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Speaker 1: Yo, yo yo.

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Speaker 2: You got the knuckleheads, y'all know, I'll stayed with the

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Speaker 2: blackest one with me.

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Speaker 1: We got KG.

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Speaker 2: Certify aka Big Ticket aka Kevin Guard now aka.

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame Champion in the building.

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Speaker 2: And we're very honored right now with a with an

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Speaker 2: upcoming draft fee in the building, mister g League ignited

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Speaker 2: mister Ryan Holland in the building.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Putting up, young fella, chopping it up with us before

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Speaker 2: you sure, man, I'm Bill Texas.

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Speaker 3: I'm the Bill Texas represented man. We just had a

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Speaker 3: Texas boil up here.

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Speaker 1: Man, I gotta know.

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Speaker 3: Represent man, just how you feel about the draft? Just

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Speaker 3: seeing these old festivities, being here with your family? Man,

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Speaker 3: how do it feel surreal? Like it ain't ain't real?

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Speaker 2: They feel unreal just knowing that, Like I've been working

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Speaker 2: hard all my life up until this point, and just

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Speaker 2: did I get to do this with my brothers, people

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Speaker 2: I've been growing up with and just to see every

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Speaker 2: how far came. It's just like you said, it's surreal.

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Speaker 2: But I'm glad, I get I'm blessed with the opportunity

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Speaker 2: to get this thing done and I can't wait for tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: How many workouts you did? I did?

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Speaker 2: I want to say, arranged from seven to ten. I

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Speaker 2: didn't lost count. It was I think that was a

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Speaker 2: lot for me. Yeah, it was somewhere around there.

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Speaker 1: He close to the meeting, either one of y'all I

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Speaker 1: did a lot?

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Speaker 2: He like medium? Y'all did they did? They only did

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Speaker 2: like one or two in dinners? Yeah, they's a special

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Speaker 2: high school ship though. You know what I'm saying, special

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Speaker 2: ops school niggas like special ops.

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Hey, hey go, So I

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Speaker 3: know you had a bunch of meanings and we went

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Speaker 3: through this same process.

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Speaker 1: What was there? Like a weird question?

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Speaker 3: One of them gms or them organizations asked you that

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Speaker 3: you was like, bro, what are you talking about?

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Speaker 1: Bro?

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Speaker 2: One one team I forgot the team name, but they

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Speaker 2: asked me like if I knew my teammate had just

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Speaker 2: got done drinking or something the night before, And I

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Speaker 2: knew and he came to practice a little drunk. The

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Speaker 2: coach asked me, is he drunk or not? What am

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Speaker 2: I supposed to say? Like basically saying, am I gonna

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Speaker 2: tell the truth to the coach when I'm not gonna

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Speaker 2: have my teammates back in the same wanted me to

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Speaker 2: stitch I could. It took me like ten minutes to

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Speaker 2: answer the questions, not literally, but it was.

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Speaker 1: It was a long time.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know how to answer, but I just said, basically, Bro,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm here to do a job. At the

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Speaker 2: end of the day, it won't That's not like something

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Speaker 2: that gets yourself out of character anything. But I mean,

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Speaker 2: if you know, I know, I'm not gonna sit here

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Speaker 2: know you feel what I'm saying. So at the end

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Speaker 2: of the day, we all got a job to cut.

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Speaker 3: Like your team when you get drafted, that's your.

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Speaker 1: Team what you won't represent, Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 3: Growing up or coming up? Who is your favorite team

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Speaker 3: that she was rooting for?

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Speaker 2: I was a huge, like Dallas mass fan, but that

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Speaker 2: came with just being from Dallas, I'm saying, but I did.

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Speaker 2: I watched a lot of players. I was huge fans

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Speaker 4: Okay, who's your favorite player in the league?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 2: Or do you have a favorite player coming up? I

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Speaker 2: mean this might surprise you, but it was you and KD.

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Speaker 2: Really just watching y'all mean, knowing how you appost the game,

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Speaker 2: And I get a lot of that from you just

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Speaker 2: watching things that you're saying how you are post the game.

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Speaker 2: It ain't Kevin Durant just watching what he's done until

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Speaker 1: But now, yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this half feel right now being

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Speaker 2: on the same stage with none other than the big ticket.

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Speaker 2: It like with somebody that you like you said, you

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Speaker 2: him the thing right here. I mean, it feels good.

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Speaker 2: It's a blessing, like I said, But I'm trying not

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Speaker 2: But it's like I'm stuper blessed with this opportunity knowing

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Speaker 2: fan out of. He's ready to give and pour into you.

