WEBVTT - S2 Episode 1: Not Supposed to Be Here 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.960 Drafted is a production of tree Ford Media, Clutch Sports Group, 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:10.200 and I Heart Radio. Welcome to Drafted. I'm Keegan Michael Key, 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:17.840 and we're back with season two NBA Draft. In season one, 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:20.400 we followed eight elite college football players as they made 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.919 the leap from campus to the NFL. This season, we'll 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.720 hear the first hand personal experience of two of college 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:31.760 basketball's most elite prospects, the explosive Anthony Edwards, who started 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:36.640 at the University of Georgia. Away words, it's show talk 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:43.280 can go, Oh yeah, there's Edwards. Look here that fuf 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:48.280 Man and the University of Kentucky's Tyres Maxie, arguably the 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:57.680 most energetic, hardest working player in the draft. Draw fast, 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:03.600 this is your first game? Are you for Christope, Chilly? 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:09.400 You got a star. Anthony and Tyree's will mike themselves 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:11.800 up as they prepare for the draft and tell their 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.120 own stories, giving us a wrong, honest look and what 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.479 it takes to go from childhood dreamer to college star 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.880 to being chosen as one of only four hundred and 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:26.520 fifty NBA players in the world. And this season we'll 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.920 go even further behind the scenes with unprecedented access to 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.399 their agents, Clutch Sports Group founder and CEO Rich Paul. 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:35.840 Somebody can say, what do you think about a hundred 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.400 million dollars and only ten million of it is guaranteed? 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:40.840 So what are you talking about? And their new head 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.240 of basketball Omar Wilkes the Warriors, asking if the Wolves 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.800 have said anything, what Charlotte's thinking? Are there trades? It's 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.120 all a game of chess. We'll hear the inner workings 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.920 behind the multimillion dollar decisions. As it look, the money's 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.360 dried up. There's definitely not seventy million dollars out there 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.000 for you, and so that's a miss opportunity, if that 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.920 was even real. We're joining these players and their agents 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:09.160 at a truly unprecedented time. The college season and the 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.639 n C Double A Tournament were canceled because of the coronavirus. 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.120 This is the first year the tournament wasn't held since 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:22.200 its inception in nine For months, they couldn't participate in 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.760 scrimmages or even pick up games, and the NBA Draft 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:30.160 was postponed, not once, but twice. Like all of us, 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.600 they adjusted, But when you're a potential NBA lottery pick, 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.960 your new normal looks a little less normal than what 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:45.240 the rest of us experienced were one not down. Well, 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:50.079 that's all we got, sick. Let's do it. Let's do 0:02:50.160 --> 0:03:01.000 it man. This is where we find nineteen year old 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.880 Anthony Edwards, just a week before his life is about 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.920 to change forever, in the god Be Road gym on 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.400 the tough south side of Atlanta, working with his longtime trainer, 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:16.320 Justin Holland. Seven days, maybe a seven day come on 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:26.240 and Lord Ford knock it down, good good. Anthony is 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.960 being talked about as a top five pick and the 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.160 potential number one overall player in the draft. But the 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.560 truth is he shouldn't be not because he isn't the 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:40.960 most exceptional talent. He is, come number one, come lumber one. 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.160 He shouldn't be here because what it took for him 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:48.839 to get to this moment in this gym seems impossible. 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:57.080 Not just your job, it's literally your job for nine 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.800 and yet you've been doing it. Literally, get exit to 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.280 the deal whenever you want. Anthony didn't grow up with 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:08.040 unlimited gym access or many of the other resources available 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.880 to some prospects, and the odds of any child's NBA 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.760 dreams coming true are already staggering. About the same as 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:20.560 a kid wanting to become an astronaut and actually ending 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:25.640 up in zero graphy Roger on the next page, update, 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:29.320 Out of every ten thousand high school varsity basketball players, 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:34.480 roughly three seniors make it to draft night. Thousands and 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:39.080 thousands of incredibly talented athletes with strong support systems can't 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:43.360 get there, and Anthony faced more daunting challenges and bigger 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.400 