more. There's no there's no rest.

824
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: It's in a month, so you know, you gotta be

825
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: able to gauge the rest, and you gotta be able

826
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 1: to get to training on your own. You gotta know.

827
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: And I have no idea what I'm doing, and I

828
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: got stretched. I never I never see any of that

829
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: I got you. So then, so what was the conversation

830
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:44,359
Speaker 1: with pat Riley? Like, do he asked me? You know,

831
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:47,720
Speaker 1: like why am I good fit? You know? He asked you, Yeah,

832
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 1: he says why are you a good fit? Just to

833
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 1: hear to hear my answer? Are you in an office?

834
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 1: It was me him, Eric spoelstra Um and too I

835
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: think I don't want to get these guys names wrong. No,

836
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: just funky. We're calling funky. I'm gonna call him funky.

837
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:13,839
Speaker 1: You were expulsion to Flunky's No, okay, okay, So so

838
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 1: but are you in the officer their championship bringing like

839
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 1: the trophies around the post of Lebron celebrations behind me?

840
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: So like I'm still in awe for that. But I'm like,

841
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,279
Speaker 1: i gotta keep my composure answer right because I'm trying

842
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 1: to get drafted. So he's asked me why am I

843
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: good fit? And I said, look, look this is is

844
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 1: I've been watching you guys, so I could tell you

845
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:34,919
Speaker 1: about your game against the in the win streak where

846
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: you almost lost Tour Orlando, and after that, Lebron was like,

847
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 1: we're not worried about the wind streak, but I know,

848
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 1: damn well, you guys are worried about the wind streak.

849
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 1: You know, I could tell them. You're telling them that. Yeah,

850
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 1: I'm telling them, like I tell them like everything that

851
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 1: I remember because I grew up watching it, so like

852
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:49,800
Speaker 1: I knew it, like I was I was a fanatic,

853
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: and I was really like a passionate fan. So I

854
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: can tell you, uh, like when ray Allen hit the shot,

855
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: like they were freaking out and Mickey Aaronson said that, like, um,

856
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:01,319
Speaker 1: they brought the yell a rope out right and they

857
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: were freaking out over that, and then I had the

858
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,840
Speaker 1: shot and changed everything. I could tell I could just

859
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: say that just because I saw it. I got you.

860
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: I was telling them all that, and they were like

861
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 1: like whoa, Like yeah, like so they when So when

862
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 1: when they're saying could fit, they're they're saying for the

863
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: Miami Heat, not for that specific team that they have

864
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: going into two thousand seventeen for I don't I think

865
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 1: they want Like some teams will ask you to be

866
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: like who is our point guard or who is this

867
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: Lets see if you know, do your homework, But they

868
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 1: were asking me, like why would I be going to

869
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 1: work well in the heat The Miami Heat organizations that

870
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 1: you're looking at a guy like Norris Cole who no

871
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: one really knew. Kid got you, did work, you know,

872
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:38,239
Speaker 1: and worked his butt off and he ended up having

873
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,439
Speaker 1: eighteen in a big playoff. I got you. I got

874
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 1: you that, you know? And then what was the other

875
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:48,760
Speaker 1: workout meeting that was like cool? Like that interesting? That stuck? Utah?

876
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:54,359
Speaker 1: The Utah jazz I was rand. I would only why

877
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,360
Speaker 1: I would put Miami the onways? Why I put Miami?

878
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: We didn't put it first. We just asked for cool stories.

879
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: I said, what happened was? I said Phil Jackson? And

880
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 1: then it could the correlation between Phil and Pat I

881
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 1: just the only because I was Lebron fan. You're allowed

882
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: to be not no more, not not at all. Utah

883
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:16,360
Speaker 1: was was crazy because I knew nothing about it. You

884
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 1: know all these teams, you know, I knew nothing about Utah.

885
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: I came in there and I'm not a big sight

886
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: see your person, and I was crazy about the mountains.

887
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: I was crazy about it, like I was like from

888
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: my hotel and I can see it, all of it.

889
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: I faced time almost everybody in my contact list to

890
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: show them what I was looking at. Um and when

891
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: he had the meeting, like they like Mr. Lindsay was

892
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: like really really cool, Like he was just like, look

893
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 1: like they had the pick at the time, so no one.

894
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 1: First of all, people were wondering why I came to

895
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 1: work out for them because they thought I was rejected

896
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 1: to go higher like in the teams and up like why,

897
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 1: like people have no idea what I was working out

898
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: for them. I'm like, look, I'm gonna work out for

899
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: every team because it's not a given, like you never

900
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 1: know what could happen, and they obviously they trade it up.

901
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 1: But I'm like, look like I love the coaching staff.

902
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: They were running We're running plays, you know, playing like

903
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,800
Speaker 1: little games within the game, and it was it was awesome,

904
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 1: like and I just loved the conversations we had, Like

905
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: you just felt a genuine bond with the with the staff.

906
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 1: And if you could feel that with the with the

907
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:17,240
Speaker 1: GM and the guy who makes the decision, you feel confident.

