Speaker 1: Drafted is a production of tree Ford Media, Clutch Sports Group,
Speaker 1: and I Heart Radio. Welcome to Drafted. I'm Keegan Michael Key,
Speaker 1: and we're back with season two NBA Draft. In season one,
Speaker 1: we followed eight elite college football players as they made
Speaker 1: the leap from campus to the NFL. This season, we'll
Speaker 1: hear the first hand personal experience of two of college
Speaker 1: basketball's most elite prospects, the explosive Anthony Edwards, who started
Speaker 1: at the University of Georgia. Away words, it's show talk
Speaker 1: can go, Oh yeah, there's Edwards. Look here that fuf
Speaker 1: Man and the University of Kentucky's Tyres Maxie, arguably the
Speaker 1: most energetic, hardest working player in the draft. Draw fast,
Speaker 1: this is your first game? Are you for Christope, Chilly?
Speaker 1: You got a star. Anthony and Tyree's will mike themselves
Speaker 1: up as they prepare for the draft and tell their
Speaker 1: own stories, giving us a wrong, honest look and what
Speaker 1: it takes to go from childhood dreamer to college star
Speaker 1: to being chosen as one of only four hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty NBA players in the world. And this season we'll
Speaker 1: go even further behind the scenes with unprecedented access to
Speaker 1: their agents, Clutch Sports Group founder and CEO Rich Paul.
Speaker 1: Somebody can say, what do you think about a hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars and only ten million of it is guaranteed?
Speaker 1: So what are you talking about? And their new head
Speaker 1: of basketball Omar Wilkes the Warriors, asking if the Wolves
Speaker 1: have said anything, what Charlotte's thinking? Are there trades? It's
Speaker 1: all a game of chess. We'll hear the inner workings
Speaker 1: behind the multimillion dollar decisions. As it look, the money's
Speaker 1: dried up. There's definitely not seventy million dollars out there
Speaker 1: for you, and so that's a miss opportunity, if that
Speaker 1: was even real. We're joining these players and their agents
Speaker 1: at a truly unprecedented time. The college season and the
Speaker 1: n C Double A Tournament were canceled because of the coronavirus.
Speaker 1: This is the first year the tournament wasn't held since
Speaker 1: its inception in nine For months, they couldn't participate in
Speaker 1: scrimmages or even pick up games, and the NBA Draft
Speaker 1: was postponed, not once, but twice. Like all of us,
Speaker 1: they adjusted, But when you're a potential NBA lottery pick,
Speaker 1: your new normal looks a little less normal than what
Speaker 1: the rest of us experienced were one not down. Well,
Speaker 1: that's all we got, sick. Let's do it. Let's do
Speaker 1: it man. This is where we find nineteen year old
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards, just a week before his life is about
Speaker 1: to change forever, in the god Be Road gym on
Speaker 1: the tough south side of Atlanta, working with his longtime trainer,
Speaker 1: Justin Holland. Seven days, maybe a seven day come on
Speaker 1: and Lord Ford knock it down, good good. Anthony is
Speaker 1: being talked about as a top five pick and the
Speaker 1: potential number one overall player in the draft. But the
Speaker 1: truth is he shouldn't be not because he isn't the
Speaker 1: most exceptional talent. He is, come number one, come lumber one.
Speaker 1: He shouldn't be here because what it took for him
Speaker 1: to get to this moment in this gym seems impossible.
