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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show with my brother.
Speaker 4: Everybody's speaking that Green fucking fantassee okay, sleeper.
Speaker 3: Hey j eighty points, eighty points, eighty points. Wow, let's go.
Speaker 3: Let's go eighty points.
Speaker 5: Talk.
Speaker 3: You're not playing, bro, Defensive Flair of the Year.
Speaker 4: Let me after, I got, I got, I gotta, I
Speaker 4: gotta run it real quick. I gotta, I gotta run
Speaker 4: the program. Hold on, show you what you did? Will
Speaker 4: you already know what you did? But Defensive Player of
Speaker 4: the Year candidate Draymond Green went eighteen eight five one block, oh,
Speaker 4: no steals though only two fouls and two turnovers. No
Speaker 4: I had a steal. They shortened me. You know what
Speaker 4: they did? Y'all gotta stop doing my dog like that.
Speaker 4: Deflections are steals in Jmond Green's world.
Speaker 3: It's rough. We gotta get that that deep? What is it?
Speaker 3: That's a fact. You know how you feeling on the road, bro?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying? So I feel great, brother.
Speaker 3: I kicked it last night. We tried.
Speaker 1: And when we got in here to the Boston, I'm by
Speaker 1: the way, this is this hotel bringing me great memories. Man,
Speaker 1: I was recording podcasts in this hotel. A win in
Speaker 1: the final, this is great. But you know, we got
Speaker 1: to Boston and I sat in my room and kicked
Speaker 1: him a try. And every now and then used to
Speaker 1: be more frequently, but you know they, yeah, they start
Speaker 1: to grow up on you.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: Every now and then, though, I get a text And
Speaker 1: when I get this text message BD, it be my rook,
Speaker 1: my young fella. He'll hit me and he say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: can I come through? And he just come through and
Speaker 1: he just sit and listen to me talk and I
Speaker 1: just try to give him a bunch of game and
Speaker 1: we just sit and chop it up. And we sat
Speaker 1: here till folk something in the morning last night with
Speaker 1: my young fella, my Rook, who I have the honor
Speaker 1: of welcome in to the show today more money.
Speaker 3: As I'm excited to welcome the champ to the show.
Speaker 3: You know, we.
Speaker 1: Always talk about things that you need something to talk about,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, And like in this league
Speaker 1: just saying I'm in the league.
Speaker 3: Ain't enough, Like you need.
Speaker 1: Something to talk about and you yourself, which means me
Speaker 1: myself and the way I feel just when they got
Speaker 1: you a badratulations you signed the extension pay for with
Speaker 1: the Warriors, your first extension. How does it feel to
Speaker 1: get that first extension? And did you go by yourself
Speaker 1: something once you got that?
Speaker 6: So you know, being in the NBA, you get there,
Speaker 6: you got this, You got this image of what the
Speaker 6: NBA is like and what it is as a kid
Speaker 6: growing up. But then just like going through life and
Speaker 6: everything and just being able to separate the tune between
Speaker 6: the NBA and their real life and just having that
Speaker 6: like financial stability, like that life changing money, life changing situations.
Speaker 6: It needs it to take that for granted when you
Speaker 6: stuck in the NBA world, but separating it, you're really
Speaker 6: able to appreciate what that is, what you're doing it for.
Speaker 5: So the first extension, it was amazing for me, just
Speaker 5: appreciative of.
Speaker 6: It and just just kind of solidified stuff for me
Speaker 6: a little bit and now you can just hoop and
Speaker 6: have fun with it.
Speaker 5: So yeah, that's when everything for me.
Speaker 3: And would you say, is that is that motivation?
Speaker 4: You know, like because usually you sign that contract, you're like,
Speaker 4: all right, here here's what I did. I committed to this.
Speaker 4: Now you know what what what is the next pans?
Speaker 5: You know what I mean? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so and I try not to get too caught
Speaker 6: up and look like, you.
Speaker 5: Know what's next? What what I'm what I'm trying to
Speaker 5: get to next?
Speaker 6: And like because I've been working for this so hard,
Speaker 6: so first I want to be able to appreciate what
Speaker 6: I did and then being able to get that. But
Speaker 6: being this the NBA season, you got a game tomorrow,
Speaker 6: so you can't really basking it too long. Uh but yeah,
Speaker 6: just summer in the middle of it is, you know,
Speaker 6: it's working for the next thing. While I've been appreciating
Speaker 6: what I did.
Speaker 1: That's that's big time BD that you that you have. Like,
Speaker 1: what would you say your most lavish by was I
Speaker 1: probably bought like a house?
Speaker 3: I guess, Uh yeah, I probably bought a house.
Speaker 4: I bought a house in New Orleans, this big asshouse
Speaker 4: in the Garden District.
Speaker 3: That ship was haunted.
Speaker 4: Uh bro, I was scared as hell that shit was haunted.
Speaker 4: It took me like a year to remodel this ship.
Speaker 4: I had the worst year in my life. When I
Speaker 4: was remodeling next year, it was cracking, but yeah, it
Speaker 4: was a big and then the house turned into be
Speaker 4: the real World's house, Real World New Orleans.
Speaker 3: So they trashed my ship.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they you know when they took the toilet to
Speaker 4: the tooth brush, the one. Yeah, so I would say
Speaker 4: that was it. I bought a big ass house and
Speaker 4: didn't even need it. I mean, I ain't as smart
Speaker 4: as you, Moses, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I never bought my first house. I never bought my
Speaker 1: first house. My wife and I oh, perfect.
Speaker 6: I remember, I remember you was telling me. Jerry was
Speaker 6: in the locker room a day. He was telling me
Speaker 6: like before the before the side of the deal might
Speaker 6: even a year ago.
Speaker 5: So just talking about when you get it, just.
Speaker 6: The important to being that, like keep your money and
Speaker 6: investing it rather than tied it up and something too.
Speaker 6: So even even like getting getting a deal and everything.
Speaker 6: It's really that's really been the biggest thing I've been
Speaker 6: on just trying to learn figure out money, learn money
Speaker 6: because I ain't never.
Speaker 5: Had it before, So just figuring that out first.
Speaker 1: If there was one thing that I could do, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: If there was one thing that I could do over again.
Speaker 3: The one thing I would.
Speaker 1: Tell a young guy to get their first big contract
Speaker 1: is that next year, after you just get that first
Speaker 1: big contract, live the same life absolutely on the rookie
Speaker 1: deal for at least a year.
Speaker 3: Because.
Speaker 1: If you could save more by living that same life,
Speaker 1: if you can get ahead on the savings that first
Speaker 1: year and help that next egg, then moving forward, it
Speaker 1: makes everything else wayler. But when you adjust your lifestyle
Speaker 1: the first year, then you start picking up the bigger building,
Speaker 1: you don't necessarily to save as much. Saying it so
Speaker 1: that that would be my advice, and getting that first
Speaker 1: one is like that for one year, the same apartment
Speaker 1: that you live in, live in that same apartment, the
Speaker 1: same car you drive, drive that same car, like all
Speaker 1: of those things.
Speaker 3: At least for the first year. Just keep all the same, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I would, it'll really help you get ahead.
Speaker 4: Is basketball is free. Everything you do in the NBA
Speaker 4: you get for free, you know what I mean? So
Speaker 4: what do you need all this money for?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: And so that that's a that's a good way to
Speaker 3: look at it.
Speaker 4: It's like, Yo, I live for free, I hoop for free,
Speaker 4: I go to the gym, I et for free, Like
Speaker 4: my lifestyle is free.
Speaker 3: So where do you need to go and spend you know,
Speaker 3: be an extravagant for.
Speaker 5: What you know what I mean?
Speaker 6: And me and me being from like off a little rock, Arkansas,
Speaker 6: I ain't never had much growing up, so like so
Speaker 6: you know, some people ain't never had nothing. When they
Speaker 6: get something, they want to wile out. But I'm that
Speaker 6: ain't that ain't really me? Like, I ain't never had nothing,
Speaker 6: So I'm cool with not much honestly, so being able
Speaker 6: to because I heard somebody told me that a while ago,
Speaker 6: like you don't need to be rich when you're twenty
Speaker 6: years old. You need to be rich when you fifty,
Speaker 6: when you got kids and grandkids and whatever that then
Speaker 6: you need some money for real.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I ain't in too much to rest to
Speaker 5: change up.
Speaker 1: The problem with that is the earlier you get rich
Speaker 1: to better because there's this thing called compounding interest that
Speaker 1: the sooner you get the money, the more money it
Speaker 1: makes for you.
Speaker 3: So that must have been a broke person.
Speaker 1: That told you you ain't need to get Yeah, you
Speaker 1: need to have money, said it like you need to
Speaker 1: be you don't need to exploit or worry about being
Speaker 1: rich in your twenties, save your money, be rich in.
Speaker 3: Your fifty right, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: But you older, you need to get it.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's that's great advice about saying that is great advice.
Speaker 1: I thought they were saying, who is this person talking
Speaker 1: to my dog?
Speaker 3: No, he got it right.