908
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: That's COOLOD And I left that meeting thinking, all right,

909
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: if I don't go where I'm supposed to be to go,

910
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:24,319
Speaker 1: at least, I think I'll go twenty four, you know,

911
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 1: I'll go to go to the Utah Jazz because I

912
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 1: feel like I had a great workout and I didn't

913
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 1: miss a shot in that one either. That was that

914
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: was a big one. You're just on, just on. That

915
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: was my first workout, my first pre draft work however,

916
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: and I just felt like I was this is before

917
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: the renovations and new practice facilities, so like this they

918
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 1: were telling about all the new stuff and everything, and

919
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:46,800
Speaker 1: I was like, you know this, this might be cool,

920
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 1: Like I would love to be here, and I said

921
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:51,719
Speaker 1: in an interview and people people were like kind of

922
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 1: like like who is this guy that like? Because no

923
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: one like no one likes to keep they've always everybody

924
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 1: said like, no one says I just love you like

925
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 1: I love it like I I love I hear it's

926
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:04,360
Speaker 1: it's it's amazing out there. And for for that to happen,

927
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 1: for them to get up in the thirteen, it was

928
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 1: it was kind of a blessing. Are you impressed? One

929
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: of the things. I went to a Utah Jazz game

930
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: last year? Are you impressed with the DJ? And you

931
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: at the home DJ at the Utah Jazz because they

932
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: get busy, like the little music cues it's all New

933
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:24,879
Speaker 1: York nineties hip hop. And I remember when I was there, like, yo,

934
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 1: what they like? I didn't even know that they even

935
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 1: like play this in here. The thing is, they pay

936
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,399
Speaker 1: attention to little things. So like I know when Rudy

937
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 1: comes out, they play like they used to play French music.

938
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: It's like when I said, I like I love Dave

939
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 1: East or if I um start playing Dave East a

940
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 1: lot in my snap stories, Like they pay attention to that.

941
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: So like they'll play it when I'm on the court

942
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: warming up, preach for like the pregame, so like they

943
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: pay it like they pay when you're bringing the ball

944
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 1: up the court, they play like nas Biggie the b Nuts.

945
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: They play like it's it's weird how they do they

946
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,840
Speaker 1: pay tention, pay attention when Ricky brings the ball up

947
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: or like someone or a b or someone like you

948
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: know someone and then paying attention to the music they

949
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 1: listened to. They will pick it because of that. I

950
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 1: like that all right. So since you got drafted, what

951
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 1: has been the biggest thing that you've been able to do?

952
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 1: Like buy you got your mother a car, have a

953
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 1: mama car, Like you went and you went to the store,

954
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:20,320
Speaker 1: Like how does that work? So I was thinking about

955
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:22,359
Speaker 1: like what I would get it for a birthday, and

956
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:24,720
Speaker 1: you know, I couldn't give her the car in Utah

957
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: and have a chips. I decided, like we had a

958
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,279
Speaker 1: New York trip to two we played the Knicks and

959
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: the Nets, and I was like, you know, I'm gonna

960
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: do it now. Like I made that decision probably a

961
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: week before. Like I knew I wanted to get her

962
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: a car, I just didn't know win. So I made

963
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:38,880
Speaker 1: a decision a week before I went to the dealership,

964
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: and I didn't know how long it takes to do

965
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 1: all that, Like that process is long. Like had you

966
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: ever bought a car before? Do you have a driver's license?

967
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:51,280
Speaker 1: Because in New York City I didn't have a driver's license.

968
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 1: I didn't have one till this year. Did you know

969
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 1: how to drive? Okay, so you may or may not

970
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: have driven before. You just didn't have a license. Okay,

971
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: So so but you just gotta because in Utah you

972
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: have to drive. So you didn't have a driver's license.

973
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 1: You never bought a course for the first car that

974
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 1: you actually bought? My mom and did she had no idea,

975
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 1: no clue because she wants she says she wanted it.

976
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: And I immediately shot the idea down. I said, no,

977
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 1: it's too expensive. I'm never gonna get it, like, and

978
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: that's just who I am when I was doing that,

979
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 1: and then be like, all right, that's exactly what I want.

980
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:24,399
Speaker 1: I knew exactly the color white with with a black

981
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 1: tinted windows, everything like I knew it. And then um,

982
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 1: next thing I knew, I was at the dealership about

983
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: an hour and that surprise her at school? Uh, I

984
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 1: would say, abround like four or so towards the end

985
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 1: of school and friend everybody at her school. I went

986
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 1: to school there as well. Granted's country day, but she

987
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,720
Speaker 1: teaches there. Now, okay, so your mother's a teacher. Okay,

988
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:50,240
Speaker 1: that's dope. And she she was totally surprised. No, no clue.

989
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 1: All right, and your father works for the Mets and

990
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: you play baseball? What level of be like you? I

991
00:49:56,640 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 1: played baseball to high school baseball. Okay, I stopped. I

992
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: broke my wrist. I was playing baseball sliding ran into

993
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 1: my own teammates. Were you left field? The right fielder

994
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 1: shorts my catcher? How do you do that? So my

995
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: team wasn't the greatest? Yeah, no kidding. Um, the third

996
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: baseman didn't see it. The picture didn't see it in

997
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:18,799
Speaker 1: the catcher took two steps in the wrong direction, so

998
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:20,399
Speaker 1: I was on one that saw so I took off.