Speaker 1: Not just your job, it's literally your job for nine
Speaker 1: and yet you've been doing it. Literally, get exit to
Speaker 1: the deal whenever you want. Anthony didn't grow up with
Speaker 1: unlimited gym access or many of the other resources available
Speaker 1: to some prospects, and the odds of any child's NBA
Speaker 1: dreams coming true are already staggering. About the same as
Speaker 1: a kid wanting to become an astronaut and actually ending
Speaker 1: up in zero graphy Roger on the next page, update,
Speaker 1: Out of every ten thousand high school varsity basketball players,
Speaker 1: roughly three seniors make it to draft night. Thousands and
Speaker 1: thousands of incredibly talented athletes with strong support systems can't
Speaker 1: get there, and Anthony faced more daunting challenges and bigger
Speaker 1: obstacles than almost all of them. So how do you
Speaker 1: do it when so many others can't? Why Anthony Edwards
Speaker 1: and not them? Here we go? It was what Whitney
Speaker 1: leaf everything is the video game I met Justin when
Speaker 1: I was in ninth grade. That's Anthony talking. He was
Speaker 1: trying to this this dude who my uncle was cool with,
Speaker 1: and he told him like, come to Justin. He's gonna
Speaker 1: put you in a blender or something whatever. So I
Speaker 1: came in here. I came up here the first day
Speaker 1: and we worked out, and I was tired, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm not going back, and my uncle was like, well,
Speaker 1: that's good, We're going back. That's basically the basketball version
Speaker 1: of forcing Anthony to eat his vegetables. It's good for him,
Speaker 1: but he sure doesn't like it. And so we just
Speaker 1: started working out then, man and Justin just we was
Speaker 1: just in the gym like every day, all all day,
Speaker 1: all night. And then we just got better, got a relationship.
Speaker 1: And he's still ugly though, but you know, we got
Speaker 1: a really good relationship now. In nineteen year old guy culture,
Speaker 1: insulting the people you care about is a sign of affection.
Speaker 1: That's how you tell someone like justin their family, and
Speaker 1: that bond is evident whenever they mock each other or
Speaker 1: clown around in the gym. We're Anthony Now recounts an
Speaker 1: impromptu one on one game from his time at the
Speaker 1: University of Georgia, playing without the right shoes and shorts.
Speaker 1: I went on and I was trying to play with
Speaker 1: like one on one, and then I told her I
Speaker 1: ain't gon to play with because Crane wanted me to
Speaker 1: get it into five o five, but I ain't have
Speaker 1: that was out there. I'm getting we really go out
Speaker 1: that the marn I don't know. I don't know what different,
Speaker 1: but I don't know what works. Skin of Jesus lords,
Speaker 1: little little think a pet kidding me in my seat slide,
Speaker 1: I said, I can't move. Yeah, I might go out there.
Speaker 1: Those two people laughing our pillars. In Anthony's basketball family,
Speaker 1: Justin and his uncle Drew. My name Andrew Banks. I
Speaker 1: go by Coach Drew, Uncle Drew. Oh they was ain't
Speaker 1: called me? Now how I fit into his life? We
Speaker 1: can go back a decade. I just want old kids
Speaker 1: just always well specially I always stood out. Around the
Speaker 1: age six or seven, Anthony joined Coach Drew's youth football
Speaker 1: team and only later did Coach Drew turned into Uncle Drew.
Speaker 1: So when he got there, you know he I tell
Speaker 1: people truth, he hated it. He hated the grind part
Speaker 1: to praise, you know, hey man, sweat and yelling, you know,
Speaker 1: you know old school Oklahoma drill, you know, run run, run,
Speaker 1: battering ram and people who coach my hard man. He
Speaker 1: took a lot of hits. He took a lot of pounds.
Speaker 1: Because if he didn't come through that, that gauntlet at
Speaker 1: the young age, I don't think he could be the
Speaker 1: kid eve right now in the basketball court of that
Speaker 1: that has a lot to do with it, I mean
Speaker 1: a lot. I think he didn't play football. I don't
Speaker 1: think he will have a dog in him now that
Speaker 1: like he got in basketball court, like on the basketball
Speaker 1: court is you know, the filth hall of the Mother Party.