Speaker 1: All right, Now we got a question you you try
Speaker 1: to tell him him and need to have money until
Speaker 1: he's fifty. But moving into the you know, obviously what
Speaker 1: we all want to talk about season, it's just going
Speaker 1: into the season. You know, you're you're you're going into
Speaker 1: your you just started your fourth You're not going until
Speaker 1: you just started your fourth year. But just want to
Speaker 1: rewind a little bit, just going back to the beginning
Speaker 1: of the preseason. I felt like you approached this season
Speaker 1: with a different mindset and not a different mindset and
Speaker 1: as respect your work ethic, because I've always seen you
Speaker 1: work since you've been here.
Speaker 3: I always tell people like Kevan Looney is the most professional.
Speaker 1: Player I've ever played with when it comes to just
Speaker 1: being an absolute pro, and second to him is you.
Speaker 1: And you know your second because you just don't have
Speaker 1: the body of work and the length, but the way
Speaker 1: you've always gone about your business is admirable and respectable.
Speaker 1: But like I said, I felt like you approached this year,
Speaker 1: this preseason and this season with a different mindset. What
Speaker 1: was some of those goals that you set for yourself
Speaker 1: to come in with this new mindset and this you know,
Speaker 1: I felt like at times before you be aggressive and
Speaker 1: then like not no, and like now it's just like
Speaker 1: you're You're seemed more certain of what it is and
Speaker 1: who you are.
Speaker 3: Just talk to me about that and making that adjustment.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So a lot of that was this summer, like
Speaker 6: going into it because as much as you know, you
Speaker 6: got to say levelheaded and not worried about whatever it is.
Speaker 6: Like I went into training camp with like I want
Speaker 6: to like I can sign a contract this year, not
Speaker 6: knowing what it's gonna be and trying to figure that
Speaker 6: out Like this is like so going into training camp
Speaker 6: kind of showing what I've been working on. But this
Speaker 6: summer I was working out at Proactive. I got dashed,
Speaker 6: and I was really learning a lot about footwork and
Speaker 6: how to be the guy. What was you trying to
Speaker 6: get to and stuff like that. And that was really
Speaker 6: big for me because my whole life I've been a
Speaker 6: hard worker, like I've been a work for it, but
Speaker 6: realizing that, like it's more about what you're working on
Speaker 6: and how hard you're working sometimes. So that was the
Speaker 6: biggest thing that switched for me this summer and going
Speaker 6: into the season. Even mine said why So that was
Speaker 6: being and I think that kind of showed a lot
Speaker 6: of the progress. But then to answer your question of
Speaker 6: the mindset going in and the difference of its kind
Speaker 6: of just been like, I know what to expect now.
Speaker 5: I know at the NBA, like I.
Speaker 6: Know what coaches is like this and that, and for
Speaker 6: me it's really just been I ain't I've been I'm
Speaker 6: trying to get playing time, trying to stay in the rotation,
Speaker 6: trying to do what the coach wont like. That was
Speaker 6: kind of the game that I played a lot earlier on.
Speaker 6: But then once you play that game long enough, you realize, Man,
Speaker 6: it's gonna go. It's gonna be how it's gonna be
Speaker 6: no matter what you do, honestly, So I'm just hoop
Speaker 6: and let it.
Speaker 5: Let all that go ahead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like that, you know, Steph returned and playing
Speaker 4: the Wizards Wizards game, I can't It's like a tongue twister.
Speaker 3: I can't say with it.
Speaker 4: With it, I said with a list, But before that,
Speaker 4: you started three games without Steph, you know, and you
Speaker 4: was bawling, And what I saw was, you know, stuff
Speaker 4: being active on the bench with you. Can you talk
Speaker 4: about you know how it felt, you know, how you
Speaker 4: feeling in those three games.
Speaker 3: But then also just a relationship.
Speaker 4: You know, as a young dude, you know, making this
Speaker 4: progress that you got with your vest like Steph and
Speaker 4: definitely dre.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, It's been an ideal situation for me coming into
Speaker 6: the league and having these vets, having these dudes. But
Speaker 6: something that I learned, like as I got older, is
Speaker 6: that just because you got the people there, don't mean
Speaker 6: you're gonna learn nothing from or don't mean you're gonna
Speaker 6: get the best from them. You gotta earn that, like
Speaker 6: you gotta you gotta get that respect. I ain't just
Speaker 6: gonna sit up here and talk to somebody that might
Speaker 6: not want to get talked to.
Speaker 5: You might not want to learn nothing.
Speaker 6: So like part of the professionalism that I come with
Speaker 6: every day dealing with anybody is to get that relationship
Speaker 6: and get that respect. Like if I'm showing up late
Speaker 6: to everything we're dealing with. Then you might not want
Speaker 6: to You're gonna come with a different thing to offer.
Speaker 6: But I want to get everything I can get from
Speaker 6: Dre's and stuffs and cps and dudes that I've been around.
Speaker 6: So that's why I ask so many questions. I'm opening
Speaker 6: that door so you don't got to worry about how
Speaker 6: to talk to me. I tell you like I want it.
Speaker 6: I want the game. I want to talk about it
Speaker 6: like I used to. I would go to Dre all
Speaker 6: the time on the plane and we'll watch them together.
Speaker 6: But it's just because I want you to be okay
Speaker 6: to come talk to me about anything, because I want
Speaker 6: that from you. You gotta earn that and get that
Speaker 6: from people. So like you was asking about Steph In particularly,
Speaker 6: that's a big thing with him. I feel like he's
Speaker 6: not a guy that's gonna come up to you and
Speaker 6: just give you game like I want you to have this.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna talk to you, talk to you. But if
Speaker 6: you ask him a question, he'll go on for however
Speaker 6: long you want.
Speaker 5: To talk to him. You just got to go right right.
Speaker 6: You gotta go knock on the door and there he
Speaker 6: there he all is he ready to do it. But yes,
Speaker 6: but that's that's that's a lot that man give you.
Speaker 1: He he walked you through every step of it. We
Speaker 1: could be in practice one of them going to him
Speaker 1: for advice. We've been moved on to the next drill.
Speaker 1: He still be over there in the course to him.
Speaker 1: We all just be standing in the waiting for him
Speaker 1: to stop give you the most profound answer.
Speaker 6: This one on one too. He ain't doing it in
Speaker 6: front of everybody. Man body see like, no.
Speaker 3: He's talking. That's it.
Speaker 1: Nobody else have a clue what the hell you talking about?
Speaker 1: It's very quiet. It's over there amongst them too, and that's.
Speaker 4: Ain't Moses. I do, I do got a question? Have
Speaker 4: you ever asked Steph a question? And he goes, oh, man,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Damn.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh.
Speaker 5: Man, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: I feel like that's the thing that I like about
Speaker 6: Steph is that like he he he really real and
Speaker 6: like so far even to say like if he don't
Speaker 6: know the answer to the question, he'll be like, nah,
Speaker 6: I don't know, and he's not gonna come up with
Speaker 6: a fake answer because he's supposed to know or whatever
Speaker 6: that is, and he'll go figure it out to come
Speaker 6: back and tell you, but he don't know.
Speaker 4: He'll say that, Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 4: J asked him about that shot in the Olympics. I mean,
Speaker 4: I've seen you, You've seen him make incredible shots. Do
Speaker 4: you ever go up to him and be like, Yo,
Speaker 4: how'd you do that? And I wonder if it's the
Speaker 4: same answer he gave Ramon.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I ain't never.
Speaker 6: I really ain't never went up to him and asked
Speaker 6: him after because honest, to do so many things, but like,
Speaker 6: but no, I ain't know what I'm.
Speaker 4: He just seemed like hella humble and like he'd just
Speaker 4: be doing shut out there and don't know what he'd
Speaker 4: be doing, but he'd be doing it and he can't
Speaker 4: explain it, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, that be the case a lot of Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 6: I get what you're saying. That'd be the case a
Speaker 6: lot of times when I'm asking him about stuff. Is
Speaker 6: that he really just because he's so free spirited with
Speaker 6: it on the court and everything, it's not everything is
Speaker 6: completely figured out on the tea.
Speaker 5: It's like shooting.
Speaker 6: You know, when I ask him about shooting, I might
Speaker 6: ask him about a turn that I noticed that he
Speaker 6: does I've been watching. I noticed that he does something
Speaker 6: and he'll he'll grab a ball and be like, well,
Speaker 6: I guess, and then he'll tell me why where it
Speaker 6: came from or something he didn't do what every shot?
Speaker 3: Hilarious.
Speaker 1: That's funny that stuff though, And that is just greatness though,
Speaker 1: like you just be in it, right, like just doing
Speaker 1: ith it. You know, it's funny. I heard him say
Speaker 1: the other today. He said, yesterday, that's one thing Steph
Speaker 1: ain't gonna do. Step The last thing he going to
Speaker 1: do is sit there and overrandalyze the situation, which explains
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't explain at all, but which also
Speaker 1: explains like a part of his greatness and why he
Speaker 1: can shoot the way he shoot because he have short
Speaker 1: term memory. We was breaking a hunder yesterday and Steph
Speaker 1: hit his first three on the court and BP said.
Speaker 3: So, I'm like, who first three? Back out there?
Speaker 1: You knock it down, touch my hand, touch my hand
Speaker 1: so I can hit the shot, and Steph saying.
Speaker 3: I should touch your Steph touched his hand. He stipp
Speaker 3: should touch your head.