999
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 1: I never looked down, just kept me on the ball,

1000
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: and the catching made up ground and we ran into

1001
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 1: each other. So your baseball team is the Mats. Your

1002
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 1: father Your father worked for the Mats. So you you

1003
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,359
Speaker 1: do you love baseball? Yeah? I watched all the time,

1004
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 1: and you were number forty five. Because Michael Jordan worked

1005
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: for baseball and basketball, we're in the four five, um,

1006
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:42,400
Speaker 1: but he wore it as a baseballer. What do you

1007
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:45,239
Speaker 1: think of Michael Jordan's baseball career? Did you see the

1008
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 1: thirty for thirty? Uh? Yeah, I think you can't hold

1009
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 1: someone who's fantastic at one sport to expect him to

1010
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: do the same thing in another sport, especially when it's

1011
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 1: a lot harder to play baseball than his basketball. And

1012
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with is it really it is?

1013
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:04,719
Speaker 1: Why to hit like you have? I don't know the

1014
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 1: exact numbers, but you only have like point three seconds

1015
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: to figure out if the ball is gonna change direction,

1016
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 1: if it's gonna slow down out of nowhere, if it's

1017
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:12,319
Speaker 1: going to be a fast off, it's coming out your head,

1018
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:14,799
Speaker 1: if it's going inside outside, whether you should swing on

1019
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 1: top of that, you gotta know if the third basin

1020
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: is playing in, whether you should bunt, whether you should hit. Like,

1021
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 1: there's so much you should think about in that matter

1022
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: of time, and it's a it's a big mental game.

1023
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:28,319
Speaker 1: Could you have played college baseball level? Like, did you

1024
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 1: get looked at for college? Seriously? Had six You're only

1025
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:37,879
Speaker 1: six one three with shoes, but without shoes six months,

1026
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 1: so I could take you in the post. Probably maybe

1027
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:43,279
Speaker 1: people think that, Okay, you're only so you're six one

1028
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 1: with without, like when they measure you with these combines,

1029
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:49,880
Speaker 1: six one, Okay, So you get drafted by the Utah

1030
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 1: Jazz Summer League. Who did you compete against? Daron fox

1031
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:59,360
Speaker 1: linzo ball? There's all these people. The only person I've

1032
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 1: had played against that was a big name was Jason

1033
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 1: Tatum and that was it. Now you played him in college?

1034
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 1: Played him, yeah twice, three times? Yeah, he went to Duke. Okay,

1035
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: you're like, now he plays with the Celtics. He played

1036
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 1: for Duke. Duke bumped Louisville from the SEC tournament only

1037
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 1: because we were up fifteen and we went to they

1038
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: went to zone and we used to torch him the

1039
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:29,319
Speaker 1: whole year. We just had a bad game shooting game.

1040
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:31,799
Speaker 1: Is that like a sub sub rivalry? Like for you?

1041
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,359
Speaker 1: Are you like? No, No, I don't I let that.

1042
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 1: I let that one go. Um. South Carolina got him back,

1043
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: So I let I let that one go. Um. If

1044
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: we had lost Kentucky, I would I think I would

1045
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 1: be feel a little different. But we won. And I'll

1046
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:48,840
Speaker 1: bring up to Daran and Bam and Malick all the time.

1047
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 1: Have you played against the Errant? Have you played against

1048
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: against the Kings? Haven't I played against Bam And I

1049
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:57,879
Speaker 1: haven't played against Milik either, But those are your guys. Yeah,

1050
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:00,120
Speaker 1: I'm cool with them. Like right, I mean did like

1051
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 1: did you guys grow up? Like a camp? So I

1052
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:04,800
Speaker 1: went to the same camps as Um. I played on Bam,

1053
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 1: So Bam, Malik, Diaron and I we went to a

1054
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: thing called um Nike uh Elite, Nike Elite something like that,

1055
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: something Nike something, Nike Global, Nike Global. And I was

1056
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: on BAM's team. UM and he was a junior in

1057
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 1: high school at that point, and you were a senior.

1058
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:23,800
Speaker 1: And who else was at the camp who were the

1059
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:26,839
Speaker 1: other juniors and seniors. Our class was Jalen Brown was there,

1060
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: Tatum was there. Um Scalabacier was there. Um Steven Zimmerman

1061
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 1: was there. Um anybody could think of tearing Fox, Um

1062
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: Prince Elegacoma elite like the elites, elite of the elite

1063
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:45,319
Speaker 1: in our class. And go back and look at my

1064
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:47,919
Speaker 1: my class rankings from high school, like anybody from one

1065
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 1: to like forty was there, and um, Bam and I

1066
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 1: we we didn't do too well. Um. I had Malachi

1067
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:59,440
Speaker 1: Richardson on my team, so we had a we had

1068
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:04,280
Speaker 1: a bunch of great guys and we play against Darren's

1069
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: team in the championship. They beat us by and we

1070
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: played against Malik wanted up winning that that game. So

1071
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 1: we So it's like the Midwest versus like the south

1072
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:16,040
Speaker 1: rest of the East, you know, like stuff like that.

