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Speaker 1: first episode of two thousand nineteen is here. Have No Fear.

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Speaker 1: On today's first episode of two thousand nineteen of the

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Speaker 1: I Am Rappaport Stereo Podcast, the NFL playoffs are all set,

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Speaker 1: the sixth Sickest Fux of two thousand eighteen are announced,

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Speaker 1: All that and more, plus we have second year Los

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Speaker 1: night with Los Angeles Laker my guy Josh Hart on

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Speaker 1: a Big Body two thousand nineteen, Happy motherfucking New Year,

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Speaker 1: the two thousand nineteen inaugurial, inaugural, inaugural, whatever the fucking

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Speaker 1: everybody had a fantastic New year, a safe new year.

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Speaker 1: You'll be hearing that once and only once. For me.

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Speaker 1: I don't say happy New Year. I say it once.

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Speaker 1: I say it today January one, two thousand nineteen. You're

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Speaker 1: New Year. That's it, that's fucking It doesn't need to

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Speaker 1: be a long term discussion, just another day, another new year,

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Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen. Before we get into everything, I want

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Speaker 1: to first say thank you to all the motherfucking fans

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Speaker 1: of the I am Wrap Reports stereo podcast. If you've

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Speaker 1: never listened to the Iron Rapports stereo podcast, welcome. You

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Speaker 1: are now rocking with the best. We do things rough,

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Speaker 1: rugged and raw, hard body karate, no fact checking, pulling,

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Speaker 1: We are announcing the Sickest Fuck of two thousand eighteen.

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Speaker 1: Stay with me, folks. So the NFL playoffs are starting

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Speaker 1: This is when he gets really good. I'm done with fantasy.

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Speaker 1: single step he takes, every little move he makes. Shout

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00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 1: out to the great Bobby Brown for twenty years now,

424
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: four years of being in high school, in sixteen years

425
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: of being in the NBA, twenty years. You knew when

426
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: you showed up to the game drinking wine, people were

427
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: talking about it. You're not playing, you're not part of

428
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: the game, but you, somehow, some way wanted all the

429
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: fucking attention to be on you. You couldn't just show

430
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: up dressed low ki and walk into the arena and

431
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: support your team. Not only did he do that the

432
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 1: same game while he was on the bench. He's drinking

433
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: what appears to be coffee out of a coffee cup.

434
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: Him and Rhonda, who's also hurt. They're drinking, not gatorade,

435
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 1: not water, they're drinking. They're sipping on something in a

436
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: coffee cup that I believe to be wine. Again, it's

437
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 1: not against the law. You're not playing, You're a grown man.

438
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: Why are you drinking if it was coffee in the

439
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: coffee cup? Why are you drinking coffee when you're supposed

440
00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: to be cheering your team on number one? Why do

441
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: you want to bring attention to yourself every little step

442
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: you take, every little movie you make. Shout out again

443
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: to Bobby Brown. You know the cameras on you. You

444
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 1: want to You love that attention. And then the thing,

445
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: uh in the last few days that really and you

446
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: know it's funny because people are like, yo, you're being

447
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: so nice to Lebron all off season and all the time.

448
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: And I said, don't worry, something will happen and I'll

449
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: get in his ass. No bruneo. Um. And the thing

450
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: that is I found really offensive? Um. He He has

451
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: a show Uninterrupted were him and his best friends sit

452
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: there and talk. They talk about their friendship, how hard.

453
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 1: It was growing up and what they've done with their lives.

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00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: It was cool. They did a documentary about it a

455
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: few years ago, so I've seen this story. Now You're

456
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: beating a dead horse was on on and uninterrupted, and

457
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 1: while he was sitting there with his best friends, Lebron

458
00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 1: James said this about being the goat. He he proclaimed

459
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: himself the actual goat, the greatest of all fucking time,

460
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: which really the only greatest of all time and actuality

461
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: is the great Muhammad Ali. But listen to Lebron James,

462
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: that one right there made me the greatest player of

463
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 1: all time. I was a super super ecstatic to win

464
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: one for Cleveland because of the fifty two year drought.

465
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: Like I was ecstatic, like obviously show that the first

466
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: wave of emotion was once y'all everyone saw me crying,

467
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: like that was all for fifty two years, everything in

468
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: the sports have gone on to Cleveland. And then after

469
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: I stopped, I was like, that right there made you

470
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: the greatest player of all time. You know that everybody

471
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: was just how they were the greatest team of all time,

472
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: Like there was the greatest team to ever assembled. And

473
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: for us to come back, you know, the way we

474
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: came back in that fashion. I was like, you did

475
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: you did something special. That's proably one of the only

476
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: times in my career I felt like, oh Ship, like

477
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: you did something. Sure, I haven't really had time to

478
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: really like sit back and think, but that that was

479
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: a moment. You needed to say it. First of all,

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00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: the term goat is whacked, it's overused. You needed to

481
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: say it. Um, the name of the show is uninterrupted.

482
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,719
Speaker 1: And of course Lebron James was uninterrupted by his friends,

483
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: his his his, his crew of guys. Um, no one

484
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: wanted to raise the question, Oh Ship, you're saying you're

485
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: the goat. Well, you know people are gonna be like,

486
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: what about Mike? What about Kobe? What about Larry? To

487
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: make for good TV? To make for a good show, Well,

488
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: you can't ask your friend. You can't raise a question

489
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: to to your friend Lebron. You've known him your whole life.

490
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: You can't break his balls, you can't disagree with him.

491
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 1: Then the perfect name of that show is unterrupted, uninterrupted,

492
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 1: because Lebron James can talk uninterruptedly. Are you having some

493
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: sort of midlife crisis? Duke? What about Kareem? What about

494
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: Larry Bird? Some people go Larry Bird. He could. You

495
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: don't think they were like high level, high jumping, fast

496
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: athletes playing basketball when Larry Bird played. You don't think

497
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: Larry Bird is one of the greatest of all time.

498
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas, Magic Johnson, You're not better than Michael Jordan's.

499
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: You talk about what you did in those finals verse

500
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors, do you? You don't remind people

501
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: that you you Lebron James, You got Draymond Green suspended.

502
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: You didn't realize that he tried to kick you in

503
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 1: the dick, missed kicked your shorts until after the game

504
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: when you saw the tape. That's a fucking fact. Yes,

505
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 1: he was fantastic in that series. Yes, game seven he

506
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: was ridiculous. What about when you got swept four games

507
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: straight in two thousand eighteen and somehow, some way one

508
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: athlete of the year. What about when you lost four

509
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: games to one in two thousand seventeen. You ain't the

510
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: fucking goat, And if you were the fucking goat, you

511
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 1: would never say you were the goat, because goats don't

512
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: do that unless your name is Mohammed Ali Kareem never

513
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,919
Speaker 1: said that bullshit. Magic never said that bullshit. Kobe never

514
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 1: said that bullshit, Michael Jordan never said that bullshit. Larry

515
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: Bird never said that bullshit. He shows whack. That's propaganda bullshit?

516
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: What kind of show? What kind of friends sit there

517
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: and let you say something like that without even playing

518
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 1: Devil's advocate and asking you a question, just like yeah, yeah,

519
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: we don't want to question him because if we question him,

520
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: we're not gonna get paid anymore, We're not gonna get

521
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,879
Speaker 1: hooked up anymore. What kind of friends you got, Duke?

522
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: What kind of show is uninterrupted? When they actually leave

523
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 1: you uninterrupted, they don't even pose any questions. Propaganda. That's

524
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: a fucking propaganda television show that Lebron James is pumping out.

525
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: Are you trying to get Luke Walton fired? Is that

526
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:06,280
Speaker 1: the goal, Lebron? Are you trying to get Luke Walton fired?

527
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: That's my question for Lebron James. If anybody sees him,

528
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: don't ask for a selfie, just be like yo, Mike

529
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: Rap wants to know. Are you trying to get Luke

530
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: Walton fired? Are you trying to bring back in thy

531
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: fucking lou? Does he have all the answers? It's Tyler sway,

532
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,839
Speaker 1: you ain't got all the answers. Sway to quote Kanye West,

533
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: who also uh is still freaking out, Kanye West, you

534
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 1: are man here a corny motherfucker man. Kanye West went

535
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: back on Twitter and he was complaining that Drake who

536
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: allegedly fucked his wife. I don't know if that's true.

537
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: I don't play with that, but that's the allegations. He's

538
00:35:53,080 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: questioning why Drake is following Kim Kardashian his wife on Instagram.

539
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: And he just realized that Drake started following his wife

540
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 1: his whiz on Instagram in September. He just figured that

541
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 1: out at the end of two thousand nine, and then

542
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: he tweets about it. Man, Have you no self respect, Duke?

543
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: Have you no pride? Have you no fucking pride? Duke?

544
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 1: That's my question for you, Kanye Eazy, Jesus Jesus Jesus

545
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 1: and other sporting news. Floyd Mayweather fought a Japanese kickboxer

546
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 1: a champion Japanese kickboxer in a boxing match where the

547
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: champion Japanese kickboxer could not kick um. They fought on

548
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: jap in Japan on New Year's Eve. Uh. Floyd may

549
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: Abel to knock the guy down three times again. This

550
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:03,280
Speaker 1: is a kickboxer who couldn't kick. This was a joke. Uh,

551
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: this was an event that people some people uh paid

552
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 1: money to see and to watch. Um and God bless

553
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: these guys for getting paid to do uh something that

554
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: pretty much is you're you're you're you're tarnishing your How

555
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 1: much money do you need, Floyd, maybe to stop buying

556
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 1: the cart? If you're not gonna box anymore, you're gonna

557
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 1: have to half to half to have to stop spending.

558
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: If you're not making as much as you were making

559
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: when you were boxing, you were going to have to

560
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: stop spending. It's tough. You want to wind up broke?

561
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 1: You did everything you can Floyd Mayweather to avoid getting hit.

562
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: You wanted to wind up. You didn't want to wind

563
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: up punchy. You didn't want to wind up with CT.

564
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: You didn't want to wind up slurring. You did that fantastically.

565
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 1: Now it's phase two. Do you want to wind up broke?

566
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: You're forty one, duke. You're never gonna get paid nine

567
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: million dollars to fight another kickboxer who can't kick you.

568
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: Before podcast, what happened to the Dwight Howard transsexual scandal.

569
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: Remember that about a month ago there was a transsexual

570
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 1: that was all on Twitter saying that she had been

571
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,959
Speaker 1: with Dwight Howard and she was feeling like her life

572
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 1: was threatened and the entire Washington Wizard's team was threatening

573
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: her life. UM, and there was voicemails of Dwight Howard

574
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: and it seemed like this is the end of Dwight

575
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: Howard and this is the craziest ship. And now it's

576
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: just gone. What happened to the Dwight Howard transsexual scandal? Uh?

577
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: Where the fund did that whole thing go? I'm just asking,

578
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 1: all right, the time the time has come, UM, As

579
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: I told you later on in the episode after after,

580
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:59,720
Speaker 1: I make this very very huge announcement. UM. Josh Hart

581
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles Lakers, Villanova Wildcat National champion UM and

582
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: budding superstar for the Los Angeles Lakers is rocking with

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00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 1: us on the im Rappor Stereo podcast and it is

584
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: a dope interview about his journey, what it's like to

585
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 1: play with Lebron now, what it was like dealing with

586
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:26,280
Speaker 1: the LaVar ball, a Lonzo Ball, craziness of his rookie season,

587
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: and a Lonzo Balls, Rookie Season, and just so many

588
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 1: more gems. Um, But right now I have to make

589
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: the big boy decision. Um. It was not easy, okay.

590
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: Um And as I and as I said, a lot

591
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: of thoughts, a lot of care goes into the sick

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Speaker 1: Fuck of the Year award. A lot of thought, a

593
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: lot of care goes into the sick Funk of the

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00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 1: Week segment. It is an award winning segment. Okay, that's right,

595
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 1: the sick Funk of the Week segment itself. We've won

596
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: awards for this segment. Okay. It is a polarizing um

597
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 1: segment in the podcast community, in pop culture. Um I

598
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 1: laid the seeds out there. We had the Final six,

599
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: the Sweet six, the six six as they're calling it. Um,

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00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: and here we are A Miles, please please give me

601
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: the music. Miles and Jordan's and the entire Iron Rapports

602
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 1: stereo podcast community. Everybody had a little hand in this,

603
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: but inevitably said Dingo, that's me, gringo man. Didn't know

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00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 1: they called me the gringo man. Dingo a k a.

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Speaker 1: The Jacob out of podcasting, a k. White Mike a

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00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: k uh the White Chocolate Tito ak bird ak, the

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00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 1: push to a podcasting, and so on and so forth.

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00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: People reached out to me and said, Dingo, you have

609
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,359
Speaker 1: to make the decision. It is on you. A lot

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00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: of people said, I'd love to have my hand in it,

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00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: but inevitably it is on you. And after thinking about it,

612
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: running the numbers, crunching the numbers, making decisions, changing my decision,

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00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 1: it came down to two. It came down to two,

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00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 1: and then there was one. The two thousand eighteen six

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00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: Fuck of the Year award goes to can I get

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Speaker 1: a drum? Roll miles. The two thousand eighteen six bunk

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Speaker 1: of the Year goes to the man in Thailand suit

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00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:51,879
Speaker 1: whatever the funk? Your last name is thirty nine years old,

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Speaker 1: who had been drinking with his best friend. He felt

620
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: that the best friend tried to seduce his wife. He

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Speaker 1: then got into a little altercation with the gentleman. He

622
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: got a fruit peeling knife from the drawer, got the

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Speaker 1: man down, cut his dick off with a fruit peeling

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00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 1: knife through the appendage outside while the pet dogs eight

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00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:29,280
Speaker 1: demand's um. This was the sickest fuck of two thousand

626
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Speaker 1: eighteen in a year of so many sick fox um.