Speaker 1: I think it's nothing to him being a six ft
Speaker 1: five two and twenty five pounds shooting guard who attacks
Speaker 1: the basket like a battering ram. It's part of what
Speaker 1: makes Anthony's game unique. Scouting reports, he described his game
Speaker 1: using football to chnology a running back exploding past and
Speaker 1: through defenders, a downhill scorer, powerful physical player who opposents
Speaker 1: just bounced right off of. Nobody will break him on
Speaker 1: the basketball court, and just something mental even like when
Speaker 1: we praise on I'm working out widow and stuff. Just
Speaker 1: on a block band. He's gonna be a problem in
Speaker 1: there's elf because it's just something mintm. You know, I
Speaker 1: just tell the truth. You know, I've been there besides
Speaker 1: its immediate family, brothers, and so I've been alone with anybody,
Speaker 1: so I really know. I know what's going on. I
Speaker 1: know the key, I know they about, you know, I
Speaker 1: know the dude, the dunks and the wheels and the wants.
Speaker 1: I know. But the push I know him. I know
Speaker 1: him like you might. You know, I kind of raised
Speaker 1: like you might, have got two kids of my own.
Speaker 1: I treat him no difference, So I know where he
Speaker 1: is who and what is Anthony Edwards. That's a question,
Speaker 1: and BA executives are less clear on. Teams don't always
Speaker 1: want a football player on a basketball court. Some doubt
Speaker 1: hisort on defense, his decision making with the ball, his
Speaker 1: ability to help teams win a week out. LaMelo Ball
Speaker 1: and James Wiseman are also being talked about. Is going
Speaker 1: first overall to Minnesota. There still isn't a clear cut
Speaker 1: number one pick right now, and because of that, the
Speaker 1: team's picking near the top of the draft want individual
Speaker 1: workouts with Anthony before making their multimillion dollar decision. So
Speaker 1: Anthony prepares with Justin and Uncle Drew at the god
Speaker 1: By Road. Jim, We'll be right back. I gotta work out,
Speaker 1: want to war? Wait when you should? When you when
Speaker 1: you show well, I'll go see Rody. His first workout
Speaker 1: it is with the Golden State Warriors, a team that's
Speaker 1: played in five of the last six NBA Finals and
Speaker 1: the possessor of this year's number two pick. So on
Speaker 1: the prescribed day, Anthony works out for coach Steve Kerr
Speaker 1: and the Warriors, giving them a private glimpse into his potential.
Speaker 1: I just worried out for the Warriors. Came in about
Speaker 1: like ten thirty and I got some shots up my
Speaker 1: front of him Joe and my abilities and stuff. I
Speaker 1: feel great about it. Yeah, Anthony told reporters he thought
Speaker 1: he shot the ball particularly well that morning and didn't
Speaker 1: shoot the ball well. This is Anthony's agent, Omar Wilkes,
Speaker 1: head of basketball for Clutch Sports Group. Obviously everything's relative,
Speaker 1: you know when you have Stephen Curry and and Clay
Speaker 1: Thompson on your team, But that wasn't what they were
Speaker 1: there for. An is so gifted that like how he shoots,
Speaker 1: it's important. Obviously he can continue to work on and
Speaker 1: improve it. But they wanted to see just how hard
Speaker 1: he pushed himself, and so I think he realized there's
Speaker 1: another gear he could go into. And the Warriors were
Speaker 1: very open and candid about that, and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: we would like to see you at another gear, like
Speaker 1: we know you have it, and he does and you know,
Speaker 1: so freakishly gifted that he's probably been able to get
Speaker 1: by at times without having to tap into that that
Speaker 1: higher gear. So he really learned from that, which was
Speaker 1: encouraging and and took the constructive criticism. Anthony is the
Speaker 1: only player Omar is representing this year, and despite having
Speaker 1: NBA All Stars and players chosen in the top ten,
Speaker 1: Omar has never had a number one overall pick as
Speaker 1: a client. But there's even more at stake here than
Speaker 1: the extra millions a number one pick could bring. He
Speaker 1: recalls the first time they ever met. I was attending
Speaker 1: Steph Curry as an elite camp every summer, went to camp,
Speaker 1: sat down next to Stephen and his friend Chris and
Speaker 1: his younger brother Seth, and I was like, who's the
Speaker 1: best player at this camp? And They're like, there's this kid,
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards. He is the best kid here. Like, isn't
Speaker 1: on any of the ranking boards? We the best player?
