Latest / Luke's English Podcast / GUI SANTOS - Podpah _1031
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- 5:20Speaker 5: Recebam com muito carinho, façam muito barulho, batam muitas palmas,
- 5:23Speaker 5: derrubem esse estúdio. O nosso convidado de hoje é o
- 5:27Speaker 5: único brasileiro na NBA. Respeita!
- 5:30Speaker 2: De Santos! Vambora!
- 5:32Speaker 3: Vambora!
- 5:36Speaker 2: I like that. Clap your hands, bro! How are you, bro?
- 5:39Speaker 2: I'm great, thank God. It's so cool to be here
- 5:42Speaker 2: with you.
- 5:42Speaker 4: I've been following you since the beginning. Being here on
- 5:45Speaker 4: this table... How many times have I not been watching
- 5:48Speaker 4: you from the other side?
- 5:50Speaker 2: It's another review now. That's crazy, man.
- 5:51Speaker 4: That's crazy, because the one who watches you is us, man.
- 5:53Speaker 4: Are you crazy? It's one watching the other.
- 5:55Speaker 2: That's it. Calm down. Calm down.
- 6:03Speaker 3: Before we start anything, I'm going to say something that's
- 6:06Speaker 3: here on the table. Everyone says that you look alike.
- 6:10Speaker 3: Have you heard that before?
- 6:11Speaker 2: Dude, every picture I post, anything that appears....
- 6:18Speaker 4: That related to basketball, there's... Man, Igão is playing basketball now.
- 6:22Speaker 1: He's lying on the NBA.
- 6:22Speaker 2: Man, I don't know if it's like that in your posts,
- 6:25Speaker 2: but in mine... Yeah, I.
- 6:26Speaker 1: Don't think so. You know what came to me?
- 6:29Speaker 2: I swear to God. Man, I'm here close, I'm trying...
- 6:31Speaker 2: I'm looking here, trying to see... It seems, man.
- 6:32Speaker 1: Every time I say, Igão, this guy looks like you.
- 6:34Speaker 2: I say, ah, it looks like him.
- 6:35Speaker 1: But he looks like him. And I think I look
- 6:37Speaker 1: like him too. It's been a long time.
- 6:38Speaker 5: Since we recorded the season with the NBA.
- 6:41Speaker 2: It's been a long time. When he arrived there in 22, man.
- 6:48Speaker 5: A galera já começou a falar, tanto é que eu
- 6:50Speaker 5: recebi uma DM agora, acho que foi segunda, acho que
- 6:52Speaker 5: foi segunda, não lembro.
- 6:54Speaker 1: Mano, uma senhorinha, juro, uma senhorinha bonitinha falou assim... Olha,
- 6:58Speaker 1: meu filho, como é bonito ver você na Ana Maria Braga.
- 7:02Speaker 2: Eu falei, eu não fui lá. Não era eu.
- 7:05Speaker 1: Quem estava na Ana Maria Braga era o Gui. Então
- 7:09Speaker 1: isso acontece comigo também, mano. Acho que a galera olha
- 7:11Speaker 1: e fala assim, olha lá o menino do podcast que
- 7:13Speaker 1: vocês gostam.
- 7:14Speaker 2: Ele agora vira jogador.
- 7:17Speaker 1: Muito louco isso. Mas, irmão, você tem só 23 anos.
- 7:21Speaker 2: Tenho, velho. Você fez esse ano ou vai... Não, não,
- 7:24Speaker 2: eu vou fazer 24 em junho. June 24th, 22nd.
- 7:26Speaker 1: You're still very young.
- 7:28Speaker 2: Yeah, man. I think in the world of sports, it's
- 7:31Speaker 2: all very early, right? You leave the house.
- 7:32Speaker 4: I left the house when I was 14 to 15
- 7:35Speaker 4: years old. My brother left the house when he was
- 7:37Speaker 4: 12 years old. You left the house, but you played
- 7:39Speaker 4: basketball since you were one and a half years old, right?
- 7:42Speaker 2: Since I was little, man. I have a video of
- 7:43Speaker 2: me when I was two years old.
- 7:44Speaker 4: My mom and my dad put a plastic table inside
- 7:47Speaker 4: the room.
- 7:47Speaker 2: A small room. Man, I used to go there and play,
- 7:53Speaker 2: and they used to cheer.
- 7:54Speaker 4: And I used to throw, look at them, like, you see, right?
- 7:56Speaker 2: Vibrate there. Vibrate there.
- 7:58Speaker 4: But you never flirted with another sport? Man, I used
- 8:05Speaker 4: to play a lot of football, I've done a lot
- 8:07Speaker 4: of swimming, I've.
- 8:08Speaker 2: Done a lot of things... Brother, you're a good bowler,
- 8:10Speaker 2: aren't you? You're a good bowler, aren't you?
- 8:13Speaker 4: Man, no, I leave the bowler to my fiancee, because
- 8:16Speaker 4: for me, basketball... I think it's because my dad was
- 8:18Speaker 4: a player, my dad was a player, and I went
- 8:22Speaker 4: to my dad's work, basketball, I went there, I got
- 8:24Speaker 4: the rebound for him, he would throw it, I would
- 8:26Speaker 4: stay under the air passing the ball to him, That
- 8:28Speaker 4: made me fall in love with basketball, but I used
- 8:30Speaker 4: to play football on the streets, because it was hard
- 8:32Speaker 4: to find someone who played basketball at my age, you know?
- 8:34Speaker 2: Imagine, bro!
- 8:35Speaker 4: So I used to play football, I was good at
- 8:36Speaker 4: it too, I played with the kids and.
- 8:38Speaker 2: Look, the girl is so cute, right? She's our coquinha.
- 8:43Speaker 1: So, I used to play with.
- 8:44Speaker 4: The kids and that's how I made friends, but I
- 8:49Speaker 4: always went to the training with my dad and started
- 8:52Speaker 4: from there.
- 8:52Speaker 2: Okay, but if you wanted to.
- 8:54Speaker 5: Play a little basketball, there in Brasília, with the... There
- 9:00Speaker 5: was no one practicing.
- 9:01Speaker 4: So, the first thing that was the problem was that
- 9:04Speaker 4: the athlete's life, in my father's case, he stayed in
- 9:07Speaker 4: one place for six months and then changed, stayed in
- 9:09Speaker 4: another for six months.
- 9:10Speaker 2: So I never had much time to make friends.
- 9:13Speaker 4: Because I was living in the corner for 6 months,
- 9:16Speaker 4: I would go to Brasília, stay there for a month,
- 9:17Speaker 4: two months, and then go somewhere else.
- 9:21Speaker 2: And this life of running, since I.
- 9:23Speaker 4: Was little, of moving from one side to the other,
- 9:26Speaker 4: it ended up that I didn't have many friends, so
- 9:27Speaker 4: it was more like, I knew, I started to become friends,
- 9:29Speaker 4: I already had to leave. So it was more difficult
- 9:31Speaker 4: to find people, I went to school, I was very
- 9:33Speaker 4: bad with everyone.
- 9:33Speaker 3: But when you were a little boy, like, I don't know, 6,
- 9:36Speaker 3: 7 years old, you already knew that your path was basketball,
- 9:39Speaker 3: you didn't have other options.
- 9:40Speaker 2: It was too early to think about it too, but...
- 9:43Speaker 2: It was your way, since always.
- 9:45Speaker 5: Because sometimes it's like that, right? There's the father who
- 9:47Speaker 5: plays at home, the mother too, but... No, I want
- 9:50Speaker 5: to be an astronaut.
- 9:51Speaker 2: I want to be different, I want to be a baker.
- 9:55Speaker 4: No, in my case it was totally different. Thank God,
- 9:57Speaker 4: my father and my mother, they never put a lot
- 9:58Speaker 4: of pressure on me.
- 10:00Speaker 2: On me, you know? It was like, Gui, go to
- 10:03Speaker 2: my training with me today, do you want to go?
- 10:05Speaker 2: Let's go. I went with my father.
- 10:07Speaker 4: My father bought a kickboard, several things for me, to
- 10:10Speaker 4: play ball, to do things.
- 10:11Speaker 1: He encouraged you to play sports in general.
- 10:12Speaker 2: They just wanted me to have a relationship with sports.
- 10:16Speaker 4: And when I started to fall in love with basketball,
- 10:19Speaker 4: I was already 11 years old, when I started to play, 5v5,
- 10:21Speaker 4: scolinha and everything, but before that, It was a little
- 10:26Speaker 4: bit of everything.
- 10:27Speaker 1: So before you were 11, you didn't even dream of
- 10:30Speaker 1: being a player?
- 10:31Speaker 4: No, I didn't even dream of being a player, playing
- 10:34Speaker 4: in Brazil and who knows, getting to the NBA.
- 10:38Speaker 3: But at that time, when you saw your father training, playing,
- 10:42Speaker 3: what was going through your mind? What were the main
- 10:44Speaker 3: difficulties that you saw or was it something that, over time,
- 10:48Speaker 3: was encouraging you to enter this world more and more?
- 10:50Speaker 4: A very memorable moment for me was when I said
- 10:52Speaker 4: I wanted to be a player. After I saw that,
- 10:54Speaker 4: it was at a game of my father's. We lived
- 10:56Speaker 4: in São José dos Campos at the time. The fans
- 10:59Speaker 4: used to shout the names of the players before the game.
- 11:01Speaker 2: I saw the whole crowd shouting, Davison, Davison. I said, wow,
- 11:03Speaker 2: that's cool.
- 11:04Speaker 4: Everyone cheering for my father. You were like, it's my father,
- 11:10Speaker 4: it's my father. That's how I said, I want to
- 11:12Speaker 4: be a player too. It's funny, my mom always gave
- 11:21Speaker 4: me a lot of support for being an athlete.
- 11:23Speaker 2: She was a player too.
- 11:24Speaker 4: I think I pulled her talent more than my dad's.
- 11:26Speaker 4: She looked at me and did like this. And my dad,
- 11:29Speaker 4: inside the box, went to the defense. I was out
- 11:40Speaker 4: of the box, I would drop the ball and run
- 11:41Speaker 4: to the other side to go to the defense. And
- 11:43Speaker 4: I would stay there, pretending that I was defending. Then
- 11:45Speaker 4: I saw that we were stealing the ball, I would run,
- 11:47Speaker 4: I would take the ball and I.
- 11:49Speaker 2: Would leave the ball. As if you were next to
- 11:50Speaker 2: the team.
- 11:50Speaker 4: As if I was next to the team, but out
- 11:52Speaker 4: of the box, like that, on the edge, since I
- 11:53Speaker 4: was little, man.
- 11:54Speaker 3: But didn't you see his difficulties in this career? He
- 11:57Speaker 3: said it's very difficult, you have to train a lot,
- 12:00Speaker 3: you get hit, it's complicated, it's a painful process.
- 12:03Speaker 4: When you're a kid, I didn't even notice, I only
- 12:05Speaker 4: noticed the glamour, the good things he had. How many
- 12:08Speaker 4: times my father, hurt, sometimes went to training without wanting
- 12:11Speaker 4: to train, went through difficulties and everything, but when you're
- 12:15Speaker 4: a kid you don't know that, when you're small. For me,
- 12:17Speaker 4: I got home, I had food, My parents were playing
- 12:23Speaker 4: video games with me. I didn't know about the difficulties,
- 12:26Speaker 4: but when you grow up, you start to become a
- 12:29Speaker 4: two-footed fly in the chest. Brother, I just want to
- 12:32Speaker 4: mention this quickly because it happened yesterday.
- 12:44Speaker 1: Did you get kicked out of a NBB game, bro?
- 12:48Speaker 1: What was going on?
- 12:52Speaker 2: Oh, man. What was going on?
- 12:53Speaker 1: It was a playoff, right?
- 12:55Speaker 2: Playoff, quarterfinals, Pinheiros and Paulistano.
- 12:58Speaker 4: My 16-year-old brother was playing there in Pinheiros. And, man,
- 13:04Speaker 4: I'm a guy who's a big fan of that kid. So,
- 13:07Speaker 4: I was there at the corner of the court, watching the.
- 13:11Speaker 2: Game, calm. And I was at the.
- 13:18Speaker 4: Edge of the box, but I didn't know that when
- 13:20Speaker 4: you sit in the first rows, you can't have any
- 13:23Speaker 4: expression inside the box.
- 13:24Speaker 2: Why? Because you're kind of a guest there, you know?
- 13:26Speaker 2: You have a privilege, then the guy who.
- 13:27Speaker 1: Is inside the privilege is very close, he's going to
- 13:30Speaker 1: be like.
- 13:35Speaker 2: I agree, if you're cursing, I agree. But you were
- 13:38Speaker 2: just saying good things, not a big fuss. No, it
- 13:41Speaker 2: was none of that.
- 13:42Speaker 4: I got there, when the race happened, there was a
- 13:45Speaker 4: technical fault on my brother, they gave him a technical fault,
- 13:51Speaker 4: I don't even remember who gave him a technical fault.
- 13:53Speaker 4: And man, I looked at him, it wasn't a fault,
- 13:57Speaker 4: he came out complaining, he took a technical fault, I
- 14:00Speaker 4: got up, Literally, I just got up, opened my arms
- 14:05Speaker 4: and said, just because he's younger?
- 14:07Speaker 2: And I think that.
- 14:09Speaker 4: Because of the fact that I had to stay there,
- 14:11Speaker 4: at the edge of the court and everything else.
- 14:12Speaker 1: Because it was you too, right, bro?
- 14:14Speaker 4: Yeah, anyway, I don't know if it was because it
- 14:17Speaker 4: was me or not, but because of the fact that
- 14:19Speaker 4: he was in the court there, I was with him too,
- 14:21Speaker 4: I got up.
- 14:21Speaker 2: And did that.
- 14:22Speaker 4: I don't know if it was an expulsion reason, but anyway,
- 14:25Speaker 4: I think that, like, if he came and talked to me,
- 14:27Speaker 4: he would say, Gui, calm down, take it easy and stuff.
- 14:30Speaker 4: As much as I don't have... I don't want to
- 14:33Speaker 4: say anything offensive about her. I think it was a
- 14:36Speaker 4: little unnecessary, this action. But that's it, I respected it,
- 14:39Speaker 4: it happened, I left, I was calm.
- 14:42Speaker 2: Who won this?
- 14:42Speaker 4: Dudu won, Pinheiros won, 1-0 in the series. Let's go, Dudu.
- 14:45Speaker 3: You guys are not connected, or you are, but Dudu
- 14:48Speaker 3: is talking.
- 15:00Speaker 1: He's 2.8. And you're 2.2, right?
- 15:01Speaker 2: 2.2. And how old is your brother? 16 years old. 2.8,
- 15:03Speaker 2: 16 years old. What is the expectation of an athlete?
- 15:05Speaker 2: How old does he grow? Until 18, right? Yeah, I'll
- 15:07Speaker 2: put 18 there. Yeah, 18. Maximum 20. And do you
- 15:09Speaker 2: have an expectation for him?
- 15:10Speaker 1: Like, what height can he reach?
- 15:11Speaker 2: Dude, you saw the height... 2.10 to 2.15. Thanks, Shaq.
- 15:21Speaker 2: It's because my dad is very tall too, right? My
- 15:26Speaker 2: dad is 2.10, my mom is 1.80 tall. Man. So
- 15:27Speaker 2: genetics helps a lot in this fact. What is this, man?
- 15:28Speaker 4: The shoes of the guys' house are like this. No,
- 15:32Speaker 4: it's only in the United States.
- 15:34Speaker 1: Only in the United States.
- 15:36Speaker 2: 48. How many shoes do you wear, Gui? I wear 14,
- 15:38Speaker 2: it's 47, 48. Is that possible? 14, man?
- 15:48Speaker 3: And your brother is also building a career. He dreams
- 15:50Speaker 3: about NBA too. He dreams about it. All basketball players.
- 15:53Speaker 4: Dream about representing the National Team, the Olympics and the NBA.
- 15:56Speaker 4: And he is a guy who, of course, fights and everything,
- 15:59Speaker 4: he's a football star. And I even risk saying, I
- 16:08Speaker 4: say this a lot everywhere I go, me and him,
- 16:12Speaker 4: the way he's been working, the way I've been working,
- 16:14Speaker 4: I believe that in the near future, if God wills,
- 16:17Speaker 4: we'll be the first two Brazilian brothers in the NBA,
- 16:20Speaker 4: which is the future he wants, the future I want,
- 16:24Speaker 4: that we live from it, and it would be really.
- 16:26Speaker 2: Cool to have this coming from our family, man. No, incredible.
- 16:30Speaker 2: Brazil too, this is going to be incredible, bro. It's crazy.
- 16:33Speaker 3: So it's very important, he's seeing all this, he saw
- 16:36Speaker 3: all this process, right, man? He's learning, he's seeing it closely,
- 16:39Speaker 3: and you're certainly also teaching him.
- 16:41Speaker 5: No, sorry, but you were telling me that until 11
- 16:43Speaker 5: years old, it wasn't so serious, things were more loose,
- 16:46Speaker 5: because you were a child. When do things start to
- 16:48Speaker 5: get serious? When you start to have a routine of training,
- 16:52Speaker 5: you start to.
- 16:59Speaker 5: Is that what you want for your life? When do
- 17:01Speaker 5: your parents talk to you.
- 17:04Speaker 2: And ask you?
- 17:05Speaker 4: Man, I think it never came from them to talk
- 17:08Speaker 4: to me, like, do you really want this?
- 17:09Speaker 2: It was actually when... There were two moments, right?