Speaker 1: Get all out your head, get out your brain, brain,
Speaker 1: get all out of your head and go play. And
Speaker 1: like but That's that's how he is. It's always just.
Speaker 3: Like yo, what you're thinking about, like why you're thinking?
Speaker 1: And he just do what I'm saying that And that's,
Speaker 1: like I said, that's a part of his greatness. And
Speaker 1: it being your fourth for you, you want a championship
Speaker 1: in your first year, so you know how it looks,
Speaker 1: you know what things look like, you know how it
Speaker 1: feels a lot of guys in year four can't say that.
Speaker 1: You know you want You won your first championship before
Speaker 1: I won my first championship, which I own necessarily love.
Speaker 3: But it's cool. I'll give you that one.
Speaker 1: But in saying that, a lot of talk has been
Speaker 1: put on this about the depth of this team. What
Speaker 1: what what is? What is your takeaway about this team?
Speaker 1: Like what stands out most to you about this team?
Speaker 6: It would have to be to depth, I mean just
Speaker 6: kind of wise without with so many, with so many guys,
Speaker 6: so many players, and given that, I have been able
Speaker 6: to see what the playoffs is like, what the stretch
Speaker 6: is like. The biggest thing is that it's not about
Speaker 6: the first five. You get to the playoffs and then
Speaker 6: it always seemed like, man, they would have won if
Speaker 6: that dude didn't get hurt or if that situation was different.
Speaker 6: And that's the biggest thing about going down the stretch
Speaker 6: is that it's not gonna be as you playing. It's
Speaker 6: not gonna be perfect, it's not gonna be the way
Speaker 6: or it's supposed to be. So having enough to withstayd
Speaker 6: almost anything is a superpowers a cheeko almost.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the fact I always say to people, you
Speaker 1: win championships six through ten, you don't win championships one
Speaker 1: to five. We see grade one to fives all the time.
Speaker 1: Every team is almost built to have a great one
Speaker 1: to five, Like everybody's built like who's my starters?
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 1: If you just have that, you're screwed. Like you it
Speaker 1: is absolutely necessary that your six to ten be strong.
Speaker 1: Your six to ten need to be able to win
Speaker 1: you games in the regular season, which in turn, they
Speaker 1: can win you games in the regular season. They may
Speaker 1: sneaky one during the playoffs, but during the playoffs, your
Speaker 1: best players gotta be playing great.
Speaker 3: Ain't no sneaking games.
Speaker 1: But you know me, I know you best players got
Speaker 1: to be playing great, but your six through ten got
Speaker 1: to be strong and your playoffs, you know, it become
Speaker 1: aid that sometimes it become down, but that got to
Speaker 1: be so strong in order to win, and a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't understand that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how would you describe your experience playing defense alongside
Speaker 4: my dog Jmond Green? And then also we talked about
Speaker 4: like previous episodes, how like it was a challenge, you know,
Speaker 4: guarding somebody like Jason Kidd, you got Donovan Mitchell, you
Speaker 4: got Sga coming up, talk about you know, garden players
Speaker 4: like that. But then also you know you got you
Speaker 4: got the man right here, this defensive player of the
Speaker 4: year right here. Like how how has you know the
Speaker 4: experience with you and Drake, you know, affected your defensive game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 6: I would talk about it my rookie year to where
Speaker 6: it's like I'll be guarding somebody and it feels like
Speaker 6: they just hesitant, like they don't want to make moves
Speaker 6: in a certain way, and like because they see me,
Speaker 6: and then they don't they don't want to attack their
Speaker 6: attack here. And then I realized the fact that it's
Speaker 6: like like in a movie or something to where it's
Speaker 6: like the dude, the dude in the front, I'm already
Speaker 6: looking at you, but then I got this big old
Speaker 6: dude behind me, they see and then acting a certain
Speaker 6: way this and that. And then as I've been able
Speaker 6: to be become a better defender too, Now I can
Speaker 6: mess with him. I can take more gambles and kind
Speaker 6: of affect the ball, affect that because they always have
Speaker 6: that hesitancy that because Dre he's not going he's not
Speaker 6: like like halfway showing like no, he's standing right here
Speaker 6: like where you where you we double team and you
Speaker 6: are both because he can react and get back to
Speaker 6: where he's supposed to be. So just having that behind
Speaker 6: you at all time, it just lets you become a
Speaker 6: different player different.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, and then yeah, that's a big shout
Speaker 4: out man, like you know.
Speaker 1: That big it will be high, you know, had that
Speaker 1: big old security dude, that big old og gangster.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, I got damn well, I could
Speaker 1: be out here gambling.
Speaker 3: Boy. Uh it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 4: And then talk about like you know, uh, you are
Speaker 4: now your fourth year, so you're gonna be facing the
Speaker 4: Donovan mitchells Now the SGA is like y'all got them
Speaker 4: too coming up?
Speaker 3: What do you think about that game?
Speaker 4: And you know, what's your strategy on you know, your
Speaker 4: approach when you playing against these you know, superstar shooting guards.
Speaker 6: It's like, since I was talking about like learning the
Speaker 6: game and everything throughout the summertime, like I was watching
Speaker 6: a lot of film on a lot of different guys,
Speaker 6: and I watch it differently because now I'm looking at footwork.
Speaker 6: Why why are you good? Why do you score? Why
Speaker 6: do you beat this guy? Why do you beat people?
Speaker 6: All the time. So I was thinking about it for myself,
Speaker 6: but even on the defensive end, now that you understand it,
Speaker 6: you understand it both ways, and that allows me to
Speaker 6: kind of realize too, Like were dealing with those guys.
Speaker 6: Everybody says that you don't stop uh SGA or whatever
Speaker 6: player like some of those top.
Speaker 5: Players, but you can make them do what you want
Speaker 5: them to.
Speaker 6: Do, and then team the defense being able to send
Speaker 6: them to the help, may have to take away a
Speaker 6: couple of things and just have a game plan like that.
Speaker 6: That's the more you understand the game, the more you
Speaker 6: simplify it, and that's that's what you can do on
Speaker 6: the defer.
Speaker 3: Thing.
Speaker 1: I always speak about it, as I said before, just
Speaker 1: your professionalism and your demeanor, you being you're quiet, to
Speaker 1: most although you're not quiet if you know you, but
Speaker 1: you more have a quiet, more reserved personality. And so
Speaker 1: for me personally, I always like to speak you up,
Speaker 1: you know, speak up things I think you do well
Speaker 1: you as a person, all of these things you know
Speaker 1: about your game.
Speaker 3: But in assessing yourself, what what is.
Speaker 1: It that you hang your hat on when speaking of
Speaker 1: your game that you like, this is who I am,
Speaker 1: This is what I hang my hat on.
Speaker 3: This is what separates me from my peers. What is
Speaker 3: that to you?
Speaker 6: For you, yeah, I would say shooting is my is
Speaker 6: my theme, and that's been like I've gotten better at it,
Speaker 6: figured it out and all of that. But shooting is
Speaker 6: the thing that I do. But then outside of that,
Speaker 6: I've been working on like ball headling and being able
Speaker 6: to control the ball, come off pick and rolls and
Speaker 6: kind of read situations like that, the hustle plays and
Speaker 6: all of that. I've had to do it so much
Speaker 6: to where that's part of me now.
Speaker 5: And then defense I.
Speaker 6: Can guard one through four, can switch me on the
Speaker 6: five if you need to every once in a while,
Speaker 6: but really just have multi perfect.
Speaker 5: But shooting is my thing.
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Speaker 4: Clay Thompson is about to return to the Chase Center
Speaker 4: for the first time.
Speaker 3: Damn uh this next week too.
Speaker 1: What do you expect to be the what do you
Speaker 1: expect for the atmosphere? Uh? And then also if you
Speaker 1: were to describe your relationship with Clay Thompson, how would
Speaker 1: you what?
Speaker 3: What words would you choose?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Clay is such a like everybody talk about like
Speaker 6: free spearing and this and that, but Clay really just
Speaker 6: a real dude.
Speaker 5: He he don't He.
Speaker 6: Don't do nothing for no interior murders. He not doing
Speaker 6: this because it looks good or because these people gonna think. No,
Speaker 6: he's doing it because he wants to do boss. But
Speaker 6: even like like dealing with him, that's been my that's
Speaker 6: been my dog since I've been here. In conversations, just
Speaker 6: that same feeling like he let you on the boat
Speaker 6: because he want to hang out with you for a while,
Speaker 6: not because no other reason, Like so we still be
Speaker 6: playing chests and stuff all the time. It's just an
Speaker 6: authentic relationship with authentic dude.
Speaker 3: He that he who's been winning in chess.
Speaker 5: I've been I've been hot lately. I've been.
Speaker 6: I got him like three four games in a row.
Speaker 6: But before that, I was talking to you and told
Speaker 6: you he was getting off. He had me like five roa.
Speaker 6: I just started fighting back.
Speaker 5: So yeah, we we were pretty nick He up like
Speaker 5: two games the rest.
Speaker 4: What was about to say, BD, No, I'm just looking
Speaker 4: forward to this matchup. I already know, uh you know,
Speaker 4: Clay called called dray.