Speaker 1: And I watched aunt and literally three plays later, I
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, he he is for real. It was
Speaker 1: the year after a sophomore of high school, so he
Speaker 1: was going to be a junior in high school. So
Speaker 1: it was fortunate enough to keep plugging away, locked my
Speaker 1: targets in on him, and just recruited him about as
Speaker 1: hard as anyone I've recruited. So it was kind of
Speaker 1: serendipitous the way it all came together. And you know,
Speaker 1: I've just from the moment I saw him, I knew
Speaker 1: he was destined for great things. Omar, Justin and Uncle
Speaker 1: Drew invested years into his success, and they all tell
Speaker 1: a similar story, not of a hurt teenager from a
Speaker 1: rough neighborhood who suffered through tragedy, but of seeing a
Speaker 1: kid they knew could do something special, a kid they
Speaker 1: felt compelled to help escape his circumstance. It's hard not
Speaker 1: to be overly invested in him, especially with his story,
Speaker 1: and want to root for his success. And I mean,
Speaker 1: it's corny when people say it, but it truly takes
Speaker 1: a village. And that's kind of what we were working
Speaker 1: with there. Now that he's done with the Warriors, Anthony
Speaker 1: has gout scheduled with the Minnesota temper Wolves, who hold
Speaker 1: the number one pick, and the Charlotte Hornets with pick
Speaker 1: number three within the next few days. But first, a
Speaker 1: much more important matter. What you're going chicken? Hey Drew,
Speaker 1: what you're going around? Sis three? Chicken? Anthony, Justin, Uncle Drew,
Speaker 1: and the other core members of Anthony's circle sit down
Speaker 1: for lunch following the Warriors workout. Like everyone else, they
Speaker 1: want to know where Anthony will be playing this season.
Speaker 1: You know why I'm not worth whatever was pulled to
Speaker 1: happen and go happy. Whatever was fouled happen, whatever, whatever
Speaker 1: the best situation you're gonna have. It always does in life.
Speaker 1: None of your life ain't happen that they's called in.
Speaker 1: If you never look, you know what's crazy? What I
Speaker 1: won't never happen. I think it's two different Like I
Speaker 1: think it's like if you go with the Wolves, I
Speaker 1: think and I think it and go every twenty when
Speaker 1: we're good a year, we gotta make playoffs. I think
Speaker 1: you're they stay up to Like after I midday stay,
Speaker 1: I felt so much better once they they stay. Though,
Speaker 1: because Anthony is only nineteen years old, Justin knows how
Speaker 1: important it is for him to go to a team
Speaker 1: offering the right fit and coaching is a big part
Speaker 1: of that. Here's Justin again talking about the staff of
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Timberwolves. Yeah. They they Coolly Saunders, the coach,
Speaker 1: you know, like the like the staff, the hat, the
Speaker 1: front office, like everybody, like everybody's like they're young and all.
Speaker 1: I know. This is why I'm telling I'm not worried,
Speaker 1: but you've got two angels. I ain't come to tell.
Speaker 1: It took me. It took me about it. I ain't
Speaker 1: thinking this out to about a year ago. We're talking
Speaker 1: about how weird, how Minnesota about first, we were talking
Speaker 1: about this first. As here I've been, I've been trying
Speaker 1: to tamp people that though Drew Drew, Drew been realized though,
Speaker 1: that everything that happened to me is a good thing.
Speaker 1: And Anthony is unflappable optimistic demeanor makes it easy to
Speaker 1: forget he's so young and that he's already been through
Speaker 1: more than most people twice his age. You would never
Speaker 1: see me worried. I say what every time my wants something,
Speaker 1: he it It never happen. Speak about this, right, if
Speaker 1: I go to Minnesota, right, we played the Warriors, got
Speaker 1: to go. I'm not nobody else, don't cry. But if
Speaker 1: I go to the Warriors. But if I go to
Speaker 1: the Warriors, you gotta put your best defend on Ferria
Speaker 1: all time. You can't leave him. Then you got a sniper.