obstacles than almost all of them. So how do you 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.359 do it when so many others can't? Why Anthony Edwards 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:55.600 and not them? Here we go? It was what Whitney 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:59.320 leaf everything is the video game I met Justin when 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.640 I was in ninth grade. That's Anthony talking. He was 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.200 trying to this this dude who my uncle was cool with, 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.320 and he told him like, come to Justin. He's gonna 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.080 put you in a blender or something whatever. So I 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:12.880 came in here. I came up here the first day 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:14.520 and we worked out, and I was tired, and I 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.880 was like, I'm not going back, and my uncle was like, well, 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:21.200 that's good, We're going back. That's basically the basketball version 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.719 of forcing Anthony to eat his vegetables. It's good for him, 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:26.599 but he sure doesn't like it. And so we just 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.760 started working out then, man and Justin just we was 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.200 just in the gym like every day, all all day, 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:34.440 all night. And then we just got better, got a relationship. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.880 And he's still ugly though, but you know, we got 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.520 a really good relationship now. In nineteen year old guy culture, 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.560 insulting the people you care about is a sign of affection. 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.640 That's how you tell someone like justin their family, and 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.279 that bond is evident whenever they mock each other or 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.520 clown around in the gym. We're Anthony Now recounts an 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.680 impromptu one on one game from his time at the 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.600 University of Georgia, playing without the right shoes and shorts. 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:01.880 I went on and I was trying to play with 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:03.720 like one on one, and then I told her I 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:07.640 ain't gon to play with because Crane wanted me to 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.200 get it into five o five, but I ain't have 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:15.680 that was out there. I'm getting we really go out 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:19.239 that the marn I don't know. I don't know what different, 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:22.440 but I don't know what works. Skin of Jesus lords, 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:32.520 little little think a pet kidding me in my seat slide, 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:39.000 I said, I can't move. Yeah, I might go out there. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.159 Those two people laughing our pillars. In Anthony's basketball family, 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:48.080 Justin and his uncle Drew. My name Andrew Banks. I 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:52.240 go by Coach Drew, Uncle Drew. Oh they was ain't 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:56.240 called me? Now how I fit into his life? We 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.480 can go back a decade. I just want old kids 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.760 just always well specially I always stood out. Around the 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:06.520 age six or seven, Anthony joined Coach Drew's youth football 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.560 team and only later did Coach Drew turned into Uncle Drew. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.240 So when he got there, you know he I tell 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.320 people truth, he hated it. He hated the grind part 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:21.000 to praise, you know, hey man, sweat and yelling, you know, 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.360 you know old school Oklahoma drill, you know, run run, run, 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.240 battering ram and people who coach my hard man. He 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:28.880 took a lot of hits. He took a lot of pounds. 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.680 Because if he didn't come through that, that gauntlet at 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:32.960 the young age, I don't think he could be the 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.240 kid eve right now in the basketball court of that 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:36.880 that has a lot to do with it, I mean 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.920 a lot. I think he didn't play football. I don't 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.080 think he will have a dog in him now that 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.160 like he got in basketball court, like on the basketball 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.480 court is you know, the filth hall of the Mother Party. 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.280 I think it's nothing to him being a six ft 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.600 five two and twenty five pounds shooting guard who attacks 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.120 the basket like a battering ram. It's part of what 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.960 makes Anthony's game unique. Scouting reports, he described his game 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.600 using football to chnology a running back exploding past and 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:07.480 through defenders, a downhill scorer, powerful physical player who opposents 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:16.520 just bounced right off of. Nobody will break him on 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.480 the basketball court, and just something mental even like when 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.920 we praise on I'm working out widow and stuff. Just 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.920 on a block band. He's gonna be a problem in 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.960 there's elf because it's just something mintm. You know, I 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.320 just tell the truth. You know, I've been there besides 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.960 its immediate family, brothers, and so I've been alone with anybody, 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.160 so I really know. I know what's going on. I 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.480 know the key, I know they about, you know, I 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.320 know the dude, the dunks and the wheels and the wants. 