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00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: Congratulations to the sixteen finalists and of course the sweet

628
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: six Sick at Fox of two thousand eighteen. UM. This

629
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Speaker 1: was a tough decision. Again. It could have easily went

630
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Speaker 1: to the the the guy who fucked the beaver on

631
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Speaker 1: the side of the road. It could have easily went

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Speaker 1: Stereo podcast. All right, Josh Hart, Los Angeles Laker. It's

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Speaker 1: here in the house on the I m Rapp Reports

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Speaker 1: stereo podcast. How you do him? A man, I'm good,

649
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 1: I'm good. You know, it's it's it's a it's great

650
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: to have you here. I appreciate you coming. Um. You know,

651
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: I got so many questions ask you. I know you're

652
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:15,719
Speaker 1: a big gamer your career at Villanova. I grew up

653
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 1: a big, big East fan. Uh, you know, in the

654
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:22,760
Speaker 1: Villanova George Town and the McClain boys and Pinkney and St.

655
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: John's probably you know, saying with you. But you're like

656
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: the team that you're on now, Like last year was

657
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 1: nuts for the Lakers, you know, and and you know,

658
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 1: like the Lonzo ball craziness which which tempered out and

659
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 1: I think it's probably good for him that it tempered out.

660
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 1: And then it chills out from it, and then you

661
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: have the Lebron James craziness. You know, your impression and

662
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 1: imagination and and thoughts and hopes of dreams of forget

663
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 1: even playing, of being in the NBA, walking into the chaos,

664
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:02,320
Speaker 1: the craziness, the hoop lah of being a Laker. How

665
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:05,240
Speaker 1: beyond your expectations? Has that been like how much like

666
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 1: like crazier has that been than you even would have

667
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 1: imagined about your first two years in the NBA. Um

668
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: way way crazier than I thought. Um. Obviously, like first

669
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: of all, you know, you get drive to the Lakers,

670
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: so it's like the Lakers. You know, everyone l a

671
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 1: love the Lakers, you know, so it's like, okay, cool,

672
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: i'mde a good fan base. And then but then you

673
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 1: like you said, you have Alonzo and LaVar and then

674
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: you have that kind of stuff kind of around, so

675
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,359
Speaker 1: it escalates even more. And we had a good summer league,

676
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: so that escalated even more. And then which I was like, like,

677
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 1: which seems like seven years ago exactly if you're long ago,

678
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 1: and then played the season had we had like an

679
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: okay year, um, and then Lebron. You know, then we

680
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:47,800
Speaker 1: got Lebron and everything just shot up, and like expectations

681
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:51,879
Speaker 1: shot up. Um, the fan you know, the fan base

682
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: was even more electric than it was last year. Um.

683
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:58,279
Speaker 1: You know, everything is just amplified. Everything is under a

684
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: microscope now. So it's like if I was in a

685
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: small America, like you know, pretty much anywhere, yeah, Oklahoma

686
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 1: City or it's like obviously they got the fan base love,

687
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: but you're not under as much of a microscope as

688
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:15,320
Speaker 1: you are in l A being a Laker with laws

689
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: of ball, Lebron, James Kuzmania. You know all right. I

690
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 1: mean that's like that aspect of it. Is it like

691
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,359
Speaker 1: what you imagined about being in the NBA and then

692
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,720
Speaker 1: actually being there and and being with being with the Lakers.

693
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 1: Is it more than you imagined? Just forget basketball even

694
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 1: answer that question. Screw me. Um. Yeah, it's definitely more

695
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: than I imagined, because everything you guys do, every every game,

696
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 1: if it's a win, if it's a loss. You know,

697
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: I was saying last I love Luke wall I loved

698
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: when he played with Lakers. I used to hang out

699
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 1: with Lucas to see Lucas, you know, his father, Like

700
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 1: you want to see Luke do good. You lose the game,

701
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: you got thrown out, you know, and then I'm saying

702
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 1: to myself, this guy lost two games. Tomorrow people are

703
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 1: gonna be like they're they're firing Luke. You know, like

704
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: if they won two games, we don't need Lebron. It's

705
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:06,920
Speaker 1: like if you had won the last two games, you

706
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 1: don't need Lebron. If you lose the last two games fire, Luke,

707
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 1: It's exactly, it's insane. So how do you you know

708
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 1: in all honestly like close the ears to that craziness.

709
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:21,919
Speaker 1: It's hard because, like you said, like we'd be going

710
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:23,919
Speaker 1: to State now and then we'd be go to City.

711
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,279
Speaker 1: So it was like game playing with amazing lose a

712
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,359
Speaker 1: great coach. You know. We we finished the last uh

713
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: like like the half of the third and the fourth

714
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:34,720
Speaker 1: without bron like the young core stepping up. Everything's good,

715
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:38,439
Speaker 1: and then we lose lose the Sacramento on a buzzer beater,

716
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:40,799
Speaker 1: and then we lost to the Clippers yesterday, and it's like,

717
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 1: oh my god, like let's like everyone's panicking trade the

718
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 1: whole team exactly. Like I could have twenty points one

719
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: like you know, one game, and then the next game

720
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 1: I have you know, I'm not shooting the ball, will

721
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 1: have like three points. I go for like two for

722
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 1: like ten from the field, and everyone's like, oh, we

723
00:47:56,560 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 1: gotta trade them. So it's like we The hardest part

724
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:02,839
Speaker 1: is just tuning it out because obviously you say, like, oh,

725
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 1: it's only about the guys in the locker room, it's

726
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: only about like who we have on the team. But

727
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to tune them out, but that's what

728
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:11,919
Speaker 1: you gotta try your best too, because no matter what,

729
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: if you play well, they're gonna praise you if you

730
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 1: play and they're gonna talk about you. If you don't

731
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 1: play well, they won't. You know, they won't praise you,

732
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 1: but they're still gonna talk about you. So you just

733
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 1: got to try to block it out as the best

734
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: you can. When you say block it out, like, does

735
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 1: it mean you're how old? You so you grew up

736
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 1: with social media? I mean i'd imagine since you were

737
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: nine ten, like phones, you know, like this has been

738
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:38,839
Speaker 1: part of your life, your social media kid? Three years old?

739
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 1: You can you you're not off your phone, You're not

740
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: on Instagram completely, you're not off Twitter. You know you

741
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 1: watch ESPN. I'm sure when you say block it out, like,

742
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: how do you block it out? When literally, in this

743
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: day and age with social media, you could be like,

744
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: all right, well I'm not watching TV okay, But then

745
00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:58,920
Speaker 1: your phone and then you know this text and that

746
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,479
Speaker 1: text and that tweet. You know, you're you're scrolling through

747
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 1: ball it's life and you see that. You know, how

748
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 1: do you when you say tuned out? How do you

749
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: tune it out? Yeah, So for me, Um, there's been

750
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: times I just deleted the apps altogether, like there was

751
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 1: you just have to get rid of it. Yeah, there

752
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 1: was like a spin while just you know, five or

753
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 1: six game, I just wasn't playing well, and I was

754
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 1: just like, you know, I'm gonna go on and like

755
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: I follow all my teammates and follow a couple of Lakers,

756
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 1: like you know, like Laker pages or whatever on Instagram.

757
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: So I know, if I go on my little explore page,

758
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: you know, even if I don't want to see something,

759
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see stuff abou basketball. I'm gonna see you know,

760
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: reports of whatever Laker things going on. So sometimes I

761
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: just delete Twitter, delete Instagram, delete Snapchat, off my phone

762
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 1: this entirely. And then half the time I'm like, I'm

763
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 1: sitting there one and like what am I supposed to

764
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: be doing, because like I'm usually just I'm constantly on

765
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 1: my phone. Yeah, so sometimes I just delete the apps,

766
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: like delete the apps in general, and I just won't

767
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 1: you to look. And then you know, but I mean,

768
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:58,319
Speaker 1: I can't be a hypocrite with it because sometimes when

769
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 1: I'm doing well, it's like, Okay, I wanted see that

770
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 1: I'm doing right. But um, you know, I just try to,

771
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: you know, just get away from it as best as

772
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: I can. Um. Last year, you know, I think all

773
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 1: the fans, you know, I imagine you know you Alonzo

774
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 1: was in your draft class. Everybody was hard on him.

775
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:18,840
Speaker 1: I talked about him, everybody talked. It was it was

776
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: like you couldn't not It was so nuts with the

777
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 1: with the introduction to the world to LaVar and Alonzo

778
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 1: and the draft, it was it was crazy. And this

779
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:32,840
Speaker 1: is somebody, this is a human being to you. You know,

780
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: this is a friend, this is a teammate, this is

781
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 1: somebody you probably played a au with in tournaments and

782
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: this stuff. How how was it for you guys? Because

783
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: I remember Kuzman at one point was being asked about LaVar,

784
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 1: and I was like, this dude's been in the league

785
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 1: twenty games. He's being asked about his teammates father, not

786
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:53,240
Speaker 1: a coach, not a GM He's having an answer about

787
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:56,280
Speaker 1: his friend's father. Who the restaurants Like, this guy is crazy?

788
00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: How crazy was that? That? Take me? Some last year

789
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: in regard to like you probably were asking about it. Um, Yeah,

790
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 1: it was weird, and sometimes it's uncomfortable because it's like

791
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to like, this is my teammate, this

792
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 1: is his dad person. Yeah, it's like that you probably

793
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,400
Speaker 1: know in a three six exactly, Like I know, I

794
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:17,319
Speaker 1: know him, you know, without the cameras and all that,

795
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:21,319
Speaker 1: and he's super Yeah. So it was at first it

796
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: was kind of uncomfortable because it's like, I'm not trying

797
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 1: to talk about this guy's dad. I'm not trying to

798
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: enter any of that business. So at first it was

799
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 1: just uncomfortable. And then after that, like and sometimes I

800
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 1: felt bad for Zoe come, like he's under so much scrutiny.

801
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: He was criticized so much, partly because of his dad.

802
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 1: But it's like, if you know, it was yeah, and

803
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: at the time, he's een eighteen and almost about to

804
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 1: be nineteen. Nice kid, you know if you don't really

805
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: know him, kind of quiet at times. So you know,

806
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:50,439
Speaker 1: we're over there, you know, build a relationship with him,

807
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 1: trying to you know, get him out his shell. And

808
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 1: he's and he has all that negativity around with the media,

809
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: So it was it was hard, and it was kind

810
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:00,439
Speaker 1: of uncomfortable at first, just because like you don't wanna

811
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,400
Speaker 1: you don't want to say anything that would, you know,

812
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:05,799
Speaker 1: be weird and make the relationship, like your relationship with

813
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,479
Speaker 1: him weird because you're saying something about his right or

814
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 1: you're not saying something. It's it was just really weird. Yeah,

815
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:15,239
Speaker 1: it seemed like because it's such an unusual I mean

816
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 1: it's not even like Magic or Luke or or even

817
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 1: another team, and it's like going to another level and

818
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: not another player in the league. It's like it was

819
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:26,319
Speaker 1: just I remember Kuzma answering the question, but I was like,

820
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:28,759
Speaker 1: he did it well, and I remember you guys, was like,

821
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 1: this is I've never seen anything like that. You know,

822
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 1: it's it's it's like not Chip talking, It's like a

823
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:39,320
Speaker 1: whole other thing. Um, you three coups Alonzo and yourself,

824
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 1: what is that like being young stars in Los Angeles?

825
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:46,760
Speaker 1: Like like and that bond that you guys have because

826
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:50,959
Speaker 1: Alonzo has his scrutiny. You were a champion of Villanova,

827
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: but you didn't have this, you know, Jayson Tatum a

828
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 1: Lonzo ball thing. And Kuzma like it was like if

829
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:58,279
Speaker 1: you didn't know who he was in college, was like,

830
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 1: who the hell is this guy? What is that been? For?

831
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 1: Like you three guys, Um, it's been good, honestly. Uh,

832
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 1: And like you said, all three of us kind of

833
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: have different um roles in different paths, you know. Obviously

834
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 1: Zoe was like more um talked about, uh, you know,

835
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,759
Speaker 1: a guy coming in. Thenkus everyone was kind of like

836
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:20,439
Speaker 1: who's that. And then I got Drives and was like, okay,

837
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 1: you want to Championship of Villanova, but we don't really

838
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 1: know how he'll go, you know, how he'll doing the league.

839
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: And then I got unfortunately my first co league, I

840
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 1: got hurt, and then Cus did very well, so then

841
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 1: that's you kind of got cuz Mania then so you

842
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 1: had a Lonzo ball and everything. You had Kyle Kuzma

843
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 1: whatever with kuz Mania, and then for me it was

844
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 1: just kind of like, Okay, I'm hurting some league. The

845
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:43,359
Speaker 1: first couple of games of the season, I was hurt.

846
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 1: I didn't really play. So we had we saw all

847
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:50,399
Speaker 1: three sides of spectrum. So when when Zoe's down, when

848
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:52,319
Speaker 1: cous is down, I can talk to them because you know,

849
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:55,880
Speaker 1: I've been there, or you know, when when I'm having success,

850
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 1: you know, those guys can talk to me about being

851
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:00,080
Speaker 1: you know, staying levelheaded and now letting it get to

852
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,160
Speaker 1: the you know, get to my head because they've been there.

853
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:04,800
Speaker 1: So it's it's actually been good that all three of

854
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 1: us had a different pet because we can talk about

855
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: the highs, but we can talk about the lows and

856
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:14,720
Speaker 1: help each other through it. Um and Lebron, I'm sure

857
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:17,920
Speaker 1: at one point you're a video game guy. Know you're

858
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 1: a Fortnite dude. I also want to offer my services

859
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: because I'm sure a lot of times you play Fortnite,

860
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 1: and not anonymously because but I wanted to offer my

861
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: services to to one night be your ship talker. So

862
00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 1: like I'll be your ship. You'd be there, you know,

863
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: you'd be the braun. I'll be the you know, the

864
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:37,399
Speaker 1: the brains. I'll be the braun that okay? Um, So,

865
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: Lebron James who everybody you know it's Lebron James. This

866
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 1: is like for me, it's comparisons like if I'm working

867
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: with Denzel Washington or Roberton or it's like you grew

868
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 1: up watching him. You watch him when you're a kid,

869
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:54,359
Speaker 1: and you you last year, you're you're playing against him,

870
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:56,759
Speaker 1: even if it was just scatterly. You probably played him

871
00:54:56,760 --> 00:55:00,080
Speaker 1: on NBA two K at some point. What is in

872
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 1: the most impressive thing about Lebron James that we don't see,

873
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:08,240
Speaker 1: Like what is what is it like being a Lebron

874
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 1: James teammate behind closed doors? Uh, It's it's actually great,

875
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: honestly because the first time I've met him, um, and

876
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 1: I hung out with him, I left thinking like, damn,

877
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 1: this guy he's a really nice guy like that. Like

878
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:25,880
Speaker 1: that that was my impression when I left. I'm because

879
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 1: obviously you see these guys, um, you know, they get

880
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 1: to to the level they yet, you know, because they

881
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 1: got a chip on the shoulder because they're hungry, because

882
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 1: so sometimes they come across as assholes or sometime they're

883
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 1: kind of like full of himself. I walked away like, Yo,

884
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 1: this dude is really like he's really a nice dude.