- 17:11Speaker 4: When I came back to Brasília, when my father stopped playing,
- 17:14Speaker 4: and I started to take it more seriously, and train
- 17:17Speaker 4: every day, and I was there, wanting to be a player,
- 17:19Speaker 4: wanting to be a player. And then it was when
- 17:21Speaker 4: I left home, when I was 15 years old, when
- 17:24Speaker 4: I left home.
- 17:24Speaker 1: That's crazy.
- 17:25Speaker 2: No, calm down.
- 17:26Speaker 1: This is a beautiful chapter.
- 17:27Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 17:28Speaker 1: How did you get out of the house.
- 17:29Speaker 2: When you were 15?
- 17:30Speaker 4: Man, my mom, she suffered. How were you? Man, I
- 17:34Speaker 4: was always the type of guy who went through my difficulties,
- 17:39Speaker 4: but I didn't talk much. I was more on my own,
- 17:41Speaker 4: because I didn't want to make my mom more anxious.
- 17:43Speaker 4: So I held on to what I thought, but for
- 17:46Speaker 4: me it was very difficult. I went to live in
- 17:50Speaker 4: a republic, in BH, and I lived with 8 to
- 17:54Speaker 4: 10 kids that lived with me.
- 17:55Speaker 2: What a smell of snot and underwear! Exactly! It was
- 18:01Speaker 2: that vibe. Yeah, it was that vibe.
- 18:02Speaker 4: There was a time when my mom and dad would
- 18:05Speaker 4: go there and say, wow, how do you guys live
- 18:07Speaker 4: in this trash?
- 18:08Speaker 2: There's no way, man. What a pig! But what was
- 18:10Speaker 2: going through your head?
- 18:11Speaker 3: Like, this is a passenger, it's going to be good,
- 18:14Speaker 3: it's going to work.
- 18:15Speaker 2: No, man, I took advantage of the moment. Like... Today,
- 18:18Speaker 2: living with 10 kids is crazy for me. I said, no,
- 18:20Speaker 2: there's no way. But at that time, my brother, Flávio,
- 18:23Speaker 2: was very busy.
- 18:24Speaker 4: He said, you're crazy, I'm going to live with the
- 18:27Speaker 4: guys who play, they're my partners, we go to school together,
- 18:30Speaker 4: from school to training, then there's more training, then you
- 18:33Speaker 4: go home and the routine is crazy. So you don't
- 18:35Speaker 4: even have time to think about it.
- 18:36Speaker 2: It's the dream, right?
- 18:37Speaker 1: To live for the sport.
- 18:38Speaker 4: And that's when my record fell. I said, man, I
- 18:40Speaker 4: want to be a player. I want to be a
- 18:42Speaker 4: professional player, I want to follow this path. At the
- 18:44Speaker 4: time my dream was to play for NBB.
- 18:46Speaker 2: I want to get there and... It's already hard as hell.
- 18:49Speaker 2: It's already hard as hell. I want to play for NBB.
- 18:50Speaker 2: My father played. And if I play for NBB I'm
- 18:53Speaker 2: already happy. It's already good.
- 18:54Speaker 4: And that's when I started to integrate the professional team
- 18:58Speaker 4: of the BH team that I played. And that's when
- 19:01Speaker 4: I started to have more opportunities to appear in the
- 19:03Speaker 4: national scene. Because I was from Brasília. In Brasília, basketball
- 19:07Speaker 4: is not that strong. So when I went to BH
- 19:09Speaker 4: it was a little stronger. The structure of the club
- 19:11Speaker 4: was a little better. And that's when it helped me
- 19:14Speaker 4: to develop my game, to develop myself more.
- 19:16Speaker 2: And that's when I started... Did you.
- 19:18Speaker 5: Already have the position set? A la Pivot or not?
- 19:22Speaker 5: Or were you still in training?
- 19:23Speaker 2: Man, training. I played from 1 to 5, from Armador
- 19:25Speaker 2: to Pivot.
- 19:25Speaker 4: And that's when I started to see that I really
- 19:29Speaker 4: have to do this or that to become a player.
- 19:32Speaker 4: But I didn't have a fixed position or anything.
- 19:34Speaker 2: For me it was....
- 19:42Speaker 4: I wanted to play against this team.
- 19:44Speaker 2: Who is the best player of the other team?
- 19:46Speaker 4: I wanted to defend the best player, whether it was
- 19:48Speaker 4: Pivô or Armadu.
- 19:50Speaker 2: To show your game. Exactly.
- 19:51Speaker 4: I always liked that a lot. I think that competitiveness
- 19:53Speaker 4: is what makes a guy become a player.
- 19:55Speaker 1: A guy who, more than.
- 19:56Speaker 2: The other, can become a player.
- 20:07Speaker 3: But at that time, when you were 15 years old,
- 20:11Speaker 3: what was your training routine like? How was life for
- 20:14Speaker 3: the kids nowadays that want to be inspired and know
- 20:17Speaker 3: how was this journey at that time?
- 20:19Speaker 4: Man, obviously I went to school in the morning, I
- 20:23Speaker 4: woke up, went to school, stayed all morning at school,
- 20:27Speaker 4: left school and went straight to this club. Then I
- 20:31Speaker 4: had lunch at the club, all the meals were made
- 20:34Speaker 4: at the club, I had lunch, After lunch, I already
- 20:37Speaker 4: had a training session with the Sub-20 team, at the time.
- 20:39Speaker 2: Up there, already. Yeah, four years up.
- 20:41Speaker 4: I was the Sub-16 at the time. I trained with
- 20:44Speaker 4: the Sub-20 team. After the Sub-20 team, I trained with
- 20:47Speaker 4: the Sub-18.
- 20:47Speaker 2: Then I went, knitted... After that, I trained with an
- 20:54Speaker 2: adult team. What time did you get there? 1 pm?
- 20:56Speaker 4: 1 pm.
- 20:57Speaker 1: I left at 9, 9.30 pm, 10 pm.
- 20:57Speaker 2: I went home. Dead?
- 20:58Speaker 4: Dead, but I got home and had homework to do
- 21:00Speaker 4: in the morning. I had homework to do, but I
- 21:02Speaker 4: was tired. I had to do it because my mom,
- 21:04Speaker 4: my dad, everyone was strict with school. So I had
- 21:15Speaker 4: to do it, they charged a fee at the club,
- 21:17Speaker 4: the guys charged a fee, like, I had to present
- 21:19Speaker 4: the fee to them every month.
- 21:20Speaker 3: If the student was bad, but played well, it would
- 21:23Speaker 3: be heavy if he was bad at school, right?
- 21:25Speaker 4: That's right, like, they would give you a penalty, ah,
- 21:27Speaker 4: you're not going to play this game, because you took
- 21:29Speaker 4: a bad fee at school, you're not going to play. So, imagine,
- 21:31Speaker 4: how is it that you, it doesn't matter how good
- 21:34Speaker 4: you were, you have to make a profit at school too.
- 21:36Speaker 4: This helped me a lot not to relax at school.
- 21:41Speaker 1: But I think it teaches you a responsibility that.
- 21:45Speaker 5: You have to come to the athlete very early, because
- 21:48Speaker 5: you are 23 years old and you are already in
- 21:49Speaker 5: the NBA. If you hadn't had this early maturity, you
- 21:51Speaker 5: would be learning now some things that you learned with
- 21:54Speaker 5: 16 and you would be late.
- 21:55Speaker 1: Don't you think?
- 21:56Speaker 4: Exactly, I think that this maturity that comes early in
- 21:58Speaker 4: an athlete, in all the sports that you will see,
- 22:00Speaker 4: the kids leave home early, which makes us have maturity
- 22:03Speaker 4: because we are subject to a lot of criticism, we
- 22:05Speaker 4: are subject to a lot of.
- 22:06Speaker 2: Things since very early.
- 22:07Speaker 4: Like, you play badly with 17, 18 years old, no
- 22:10Speaker 4: one wants to know if you are 17, 18 years old,
- 22:12Speaker 4: you played badly.
- 22:14Speaker 1: You're representing the guy's team.
- 22:15Speaker 4: You're representing the guy's team, and that's it. So you
- 22:19Speaker 4: have to have this mental development to handle it all.
- 22:22Speaker 2: Excuse me, I.
- 22:23Speaker 3: Was going to ask, and how did it stay in
- 22:25Speaker 3: your mind? I imagine our family would help you with.
- 22:28Speaker 2: This, but 15, 16 years old is usually an age
- 22:30Speaker 2: that we're at the height of age, right?
- 22:32Speaker 3: You want to live, you want to do something crazy.
- 22:35Speaker 3: Usually friendships at this moment are also crazier. So how
- 22:38Speaker 3: did you protect yourself in those.
- 22:41Speaker 2: Moments, man? Man, this is very important, because I went
- 22:44Speaker 2: through this at this age, but I've always been a
- 22:48Speaker 2: very right guy.
- 22:49Speaker 4: Obviously, because of the creation of my father and my mother,
- 22:52Speaker 4: and the way they showed me, because my mother always
- 22:55Speaker 4: said like this, I'm going to teach you what is right,
- 22:57Speaker 4: this is the right, this is the wrong. From now on,
- 23:00Speaker 4: it's not me who makes the decisions, you make the
- 23:03Speaker 4: decisions if you want to go to the wrong side.
- 23:05Speaker 2: Or you want to go to the right side. Very cool.
- 23:08Speaker 2: That was in my head. It's like when your dad says,
- 23:10Speaker 2: I'm not going to.
- 23:12Speaker 1: Hit you, you made me upset. It was better to
- 23:14Speaker 1: be hit. But it's like, damn, I upset my dad.
- 23:16Speaker 2: And it's like that, it's the same feeling. And when
- 23:18Speaker 2: she said that to me, I said.
- 23:20Speaker 1: Man, anything, the opportunity that appeared to do something wrong,
- 23:22Speaker 1: I looked at it and.
- 23:23Speaker 2: Said, man, this is going to take me where I
- 23:25Speaker 2: want to go. Because....
- 23:35Speaker 4: One thing that always weighed a lot on me was
- 23:37Speaker 4: that I wanted to take my family out of the
- 23:39Speaker 4: reality that my family was in.
- 23:42Speaker 2: And then I thought, man, if I do this here,
- 23:44Speaker 2: will it help me? No, it will delay me. And
- 23:46Speaker 2: my friends, I always chose very well.
- 23:48Speaker 1: But there wasn't one day that you felt very comfortable
- 23:51Speaker 1: and said, for what? That party I wanted to go to.
- 23:53Speaker 3: I just wanted to make it clear.
- 23:58Speaker 1: I would go.
- 23:59Speaker 2: That one there, in BH, I wanted to go. BH
- 24:01Speaker 2: is too good. No, BH is too good.
- 24:03Speaker 4: But because I'm very young, 16 years old, it was
- 24:05Speaker 4: very difficult for me.
- 24:06Speaker 2: To go anywhere. And man, document, do these things. I
- 24:08Speaker 2: was never, I was very afraid of that. So I never...
- 24:10Speaker 2: We are brothers.
- 24:11Speaker 1: I never messed with it.
- 24:12Speaker 2: I stayed quiet. Let's do one thing, let's go out.
- 24:14Speaker 2: And I say, man, tomorrow I have class. I won't,
- 24:19Speaker 2: there's no way.
- 24:19Speaker 4: So I managed to make this professionalism balance.
- 24:26Speaker 2: Even though I was very young. And did you work
- 24:28Speaker 2: out during the weekends? Man, I trained with adults, right?
- 24:30Speaker 2: So I didn't have.
- 24:32Speaker 4: For example, when the adult was on leave, I trained
- 24:34Speaker 4: with the base. And when the base was on leave,
- 24:36Speaker 4: I trained.
- 24:36Speaker 1: With the adult.
- 24:38Speaker 5: In basketball, there's also this thing of the young people
- 24:43Speaker 5: who are coming now.
- 24:45Speaker 1: To train with the adults. And if he starts dribbling
- 24:48Speaker 1: too much, wanting to score too much, the guy says.
- 24:54Speaker 2: Calm down.
- 24:54Speaker 1: Calm down.
- 24:56Speaker 2: There's that. You have to know how to get there.
- 24:59Speaker 4: There's too much. There's too much. And I went through
- 25:03Speaker 4: that too. Man, my first year, second year as a professional.
- 25:08Speaker 4: On my team, there was Leandrinho, Alex Garcia, Chiltão, Tayroni,
- 25:14Speaker 4: who were all very renowned Brazilian basketball players.
- 25:18Speaker 2: So, man, I was a pianist, man. I didn't want to...
- 25:20Speaker 2: I didn't want to hit the guys in any way.
- 25:23Speaker 4: The guys talked to me, I went there, did it.
- 25:25Speaker 4: Even Chilton must also be watching there, sending a hug
- 25:28Speaker 4: to him.
- 25:28Speaker 2: That's cool. Man, I was his Alexa, practically, in the room.
- 25:32Speaker 2: I was like... Gui, close the curtain. No, but I, man...
- 25:35Speaker 2: And today, right? His son plays too. and his son
- 25:47Speaker 2: is younger than me so he became your Alex but there.
- 25:51Speaker 3: Are some rules there for the newcomers to arrive here
- 25:54Speaker 3: kind of like this bro this here can't do this
- 25:57Speaker 3: here it's good to do there are some some tips
- 26:00Speaker 3: too because in football.
- 26:01Speaker 5: We know it's worth spending a lot of foot on
- 26:03Speaker 5: top of the ball brother you're.
- 26:05Speaker 1: Going to get up I'm not saying it's right or
- 26:07Speaker 1: wrong but.
- 26:08Speaker 4: It's going to be there in basketball man It's kind
- 26:12Speaker 4: of like that, right? The guys try to prove themselves too, right? Like, boy,
- 26:15Speaker 4: when I arrived, I wanted to beat the guys. But, man,
- 26:17Speaker 4: the guys already have a huge experience backpack. I didn't
- 26:20Speaker 4: have that yet. So, I felt a little sorry to
- 26:22Speaker 4: reach the guys. And I saw this.
- 26:25Speaker 2: Difference and said, no, calm down, I still have to
- 26:27Speaker 2: eat a lot of rice and beans to get to
- 26:28Speaker 2: the guys.
- 26:28Speaker 4: The guys are way ahead. And I was always very
- 26:30Speaker 4: humble to admit that and I wasn't even there. I said, no,
- 26:32Speaker 4: but it's not impossible.
- 26:34Speaker 2: One day I'll get there. But not yet. Calm down, right?
- 26:37Speaker 5: Gui, did you have the conscience that... for you to
- 26:40Speaker 5: get where you want to get, whether it's the NBB
- 26:43Speaker 5: and then the NBA, you had to do something else,
- 26:47Speaker 5: something very different, because there wasn't something in your head like, like,
- 26:50Speaker 5: how many try and how many arrive? Basketball is not
- 26:55Speaker 5: even the number one sport in Brazil. Man, so, like,
- 26:58Speaker 5: there are possibilities that are decreasing, that are decreasing as
- 27:01Speaker 5: you go up the level. Didn't you have that in
- 27:03Speaker 5: your head?
- 27:03Speaker 2: Like, the.
- 27:06Speaker 5: I know I'm good, but I also need to do
- 27:08Speaker 5: something more. For a Brazilian to get to the NBA, bro.
- 27:11Speaker 4: Man, like I told you, when I arrived in Minas,
- 27:14Speaker 4: in BH, to play, I just wanted to.
- 27:17Speaker 2: Get to the NBA, man. So I said, man, I
- 27:20Speaker 2: have to do more.
- 27:21Speaker 4: I got there, didn't get many opportunities to play on
- 27:24Speaker 4: the main team, right? I played on the base and everything,
- 27:25Speaker 4: but on the main team I didn't get any opportunities
- 27:27Speaker 4: or anything.
- 27:28Speaker 2: Until a gringo coach appeared.
- 27:32Speaker 4: Petrovic, Alexander Petrovic, today he is the coach of the
- 27:36Speaker 4: Brazilian national team.
- 27:37Speaker 2: And he called.
- 27:38Speaker 4: Me, I didn't play in the adult team, I was
- 27:40Speaker 4: under 17, I was playing in a South American national team,
- 27:43Speaker 4: he called me to the adult Brazilian national team, because
- 27:47Speaker 4: he liked me in a training session of the 17th
- 27:49Speaker 4: national team, he said, no, I want to take this
- 27:50Speaker 4: boy to the adult national.
- 27:52Speaker 2: Team, and he goes there as a guest.
- 27:53Speaker 1: These guys are important.
- 27:54Speaker 4: Man, and he hugged me like that, sinister, and I arrived,
- 27:56Speaker 4: I went to the national team.
- 27:58Speaker 2: What do you think at that moment you caught his attention?
- 28:01Speaker 1: What did you do there? Were you already a worker?
- 28:05Speaker 2: Yeah, I was.
- 28:06Speaker 4: I worked hard, I did the things that had to
- 28:08Speaker 4: be done in the squad. I think he saw it
- 28:11Speaker 4: in me. He saw that this kid has height, has
- 28:13Speaker 4: the ball dribble, has the throw. I think if we
- 28:17Speaker 4: work this kid, he can be something very big. He
- 28:21Speaker 4: can be something that will help the Brazilian team in
- 28:24Speaker 4: the future. And he really hugged me and called me
- 28:27Speaker 4: to the team.
- 28:29Speaker 2: I still remember my first call to the national team.
- 28:31Speaker 2: How old were you? I was 17 years old. Wow,
- 28:32Speaker 2: that's a boy. 17 years old, a boy of everything.