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:39.920 I know. But the push I know him. I know 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:41.440 him like you might. You know, I kind of raised 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:42.920 like you might, have got two kids of my own. 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.280 I treat him no difference, So I know where he 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:53.280 is who and what is Anthony Edwards. That's a question, 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.640 and BA executives are less clear on. Teams don't always 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.760 want a football player on a basketball court. Some doubt 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.840 hisort on defense, his decision making with the ball, his 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.360 ability to help teams win a week out. LaMelo Ball 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.600 and James Wiseman are also being talked about. Is going 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:13.000 first overall to Minnesota. There still isn't a clear cut 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.120 number one pick right now, and because of that, the 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.400 team's picking near the top of the draft want individual 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:22.720 workouts with Anthony before making their multimillion dollar decision. So 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.480 Anthony prepares with Justin and Uncle Drew at the god 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:42.040 By Road. Jim, We'll be right back. I gotta work out, 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:48.560 want to war? Wait when you should? When you when 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:59.920 you show well, I'll go see Rody. His first workout 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.000 it is with the Golden State Warriors, a team that's 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.920 played in five of the last six NBA Finals and 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.880 the possessor of this year's number two pick. So on 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.000 the prescribed day, Anthony works out for coach Steve Kerr 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.560 and the Warriors, giving them a private glimpse into his potential. 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.079 I just worried out for the Warriors. Came in about 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.920 like ten thirty and I got some shots up my 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.840 front of him Joe and my abilities and stuff. I 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.280 feel great about it. Yeah, Anthony told reporters he thought 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.960 he shot the ball particularly well that morning and didn't 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.040 shoot the ball well. This is Anthony's agent, Omar Wilkes, 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:44.360 head of basketball for Clutch Sports Group. Obviously everything's relative, 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.160 you know when you have Stephen Curry and and Clay 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.200 Thompson on your team, But that wasn't what they were 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:53.160 there for. An is so gifted that like how he shoots, 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.800 it's important. Obviously he can continue to work on and 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.560 improve it. But they wanted to see just how hard 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.199 he pushed himself, and so I think he realized there's 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.760 another gear he could go into. And the Warriors were 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:06.679 very open and candid about that, and they're like, hey, 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.240 we would like to see you at another gear, like 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.640 we know you have it, and he does and you know, 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:14.400 so freakishly gifted that he's probably been able to get 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.120 by at times without having to tap into that that 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.040 higher gear. So he really learned from that, which was 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:27.240 encouraging and and took the constructive criticism. Anthony is the 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.440 only player Omar is representing this year, and despite having 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.040 NBA All Stars and players chosen in the top ten, 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.080 Omar has never had a number one overall pick as 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.600 a client. But there's even more at stake here than 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.360 the extra millions a number one pick could bring. He 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:45.319 recalls the first time they ever met. I was attending 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.760 Steph Curry as an elite camp every summer, went to camp, 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.480 sat down next to Stephen and his friend Chris and 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:54.120 his younger brother Seth, and I was like, who's the 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.000 best player at this camp? And They're like, there's this kid, 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.000 Anthony Edwards. He is the best kid here. Like, isn't 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:00.600 on any of the ranking boards? We the best player? 