1073
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: And um, that was the first time I really got

1074
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 1: to know Bam. I try to recruit the Louver and

1075
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:23,720
Speaker 1: then he went to Kentucky and I was like, yeah, whatever,

1076
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 1: like I don't need you, we need you. And then

1077
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 1: so when you beat him, we beat him, I let

1078
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:30,279
Speaker 1: him have it. I let him have it. And so

1079
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:32,400
Speaker 1: now that like you know this this crew of guys

1080
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: that you you know, you know, sixteen seventeen eighteen, you're

1081
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:38,319
Speaker 1: in the NBA. Do you guys like stay in touch?

1082
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:41,839
Speaker 1: Like y'all? I played I'll just go to Lebron because

1083
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 1: he's like this like like the sort of the one

1084
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: person that everybody sort of like, are you guys like communicating?

1085
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:48,719
Speaker 1: I played this one. I played that one, like, are

1086
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:50,799
Speaker 1: you guys stay in time? I wouldn't say as much

1087
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 1: as I played him, I played him. I would be like,

1088
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 1: if I see like Darren had a good game, like

1089
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: I'll hit him up, like I keep the notifications to

1090
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 1: see how they're doing that way I could be like

1091
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:00,319
Speaker 1: a right good game or keep it up or like

1092
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 1: just being supportive. I think it's the biggest thing, as

1093
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:03,920
Speaker 1: well as being being funny. So like I had the

1094
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:07,440
Speaker 1: best shooting night and then bam when I would be like, damn,

1095
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 1: he can't shoot, Like just making a joke and stuff

1096
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:11,960
Speaker 1: like that. Just keep it funny. But um, definitely keep

1097
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: in touch with with all those guys for sure. What

1098
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 1: do you think now? You you tweeted, I don't know

1099
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 1: if you saw my my instagram, my Alonso ball show

1100
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:22,920
Speaker 1: up at the question with the with the NA sweatter.

1101
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 1: Now you're a New Yorker, you tweeted, what is your

1102
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 1: take on the whole thing, the whole just the whole

1103
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:34,000
Speaker 1: phenomen is it the talk of the So what people

1104
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: don't understand is like Alonzo not friends. So like that's

1105
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 1: not like this wasn't like a hatred I don't institute tweet.

1106
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 1: People took it that way, and I don't I want

1107
00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 1: to get that out there now. I don't know why

1108
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 1: people took it that way, but well because it's it's

1109
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 1: we're in the new world, the world, man, yeah, so

1110
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 1: this is like you don't need to fistfight anymore. Like yo,

1111
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna who's the two who's the best twitter exactly?

1112
00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 1: So when he did that, I was like, man, like,

1113
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:00,200
Speaker 1: that's that's really like disrespectful to NAS. You know, like

1114
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 1: it's not like they had any like b for anything.

1115
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 1: You know, it was just like just out of nowhere.

1116
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:06,320
Speaker 1: But you know, being from New York, I just it

1117
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 1: was like Naz is a legend, right, It's like it's

1118
00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:11,360
Speaker 1: like if one of like if I or like somebody

1119
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 1: else went and put um like for like the uh

1120
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 1: snoop w A or Snoop Dogg and changed the album

1121
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 1: come to their face like you know, like no you can't,

1122
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: you can't do that, and did that tweet like and

1123
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:24,719
Speaker 1: sort of like people like we're like, yo, what is this?

1124
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: Like what has been the blowback or sort of like

1125
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 1: like the the reaction from I'll give I'll give Big

1126
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:32,840
Speaker 1: ball Bard credit on this, like they got a huge following,

1127
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:36,800
Speaker 1: they got they got they got support. Did you have

1128
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: from a lot of people? I had twelve year olds

1129
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 1: like eleven year olds you didn't matter, you know that

1130
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 1: didn't They were going at it and I was like

1131
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 1: do you do you respond back or no? No, no

1132
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:50,880
Speaker 1: not when I was stuff like that like I respond

1133
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 1: to like um, like one guy said, like one guy

1134
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 1: said like Ricky should be traded. I was like, come on,

1135
00:56:56,640 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 1: are you serious? Like I don't know, like stuff like that,

1136
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 1: like it won't I won't going full You're not. No, no,

1137
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:05,120
Speaker 1: there's no need for that. So I don't know if

1138
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 1: you saw my um did you see my post master's work?

1139
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:12,720
Speaker 1: Did you? And and and LaMelo Ball Now he's sixteen

1140
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:14,799
Speaker 1: or old. I have I have a seventeen year old son.

1141
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: I have a seventeen year old son. So I couldn't

1142
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 1: say anything back because that'll look nuts. But he hit

1143
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 1: he said something about me, uh, you're ugly, don't let me,

1144
00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 1: And I was like I had to really think it through,

1145
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 1: like because because I'm a professional, I'm a professional trash talker.