- 28:34Speaker 2: I came to the national team, I was in front
- 28:36Speaker 2: of the guys, I wasn't even there.
- 28:37Speaker 4: I went there and if I had to hit the guys,
- 28:40Speaker 4: I did. Yeah, because at that time you knew it.
- 28:43Speaker 2: Was time to do it. It was time to say,
- 28:44Speaker 2: I'm here too, I can do it. And I used to.
- 28:50Speaker 4: Fight with the guys, they used to talk to me,
- 28:52Speaker 4: and I used to say, let's go, I'm not even there.
- 28:55Speaker 2: But did your father used.
- 28:57Speaker 5: To say something like, oh Gui, this is the moment,
- 29:02Speaker 5: it's like this, man, go up, or not?
- 29:06Speaker 4: Dude, my father and my mother were actually more my psychologists,
- 29:10Speaker 4: you know? Because if something went wrong, or didn't go
- 29:13Speaker 4: the way I wanted.
- 29:14Speaker 2: I used to call them and say, hey, It's hard
- 29:15Speaker 2: like this, it's hard like that, I can't do that.
- 29:17Speaker 2: My mom, for sure. It's like this, there was always
- 29:20Speaker 2: a balance at home.
- 29:20Speaker 4: My dad was more like a stone in the shoe
- 29:22Speaker 4: and my mom was the one who passed the hand
- 29:24Speaker 4: on the head. So if I had a 30-point game,
- 29:27Speaker 4: I laid down, I did well, but I made a mistake,
- 29:28Speaker 4: then my dad would come and talk about the mistake.
- 29:32Speaker 4: And if it was the other way around, I played badly,
- 29:35Speaker 4: I don't know what, and I had a hit, my
- 29:37Speaker 4: mom would come and say, no.
- 29:39Speaker 2: Good, congratulations.
- 29:40Speaker 1: And I had a hit, my mother would come and say, no, good,
- 29:41Speaker 1: congratulations for the hit.
- 29:42Speaker 2: So it was balance. It was important, man, this balance.
- 29:44Speaker 2: It had a very good balance.
- 29:45Speaker 4: And in the national team, when I started to hit
- 29:47Speaker 4: with the guys there, in front of them and everything,
- 29:50Speaker 4: it was when I called my mother and said, it's
- 29:53Speaker 4: difficult for the guys here, is it good? No, go up,
- 29:54Speaker 4: go up with the guys. My father also did the
- 29:56Speaker 4: same thing. Then Petrovic came and said, man, I was
- 30:00Speaker 4: there as a guest, I wasn't even going to the game.
- 30:03Speaker 4: Then he arrived, he speaks a little Spanish, a little Portuguese,
- 30:07Speaker 4: then he said, little boy, come here, you're.
- 30:09Speaker 2: Going to play tomorrow. Little boy wasn't, right? Little boy. Yeah, skinny,
- 30:12Speaker 2: he was skinny, you know? Then he said, no, you're
- 30:15Speaker 2: going to play tomorrow.
- 30:16Speaker 4: My brother started to shake me, because it was going
- 30:18Speaker 4: to be a tie game there for the Copa América.
- 30:21Speaker 2: He said he was going to play, I started to shake,
- 30:23Speaker 2: I said, wow, it's screwed, man, it's screwed. Then, the
- 30:26Speaker 2: next day... First, I couldn't sleep at night.
- 30:28Speaker 4: I called them and said I was going to play tomorrow.
- 30:30Speaker 4: Petrovic said I was going to play tomorrow. Yeah, they said, no,
- 30:37Speaker 4: go rest and everything else, right? But it was all
- 30:39Speaker 4: very new to me, man. The team and the dream
- 30:41Speaker 4: of a kid. I only saw the guys here who
- 30:44Speaker 4: had played with me on the team and already reached
- 30:47Speaker 4: the team.
- 30:47Speaker 1: You weren't even the.
- 30:49Speaker 2: Biggest, bro. Exactly, exactly.
- 30:52Speaker 4: And, man, when the game started, I was wearing the uniform,
- 30:55Speaker 4: it was a great emotion, right, man?
- 30:56Speaker 2: Seeing my name on the uniform and such.
- 30:58Speaker 1: What shirt did you play in the first game?
- 31:00Speaker 2: 11.
- 31:00Speaker 1: F * * *.
- 31:01Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 31:01Speaker 4: It was a shirt from Varejão, that I already saw here.
- 31:04Speaker 4: And when I started playing this game, actually I was
- 31:09Speaker 4: on the bench, when I was going, I thought I
- 31:11Speaker 4: wouldn't even get in, to be honest. I said, he's
- 31:14Speaker 4: going to call me, he's going to leave me here,
- 31:16Speaker 4: he's going to give me a moral to start playing
- 31:18Speaker 4: more in.
- 31:18Speaker 2: My club, that I wasn't playing. And then he, out
- 31:22Speaker 2: of nowhere, little boy, go. How was the game? It
- 31:25Speaker 2: was fine, first quarter. First quarter? First quarter, it was.
- 31:28Speaker 2: Then he said, little boy, go.
- 31:31Speaker 4: My brother jumps on the players' legs, there's a little
- 31:33Speaker 4: space on the bench, he jumps, tripping on everyone, with
- 31:36Speaker 4: the emotion of going.
- 31:37Speaker 2: Man, I didn't even know who was going to enter. Go, go,
- 31:40Speaker 2: you go out yourself.
- 31:41Speaker 4: And man, I entered the game nervous, nervous, nervous.
- 31:47Speaker 2: But I played really well. Really well. I was like, man.
- 31:51Speaker 1: Nervousness didn't bother you?
- 31:52Speaker 2: It didn't bother me at all. It didn't bother me
- 31:54Speaker 2: at all. You were ready.
- 31:55Speaker 4: I received a ball on the corner, I kicked the
- 31:57Speaker 4: ball with three, I killed the ball, I made a coach-to-coach.
- 32:02Speaker 2: Flag.
- 32:02Speaker 4: And when the game ended, I didn't believe it. And
- 32:05Speaker 4: what did he say to you? He came to me
- 32:07Speaker 4: like this... He came to me like this after the
- 32:10Speaker 4: game and said, look, it's nothing too much, he's not
- 32:12Speaker 4: a seven-headed guy and all that.
- 32:13Speaker 2: He was talking to me, right? In his accent, the
- 32:15Speaker 2: way he talks. Yes, yes.
- 32:16Speaker 4: But then, you're ready to play. Then, in the interview later, man,
- 32:20Speaker 4: I had never given an interview in my life. Like,
- 32:22Speaker 4: very little, you know? Then he came to do an
- 32:25Speaker 4: interview with me later, it was me sitting and he
- 32:27Speaker 4: sitting on the other side. And the people laughing at
- 32:29Speaker 4: me because I was stuck all the time, I couldn't speak, giggling.
- 32:31Speaker 2: It was like that, man. After that, he took.
- 32:35Speaker 4: I didn't even have a ticket bought, we were going
- 32:37Speaker 4: to play in Uruguay later. I didn't even have a
- 32:38Speaker 4: ticket bought for Uruguay.
- 32:40Speaker 1: You're a guest, right?
- 32:41Speaker 2: So, then he said, no, buy a ticket for him,
- 32:42Speaker 2: which will be the title in the next game. I
- 32:46Speaker 2: was like, ok. What an important guy.
- 32:50Speaker 5: But it's not like a kid like him needed it.
- 32:52Speaker 5: He was ready, he just needed someone who would say.
- 32:56Speaker 2: I'll give you a hug and let's go.
- 32:58Speaker 1: That was essential.
- 32:59Speaker 2: And in the other game, how was it?
- 33:01Speaker 4: Man, I entered as a starter, I was already in
- 33:04Speaker 4: another world, seeing my name on the board to start
- 33:08Speaker 4: the game, in the presentation. I was playing with the
- 33:12Speaker 4: guys from Brazil, number 11, Gui Carvalho, who I knew
- 33:15Speaker 4: at the time. I played well and the game was over.
- 33:19Speaker 4: I couldn't believe it. But your confidence was increasing. Yes,
- 33:23Speaker 4: my confidence was increasing. Then I came back to my club.
- 33:27Speaker 4: I came back to my club and there was a
- 33:28Speaker 4: lot of pressure. He played in the national team.
- 33:31Speaker 1: How is he a banker here?
- 33:31Speaker 4: How is he not even playing here? He joined the
- 33:33Speaker 4: national team as a starter. That's when I had more
- 33:37Speaker 4: opportunities to play. That's when I started to appear a
- 33:40Speaker 4: little more. But during this period, the pandemic happened. All
- 33:44Speaker 4: the sports stopped, everything stopped.
- 33:47Speaker 5: And how did you continue your training, your conditioning, brother?
- 33:50Speaker 5: Because you were in a period... Clutch of the thing,
- 33:53Speaker 5: you couldn't... I was in a period of 17.
- 33:56Speaker 2: To 18 years.
- 33:56Speaker 4: I was starting to be introduced in the professional basketball.
- 34:06Speaker 4: There are even several videos of me giving my way
- 34:09Speaker 4: of training. There wasn't a lot of structure, the Brazilian
- 34:13Speaker 4: teams sometimes.
- 34:16Speaker 2: Didn't have availability. The guys didn't make the teams available.
- 34:19Speaker 1: Everything was closed, I imagine.
- 34:20Speaker 4: And then I trained my way at home.
- 34:23Speaker 2: I was training dribble in the garage.
- 34:25Speaker 4: I tied some elastic bands to do training. My mom,
- 34:29Speaker 4: my dad were programmed to help me. They pulled me
- 34:32Speaker 4: to one side and pulled me to the other. And man,
- 34:35Speaker 4: I know that I grew up, I gained, I don't know,
- 34:37Speaker 4: about 5, 6 kilos during the pandemic of lean mass.
- 34:40Speaker 1: That's right, but well, right?
- 34:41Speaker 2: Well, well. How did you get fat? No, coming back well.
- 34:42Speaker 2: So much so that when I came back, the guys
- 34:44Speaker 2: from the club, when the activities started to come back,
- 34:45Speaker 2: the guys said, what is this? Is it better?
- 34:47Speaker 1: Yeah, how is that?
- 34:49Speaker 4: There was a pandemic and everyone came back, of course, right?
- 34:52Speaker 4: Not the same way, the same way to worse. And
- 34:54Speaker 4: I came back much better, I came back stronger, more athletic,
- 34:58Speaker 4: more physical.
- 34:59Speaker 2: The guys, man.
- 35:00Speaker 1: Did you have a good head, Gui? What did you feel?
- 35:02Speaker 2: I was, I was.
- 35:03Speaker 4: It was at a moment when I had the feeling, right?
- 35:06Speaker 4: I think at the moment there is a feeling in
- 35:08Speaker 4: the athlete's head that he says, man, this is what
- 35:10Speaker 4: I want, I'm going to take it seriously and now
- 35:12Speaker 4: I'm going to hug this shit and I'm leaving, man.
- 35:15Speaker 2: So how was this return of the pandemic? Man, it
- 35:17Speaker 2: was when I started to play more. Then I started
- 35:19Speaker 2: to play more NBB.
- 35:20Speaker 3: 21 or 22 only?
- 35:21Speaker 2: 20, 21. 21, 22, it was the last one I played,
- 35:25Speaker 2: and then I left. But you came crushing it. I
- 35:27Speaker 2: came playing very well.
- 35:29Speaker 4: For those who didn't play, I started playing, playing well.
- 35:31Speaker 4: There were still some things, because I was very young,
- 35:34Speaker 4: they didn't put.
- 35:34Speaker 2: Me to play all the time.
- 35:35Speaker 4: Sometimes I thought, in my head, I thought I deserved
- 35:37Speaker 4: to play a little more. But every athlete thinks that,
- 35:41Speaker 4: sometimes it's not in the right moment.
- 35:43Speaker 2: It depends a lot on the coach.
- 35:50Speaker 4: And I thought I could play more. I wanted to
- 35:54Speaker 4: play all the games. 40 minutes of every game. But
- 35:58Speaker 4: I was mentally ready. I started playing well. If I'm
- 36:01Speaker 4: not mistaken, I was the best young player of the NBB.
- 36:04Speaker 4: The best young player of the NBB. And then the
- 36:07Speaker 4: second year started.
- 36:08Speaker 2: That's when things started to go wrong. You're crazy, bro.
- 36:10Speaker 2: I wanted to know.
- 36:12Speaker 1: How did you get the opportunity to.
- 36:18Speaker 1: To participate in a draft of the NBA as it
- 36:20Speaker 1: is a looker who comes and says that you will
- 36:24Speaker 1: participate as it is if you can count and can
- 36:28Speaker 1: even detail how was the day of your.
- 36:31Speaker 4: Draft there the emotion comes the flower of the skin.
- 36:34Speaker 5: That must have been the day maybe even the most
- 36:37Speaker 5: important thing so dude.
- 36:39Speaker 4: So I think I've never talked so much about the draft,
- 36:44Speaker 4: but for you to participate in the draft first, it
- 36:47Speaker 4: starts a long time ago, the players know, all the
- 36:49Speaker 4: players that have stood out with 16, 17 years, they
- 36:51Speaker 4: follow all these players, there are several NBA camps that
- 36:54Speaker 4: they do during this process to stay.
- 36:59Speaker 4: Monitoring these guys. And how do these camps work? It's
- 37:02Speaker 4: like this. They call the top 5 in Brazil, some
- 37:06Speaker 4: 3 or 4 good guys from Argentina, some from Colombia, Canada...
- 37:10Speaker 4: They don't just call from the US, but from all
- 37:12Speaker 4: over America. And that's when you start to prove yourself more,
- 37:16Speaker 4: to show that you can do it, that you have
- 37:17Speaker 4: the ability to become an NBA player. How did you
- 37:19Speaker 4: get this first invitation to do the scams, for example?
- 37:22Speaker 2: Was it by e-mail? Was it on the board? Did
- 37:24Speaker 2: the guys get there? Did you tell the team? Yeah,
- 37:26Speaker 2: it was actually my agent. My agent, who, like, he...
- 37:29Speaker 2: The guys ask him, like, hey, do you have a
- 37:31Speaker 2: good athlete there?
- 37:32Speaker 4: He says, hey, I have this kid from Brazil, who's
- 37:33Speaker 4: playing really well in Brazil, he's developing there, it would
- 37:36Speaker 4: be good for you to take him there so you
- 37:37Speaker 4: can take a look. Then they do, of course, the
- 37:41Speaker 4: boy's analysis, see the games, the things that the boy
- 37:43Speaker 4: is doing and decide if they will call or not.
- 37:45Speaker 4: And that's how my agent indicated me to these camps.
- 37:48Speaker 4: And then I went to two NBA camps before I
- 37:50Speaker 4: participated in the draft.
- 37:51Speaker 1: Do the camps work like tests?
- 37:54Speaker 4: It's like putting a bunch of guys on the court,
- 37:56Speaker 4: give them specific training, then put them to play.
- 37:59Speaker 2: Against each other. But then you also had to kill yourself.
- 38:01Speaker 2: But one against the other, 1x1 or team against team?
- 38:04Speaker 4: It's 5 against 5, but that's the problem. You get
- 38:07Speaker 4: 5 guys wanting to prove themselves on a team.
- 38:09Speaker 2: Against 5 guys... Nobody passes the ball, son. Exactly. So, man,
- 38:12Speaker 2: the ball arrived in your hand and you died. Don't
- 38:14Speaker 2: leave here. Go to the party.
- 38:16Speaker 1: Go back there and run by yourself. It's true. Was
- 38:21Speaker 1: your team a Brazilian team?
- 38:22Speaker 2: No.
- 38:22Speaker 4: The first time I was there, it was only Brazilians.
- 38:24Speaker 4: It's easier because you can control it. But the other
- 38:27Speaker 4: time I was there, it was just gringos. You had
- 38:29Speaker 4: a highlight in those.
- 38:31Speaker 2: I did.
- 38:31Speaker 4: In the two camps I went to, I had a
- 38:33Speaker 4: highlight in those two camps. So, it opens the eyes.
- 38:36Speaker 2: Of the guys. Like, this guy from Brazil is coming there.
- 38:39Speaker 2: Was there anyone in those camps that you said, Chase,
- 38:41Speaker 2: this guy is there today, right?
- 38:43Speaker 4: Cara, tinha o Raulzinho. Jogou na NBA também muito tempo.
- 38:47Speaker 4: Jogamos juntos já pela seleção e tudo mais. Ele tava
- 38:50Speaker 4: lá como técnico. Ele foi técnico do time brasileiro.
- 38:52Speaker 2: Que louco.
- 38:53Speaker 4: So it was the first time I met him, he
- 38:55Speaker 4: was at the NBA, for me it was very far
- 38:56Speaker 4: away from the NBA.
- 38:57Speaker 2: As soon as I was going to the NBA camp,
- 38:59Speaker 2: I was like, I'm already.
- 39:00Speaker 1: I'm already ahead.
- 39:01Speaker 2: I'm already, you know, I'm already getting here and stuff.
- 39:03Speaker 4: But it was still very far away, and he was
- 39:05Speaker 4: there too, there were some other players, Bruno Caboclo participated
- 39:07Speaker 4: in another.
- 39:08Speaker 2: Camp, mine too.
- 39:09Speaker 4: And that's when I first had contact with the NBA,
- 39:14Speaker 4: you know?