Speaker 3: Mina, I called Drada. He called you coming in the
Speaker 3: Chase Center. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: He I'm gonna have to come out for that one. Listen,
Speaker 1: check this out most So I'm working out at you
Speaker 1: Little this summer and you know Dallas come in, well, Kyrie, Clayed,
Speaker 1: a couple of a they come in at the gym
Speaker 1: after I finished my workout and I had to run
Speaker 1: that day because I have pilates right after. So soon
Speaker 1: as I finished, and I ain't get to see Clay,
Speaker 1: but I have saw a couple of other guys and
Speaker 1: then try saw Clay come in and trive Uh was
Speaker 1: talking to Kyrie and Clay walked off to kr like,
Speaker 1: ky don't be talking to the ops.
Speaker 3: So then Trif came and told me that Clay said that.
Speaker 1: He was like, you're thinking he was serious, and I
Speaker 1: was like, well, it's Clay, so he's joking, but he's
Speaker 1: definitely a little serious.
Speaker 3: Like, but he's joking, but he's definitely serious.
Speaker 1: And so sure enough, the next day I'm working out,
Speaker 1: they come in again, and the after me and I'm
Speaker 1: talking to car and he walk up you talking to
Speaker 1: the ops, and I.
Speaker 9: Said, yes, try he's there's definitely some seriousness to it.
Speaker 9: He just said the same thing to me. So therefore
Speaker 9: I'm gonna run through his chest when we play them now, but.
Speaker 3: You have to.
Speaker 1: And that's how that's where that whole thing came from,
Speaker 1: because he's just like, oh, they're the Obviously we all
Speaker 1: love Clay, but this love Clay is also know that
Speaker 1: he's gonna come in there trying to murder us.
Speaker 3: He's not trying. He's not trying to be afraid.
Speaker 5: That's that's why you.
Speaker 1: Exactly, So I'm looking for I ain't seen Clay post
Speaker 1: up with Dallas at all.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be trying to run you to the post mode.
Speaker 1: He go, yeah, he's gonna be on all of that.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be. I gotta get to that.
Speaker 4: I probably gotta show up and pop up for that game.
Speaker 4: That's that's gonna be a historic game, I know. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I gotta. Y'all gotta know you like the OP too,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You can't let him get an OP advantage because you
Speaker 1: know he's a dog, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, someone engineer and he engineering that. That that war
Speaker 3: room right now for yall.
Speaker 6: You know how you know everybody talking about like saying,
Speaker 6: like you playing against your friend or brother whatever it is,
Speaker 6: and everybody be like, oh, they but they playing Buddy
Speaker 6: bart in that. But when you really dealing with your brother,
Speaker 6: like it's, you play harder than when you when you
Speaker 6: play against anybody else, Like you know, you want to,
Speaker 6: you want to go at it with him. He been
Speaker 6: here all this time before I've been here obviously, so
Speaker 6: you see him go at it with these dudes, and
Speaker 6: that's why you like him.
Speaker 5: That's why you like what he brings to the table.
Speaker 6: So just because he's on the other side, don't mean
Speaker 6: he's still that same dude. That's that's why you like him.
Speaker 6: So you know you can't he gonna bust your head
Speaker 6: if he was just like he was busting.
Speaker 5: The other dude's head if.
Speaker 6: You don't let you guard down.
Speaker 4: And raise and Little Rock ark Born and raised in
Speaker 4: Little Rock, Arkansas, you transferred to Mount Verdie Academy in
Speaker 4: Florida after your sophomore year in high school to further
Speaker 4: your basketball career. Before we get to the Stack squad,
Speaker 4: you were all, who did you model your game after
Speaker 4: when you were growing up?
Speaker 6: Model my game after being being from Arkansas? You know,
Speaker 6: you don't really don't got a team or nothing.
Speaker 5: So I just grew up watching a lot of different players.
Speaker 6: I like Ray Allen a lot. I don't shoot like them.
Speaker 6: I never really modeled my form at them. I just
Speaker 6: like to watch them.
Speaker 5: Uh, I like Joe Johnson.
Speaker 6: Being from Little Rock, h I grew up. I grew
Speaker 6: up watching a lot of different guys though. Uh So,
Speaker 6: just taking certain things from different guys and really.
Speaker 5: Just being a fan of the sport, that's what's up.
Speaker 6: And then two guys in my city like I ain't.
Speaker 6: I don't only watch NBA players, I ain't only take
Speaker 6: like I'm watching it home, but I'm in middle school
Speaker 6: year high school.
Speaker 5: More crazy, I'm about to get.
Speaker 3: I had a guy like that one up Man.
Speaker 1: We had Anthony Rovers and Pete and to watch Pete man,
Speaker 1: people's crazy half court freshman come dribbling across half court
Speaker 1: and the whole gym. Literally when he starts dribbling the
Speaker 1: ball from the back court, everybody go as he crossed
Speaker 1: half court, they get louder.
Speaker 3: Did he raise? Up Man? So crazy?
Speaker 1: And like Big Ranch in my hometown playing at the
Speaker 1: at the Vet's Park and.
Speaker 3: Still Bill Dell Man, all these guys Sean Matthews.
Speaker 1: I learned how to like the tricks into the trades
Speaker 1: of the basketball game from those guys like them old
Speaker 1: hands thirty eight years old, they still playing in the
Speaker 1: rec leagues and O g Fred Hall Rvy. I learned
Speaker 1: to your point more, I learned a lot of tricks.
Speaker 3: My uncle Benny.
Speaker 1: I learned a lot of tricks to the trades from
Speaker 1: playing against those guys.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, so now that's.
Speaker 1: Fire, that's hey, man, I told them Man Moses from
Speaker 1: Little Rock, Arkansas. Man, you just ain't getting that from man.
Speaker 1: You're not getting that from many people. But your senior year, y'all,
Speaker 1: you were on the number one team in the country
Speaker 1: Kye Countyhawn, Scottie Bars, Ryan them hard. Yeah, they they
Speaker 1: they team was crazy. Uh, y'all had a couple more guys.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're messing.
Speaker 6: Up right and they start white.
Speaker 4: Before and how much are you?
Speaker 3: How much they paid they have to pay you?
Speaker 6: Yeah, because that team right there, we took me, Me
Speaker 6: and Kay and Ryan. We all went there the year before,
Speaker 6: so we was already there and then they did it
Speaker 6: became back. So it wasn't even like they put that
Speaker 6: team together like on the spot.
Speaker 3: That's that's that's that's a crazy team. That's a sick team.
Speaker 5: Dud.
Speaker 3: But you, you and Kate, You and k County hen
Speaker 3: with roommates? How was it? How was it being roommates
Speaker 3: with Kay?
Speaker 1: You know, as we get into this like you're living situation,
Speaker 1: you move out of your parents' house, you moved to
Speaker 1: Mount Vern, Florida, and your roomor with k count of
Speaker 1: hell that first experience with a roommate, how was that?
Speaker 5: It was different? For sure?
Speaker 6: Well, well for me, I grew up with like with dudes,
Speaker 6: like I'm always in my homeboy house. I got brothers,
Speaker 6: I got my brother I got cousins, Like I grew
Speaker 6: up around people, So that part wasn't hard for me.
Speaker 6: But my first year there, I can't even put it
Speaker 6: on the scalehouse all that room was we was in
Speaker 6: but like like my like in the room, my bend
Speaker 6: is here, k Ben, here's like this much room in
Speaker 6: between the two beds, Like it's crazy how small this
Speaker 6: room been. So given that was a situation, we used
Speaker 6: to get into it about stuff like we used to
Speaker 6: always get into it because he like had a light
Speaker 6: off in the room in daytime.
Speaker 5: I'm like, it's daytime. I don't want to be sitting
Speaker 5: in the press.
Speaker 6: And so we like we used to get in to
Speaker 6: it leaving the room and then light on my side,
Speaker 6: so if I want the light on, bro. And so
Speaker 6: that year we used to get into it a lot,
Speaker 6: but it wasn't never like we really into it.
Speaker 5: We ain't argue much, but that's my dog especially now.
Speaker 6: And then the second year we had a bigger role
Speaker 6: than everything, and we've been to we brothers at that
Speaker 6: point where you argue, like brothers, it's not even so
Speaker 6: we were and you living with these dudes were on
Speaker 6: the road together playing basketball together. But we just got
Speaker 6: a special relationship from being so close all the time,
Speaker 6: even we don't want.
Speaker 5: To be so oh yeah, that's that's that's my dog.
Speaker 3: What with the team like that.
Speaker 1: The better player then at that time, it's not how
Speaker 1: it always turns out like to be the better pro.
Speaker 3: When you look at y'all.
Speaker 1: Team, has it shaped out kind of the way that
Speaker 1: y'all thought it was shaped out from that point of
Speaker 1: like who was the top dogs or who's having a
Speaker 1: better NBA career?
Speaker 3: Like how has that shaped out for that team?
Speaker 5: It's really been It's probably like similar to the way
Speaker 5: it was when we was there. Honestly, Kane was a
Speaker 5: number player in the country being.
Speaker 6: There, Scotty was top five, top ten or whatever it was,
Speaker 6: and then and me and Day.
Speaker 5: Ran like in the rankings or whatever.