1146
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:37,520
Speaker 1: But then I was like, my son's older than him,

1147
00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 1: so you know, I and I. Actually that's the that's

1148
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 1: the biggest thing that people don't understand, Like they go,

1149
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:44,960
Speaker 1: why do athletes like go crazy back at fans. You know,

1150
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 1: it's not the older fans. You should worry about us

1151
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 1: two kids. They're nuts. The kids says disrespect stuff, and

1152
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 1: I laugh at it because I'm like, man, like I

1153
00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 1: was not when I was that age. I said, ruth

1154
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:02,720
Speaker 1: this things too, but like it's gotten worse. No, it's

1155
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:05,720
Speaker 1: got it's crazy. It is why what they say, but

1156
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 1: I mean it's insane. And then as soon as like

1157
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:10,360
Speaker 1: one person, as soon as the person who who has

1158
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 1: something to lose, like has that platform, responds, then it's

1159
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 1: like a bigger deal. Yeah, you know, you're you're you're

1160
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:19,240
Speaker 1: you're a better man than me. That's so um. Being

1161
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:22,840
Speaker 1: in the NBA so far, when when you got out

1162
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 1: on the court, what was the first moment where you

1163
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:30,080
Speaker 1: were like, Yo, this is fucked out. I think when

1164
00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 1: we played was Brooke, um, because I grew up a

1165
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 1: big Westbrook fan too, as well as Lebron because he

1166
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 1: can I kind of relate a little bit more to

1167
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,720
Speaker 1: Westbrook with the way I play, and he's actually my size,

1168
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: you know. Um. But when we played him, I started

1169
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 1: that game. I think I might have think I started

1170
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 1: that game I just out of nowhere because at the

1171
00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 1: last second they just dow me in there. I wasn't nervous.

1172
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 1: I was calm. I worked out, folks to keep my

1173
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:57,160
Speaker 1: energy clearly calm and in okay your Utah, it was in.

1174
00:58:57,480 --> 00:58:58,920
Speaker 1: It was in Utah. So it helped that I had

1175
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:02,440
Speaker 1: played with PG and mellow over the summer, so it

1176
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 1: kind of kept me calm. But Russ was like, you know,

1177
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:07,480
Speaker 1: I've seen I watched his highlights to the end of me. Like,

1178
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:09,480
Speaker 1: have you ever have ever seen him play live in

1179
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:11,920
Speaker 1: person before this? I've never only I've only been to

1180
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 1: Knick's games when they play like the nets or like

1181
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 1: they're not great games yet, So you never even seen

1182
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrooken real life. No, So you walk out on

1183
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: the court, you're starting and like you're just like you

1184
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 1: are you checking Russell? No? No, not at the beginning.

1185
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, so like this is this is it?

1186
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 1: Like all right, here we go? Like was that moment

1187
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:35,680
Speaker 1: and yourself like this is it? Here we go? It

1188
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:38,000
Speaker 1: was the walk from the bench to the center of

1189
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 1: the court was what really got me, because like I

1190
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 1: wasn't I was supposed to like usually I sit down

1191
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 1: on the bench, you know, I wait and watch what

1192
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:46,760
Speaker 1: the flow of the game was. Like That's how I

1193
00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 1: come up the best. That's what I was doing. I

1194
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:50,680
Speaker 1: just get get used to it. They told me thirty

1195
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 1: seconds before the game started, Oh you're starting like this

1196
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 1: go umcus Rodney had like it was bleeding or something,

1197
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 1: so you have to get changed uniform or whatever. And

1198
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 1: I go in there and out of nowhere, like let's go.

1199
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:07,360
Speaker 1: And how does it feel so far? Like be like

1200
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:11,880
Speaker 1: this sleeper rookie and and to hear other players, you know,

1201
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 1: giving you no respect, and like you know, how how

1202
01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 1: how has it been so far? Like like are you

1203
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:19,840
Speaker 1: like the moments where I'm like whoa, Like those are

1204
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 1: the those are the moments where I like, if I

1205
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 1: hear it, I see it, you know, I try my

1206
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:24,880
Speaker 1: best not to hear it and see it. But the

1207
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 1: NBA is a lot different in college, like the media

1208
01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:30,439
Speaker 1: is a lot different. So if someone like Chris Paul

1209
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:33,439
Speaker 1: and Paul George or on KG say some even trace

1210
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:36,480
Speaker 1: McGrady like when they say it, like, it's gonna be known,

1211
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:39,080
Speaker 1: like your phone will go off. There's no way to avoid.

1212
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:41,400
Speaker 1: Even if you don't hear your friend, will hear your

1213
01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:44,720
Speaker 1: mom's cousin's cousin. There's no way. So the biggest thing

1214
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:46,960
Speaker 1: I've worked on is looking at it and being like, oh,

1215
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 1: all right, like it's it's like when I say oh,

1216
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 1: like I mean, like I mean, they can say all

1217
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:55,959
Speaker 1: this stuff now and I could be done next year.

1218
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 1: Like I could be like God forbid not not hurt

1219
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 1: or say but I could have the worst shooting something

1220
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:03,000
Speaker 1: in the history and not make a shot ever again.

1221
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:06,400
Speaker 1: You know, So I try my best to keep it,

1222
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:08,640
Speaker 1: keep I keep calm and kind of be like, all right,

1223
01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:11,920
Speaker 1: this is this. It's great. It's early success, fantastic, but

1224
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:16,320
Speaker 1: one when I've reached February, at which halfway point essentially um.