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:02.800 And I watched aunt and literally three plays later, I 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:04.560 was like, Oh, he he is for real. It was 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:06.800 the year after a sophomore of high school, so he 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.640 was going to be a junior in high school. So 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.840 it was fortunate enough to keep plugging away, locked my 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.600 targets in on him, and just recruited him about as 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:16.800 hard as anyone I've recruited. So it was kind of 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.200 serendipitous the way it all came together. And you know, 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.160 I've just from the moment I saw him, I knew 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:25.000 he was destined for great things. Omar, Justin and Uncle 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.440 Drew invested years into his success, and they all tell 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.000 a similar story, not of a hurt teenager from a 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.920 rough neighborhood who suffered through tragedy, but of seeing a 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.160 kid they knew could do something special, a kid they 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.559 felt compelled to help escape his circumstance. It's hard not 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.680 to be overly invested in him, especially with his story, 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:45.760 and want to root for his success. And I mean, 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:47.560 it's corny when people say it, but it truly takes 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.760 a village. And that's kind of what we were working 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:59.640 with there. Now that he's done with the Warriors, Anthony 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.400 has gout scheduled with the Minnesota temper Wolves, who hold 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.160 the number one pick, and the Charlotte Hornets with pick 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.960 number three within the next few days. But first, a 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:14.000 much more important matter. What you're going chicken? Hey Drew, 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:18.200 what you're going around? Sis three? Chicken? Anthony, Justin, Uncle Drew, 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.160 and the other core members of Anthony's circle sit down 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.760 for lunch following the Warriors workout. Like everyone else, they 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.080 want to know where Anthony will be playing this season. 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:29.640 You know why I'm not worth whatever was pulled to 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.839 happen and go happy. Whatever was fouled happen, whatever, whatever 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.720 the best situation you're gonna have. It always does in life. 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:38.319 None of your life ain't happen that they's called in. 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:41.920 If you never look, you know what's crazy? What I 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.920 won't never happen. I think it's two different Like I 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.520 think it's like if you go with the Wolves, I 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:51.559 think and I think it and go every twenty when 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.559 we're good a year, we gotta make playoffs. I think 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.679 you're they stay up to Like after I midday stay, 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.640 I felt so much better once they they stay. Though, 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.320 because Anthony is only nineteen years old, Justin knows how 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.160 important it is for him to go to a team 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.200 offering the right fit and coaching is a big part 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.640 of that. Here's Justin again talking about the staff of 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:20.440 the Minnesota Timberwolves. Yeah. They they Coolly Saunders, the coach, 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:23.840 you know, like the like the staff, the hat, the 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:28.920 front office, like everybody, like everybody's like they're young and all. 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:30.440 I know. This is why I'm telling I'm not worried, 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.200 but you've got two angels. I ain't come to tell. 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:34.720 It took me. It took me about it. I ain't 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:41.400 thinking this out to about a year ago. We're talking 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.920 about how weird, how Minnesota about first, we were talking 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:48.840 about this first. As here I've been, I've been trying 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.160 to tamp people that though Drew Drew, Drew been realized though, 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.000 that everything that happened to me is a good thing. 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.600 And Anthony is unflappable optimistic demeanor makes it easy to 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.520 forget he's so young and that he's already been through 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.280 more than most people twice his age. You would never 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.720 see me worried. I say what every time my wants something, 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.280 he it It never happen. Speak about this, right, if 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.640 I go to Minnesota, right, we played the Warriors, got 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:20.880 to go. I'm not nobody else, don't cry. But if 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.240 I go to the Warriors. But if I go to 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:26.840 the Warriors, you gotta put your best defend on Ferria 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:31.120 all time. You can't leave him. Then you got a sniper. 