Speaker 1: Anthony is talking about playing alongside Warriors all stars Steph
Speaker 1: Curry and Clay Thompson, two of the most accurate prolific
Speaker 1: scorers of all time. I ain't never seen Clay sho
Speaker 1: I don't seen step shooting that moment. But this ain't
Speaker 1: hitting them, but the knick they're like issue like that
Speaker 1: that sounds real, thought sound real? NBA players workout. Curry
Speaker 1: is unreal. Like he unreal? Brough bro it like he's
Speaker 1: just doing this. Yes if he miss, if he miss,
Speaker 1: he's only gonna missing one, Like you know, I might
Speaker 1: miss two, one and row three in a row. He's
Speaker 1: gonna miss one, you know? Isaly how he missed? After that,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna like brow how are you only missing one
Speaker 1: in a row? Brout. In the hyper competitive world of
Speaker 1: pro sports, where everyone fights to be the alpha dog,
Speaker 1: it might sound odd to hear the potential number one
Speaker 1: pick and his trainer, his coaches and friends gushing about
Speaker 1: another player. But Steph Curry is actually that good at
Speaker 1: shooting a basketball. He made almost five hundred more three
Speaker 1: pointers than the next closest NBA player last decade, while
Speaker 1: still being the sixth most accurate of all time, effectively
Speaker 1: making him the greatest three point threat ever. Here's Anthony
Speaker 1: continuing in Awe, no warm up, Stepoy came up? Buy out,
Speaker 1: buy out? You're thinking, man shooting tennis balls? He shoot like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what about to say that. Ain't you
Speaker 1: ever seen about to shoot the ball like them. See
Speaker 1: ever again, I know I can shoot, but like them,
Speaker 1: like I can imagine why play workout? Bro, I would
Speaker 1: be hes like, oh my god, you know if the
Speaker 1: one drop was shocked. Anthony isn't exaggerating. Clay once scored
Speaker 1: sixty points against the Pacers while only touching the ball
Speaker 1: for ninety seconds. He dribbled eleven times the entire game.
Speaker 1: It's the kind of performance that changes the way top
Speaker 1: prospects work out for your team. Drew. The folks said,
Speaker 1: come here and try all we're talking about the like
Speaker 1: since I'm like, go to being around you were like,
Speaker 1: good people don't look good. So at the We're going
Speaker 1: state came talking and they were like, but you had
Speaker 1: a good workout, man, But you know, seeing seeing other
Speaker 1: guys shoot, we're spoiled looking at tepnically every day, like
Speaker 1: you know, you had a good work out of day.
Speaker 1: But we just use some people not missing the road.
Speaker 1: We feel like what is going on in their life?
Speaker 1: They must be going through so good. Only a few
Speaker 1: people in the world can shoot a basketball like those
Speaker 1: two the way. Only a handful of people know what
Speaker 1: it takes for somebody like Anthony to reach the cusp
Speaker 1: of arguably the most exclusive major sports fraternity in the world.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Here's Uncle Drew again. I'm the
Speaker 1: sacrifices everyone at that lunch table made to get Anthony
Speaker 1: to this point, to give him to what he had
Speaker 1: to be. It was a lot to go into it
Speaker 1: to give him now, so not the tooth my own home.
Speaker 1: But he knew that deep down inside that I did
Speaker 1: what I had to do and went though did before
Speaker 1: all the rankings came there, before he became the starter
Speaker 1: he is now, you know, behind the clothe Colonel Death
Speaker 1: coach Justin. He did her because Justin did a lot.
Speaker 1: He's still doing a lot, and he's still doing anything.
Speaker 1: Like I said, his wife she did. She had to do.