885
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,720
Speaker 1: He generally cares about some of the younger guys. He

886
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 1: you know, he cares about what's going on. Um. You know,

887
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:49,359
Speaker 1: he always said, is there anything, If there anything going

888
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 1: on in our lives, we can always go to his

889
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:53,319
Speaker 1: house and chill out and get away from it. So,

890
00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 1: I mean, it's actually been really good. And that's something

891
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 1: that people don't see. They see the fire, you know,

892
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:02,320
Speaker 1: on the court, but and you see what he does,

893
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 1: uh you know as being an activist with opening to

894
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: school and just talking publicly about certain things. But you

895
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:11,440
Speaker 1: don't see the just like the true guy that he is.

896
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: And he's just a nice, nice dude, goofy, you know,

897
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,560
Speaker 1: just like one of us. And what about his work

898
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:19,920
Speaker 1: ethic that we don't see, because you know he's got

899
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 1: a legendary work ethic. He first in the gym, Like

900
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:25,279
Speaker 1: have you seen that firsthand in terms of like and

901
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 1: and what is it? Like? What is the what is this?

902
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:29,400
Speaker 1: What is the deal with him? Like in terms of

903
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, ship, this is really like the guy. Yeah,

904
00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:34,319
Speaker 1: you see, I mean you see it every day. Yeah,

905
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 1: there you see him get shots up. But you know,

906
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 1: obviously guys guys going and some guys going their party

907
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: the night before they go in, they go in, uh

908
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,240
Speaker 1: tennis of practice, they get up a couple of shots

909
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:48,440
Speaker 1: and then and then they head out. You know, he's

910
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: there at least two hours early to every practice. He

911
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 1: gets a big lifting. It's not it's not like he's

912
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 1: over there just you know, throwing up little ways. He

913
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:00,440
Speaker 1: hasn't lifting. He's lifting lifting to care of his but

914
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:02,880
Speaker 1: he's taking care of his body he's doing treatment, he's

915
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 1: he's stretching. Then he'll get out there, then he'll get

916
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 1: shots up, you know, do a little workout, and then

917
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 1: we'll practice and then after that, you know, he'll get

918
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:14,080
Speaker 1: shots up after and then he'll go do treatment. Then

919
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:16,640
Speaker 1: he'll head home. So when you're seeing this and you're

920
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 1: like everybody, you know there's certain players, whether it's Lebron Ross,

921
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 1: the guys that came before you, staffing all and stuff.

922
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:24,480
Speaker 1: When you're seeing this and you're like, yo, I need

923
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 1: to get like is it is it? Is it overwhelming?

924
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 1: At first you just kind of like overwhelmed because I mean,

925
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 1: this is his sixteenth year and someone who's which is

926
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 1: not it's crazy someone who's been as successful he has,

927
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 1: someone who has made as much money here and he

928
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 1: has you know, when you're getting this lay into your career,

929
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 1: this and when you kind of like just kind of

930
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: toned it down, just kind of um relaxed in the sense.

931
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 1: But he, you know, he kind of it looks like

932
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 1: he amps it up. So you're seeing that and it's

933
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 1: contagious because you're like Okay, then you like you go

934
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 1: get shots with him or like you talk to him

935
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:00,920
Speaker 1: about certain film aspects of it, or you're like you're

936
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what he does to take care

937
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 1: of his body, you know, because he hasn't had a

938
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 1: major injury. Um, so it's contagious because you're like, Okay,

939
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:12,040
Speaker 1: you see him doing it's like, I gotta you know,

940
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 1: let me kind of take notes, let me see what

941
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 1: he does, let me do what he does, because I mean,

942
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 1: he's the best in the world for a reason. And

943
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 1: what about magic? Like your twenty three So for me,

944
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 1: like magic is like my lebron, you know, one of

945
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: several Lebrons. What is magic? Like he's your what is magic? Johnson?

946
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 1: To you? Like and what has been your experience with magic? Yeah?

947
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:36,960
Speaker 1: So so obviously you know magic magic. I mean, but

948
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: it's weird because I'm from the East Coast, so obviously

949
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:44,480
Speaker 1: it was growing up, it was always about East Coast guys,

950
00:58:44,520 --> 00:58:47,680
Speaker 1: always about people that was from from Maryland, from New York,

951
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:51,440
Speaker 1: from Philly. Um, but we didn't really it wasn't so

952
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 1: much about you know, the legends in the West and

953
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 1: then we come here and obviously I knew magic was

954
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:59,080
Speaker 1: you know, best point guardever, you know, top five player

955
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 1: that ever played the game. But you you you see him,

956
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:05,360
Speaker 1: and then you just it's crazy just being around him,

957
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 1: because like he has this like you know, like when

958
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 1: you're around a great one, like whether it's an actor

959
00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 1: or athlete, and you're like you walk in and like

960
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 1: you feel his presence and like when when Magic goes in,

961
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 1: he literally lights out of room. Everyone's like like, oh wow,

962
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 1: it's Magic. And there'll be tense at first, and he'll

963
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:26,640
Speaker 1: come in and crack a joke and then you know,

964
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 1: you just hear the whole the whole room laughing. Everything's

965
00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:33,880
Speaker 1: free flowing. So he does have this special thing about him,

966
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: like off the court that that nickname is probably the

967
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 1: best exactly because when it's just a thing, Yeah, it's

968
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 1: just like a glow. He's like when when you're around him,

969
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 1: be like like this is really cool. Now when you

970
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:47,680
Speaker 1: see him now Magic, you know, I don't know how

971
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 1: old he is now he's heavy or you like I

972
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 1: could have bust this dude. Dads like like or if

973
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:54,120
Speaker 1: you watched enough tape to be like and realize how

974
00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:57,520
Speaker 1: like there'd be no Lebron James. Yeah without Magic. Just

975
00:59:57,560 --> 01:00:00,320
Speaker 1: in terms of like a six ft nine guy dribble

976
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:04,000
Speaker 1: in the ball was so foreign to us. It was

977
01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:08,040
Speaker 1: literally like where one day there's gonna be like some

978
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 1: seven ft six to dribble the ball like it before,

979
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:13,640
Speaker 1: and you like it was so foreign, like if you

980
01:00:13,720 --> 01:00:17,440
Speaker 1: watched it, like absorbed it enough. Um, there's no wrong answer.

981
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 1: I mean if you didn't see, it's never never gonna

982
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:22,439
Speaker 1: be the same thing. But like I mean you see

983
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 1: the clips of what he did and like what he

984
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:26,720
Speaker 1: was able to do, and it's and it's even now

985
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:28,959
Speaker 1: he'll he'll be he'll be crazy to see it in

986
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:32,840
Speaker 1: today's game. Um, So it's and I see him now

987
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:35,240
Speaker 1: and like even you know, obviously he's a little older,

988
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:38,200
Speaker 1: you know, you know, a little bigger, but you can

989
01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 1: still see like you can tell like he's strong, he's

990
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 1: um you know sometimes you see him, you're like, oh man,

991
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 1: he might be able to get out of here and

992
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 1: round with us. Does he ever come into practice? Yeah,

993
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 1: he'll come into practice. Does he ever, like are any

994
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 1: sort of instruction like has you have you ever had

995
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:57,880
Speaker 1: like where he's actually physically either before practice, draft practice.

996
01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:00,360
Speaker 1: Whenever he's there, you know, no man out of who

997
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:02,520
Speaker 1: it is. And that that's the beauty of him because

998
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:04,440
Speaker 1: he you know, when he played, he was able to

999
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:07,000
Speaker 1: play all five positions, so you know, he's able to

1000
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:09,560
Speaker 1: kind of talk to you know, every single one of

1001
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 1: us and about certain different things. So there's times he'll

1002
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:16,600
Speaker 1: call Alonso over before practice, at the practe even sometimes

1003
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 1: during practice and give him like a quick thing. There

1004
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 1: have been times he talked to me about, um, about

1005
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:23,560
Speaker 1: my he wasn't even much of a shooting, but the

1006
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 1: times he'll talk to me about my shot or stuff

1007
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:30,600
Speaker 1: like that. Uh, but he didn't need to, He didn't

1008
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 1: really need to. But UM, I mean he's able to talk,

1009
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:35,040
Speaker 1: and there's times he talks to you know, some of

1010
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:39,200
Speaker 1: our bigs. So it's really cool to see him, you know,

1011
01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:42,440
Speaker 1: still there obviously trying to help us learn about the game.

1012
01:01:42,960 --> 01:01:46,000
Speaker 1: And uh, you know he's been you know, inspirational for

1013
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 1: all of us. Um, all right, I want to talk

1014
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:51,720
Speaker 1: to you about Villanovo. Um. The two thousand and sixteen

1015
01:01:51,840 --> 01:01:56,880
Speaker 1: n c A Finals North Carolina was such a game. Uh.

1016
01:01:56,920 --> 01:02:00,680
Speaker 1: I mean you you showed up she in that game.

1017
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:04,400
Speaker 1: You hit the free throws with and nobody nobody remembers

1018
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:06,400
Speaker 1: nobody remembers my two free throws. But I was a

1019
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:11,440
Speaker 1: clutch one. When you're like that much pressure. Do you

1020
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 1: remember like seeing that, Like remember what you were feeling, Like,

1021
01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:19,480
Speaker 1: where's your heart at that point? Like in terms of

1022
01:02:19,520 --> 01:02:23,360
Speaker 1: like your composure, you're breathing your nerves. Do what do

1023
01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:27,280
Speaker 1: you remember about those free throws? Remember? Yeah? So I

1024
01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:31,720
Speaker 1: was I was on like that going down. I think

1025
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 1: we broke the press. I forgot who got the ball

1026
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:35,880
Speaker 1: on like the top of half court, on the right

1027
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 1: side of the court. They passed it to me. I

1028
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:40,160
Speaker 1: was on the left side, and I see Chris Jenkis

1029
01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:43,080
Speaker 1: on the opposite side, and I'm just I'm thinking, I'm like,

1030
01:02:43,440 --> 01:02:45,400
Speaker 1: there ain't no goddamn way I'm throwing this ball. Because

1031
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:47,520
Speaker 1: if this ball, if I throw this ship and it's

1032
01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 1: a turnover and they come back and dunk this, I'm like,

1033
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:53,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be heartbroken. So I'm like, I'm this, I'm

1034
01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:54,880
Speaker 1: gonna just get the file and go to the free

1035
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:57,680
Speaker 1: throw line. So I was. I was cool and composed

1036
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 1: because I mean we always talked about it. It's just like, yeah,

1037
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:03,680
Speaker 1: I know, but it was so I was. I was cool.

1038
01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:05,840
Speaker 1: I was cool for a minute because I mean we

1039
01:03:05,960 --> 01:03:08,400
Speaker 1: practice free those every day and pragic the waughter stuff,

1040
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:10,800
Speaker 1: and then Chris Jan's was one of my one of

1041
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 1: my best friends. He walked up to me, is like,

1042
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:15,880
Speaker 1: you better make these two ships. I'm like, oh god.

1043
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:19,640
Speaker 1: And then I shoot the first ship and I think

1044
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:22,160
Speaker 1: I think it's short. I'm like, right when I shoot

1045
01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:23,880
Speaker 1: the ball, right when I released, I'm like, oh Dan,

1046
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:25,920
Speaker 1: this is your short. Are you in your body at

1047
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:28,320
Speaker 1: that point? Do you know what I'm saying? The first

1048
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:31,000
Speaker 1: one not really. I was confident, but I was still

1049
01:03:31,040 --> 01:03:36,080
Speaker 1: like a little nervous rena. I don't even remember. I

1050
01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:39,080
Speaker 1: honestly don't even remember. I remember shooting that shot and

1051
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking in my head, I'm like, shit, this

1052
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:43,960
Speaker 1: is short, and it was. It was all net. I'm like, oh,

1053
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 1: thank god, and you yeah, well, I was like okay,

1054
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:50,800
Speaker 1: like you know, brings you back no matter what we're

1055
01:03:50,880 --> 01:03:53,680
Speaker 1: up to now. And then I go up to shoot

1056
01:03:53,680 --> 01:03:56,440
Speaker 1: the second one and the only thing I'm thinking is

1057
01:03:57,280 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 1: the last one felt like it was gonna be sure.

1058
01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:01,360
Speaker 1: I'm like, this ship can not be short. So if

1059
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:03,400
Speaker 1: you look at I think that one hits like the

1060
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:05,720
Speaker 1: back rim or something that goes in. It was like

1061
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:09,080
Speaker 1: a little a little strong, and I'm just like, thank god,

1062
01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:12,800
Speaker 1: thank god. I I at least put his up three, um,

1063
01:04:13,160 --> 01:04:15,520
Speaker 1: and then Marcus Pays makes Everyone's like, oh, I made

1064
01:04:15,520 --> 01:04:17,320
Speaker 1: it amazing something like that was some bullshit he made.