- 39:15Speaker 3: Man, but after these two camps, how is the expectation,
- 39:18Speaker 3: the head, how do you sleep? How was the anxiety,
- 39:21Speaker 3: the family, how was that moment? And how long did
- 39:24Speaker 3: it take you to say, man, you're going to be
- 39:26Speaker 3: in the national team to go to the draft?
- 39:28Speaker 2: How does that work? It was in.
- 39:31Speaker 4: Like, after the camp is over, you, of course, are
- 39:33Speaker 4: in the expectation, but few things happen in this camp.
- 39:36Speaker 4: It's more when you get older. They're more in this
- 39:38Speaker 4: camp to monitor. So that's when it was being well monitored.
- 39:42Speaker 4: I didn't have the opportunity to go play college, because
- 39:47Speaker 4: at the time I had signed a professional contract already
- 39:49Speaker 4: in Brazil. And at the time you couldn't go to
- 39:52Speaker 4: college if you already had a professional contract. Nowadays you
- 39:56Speaker 4: can change that, but in the past you couldn't. And
- 40:01Speaker 4: in 2021, when I started to stand out a lot,
- 40:03Speaker 4: 2021 and 2022, I started to stand out a lot
- 40:05Speaker 4: more than last season. I was the best sixth man
- 40:07Speaker 4: in the NBB, I was a young star again, playing
- 40:10Speaker 4: well and such. Then my agent called me and said, Gui,
- 40:12Speaker 4: let's get into the draft. Because they are my agents
- 40:17Speaker 4: who decide, you know?
- 40:18Speaker 2: Like, there's a team watching you, there's people talking about you,
- 40:21Speaker 2: let's get into the draft. I said, man, Cool, right?
- 40:25Speaker 2: You're crazy. Let's go. Did you know the teams.
- 40:27Speaker 5: That needed a player like you? Man, I was like, please,
- 40:30Speaker 5: anyone who gives me the ball, I'm in the NBA.
- 40:32Speaker 4: And everyone who goes to the NBA draft, of course,
- 40:34Speaker 4: you always want to be drafted up there, because obviously
- 40:37Speaker 4: you have more visualization, more financial, and everything. And when
- 40:39Speaker 4: he called me, I said, let's go to the draft.
- 40:41Speaker 4: He went to Asaba to speak English. I said, yeah,
- 40:43Speaker 4: I unroll. Nice to meet you. I used to say
- 40:55Speaker 4: in English, Hello, my name is Gui, I'm from Brazil.
- 40:59Speaker 2: I'm from Brazil, I'm Erick, man. I'm Erick.
- 41:01Speaker 3: It was like that, but I could unwind, man.
- 41:02Speaker 2: I used to say like that, right?
- 41:03Speaker 4: Then it was when I traveled to the United States,
- 41:07Speaker 4: my season in Brazil ended, I played well, I traveled
- 41:09Speaker 4: to the United States to start the draft workouts, which
- 41:13Speaker 4: is when we go to all the teams, in the facilities.
- 41:15Speaker 2: Where they train. To train with all the coaches, with
- 41:19Speaker 2: the front.
- 41:20Speaker 4: Office, which are the main ones, the guys who make
- 41:22Speaker 4: the decisions, watching six boys train.
- 41:25Speaker 2: They always call six. Man.
- 41:27Speaker 4: They always call six, and then they do a lot
- 41:29Speaker 4: of drill there, like, run over there, throw here, do this,
- 41:32Speaker 4: do that, and then it's three against three.
- 41:35Speaker 2: And imagine, man, I was.
- 41:36Speaker 1: Only that there, right, bro?
- 41:37Speaker 2: Only that there. It's even heavier than... Imagine that.
- 41:41Speaker 1: Like, there's the Lakers coach, from the Golden State.
- 41:44Speaker 2: I'll have to represent a lot.
- 41:46Speaker 4: And they're there, at the edge of the court, watching
- 41:49Speaker 4: you train.
- 41:50Speaker 2: And, man, for me it was all very new.
- 41:52Speaker 4: I remember when I got there, I saw some players
- 41:54Speaker 4: who were already training, and I was like, wow, this
- 41:56Speaker 4: guy is watching training.
- 41:57Speaker 2: How crazy, how cool.
- 41:59Speaker 4: And I did 18 draft workouts in 30 days.
- 42:02Speaker 2: What is that? Work, huh, son? In 30 days, because.
- 42:06Speaker 4: During the pandemic, the guys couldn't come here to watch
- 42:08Speaker 4: the games, right? After the pandemic, a little bit later,
- 42:11Speaker 4: when the games came back, there was no crowd or anything,
- 42:13Speaker 4: they couldn't travel to come here to watch the games.
- 42:16Speaker 4: So I had to go to them, to train there
- 42:18Speaker 4: in front of them. Then it was when they had
- 42:19Speaker 4: this contact with me to see how much I would evolve.
- 42:22Speaker 4: And man, I started training with several teams, training well,
- 42:25Speaker 4: training well, training well with another team, then I trained
- 42:27Speaker 4: badly with one because I was tired, and then I
- 42:28Speaker 4: trained badly with another, but I trained.
- 42:30Speaker 1: Well with another.
- 42:30Speaker 5: And when you looked to the side, you said like this,
- 42:32Speaker 5: physically I'm like the guys, because it shouldn't be this fear, like,
- 42:35Speaker 5: will I be like the guys when.
- 42:36Speaker 2: I get there?
- 42:37Speaker 4: So, when you see the newbies, who are the guys
- 42:38Speaker 4: who are trying to get in with you, it's not
- 42:40Speaker 4: a big difference. So I was like, ah, no, I
- 42:41Speaker 4: can't mess with these guys here, I'm not very far
- 42:43Speaker 4: from the guys. But I was still a little behind.
- 42:48Speaker 4: And when I had this opportunity to train with the guys,
- 42:54Speaker 4: I had the dimension of, like, this is how much
- 42:56Speaker 4: I need to improve. So that's when I saw, man,
- 42:59Speaker 4: I need to improve on this, on that, and become
- 43:03Speaker 4: better in that other aspect, because if I do that,
- 43:05Speaker 4: I can get to the NBA.
- 43:06Speaker 2: Yes.
- 43:07Speaker 4: Then came the moment of truth. It was the day
- 43:10Speaker 4: of the draft, which coincidentally fell on the 22nd of June,
- 43:14Speaker 4: which is my birthday.
- 43:15Speaker 1: Wow!
- 43:16Speaker 2: Dude, the draft day was crazy. It could be the
- 43:20Speaker 2: best day of your life.
- 43:21Speaker 1: And it could be that you didn't choose it.
- 43:23Speaker 2: And you were going to remember this day forever. Dude,
- 43:24Speaker 2: that's it. And I think it was one of the biggest...
- 43:29Speaker 2: highs and lows of my life on the same day.
- 43:31Speaker 3: How was it from the moment you woke up, opened
- 43:34Speaker 3: your eyes and said, ready?
- 43:35Speaker 2: It's my birthday!
- 43:37Speaker 1: What is this, guys?
- 43:38Speaker 3: How was it from the moment you woke up? You
- 43:40Speaker 3: said you never said it completely. So, it was my birthday.
- 43:46Speaker 4: It was me and some guys who were training with
- 43:48Speaker 4: me from Brazil.
- 43:50Speaker 2: I was in Miami, where my agent is, where he
- 43:52Speaker 2: puts us to train.
- 43:56Speaker 4: I was there, probably some of you guys are watching,
- 44:00Speaker 4: Samus Calderon, Reynan, who are the guys that are playing
- 44:04Speaker 4: well today. They are in the United States, but one
- 44:05Speaker 4: of them was playing in the league, the other two
- 44:08Speaker 4: are playing in the NCAA, playing in college. And they
- 44:11Speaker 4: were there with me, and we said, let's go to
- 44:12Speaker 4: the beach, it's my birthday, let's stay there.
- 44:17Speaker 2: And my other agent, Arlen, took me there to.
- 44:19Speaker 4: to the beach, to be there with them, but the
- 44:22Speaker 4: problem was those two there, my father and my mother.
- 44:25Speaker 2: Are you anxious? What? My father.
- 44:27Speaker 4: They say that when they woke up, they went to
- 44:29Speaker 4: have breakfast, sat at the table, They ate the bread,
- 44:36Speaker 4: had coffee, the bread didn't go down.
- 44:37Speaker 2: They were there too? No, they were in Brazil. It's crazy,
- 44:40Speaker 2: it's obvious, bro. They were in Brazil.
- 44:41Speaker 1: It's crazy, bro.
- 44:42Speaker 2: The bread didn't go down at all. My mom was.
- 44:44Speaker 1: Already making a dollar bill. My mom was like, well, well,
- 44:46Speaker 1: it's going to change.
- 44:47Speaker 2: And, man, they said like this, man, you can't stay
- 44:51Speaker 2: at home. Let's pedal.
- 44:52Speaker 4: The two like to pedal a lot. They went out
- 44:54Speaker 4: to pedal, to empty their minds, to think about something else.
- 44:57Speaker 2: But in this half period, bro, I was with some
- 44:59Speaker 2: contractual problems. Like this....
- 45:03Speaker 4: I would have to pay a clause to get rid
- 45:06Speaker 4: of my contract that I was in my club, so
- 45:08Speaker 4: I could be drafted, to have the release letter. But
- 45:13Speaker 4: the teams liked me, but no team confirmed that they
- 45:17Speaker 4: would pay this clause.
- 45:18Speaker 2: To the club. Was it too expensive? It was a
- 45:21Speaker 2: very expensive fine.
- 45:23Speaker 4: First of all, it was a very expensive fine for
- 45:26Speaker 4: them to spend on a player they don't know what
- 45:28Speaker 4: he's going to do. A guy from Brazil, skinny like this,
- 45:30Speaker 4: I don't know if it's worth all this. I don't
- 45:32Speaker 4: know if it's worth risking, you know?
- 45:35Speaker 2: Wow, that's hard. Exactly.
- 45:37Speaker 4: So, for me, it was a huge draw because we were... Man,
- 45:39Speaker 4: I was more or less to be chosen between the
- 45:41Speaker 4: peaks 30 and 40. But since I didn't have any
- 45:44Speaker 4: confirmation from any team, I couldn't get the card. Because
- 45:49Speaker 4: I needed the release card But I wasn't sure.
- 45:53Speaker 2: And I wasn't sure.
- 45:55Speaker 4: And man, at that moment, my heart was pounding and
- 45:58Speaker 4: I was talking to my agent, how are you? The
- 46:00Speaker 4: guys are calling, they're calling, but we need the letter.
- 46:02Speaker 4: We're talking, we're trying to do our best to get
- 46:04Speaker 4: the letter.
- 46:04Speaker 1: You're needing the letter on the day.
- 46:07Speaker 2: On the day. Trying to get it from day to day.
- 46:09Speaker 2: On the day.
- 46:09Speaker 1: It was in the morning, the.
- 46:12Speaker 4: Fight, no, it was a while ago, but the fight
- 46:14Speaker 4: started in the morning until the draft time to get
- 46:17Speaker 4: the letter. So you were at the beach in the morning... Yeah,
- 46:23Speaker 4: I was trying to empty my head, but my father
- 46:25Speaker 4: is my mother, he has a huge head. Then I
- 46:28Speaker 4: called them and they started to cry, man, for God's sake,
- 46:30Speaker 4: will it work?
- 46:31Speaker 2: Will this work?
- 46:31Speaker 4: Let's go and I don't know what. Until the moment came, right?
- 46:35Speaker 4: The draft, it was later. And man, a little bit... Nothing, nothing,
- 46:39Speaker 4: I wasn't there.
- 46:40Speaker 2: I didn't have confirmation, I didn't have confirmation, so I
- 46:44Speaker 2: couldn't travel. Mine was the second round, so... Huh? Yeah,
- 46:51Speaker 2: that's it. So what happened?
- 46:53Speaker 4: They wanted the money to release me, the team. We
- 46:58Speaker 4: invested a lot, we needed the money to release the kid,
- 47:00Speaker 4: and no one gave the confirmation. But then, man, it
- 47:03Speaker 4: was getting too high.
- 47:04Speaker 2: Then my mom, my mom.
- 47:06Speaker 4: Put her chest in the game and said, man, I'm
- 47:08Speaker 4: going to call the guys.
- 47:10Speaker 1: From your team that you were? From the team that
- 47:12Speaker 1: I was.
- 47:12Speaker 4: Because the guys, there came a moment that they didn't
- 47:14Speaker 4: even want to talk to my agent.
- 47:15Speaker 2: Then she said, I'm going to call the guys. She
- 47:18Speaker 2: called the guys. I'm going to the feelings. You're just
- 47:20Speaker 2: a mother, man. She called the guys. She called the
- 47:24Speaker 2: guys and said, man, how much is this fine?
- 47:27Speaker 4: The guys said, it's worth it. She said, man, if
- 47:30Speaker 4: you have to take it, take my land, take my house.
- 47:36Speaker 4: He took my car, whatever it was worth, but let
- 47:39Speaker 4: my son follow his dream. Let my son follow his dream.
- 47:41Speaker 4: And she called the director of the club saying that.
- 47:43Speaker 2: And then? Then the guys released the letter. Obviously. You
- 47:45Speaker 2: will never deny it to a mother.
- 47:48Speaker 1: Never, there is no way.
- 47:49Speaker 4: They didn't take anything from the field, these things like that.
- 47:52Speaker 4: But they released the letter. And man, in that, the
- 47:55Speaker 4: heart is a million. I was saying, the draft is
- 47:57Speaker 4: going to start. Then my agent took the letter, did
- 48:00Speaker 4: all the process he had to do. and released everything,
- 48:04Speaker 4: but then came the night of the draft, the moment
- 48:08Speaker 4: of the draft itself. Then it started, pick 1, pick 2,
- 48:11Speaker 4: it came to pick 30, nothing to be chosen. Then
- 48:14Speaker 4: I called my agent, I said, how are you? He said, Gui,
- 48:17Speaker 4: I'm talking to several teams here, but they are not
- 48:19Speaker 4: giving a guarantee because we received the letter, but even so,
- 48:22Speaker 4: you can't sign and such. Anyway, a lot of problems
- 48:26Speaker 4: still behind, then what did I say? I said, let's
- 48:30Speaker 4: go up, let's keep going. I know it reached the
- 48:32Speaker 4: peak of 40, 40 and a bit, which was where
- 48:36Speaker 4: I was going to be chosen. Then nothing, none of
- 48:38Speaker 4: the guys called my name.
- 48:40Speaker 2: And I was watching it on the TV, nervous.
- 48:41Speaker 4: Nervous.
- 48:42Speaker 2: It was when my phone rang. Then I answered, I said, damn,
- 48:45Speaker 2: I'm going to be selected.
- 48:47Speaker 4: Now, because I was waiting for the call of my
- 48:49Speaker 4: agent to tell me that I was going to be selected.
- 48:52Speaker 4: But he answered, called me and said, Gui, I talked
- 48:57Speaker 4: to the teams, we will not be selected, no team
- 49:00Speaker 4: gave a guarantee, but don't be sad, it's not the
- 49:04Speaker 4: only way to enter the NBA, we can enter both
- 49:06Speaker 4: by the Summer League or later, get a contract somewhere else,
- 49:10Speaker 4: but don't be sad because it's okay, it's still all quiet,
- 49:13Speaker 4: there are other teams interested for you to play with
- 49:15Speaker 4: them in the Summer League.
- 49:15Speaker 2: Man, it broke my world. I remember correctly, I was
- 49:19Speaker 2: in those benches, in those high seats, you know, I
- 49:21Speaker 2: touched the floor, put my hand on my face and said, man,
- 49:25Speaker 2: I don't think I'm going to the NBA.
- 49:27Speaker 4: Like, a long time ago, I wouldn't even imagine that
- 49:29Speaker 4: I would be in that situation, you know? So, then
- 49:31Speaker 4: I said, man, I don't think I'm going to the NBA.
- 49:34Speaker 2: And, okay. It's even exciting, this story, because, like, After
- 49:40Speaker 2: I got this call, I called my dad and my mom,
- 49:42Speaker 2: you know? Then I said, like, bro, I'm not going
- 49:47Speaker 2: to be selected. Fuck, I was so sad, I started
- 49:50Speaker 2: to cry.
- 49:50Speaker 4: Then my mom says until today, like, it was the
- 49:52Speaker 4: first time that she had no words to say anything
- 49:55Speaker 4: to me. Like, she didn't know how to comfort me,
- 49:57Speaker 4: you know? You have to go further, man.
- 49:58Speaker 2: Like that. And I, man, I said, fuck, man, like,
- 50:00Speaker 2: I'm not going to the NBA. And, okay, I went
- 50:03Speaker 2: to lie down, I went to sleep, my agent who
- 50:06Speaker 2: was there in the house came to talk to me
- 50:08Speaker 2: and stuff. Gui, don't worry, everything will be fine. My
- 50:12Speaker 2: father took his third. Our family is very... Religious. Religious.
- 50:15Speaker 2: My father took his third and started to thank me.
- 50:19Speaker 2: The opportunity my son is having to get to the NBA.
- 50:21Speaker 2: To get close to the NBA. For us, it was
- 50:23Speaker 2: a dream. I just wanted to play in the NBA.
- 50:25Speaker 2: To get to the NBA. Thank you for everything. Thank
- 50:27Speaker 2: God for everything. The opportunity and everything else. And, man,
- 50:30Speaker 2: it seems like... I think it was when he finished.
- 50:42Speaker 2: When he finished, my agent called me. He said, Gui,
- 50:45Speaker 2: we are Brazilians. Go to the front of the TV.