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.000 Anthony is talking about playing alongside Warriors all stars Steph 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:39.200 Curry and Clay Thompson, two of the most accurate prolific 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.520 scorers of all time. I ain't never seen Clay sho 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:46.840 I don't seen step shooting that moment. But this ain't 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.280 hitting them, but the knick they're like issue like that 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:56.680 that sounds real, thought sound real? NBA players workout. Curry 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:00.400 is unreal. Like he unreal? Brough bro it like he's 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:08.520 just doing this. Yes if he miss, if he miss, 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.720 he's only gonna missing one, Like you know, I might 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:12.280 miss two, one and row three in a row. He's 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:16.520 gonna miss one, you know? Isaly how he missed? After that, 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:21.520 I'm gonna like brow how are you only missing one 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:25.840 in a row? Brout. In the hyper competitive world of 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.800 pro sports, where everyone fights to be the alpha dog, 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.680 it might sound odd to hear the potential number one 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:35.360 pick and his trainer, his coaches and friends gushing about 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:39.000 another player. But Steph Curry is actually that good at 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.440 shooting a basketball. He made almost five hundred more three 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:46.160 pointers than the next closest NBA player last decade, while 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:50.120 still being the sixth most accurate of all time, effectively 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:54.800 making him the greatest three point threat ever. Here's Anthony 0:16:55.000 --> 0:17:00.680 continuing in Awe, no warm up, Stepoy came up? Buy out, 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:09.560 buy out? You're thinking, man shooting tennis balls? He shoot like, 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.920 I don't know what about to say that. Ain't you 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:13.800 ever seen about to shoot the ball like them. See 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.159 ever again, I know I can shoot, but like them, 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.800 like I can imagine why play workout? Bro, I would 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.520 be hes like, oh my god, you know if the 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:29.960 one drop was shocked. Anthony isn't exaggerating. Clay once scored 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:33.359 sixty points against the Pacers while only touching the ball 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:41.359 for ninety seconds. He dribbled eleven times the entire game. 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.920 It's the kind of performance that changes the way top 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:50.520 prospects work out for your team. Drew. The folks said, 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:52.760 come here and try all we're talking about the like 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.000 since I'm like, go to being around you were like, 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.280 good people don't look good. So at the We're going 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.479 state came talking and they were like, but you had 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:02.520 a good workout, man, But you know, seeing seeing other 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:05.520 guys shoot, we're spoiled looking at tepnically every day, like 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:06.880 you know, you had a good work out of day. 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:08.879 But we just use some people not missing the road. 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:10.240 We feel like what is going on in their life? 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:15.640 They must be going through so good. Only a few 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:17.960 people in the world can shoot a basketball like those 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.199 two the way. Only a handful of people know what 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.960 it takes for somebody like Anthony to reach the cusp 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:27.280 of arguably the most exclusive major sports fraternity in the world. 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:46.240 We'll be right back. Here's Uncle Drew again. I'm the 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:49.800 sacrifices everyone at that lunch table made to get Anthony 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:57.640 to this point, to give him to what he had 0:18:57.680 --> 0:18:58.960 to be. It was a lot to go into it 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:01.800 to give him now, so not the tooth my own home. 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:03.520 But he knew that deep down inside that I did 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:05.600 what I had to do and went though did before 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:08.760 all the rankings came there, before he became the starter 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:11.800 he is now, you know, behind the clothe Colonel Death 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.440 coach Justin. He did her because Justin did a lot. 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:16.399 He's still doing a lot, and he's still doing anything. 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.000 Like I said, his wife she did. She had to do. 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:20.320 She had to take care because just got a little 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:21.920 boy too, so she did, she had to do take 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:26.080 care of his name, Chase. She did a thing to uh. 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:27.879 A lot of people did a lot. I'm just speaking 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:30.040 on the people that I can speak on that I 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:33.360 ain't that I can really vouce for so because Jordan's 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:35.600 did a hell of a job too, So you know, 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:37.920 I ain't trying too nobody hard him this. I'm just 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:39.760 telling the truth, and sometimes you tell the truth, it 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:43.479 sounds like you're two people home. But this ship went't easy, man, 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.760 it was not at all at all. I mean at all. 