Speaker 1: She had to take care because just got a little
Speaker 1: boy too, so she did, she had to do take
Speaker 1: care of his name, Chase. She did a thing to uh.
Speaker 1: A lot of people did a lot. I'm just speaking
Speaker 1: on the people that I can speak on that I
Speaker 1: ain't that I can really vouce for so because Jordan's
Speaker 1: did a hell of a job too, So you know,
Speaker 1: I ain't trying too nobody hard him this. I'm just
Speaker 1: telling the truth, and sometimes you tell the truth, it
Speaker 1: sounds like you're two people home. But this ship went't easy, man,
Speaker 1: it was not at all at all. I mean at all.
Speaker 1: You gotta sacrifice. There's the only way, there's only way
Speaker 1: he gonna be great in life. Man, this ship is
Speaker 1: gonna be given to you gotta be You gotta make
Speaker 1: some a major, amazing major sacrifices, and you gotta cut
Speaker 1: certain sh off. So I cut a lot of stuff off,
Speaker 1: you know, the dude I had to do to get
Speaker 1: him down. People like Justin and Uncle Drew often get
Speaker 1: lost in the story of a teenage basketball prodigy. It
Speaker 1: becomes about the prospects game or his potential, his work ethic,
Speaker 1: his strengths and his weaknesses, and those do matter. But
Speaker 1: Anthony's journey would not be possible without these critical people. Again,
Speaker 1: here's his agent, Omar Wilkes. These guys have been with
Speaker 1: him for years and years, since he was in middle school.
Speaker 1: In a lot of ways, you know, it's unfair because
Speaker 1: you see Anthony, he gets credit, and I guess people
Speaker 1: that dig a little deeper, like oh, his agent, you know,
Speaker 1: I get some credit. But it's those people have been
Speaker 1: in the trenches with him for a long time and
Speaker 1: like they're thinking me, but I'm like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: thank you guys, like you got him to this point.
Speaker 1: Like you know, an ansent a unique story. You know,
Speaker 1: he's not supposed to be here, like he wasn't he
Speaker 1: wasn't born on third base. He was There's no silver
Speaker 1: spoon to be found. He wasn't set up for success.
Speaker 1: He was loved on by his mother and grandmother and
Speaker 1: tragically losing them at such an early age. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of people in the community were able to
Speaker 1: kind of rally around him, but he wasn't supposed to
Speaker 1: have this success. He did, and that's a testament to
Speaker 1: him and the people around him. He was only in
Speaker 1: eighth grade when he lost the two closest people in
Speaker 1: his life. And since that point, there would be no
Speaker 1: story about Anthony Edwards without his team off the court,
Speaker 1: without Justin and Duncal drew siblings, his closest friends, or
Speaker 1: that Jim at god b Road. Throughout this whole process
Speaker 1: we worked out at the gym that we started it.
Speaker 1: That's Justin again talking about the seemingly endless months of
Speaker 1: training to prepare Anthony for draft. You know, whereas other guys,
Speaker 1: you know, they flew out the l A and Miami
Speaker 1: and even you know, downtown and Bucket Atlanta, but we
Speaker 1: actually stayed on the South side of Atlanta where we
Speaker 1: all started it. You know, it's it's not it's not
Speaker 1: the best neighborhood in America, but you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: where we're from. College Park, where the gym is located,
Speaker 1: has the second highest crime rate in the state and
Speaker 1: almost a third of the residents live below the poverty line.
Speaker 1: And it's where the Charlotte Hornets scheduled their workout with Anthony,
Speaker 1: with a former legendary player termed Owner coming to watch.