- 50:49Speaker 2: Golden State will select you for the PIC 55. My brother,
- 50:52Speaker 2: my world was at the bottom of the well. At
- 50:54Speaker 2: the time. At the time, I said, it's not possible.
- 50:57Speaker 1: I went to the mega scene.
- 50:58Speaker 2: It's not possible.
- 50:59Speaker 4: Then I turned on the TV, but there was an advertisement.
- 51:01Speaker 4: I didn't see the guy calling my name. It just
- 51:03Speaker 4: appeared down there, that I was selected by Warriors. And
- 51:08Speaker 4: then I opened my Instagram, Golden State Warriors started following me.
- 51:13Speaker 2: And they marked me, welcome to the bay, and I
- 51:15Speaker 2: don't know what. Brother, I was crazy. My phone was vibrating,
- 51:22Speaker 2: everyone was sending messages.
- 51:23Speaker 1: What did you do from that moment? Did you go
- 51:25Speaker 1: to your friend's house?
- 51:27Speaker 2: No.
- 51:27Speaker 1: Did you go out?
- 51:28Speaker 2: Did you go to sleep?
- 51:29Speaker 4: The first thing I did was call my dad and
- 51:32Speaker 4: my mom. And we were talking, there's even a video
- 51:36Speaker 4: call about it, I recorded it one day to be marked.
- 51:39Speaker 1: Cool, cool.
- 51:39Speaker 4: Then I was crying in the video call, my father crying,
- 51:42Speaker 4: my mother crying.
- 51:44Speaker 2: And we were looking at each other like this, and
- 51:47Speaker 2: I said, what now? I'm inside, what do I do?
- 51:49Speaker 2: What now? What's the next step? And man, I was
- 51:51Speaker 2: in shock, man. I was in shock and my father, man,
- 51:53Speaker 2: it was crazy. It was this prayer, man. It's crazy.
- 51:55Speaker 4: Man, it's a thing, I say, it's a thing of God.
- 51:57Speaker 4: It's a thing of God, man. who called me and
- 52:01Speaker 4: put me there, man. Because if it wasn't for that...
- 52:03Speaker 4: But you couldn't... That day you couldn't sleep.
- 52:06Speaker 2: Nothing, I didn't even have a chance, because it was
- 52:09Speaker 2: already late, it was already like 2 in the morning
- 52:11Speaker 2: when I was chosen. In Florida.
- 52:13Speaker 4: And it's three hours away from the United States. Which
- 52:17Speaker 4: is where I was going, San Francisco. Then my agent
- 52:20Speaker 4: calls me and says, Gui, they're sending you a ticket now.
- 52:21Speaker 2: What? Is that how it is? Really? I swear. Gui,
- 52:24Speaker 2: they're sending you a ticket. Just take a shower and go.
- 52:27Speaker 4: Take your bag, put on a pair of shoes and
- 52:29Speaker 4: some clothes, and your flight is in an hour and
- 52:32Speaker 4: a half.
- 52:33Speaker 1: You're going to beat Curry.
- 52:34Speaker 2: No, but you were like that too, right? No, I
- 52:35Speaker 2: said what? I'm going by bike, man. I'm going by
- 52:39Speaker 2: bike now.
- 52:39Speaker 4: And it was like that, man. And then they put
- 52:42Speaker 4: me in the Uber to go.
- 52:44Speaker 2: To the airport.
- 52:45Speaker 4: Then I got there to do the check-in. When I
- 52:48Speaker 4: got there to do the check-in, she said, ah, business class,
- 52:52Speaker 4: first class, right?
- 52:53Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Or normal.
- 52:54Speaker 4: Then I went to economics. Then, okay, I gave my
- 52:56Speaker 4: name there in economics and everything. Then she said, no, no,
- 52:58Speaker 4: the gentleman is in business class.
- 53:02Speaker 2: Then I said, oh, crazy.
- 53:04Speaker 1: I would go by bike. Now, from now on, I
- 53:07Speaker 1: count in dollars.
- 53:08Speaker 2: Then I put my.
- 53:10Speaker 3: Head on the plane, lying down, and I was already
- 53:12Speaker 3: thinking about various plans.
- 53:14Speaker 2: How does it look, man? And I said, man, how cool.
- 53:16Speaker 2: First time flying in first class. Yeah.
- 53:18Speaker 4: At the time I remember when I got on the plane,
- 53:21Speaker 4: that bed.
- 53:21Speaker 2: There was more space for you, right? Being on a
- 53:24Speaker 2: normal plane, your knee would be hitting there, right?
- 53:27Speaker 4: And lying on the bed, comfortable, on the plane, quiet.
- 53:30Speaker 4: I even remember a video that has a guy from
- 53:32Speaker 4: the Brazilian national team, I forgot which soccer player, that
- 53:35Speaker 4: he says that he confused that hot towel with tapioca.
- 53:38Speaker 2: When I received the towel, I said, man, it's not true,
- 53:40Speaker 2: even the guys on the towel... Hot towel, right? Hot towel. Well, yeah,
- 53:43Speaker 2: and then I....
- 53:45Speaker 4: When I took off, man, I don't know, I had 20,000 followers.
- 53:48Speaker 4: When I landed, I was already with 150,000, 160,000. I said, man,
- 53:50Speaker 4: what a proportion this came, man. Because, like, it didn't
- 53:54Speaker 4: even take time to repercute a lot, like, for me
- 53:56Speaker 4: to see what was happening, because.
- 53:58Speaker 2: I had to get on the plane, without internet, without anything.
- 54:00Speaker 2: It was just crazy.
- 54:01Speaker 4: I landed there, the guys came to pick me up,
- 54:04Speaker 4: the guy with the sign, Welcome to the Bay, Gui Santos,
- 54:07Speaker 4: and such, from Brazil. I got there, then I went
- 54:10Speaker 4: to see the locker room.
- 54:12Speaker 2: I got there, man, I think it was the moment, like,
- 54:14Speaker 2: I said, damn, man.
- 54:15Speaker 4: That's crazy, because my name was on the sign, and
- 54:18Speaker 4: the uniform was hanging, number 15 Santos.
- 54:22Speaker 2: It was already like that? Yeah, man, it was all ready.
- 54:24Speaker 1: But I think that until you see the uniform, or
- 54:26Speaker 1: until you get in the frame, I don't think you
- 54:28Speaker 1: believe it.
- 54:29Speaker 2: Mine was until I got in the frame, man.
- 54:30Speaker 4: Mine was until I got in the frame, because I
- 54:32Speaker 4: saw the uniform like this, I used number 11 here, right?
- 54:35Speaker 4: But when I got there, it was 11, it was
- 54:36Speaker 4: from Clay Thompson.
- 54:37Speaker 2: How do you take it? There's no way, you know?
- 54:40Speaker 2: Then I got the....
- 54:44Speaker 4: At 15, because I was picked at 55, I was
- 54:46Speaker 4: picked at 55, and I used it at 11. And,
- 54:48Speaker 4: by coincidence, my dad used it at 15 when he played.
- 54:50Speaker 4: That's crazy, man. And I said, ah, that's it. At 15,
- 54:53Speaker 4: it's for real. And that's when I got there, right?
- 54:57Speaker 4: I started training, but what was the problem? I couldn't
- 55:00Speaker 4: have a 2A contract. A 2A contract is when you
- 55:03Speaker 4: sign up to play both in the D-League and in
- 55:05Speaker 4: the NBA. I couldn't because of my contract with another club.
- 55:09Speaker 4: Because I had to pay a recisory fine and they
- 55:11Speaker 4: were still testing me.
- 55:12Speaker 2: I played Summer League, which is like the summer championship
- 55:14Speaker 2: that the rookies play. I played well.
- 55:16Speaker 4: And they said, Gui, you're going to stay in the D-League,
- 55:19Speaker 4: which is the second league.
- 55:20Speaker 2: We're going to develop you.
- 55:25Speaker 4: But when I got there, I even told you, there's
- 55:27Speaker 4: a documentary of mine on YouTube that I made this
- 55:29Speaker 4: last season.
- 55:30Speaker 1: On your channel?
- 55:31Speaker 2: Not on my channel, but on the NBA Brasil channel.
- 55:33Speaker 2: That's cool.
- 55:34Speaker 4: That tells how my season was, how I got there,
- 55:37Speaker 4: how my season was now and everything. And I even said,
- 55:40Speaker 4: when I got there, the guys turned to me and said, Gui,
- 55:43Speaker 4: you're not strong enough, you're not athletic enough. You're not
- 55:47Speaker 4: fast enough and you don't understand American basketball.
- 55:51Speaker 2: Good. Motivation. I'm motivated. I'm going to be a goalkeeper.
- 55:56Speaker 2: I'm going to be a goalkeeper.
- 55:57Speaker 1: I'm going to be a goalkeeper.
- 56:00Speaker 2: I'm going to be a goalkeeper. I'm going to be
- 56:03Speaker 2: a goalkeeper.
- 56:08Speaker 1: You don't have anything.
- 56:10Speaker 2: How did you get that? It was a blow. A
- 56:12Speaker 2: 12-shot in the chest.
- 56:14Speaker 4: But at the same time he said that, he said,
- 56:17Speaker 4: don't worry, we'll give you everything you need to become
- 56:21Speaker 4: an NBA player.
- 56:21Speaker 2: If you want, you'll become one. This is a club.
- 56:24Speaker 2: I said, wow, the guys are with me.
- 56:26Speaker 1: That's when I started playing in the league.
- 56:33Speaker 4: I started to play, there was a game that I
- 56:35Speaker 4: didn't play, because they wanted me to grind.
- 56:38Speaker 2: So I grinded a lot, bro, a lot, a lot.
- 56:39Speaker 2: And you ate a lot? A lot.
- 56:40Speaker 1: That's what I wanted to know.
- 56:41Speaker 2: How was it, the diet and the training?
- 56:45Speaker 4: Man, the guys sent everything there to the house, right? Like,
- 56:48Speaker 4: no worries, I was already on the diet, but I
- 56:49Speaker 4: didn't even count, but there was a thing that people
- 56:51Speaker 4: said here, 70 dollars, that I didn't cut my hair.
- 56:53Speaker 2: This is wonderful. Calm down, I just have to explain, bro.
- 56:56Speaker 4: The guys kind of took it out of context, but
- 56:59Speaker 4: it's like this, when I got there, bro, I got
- 57:01Speaker 4: there with.
- 57:03Speaker 2: With $ 800 in my pocket, you know, to stay for
- 57:05Speaker 2: six months. Because, like... No, that's also a mess.
- 57:09Speaker 4: So, the guys gave me everything, like, like, a place
- 57:13Speaker 4: to stay and everything, structure, supplementation. But the kitchen was closed,
- 57:18Speaker 4: because the kitchen where the chef is cooking for us
- 57:21Speaker 4: was closed, because they were renovating the Chase Center, which
- 57:24Speaker 4: is where we play, our facility. Then we had to
- 57:27Speaker 4: turn around to eat, you know, it was still too early,
- 57:29Speaker 4: before the season started. E cara, aí eu tava com
- 57:32Speaker 4: o cabelo grandão, aí eu fui cortar o cabelo, mano,
- 57:34Speaker 4: cheguei lá com o cara e falei, ah, how much.
- 57:36Speaker 2: Is the cut? Falaram inglês cansado. Aí ele falou, mano,
- 57:40Speaker 2: 70 dólares. Aí eu falei, 17? Or 70? Aí ele, não, 70.
- 57:46Speaker 2: Aí eu falei, não. Oh my gosh. Não, não, não.
- 57:50Speaker 2: Eu não vou gastar 400. Eu não vou, eu não
- 57:54Speaker 2: vou gastar 50% do meu dinheiro pra cortar o cabelo.
- 57:55Speaker 2: Mas era 806 meses? Era, velho, era, hein?
- 57:58Speaker 4: And my agent always gave me all the structure, you know?
- 58:01Speaker 4: He said like this, Gui, take my card, go eat,
- 58:03Speaker 4: go do things, whatever you have to use my card,
- 58:05Speaker 4: you can use it, it's okay, I'm here to give
- 58:08Speaker 4: you strength. But man, my creation, the way I was created,
- 58:11Speaker 4: I couldn't get there and spend the money, get his
- 58:14Speaker 4: money and eat at a barbecue. And for me, I
- 58:16Speaker 4: took the money and converted a lot. So you go
- 58:18Speaker 4: to a barbecue, there was $ 100, I was like, okay, 500,
- 58:20Speaker 4: I'll count it to eat a barbecue. I don't have
- 58:22Speaker 4: the courage to pay, man. So I preferred, I even counted,
- 58:25Speaker 4: I preferred to do my jumps there.
- 58:27Speaker 2: Not that it's a sad story and such.
- 58:28Speaker 4: Like, I went there, bought a baguette zona, divided it
- 58:31Speaker 4: in three, sent it in and, bro, let's go to
- 58:33Speaker 4: the fight.
- 58:33Speaker 2: It wasn't even there. One at lunch, another at dinner
- 58:35Speaker 2: and another at breakfast. You were doing your way, son. Yeah,
- 58:38Speaker 2: and I said, no, I want this a lot, man.
- 58:40Speaker 2: I want it a lot and I was there, doing that.
- 58:42Speaker 5: But you, then, did you feel that you evolved a
- 58:45Speaker 5: lot in the D-League? Because this gives a curiosity of, like...
- 58:50Speaker 5: But we want to prepare you, so go train, go eat.
- 58:52Speaker 5: So when they find you, are you on the right diet?
- 58:55Speaker 5: Because it's a concern, right?
- 58:56Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
- 58:57Speaker 5: They had a physical trainer who was always with me, Andrew.
- 59:00Speaker 2: He helped me a lot.
- 59:00Speaker 1: I even talk about him in my series, in.
- 59:09Speaker 2: The last episode that came out, I talk a lot
- 59:11Speaker 2: about him. Man, do you know?
- 59:13Speaker 4: There was a time when he cut my hair to
- 59:16Speaker 4: help me. My physical trainer cut my hair to help
- 59:19Speaker 4: me and gave me his.
- 59:22Speaker 2: Way to do things.
- 59:24Speaker 4: And that's when I also had all the support from
- 59:26Speaker 4: the Warriors. And they would come and say, Andrew, how's
- 59:28Speaker 4: the guitar? And I would say, man, this guy here,
- 59:32Speaker 4: he really loves the thing.
- 59:34Speaker 2: He's working.
- 59:34Speaker 4: He pushed me, and I'm very competitive, man. I was
- 59:37Speaker 4: going to knit. Then I was doing supino, I don't know,
- 59:40Speaker 4: with 80 libras. Then he would come to my side
- 59:42Speaker 4: and lay down with 85kg and did it. Then I
- 59:43Speaker 4: would say, no, you're not stronger than me, bro. Then
- 59:45Speaker 4: I would get 90kg.
- 59:46Speaker 2: And did it. Then he would get 95kg and knew, bro.
- 59:48Speaker 2: And he stayed like that, bro. And, man, it helped
- 59:49Speaker 2: me a lot.
- 59:50Speaker 4: In my first year, first, second year, I gained a
- 59:52Speaker 4: lot of muscle mass, bro. A lot of muscle mass.
- 59:54Speaker 4: I got stronger, I got faster, more prepared. And that's
- 59:57Speaker 4: when I started... I started playing this whole league season.
- 1:00:01Speaker 4: More towards the end of the season, when I started
- 1:00:02Speaker 4: playing more, playing well.
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: The season ended. I came and stayed in Brazil for
- 1:00:05Speaker 2: two weeks.
- 1:00:11Speaker 4: To enjoy with my family And in that, I think
- 1:00:14Speaker 4: I had taken only my father Because my father knew the.
- 1:00:16Speaker 2: United States And we took.
- 1:00:19Speaker 4: I paid my father's ticket to come here My family
- 1:00:22Speaker 4: never missed anything, thank God But it was never... Disbanded
- 1:00:26Speaker 4: It was always normal things Then I sent the ticket
- 1:00:29Speaker 4: to my father My father went to the United States
- 1:00:33Speaker 4: with me He went to visit that Golden Gate, beautiful
- 1:00:36Speaker 4: as hell You must have been there, right?
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: Never been? Never been to San Francisco?
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: Never I didn't go to San Francisco.
- 1:00:43Speaker 2: Did you?
- 1:00:43Speaker 3: No, I thought you had gone.
- 1:00:45Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. Waiting for the invitation.
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: So, you're invited. The two of us.
- 1:00:54Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 1:00:55Speaker 4: But then I took my dad there, tied up, us seeing. Then,
- 1:00:58Speaker 4: when the season of Ad League ended, that's when the
- 1:01:01Speaker 4: second season started. That was when I got my contract
- 1:01:04Speaker 4: with Orson. I was playing very well in the Summer League,
- 1:01:12Speaker 4: which is the summer championship.
- 1:01:13Speaker 2: I played very well.
- 1:01:14Speaker 4: When the league started, I was playing very well. Then
- 1:01:17Speaker 4: I signed my contract with them.
- 1:01:19Speaker 2: They called me. My agent called me.
- 1:01:21Speaker 4: Gui, the guys are offering you a contract. Then I said, wow,
- 1:01:24Speaker 4: I blew it.
- 1:01:26Speaker 2: I blew it. Did you pay the fine? I paid
- 1:01:29Speaker 2: the fine. I paid the fine, the receipt I needed.
- 1:01:31Speaker 2: I was free. Now I could finally sign.