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Speaker 2: Like when we came up, it wasn't right, he.

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Speaker 1: Was still in it. He was too locked in and psychotic.

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Speaker 2: Right now, this is somebody you could tap into. He

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Speaker 2: gonna reach out and show love to you and whatever

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Speaker 2: you ask and folks try to help you with. But

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Speaker 2: like a this is one of the people that if

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Speaker 2: an opponent of his, he had a gift to be

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Speaker 2: able to lock in in a way like no other.

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Speaker 2: I literally, even when I played against him and hated

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Speaker 2: at it like bro to lock in and to max out.

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Speaker 1: And to like mentally commit the way he do.

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Speaker 2: I felt like I would be exhausted every night like

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Speaker 2: is how this motherfucker go every night for sure. So

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Speaker 2: if there was anybody to really try and lock into

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Speaker 2: one of the real players that I felt like when

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you to follow that question.

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Speaker 4: In the perfect world, who would you love to learn

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Speaker 4: who would you for today's game? I would say, I mean,

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Speaker 4: just just to notice what he done, like what he

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Speaker 4: I would definitely see myself doing that, and I want

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Speaker 4: to be I'm not gonna be perfect when I get

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Speaker 4: the knowledge and the information to know what it takes.

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Speaker 4: So I feel like that's one person I can definitely

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Speaker 4: put myself in the best position and put my team

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Speaker 4: in the best posistion to win a championship. But you

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Speaker 4: want to get better at right now? Like what I know,

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Speaker 4: you got some pluses, But what's some things you want

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Speaker 4: to get better at?

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Speaker 2: I would say mentally, just learning how to let go

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Speaker 2: of things, knowing that really just within basketball, it's a

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Speaker 2: lot of time on the clock and it's it's a

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Speaker 2: long game. Learn learning how not to let things snowball

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Speaker 2: and just learning how to leave things alone and move

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Speaker 2: really learning how to suit the ball consistently. Really those

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Speaker 2: two things I definitely see myself. I mean, once I

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Speaker 4: What's your favorite part of the game. What's the one

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Speaker 4: thing you love about the game. I think my favorite

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Speaker 4: part of the game is really just, I mean the plan.

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Speaker 4: I'm able to get off a lot, I would say

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Speaker 4: mentally physically, and it's just a lot comes with that.

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 2: It's not really pressure or anything, but just knowing what

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Speaker 2: the game of basketball to do for myself, my family, generations,

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Speaker 2: and just seeing what other guys have done that's retired

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Speaker 2: get back to the community. I definitely want to do

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Speaker 1: Who all did you bring with you to the draft?

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Speaker 1: To the draft? I think that's gonna sit at the table.

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Speaker 2: I know for a fact my mom and dad, girlfriend,

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Speaker 2: and two of my uncles. But then the people that's

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Speaker 2: been around, been a part of this process, this journey,

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Speaker 2: that's a family that that's not gonna be at the table.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna be up in a suite somewhere and when

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Speaker 2: it's time for us all to connect and we all

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Speaker 2: meet each other again.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be It's gonna be pretty crazy. Tell me this.

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Speaker 2: I want to how much value do you put into

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Speaker 2: your decision that you made to go to the G

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Speaker 2: League as far as like getting you ready, because I mean,

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Speaker 2: obviously the G League is going to be discontinued, like

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Speaker 2: what a G League ignited will be discontinued, But like

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Speaker 2: for you personally, like as opposed to going to the

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Speaker 2: on that, how do you think that helped you as

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Speaker 2: opposed to going to actual college and the.

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Speaker 1: Yin and yang to that. Which one do you think

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Speaker 1: is better for you?

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Speaker 2: I think one When I decommitted from Texas, it was

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Speaker 2: me I had to take a step away from basketball

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Speaker 2: to realize what am I really trying to get out

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Speaker 2: this game? And I think going college, going to prost

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Speaker 2: that out of high school, that definitely, I mean, it

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Speaker 2: sets you up for what you're trying to get to.

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Speaker 2: For me, Ignite had everything I was looking forward within

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Speaker 2: the program, like I really focused on player development and

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Speaker 2: they're trying to give you as much as God.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know your boys.

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Speaker 2: They're trying to give you all the information and knowledge

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Speaker 2: that you would need to be successful in the NBA.

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Speaker 2: And then I know you're going to get there young.