Speaker 1: It doesn't get any bigger than Michael Jordan when you're
Speaker 1: talking basketball. So um, you know, we were excited and uh,
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, he came to that gym on the south
Speaker 1: side of Atlanta in College Park on Gottby Road, and
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he probably didn't know where he was,
Speaker 1: but uh, that was like the biggest thing. I'm like, Yo,
Speaker 1: we brought Michael Jordan. The work that we started putting
Speaker 1: in in this gym is the work that got Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan walk in this gym. The same gym that nobody
Speaker 1: cared that we were working out in. Michael Jordan is
Speaker 1: coming to see you, and on some level, he's coming
Speaker 1: to see all of them, to watch Anthony play, to
Speaker 1: see every dribble, drive and shot representing the thousands and
Speaker 1: thousands of hours they've all put in together. People do understand.
Speaker 1: You gotta have a little look on your side. You
Speaker 1: gotta be blessed. You gotta have a talent because I
Speaker 1: know a lot of I know a lot of good people,
Speaker 1: a lot of good athletes that didn't make something went
Speaker 1: wrong along the ways. It's so easy to get in
Speaker 1: trouble handing down him, and it's it's so easy, so
Speaker 1: many good athletes in the streets out here that didn't
Speaker 1: make it, Like, well, hame to that kid, Well hame
Speaker 1: to that kid. But ship they said, what happened to
Speaker 1: that kid? He made it? And I always told him, like, listen,
Speaker 1: you gotta understand, bro, between everybody in your circle, your family,
Speaker 1: your coaches, if you don't make it, we don't make it.
Speaker 1: They're gonna say if you didn't make it, he would
Speaker 1: mess around with the wrong people. So I always try
Speaker 1: to tell like, if you don't make it, they're gonna
Speaker 1: laugh at us. It ain't about you, man, about everybody.
Speaker 1: You know. If I embarrassed myself, I embarrassed you. You
Speaker 1: know you don't you don't want to be a part
Speaker 1: of obs. So we gotta make it man. You know,
Speaker 1: so there was to drive ahead. We just we gotta
Speaker 1: make it. No matter what, we gotta get there. We
Speaker 1: don't make it that close. We gotta get there now.
Speaker 1: After everything they went through, all the late nights and
Speaker 1: early mornings, all the heartache, sweat and tears, the college
Speaker 1: season getting canceled, and the draft moving twice, after eight
Speaker 1: long months where Anthony couldn't play in a real game
Speaker 1: or scrimmage. Now at last, they're only one week away
Speaker 1: coming up this season undrafted. I want to be someone
Speaker 1: that doesn't have any what ifs. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be at the end of my career when say, dang,
Speaker 1: what if I just worked a little bit harder. So
Speaker 1: our goals every day for they reasons and make over
Speaker 1: two thousand shots. Let's put in the world NBA stands
Speaker 1: for no boys allows. If you're a child, if you're immature,
Speaker 1: you won't last there. Kyle turns to me and said,
Speaker 1: you're not ready. The other guys on our team. I said, John,
Speaker 1: get ready to play forty minutes because he's he's not
Speaker 1: ready to play. The money's dried up. There's definitely not
Speaker 1: seven million dollars out there for you. And I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if that was even real or not. In his
Speaker 1: workouts when I'm near to watching workout, I always had
Speaker 1: a chip on his shoulder. No no no no no
Speaker 1: no no no, don't run real like you want to run,
Speaker 1: come pushing on a field like a little baby ship.
Speaker 1: I think some of them were just stunned, like stunned,
Speaker 1: like one in the world. It's crazy because people ask
Speaker 1: how different it is, but this is all we know.
Speaker 1: This is all I know, Like this is the only
Speaker 1: time being in the draft process. My goal is for
Speaker 1: them to be ready to play, because NBA ready is
Speaker 1: completely different. You can take my basketball career away, oh everything, fame,
Speaker 1: but you can't take my happiness away. Drafted is a
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Speaker 1: Eric Winer. Jared Brom is our coordinating producer. Trey McCain
Speaker 1: is our associate producer. Tom Monahan is our senior audio engineer.
Speaker 1: Mixed and edited by Steven Johnson and Jasper Leek, additional
Speaker 1: production help from Tim Shower, June Rosen, and Hailey Mandelberg.
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