- 1:01:32Speaker 1: Now you were in the NBA.
- 1:01:33Speaker 2: Exactly. Now I was. It was when my card fell.
- 1:01:36Speaker 2: I signed it.
- 1:01:40Speaker 4: And I was in Santa Cruz, which is like an
- 1:01:41Speaker 4: hour and a half from San Francisco. Then they sent
- 1:01:42Speaker 4: a car to pick me up so I could go
- 1:01:44Speaker 4: to the game. I got there at the game, my
- 1:01:46Speaker 4: uniform was.
- 1:01:46Speaker 2: Pretty, a sign there... What did they send?
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: A HB20 to pick you up?
- 1:01:48Speaker 2: Nothing, it's an Escalade, right? It's just that. That's crazy, bro.
- 1:01:53Speaker 4: And then I got there at the game, bro, I
- 1:01:55Speaker 4: put on my uniform. Then there's a little tunnel that
- 1:01:57Speaker 4: we enter, you know?
- 1:01:58Speaker 2: There's a little.
- 1:01:58Speaker 4: Meeting before the game. Then, man, I was hugging the
- 1:02:01Speaker 4: guys like this, right? We make a prayer before entering.
- 1:02:03Speaker 4: And then I looked to one side, Stephen Curry. On
- 1:02:06Speaker 4: the other side, Klay Thompson. On the other side, Dermot Green.
- 1:02:10Speaker 4: And they were the only ones I watched and played
- 1:02:12Speaker 4: video games with.
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: I was like, that's cool, I'm with them. I'm one
- 1:02:16Speaker 2: of them now, in my head. For sure.
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: But there was a step there.
- 1:02:19Speaker 2: You have to reinforce it in your head.
- 1:02:21Speaker 1: I'm one of them, otherwise you get in shock.
- 1:02:23Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: But I couldn't hold the shock. Coincidentally, my first game.
- 1:02:32Speaker 4: It was a game that had an absurd fight between
- 1:02:34Speaker 4: Minnesota and Golden State. There's even a video, it was
- 1:02:39Speaker 4: the game that Draymond Green took Rudy Goberno, Mata Leão,
- 1:02:42Speaker 4: and played.
- 1:02:42Speaker 2: And Klay Thompson... Was it in this game that you debuted?
- 1:02:45Speaker 2: It was my first game. And how was that performance? Man,
- 1:02:49Speaker 2: I was scared as hell, because I didn't even enter
- 1:02:50Speaker 2: this game, because I knew I wasn't going to play.
- 1:02:52Speaker 2: But then when I saw two, three guys on my
- 1:02:55Speaker 2: team were expelled, I looked at the bench, there was
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: me and two, three more guys. I said, my brother,
- 1:03:00Speaker 2: if anyone needs to come in, I'll come in. I'll
- 1:03:02Speaker 2: need me too.
- 1:03:02Speaker 4: I'm ready, but damn it. I said, I'm ready, but
- 1:03:05Speaker 4: if I come in here, man, the head of the
- 1:03:07Speaker 4: athlete doesn't stop. The guy gets scared, but he can't
- 1:03:09Speaker 4: transcribe it in the box. Then it was when I
- 1:03:11Speaker 4: didn't enter this game. During this whole season, I didn't
- 1:03:14Speaker 4: have much opportunity. I was playing more in the D-League
- 1:03:17Speaker 4: and developing to be ready to play more in the
- 1:03:20Speaker 4: next season for the Warriors.
- 1:03:29Speaker 2: So, that's it. My first season was over. I had
- 1:03:31Speaker 2: some money. I was more.
- 1:03:33Speaker 4: Structured. I was eating two or three baguettes.
- 1:03:36Speaker 2: You had already bought some baguettes. I was able to
- 1:03:39Speaker 2: go to the steakhouse. I could have ordered an Uber.
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: I could have ordered a chipotle.
- 1:03:44Speaker 2: That's when the second season started. After that, I came
- 1:03:47Speaker 2: to Brasília. I trained a lot during... The holidays. The holidays.
- 1:03:51Speaker 2: To get there.
- 1:03:58Speaker 4: The season started, there's a remarkable fact, Steve Kerr gave
- 1:04:03Speaker 4: an interview, the coach, and they asked him who are
- 1:04:05Speaker 4: the players that won't be on the rotation at the
- 1:04:08Speaker 4: beginning of the season, and he said it would be
- 1:04:10Speaker 4: Gui and Lindy Waters, who was another player there. And man,
- 1:04:17Speaker 4: this had a repercussion here in Brazil. The guys were like, man,
- 1:04:20Speaker 4: he went there, he went there.
- 1:04:21Speaker 2: What did he do there?
- 1:04:22Speaker 1: He went to warm up.
- 1:04:23Speaker 4: He went to warm up the bench. No, this one
- 1:04:26Speaker 4: will only be... This one has to pray to be
- 1:04:28Speaker 4: on the next team.
- 1:04:29Speaker 2: Man, several things like that, you know? And did that
- 1:04:32Speaker 2: mess with your head? Man, at first it did. At
- 1:04:33Speaker 2: first it did. It was when.
- 1:04:35Speaker 4: This was even important as hell for me. It was
- 1:04:36Speaker 4: when I learned to deal with it.
- 1:04:37Speaker 2: Like, man, you don't have to read social media. You
- 1:04:40Speaker 2: don't have to, you know? You have to get away
- 1:04:42Speaker 2: from it if you want to perform. Because... It's too
- 1:04:46Speaker 2: hard to deal with, sometimes you see something and you
- 1:04:50Speaker 2: can't say anything, you have to stay quiet, listen and
- 1:04:52Speaker 2: pretend you didn't even see it. So that's when I
- 1:04:54Speaker 2: learned that you can't do that, get away from social media.
- 1:04:57Speaker 2: Better than you do. Anyway, I know that.
- 1:05:00Speaker 4: Until the beginning of the season, there was no opportunity
- 1:05:03Speaker 4: for me to get there. Then I asked the guys,
- 1:05:06Speaker 4: I said, man, let me go down there to the league,
- 1:05:08Speaker 4: to the second league, so I can play a little more,
- 1:05:10Speaker 4: so I can get back to my game rhythm, so
- 1:05:12Speaker 4: if it happens.
- 1:05:13Speaker 2: That I have a chance here, I'm ready.
- 1:05:15Speaker 4: It was a game against Detroit Pistons, in Detroit. Three
- 1:05:22Speaker 4: guys from my position got injured. And the other one,
- 1:05:25Speaker 4: Wander Wiggins, had a false birth alarm from his daughter.
- 1:05:28Speaker 4: So he went to San Francisco. And then the guys
- 1:05:31Speaker 4: turned to me like that, that was before the game.
- 1:05:34Speaker 4: Then he turned to me like that and said, Gui,
- 1:05:36Speaker 4: you're going to play today.
- 1:05:39Speaker 2: I said, yeah, that's it, let's go. I'm ready, I'm ready.
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: Are you going to play today?
- 1:05:45Speaker 2: Yeah. And man, in this game, I think it was
- 1:05:48Speaker 2: the game that changed my life the most. What I
- 1:05:50Speaker 2: played in this game was a joke. I was in
- 1:05:52Speaker 2: every corner of the court, man.
- 1:05:56Speaker 4: The ball hit the rebound and I would go there
- 1:05:58Speaker 4: and fight with the guys. Me fighting with three guys,
- 1:05:59Speaker 4: I could get the rebound, pass it to Curry and
- 1:06:01Speaker 4: kill a three-ball. I said, this is on my account,
- 1:06:03Speaker 4: let's go.
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: That was me. And man, I played very well, the
- 1:06:06Speaker 2: game was over.
- 1:06:06Speaker 4: It was when I left a little spark behind the
- 1:06:09Speaker 4: technician's ear and said, this kid can help us, man.
- 1:06:12Speaker 4: He brought a volupia, an energy that we needed. Then
- 1:06:14Speaker 4: there was another game that was very striking too. Because
- 1:06:22Speaker 4: it was a game that I was playing very well
- 1:06:24Speaker 4: in Brooklyn, against Nets, that Steve decided to close the
- 1:06:29Speaker 4: game with me, instead of closing the game with Klay Thompson.
- 1:06:33Speaker 2: So, for me, in my head, I was like, wow.
- 1:06:34Speaker 2: He opted for me, instead of Klay. In my head,
- 1:06:38Speaker 2: I was like, bro, what is this? Calm down, calm down.
- 1:06:40Speaker 2: Come on, Klay. Come on, you know?
- 1:06:42Speaker 1: But I imagine that you, in training, should be flying, right, bro?
- 1:06:46Speaker 2: There's no time to train there, man.
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: It's a lot of games.
- 1:06:48Speaker 4: But I was doing very well in the games that
- 1:06:50Speaker 4: I entered. I entered 6, 7 minutes, man, and it
- 1:06:53Speaker 4: gave me life. It looked like I had played 40 minutes,
- 1:06:55Speaker 4: of how much I ran.
- 1:06:56Speaker 5: Brother, but how do you control this conditioning? Because me
- 1:07:00Speaker 5: and Mítico, with these partnerships with NBA, there was one.
- 1:07:05Speaker 1: Time that we went.
- 1:07:06Speaker 5: At the debut, I think it was from 2023 or 2024,
- 1:07:09Speaker 5: I don't remember now, but it was.
- 1:07:12Speaker 5: Nuggets had won a season and they were going to
- 1:07:14Speaker 5: debut next season against the Lakers, and then we saw,
- 1:07:17Speaker 5: they arrived before at the locker room, at the gym,
- 1:07:23Speaker 5: Aaron Gordon, he was hitting the ball, this should have
- 1:07:27Speaker 5: been about 5 hours before the game, he started to
- 1:07:29Speaker 5: hit the ball.
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: Like that, he spent 3 hours hitting the ball, bro,
- 1:07:32Speaker 1: 3 hours, and I said, he's still going to play.
- 1:07:35Speaker 3: I was already sweating, but I was so tired.
- 1:07:38Speaker 2: I was about to puke. I was like, what is this?
- 1:07:41Speaker 2: What a mess.
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: It was crazy.
- 1:07:41Speaker 2: It was the first time we were shocked to see that.
- 1:07:45Speaker 5: How much you prepare, how much you repeat, how many
- 1:07:47Speaker 5: throws you throw a day.
- 1:07:48Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: When I saw that, I was like... I didn't imagine
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: it would be like that. Not really.
- 1:07:52Speaker 2: Not really. I have my ritual.
- 1:07:54Speaker 1: Every player has his ritual.
- 1:07:57Speaker 2: Before the game. I have my ritual too. I wake
- 1:07:59Speaker 2: up in the morning, when the game is at home,
- 1:08:01Speaker 2: I wake up in the morning. I go to the Warriors.
- 1:08:08Speaker 4: Very early, around 8 o'clock, 7 o'clock, I'm already there shooting,
- 1:08:11Speaker 4: you know? 7.30, 8 o'clock, I'm already there shooting.
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: So you woke up at 5, 6?
- 1:08:15Speaker 4: No, no, it's next door, I live next door, so
- 1:08:17Speaker 4: I could wake up like this, I woke up at
- 1:08:19Speaker 4: 7 to be there at 7.30 ready to shoot.
- 1:08:21Speaker 2: You know?
- 1:08:21Speaker 4: Then I went there in the morning, I took a,
- 1:08:25Speaker 4: I don't know if you've seen a machine that takes
- 1:08:30Speaker 4: a rebound and passes the ball to you, you throw it,
- 1:08:32Speaker 4: there's a net around it, Then the ball falls into
- 1:08:35Speaker 4: the net and it passes the ball to you. That's crazy,
- 1:08:37Speaker 4: I've never seen it. So, there's a machine like that there.
- 1:08:40Speaker 4: Good thing.
- 1:08:42Speaker 2: And I saw this opportunity, I was there kicking with
- 1:08:44Speaker 2: this machine, I went there, bro.
- 1:08:45Speaker 4: And because I was very much like that, calling a technician,
- 1:08:47Speaker 4: you know, I was very young there. I said, I
- 1:08:50Speaker 4: don't want to bother a technician, make the guy leave
- 1:08:52Speaker 4: the house at 7 o'clock in the morning to do
- 1:08:53Speaker 4: just that. And so I wouldn't be alone there, I
- 1:08:56Speaker 4: would go, pick up the cell phone, put it on
- 1:08:57Speaker 4: the video, on the video call and call my mom.
- 1:08:59Speaker 2: Oh, how cool.
- 1:09:01Speaker 4: Then I would stay on the video call calling my mom,
- 1:09:03Speaker 4: talking to her about life and throwing, bro. And when
- 1:09:06Speaker 4: I see it's already 700, 700, 800 throws, 600, 700
- 1:09:07Speaker 4: throws like that, you know?
- 1:09:08Speaker 2: That I've already done. How long did it take you
- 1:09:11Speaker 2: to throw 600 throws? Oh, one hour, bro. It's quick,
- 1:09:13Speaker 2: one hour. One hour of repetitions, you put 700, you throw.
- 1:09:18Speaker 1: It and your arm goes crazy. That's crazy, I get hard, I.
- 1:09:21Speaker 3: Lie on the floor and die, but like that, then
- 1:09:25Speaker 3: you would measure, you measure, no, of 600 I have
- 1:09:28Speaker 3: to hit so many.
- 1:09:30Speaker 4: Measure, measure, the machine counts everything, you put a little
- 1:09:32Speaker 4: thing there, when the ball falls, it counts as a hit,
- 1:09:35Speaker 4: when the ball doesn't fall, it doesn't count.
- 1:09:36Speaker 3: From the day you were fucked, how many did you hit,
- 1:09:38Speaker 3: more or less, of these 600, just so we have
- 1:09:40Speaker 3: a notion, go.
- 1:09:41Speaker 2: Dude, a very good day like that, from 600 you
- 1:09:43Speaker 2: hit 500. A very good day.
- 1:09:44Speaker 4: No, what is that? A very good day, a very
- 1:09:46Speaker 4: good day. But the average, let's put it at about 400,
- 1:09:49Speaker 4: 450 maybe.
- 1:09:49Speaker 2: You know? Man, from 600 you hit 500, it's very blurry, bro.
- 1:09:52Speaker 2: And the repetition, right? There comes a time when you
- 1:09:55Speaker 2: don't even know what you're doing anymore, you just go,
- 1:09:58Speaker 2: you just go. And it goes, right? And it falls.
- 1:10:00Speaker 2: And it falls, and it falls, and it falls, and
- 1:10:03Speaker 2: you don't even feel it.
- 1:10:07Speaker 4: Then after the game I go home, listen to the
- 1:10:11Speaker 4: video call with her, get home, take a shower, and
- 1:10:13Speaker 4: before the game, I think it's one of the most
- 1:10:17Speaker 4: important parts.
- 1:10:19Speaker 2: Thank you. Before the game, I put a song in
- 1:10:22Speaker 2: the sound box, bursting, in the bathroom, my brother, there
- 1:10:25Speaker 2: is my heating already, singing, I hear everything. I wanted
- 1:10:27Speaker 2: to know what you play, you have to play at
- 1:10:29Speaker 2: least every day.
- 1:10:33Speaker 4: I'm a guy who likes a lot of music, like,
- 1:10:36Speaker 4: you know, there's Nathanson, Ferinha, a guy I listen to
- 1:10:39Speaker 4: a lot.
- 1:10:39Speaker 2: Oh, man, what is that? Nathanson, Ferinha. I didn't think
- 1:10:43Speaker 2: you were going to say Nathanson.
- 1:10:45Speaker 1: That was awesome.
- 1:10:46Speaker 2: I listen to a lot of Nathanson, Menos é Mais, Duzão,
- 1:10:48Speaker 2: my partner, I also listen to a lot. I listen
- 1:10:50Speaker 2: to Teuzinho, man. Teuzinho is a guy I listen to
- 1:10:52Speaker 2: a lot too.
- 1:10:52Speaker 4: There are many others, like, that I listen to, but
- 1:10:54Speaker 4: these are the ones that are always in my sound box,
- 1:10:56Speaker 4: that are playing all the time.
- 1:11:01Speaker 2: Neto Brito is another guy I listen to a lot.
- 1:11:05Speaker 2: Neto Brito? That's what Dudu said, right? You're not talking
- 1:11:09Speaker 2: about the guy? Seriously? I listen to him a lot too.
- 1:11:11Speaker 4: He even started listening to these songs because of me.
- 1:11:14Speaker 2: After that, I go to the game.
- 1:11:15Speaker 4: But when you don't play a lot, many people don't
- 1:11:17Speaker 4: know this, but when you don't play, if you're not
- 1:11:19Speaker 4: the guy who's always there in the box, you arrive
- 1:11:23Speaker 4: two hours late. The game is at 7pm, I arrive
- 1:11:24Speaker 4: at 2.30pm. I arrive at 2.30pm, I tinker, I play,
- 1:11:29Speaker 4: The players who are not playing much play against the coaches.
- 1:11:31Speaker 4: And then we take a shower, get dressed and go
- 1:11:34Speaker 4: to the game. And if there's any problem in the game,
- 1:11:37Speaker 4: we'll play. But don't they get scared.
- 1:11:38Speaker 3: Sometimes of you getting hurt or this issue of wear?
- 1:11:42Speaker 2: They do, they do.
- 1:11:43Speaker 4: So much so that they do it well controlled, you know?
- 1:11:46Speaker 2: But even so, man... It's normal. Yeah. And like that,
- 1:11:49Speaker 2: I said, I'm not going to play, man. I'm going
- 1:11:50Speaker 2: 100% here. So, it's okay. I'm going... I'm going up.