Speaker 6: It was so much and we had so many dudes
Speaker 6: on that team to where we got ten guys that
Speaker 6: are all top twenty to top fifty or whatever in
Speaker 6: the rankings. So like coach trying to play everybody, but
Speaker 6: then the younger guys this and that, So he would
Speaker 6: always play Kade and Scotty know they number one and
Speaker 6: number three in the country or whatever they are, so
Speaker 6: they gotta kind of get.
Speaker 5: A little more, but they can't even get that much more.
Speaker 6: And then we beating changed by fifty, so we got
Speaker 6: to stop playing by the third quarter. So everybody averaged
Speaker 6: like eleven ten points a game.
Speaker 5: So then on the ranking side and all that. Now
Speaker 5: that now guys.
Speaker 6: Don't look as good this and that, but it was
Speaker 6: it was all of them in the area.
Speaker 3: You could do it all over again, would you. Would
Speaker 3: you make that same decision?
Speaker 5: Definitely?
Speaker 6: And honestly, I didn't like it when I was there
Speaker 6: a lot of times. And with that being said that
Speaker 6: that team that I was only probably my favorite team
Speaker 6: I've ever played all outside of basketball, but when I
Speaker 6: was there, like, you gotta keep in mind, bro, I'm
Speaker 6: leaving school and I'm leaving my city at like fifteen,
Speaker 6: sixteen years old, going to live in Florida with a.
Speaker 5: Bunch of dudes.
Speaker 6: My very had students from ninety three different So you
Speaker 6: you dealing. You got the Africans over here, the Brazilians
Speaker 6: over here, So yet you dealing it. And as a
Speaker 6: kid from Litle Rock, I'm exposed. I'm exposed to the world,
Speaker 6: and so even what that did to me growing up,
Speaker 6: and then like mentally, I'm getting cool with the ads
Speaker 6: and the teachers and the advisors this and that, and
Speaker 6: working your way through a system and organization and like
Speaker 6: having to think for yourself as a grown man. That's
Speaker 6: think what that did for me growing up is irreplaceable experience,
Speaker 6: especially for a kid.
Speaker 5: Fire.
Speaker 4: You got a lot of dogs in your draft class,
Speaker 4: you know, and being a lottery pick comes with expectations.
Speaker 4: Did you know that the Warriors were gonna draft you
Speaker 4: with a fourteenth pick?
Speaker 6: I thought, so, I didn't. I didn't know for sure. No,
Speaker 6: you know, you can't know. But going into it, like
Speaker 6: I had a big range that I could have went
Speaker 6: from like seven to twenty five, you know, like I
Speaker 6: didn't have a guarantee or nothing like that going into it.
Speaker 6: So they had two chances in my spot, and I
Speaker 6: worked out with them, and then then then I came
Speaker 6: back and worked out again. That was the only place
Speaker 6: I worked out at twice, and I played really well.
Speaker 3: So that's what's up.
Speaker 5: I knew it the big time.
Speaker 3: But look at.
Speaker 1: This, this is the day of the drift. Oh that's crazy,
Speaker 1: And it says who at fourteen he said at the
Speaker 1: same time, it's nine to twenty pm here, so six
Speaker 1: twenty I said, Bob, as he's texting in Moody if
Speaker 1: he's there, I'm saying, Moody, quash the mark.
Speaker 3: I said, Damn, I'm good. Ha ha ha.
Speaker 1: I love that pit. So needless to say, you was
Speaker 1: on the more Moody train. He was on it before
Speaker 1: I met the young fella. That's amazing, dude. I was
Speaker 1: on the train before I met the young fella. Absolutely.
Speaker 6: But if you if you remember, though, I was there
Speaker 6: house in the summertime and you came through, and like
Speaker 6: I was like, y'all was really just talking. I was
Speaker 6: kind of just listening to y'all talk, and I even
Speaker 6: bro it's crazy. Before going before coming to the NBA,
Speaker 6: I would really just be sitting there thinking about like
Speaker 6: just who I wanted to be around in the NBA, and.
Speaker 5: You was at the top of the list of guys.
Speaker 5: Just like, I don't know this dude.
Speaker 6: I don't know what he's like, how it is, but
Speaker 6: I don't know what I want to get from him,
Speaker 6: why I want.
Speaker 5: To be around him.
Speaker 6: But that just seemed like a cool dude to be
Speaker 6: around and learned from a little bit, just from what
Speaker 6: he's not even what you're saying to me, what you
Speaker 6: would say to other people, and just because I'm I
Speaker 6: like watching people. So when I had that thought beforehand,
Speaker 6: and then when I was over there, when it was
Speaker 6: at rich house that time, I was like, Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna get to sit here and do it. Do
Speaker 6: it even now, but not knowing what the future.
Speaker 1: I remember that, you know, y'all, they was out there
Speaker 1: for pre Drivet and you was over rich house and
Speaker 1: were just sitting in the back. I remember that like
Speaker 1: it was yesterday. It was out that. After that, I
Speaker 1: just knew you had a maturity to you. And Rich
Speaker 1: was sitting there.
Speaker 3: Vouching for you.
Speaker 1: And the thing about it, Rich had been vouching for
Speaker 1: you and talking to you about me. But the thing
Speaker 1: about Rich is me and Rich are have an honest conversation,
Speaker 1: like he ain't gonna vouch for everybody to me because
Speaker 1: you know, I'll call him out like I ain't buying that.
Speaker 1: And he was really really high on you. And so
Speaker 1: I ended up watching a lot of your film. And
Speaker 1: when I watched because I've always liked for the last
Speaker 1: seven eight years, I've.
Speaker 3: Maybe not so much the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: But originally I would have a lot to say in
Speaker 1: the draft process, and I would like be in it,
Speaker 1: and I would watch film and I was studying, like
Speaker 1: you know, do all these things and talk to people
Speaker 1: like and so I knew a lot about you already.
Speaker 1: And when I sat down, when we sat back there
Speaker 1: and we talked. If I'm not mistaken, I think we
Speaker 1: were watching like some playoff games or something, and and
Speaker 1: we had that conversation like I just knew you had
Speaker 1: a different level of maturity than the average eighteen year old,
Speaker 1: and you know that for me was like, yeah, the
Speaker 1: game is what it is, Like we already knew that,
Speaker 1: you know, but that did a lot for me, you know.
Speaker 3: And so when that when I was asking away, I'm
Speaker 3: saying moody, like it kind of should be him, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh, And so that's pretty funny. I forgot
Speaker 1: all about those text message but when you just asked that,
Speaker 1: it made me remember, yeah, that's a good time.
Speaker 5: You're the first word to hit me out, I got, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sir, brotherhood, clutch gang, clutch gang, everybody gonna be mad.
Speaker 3: It's alive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, bad man, I mean, I just people don't understand that.
Speaker 4: You know, we all come from different places, but we
Speaker 4: all come from similar places. And what connected is that
Speaker 4: we think and execute and operate on a high level
Speaker 4: in order to even get here, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: And you make so many concessions, and when you see
Speaker 4: somebody that's in the same situation, you're like, man, I
Speaker 4: know this dude been through something to get here, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean.
Speaker 3: And so that's how that.
Speaker 4: Brotherhood form, and people don't A lot of times people
Speaker 4: fans don't understand that because it's the journey that make
Speaker 4: the story. You feel what I'm saying, It's the journey
Speaker 4: that make the story. So make it easy for you
Speaker 4: to be in sink and say, oh, I want to man,
Speaker 4: Jamon Green is somebody I want to talk, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean? Like, you know, because our DNA, you
Speaker 4: know who you want to be when you grow up,
Speaker 4: and you know who you want to hang with when
Speaker 4: you grow up, and who you admire.
Speaker 3: You know, that's the beauty of our sport. And what
Speaker 3: I love about this game.
Speaker 4: Is you can admire somebody and never meet them and
Speaker 4: then meet one time, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 4: I saw Kevin Garnet and Chris Webber meet for the
Speaker 4: first time when they were retired, and they never had
Speaker 4: a conversation until that moment, and it was just like,
Speaker 4: you know, the reason why I never said nothing to you,
Speaker 4: I didn't want to give you an advantage, the reason
Speaker 4: why I never shook your hand.
Speaker 1: I don't want to give you an advantage. Remember, you
Speaker 1: knock me down, Like they remember every moment through admiration,
Speaker 1: but they can never express that on the court because
Speaker 1: they was battling for that top spot.
Speaker 6: You feel what I'm saying, Yeah, I don't want to
Speaker 6: I don't want to put no words or whatever. But
Speaker 6: that sounds kind of similar to Dre and Cpete being
Speaker 6: on the team this year last year after they battled
Speaker 6: so much going into it but didn't getting it getting
Speaker 6: around each other.
Speaker 3: Like I hated CP Man. Not only did I hate him,
Speaker 3: but we were always battling. Like I think.
Speaker 1: CP is right at the heart of everything we were
Speaker 1: trying to accomplish. He was the top dog at point guard.