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.159 You gotta sacrifice. There's the only way, there's only way 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:50.679 he gonna be great in life. Man, this ship is 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:52.800 gonna be given to you gotta be You gotta make 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:54.960 some a major, amazing major sacrifices, and you gotta cut 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.080 certain sh off. So I cut a lot of stuff off, 0:19:57.640 --> 0:19:59.200 you know, the dude I had to do to get 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:03.440 him down. People like Justin and Uncle Drew often get 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.679 lost in the story of a teenage basketball prodigy. It 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:10.359 becomes about the prospects game or his potential, his work ethic, 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:14.720 his strengths and his weaknesses, and those do matter. But 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:19.280 Anthony's journey would not be possible without these critical people. Again, 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:23.359 here's his agent, Omar Wilkes. These guys have been with 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:25.840 him for years and years, since he was in middle school. 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:29.600 In a lot of ways, you know, it's unfair because 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:31.720 you see Anthony, he gets credit, and I guess people 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:33.520 that dig a little deeper, like oh, his agent, you know, 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.680 I get some credit. But it's those people have been 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:39.040 in the trenches with him for a long time and 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:40.800 like they're thinking me, but I'm like no, no, no, 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:43.119 thank you guys, like you got him to this point. 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:46.919 Like you know, an ansent a unique story. You know, 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.959 he's not supposed to be here, like he wasn't he 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.160 wasn't born on third base. He was There's no silver 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.840 spoon to be found. He wasn't set up for success. 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:58.639 He was loved on by his mother and grandmother and 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:02.840 tragically losing them at such an early age. You know, 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:04.919 a lot of people in the community were able to 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:08.760 kind of rally around him, but he wasn't supposed to 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:10.639 have this success. He did, and that's a testament to 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:14.199 him and the people around him. He was only in 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:16.879 eighth grade when he lost the two closest people in 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:19.560 his life. And since that point, there would be no 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:22.840 story about Anthony Edwards without his team off the court, 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:28.920 without Justin and Duncal drew siblings, his closest friends, or 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:35.240 that Jim at god b Road. Throughout this whole process 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:37.199 we worked out at the gym that we started it. 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:41.800 That's Justin again talking about the seemingly endless months of 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:47.399 training to prepare Anthony for draft. You know, whereas other guys, 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:50.360 you know, they flew out the l A and Miami 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:53.679 and even you know, downtown and Bucket Atlanta, but we 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:56.159 actually stayed on the South side of Atlanta where we 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:58.440 all started it. You know, it's it's not it's not 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:00.920 the best neighborhood in America, but you know, it's it's 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:04.760 where we're from. College Park, where the gym is located, 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:07.520 has the second highest crime rate in the state and 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:10.400 almost a third of the residents live below the poverty line. 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:13.880 And it's where the Charlotte Hornets scheduled their workout with Anthony, 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:18.680 with a former legendary player termed Owner coming to watch. 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:22.080 It doesn't get any bigger than Michael Jordan when you're 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:26.560 talking basketball. So um, you know, we were excited and uh, 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:28.880 Michael Jordan, he came to that gym on the south 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:32.040 side of Atlanta in College Park on Gottby Road, and 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:34.199 I'm pretty sure he probably didn't know where he was, 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:36.679 but uh, that was like the biggest thing. I'm like, Yo, 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:39.200 we brought Michael Jordan. The work that we started putting 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:41.200 in in this gym is the work that got Michael 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:44.000 Jordan walk in this gym. The same gym that nobody 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:46.280 cared that we were working out in. Michael Jordan is 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:51.800 coming to see you, and on some level, he's coming 0:22:51.800 --> 0:22:54.720 to see all of them, to watch Anthony play, to 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:58.800 see every dribble, drive and shot representing the thousands and 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:05.399 thousands of hours they've all put in together. People do understand. 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:06.639 You gotta have a little look on your side. You 0:23:06.680 --> 0:23:08.560 gotta be blessed. You gotta have a talent because I 0:23:08.640 --> 0:23:10.240 know a lot of I know a lot of good people, 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:12.280 a lot of good athletes that didn't make something went 0:23:12.280 --> 0:23:14.159 wrong along the ways. It's so easy to get in 0:23:14.200 --> 0:23:17.440 trouble handing down him, and it's it's so easy, so 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:19.960 many good athletes in the streets out here that didn't 0:23:19.960 --> 0:23:22.640 make it, Like, well, hame to that kid, Well hame 0:23:22.680 --> 0:23:24.840 to that kid. But ship they said, what happened to 0:23:24.840 --> 0:23:27.400 that kid? He made it? And I always told him, like, listen, 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:31.800 you gotta understand, bro, between everybody in your circle, your family, 0:23:31.840 --> 0:23:35.040 your coaches, if you don't make it, we don't make it. 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:37.400