- 1:11:52Speaker 4: Man, you're crazy, man. And you have to be ready,
- 1:11:57Speaker 4: and it was like that. And that's when the opportunities
- 1:12:00Speaker 4: started to appear. In the playoffs, I started to play
- 1:12:03Speaker 4: a little longer, even a little before the playoffs. In
- 1:12:06Speaker 4: my third year of NBA, I started to play more
- 1:12:09Speaker 4: and have more participation. It was when I started to
- 1:12:11Speaker 4: be a little more known in the middle, both there,
- 1:12:14Speaker 4: with the Americans, knowing a little more about who I am,
- 1:12:17Speaker 4: as here in Brazil, the people follow a little more
- 1:12:19Speaker 4: and know a little.
- 1:12:19Speaker 1: More about me.
- 1:12:21Speaker 2: But the good stuff came this last season, man. This
- 1:12:23Speaker 2: last season. But you're playing a lot, Gui.
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: Thank God.
- 1:12:28Speaker 2: It was a lot of work.
- 1:12:29Speaker 4: You saw a little bit of the story, but it
- 1:12:31Speaker 4: comes from the back. How does it feel to score
- 1:12:33Speaker 4: 30 points in the NBA? You get out of the
- 1:12:34Speaker 4: game big.
- 1:12:35Speaker 2: It's an absurd feeling of power. It's not just you.
- 1:12:38Speaker 1: It's Gui Santos.
- 1:12:38Speaker 2: It's Gui Santos, the doll. It's like that. When I
- 1:12:41Speaker 2: scored 30 points in this game, Stefano was playing. Man,
- 1:12:55Speaker 2: I was playing so well, I was playing in the flow.
- 1:12:57Speaker 1: You didn't even feel the lack of it, right?
- 1:12:59Speaker 2: No, calm down. But I was in the flow of
- 1:13:04Speaker 2: the game, man.
- 1:13:04Speaker 4: Then when I looked up there on the screen to
- 1:13:06Speaker 4: see how many points I was, I saw Gui Santos,
- 1:13:09Speaker 4: 25 points. I said, damn, man, my career high at
- 1:13:13Speaker 4: the moment, I hadn't made more than 25 points in
- 1:13:15Speaker 4: any game.
- 1:13:16Speaker 2: I said, man, you can reach more, right? Then came
- 1:13:18Speaker 2: Gary Payton, who is a guy who laughs, man, pure
- 1:13:20Speaker 2: laughter too, man. He said, Gui, let's do 30 points,
- 1:13:24Speaker 2: let's do it. He told you that in the game?
- 1:13:26Speaker 2: He said, man, you have to do 30 points, but
- 1:13:27Speaker 2: 5 points, and there was almost a quarter left. So
- 1:13:28Speaker 2: you had time? I had time, then I started.
- 1:13:31Speaker 1: I made a ball, 27.
- 1:13:31Speaker 4: I made another ball, 29. Then I was missing, I
- 1:13:34Speaker 4: don't know, 3 minutes to finish the game. And I,
- 1:13:37Speaker 4: of course, wanting to win the game and such, and
- 1:13:39Speaker 4: I was playing well. Then Steve drew a play for
- 1:13:42Speaker 4: me and said, Gui, you're going to receive the ball here.
- 1:13:48Speaker 2: One against one, you against the guy.
- 1:13:50Speaker 4: Everyone kind of moves away, makes some blocks to pretend
- 1:13:52Speaker 4: that they are doing something and let Gui play. Then
- 1:13:55Speaker 4: when I hit the bottom, I hit the guy, I
- 1:13:58Speaker 4: made the ball and I looked up there, 31 points.
- 1:14:01Speaker 4: I said, okay, bro, what is this?
- 1:14:05Speaker 2: Wow, you have to respect.
- 1:14:06Speaker 1: How many, bro?
- 1:14:07Speaker 5: Four Brazilians only got this, bro?
- 1:14:09Speaker 4: And then I already saw in my head, already thinking
- 1:14:11Speaker 4: like this, in the locker room, going to the locker room.
- 1:14:13Speaker 2: I said, man, how many guys have done this, bro?
- 1:14:15Speaker 2: From Brazil. Then I went to see and there were
- 1:14:18Speaker 2: only four. Leandrinho, Nini, Varejão and me. Congratulations, brother.
- 1:14:25Speaker 1: This is very cool. You shared a little of your.
- 1:14:29Speaker 5: Obsession with training and how much it made a difference
- 1:14:33Speaker 5: in your career and will make even more. But there
- 1:14:36Speaker 5: is someone who you look at and say... Man, this
- 1:14:38Speaker 5: kid trains a lot too. And I also wanted to
- 1:14:41Speaker 5: know what Curry is.
- 1:14:42Speaker 2: Like, man.
- 1:14:42Speaker 1: Because he's an aberration, man.
- 1:14:44Speaker 5: Like, he tells you, today I'm going to throw the
- 1:14:46Speaker 5: ball out of the gym and it's going to fall
- 1:14:49Speaker 5: on the basket.
- 1:14:50Speaker 2: But we noticed that he does this all the time, right? No, no.
- 1:14:53Speaker 5: There was one now in All-Star that he didn't play,
- 1:14:56Speaker 5: but he went there where.
- 1:14:59Speaker 1: The Luda Chris drummer was, threw the.
- 1:15:01Speaker 2: Ball, it fell there. It's another normal day, right? Man,
- 1:15:04Speaker 2: you asked about a guy who trains, he, man.
- 1:15:06Speaker 1: Really?
- 1:15:07Speaker 4: The intensity of the training. We don't train together because
- 1:15:10Speaker 4: it's a lot of games. So we train individually. But
- 1:15:13Speaker 4: the intensity of the individual training is insane.
- 1:15:16Speaker 2: There's even a video of mine where I'm watching and
- 1:15:19Speaker 2: he's throwing. And he doesn't miss. And I'm behind him
- 1:15:21Speaker 2: in the goal zone and he's throwing. He hits 600
- 1:15:23Speaker 2: and he hits 600. He doesn't miss. 601, bro. He
- 1:15:25Speaker 2: hits it. That's true, bro. I swear it's insane. The
- 1:15:27Speaker 2: quality of.
- 1:15:28Speaker 1: The guy's training.
- 1:15:29Speaker 2: What he does is not for nothing.
- 1:15:36Speaker 4: We talked about the work, man. Okay, Gui is a worker,
- 1:15:39Speaker 4: I don't know what, it's the work. But, man, that
- 1:15:40Speaker 4: guy there is like an extraterrestrial thing, man.
- 1:15:45Speaker 2: No one will be like that guy. There's no way. Really?
- 1:15:48Speaker 2: There's no way. What he does, there's no way to
- 1:15:50Speaker 2: do it.
- 1:15:50Speaker 4: He comes playing like that, everyone hard, in the heat,
- 1:15:53Speaker 4: still there to make, right, walk through.
- 1:15:55Speaker 1: The games of the other teams.
- 1:15:56Speaker 2: Man, he arrives, boom, box. Then he looks, he walks away.
- 1:16:01Speaker 2: Do you know how he is in the game? Dancing
- 1:16:02Speaker 2: and making jokes.
- 1:16:03Speaker 4: He's like that all day. You talk to him and
- 1:16:04Speaker 4: when he's pissed, he'll be a good guy to answer
- 1:16:06Speaker 4: you with education. And with a bite in his mouth.
- 1:16:09Speaker 4: Turning and biting. But what was the first.
- 1:16:11Speaker 1: Time you had a fight with him?
- 1:16:14Speaker 2: What did he tell you? How was it?
- 1:16:16Speaker 3: It was in my first year when I was drafted.
- 1:16:18Speaker 3: I went to play my first game at Chase Center.
- 1:16:25Speaker 4: I wasn't on the team yet, I was going through
- 1:16:27Speaker 4: all that process that I told you about.
- 1:16:28Speaker 2: Liberation. That's right.
- 1:16:31Speaker 4: And the first game ended, I had played really well, man.
- 1:16:33Speaker 4: My first game playing in an NBA squad. I scored
- 1:16:35Speaker 4: 23 points, I don't know how many rebounds and assists.
- 1:16:37Speaker 4: And then I went down, he was watching. Then I
- 1:16:39Speaker 4: went down and I saw him playing with his little
- 1:16:41Speaker 4: son on the squad table. I said, man, the man
- 1:16:44Speaker 4: is there, man, how cool, man. I only see the
- 1:16:46Speaker 4: guy on TV, in the video game. Then there was
- 1:16:49Speaker 4: even the guy who, one of the eyes that drafted me,
- 1:16:51Speaker 4: who was helping me with.
- 1:16:52Speaker 2: English, with everything there. Then I asked him if he
- 1:16:56Speaker 2: could take a picture with Steph. He said, of course, man.
- 1:16:57Speaker 2: The guy is a great guy. He said, hey, Steph,
- 1:16:59Speaker 2: come here.
- 1:16:59Speaker 4: Then he arrived, gave me a lot of attention. I
- 1:17:02Speaker 4: didn't even know, you know, about me or anything. He
- 1:17:04Speaker 4: gave me a lot of attention, took a picture with me.
- 1:17:07Speaker 4: He was a great guy, man.
- 1:17:08Speaker 3: You didn't even say, oh, in a little while you're
- 1:17:10Speaker 3: going to see me breaking everything here.
- 1:17:11Speaker 2: Nothing. He didn't say anything.
- 1:17:13Speaker 4: I was like this, man, still babbling, looking, saying like this, fuck,
- 1:17:16Speaker 4: my brother, he's a man. He had just been champion,
- 1:17:19Speaker 4: MVP of the NBA, of the finals. I couldn't believe it, man.
- 1:17:24Speaker 1: Man, I wanted the people who.
- 1:17:25Speaker 5: I think the people who follow us have a little idea,
- 1:17:27Speaker 5: but the people who follow us and had the opportunity
- 1:17:33Speaker 5: to be there, inside the gym, it's something, guys.
- 1:17:37Speaker 1: Like, we went to All-Star.
- 1:17:39Speaker 2: It's a show, right, man?
- 1:17:40Speaker 1: Besides being a show, it's like, you say like this... Look,
- 1:17:43Speaker 1: the guys from Terno started to move. Someone's coming! Someone's coming!
- 1:17:45Speaker 2: Someone's coming!
- 1:17:46Speaker 5: And out of nowhere, Kevin Durant and Lebron James pass by.
- 1:17:49Speaker 5: It's like nothing happened. Man, it seems like it's a
- 1:17:52Speaker 5: very fast presidential operation.
- 1:17:54Speaker 1: You say, what's this, man?
- 1:17:56Speaker 2: And this every minute in a tiny space. A lot
- 1:18:00Speaker 2: of people working, brother. A lot of people working.
- 1:18:03Speaker 5: And it's kind of a subjective thing. You say, man,
- 1:18:05Speaker 5: there's nothing messing with me to go there.
- 1:18:07Speaker 1: But if I go there, I think it's going to
- 1:18:10Speaker 1: be bad, you know?
- 1:18:11Speaker 2: So.
- 1:18:12Speaker 5: They have an aura of attention.
- 1:18:16Speaker 1: You're kind of tense, attentive all the time. It's LeBron James,
- 1:18:20Speaker 1: it's Stephen Curry, it's Gui Santos.
- 1:18:21Speaker 2: It's all very important.
- 1:18:22Speaker 1: These guys are... It's Therneman on the chest, so you go.
- 1:18:25Speaker 5: It's a very important thing.
- 1:18:27Speaker 1: And there's a glamour, right, man?
- 1:18:28Speaker 2: It's very cool. There is. And, man, they're like.
- 1:18:32Speaker 4: from Lebron to the player who doesn't play, man. The
- 1:18:35Speaker 4: guys are extremely professional with that, man. Like, oh, there's
- 1:18:39Speaker 4: a player coming, man. Everyone is watching, touching the guys, saying, oh,
- 1:18:42Speaker 4: no one's going to pass, pass, pass, player coming. And
- 1:18:43Speaker 4: they're like that with everyone, man.
- 1:18:45Speaker 1: That's very crazy, right? That's what's cool, that's what's cool. Brother,
- 1:18:48Speaker 1: and for you now, talking about.
- 1:18:50Speaker 5: Golden State, how is it for you to be in
- 1:18:52Speaker 5: a team as big as Golden State?
- 1:18:55Speaker 1: A team from a young dynasty, right, man?
- 1:18:59Speaker 5: We saw what Golden State and Cavaliers did in 2016, 15.
- 1:19:01Speaker 1: A few years there, right? Anyway, Golden State was even
- 1:19:05Speaker 1: more victorious.
- 1:19:07Speaker 5: How is it to be in a team like this
- 1:19:08Speaker 5: that lived a dynasty, you arrive, meet these people, Klay Thompson, Curry,
- 1:19:15Speaker 5: and kind of normal life too, the team was dismantling,
- 1:19:21Speaker 5: I think it was just Curry. And maybe you are
- 1:19:24Speaker 5: one of the pillars of this reformulation of Golden State.
- 1:19:27Speaker 1: How is it for you? What are the movements that
- 1:19:29Speaker 1: you see from the team? Do they really want a reformulation?
- 1:19:32Speaker 1: Are they counting on Gui? Or are you still afraid
- 1:19:36Speaker 1: of being replaced? Because I imagine that this must be
- 1:19:38Speaker 1: a huge fear for the player, you know? Tell me
- 1:19:39Speaker 1: about it, brother. Man, it's the same.
- 1:19:43Speaker 4: Nowadays, from that person, from that staff that.
- 1:19:46Speaker 2: Won everything, there are Draymond Green and Steph, right? They
- 1:19:49Speaker 2: are the two main ones, the two leaders of the team.
- 1:19:52Speaker 4: And they are two guys that bring an example for us,
- 1:19:56Speaker 4: the winning mentality, everything they won and everything else, they
- 1:19:59Speaker 4: try to pass it on to us. And today, for me,
- 1:20:00Speaker 4: it's there, I have this in my head, like, I
- 1:20:03Speaker 4: don't see myself, like, ah, no, I'm the future here
- 1:20:05Speaker 4: and everything else, no way, I'm very humble in admitting
- 1:20:07Speaker 4: it and, like, man, it's step by step, man. I'm
- 1:20:15Speaker 4: not going to say that I'm this, that I'm that,
- 1:20:16Speaker 4: because I'm not yet. I have to prove myself to
- 1:20:18Speaker 4: show that I am. But if you count on me,
- 1:20:21Speaker 4: I'll be ready. But if I count on me, I'll
- 1:20:23Speaker 4: be ready.
- 1:20:24Speaker 2: You know?
- 1:20:24Speaker 4: So they just renewed a contract extension with me. And
- 1:20:27Speaker 4: that shows that they trust me for their future. And
- 1:20:30Speaker 4: it also gives me.
- 1:20:30Speaker 2: A calm, right?
- 1:20:32Speaker 4: Like, it's money for me, for my family, for the future. Because,
- 1:20:35Speaker 4: like you said, there are the exchanges, man. In the NBA,
- 1:20:37Speaker 4: a lot of people who don't follow... You don't know, like,
- 1:20:40Speaker 4: it's not like football, where a team comes and buys
- 1:20:43Speaker 4: you and sends you to the other side.
- 1:20:45Speaker 2: You want it, you don't want it, it's like that.
- 1:20:48Speaker 2: Not there, man.
- 1:20:48Speaker 3: How was it that you saw it up close and said,
- 1:20:50Speaker 3: my God, man, we were having coffee yesterday, they exchanged information.
- 1:20:53Speaker 2: No, there was one 30 minutes before the game, man.
- 1:20:55Speaker 2: 30 minutes before the game. I was already looking for coffee.
- 1:20:59Speaker 2: It's even less time. There was one that was in
- 1:21:01Speaker 2: my first season.
- 1:21:02Speaker 4: It was when they sent Andrew Wiggins.
- 1:21:06Speaker 2: They changed 4 guys from our team. And to get one.
- 1:21:09Speaker 4: We were going to play against Utah Jazz. We were
- 1:21:11Speaker 4: in Utah. Everyone was warming up. Everyone was warming up
- 1:21:15Speaker 4: on the court. Soon the coach arrives.
- 1:21:16Speaker 2: Calls everyone.
- 1:21:17Speaker 4: Picks everyone from the court. Calls inside the locker room.
- 1:21:24Speaker 4: And everyone was tense, because we didn't want to get
- 1:21:27Speaker 4: a call from the agent at all.
- 1:21:29Speaker 2: Because if the agent.
- 1:21:31Speaker 4: Calls, you're going to the wrong place. So no one
- 1:21:34Speaker 4: wants to look at the cell phone.
- 1:21:35Speaker 2: Everyone was like, no, I'm not even here. Get out.
- 1:21:40Speaker 4: And that's when Steve called everyone inside the locker room.
- 1:21:44Speaker 4: And he said, guys, we know how the NBA is,
- 1:21:46Speaker 4: things happen. We just changed, if I'm not mistaken, it
- 1:21:48Speaker 4: was Wander Wiggins, Kyle Anderson. Danny Scholder and Lindy Waters.
- 1:21:54Speaker 2: Changed the fours and brought Jimmy Butler.
- 1:21:57Speaker 4: That's when Jimmy arrived. Man, that was like 30, 40
- 1:22:00Speaker 4: minutes before the game. The game was about to start. Man,
- 1:22:02Speaker 4: there were fours.