Speaker 1: So I come in and I'm watching him a steph relationship,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, that ain't gonna work for us to
Speaker 1: be who we want to be like him. Like kind
Speaker 1: of being your big bro, Like I'm just looking at it,
Speaker 1: like and see and as you know, now MO seeps
Speaker 1: smart as hell, and so I'm just looking at it
Speaker 1: and I'm like, yo, he playing on that, like he
Speaker 1: using that to like keep you here, but I don't
Speaker 1: like that, and so I start like being messy in
Speaker 1: between it, like creating a rift, like because I'm like
Speaker 1: I need this rift in order for us to be
Speaker 1: able to move ahead of them, like we can't move
Speaker 1: ahead of them, and you like big bro like, and
Speaker 1: so I intentionally, like they were super tight, I intentionally
Speaker 1: start creating a riff and because I felt like CP
Speaker 1: was using that to his advantage. And then as I'm
Speaker 1: creating a rip with them, me and CP like this
Speaker 1: and under no circumstance do I.
Speaker 3: Even want to correct it?
Speaker 1: And then Uncle West tried to force me, really forced
Speaker 1: me to try to correct it, and he didn't fork,
Speaker 1: but you know, and and then CP was.
Speaker 3: Kind of like, yeah, it can't be but not really.
Speaker 3: And I'm like it like this, like I don't care
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 1: And I remember when I first like me and Blake
Speaker 1: man me and Blake was at it, and I remember
Speaker 1: when I first hung around Blake off the court. I
Speaker 1: was a little skeptical about it because I felt like
Speaker 1: I had some feary instilled in him, and not fear
Speaker 1: like he afraid of me, but like a respectful fear of.
Speaker 3: Like I go with this dude, Yeah, psychologic exactly.
Speaker 1: I felt like I had that, and I knew, like,
Speaker 1: I know the type of person I am.
Speaker 3: If I hang.
Speaker 1: Around you, you probably gonna like, like, because I'm not
Speaker 1: an asshole. I don't think I'm bigger than what I am.
Speaker 1: I'm a normal dude.
Speaker 3: I'm having fun.
Speaker 1: If there's some fun to be had, we're gonna have fun.
Speaker 1: Like we're gonna joke. And I know how I am.
Speaker 1: And so I was a little skeptical about Like when
Speaker 1: I was around him the first couple of times, I
Speaker 1: ain't even like say much to him because I wanted
Speaker 1: to keep that And then you know, we end up,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of getting to call each other better
Speaker 1: and being cool and moving past it.
Speaker 3: But that's a real thing, man, that's a very real thing.
Speaker 3: You gotta hate everybody.
Speaker 4: Bro, if you're trying to be that dude or you're
Speaker 4: trying to get that team over the hump, you gotta.
Speaker 3: Hate everybody if they ain't your teammate.
Speaker 4: You gotta gotta develop that as an edge, you know,
Speaker 4: because you know, everybody cool, everybody good. People In the
Speaker 4: off season, dudes got families want to you know, you're
Speaker 4: hanging out when that season comes. You gotta find a
Speaker 4: reason to hate somebody.
Speaker 3: Yes, you do, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Like, no matter how much you love him, how much
Speaker 4: you admire him, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Like you know Sam could sell Cholsy Bell.
Speaker 1: It was big bro, but it was there was none
Speaker 1: of that when we was when it was cracking.
Speaker 3: You feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: It's like, I gotta figure out a way, you know,
Speaker 4: to uh to level myself up because I ain't. I
Speaker 4: ain't about to be nobody little bro to nobody, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean.
Speaker 3: You can't be man because when you.
Speaker 1: When you when you approach guys like that, they treat
Speaker 1: you like that. Oh and on Hey, you know what's
Speaker 1: crazy is I remember my rookie year man. We was
Speaker 1: playing against Memphis and ze Bo is my big homie.
Speaker 1: Like Zebo is spartaned on that's the old gam and
Speaker 1: like something happened on the court and he did my
Speaker 1: head like this now number one, I hate when people
Speaker 1: touch my head, like and I teach myself, don't let
Speaker 1: people touch your head. But I also honor our brotherhood
Speaker 1: at Michigan State Legacy.
Speaker 3: I honor that.
Speaker 1: And under no circumstance am I about to do something
Speaker 1: in this moment and get into it with Zbo about
Speaker 1: that and they go somewhere else.
Speaker 3: That's my big bro. And so in the moment, I'm
Speaker 3: just like, that's different. Yeah, what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: He shake my head, and in the moment, I was
Speaker 1: just like, I just kept walking back and Coach Jackson
Speaker 1: pulled me over to the side and it was like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: like that shoul dad or something like that, and I'm like, nah,
Speaker 1: he like, I know, that's.
Speaker 3: Your big homie.
Speaker 1: But just knowing this league, everybody is looking to get
Speaker 1: an advantage, and so if you let him do that,
Speaker 1: right and you know, again, it don't have to you know,
Speaker 1: it's not like it's just this huge problem. I ain't
Speaker 1: saying that, but I'm just telling you, if you let
Speaker 1: people do stuff like that, he could have an advantage
Speaker 1: on you.
Speaker 3: And you don't want anybody to have an advantage on you.
Speaker 1: And so when he told me that that also gave
Speaker 1: me like a booster, like all right, what I'm at
Speaker 1: ze Bo, Like, yeah, that's the big homie, but I'm
Speaker 1: at him just like anybody else.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. And it gave me that
Speaker 3: confidence to do that.
Speaker 1: But that's a that's a that's like a key moment
Speaker 1: in my career because it's set the stage for who
Speaker 1: I became.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: And I think if that's that, like I don't know,
Speaker 6: y'all can George whatever. But if you're dealing with somebody
Speaker 6: that's really your big homie, that's really your really your brother,
Speaker 6: big home, your little brother, then it ain't no LINITX to.
Speaker 5: Competition or whatever it is. We can go at there
Speaker 5: one hundred.
Speaker 6: Percent and I know you don't mean nothing else brought
Speaker 6: That is.
Speaker 3: One thousand fact.
Speaker 4: It's funning bragging rights for afterwards, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: when you're hanging in the summer like yeah, I cracked,
Speaker 4: you mean, you know what I mean, or you don't
Speaker 4: have to say much, but you got you know, it's
Speaker 4: all bragging rights and it's all love, but you gotta
Speaker 4: go in. You gotta earn your respect in this league. Bro,
Speaker 4: you gotta go.
Speaker 6: That's like, that's like when you're dealing with your man
Speaker 6: and your your best friend and like y'all can y'all
Speaker 6: can argue, y'all can play and say whatever, and it's cool,
Speaker 6: but if you're dealing with somebody.
Speaker 1: Like you better you better not say that to me
Speaker 1: just because he said it to me. If you say
Speaker 1: that to me because he said it to me, or
Speaker 1: if you say that to him because I said to him,
Speaker 1: we're gonna jump you.
Speaker 3: That's how we're gonna jump. So you should probably.
Speaker 1: Not do that again because if you think you can
Speaker 1: do that because we do that to each other, we're
Speaker 1: gonna jump you because if I fight you, he gonna
Speaker 1: fight you too. So just don't do that. You like
Speaker 1: you don't do that. That ain't that ain't for you.
Speaker 3: That ain't you.
Speaker 6: That's another thing too, Like I'll bell got into it
Speaker 6: my whole boy before, Like yeah, we talked like that
Speaker 6: when when we when were hanging out, But don't we
Speaker 6: don't do that around other people because they gonna think
Speaker 6: that I got both of that and that ain't that.
Speaker 3: That's a situation, this relationship a little different. It ain't that.
Speaker 1: You and you and b D drafted twenty two years apart.
Speaker 1: Uh BD was the third pick in the NBA Drive
Speaker 1: Besides being drafted, is there a particular moment for you
Speaker 1: from that night on your draft night that that stands
Speaker 1: out in your memory?
Speaker 5: Yeah, plenty of them.
Speaker 6: Really early on, like my whole first year, everything was
Speaker 6: so new and everything was so exciting from really really
Speaker 6: from like pre drive, from like I'm killing it rich
Speaker 6: House with Drakemond Green, like I'm I was just on
Speaker 6: my mama count and now you you there and then
Speaker 6: you meet Lebron before the season starts, so it's not
Speaker 6: like you're in the NBA, you don't got a team.
Speaker 6: Now you meet everybody that comes from there, and then
Speaker 6: you're in the NBA. Now I'm on a team with
Speaker 6: Steph like like every and then then you when you
Speaker 6: in preseason, then you in the season that you playing
Speaker 6: against all the dudes. Now you're in the playoffs. So
Speaker 6: everything was so new and so much that it really
Speaker 6: becomes like you numb to numb to excitement, numb to
Speaker 6: feeling because you gotta be cool through all of this.
Speaker 6: The West like anything happen tomorrow, man, and I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't even.
Speaker 3: It's the world the.
Speaker 5: Man because it all happens.
Speaker 6: So now it's slowed down now because you kind of
Speaker 6: get to a point and now you know it's not
Speaker 6: as exciting thiss and that, but especially early on it
Speaker 6: was much.
Speaker 3: It just becomes your reality. Yeah, right, Once it becomes your.
Speaker 5: Reality, it's a transition period.
Speaker 3: Then it's like, all right, this is it's kind of
Speaker 3: what you expect at that point. It's fast, bro, it's fast,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: But from the time you get drafted, you're the next
Speaker 4: you're in the city, you're doing a press conference.
Speaker 3: Then after that you it's on until it.
Speaker 5: Stops, and another one, another one. Yeah, another point to
Speaker 5: answer that question too.