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Speaker 2: I mean Ignite. It's a one to two year program

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Speaker 2: for most players. So it's like you're trying to get

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Speaker 2: there and get as much as you can, use everybody

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Speaker 2: to the full of their ability, and as soon as

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Speaker 2: you get.

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Speaker 1: There, it's stay to work. It was about the business.

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Speaker 2: For me and him was blessed his mama. My pops,

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Speaker 2: Everything, hats, pins, anything that was then all us.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about pins.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you like and like, but you fine, Like

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Speaker 1: You in this moment. You wonna be caring.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna be getting in a whirlwind, like he said,

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Speaker 2: You're gonna be doing all of that them they gonna

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Speaker 1: So they take everything from that because it's not just

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Speaker 3: It might be for your kids, your future kids. To

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Speaker 3: the to have it, so, you know, just taking the moaning. Man,

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Speaker 3: good luck man. Like I said, man, I've been watching

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Speaker 1: Man, and good luck with your future.

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Speaker 3: Bro.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, bron I know this, this,

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Speaker 2: I feel like I know already because you're a young boy.

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Speaker 1: I gotta do the fit check like as you bringing it.

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Speaker 2: Please no shorts, but even if not sure, I know

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Speaker 2: you're gonna have your ankles out. Ain't you your ankles coming?

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Speaker 2: Okay, no ankles showing, but if you're gonna have if

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Speaker 1: Memories and messages family, bring something.

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Speaker 2: I ain't got no message on none of my thing,

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Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, that's what's up. Okay, you got somebody you're

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Speaker 2: I mean, I've been hearing a lot of I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to step in the league and play

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Speaker 1: You play, you playing the summertime? Say I do I play?

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Speaker 2: I did at first, but I mean this song was

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Speaker 4: So everybody up here in the summertime, that's where you

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Speaker 4: And if you're looking to get that over the summer,

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Speaker 1: Camera.

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Speaker 2: That's the one advice how I give you, bro, Always

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Speaker 2: put yourself in position to be challenged world. Don't go

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Speaker 2: get your ass bus.

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Speaker 1: But also I'm about to go.

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Speaker 2: Bus ass Like that's what you go for everything Like

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Speaker 2: we was blessed Chicago Hoops. We had MJ who had

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Speaker 2: the way and Toron walking out. It was never I

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Speaker 2: played against Paul Piers, Facts, Scottie Pippen, stock House, Finley,

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Speaker 2: Always put yourself in the position to be challenged and

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Speaker 2: That's where iron shoppers iron for you. You don't want

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Speaker 1: You ain't getting no better about that. That's just getting it.

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Speaker 2: That just building your ego for what Because when you

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Speaker 2: go see them real people you ain't getting, You're gonna

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Speaker 1: Bro?

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Speaker 2: When you in the position you in gonna be a

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Speaker 2: your team gonna expect you to have expectations, you wanna

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Speaker 2: challenge yourself every day against people that's better than you.

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Speaker 2: Put yourself in position to play against them every day

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Speaker 2: because likely when you get to your team and when

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Speaker 4: So you gotta be ready for that shit. Yes, sir,

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Speaker 4: appreciate that. Good luck man, Man, don't listen. Remember this

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Speaker 4: hard work got you here, s gonna keep you here

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Speaker 4: and everybody out chilling doing whatever, enjoying life, locking on

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 4: A lot of people get here and think, Okay, I've

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Speaker 1: I'm good now.

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Speaker 4: The hardest thing in this league is to be consistent,

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Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: And people go away from the work, remember that the

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Speaker 1: work has got you here. Do what got you here?

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Speaker 2: Yimm good luck mans accordingly from everything you know, like

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Speaker 2: we rooting for you, bro for y'all knuckleheads KG certified.

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Speaker 2: So when you get it big and become an All Star,

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Speaker 2: I don't forget about us.

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Speaker 1: He canna still be tapping talk too big for your brito.

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Speaker 1: Sh with yo.

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Speaker 2: Right here right now, looking for some content, looking at

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Speaker 2: some love, be with you, so love back, Ain't it right?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying, And that's probably gonna be about

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Speaker 4: three four years when the chain's gonna be probably.

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Speaker 1: Getting out on that. You like, still fuck with us?

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Speaker 1: That's all right, everybody out there.

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Speaker 2: New York City NBA Draft twenty twenty four. Reband Players Tribune.

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Speaker 2: It's been a dope event. We couldn't be happier with

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Speaker 2: the turnout and everything that is going on. It's a

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Speaker 2: dope ven you man. We appreciate it. We'll be back

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Speaker 2: next year. Yes, shout out Ron Holland and there about

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