1225
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:18,400
Speaker 1: But you know, when you have guys like the rookie

1226
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:22,520
Speaker 1: sophomore game yeah, I'm coming up, but I'm trying. Like

1227
01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 1: that's the thing, like when you I don't even talk

1228
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:26,600
Speaker 1: about it, Rookie sophomore game, You're you're playing in it.

1229
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that right now, Like I don't know

1230
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:31,320
Speaker 1: how it works. You're playing. I've been to some rookie

1231
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:33,960
Speaker 1: sophomore games in the last since they even made that

1232
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 1: stupid game. First of all, you're gonna be like a

1233
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:38,360
Speaker 1: highlight filming that. Second all, there's guys that played in

1234
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:41,240
Speaker 1: the Rookie Sophomore Game that ain't even playing in the

1235
01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 1: outbacks of Australia anymore. You're you're playing in the rookie

1236
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 1: sophomore game. That's a that's for sure. Got to keep

1237
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 1: it going. We're we're going to the rookie sophomore game.

1238
01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:54,480
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you a dune contest dude, I'll do it,

1239
01:01:54,520 --> 01:01:57,960
Speaker 1: but if you've seen Aaron Gordon, Derek Jones and all

1240
01:01:57,960 --> 01:01:59,920
Speaker 1: those guys, I'm not gonna win it, but I'll do it.

1241
01:02:00,560 --> 01:02:02,680
Speaker 1: I love to do it. That would be amazing. You

1242
01:02:02,680 --> 01:02:04,479
Speaker 1: would love to do the dunk content. I keep telling

1243
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:06,720
Speaker 1: people this joke. I grew up with Derek Jones, like

1244
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:10,240
Speaker 1: around him for a long time. I've probably done thirteen

1245
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 1: dunk contest in my life. I lost twelve to Derek Jones,

1246
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 1: so like, I'll definitely do it. I had some dunks

1247
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:21,160
Speaker 1: that I think it would be cool, but you got

1248
01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 1: some dunks, So have you gotten an invite like like that?

1249
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:27,040
Speaker 1: Like I said, this whole do you have any idea

1250
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 1: how that even works? That whole weekend is something I

1251
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 1: try to stay farthest away from. Even yes, as you should,

1252
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:36,920
Speaker 1: I totally understand. I'm just curious, like we were you

1253
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:39,160
Speaker 1: were you hit me and like let me know, like if,

1254
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 1: if and when you get these imag I just curious,

1255
01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:42,760
Speaker 1: like how does it happen like this, Adam silver Go, Yo,

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Speaker 1: you want to be in the dunk or is it

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01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:47,480
Speaker 1: like the two guys that were in the meeting with

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01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:50,480
Speaker 1: you and pat Riley those funky's Like who, I wonder

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01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:52,919
Speaker 1: how that works? Yeah? I would like to know too,

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01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 1: but um but experience. But but you're saying that if

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Speaker 1: you're going to dunk, cons just you're confident that you

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01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 1: could do your thing. Yeah, I definitely think I surprised people,

1263
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 1: but like after what I saw Isa vin A Arrogo, Yeah,

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01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:09,680
Speaker 1: they're freaking little different. Is that still hurt um. He's

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01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:12,680
Speaker 1: doing windmills now, so but is he easy playing? He's

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01:03:12,720 --> 01:03:16,560
Speaker 1: not playing. That's fine. But Len Robinson to Glenn Robinson,

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Speaker 1: I want to I want to give you one piece

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Speaker 1: of advice. This is my piece of advice in the

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01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:25,040
Speaker 1: dunk contest. If you get in the dunk contest because

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01:03:25,040 --> 01:03:28,560
Speaker 1: you're six one, okay, you're a high jumper. There's there's

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01:03:28,680 --> 01:03:31,400
Speaker 1: like And also we already said it. You know, Gordon

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01:03:31,560 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 1: is he's the favorite. This this guy's beating you twelve

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01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 1: times this one now. And the one thing that I

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01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 1: suggest don't be too cool to did not work up

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01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:44,040
Speaker 1: a little lather beforehand, because I noticed that guys when

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01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:47,160
Speaker 1: they're not when they're in the dunk get warmed up,

1277
01:03:47,880 --> 01:03:50,440
Speaker 1: like we gotta get warmed up because you think about

1278
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 1: it like some guys like we need to get warmed up.

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01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 1: Let's complicated, Like you can't just do the same dunk

1280
01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:57,400
Speaker 1: and get warm. You gotta do something crazy to get warm. No,

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01:03:57,440 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 1: I'm not told about when you start dunking. I'm talking

1282
01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 1: about before you start dunk, when your first dunk, we

1283
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:04,480
Speaker 1: need to get warm. Maybe we do some suicide, like

1284
01:04:05,080 --> 01:04:07,600
Speaker 1: you need to get warm. So when you get your

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01:04:07,600 --> 01:04:09,560
Speaker 1: first dunk, like you're gonna see whoever is the judges

1286
01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:12,640
Speaker 1: are Dominique, Vince car whoever the hell it is that

1287
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:14,840
Speaker 1: first dunk, like you can't miss it. You have to

1288
01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:18,040
Speaker 1: have a little sheen because these dudes there, they get

1289
01:04:18,080 --> 01:04:20,120
Speaker 1: out there, there's too cool for school. They're not ready

1290
01:04:20,160 --> 01:04:23,480
Speaker 1: to dunk. So if you go in the dunk contest,

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01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 1: that's my suggestion. And I may or may not be

1292
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:28,800
Speaker 1: at the dunk unters, but I want those echoing in

1293
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 1: your ears. You ever see Rocky like Mickey, I'm Mickey.