1065
01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:19,640
Speaker 1: He made that, but then you able to hit the

1066
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:21,600
Speaker 1: clutch three at the end. So and I mean, there

1067
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:24,520
Speaker 1: can't be anything better than that. No, I mean it

1068
01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 1: was right when Chris used that shot. All I remember

1069
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:30,600
Speaker 1: like this thing, I'm like like, give me one, Chris

1070
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:36,200
Speaker 1: that he cashes out and like the next to three

1071
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:38,480
Speaker 1: minutes I don't even remember. I just blackout. It was

1072
01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:40,600
Speaker 1: just it was literally the best feeling, you know, I

1073
01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:42,720
Speaker 1: could have had it and had, you know, even better

1074
01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:46,080
Speaker 1: than getting drafted. Um, better than playing my first NBA game,

1075
01:04:46,120 --> 01:04:48,160
Speaker 1: because it was like, you know, I did this with

1076
01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:50,280
Speaker 1: a group of guys and like we have this like

1077
01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:54,160
Speaker 1: no matter what in two thousand and seventy when they

1078
01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:56,440
Speaker 1: were playing, you know, and got in and say you

1079
01:04:56,480 --> 01:04:58,760
Speaker 1: look at that record book into the sixteen it's gonna

1080
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:01,640
Speaker 1: say villain Ova wildcast. So I mean, it was It's

1081
01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:05,640
Speaker 1: the best feeling. Your coach, Jay Wright, he's one of

1082
01:05:05,640 --> 01:05:07,640
Speaker 1: these guys like when when you hear him talk as

1083
01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:12,760
Speaker 1: a fan, you just know that he's has command of

1084
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:18,440
Speaker 1: of the players. He loves basketball. He understands basketball just

1085
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:21,080
Speaker 1: by hearing him talk, you know, to Dick Vitella, to

1086
01:05:21,160 --> 01:05:23,440
Speaker 1: this one and that one. What makes him such a

1087
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:25,720
Speaker 1: great coach? What? What? What I mean? I'm sure there's

1088
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:28,080
Speaker 1: a list of things, but like, what are some of

1089
01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:33,080
Speaker 1: the things that you learned about basketball? Details, specifics that

1090
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 1: you still apply today. Yeah. So you know, when whenever

1091
01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:38,840
Speaker 1: anyone asked me about him, I would say, like he's

1092
01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:41,240
Speaker 1: good as a code, Like he's not. He's not going

1093
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:43,479
Speaker 1: to be the greatest extra nose guys. He's not gonna run,

1094
01:05:44,040 --> 01:05:49,439
Speaker 1: you know, a play and have four different screens, ten

1095
01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:52,240
Speaker 1: different passes. It looks beautiful, and like he gets all

1096
01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:54,720
Speaker 1: the credit for it. He the best thing that he does.

1097
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:57,160
Speaker 1: He's able to make adjustments to how other teams are playing,

1098
01:05:57,480 --> 01:06:00,040
Speaker 1: but like he's able to get the best out of

1099
01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:04,160
Speaker 1: every player. He's able to um drive every player to

1100
01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 1: be the best that they can. And he's able to

1101
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:11,400
Speaker 1: really lock in and make us have an attention to

1102
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:15,240
Speaker 1: detail that's literally on point, so we know, no matter

1103
01:06:15,440 --> 01:06:18,200
Speaker 1: everything is the same. Everything we do is so meticulous

1104
01:06:18,280 --> 01:06:21,000
Speaker 1: and how we how we jump, stop, what pivot, what

1105
01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:23,880
Speaker 1: we're doing and everything like that. So that that's what

1106
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:26,480
Speaker 1: makes him great, and that's what really separates him because

1107
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:30,840
Speaker 1: he gets guys who, um, I want to be a

1108
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:34,480
Speaker 1: part of something, and that's so that's how he starts recruiting.

1109
01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:36,880
Speaker 1: He's able to recruit the perfect guys for that system

1110
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:39,040
Speaker 1: who wanted to be a part of something bigger than themselves.

1111
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:42,000
Speaker 1: And he is that articulated, like was that part of

1112
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 1: you guys were understanding that? Yeah, he told He told

1113
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:48,400
Speaker 1: you straight up. He doesn't um sugarcoat anything. He told

1114
01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 1: you straight up, Like this is like it's not about you,

1115
01:06:51,360 --> 01:06:53,600
Speaker 1: know you when you come here, like even before you come,

1116
01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:56,200
Speaker 1: before you sign your letter intent, when he's before you

1117
01:06:56,240 --> 01:06:59,160
Speaker 1: commit there, when he's talking on the phone meeting you,

1118
01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:02,640
Speaker 1: he's saying, it's about it's about the program. It's about

1119
01:07:02,680 --> 01:07:05,200
Speaker 1: the guys who sacrifice before I even got there, the

1120
01:07:05,240 --> 01:07:08,240
Speaker 1: guys in two thousand twelve, the guys in you know

1121
01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:12,040
Speaker 1: two thousand and when when they won the championship eighty five.

1122
01:07:12,080 --> 01:07:15,680
Speaker 1: It's about those guys. It's not about us. Um. So

1123
01:07:15,720 --> 01:07:20,040
Speaker 1: he articulates that before anything happens. And then so in

1124
01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:21,800
Speaker 1: say in terms of like the one and done thing,

1125
01:07:22,680 --> 01:07:26,400
Speaker 1: he's clear like he doesn't want one and donners Um.

1126
01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:28,360
Speaker 1: I want to say he would wouldn't want them, Like

1127
01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:30,600
Speaker 1: if they wanted to come and be and be over

1128
01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:33,520
Speaker 1: themself and be a part of something bigger, then I

1129
01:07:33,520 --> 01:07:36,200
Speaker 1: think he would. And he thought they were bought in

1130
01:07:36,400 --> 01:07:38,840
Speaker 1: enough to do that, he would definitely do it. But

1131
01:07:39,360 --> 01:07:41,120
Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't need it, He doesn't need him,

1132
01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:42,680
Speaker 1: And he says that he's like, I don't really care

1133
01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:44,600
Speaker 1: to get him. If I get him, cool, If not,

1134
01:07:45,120 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 1: it is what it is. And you your team and

1135
01:07:47,360 --> 01:07:49,520
Speaker 1: that and and and him in Villanova are seemed to

1136
01:07:49,520 --> 01:07:52,680
Speaker 1: be taking pride in that that we're here, we're winning championships,

1137
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:56,880
Speaker 1: were competing the four year thing, which is so rare now,

1138
01:07:57,200 --> 01:07:59,160
Speaker 1: which I think is a good thing. And and there

1139
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 1: needs to be some to bounce because some of these

1140
01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:04,080
Speaker 1: dudes are one and done. They come in the league.

1141
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:06,680
Speaker 1: It's literally like rolling the dice. It's nineteen year old

1142
01:08:06,680 --> 01:08:09,480
Speaker 1: athletes when you get to the NBA. That ship doesn't

1143
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:12,080
Speaker 1: you know, Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't work. It

1144
01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 1: is he gonna grow into something? Is it gonna be

1145
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:16,160
Speaker 1: the next Kevin Durant? Who the hell knows? Kevin Durant

1146
01:08:16,240 --> 01:08:18,360
Speaker 1: came in the NBA he was Kevin Durant. It just

1147
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:22,400
Speaker 1: I think it's a good thing with Villanova, Um that

1148
01:08:22,479 --> 01:08:24,800
Speaker 1: they have there. Are you still in touch with Villanova? Like,

1149
01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:27,080
Speaker 1: is that is that still? I'll talked to I go

1150
01:08:27,160 --> 01:08:30,559
Speaker 1: to I go back, um during summer that work out there.

1151
01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:32,679
Speaker 1: You know, I talked to coach right all the time.

1152
01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:35,519
Speaker 1: I'll talk to some of the assistant coaches. Um. Whenever

1153
01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:37,479
Speaker 1: I'm in Philly, you know, I go and hang out,

1154
01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:40,200
Speaker 1: you know with some of those guys and um, the coaches.

1155
01:08:40,520 --> 01:08:42,760
Speaker 1: You know, that's always gonna be home for me. Um.

1156
01:08:43,160 --> 01:08:45,400
Speaker 1: You know the people that are there, Um, you know,

1157
01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:48,600
Speaker 1: always family. What is it like being in Philadelphia a

1158
01:08:48,680 --> 01:08:52,599
Speaker 1: Villanova's star. I always love the city of philadelphia're from there.

1159
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:55,600
Speaker 1: It was cool. It's cool because I mean, you know,

1160
01:08:55,720 --> 01:08:58,519
Speaker 1: Philly fans, Philly fan of the probably the worst fans

1161
01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:00,800
Speaker 1: in the world. This this in terms up. If you're good,

1162
01:09:01,280 --> 01:09:04,320
Speaker 1: they're like there will ride and die with you. But

1163
01:09:04,360 --> 01:09:07,280
Speaker 1: if you suck, you're they're definitely gonna let you know,

1164
01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:10,880
Speaker 1: do it. And luckily my four years we were good.

1165
01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:13,280
Speaker 1: We were really good. But there was a couple of

1166
01:09:13,280 --> 01:09:15,720
Speaker 1: games that we got our ass kicked and we got it.

1167
01:09:15,760 --> 01:09:19,240
Speaker 1: We got our booed, and I'm just sitting there. I'm like, oh, like,

1168
01:09:19,360 --> 01:09:22,559
Speaker 1: we're down thirty to create in my freshman year and

1169
01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:25,680
Speaker 1: we're getting at home and we're getting booed, and I'm

1170
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:28,599
Speaker 1: just sitting there. I'm like, oh shit, like that like

1171
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:30,800
Speaker 1: you can feel it, Yeah, you can feel it, and

1172
01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:35,000
Speaker 1: you're like like damn, Like there's a difference between losing

1173
01:09:36,280 --> 01:09:38,920
Speaker 1: and getting getting booed off your home court. And we

1174
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:41,200
Speaker 1: got booed off on home court and we're just there

1175
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:44,519
Speaker 1: like that ship can't happen again. We can't let that

1176
01:09:44,560 --> 01:09:47,719
Speaker 1: happen again. And obviously they threw snowballs and sand exactly.

1177
01:09:48,080 --> 01:09:51,000
Speaker 1: You know what the kind of people are are in

1178
01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:55,800
Speaker 1: phil LP. That's how you know, like, don't get me

1179
01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:58,519
Speaker 1: wrong day and they ride it down with your like

1180
01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:02,439
Speaker 1: no other fan base, but these dudes through snowballs. You

1181
01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:06,679
Speaker 1: gotta be just an evil person with snowballs, and they

1182
01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:11,360
Speaker 1: did it. So I mean, hey, they're they're definitely different,

1183
01:10:11,400 --> 01:10:16,680
Speaker 1: but I mean they're loyal. Um. Jalen Brunson bridges my

1184
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:20,639
Speaker 1: son Dante de Vincenzo, who make sure you tell him

1185
01:10:20,640 --> 01:10:22,640
Speaker 1: if if he dreams of looking as good as me,

1186
01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:26,080
Speaker 1: uh se as you slap himself. You you guys are

1187
01:10:26,120 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 1: all in the NBA. Now are you in communication with

1188
01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:31,840
Speaker 1: these guys? Have you played against some of your former teammates? Yeah,

1189
01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:36,519
Speaker 1: so I played against with Kel um three times. I

1190
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:40,600
Speaker 1: think already UM kicked his ass all three Um. We

1191
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:43,920
Speaker 1: played against Dallas one so far this year we actually

1192
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:46,040
Speaker 1: play him in like a week. We play them down

1193
01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:50,680
Speaker 1: in Dallas. Um. You know Tay. We haven't played Tay yet. Uh.

1194
01:10:50,800 --> 01:10:54,439
Speaker 1: I played a Mari Um, So you know I've played

1195
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:55,920
Speaker 1: all those guys. I've been in touch with all of

1196
01:10:55,920 --> 01:10:57,960
Speaker 1: my thin you know. I have mckel's Phoenix jersey, my

1197
01:10:58,479 --> 01:11:01,160
Speaker 1: and my um my closet. I'm gonna get, I'm gonna

1198
01:11:01,160 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 1: get Jalena, I'm gonna get all, you know, one of

1199
01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:05,320
Speaker 1: all those guys. But uh, you know those are my

1200
01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:08,120
Speaker 1: brother Those are my guys who you know I try

1201
01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:10,559
Speaker 1: to teach while I was ever Ellen, trying to teach

1202
01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:13,320
Speaker 1: them how that program is. How to teach them, um,

1203
01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:15,679
Speaker 1: you know, how to sacrifice, how the attention to detail

1204
01:11:15,720 --> 01:11:20,120
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. And you know time, it was

1205
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:23,639
Speaker 1: easy to do that because they were very willing to learn.

1206
01:11:24,120 --> 01:11:26,519
Speaker 1: But it's also easy when you win. So where we were.

1207
01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:28,559
Speaker 1: You know, it's easy, so we want you know, we

1208
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:31,720
Speaker 1: want a lot. You know mckel and Jalen. You know,

1209
01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:35,719
Speaker 1: I think they either Jalen started, Michael came off the bench,

1210
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:37,880
Speaker 1: you know when we won anas and championship my year

1211
01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:40,240
Speaker 1: and then they won one last year. So you know,

1212
01:11:40,320 --> 01:11:42,439
Speaker 1: I talk to those guys all the time. Um. I

1213
01:11:42,439 --> 01:11:44,080
Speaker 1: actually just talked to Jail in the day, you know,

1214
01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:46,200
Speaker 1: the FaceTime with him. But you know I talk to

1215
01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:48,960
Speaker 1: those guys at least once a week. Hey, I love it,

1216
01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:52,519
Speaker 1: I love it. Um. Your your draft class last year?

1217
01:11:52,640 --> 01:11:59,599
Speaker 1: Folks Alonzo, Daron Fox, Who's he's sick? Marking in Justin

1218
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:04,439
Speaker 1: Jack Sind, Jayson Tatum, Frankie, Frankie Cigarettes, Frankie Nikolina, Dennis Smith,

1219
01:12:04,800 --> 01:12:09,800
Speaker 1: all these guys? Who are these? Donovan? Who I love? Uh?