Speaker 6: I know you took thinking more of basketball stuff, but
Speaker 6: even like my first time staying at your place in
Speaker 6: Cowbo was it was something for.
Speaker 5: Me because we're growing up in little Rock. Like all
Speaker 5: the dudes with money like.
Speaker 6: They got they change on and they flash and this
Speaker 6: and that, and it's cool, you know, pieces own.
Speaker 5: But I'm like, all right, well, I'm.
Speaker 6: Not a big I'm not a very flashy guy, so
Speaker 6: I really don't need money like that. Like what do
Speaker 6: I need it for? If that's the only thing. But
Speaker 6: being able to like get here and go see something
Speaker 6: like that, it's like, man, it's really it's really some
Speaker 6: stuff out here.
Speaker 5: It's really really you know, you can.
Speaker 6: See what money behind and what like the freedom to
Speaker 6: be able to go do that, and like that was
Speaker 6: a big That was you.
Speaker 3: Know what's funny about that experience.
Speaker 1: And I'm happy that that's what that experience did to you.
Speaker 1: Because the second most important reason, the third most important
Speaker 1: reason I learned, the third most important reason I wanted
Speaker 1: that house was Hey, because I love the property.
Speaker 3: It's an incredible property.
Speaker 1: B I love what the property entels from my children,
Speaker 1: Like my kids can go there and have a blast,
Speaker 1: and like it's safe, and it's a place that they
Speaker 1: can like spend a part of their growing up and
Speaker 1: like see something that and experience like this kid paradise
Speaker 1: that never had the opportunity experience. But my last reason
Speaker 1: and but very very very important reason of why I
Speaker 1: bought it was, as you know, Math and Brown then
Speaker 1: got a house.
Speaker 3: They got a house. They live on the same property
Speaker 3: right next door.
Speaker 1: And because of that, I could always go to Cabo
Speaker 1: for free and have a beautiful home to stay in.
Speaker 1: And that was that because they made that available to me,
Speaker 1: and once I felt like I was in the financial
Speaker 1: position to do it, I wanted to be able to
Speaker 1: make that available to my family and my friends. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. That are their friends, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And so for me to be able
Speaker 1: to open that up to you. I actually spoke about
Speaker 1: this once before. I think a part of where me
Speaker 1: and Jordan Poole relationship went wrong is he was supposed
Speaker 1: to go to the house and as you know, you
Speaker 1: may hit me up two months and I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: you on a text with the people the day before
Speaker 1: or email the day before, and they gonna have everything down.
Speaker 1: Car service, you send your flight, you send the grocery list,
Speaker 1: everything's done, and.
Speaker 3: So you know, life be moving.
Speaker 1: But what I'm not gonna do is your they ain't
Speaker 1: gonna get here and you ain't ready to go. I like,
Speaker 1: what before your day get there, it's gonna come back
Speaker 1: to me. I need to make sure he good, right,
Speaker 1: And so I had it all dial in and like
Speaker 1: ready for him to go, and then I hit him
Speaker 1: and I'm like, yo, so.
Speaker 3: Send your flight here, and he like, oh, I ain't
Speaker 3: gonna go, and I'm doing this now.
Speaker 1: And I was like, damn, I wonder if he felt
Speaker 1: like I let him down or like I ain't come
Speaker 1: through for him, or I lie to him, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: And it was with the house.
Speaker 1: But anyway, that was the whole purpose for It's like,
Speaker 1: so my friends can go there and experience that. So
Speaker 1: my rookie, you know, my young fellas can go there
Speaker 1: and experience that and see what life is like and
Speaker 1: like how people actually out here living and that there's
Speaker 1: more to buying a house in a little rock, Arkansas.
Speaker 3: I don't own a house in Sagonaw, Michigan.
Speaker 1: I mean like I mean, I owned a couple of
Speaker 1: them in Sagonaw, Michigan. I literally took them out my estate.
Speaker 1: They my mom and my grandma house. They got them,
Speaker 1: Like I don't own a home in my hometown. Like,
Speaker 1: but it's it's just so much more out there that
Speaker 1: we never get the opportunity to see. And I'm so
Speaker 1: thankful to Math. Math was the first person to take
Speaker 1: me down there. I'm so thankful just to the things
Speaker 1: that they showed me that I would have never imagined,
Speaker 1: like to own a home in Cabo that would have
Speaker 1: never even.
Speaker 3: Been a thought like.
Speaker 1: Right, and so to have someone like that's what I
Speaker 1: want to be for you and JK and like all
Speaker 1: y'all young guys man, because I've been blessed and fortunate
Speaker 1: enough to have God to do that for me, to
Speaker 1: show me.
Speaker 3: That my welcome to the league moment. Man, we're gonna
Speaker 3: get into that.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: So I had a little welcome to the league moment
Speaker 4: where you know, I came off the bench.
Speaker 3: John Stocking kind of like made me.
Speaker 4: Turn the ball over three four times and he elbowed me.
Speaker 3: You know. Then I think I stocked in, uh and
Speaker 3: that was it. That was it for me.
Speaker 4: So John Stockton was my welcome to the league moment
Speaker 4: where I felt like, damn, dude, Like this dude is
Speaker 4: just a bully.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? What was what was your
Speaker 3: welcome to the league moment?
Speaker 5: My welcome to the league moment? Probably it's probably before
Speaker 5: the season started.
Speaker 6: Garden garden steph and training kept and practices and all that,
Speaker 6: and it's different here.
Speaker 5: But then when he hits you with with that same.
Speaker 3: Move, you can't guard it. Hu guard.
Speaker 5: And that's the thing too. You be thinking you playing
Speaker 5: good defense because you're not going past you.
Speaker 6: But it's like he ain't trying to.
Speaker 3: Just a lot. Man, that dude come across half court.
Speaker 4: I remember just a few times I played against when
Speaker 4: I was playing with the Clippers, and it was like, bro,
Speaker 4: you are not about to get comfortable getting nowherebody's hash,
Speaker 4: I'm about to jumping, and I just pushed him on
Speaker 4: the sidelines jumping and then I gona guard somebody else.
Speaker 6: Ste It was another one too, because you know my
Speaker 6: rookie years where Clay was coming back. So Clay, he
Speaker 6: ain't on the court head and all that in the beginning.
Speaker 6: So then when he when he first started getting back
Speaker 6: on the court, they got me working out with him
Speaker 6: all the time.
Speaker 5: But like when I first started working out with.
Speaker 6: Him, I'm like, man, this dude is out for two years,
Speaker 6: like he's been hurrying all that, Like you're coming back.
Speaker 6: I ain't trying to be the one to hurt him
Speaker 6: and do nothing this and that. So I'm like I
Speaker 6: ain't even really but but he ain't hooped it. He
Speaker 6: ain't hooped it a while. So he greeted straight to it.
Speaker 6: He killing, and then like I had to go, I
Speaker 6: had to like forget all that, like lock in and
Speaker 6: play this and that over the time we played so much,
Speaker 6: but especially in the beginning, he'll be killing it.
Speaker 1: But.
Speaker 3: Dropped off. You never know what's coming. Man.
Speaker 6: Man, I'm thinking, you know, he just trying to warm up.
Speaker 6: Get back, get back in the flowing things. Nah, he's
Speaker 6: straight to.
Speaker 1: He looking at you like a test dummy, looking at you.
Speaker 3: Y'all got in the shooting guard.
Speaker 4: Let me kill him, let me see, let me get
Speaker 4: let me get myself back fast.
Speaker 3: He liked to play defense too.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is gonna be man, that's funny. I got
Speaker 1: one more thing before we get out of here. I
Speaker 1: got one more question. I'm not sure if bed got
Speaker 1: another one, But what's one thing that you heard about
Speaker 1: before entering the NBA that ended up not being true?
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: The thing for me was the girls in the lobby
Speaker 1: waiting on you, like and I'm coming to the league,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, where are you at, like thirsty?
Speaker 3: Where they at?
Speaker 1: They y'all say they in the lobby, they buy the
Speaker 1: bar where they at? And I and they and then
Speaker 1: loving basketball said they come to your door.
Speaker 3: I'm like, they coming to the door where.
Speaker 1: They and I never ran to them at the bar
Speaker 1: and I never they never came to my door. That
Speaker 1: was one of the most disappointed things I've heard.
Speaker 3: Hey, bro, you laugh like jay Z.
Speaker 4: Anybody ever told you that?
Speaker 1: I heard?
Speaker 3: So what was the thing for you is.
Speaker 6: Oh, it will probably be really just the way that
Speaker 6: people talk about the lifestyle of not just the NBA,
Speaker 6: but the celebrity lifestyle of you know, like fast paced
Speaker 6: this and that, and just saying that's just the.
Speaker 5: Way it is.
Speaker 6: But like getting here and realizing a lot of this
Speaker 6: stuff is however you want it to be, and you
Speaker 6: can control a lot more than than you think. And
Speaker 6: like getting into basketball, it's like, oh, the workouts is
Speaker 6: supposed to be this much harder or this much easier.
Speaker 5: You know, some people say.
Speaker 6: Working on the NBA is supposed to be easier, whatever
Speaker 6: they say, but it really is whatever you want it
Speaker 6: to be. Just you have more control rather than less
Speaker 6: control about certain stuff. That probably be it just realizing
Speaker 6: that it's the same as you when you were in
Speaker 6: high school. You know, you are who you are and
Speaker 6: you just in a different place now than the situation.