1294
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:35,240
Speaker 1: You gotta get warm, like you can't be two coolers,

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01:04:35,280 --> 01:04:36,600
Speaker 1: Like if you're gonna go out there and do it,

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01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:38,680
Speaker 1: we gotta go. We gotta go out there and we

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01:04:38,680 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 1: gotta do it. We gotta be warmed up. First dunk, like,

1298
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:45,040
Speaker 1: oh shit, Harlem is in the house, Like that's what

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01:04:45,120 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 1: I want Kenny Smith to be like Yo, Donovan Mitchell,

1300
01:04:47,640 --> 01:04:52,440
Speaker 1: Like New York is in the building. Okay, you're in Adidas.

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01:04:52,880 --> 01:04:58,360
Speaker 1: You wear Adidas. You like fashion? How many pairs of

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01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,320
Speaker 1: sneakers have? Like you have every single pair of Yeasys,

1303
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:08,200
Speaker 1: not every single pair. I'm getting close. Um my shoe game.

1304
01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:10,600
Speaker 1: I was always the one who loved looking at shoes

1305
01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:12,680
Speaker 1: and I couldn't. I'm not the one that be like,

1306
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:16,080
Speaker 1: oh these are the Aqua eights or like, no, that's

1307
01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:18,920
Speaker 1: not me. Whatever was that guy? Because I wasn't couldn't

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01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:21,000
Speaker 1: really afford him, so I was just like whatever. But

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01:05:21,080 --> 01:05:24,240
Speaker 1: now that I'm like an Adida's athlete and I can

1310
01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:26,439
Speaker 1: I can actually get all these shoes now. I think

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01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:28,680
Speaker 1: I have on the web, Like if you look at

1312
01:05:28,720 --> 01:05:30,840
Speaker 1: the Adida's website and like all the crazy shoes people have.

1313
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:32,480
Speaker 1: I think I have probably like two pairs of every

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01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:35,880
Speaker 1: single one. But are you getting like like like this

1315
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:39,800
Speaker 1: color and that color everything, every single color of every everything,

1316
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:42,200
Speaker 1: because you have to have options when you travel. Yeah,

1317
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 1: like my my travel when I wear a size fifteen

1318
01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:48,600
Speaker 1: walk around shoes sixteen when I play, when you play,

1319
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:50,800
Speaker 1: because we got taped, we got two pairs of socks.

1320
01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:52,560
Speaker 1: How many pairs of socks? Who we wear? I use one,

1321
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:54,120
Speaker 1: just one, just one. But I like to have a

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01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:58,240
Speaker 1: little extra ruin my shoes. So just explosiveness. What what

1323
01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:00,200
Speaker 1: are we doing here? I don't know. It's just however

1324
01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:01,840
Speaker 1: it has been I used to wear seventeens and I

1325
01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:07,760
Speaker 1: wore two pairs of socks. But that's too much. Yeah,

1326
01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:10,080
Speaker 1: that's too much because maybe you were Were you wearing

1327
01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:12,080
Speaker 1: seven teens when Patino told you to lose the weight?

1328
01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:15,360
Speaker 1: I wore sixteens my sophomore year. Okay, maybe that's the problem.

1329
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:17,560
Speaker 1: Maybe you could have just went down to a fifteen.

1330
01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:22,480
Speaker 1: Could be cheeseburgers and pizza the whole time. All right,

1331
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:28,680
Speaker 1: rappers totally different generation. Obviously, we talked about the Alonso nasting.

1332
01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:31,520
Speaker 1: Who are your favorite guys? You said, Davies holems in

1333
01:06:31,560 --> 01:06:37,040
Speaker 1: the house. He's fab is my favorite rapper of all time.

1334
01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:39,160
Speaker 1: What do you think of the Fab Jada Kiss album?

1335
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 1: I love it? Actually Kiss Actually give him a shout.

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01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:44,680
Speaker 1: He hit me up. That was pretty cool afterwards. Um

1337
01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 1: that's sick. Yeah, I know, DJ clue, okay clue, Um,

1338
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:53,160
Speaker 1: but yeah, Fab and Kiss. Oh future future is always

1339
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:57,360
Speaker 1: up there. Um. Drake obviously wasn't a fan at Kendrick

1340
01:06:57,600 --> 01:07:02,080
Speaker 1: until this last album. Why I'm not one for like

1341
01:07:02,080 --> 01:07:04,120
Speaker 1: like his music makes you think a lot like and

1342
01:07:04,120 --> 01:07:05,600
Speaker 1: I'm more of a beats kind of guy. Like if

1343
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:09,360
Speaker 1: you haven't I like this goddamn kid man, that's the

1344
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:11,680
Speaker 1: same thing I say. I'm not more than one. And

1345
01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:13,880
Speaker 1: I know Fab, but people say Fab does make crazy beats,

1346
01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:16,120
Speaker 1: Like I know that, Like, but you can only have