1220
01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:13,080
Speaker 1: Friend of the Iron Rapports Stereo podcast. Who out of

1221
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:16,519
Speaker 1: these guys did you grow up uh? You know in

1222
01:12:16,560 --> 01:12:19,719
Speaker 1: college or in high school going against and and when

1223
01:12:19,760 --> 01:12:21,519
Speaker 1: you were younger, and who was like out of that

1224
01:12:21,640 --> 01:12:24,760
Speaker 1: crew that that came in in your draft class was

1225
01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:27,800
Speaker 1: the best in high school that you remember? If if

1226
01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:29,360
Speaker 1: you played against any of them while you were in

1227
01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:31,760
Speaker 1: high school? Yeah? Actually, I don't really know if I

1228
01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:34,559
Speaker 1: played with too much of them. I knew because they

1229
01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:37,040
Speaker 1: were all younger, right, were all younger. I knew Coups,

1230
01:12:37,080 --> 01:12:39,920
Speaker 1: I knew cous Uh. I did a couple of cans

1231
01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:43,679
Speaker 1: with Coups. I knew Donovan a little bit just because

1232
01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:47,240
Speaker 1: his uh you know, his best friend with my roommate, uh,

1233
01:12:47,280 --> 01:12:50,240
Speaker 1: you know, in college. I think those the Marquel folks,

1234
01:12:50,240 --> 01:12:51,800
Speaker 1: I knew him just because he was from the same

1235
01:12:51,840 --> 01:12:54,439
Speaker 1: area that I am. There are you guys all kind

1236
01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:56,599
Speaker 1: of like, you know, we're gonna be in the NBA,

1237
01:12:57,120 --> 01:12:59,320
Speaker 1: like when you when you're that young, Like are you like, oh, yeah,

1238
01:12:59,320 --> 01:13:01,759
Speaker 1: you know, don Van's gonna be good. You know, cusum

1239
01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:04,680
Speaker 1: is gonna be like like not really because like or

1240
01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:06,479
Speaker 1: is it only like you're just kid? We all have

1241
01:13:06,560 --> 01:13:08,120
Speaker 1: with kids, I mean that's what. And I have a

1242
01:13:08,120 --> 01:13:11,080
Speaker 1: good relationship with those guys, and um, you know, I

1243
01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:13,640
Speaker 1: think all those guys you know, I have relationships with,

1244
01:13:13,800 --> 01:13:17,200
Speaker 1: but you know, guys like Donovan, guys like Cou's, Um,

1245
01:13:17,720 --> 01:13:20,280
Speaker 1: it's always a little more genuine just because you you know,

1246
01:13:20,320 --> 01:13:22,800
Speaker 1: we were always in the same spot, like we weren't one,

1247
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:25,719
Speaker 1: We weren't one and done. We weren't you know, top

1248
01:13:25,760 --> 01:13:30,120
Speaker 1: five picks. It was you know, Donovan when he was

1249
01:13:30,160 --> 01:13:33,439
Speaker 1: coming out, you know, before he kills Ship in his workouts,

1250
01:13:33,520 --> 01:13:34,960
Speaker 1: it was like, oh is he is he even going

1251
01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:37,759
Speaker 1: to get drafted in the first round and now he's

1252
01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:39,880
Speaker 1: um he was a runner round for the Rookie of

1253
01:13:39,920 --> 01:13:41,320
Speaker 1: the Year. I thought he should have got it, but

1254
01:13:41,840 --> 01:13:45,120
Speaker 1: to uh, you know, he got his first signature shoot

1255
01:13:45,120 --> 01:13:48,599
Speaker 1: with Adidas. You know, he's such a good dude, great dude,

1256
01:13:48,680 --> 01:13:51,360
Speaker 1: and that's what manuinely like a good exactly. That's why

1257
01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:53,320
Speaker 1: and that's why you roose for him so much, because

1258
01:13:53,400 --> 01:13:55,240
Speaker 1: he's a good dude, he's a good person. And then

1259
01:13:55,360 --> 01:13:58,679
Speaker 1: KU's same thing. Was supposed to be like a late

1260
01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:01,760
Speaker 1: second round pick coming in and now he's you know,

1261
01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:04,160
Speaker 1: doing as well as he's doing, and he's a and

1262
01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:05,960
Speaker 1: he's a you know, a great kid. You know, it

1263
01:14:06,080 --> 01:14:08,960
Speaker 1: still gives back to Flint knows where it came from.

1264
01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:11,800
Speaker 1: So I have a good relationship with those guys just

1265
01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:14,880
Speaker 1: because you know, we all weren't. We weren't the highly

1266
01:14:14,920 --> 01:14:19,320
Speaker 1: touted guys. We weren't the obvious choices. It was like, okay,

1267
01:14:19,360 --> 01:14:22,120
Speaker 1: they might be good, but you know, we'll take the

1268
01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:24,920
Speaker 1: you know, we'll rather roll the dice on you know,

1269
01:14:25,040 --> 01:14:26,920
Speaker 1: one of these one and done guys that might not

1270
01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:30,880
Speaker 1: pan out, but they have the quote unquote potential for

1271
01:14:30,960 --> 01:14:33,040
Speaker 1: So for you personally, the thing I love about your

1272
01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:37,000
Speaker 1: game is like I don't want to say like Russell Westbrook,

1273
01:14:37,040 --> 01:14:39,800
Speaker 1: but there's a tenacity that you played with, Like there's

1274
01:14:39,840 --> 01:14:42,600
Speaker 1: like a full tilt that you play with. There's like

1275
01:14:42,640 --> 01:14:46,360
Speaker 1: a one speed, uh you know, all out that you

1276
01:14:46,439 --> 01:14:50,160
Speaker 1: play with. When you were your first year you obviously

1277
01:14:50,160 --> 01:14:53,400
Speaker 1: you got hurt. You mentioned in the summer league. When

1278
01:14:53,439 --> 01:14:55,720
Speaker 1: did you start to feel and I'm sure you're not

1279
01:14:56,040 --> 01:14:58,800
Speaker 1: fully there yet, you're still playing, you're still young. But

1280
01:14:59,360 --> 01:15:02,000
Speaker 1: was there a moment want where you were like I

1281
01:15:02,040 --> 01:15:04,439
Speaker 1: could do this, like I could play NBA basketball, Like

1282
01:15:04,520 --> 01:15:06,720
Speaker 1: was there something that clicked in your head or was

1283
01:15:06,760 --> 01:15:08,519
Speaker 1: there like a cut to the basket like where you

1284
01:15:08,520 --> 01:15:14,439
Speaker 1: were like U said, I'm an NBA basketball player. Um, yes,

1285
01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:16,920
Speaker 1: So for me, it was more so towards the end

1286
01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:19,519
Speaker 1: of my my rookie year, which is last ye. Yeah,

1287
01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:23,479
Speaker 1: So does it seem like lifetimes ago? It does feels.

1288
01:15:23,479 --> 01:15:26,240
Speaker 1: It feels long as though if it's not even a

1289
01:15:26,280 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 1: year ago, if you told me like that was eight

1290
01:15:29,439 --> 01:15:32,439
Speaker 1: months ago. I wouldn't believe it because that's how long

1291
01:15:32,479 --> 01:15:36,160
Speaker 1: ago it feels. But um, and the last year, I

1292
01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:37,680
Speaker 1: was playing a little bit and I was doing, I

1293
01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:39,280
Speaker 1: was doing, I was doing okay, I was doing I

1294
01:15:39,320 --> 01:15:41,840
Speaker 1: was being solid, and I broke my hand and out

1295
01:15:41,880 --> 01:15:43,760
Speaker 1: for like fourteen games towards the end of the year,

1296
01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:46,920
Speaker 1: and then I got surgery. I came back and I

1297
01:15:46,920 --> 01:15:49,160
Speaker 1: played like the last like nine games of the year,

1298
01:15:49,840 --> 01:15:52,040
Speaker 1: and they gave an option that I could do surgery

1299
01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:54,160
Speaker 1: and come back and maybe played the last you know,

1300
01:15:54,280 --> 01:15:56,400
Speaker 1: eight nine games of the year or just let it

1301
01:15:56,439 --> 01:15:58,760
Speaker 1: here naturally and just be out for the season. And

1302
01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:01,160
Speaker 1: I was just like, na, like fucking I'm I want

1303
01:16:01,160 --> 01:16:04,760
Speaker 1: to go play. And that last eight nine games I

1304
01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:06,680
Speaker 1: didn't you know really well, you know, there was I

1305
01:16:06,720 --> 01:16:09,439
Speaker 1: think I scored twenty and like four or five of

1306
01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:12,000
Speaker 1: those you know, eight and nine games, and you know,

1307
01:16:12,040 --> 01:16:13,479
Speaker 1: that's when I was just really like, okay, I can

1308
01:16:13,479 --> 01:16:16,360
Speaker 1: do this. Like it was That's when I was really

1309
01:16:16,400 --> 01:16:18,400
Speaker 1: know I can I can really play and really hoop

1310
01:16:18,439 --> 01:16:20,280
Speaker 1: in this league. You know. The time before before I

1311
01:16:20,280 --> 01:16:22,320
Speaker 1: got hurt, you know, I had like I was doing,

1312
01:16:22,400 --> 01:16:24,640
Speaker 1: you know, times I started, I was doing well. I

1313
01:16:25,439 --> 01:16:27,679
Speaker 1: think I was like tied for first of shooting guards

1314
01:16:27,720 --> 01:16:30,759
Speaker 1: and double doubles all last year, So like I was comfortable,

1315
01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:32,920
Speaker 1: I was having I was even getting double doubles. But

1316
01:16:33,400 --> 01:16:35,280
Speaker 1: it wasn't until the end of the year, which I

1317
01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:37,960
Speaker 1: really felt like it because it was like, okay, you know,

1318
01:16:38,640 --> 01:16:41,880
Speaker 1: all in all, besides the injury, I felt like my

1319
01:16:41,920 --> 01:16:44,200
Speaker 1: body of worked, I felt positive with and I thought

1320
01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:45,559
Speaker 1: I was going in the right direction. I was like,

1321
01:16:45,560 --> 01:16:47,320
Speaker 1: you know what I can I can hoop in this league.

1322
01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:50,080
Speaker 1: What um your style of play? Like I said that

1323
01:16:50,160 --> 01:16:53,680
Speaker 1: Tennacy that high speed obviously because you actually move into

1324
01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:57,440
Speaker 1: high speed. Because when I played, in my head, I

1325
01:16:57,479 --> 01:17:00,000
Speaker 1: thought I was moving out. I was moving out really

1326
01:17:00,200 --> 01:17:03,800
Speaker 1: slow speed. But but your your style of play, where

1327
01:17:03,800 --> 01:17:05,720
Speaker 1: did that come from? And like when you were growing up,

1328
01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:08,200
Speaker 1: who were your guys that you that you love, that

1329
01:17:08,240 --> 01:17:11,920
Speaker 1: you emulated, that you you watched that that like inspired

1330
01:17:11,920 --> 01:17:15,280
Speaker 1: you literally as a basketball player. Yeah, So what it

1331
01:17:15,640 --> 01:17:18,360
Speaker 1: really came from? Obviously it worked with my parents. It

1332
01:17:18,400 --> 01:17:20,800
Speaker 1: came from my parents are uh, because they were just

1333
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:24,719
Speaker 1: too just blue collar, hard working people. Um, don't really complain,

1334
01:17:24,760 --> 01:17:28,000
Speaker 1: don't make excuses. So that's and you know, that's kind

1335
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:31,600
Speaker 1: of how it started. And then my dad's kind of, um,

1336
01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:34,040
Speaker 1: you know, we'll always take me to the shoot or

1337
01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:36,920
Speaker 1: or you know work, you know, having do workouts and

1338
01:17:36,960 --> 01:17:38,800
Speaker 1: all that in the park, even though he didn't know

1339
01:17:38,960 --> 01:17:42,120
Speaker 1: he didn't really do basketball. He was a baseball guy. Um,

1340
01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:44,719
Speaker 1: but they just kept driving me. And my dad's always

1341
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:46,400
Speaker 1: told me, you know, you see the ball, go get it.

1342
01:17:46,479 --> 01:17:48,680
Speaker 1: You know, it just be the hardest working out, you know,

1343
01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:52,120
Speaker 1: a person out there. So some people, you know, they

1344
01:17:52,280 --> 01:17:55,599
Speaker 1: say it and it's like, okay, cool, Like I'm supposed

1345
01:17:55,600 --> 01:17:57,840
Speaker 1: to be the hardest working person. But when you see

1346
01:17:57,880 --> 01:18:00,479
Speaker 1: someone do it day in and day out, it you know,

1347
01:18:00,760 --> 01:18:03,040
Speaker 1: it rubs off on you. And that's really how I

1348
01:18:03,120 --> 01:18:06,240
Speaker 1: really started doing, you know, playing that hard and just

1349
01:18:06,600 --> 01:18:09,479
Speaker 1: having that mentality. And then growing up d way with

1350
01:18:09,560 --> 01:18:12,120
Speaker 1: my favorite player, so I used see you know, his

1351
01:18:12,200 --> 01:18:15,120
Speaker 1: will to win, like he he did, you know, anything

1352
01:18:15,160 --> 01:18:18,840
Speaker 1: he could. He scored, rebound, defendant, block shots, you know,

1353
01:18:18,840 --> 01:18:20,880
Speaker 1: I got steals that he did anything he could do,

1354
01:18:20,960 --> 01:18:23,519
Speaker 1: and that was really evident that O six finals where

1355
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:27,080
Speaker 1: he really carried that team to that uh that ring.

1356
01:18:27,439 --> 01:18:30,479
Speaker 1: So that's what I saw growing up and then my

1357
01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:34,519
Speaker 1: Au team takeover was. You know, my coach was hard

1358
01:18:34,560 --> 01:18:36,040
Speaker 1: on me, cursing and me all the time. My high

1359
01:18:36,040 --> 01:18:38,760
Speaker 1: school coach is tough, cursing at me, Coach Wright, you

1360
01:18:38,760 --> 01:18:41,120
Speaker 1: know it drives you and curses at you so like

1361
01:18:41,400 --> 01:18:44,000
Speaker 1: I always had that chip on my shoulder, and even

1362
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:46,000
Speaker 1: if I ever slipped up a little bit, you know

1363
01:18:46,040 --> 01:18:47,559
Speaker 1: one of my coaches would be there to call me

1364
01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:51,400
Speaker 1: out on it. When you say d Wade, he's obviously

1365
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:54,040
Speaker 1: you know, he's saying he's retired, although he's had games

1366
01:18:54,040 --> 01:18:56,040
Speaker 1: that year were like you could do another year, but

1367
01:18:56,520 --> 01:18:59,200
Speaker 1: it seems like he's done. What is it like for

1368
01:18:59,240 --> 01:19:02,479
Speaker 1: you to to get on the court with somebody that

1369
01:19:02,520 --> 01:19:04,600
Speaker 1: means that much to you, to get out there and

1370
01:19:04,600 --> 01:19:06,880
Speaker 1: be like, I gotta bust this guy's ass. I gotta

1371
01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:09,200
Speaker 1: shut him down. I know his moves. I know he's

1372
01:19:09,240 --> 01:19:12,120
Speaker 1: gonna do this step back, Like what is that? Is

1373
01:19:12,120 --> 01:19:14,320
Speaker 1: it surreal when you're out there playing against people that

1374
01:19:14,360 --> 01:19:17,080
Speaker 1: really mean that much to you? Um? Yeah it is.