Speaker 5: Don't change it.
Speaker 3: I will warn you that.
Speaker 1: If an ask you or when I would say, when
Speaker 1: you continue to ascend, you get to a certain point
Speaker 1: of where it ain't just what you wanted to be.
Speaker 3: Like you know, there's I think there's a.
Speaker 1: Time, but like there's a time where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you create your thing, and you got your thing, you
Speaker 1: got your routine and all that, and then you can
Speaker 1: also ascend to a certain point to where your time
Speaker 1: is no longer your time.
Speaker 3: Oh and that's.
Speaker 1: You know, like that's one of the things Like because
Speaker 1: I used to be I was the guy that I
Speaker 1: go everywhere, I do everything. I'm a man of the people,
Speaker 1: like I'm in every and I still will like go
Speaker 1: to stuff and like but not as much because ay,
Speaker 1: there's just more things to do. Like you as you
Speaker 1: a sin, all of a sudden, the shoot deals get bigger,
Speaker 1: the media deals get bigger, you know, all these things.
Speaker 1: But that stuff requires time, and your time is no
Speaker 1: longer time, you know what I'm saying. And so you know,
Speaker 1: like you know, I was talking to JK the other
Speaker 1: day and I was just telling him about like when
Speaker 1: you are number one, number two, number three at an
Speaker 1: organization as a player, like there's so much more responsibility
Speaker 1: that come with that, Like you are actually in the
Speaker 1: inner workings of the organization, Like.
Speaker 3: I have to have calls with Joe, you have to
Speaker 3: have calls with Mike, you have.
Speaker 1: To have calls with Steve, like all of these things,
Speaker 1: and then there's so many people, Like there's so many people.
Speaker 3: That you are in charge of.
Speaker 1: And it's not that I'm in charge of Rick Celebrini,
Speaker 1: but in a sense, you hold some responsibility for Rix Celebrini,
Speaker 1: you hold some responsibility for Danny, you hold some responsibility
Speaker 1: for KB because their success is based on your success.
Speaker 3: And your performance on the court.
Speaker 1: So you take on all of these people that you
Speaker 1: don't necessarily realize that you take on right now because
Speaker 1: you're not necessarily in that position yet. I didn't understand
Speaker 1: it before I got to the position. But there's a
Speaker 1: lot that you take on, and that fast life that
Speaker 1: people talking about, sometimes it is given to you.
Speaker 3: Like what I would say, Steph never chose.
Speaker 1: The life he lived, Like Steph would have chosen to
Speaker 1: just be at home with his family and that's it
Speaker 1: and play basketball. But like Steph ascended so far, there's
Speaker 1: just so much more responsibility in things, and it ain't
Speaker 1: necessarily just how you had it and how you wanted it,
Speaker 1: and so I will warn you that, you know, you
Speaker 1: continue to put the work in and you grow and
Speaker 1: you elevate, that can and will change. But it's a
Speaker 1: good thing for you, you know what I mean, because
Speaker 1: that's just me and you killing. You have twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four twenty five points a game, and you know that's
Speaker 1: what you play for. Everybody plays to have, you know,
Speaker 1: some sort of responsibility or some type of pressure.
Speaker 3: That's why we play this game. We want the pressure.
Speaker 4: We want the pressure to win, We want the pressure
Speaker 4: to be better, to be the best, to maximize our potential.
Speaker 6: So and then it can be that too, like maximize potential.
Speaker 6: Like whenever I getting that, they can't get like that. Well,
Speaker 6: it's only gonna be like that for a certain time too,
Speaker 6: because once you stop, you know you can you know,
Speaker 6: for staff it might be that way for a while
Speaker 6: after you stop too, but eventually stuff will slow down
Speaker 6: and it ain't like you going into something that's going
Speaker 6: to mess up your life or whatever. Like now you
Speaker 6: just you know strike.
Speaker 4: What Yeah, I always say every five years, I ask myself,
Speaker 4: who do I want to be when I grow up?
Speaker 4: So you never think of yourself as whatever you are.
Speaker 4: You just in five years. This is so I want
Speaker 4: to be when I grow up. So they always keep
Speaker 4: you fresh and always keep.
Speaker 5: You you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, like after basketball, I still do it.
Speaker 6: So you have said something to me, had something similar
Speaker 6: to that one time, just saying like he was saying,
Speaker 6: everybody's a kid for real.
Speaker 5: If you think about it, like when.
Speaker 6: You when you were qualified as a kid, it's because
Speaker 6: there's so much that you ain't been exposed to.
Speaker 5: You don't know about. Well, whatever you don't know about,
Speaker 5: you ain't been exposed to. That's why you don't know
Speaker 5: about it.
Speaker 6: So like, no matter how old you are, everybody just
Speaker 6: an older kid than the other kid.
Speaker 5: It's eighty five year old. Run young people out here
Speaker 5: for real.
Speaker 4: You know a one I gotta tell you, mobutu shit, man,
Speaker 4: you're a lucky kid, you know what I mean. To
Speaker 4: be able to come into the league, you know, to
Speaker 4: have dre to have it like you come in with
Speaker 4: Juggernauts with legacy and then to come in and win
Speaker 4: a championship.
Speaker 3: Talk to talk to me about what was.
Speaker 4: That moment, Like, you know, being a young player on
Speaker 4: the championship team, even though you may not have played
Speaker 4: a lot like, what was that experience like for you
Speaker 4: and how did that help you grow to where you
Speaker 4: are now?
Speaker 6: Yeah, So and Avery Bradley did preseason with us that year,
Speaker 6: and so he told me he was saying, summer leaves
Speaker 6: nothing like preseason. Preseason's, nothing like regular season regular season,
Speaker 6: nothing like the playoffs and the playoffs, and nothing like
Speaker 6: the finals. So being able to get to all of
Speaker 6: those spots within my first year kind of sets me
Speaker 6: up for the rest of my career because I've been there.
Speaker 5: I've seen it all.
Speaker 6: I've seen like obviously the different stuff, but I've seen
Speaker 6: every level and that was really cool for me. And
Speaker 6: then too, being on such a good team to where
Speaker 6: I'm not playing a lot throughout the season, not playing
Speaker 6: at all in the playoffs, but then Dallas series, having
Speaker 6: a couple of things go go left, and now I'm
Speaker 6: playing twenty minutes a game in the playoffs and all
Speaker 6: the presses of it and being able to like stay
Speaker 6: composed and you know, you nervous to a certain extent
Speaker 6: going into that game, but being able to like be
Speaker 6: okay with it and hoop and play good and get
Speaker 6: back like me, So just being like everybody talking about
Speaker 6: staying ready and this and that being able to do
Speaker 6: that at this point, but I've been doing that since
Speaker 6: I've been to the NBA, and doing it at the
Speaker 6: highest level too, in the playoffs. It's like everything else
Speaker 6: is easier. So being able to being able to experience
Speaker 6: that my first year and then like the parade and
Speaker 6: the uh going to Vegas, going like doing all of
Speaker 6: that celebrated championship, That's all stuff I've done before too now,
Speaker 6: and you know, life the just compilation of experiences, So
Speaker 6: adding those to it just heightened it.
Speaker 5: All.
Speaker 3: Man, You're a lucky dude, man, but you earned it.
Speaker 3: You deserve it.
Speaker 4: And man, who wouldn't want to rock with Draymond Green
Speaker 4: me being the co host?
Speaker 3: I already know how he is. Shit, I'm fortunate and
Speaker 3: I'm lucky.
Speaker 4: Man, This dude is, you know, one of the realists,
Speaker 4: Like you got a dope y'all got a dope synergy
Speaker 4: and connection as young dude and bet y'all keep that
Speaker 4: shit going, you know what I mean, Like y'all keep
Speaker 4: building on that brotherhood that this is an example of
Speaker 4: you know, how we should be, you know what I mean. Sure,
Speaker 4: I'm just kind of like almost like a fly on
Speaker 4: the wall. But I'm just admiring like the brotherhood, and
Speaker 4: you know, I appreciate y'all or you know, ship for
Speaker 4: making it happen.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 4: It's just it's just good to see that y'all got me. Hella,
Speaker 4: I'm in a positive light right now. Man, I got
Speaker 4: me in a hell of positive.
Speaker 3: Light, my dog.
Speaker 1: Hey, we appreciate you BD and more money. We definitely
Speaker 1: appreciate you coming on. Bro.
Speaker 3: It's been ah so you've been a year four and
Speaker 3: you on the show.
Speaker 5: You earned it.
Speaker 1: Though, I always say like, I don't just want to
Speaker 1: talk to somebody because they got drafted into the NBA.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you because you accomplished something,
Speaker 1: because you got something to talk about, because you have
Speaker 1: worked to attain a goal and you reach that goal.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to like minded individuals. Just because
Speaker 1: you make it to the NBA. That doesn't make us
Speaker 1: necessarily like minded individuals, right, But to watch you put
Speaker 1: the work in go earn something, even when it wasn't
Speaker 1: always in your favor to go earn something, I respect,
Speaker 1: I love it. I appreciate both of y'all fellas, and
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Speaker 3: That's a rap. Peace the volume