1347
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:19,120
Speaker 1: but so many lyricists. You gotta have something like makes

1348
01:07:19,120 --> 01:07:21,880
Speaker 1: you like want to like on somebody, like you need

1349
01:07:21,960 --> 01:07:23,840
Speaker 1: something like and that. And then he came out with

1350
01:07:23,880 --> 01:07:26,240
Speaker 1: the last one and I was just like and only

1351
01:07:26,240 --> 01:07:28,680
Speaker 1: he did he have beats? Like Humble is my favorite

1352
01:07:28,680 --> 01:07:30,160
Speaker 1: song and only thing I'll tell you about you talk

1353
01:07:30,240 --> 01:07:32,360
Speaker 1: that the DJ you talking about they play Humble like

1354
01:07:32,480 --> 01:07:34,400
Speaker 1: I have that. That's my thing, Like just be humble,

1355
01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:36,880
Speaker 1: that's my thing, and they play that every every time

1356
01:07:36,880 --> 01:07:39,080
Speaker 1: he went up, So like that's my that's my song,

1357
01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 1: and like that last album really really I really like

1358
01:07:42,120 --> 01:07:44,040
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah it was good. Have you played in

1359
01:07:44,040 --> 01:07:47,840
Speaker 1: the Garden yet? Yeah? We played on remember that day?

1360
01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:52,400
Speaker 1: What was that? Like? I was nervoused the entire game.

1361
01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:55,160
Speaker 1: I usually the whole the whole game, and the first

1362
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:56,800
Speaker 1: play was ran for me and I had a dunk

1363
01:07:57,080 --> 01:08:00,320
Speaker 1: and I made it and usually that's like all right, good,

1364
01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:04,080
Speaker 1: No the hogan, how do you like? Why is that?

1365
01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:08,040
Speaker 1: I don't think I've had that many family members their friends.

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01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:10,600
Speaker 1: I've never played in the garden. I've been You've never

1367
01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:13,760
Speaker 1: played even high school over played. I never played, so

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01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:15,400
Speaker 1: I've never been that low. Like I've never been a

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01:08:15,400 --> 01:08:17,719
Speaker 1: court level before ever. Like I've been in a Rangers

1370
01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:19,639
Speaker 1: game and I've been low, but like it wasn't the court.

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01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:23,160
Speaker 1: Um I got you when that, when that happened, I

1372
01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:26,080
Speaker 1: was like, like, this is this is crazy. I gotta

1373
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:29,600
Speaker 1: tell you, I'm so appreciative you came and joined me

1374
01:08:29,640 --> 01:08:32,559
Speaker 1: on the show because I'm so looking forward to the

1375
01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:35,080
Speaker 1: rest of your career and to talk to you, and

1376
01:08:35,120 --> 01:08:38,400
Speaker 1: I wish you health and and a continued successful career.

1377
01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:40,920
Speaker 1: And I just think it's I think it's so cool

1378
01:08:41,240 --> 01:08:43,320
Speaker 1: to have a chance to talk to you when you

1379
01:08:43,320 --> 01:08:46,800
Speaker 1: you know, you're just such in the inception of what

1380
01:08:46,880 --> 01:08:50,160
Speaker 1: I hope is a long, healthy, prosperous and you get

1381
01:08:50,200 --> 01:08:53,679
Speaker 1: everything out of basketball that you can man it. Alright,

1382
01:08:53,800 --> 01:08:56,760
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell, thank you so much. Yo. I appreciate to

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01:08:56,920 --> 01:08:59,839
Speaker 1: and and but just if we get to the dunk contest,

1384
01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:04,320
Speaker 1: what are we doing suicide something something, treadmill whatever, something,

1385
01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:07,759
Speaker 1: Because I swear if I'm at the freaking dunk Contest

1386
01:09:07,800 --> 01:09:09,600
Speaker 1: and it's in l A this year and we're not

1387
01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:12,559
Speaker 1: thinking ahead, we're not thinking ahead. But if you wind

1388
01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:16,240
Speaker 1: up at the dunk contest, I see you out there, Okay,

1389
01:09:16,320 --> 01:09:19,120
Speaker 1: you got parents, the family, friends. If I see out

1390
01:09:19,160 --> 01:09:22,040
Speaker 1: there and you're not warmed up, don't be surprised if

1391
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:24,160
Speaker 1: I run on the court and like I might be like, yo,

1392
01:09:24,200 --> 01:09:28,400
Speaker 1: my man, you're not ready to dunk. Okay, appreciate this

1393
01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:35,040
Speaker 1: is so dope? All right? What can I say? Donovan Mitchell,

1394
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:38,840
Speaker 1: thank you for joining me on the Iron Rapports Stereo podcast.

1395
01:09:39,320 --> 01:09:42,479
Speaker 1: My man, Ti, thank you for setting it up. Iron

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Speaker 1: Rapports Stereo Podcast will be back with more smash mouth podcasting,

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01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:51,960
Speaker 1: more guests, more g Moody, more ranting, more raving. Two

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Speaker 1: eighteen is ours Iron wrap Ports Stereo Podcast. Miles take

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Speaker 1: me out of here with something real, funky, real, nice

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Speaker 1: and real probably wh