1375
01:19:17,280 --> 01:19:22,160
Speaker 1: Uh So, Like my first NBA start was last last year,

1376
01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:26,400
Speaker 1: like last December. Um, we were playing Cleveland and Cleveland

1377
01:19:26,439 --> 01:19:28,639
Speaker 1: so that we're playing d Wade. We were playing bron

1378
01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:31,960
Speaker 1: when he was there and that was my first time

1379
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:34,559
Speaker 1: I was ever starting doing all that. So I'm like

1380
01:19:34,640 --> 01:19:36,559
Speaker 1: starting on them, and I'm just like, you know, this

1381
01:19:36,640 --> 01:19:39,840
Speaker 1: is crazy, Like this is this is really wild. And

1382
01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:43,000
Speaker 1: when you walked out for the jump all had that

1383
01:19:43,040 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 1: been the first time you met d Wade. I met

1384
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:47,080
Speaker 1: him before, and it was and it was really cool

1385
01:19:47,160 --> 01:19:49,080
Speaker 1: and I but it was just like there's a difference

1386
01:19:49,080 --> 01:19:51,840
Speaker 1: between meeting him playing like pick up them, you know,

1387
01:19:51,960 --> 01:19:54,320
Speaker 1: the the suiting up in the NBA game, you know,

1388
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:57,760
Speaker 1: and that was crazy. But I think it was the

1389
01:19:57,920 --> 01:20:01,360
Speaker 1: time I really felt it. How it was really severe

1390
01:20:01,439 --> 01:20:04,080
Speaker 1: was this past year. His last game is Stables. Obviously

1391
01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:06,679
Speaker 1: you had the whole you know, him and Lebron last

1392
01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:10,479
Speaker 1: game against each other. Um, and you know, obviously I'm

1393
01:20:10,479 --> 01:20:12,360
Speaker 1: cool with him and I have a relationship with him,

1394
01:20:12,400 --> 01:20:14,479
Speaker 1: and I remember at the end of the game, I

1395
01:20:14,520 --> 01:20:17,120
Speaker 1: think Kyle says something to me. He's like, stay down

1396
01:20:17,120 --> 01:20:19,240
Speaker 1: on the shot, fike or something, because that's all the day,

1397
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:21,800
Speaker 1: step back shot fake, try to get the foul. And

1398
01:20:21,800 --> 01:20:23,920
Speaker 1: I just says, and I'm guarding the Rays right next

1399
01:20:23,960 --> 01:20:25,600
Speaker 1: to me, and I'm just saying, I'm like, man, I

1400
01:20:25,600 --> 01:20:27,640
Speaker 1: wanted to do for not that my whole childhood. I

1401
01:20:27,680 --> 01:20:29,160
Speaker 1: know what I know exactly what the hell are you

1402
01:20:29,200 --> 01:20:32,439
Speaker 1: gonna do? So and he, you know, he hears that

1403
01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:36,120
Speaker 1: he's and he started saying I forgot what he said back. Um,

1404
01:20:36,160 --> 01:20:37,640
Speaker 1: but I think that was like the moment I was,

1405
01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:39,720
Speaker 1: I was really seeing him like this is really did

1406
01:20:39,720 --> 01:20:41,479
Speaker 1: you stay down on the shot fake? Yeah? I just

1407
01:20:41,520 --> 01:20:44,160
Speaker 1: stayed on the shot fake, So I was I was good. Um,

1408
01:20:44,560 --> 01:20:46,040
Speaker 1: but that was like the moment I'm just saying it

1409
01:20:46,120 --> 01:20:47,760
Speaker 1: like like this is crazy, like this was you know,

1410
01:20:47,800 --> 01:20:49,800
Speaker 1: my idols was the reason why I wear the number

1411
01:20:49,840 --> 01:20:52,040
Speaker 1: I war, the reason why I play as hard as

1412
01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:54,600
Speaker 1: I play, you know, and then this, you know, this

1413
01:20:54,680 --> 01:20:56,559
Speaker 1: is my last game on playing against them, I'm able

1414
01:20:56,600 --> 01:20:58,920
Speaker 1: to you know, guarden him for most of the game

1415
01:20:58,960 --> 01:21:00,960
Speaker 1: and do that. So it was the what what what's

1416
01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:04,880
Speaker 1: another memory from from last season where you were out

1417
01:21:04,960 --> 01:21:08,439
Speaker 1: there on the court or you know, playing against somebody

1418
01:21:08,439 --> 01:21:10,840
Speaker 1: that you you respected and you know that and you're

1419
01:21:10,840 --> 01:21:15,280
Speaker 1: actually out there on him. Katie, Katie, I remember we

1420
01:21:15,280 --> 01:21:19,960
Speaker 1: were playing, Uh we were playing at home. Uh, and

1421
01:21:20,040 --> 01:21:22,200
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what happened. Think b I got hurt

1422
01:21:22,880 --> 01:21:27,160
Speaker 1: so and you don't know, Katie, says he's six eleven,

1423
01:21:27,200 --> 01:21:30,680
Speaker 1: but he's definitely a seven Footer's definitely seven foot I

1424
01:21:30,720 --> 01:21:32,200
Speaker 1: don't know why he doesn't want to be a footer,

1425
01:21:32,320 --> 01:21:34,840
Speaker 1: but I think it's good for his legacy to be

1426
01:21:34,880 --> 01:21:39,520
Speaker 1: seven because he's so he's so nasty and so disrespectful,

1427
01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:43,080
Speaker 1: and like what he does gets taken for granted because

1428
01:21:43,080 --> 01:21:45,680
Speaker 1: there's no highlights. Also, he dropped forty one against the

1429
01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:48,360
Speaker 1: Clippers the other day. It was like it wasn't even nothing.

1430
01:21:48,680 --> 01:21:51,680
Speaker 1: There's no dunks, there's really no There's some crossovers, but

1431
01:21:51,720 --> 01:21:55,000
Speaker 1: no one's fallen. Like I I think he should like

1432
01:21:55,000 --> 01:21:59,840
Speaker 1: start saying he's seven one. So I gets hurt. B

1433
01:22:00,120 --> 01:22:01,800
Speaker 1: was guarding him, so I'm in the game. I going

1434
01:22:01,840 --> 01:22:04,360
Speaker 1: I stepped in for B. I. So I think it's

1435
01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:08,040
Speaker 1: like I think Alonzo or k cps and or something

1436
01:22:08,360 --> 01:22:12,000
Speaker 1: that we have Julius Rand or Kyle Kuzman. So somehow

1437
01:22:12,160 --> 01:22:14,960
Speaker 1: my ass ends up on guarding KD, getting massed up

1438
01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:17,160
Speaker 1: with k D. I'm seeing Hi, I'm like, I'm six five.

1439
01:22:17,479 --> 01:22:20,559
Speaker 1: This dude is at least seven ft a bucket, a

1440
01:22:20,600 --> 01:22:22,759
Speaker 1: walking bucket, wherever the hell he is on the court.

1441
01:22:23,320 --> 01:22:25,280
Speaker 1: So I think like the first three plays and like

1442
01:22:25,360 --> 01:22:28,600
Speaker 1: I knew him just from growing up being the same area.

1443
01:22:29,320 --> 01:22:31,559
Speaker 1: The first three players I get on him, he roasts

1444
01:22:31,560 --> 01:22:33,960
Speaker 1: my ass and I think I'm playing good defense. He's

1445
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:37,680
Speaker 1: doing fade away, fade away, one legged, uh, you know,

1446
01:22:37,760 --> 01:22:40,439
Speaker 1: mid range all on thatt. I'm just sitting there like,

1447
01:22:41,160 --> 01:22:43,000
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, this is cool. I'm playing against

1448
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:45,559
Speaker 1: the dude you know from the same area and all that.

1449
01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:48,640
Speaker 1: But he is torching my ass. So that that was

1450
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:51,880
Speaker 1: probably one of the other moments that I was just like, damn,

1451
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:55,519
Speaker 1: this is cool, but he's busting my hands one on

1452
01:22:55,640 --> 01:22:58,320
Speaker 1: offense right now. Oh, that's probably one of the other ones.

1453
01:22:58,640 --> 01:23:01,320
Speaker 1: Who's the biggest trash car in the NBA right now?

1454
01:23:01,680 --> 01:23:04,320
Speaker 1: Because the iron rap per Stereo Pockets is a ship

1455
01:23:04,320 --> 01:23:08,080
Speaker 1: talking extravagant who who who won't shut up? Obviously Draymond

1456
01:23:08,439 --> 01:23:10,920
Speaker 1: whether he's talking to himself, I mean, what is he

1457
01:23:11,040 --> 01:23:15,120
Speaker 1: saying out there? Who is he talking to everybody? Himself? Anybody?

1458
01:23:15,560 --> 01:23:18,320
Speaker 1: He's like the ghost of Kevin Garnett's So for us,

1459
01:23:18,400 --> 01:23:21,320
Speaker 1: it's always funny because obviously, um, I haven't been on

1460
01:23:21,360 --> 01:23:24,680
Speaker 1: any team but the Lakers, but it's it's hilarious when

1461
01:23:24,680 --> 01:23:27,560
Speaker 1: we play them. Because you know, well we kind of

1462
01:23:27,640 --> 01:23:29,840
Speaker 1: let him shoot. We back off and play, you know,

1463
01:23:30,320 --> 01:23:33,680
Speaker 1: try to uh you know, stop Steph and Katie and

1464
01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:36,320
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So we and a lot of teams

1465
01:23:36,439 --> 01:23:39,000
Speaker 1: let him shoot. So we have Luke wall And who

1466
01:23:39,080 --> 01:23:41,200
Speaker 1: used to be a coach at the Golden States, So

1467
01:23:41,240 --> 01:23:43,639
Speaker 1: I guess him and Draymond used to like shoot shoot

1468
01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:47,200
Speaker 1: shots together and stuff like that. So whenever we played

1469
01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:50,920
Speaker 1: him and he makes a shot, oh, he immediately starts

1470
01:23:51,200 --> 01:23:53,840
Speaker 1: looks at the bench, starts talking ship to Luke too,

1471
01:23:54,000 --> 01:23:56,200
Speaker 1: and starts talking shipped to be shall one of our

1472
01:23:56,200 --> 01:24:00,920
Speaker 1: associates are one of our other coaches, So that makes sense. Yeah,

1473
01:24:00,960 --> 01:24:04,640
Speaker 1: so hef th he loves it. He loves it. And

1474
01:24:04,880 --> 01:24:07,599
Speaker 1: I would ask Luke about it, and I'll say something

1475
01:24:07,600 --> 01:24:10,479
Speaker 1: about Luke, you know, like how was it? Like he

1476
01:24:10,600 --> 01:24:12,720
Speaker 1: was like I loved it? He like can we go in?

1477
01:24:12,920 --> 01:24:15,800
Speaker 1: He'll curse me out literally every day. But like when

1478
01:24:15,840 --> 01:24:17,720
Speaker 1: you see him, like just watch when we played him

1479
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:19,559
Speaker 1: next time, if he makes you three and he's like

1480
01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:21,479
Speaker 1: wide open, no one guard him, He's gonna look at

1481
01:24:21,520 --> 01:24:25,040
Speaker 1: the bench and immediately start talking ship. He needs it.

1482
01:24:25,240 --> 01:24:27,559
Speaker 1: He needs it, he needs he like it, doesn't he

1483
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:31,080
Speaker 1: doesn't do it. He doesn't do it to talk tracks

1484
01:24:31,120 --> 01:24:32,760
Speaker 1: to the other guy. I think he really does it

1485
01:24:32,840 --> 01:24:36,320
Speaker 1: to fuel himself. I think he did it the other

1486
01:24:36,400 --> 01:24:38,719
Speaker 1: day and I was like, he was talking to somebody.

1487
01:24:38,760 --> 01:24:41,120
Speaker 1: I was like, this is not a show like he's

1488
01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:43,479
Speaker 1: this is like eating cereals. He'll do it to like

1489
01:24:43,520 --> 01:24:45,519
Speaker 1: a like a random dude that's just like a bench

1490
01:24:45,560 --> 01:24:48,880
Speaker 1: woman that that's nobody really that he might that might

1491
01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:50,960
Speaker 1: have nothing to do, but nothing but anything. He's like,

1492
01:24:51,200 --> 01:24:56,800
Speaker 1: I need this. Who else in the NBA is a talker? Um?

1493
01:24:57,000 --> 01:25:03,120
Speaker 1: Pat bev? Wait? Second? What the fuck was going on?

1494
01:25:04,240 --> 01:25:08,080
Speaker 1: Pat Beverley? Alonzo balls first game? That could be a

1495
01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:12,280
Speaker 1: thirty for thirty short? Yeah, what is it true? Or

1496
01:25:12,320 --> 01:25:14,960
Speaker 1: did you witness Pat Beverley going at him in the

1497
01:25:14,960 --> 01:25:17,720
Speaker 1: locker room by the by the thing? No no, no no,

1498
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:20,160
Speaker 1: are you talking about the one with CP when we

1499
01:25:20,160 --> 01:25:22,639
Speaker 1: had no no, no, no, no no, I'm talking about

1500
01:25:22,640 --> 01:25:26,880
Speaker 1: Pat Beverly. He didn't do nothing like that, But you

1501
01:25:26,960 --> 01:25:30,480
Speaker 1: just knew because I think I think it all started.

1502
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:34,320
Speaker 1: I think someone asked LaVar about like Alonzo and Steph

1503
01:25:34,360 --> 01:25:36,680
Speaker 1: Curry or something like that, and I think, you know,

1504
01:25:36,760 --> 01:25:41,040
Speaker 1: LaVar said, whatever, whatever the bar says, and Pat Bev

1505
01:25:41,520 --> 01:25:44,599
Speaker 1: tweets I think, like quote tweet or something. It was like, oh,

1506
01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:46,360
Speaker 1: he got his first game with me first, or he

1507
01:25:46,400 --> 01:25:49,160
Speaker 1: said something like that, and I saw that, me and

1508
01:25:49,360 --> 01:25:51,360
Speaker 1: me and Kusa and I should and we looked at

1509
01:25:51,360 --> 01:25:53,680
Speaker 1: each other and we were like, oh shit, Like like

1510
01:25:53,760 --> 01:25:56,280
Speaker 1: Pat Bev, you know, he's a little junkyard dog shit

1511
01:25:56,400 --> 01:26:00,639
Speaker 1: talk and all that. That's it's exactly what you think, right,

1512
01:26:01,080 --> 01:26:06,439
Speaker 1: So his first game, that was great, picking up full core.

1513
01:26:07,040 --> 01:26:09,400
Speaker 1: You know, you can tell he doesn't he doesn't want, though,

1514
01:26:09,439 --> 01:26:12,120
Speaker 1: to get this ball past half core. He's going for

1515
01:26:12,240 --> 01:26:17,200
Speaker 1: every stale, playing physical, and I'm saying him, like for

1516
01:26:17,200 --> 01:26:19,760
Speaker 1: for this guy to be scrutinized as much as he

1517
01:26:19,920 --> 01:26:23,040
Speaker 1: is criticized and much to have your first fucking NBA

1518
01:26:23,160 --> 01:26:26,920
Speaker 1: game against a pit bull like pet Bev like they like,

1519
01:26:27,360 --> 01:26:28,880
Speaker 1: it looked like they were just trying to set him

1520
01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:31,880
Speaker 1: up for failure because that ship was crazy. Were you like,

1521
01:26:32,200 --> 01:26:34,200
Speaker 1: holy sh it, I didn't know this was the like

1522
01:26:34,240 --> 01:26:37,320
Speaker 1: I mean, because that was so like extra extract and

1523
01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:39,400
Speaker 1: what do you mean? I think it's good, you know,

1524
01:26:39,479 --> 01:26:42,639
Speaker 1: I think that I think veterans should come at you guys.

1525
01:26:42,720 --> 01:26:44,200
Speaker 1: I think they should test you, you know, and I

1526
01:26:44,240 --> 01:26:46,080
Speaker 1: think there should be more that because some people were saying,

1527
01:26:46,080 --> 01:26:47,360
Speaker 1: why is he doing his work? I'm like, this is

1528
01:26:47,360 --> 01:26:50,599
Speaker 1: what the old NBA was, like, you should get knocked

1529
01:26:50,640 --> 01:26:53,639
Speaker 1: on your you guys get you can't get touched. It's

1530
01:26:53,680 --> 01:26:56,280
Speaker 1: so lack of days ago, Like the physicality is so

1531
01:26:56,400 --> 01:26:58,320
Speaker 1: taken out of the game. I was like, I got

1532
01:26:58,400 --> 01:27:01,360
Speaker 1: Pat Beverley Jersey because of that. Yeah, I mean, I wasn't.

1533
01:27:01,400 --> 01:27:03,640
Speaker 1: I wasn't playing. I was hurt that game and I

1534
01:27:03,720 --> 01:27:06,240
Speaker 1: was I'm on the sideline and I'm I'm le's on.

1535
01:27:06,479 --> 01:27:09,360
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, like ship, like he's at his neck

1536
01:27:09,479 --> 01:27:11,680
Speaker 1: right now. But I mean, for though it was, it

1537
01:27:11,800 --> 01:27:13,679
Speaker 1: was probably one of the best things he could do

1538
01:27:13,800 --> 01:27:17,479
Speaker 1: because he he didn't didn't play that. He ended up

1539
01:27:17,520 --> 01:27:20,759
Speaker 1: not really playing that well. But to have your first

1540
01:27:20,800 --> 01:27:23,720
Speaker 1: game against some ship like that, you know, okay, like no,

1541
01:27:23,960 --> 01:27:26,439
Speaker 1: like it can only go up from here like like

1542
01:27:26,640 --> 01:27:29,160
Speaker 1: and did not many times. You're gonna you're gonna be

1543
01:27:29,160 --> 01:27:31,880
Speaker 1: playing against the pitbull like like Pat Bev. You know,

1544
01:27:32,000 --> 01:27:34,639
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. You have like the Steph Curries,

1545
01:27:34,720 --> 01:27:37,640
Speaker 1: the Russell Westbrooks, you know, a CPS, you know, the

1546
01:27:37,720 --> 01:27:42,640
Speaker 1: great point guards, but you know pet Bevan just you know,

1547
01:27:42,720 --> 01:27:45,320
Speaker 1: he's just different. He's like he's like what Tony Allen

1548
01:27:45,439 --> 01:27:48,840
Speaker 1: was for like for for wings is it was good

1549
01:27:48,880 --> 01:27:51,040
Speaker 1: for him though? At all the players you just met,

1550
01:27:51,200 --> 01:27:54,439
Speaker 1: Steph you mentioned k D You you deal with the

1551
01:27:54,520 --> 01:27:59,479
Speaker 1: nastiest dude, James Harden, Uh, Kyrie. You know your peers,

1552
01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:03,000
Speaker 1: the older ones, all that stuff. If I say tomorrow

1553
01:28:03,040 --> 01:28:05,840
Speaker 1: you're playing against this person, who would be the one

1554
01:28:05,880 --> 01:28:07,680
Speaker 1: where you go, I gotta make sure I get some

1555
01:28:07,760 --> 01:28:10,040
Speaker 1: sleep extra sleep tonight, Like who's the one like thus

1556
01:28:10,120 --> 01:28:13,360
Speaker 1: far in your career that's James Harden? Why just because

1557
01:28:13,479 --> 01:28:16,000
Speaker 1: one you can't you can't touch him if you touch

1558
01:28:16,080 --> 01:28:18,840
Speaker 1: him as a foul? Is it just him? It is he?

1559
01:28:19,120 --> 01:28:21,800
Speaker 1: Or is it his style of play? Um? I think

1560
01:28:21,800 --> 01:28:26,120
Speaker 1: it's just him. Is he moving fast? Because to me

1561
01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:29,040
Speaker 1: it's a fans No, he's not. It's not really, He's

1562
01:28:29,080 --> 01:28:32,160
Speaker 1: just he's not the most athletic, he's not the quicker,

1563
01:28:32,200 --> 01:28:35,120
Speaker 1: is not the fastest, but he just knows how. He's

1564
01:28:35,120 --> 01:28:37,040
Speaker 1: just shifty. He knows how to get to where he

1565
01:28:37,080 --> 01:28:39,519
Speaker 1: wants to go. So I think that's the biggest thing.

1566
01:28:39,560 --> 01:28:46,920
Speaker 1: And he he kind of um really uses the rules

1567
01:28:46,920 --> 01:28:50,040
Speaker 1: to his advantage because he knows. He knows. Oh, if

1568
01:28:50,080 --> 01:28:51,720
Speaker 1: I drive, this guy's hands is gonna be here. So

1569
01:28:51,760 --> 01:28:53,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just I'm gonna just rip through his hands.

1570
01:28:53,960 --> 01:28:56,360
Speaker 1: I know, like I have no chance of making the shot,

1571
01:28:56,360 --> 01:28:58,320
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna just rip through this ship. And I

1572
01:28:58,360 --> 01:29:01,559
Speaker 1: know I'm probably gonna get a foul. So it's that's

1573
01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:04,160
Speaker 1: the That's like the toughest one. Like I you know,

1574
01:29:04,360 --> 01:29:09,320
Speaker 1: Katie is one of the greatest scorers ever. Steph Clay

1575
01:29:09,600 --> 01:29:15,360
Speaker 1: run around NonStop. But but James is just it's different. Um,

1576
01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:19,640
Speaker 1: what arena? Obviously you're from Maryland. Uh, John Walla is

1577
01:29:19,680 --> 01:29:23,240
Speaker 1: probably not the funnest person to chase around. What arena?

1578
01:29:23,520 --> 01:29:27,080
Speaker 1: Um has been your favorite outside of Staples to play it?

1579
01:29:27,240 --> 01:29:29,560
Speaker 1: Or like the most impressive where the fans are? You?

1580
01:29:29,640 --> 01:29:32,559
Speaker 1: Probably played in Washington, you know, in college stuff, But

1581
01:29:32,600 --> 01:29:36,439
Speaker 1: like what NBA game on the road where you're like, well, ship,

1582
01:29:36,600 --> 01:29:39,680
Speaker 1: this is this is cool? Um, you know I'm from

1583
01:29:39,720 --> 01:29:43,519
Speaker 1: New York. Yeah, I don't really most famous arena, I

1584
01:29:43,560 --> 01:29:45,639
Speaker 1: don't really. I don't really remember playing in the Garden

1585
01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:47,640
Speaker 1: too much because I don't think I really played that

1586
01:29:47,760 --> 01:29:50,360
Speaker 1: much in that game. My ass was sitting down, So

1587
01:29:50,400 --> 01:29:51,960
Speaker 1: I was I was kind of off of it. Did

1588
01:29:51,960 --> 01:29:54,080
Speaker 1: you play there in bigg East? With playing in bigg

1589
01:29:54,080 --> 01:29:55,880
Speaker 1: East and I loved it? Oh my god, I love

1590
01:29:56,000 --> 01:29:59,200
Speaker 1: playing and MSG. That's one of the because I you know,

1591
01:29:59,240 --> 01:30:01,320
Speaker 1: how did when you go that everything else around it

1592
01:30:01,320 --> 01:30:03,479
Speaker 1: it's kind of like stables everything around it's dark and

1593
01:30:03,520 --> 01:30:06,719
Speaker 1: like the court is like all all the lights around

1594
01:30:06,720 --> 01:30:09,120
Speaker 1: the court, and it's like it really has like the

1595
01:30:09,200 --> 01:30:10,680
Speaker 1: sense like all the lights are on you all the

1596
01:30:10,720 --> 01:30:13,479
Speaker 1: spot like go ahead and make a name for yourself.

1597
01:30:13,520 --> 01:30:17,200
Speaker 1: That's really how uh you know, uh not stable. That's

1598
01:30:17,200 --> 01:30:20,640
Speaker 1: really how MSG is so growing. Like playing there in

1599
01:30:20,720 --> 01:30:23,960
Speaker 1: college there was no no arena. I love playing more

1600
01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:28,639
Speaker 1: than the MSG. Um. So I mean this year I'll

1601
01:30:28,640 --> 01:30:30,960
Speaker 1: probably feel that way. Um, but I mean at least

1602
01:30:31,080 --> 01:30:34,760
Speaker 1: last year, okay see was crazy? Is it? Is it

1603
01:30:34,880 --> 01:30:37,519
Speaker 1: hyping there? It's hyping there and people think like, okay,

1604
01:30:37,520 --> 01:30:41,360
Speaker 1: see really like their fan base because thinks you have

1605
01:30:41,800 --> 01:30:44,639
Speaker 1: you're in Oklahoma City. You have nothing else to rule

1606
01:30:44,760 --> 01:30:49,120
Speaker 1: for nothing, No other sports team is in like hundreds

1607
01:30:49,120 --> 01:30:52,200
Speaker 1: of miles of where Oklahoma City is. Um, well you

1608
01:30:52,240 --> 01:30:54,479
Speaker 1: have like you have the college football teams, but that's

1609
01:30:54,520 --> 01:30:57,559
Speaker 1: about it. You don't have another basketball team. You don't

1610
01:30:57,600 --> 01:31:00,680
Speaker 1: have um, you have Kansas City Pro Football team, but

1611
01:31:00,680 --> 01:31:04,200
Speaker 1: like that's that's there. So it's really all about Oklahoma

1612
01:31:04,240 --> 01:31:09,360
Speaker 1: City Thunder. So you go there, it's sold out every game.

1613
01:31:09,920 --> 01:31:11,880
Speaker 1: It's a loud we played, we had a we had

1614
01:31:11,880 --> 01:31:14,040
Speaker 1: a close game with them, and it was just loud.

1615
01:31:14,080 --> 01:31:16,519
Speaker 1: It was a lecture. It was fun to play. That's

1616
01:31:16,560 --> 01:31:19,120
Speaker 1: probably that's probably one of my you know, favorite one

1617
01:31:19,200 --> 01:31:22,160
Speaker 1: just because the crowd is going too. It um, one

1618
01:31:22,200 --> 01:31:24,880
Speaker 1: of my favorite things that has been said this year.

1619
01:31:25,400 --> 01:31:27,720
Speaker 1: You said it, um, and it goes back to the

1620
01:31:27,720 --> 01:31:31,120
Speaker 1: Tennessee to which you play. When Lebron went down, you

1621
01:31:31,160 --> 01:31:36,880
Speaker 1: said some paraphrase of we're not scared. Um, where is

1622
01:31:36,920 --> 01:31:40,479
Speaker 1: that coming from? In you? And like going through uh

1623
01:31:40,640 --> 01:31:42,880
Speaker 1: to two part questions, where is that coming from? That

1624
01:31:42,960 --> 01:31:45,400
Speaker 1: you're not scared? Because I believe that with you, you know,

1625
01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:47,200
Speaker 1: and I believe that with all you guys. But like

1626
01:31:47,280 --> 01:31:49,960
Speaker 1: I was like, good telling me not scared because you know,

1627
01:31:50,200 --> 01:31:52,920
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm gonna openly I talked about Lebron.

1628
01:31:53,200 --> 01:31:55,360
Speaker 1: I can never disrespect anything that has to do with

1629
01:31:55,400 --> 01:31:58,400
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson. I adore him so much, Like I love

1630
01:31:58,520 --> 01:32:01,880
Speaker 1: that guy. Um, he means so much to me, so

1631
01:32:01,920 --> 01:32:04,400
Speaker 1: he's softened me for my you know, otherwise I'd be

1632
01:32:04,400 --> 01:32:07,439
Speaker 1: a little tougher on on Lebron. But because I love

1633
01:32:07,520 --> 01:32:09,400
Speaker 1: him so much, is always gonna be like a line

1634
01:32:09,400 --> 01:32:11,679
Speaker 1: and one cross. But where is that coming from? Because

1635
01:32:11,720 --> 01:32:13,720
Speaker 1: I believe it with you, I believe it with cous

1636
01:32:13,760 --> 01:32:16,240
Speaker 1: I believe Alonzo is not scared. Like but you know,

1637
01:32:16,280 --> 01:32:19,160
Speaker 1: you guys, are you know this the greatest player? Um,

1638
01:32:19,200 --> 01:32:20,920
Speaker 1: even though you lost the two games, like you know,

1639
01:32:20,960 --> 01:32:22,639
Speaker 1: there were close games that could have went either way.

1640
01:32:22,680 --> 01:32:25,559
Speaker 1: Where is that coming from? Yeah? So I mean with us.

1641
01:32:26,520 --> 01:32:30,960
Speaker 1: You know, no matter what team Lebron, Lebron's on the narratives,

1642
01:32:30,960 --> 01:32:34,360
Speaker 1: always it was Lebron and the Lakers and stuff like that,

1643
01:32:34,680 --> 01:32:36,599
Speaker 1: Lebron and the young Core, And it's like, don't get

1644
01:32:36,600 --> 01:32:38,799
Speaker 1: me wrong, obviously, Lebron is one of the greatest players

1645
01:32:38,840 --> 01:32:41,040
Speaker 1: have to play the game, the best player playing right now.

1646
01:32:41,360 --> 01:32:43,280
Speaker 1: But it's like, man, fun that, like we can play too,

1647
01:32:43,400 --> 01:32:45,920
Speaker 1: like ship be I can hoop? Coops can hoop's okn hoop?

1648
01:32:45,960 --> 01:32:47,439
Speaker 1: I can who you know, we gotta dudes, I can

1649
01:32:47,479 --> 01:32:50,599
Speaker 1: hoop you see, you know the big dude Visa Zuba.

1650
01:32:50,760 --> 01:32:52,840
Speaker 1: You know, he was wasn't playing the whole the whole

1651
01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:59,160
Speaker 1: they're talking statutes, and then he starts playing like three

1652
01:32:59,240 --> 01:33:01,920
Speaker 1: or four days games ago, and he's over there, you know,

1653
01:33:02,280 --> 01:33:05,679
Speaker 1: getting double doubles and you know, adding like eight teen points,

1654
01:33:05,720 --> 01:33:09,080
Speaker 1: like ten rebounds. So I'm I'm saying anything like we

1655
01:33:09,120 --> 01:33:12,280
Speaker 1: can fucking hoot like this, Like obviously, you know Bron,

1656
01:33:12,360 --> 01:33:13,720
Speaker 1: we don't want Bron to be here and we don't

1657
01:33:13,760 --> 01:33:16,120
Speaker 1: want to miss game. But she's like, if he's out,

1658
01:33:16,400 --> 01:33:19,120
Speaker 1: we're not skipping a b that's just more opportunity for

1659
01:33:19,200 --> 01:33:21,680
Speaker 1: us to go out there to hoop. And it's just

1660
01:33:21,720 --> 01:33:25,919
Speaker 1: to show that like it's not just Lebron and the Lakers,

1661
01:33:25,960 --> 01:33:28,519
Speaker 1: like we we can hoot. What what has been the

1662
01:33:28,560 --> 01:33:31,280
Speaker 1: deal with the team because uh, you know, there's been

1663
01:33:31,360 --> 01:33:34,880
Speaker 1: inconsistencies and like to you like just in basketball, like

1664
01:33:35,720 --> 01:33:38,439
Speaker 1: how like when you when you guys it's still early

1665
01:33:38,439 --> 01:33:40,360
Speaker 1: in the season, but it ain't that early, especially in

1666
01:33:40,360 --> 01:33:43,759
Speaker 1: the Western Conference. What is the what needs to happen

1667
01:33:43,800 --> 01:33:47,479
Speaker 1: with the Lakers to can stay consistent? Like like when

1668
01:33:47,520 --> 01:33:49,800
Speaker 1: you guys talk about we need to get back on

1669
01:33:49,880 --> 01:33:52,120
Speaker 1: defense or we need to run or not run, because

1670
01:33:52,160 --> 01:33:54,439
Speaker 1: like there's a discussion should we run a lot, but

1671
01:33:54,600 --> 01:33:57,320
Speaker 1: Lebron is not traditionally like a running player, like he

1672
01:33:57,360 --> 01:33:59,400
Speaker 1: holds a ball, Like, what is the what do you

1673
01:33:59,400 --> 01:34:02,680
Speaker 1: think is the key basketball thing when everybody's healthy for

1674
01:34:02,720 --> 01:34:05,559
Speaker 1: you guys to reach your potential? Because, believe it or not,

1675
01:34:05,760 --> 01:34:08,600
Speaker 1: even me, the biggest Lebron ship talker, I want to

1676
01:34:08,640 --> 01:34:10,759
Speaker 1: see the Lakers and the and the Golden State Warriors

1677
01:34:10,760 --> 01:34:12,800
Speaker 1: in the Western Conference finals, Like I want to see

1678
01:34:12,840 --> 01:34:15,960
Speaker 1: that happen. And I want to see Magic win a championship,

1679
01:34:16,560 --> 01:34:20,160
Speaker 1: not necessarily before my knicks. It's far fetch, it's far fetched,

1680
01:34:20,320 --> 01:34:22,479
Speaker 1: but I want to see. I love him so much

1681
01:34:22,479 --> 01:34:24,080
Speaker 1: that I want to see that. So what needs to

1682
01:34:24,120 --> 01:34:27,120
Speaker 1: happen basketball watch for this team this year to reach

1683
01:34:27,120 --> 01:34:30,040
Speaker 1: its potential consistently? Yeah? For us, I think it would

1684
01:34:30,040 --> 01:34:33,080
Speaker 1: be kind of like the maturity and the attention to

1685
01:34:33,200 --> 01:34:35,800
Speaker 1: detailed aspect of it. What does that mean? Maturity? Have

1686
01:34:36,080 --> 01:34:38,240
Speaker 1: we have? Like the talent we you know to win

1687
01:34:38,320 --> 01:34:41,320
Speaker 1: games and be successful in this league? But you know

1688
01:34:42,040 --> 01:34:45,519
Speaker 1: when you know the maturity and attendive detail aspect is

1689
01:34:45,600 --> 01:34:48,680
Speaker 1: doing it for eighty two games, doing it every possession

1690
01:34:49,120 --> 01:34:53,960
Speaker 1: because you see you like like Sacramento were you have

1691
01:34:54,000 --> 01:34:55,920
Speaker 1: a lead in the fourth, you know that gets walked

1692
01:34:55,920 --> 01:34:59,240
Speaker 1: down and that were up to with three seconds or

1693
01:34:59,280 --> 01:35:01,920
Speaker 1: whatever it was when in bound the ball um and

1694
01:35:01,960 --> 01:35:03,880
Speaker 1: they make a shot and you know about to beat

1695
01:35:03,880 --> 01:35:06,960
Speaker 1: it to beat us. But it wasn't just that shot

1696
01:35:07,040 --> 01:35:08,880
Speaker 1: that called you know, that calls us to lose. It

1697
01:35:09,000 --> 01:35:11,240
Speaker 1: was you know, I didn't get the read. I didn't

1698
01:35:11,720 --> 01:35:14,240
Speaker 1: um stop your mind shopper, you know, from getting one

1699
01:35:14,240 --> 01:35:16,439
Speaker 1: of the offensive rebound you know, when they tied the

1700
01:35:16,479 --> 01:35:19,519
Speaker 1: game up. So it's like this, those little plays. If

1701
01:35:19,560 --> 01:35:23,000
Speaker 1: we figure out, you know, and we we are locked

1702
01:35:23,040 --> 01:35:26,040
Speaker 1: in on every play and realize that every possession counts,

1703
01:35:26,280 --> 01:35:31,360
Speaker 1: then that's when you know, we can really make a

1704
01:35:31,360 --> 01:35:33,000
Speaker 1: lot of noise in this league. We can still make

1705
01:35:33,040 --> 01:35:35,240
Speaker 1: it now, but that's what we have to really grow

1706
01:35:35,320 --> 01:35:39,720
Speaker 1: up to. And I think part of that is um

1707
01:35:39,760 --> 01:35:43,280
Speaker 1: being young. You know, it's those twenty b I just

1708
01:35:43,320 --> 01:35:48,479
Speaker 1: turned one, you know, and you know, for yeah, I know,

1709
01:35:48,520 --> 01:35:52,439
Speaker 1: it's it's weird as hell, right, So third year, this

1710
01:35:52,520 --> 01:35:57,280
Speaker 1: is a third year, yeah exactly. So Um, for me,

1711
01:35:57,479 --> 01:36:00,600
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different because I played for you

1712
01:36:00,720 --> 01:36:03,000
Speaker 1: to college. But the other kids that came and came

1713
01:36:03,000 --> 01:36:06,920
Speaker 1: out of Couege for you know, three years. It's two

1714
01:36:06,960 --> 01:36:08,680
Speaker 1: years younger than me, Like what type of ship is that?

1715
01:36:08,960 --> 01:36:13,360
Speaker 1: And Alonzo's twenty Alonzo's twenty, so he does Zoe me

1716
01:36:13,479 --> 01:36:15,479
Speaker 1: and Zo can't even go to the club ago if

1717
01:36:15,479 --> 01:36:18,519
Speaker 1: we wanted to mean he might be able to get in,

1718
01:36:18,600 --> 01:36:22,080
Speaker 1: you know, because he's Alonzo, but you know you might have.

1719
01:36:22,400 --> 01:36:24,439
Speaker 1: You might see him at the bar, are trying with

1720
01:36:24,479 --> 01:36:26,360
Speaker 1: a fake idea or something like That's like he can't

1721
01:36:26,360 --> 01:36:30,280
Speaker 1: he's not even twenty one. He can't even drink. So um,

1722
01:36:30,400 --> 01:36:33,280
Speaker 1: I think once we figured that out, and it helps

1723
01:36:33,360 --> 01:36:38,120
Speaker 1: having Lebron Rondo and Tyson Chandler there because they really

1724
01:36:38,439 --> 01:36:40,960
Speaker 1: don't forget my man, javel j. It feels like he's

1725
01:36:41,000 --> 01:36:45,639
Speaker 1: been the league facts, but you know, having those vets

1726
01:36:45,680 --> 01:36:48,599
Speaker 1: there to kind of teach us those things, um, it's

1727
01:36:48,640 --> 01:36:51,040
Speaker 1: really good for us. So now it's now it's his

1728
01:36:51,160 --> 01:36:56,200
Speaker 1: time to really um you know, really get that get

1729
01:36:56,200 --> 01:36:59,080
Speaker 1: that attention detailed aspect going and really started to mature,

1730
01:36:59,400 --> 01:37:02,479
Speaker 1: you know in this league. All right, Josh Hart, I

1731
01:37:02,520 --> 01:37:05,519
Speaker 1: wish you nothing but luck with your career. Keep kicking ass,

1732
01:37:06,000 --> 01:37:08,800
Speaker 1: keep talking ship, keep telling these reporters to get out

1733
01:37:08,800 --> 01:37:12,599
Speaker 1: of your face. Stop questioning you and keep playing hard. Um,

1734
01:37:12,640 --> 01:37:16,400
Speaker 1: I'm a fan. I'm a Villanova fan, and uh you know,

1735
01:37:16,520 --> 01:37:19,120
Speaker 1: I'm a low key don't tell anybody, but I'm a

1736
01:37:19,160 --> 01:37:21,679
Speaker 1: low key Lakers fan. And and I want to see

1737
01:37:21,680 --> 01:37:25,160
Speaker 1: you guys driving and do good man. So I appreciate

1738
01:37:25,200 --> 01:37:31,040
Speaker 1: you coming on the Thank you all right. I want

1739
01:37:31,040 --> 01:37:33,840
Speaker 1: to thank Josh Hart for Rocket with the Best. I

1740
01:37:33,920 --> 01:37:38,840
Speaker 1: wish you a successful second half of your second year

1741
01:37:39,320 --> 01:37:44,679
Speaker 1: in the NBA and a successful career um going forward.

1742
01:37:44,880 --> 01:37:46,600
Speaker 1: I can't wait to have you back on the podcast.

1743
01:37:46,640 --> 01:37:52,599
Speaker 1: Continue kicking ass, continue playing ridiculously hard, and I'm root

1744
01:37:52,680 --> 01:37:55,640
Speaker 1: for these uh Los Angeles Lakers to do good. The

1745
01:37:55,720 --> 01:37:58,000
Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen A Sick of the Year Award has

1746
01:37:58,040 --> 01:38:00,200
Speaker 1: been given. We are here. It's two thousand nineteen for

1747
01:38:00,240 --> 01:38:05,200
Speaker 1: the final time. Happy new year. We plan on kicking

1748
01:38:05,240 --> 01:38:08,280
Speaker 1: more and more ass. Championship podcasting here at the Iron

1749
01:38:08,360 --> 01:38:14,200
Speaker 1: Rap Wars Stereo Podcast Championship podcasting all year long, can't stop,

1750
01:38:14,320 --> 01:38:17,400
Speaker 1: will not stop, on and onto the break of dawn,

1751
01:38:17,800 --> 01:38:21,080
Speaker 1: Miles Jordan's please take us out of here on this

1752
01:38:21,200 --> 01:38:25,879
Speaker 1: inaugural two thousand nineteen Iron Wrap Wars Stereo podcast episode

1753
01:38:25,880 --> 01:38:29,519
Speaker 1: with something real nice, some real proper, The most importantly,

1754
01:38:29,840 --> 01:38:38,680
Speaker 1: something real focus. I'm out.