- 1:22:03Speaker 2: And the guys couldn't play. That's it. And the guys
- 1:22:06Speaker 2: couldn't play. And Jimmy Butler wouldn't be here now either.
- 1:22:08Speaker 2: He wouldn't be here. So it was an absurd. And
- 1:22:12Speaker 2: how do you feel about the team? And the atmosphere.
- 1:22:15Speaker 2: And the atmosphere to play, you know?
- 1:22:17Speaker 1: We love you guys, but now I'm going to live
- 1:22:18Speaker 1: in another state.
- 1:22:20Speaker 4: And a detail, there was a guy who was changed
- 1:22:22Speaker 4: to the team we were going to play against.
- 1:22:25Speaker 2: Wow, man. Look at the madness, man. The guy went
- 1:22:29Speaker 2: to Utah. So, and.
- 1:22:31Speaker 4: But in the end he rescinded the contract, went to
- 1:22:32Speaker 4: another team there, but he was originally changed to go
- 1:22:36Speaker 4: to Utah, Danny Shoulder.
- 1:22:38Speaker 2: And, man, this game was an absurd climate, like, horrible.
- 1:22:42Speaker 4: Man, everyone in the climate, like, wow, man, there were
- 1:22:45Speaker 4: four guys here with us, it's a climate of loss, like,
- 1:22:48Speaker 4: you know?
- 1:22:48Speaker 2: They're the guys who are good people, we live there
- 1:22:50Speaker 2: more with the guys than with our family.
- 1:22:51Speaker 1: So this fear is imminent. Yeah, man, yeah.
- 1:22:54Speaker 4: It doesn't matter, like, whoever you are, you can... Of course,
- 1:22:57Speaker 4: there are some guys that we know that they won't move,
- 1:23:00Speaker 4: but there are guys that sometimes come in like jackals, man,
- 1:23:02Speaker 4: who need some money to... to be the equivalent of
- 1:23:07Speaker 4: the salaries, to be able to exchange, and that's it,
- 1:23:09Speaker 4: we're missing, I don't know, we're missing 10 million, you know,
- 1:23:12Speaker 4: the guy takes a guy that's worth 10 million and
- 1:23:13Speaker 4: puts it there and sends him together.
- 1:23:15Speaker 2: You know?
- 1:23:15Speaker 3: And how is the vibe of the team now, how
- 1:23:19Speaker 3: is the media on top of the team, the fans,
- 1:23:21Speaker 3: how is the current moment of the team?
- 1:23:23Speaker 2: Man, this season was a very difficult season for us.
- 1:23:25Speaker 5: It's strange not to see you in the playoffs.
- 1:23:27Speaker 2: It's very strange, right?
- 1:23:28Speaker 4: Because this season we had a lot of injuries and
- 1:23:31Speaker 4: a lot of serious injuries. Jimmy Butler, who was our
- 1:23:34Speaker 4: second main player, behind Curry only, he had an LCA injury,
- 1:23:37Speaker 4: he was out the rest of.
- 1:23:38Speaker 2: The season, he will stay out until the beginning of
- 1:23:40Speaker 2: the next season. Then there's a guy too, Moses Murray,
- 1:23:42Speaker 2: who is a fucking player, he got hurt, broke his
- 1:23:44Speaker 2: tendon to have it there. Like Ronaldo, you know? So...
- 1:23:52Speaker 2: That was really hard for us, man. Because everyone... You know, there.
- 1:23:56Speaker 4: Was a game where we had 8 guys injured outside
- 1:23:58Speaker 4: the game.
- 1:23:59Speaker 2: And there were 6, 7 guys... No, I think 8
- 1:24:00Speaker 2: guys to play. Nice. You know? There's no way, bro.
- 1:24:02Speaker 4: Yeah, so it was a season that was out of
- 1:24:06Speaker 4: the norm for us, you know?
- 1:24:07Speaker 2: A lot of injuries. Yeah, I can imagine.
- 1:24:09Speaker 5: But looking at it now, the playoffs started, right? Man,
- 1:24:22Speaker 5: Philadelphia took the guys.
- 1:24:26Speaker 1: I'm not Philadelphia until the end, bro. Was it shit? No, no, no. Bro,
- 1:24:31Speaker 1: you say like this, what team do you turn to
- 1:24:33Speaker 1: for NBA? You go, you go... Clippers, right?
- 1:24:34Speaker 2: It's Clippers, man. Clippers treated us very well, so, poor thing.
- 1:24:38Speaker 1: And there's a whole saga, there's a very cool story.
- 1:24:40Speaker 2: We never get to the playoffs, when we get there,
- 1:24:42Speaker 2: it falls fast.
- 1:24:45Speaker 1: And this year it was us.
- 1:24:46Speaker 2: Are we going to stop? It was bad, it was bad.
- 1:24:48Speaker 2: And the crowd, how is the crowd, brother?
- 1:24:50Speaker 3: The crowd, how is the team's crowd? Man, it's a
- 1:24:51Speaker 3: very big fan base. It's a very big fan base.
- 1:24:54Speaker 3: What did the guys do there in that year, 2015?
- 1:24:56Speaker 4: From 2015 to 2022, there were many victories, the guys
- 1:24:58Speaker 4: always fighting at the top of the table.
- 1:25:00Speaker 1: So, man, it's a very big fan base. The people
- 1:25:02Speaker 1: charge a lot.
- 1:25:02Speaker 4: Of us, they give us a lot of affection too,
- 1:25:04Speaker 4: but they charge a lot, you know? It's not even
- 1:25:15Speaker 4: close to soccer, man. Like it happens here, the guys
- 1:25:18Speaker 4: go to the guy's house and charge the guy.
- 1:25:20Speaker 2: Shoot the car. Let's go, man. You have to play
- 1:25:22Speaker 2: and stuff. It's much more peaceful there.
- 1:25:24Speaker 1: But there's some kind of charge.
- 1:25:25Speaker 2: But there's a charge. Let's go.
- 1:25:27Speaker 1: The year that comes is the playoff.
- 1:25:29Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 1:25:30Speaker 4: There's a charge on us. And we understand that. We
- 1:25:32Speaker 4: know how to deal with it. The Americans know how
- 1:25:34Speaker 4: to do this.
- 1:25:38Speaker 2: Being professional, you know?
- 1:25:41Speaker 4: Both for cheering and for playing inside the box, they're
- 1:25:45Speaker 4: extremely professional.
- 1:25:46Speaker 1: There's the ethics.
- 1:25:47Speaker 2: Exactly. There's an ethics. It doesn't go beyond the ethics. Exactly.
- 1:25:51Speaker 1: Damn, very cool.
- 1:25:52Speaker 2: But, bro.
- 1:25:53Speaker 1: Okay, you're not... I just wanted to talk about this season,
- 1:25:56Speaker 1: which is cool. You're not in the playoffs.
- 1:25:59Speaker 5: But I imagine you must have made friends already. Do
- 1:26:01Speaker 5: you keep cheering for someone or not? My team is out,
- 1:26:05Speaker 5: I'm worried about my preseason, my holidays here... Or you're
- 1:26:08Speaker 5: just following because you're following?
- 1:26:10Speaker 4: I follow because I'm following, to always be inside the NBA.
- 1:26:14Speaker 4: It's important for the player to know what's going on
- 1:26:17Speaker 4: in all the teams and everything. But my season is over,
- 1:26:21Speaker 4: it's over. What matters is my team being champion, what
- 1:26:24Speaker 4: matters is me being champion. And now, for example, my
- 1:26:29Speaker 4: season is over, I came here, I was a week relaxed,
- 1:26:31Speaker 4: but I'm already training again.
- 1:26:32Speaker 2: Because next season can't stop, man.
- 1:26:37Speaker 4: I started playing well, I started playing more minutes, but
- 1:26:39Speaker 4: next season starts again.
- 1:26:40Speaker 5: If the athlete takes the holidays, just like we take
- 1:26:44Speaker 5: the holidays from school, let's suppose, because the homework is over,
- 1:26:47Speaker 5: so it's two months that I don't do anything. Nothing,
- 1:26:51Speaker 5: I'm not going to do anything, I'm not going to
- 1:26:52Speaker 5: open the notebook, I'm not going to do anything. What
- 1:26:55Speaker 5: happens if you say like this, in my holiday month.
- 1:26:59Speaker 2: I'm only on vacation. How many holidays do you have?
- 1:27:02Speaker 4: Man, so, when you're eliminated early, in the case that
- 1:27:05Speaker 4: happened to us, we have a good time of vacation. But, man,
- 1:27:07Speaker 4: if you take two months, a month, which is a
- 1:27:10Speaker 4: month of vacation, let's say.
- 1:27:12Speaker 2: You take a month without doing anything.
- 1:27:13Speaker 4: Man, on the way back, it seems like you've never
- 1:27:16Speaker 4: played basketball in your life.
- 1:27:18Speaker 2: It's serious. At least I'm like that, man. So, I
- 1:27:20Speaker 2: don't take any risks.
- 1:27:21Speaker 4: Like, I stay a week, okay, without doing anything. After that,
- 1:27:25Speaker 4: even if it's little, but I do something. I don't
- 1:27:28Speaker 4: go crazy, like it's the season. You won't get hurt either.
- 1:27:30Speaker 4: Of course, but I also don't stay without doing.
- 1:27:32Speaker 2: Anything, because, if I don't want to, the guy's professionalism
- 1:27:34Speaker 2: is there, well physically, in a little while I'll come
- 1:27:37Speaker 2: back to train harder and all that, and my body won't.
- 1:27:39Speaker 1: Feel that much. Do you think that's what made you
- 1:27:41Speaker 1: not hit and come.
- 1:27:42Speaker 2: Back, Gui? I think... I think this is one of
- 1:27:45Speaker 2: the factors, man.
- 1:27:46Speaker 4: Thanks to God, thanks to my creation, thanks to everything
- 1:27:50Speaker 4: I've been through in my life, I've always had this
- 1:27:54Speaker 4: personal side, this side of wanting to conquer my things, very,
- 1:27:58Speaker 4: very strong in me, man. And it was when, like,
- 1:28:01Speaker 4: I saw and said, man, if I work, when I signed,
- 1:28:03Speaker 4: I wasn't the best in the league, man, I wasn't
- 1:28:05Speaker 4: the best in my team in the league, but when
- 1:28:07Speaker 4: I signed, I said, man, the guys are seeing that
- 1:28:08Speaker 4: I'm working, man. They see that I'm working, they see
- 1:28:11Speaker 4: that I want to be the best.
- 1:28:13Speaker 1: They'll see that I'm hard-working at least.
- 1:28:14Speaker 4: And they'll give me opportunities just because I'm hard-working. They
- 1:28:18Speaker 4: signed me because I wasn't the best, I wasn't the fastest,
- 1:28:21Speaker 4: the tallest, but I was the most hard-working, I guarantee it.
- 1:28:24Speaker 2: Who gave you the nickname?
- 1:28:26Speaker 5: Because all the players there will be known for their nicknames.
- 1:28:30Speaker 5: And I imagine that it's like, any time they put
- 1:28:32Speaker 5: a nickname on me, any time I'm going to have
- 1:28:35Speaker 5: a fight with Courage.
- 1:28:36Speaker 1: Who gives the nickname? Romulo started it. He had to
- 1:28:41Speaker 1: be the legend.
- 1:28:42Speaker 2: Because in the games, I was a voluptuous guy.
- 1:28:44Speaker 1: I would jump here and there.
- 1:28:47Speaker 2: If I had to hit someone, I would do it.
- 1:28:50Speaker 2: I would run and he would say, man, this boy works.
- 1:28:53Speaker 2: Then he put the name of the worker. And he
- 1:28:54Speaker 2: got it. Adgui Trabalhador became Gui CLT. That's good too.
- 1:29:05Speaker 2: Now my brother is playing well, he's doing well too.
- 1:29:07Speaker 2: Now Dudu became Edu, the young apprentice. The working family.
- 1:29:10Speaker 2: That's it. That's where the nickname came from.
- 1:29:12Speaker 4: Did you get that nickname outside?
- 1:29:26Speaker 2: Not as much as in Brazil.
- 1:29:28Speaker 4: But there's another one who knows, who talks about it there.
- 1:29:31Speaker 4: But people talk a lot about Guinergy there.
- 1:29:34Speaker 2: It's like.
- 1:29:34Speaker 1: The energy of Gui.
- 1:29:35Speaker 2: Energy. But I bring a lot of energy to the game.
- 1:29:38Speaker 2: And they called me Guinergy.
- 1:29:39Speaker 3: And what does the media, what does the people there
- 1:29:42Speaker 3: talk about you?
- 1:29:42Speaker 2: In the case, like, Brazilian.
- 1:29:44Speaker 3: And what do they talk about? And what do they
- 1:29:46Speaker 3: imagine about Brazil too? Because you know that the people
- 1:29:48Speaker 3: there have some ideas... They don't understand very well what
- 1:29:51Speaker 3: Brazil is.
- 1:29:51Speaker 4: Man, the media there today... Thank God, I was very
- 1:29:55Speaker 4: well received by the media there. Everyone treats me well,
- 1:29:58Speaker 4: everyone speaks very well of me there, the Americans, all
- 1:30:03Speaker 4: commentators and everything, but they like my style of.
- 1:30:06Speaker 2: Play a lot.
- 1:30:07Speaker 4: And that's good for me, because I was very well
- 1:30:10Speaker 4: embraced by the entire American audience. But they have an
- 1:30:14Speaker 4: idea of Brazil, it's funny when I see some things
- 1:30:18Speaker 4: that people post, like when Stephen was away, Jimmy was away,
- 1:30:23Speaker 4: Gui Santos, when Steph and Jimmy weren't playing, they put
- 1:30:27Speaker 4: a highlight of Neymar.
- 1:30:29Speaker 2: Dribbling everyone at the time of Barcelona, you know? It
- 1:30:31Speaker 2: was like the guy.
- 1:30:32Speaker 4: And, man, I was very well welcomed there, man. And
- 1:30:37Speaker 4: what are the.
- 1:30:38Speaker 2: Man, curiosity, man.
- 1:30:39Speaker 3: What are the questions of the gringo friends there that
- 1:30:42Speaker 3: they want to know about Brazil? Sometimes they don't even care.
- 1:30:44Speaker 3: But something funny must have already happened.
- 1:30:46Speaker 4: Ah, man, of everything, man, of everything. There was a story, like,
- 1:30:49Speaker 4: that for me was the funniest, like... I was talking
- 1:30:52Speaker 4: about Brazil and Argentina, about the rivalry. Brazil and Argentina,
- 1:30:56Speaker 4: we have a rivalry, I don't know what. It started
- 1:30:58Speaker 4: with football, then the guy turned to me and said,
- 1:31:00Speaker 4: but why do you have a rivalry?
- 1:31:01Speaker 2: Argentina is far from Brazil. Then I looked at him
- 1:31:04Speaker 2: and said, how so far? Then he said, no, Argentina
- 1:31:07Speaker 2: is in Europe. You can't believe it, right?
- 1:31:11Speaker 1: The guys are bad at geography, right?
- 1:31:12Speaker 2: No, it was like, calm down, bro. Are you crazy?
- 1:31:13Speaker 4: Argentina is in Europe? No, open the map and show
- 1:31:16Speaker 4: it to him. It's on the side of Brazil, bro.
- 1:31:19Speaker 2: It's on the side of here.
- 1:31:21Speaker 4: But of course, the guys talk about a lot of
- 1:31:23Speaker 4: things here, about the natural beauties that we have, right?
- 1:31:25Speaker 2: Beach, everything like that. Samba. Samba. Carnival. Carpirinha. Exactly, exactly.
- 1:31:34Speaker 2: You're going to talk about everything that's beautiful that the
- 1:31:38Speaker 2: guys know.
- 1:31:39Speaker 3: And what do you like the most there? Share good
- 1:31:43Speaker 3: things that you like there too.
- 1:31:45Speaker 4: Man, the professionalism there is something that changed a lot
- 1:31:49Speaker 4: my way of being. The guys are extremely professional inside
- 1:31:53Speaker 4: the squad, outside the squad. This is something that I
- 1:31:56Speaker 4: really loved about the guys. And not only that, but
- 1:32:01Speaker 4: also how much the guys value the sport, man. It
- 1:32:05Speaker 4: doesn't matter the sport, man.
- 1:32:06Speaker 2: You will have, I don't know, any league of any sport,
- 1:32:09Speaker 2: they have a league there for them, man. They value
- 1:32:11Speaker 2: the sport, man. A lot, right? The kids, man, playing college,
- 1:32:16Speaker 2: the guys are earning millions and millions playing college.
- 1:32:18Speaker 4: Go play American football, the guys have everything. Go play football,
- 1:32:21Speaker 4: the guys have everything. You go to a high school
- 1:32:23Speaker 4: in the United States, it's a structure that a professional
- 1:32:27Speaker 4: team in Brazil doesn't have, man.
- 1:32:29Speaker 2: Very crazy, that. And, like, you get to play.
- 1:32:31Speaker 4: We played against the US, we were at the Olympics,
- 1:32:33Speaker 4: we played against the US. Man, how are we going
- 1:32:36Speaker 4: to beat the guys differently? That since childhood is on
- 1:32:38Speaker 4: this path, right? You know, the guys since childhood have
- 1:32:40Speaker 4: everything good and the best, man.
- 1:32:41Speaker 2: Like, of course, right?
- 1:32:42Speaker 4: They have the difficulties, they go through a little more...
- 1:32:45Speaker 4: In relation to sports, the guy has a good box,
- 1:32:47Speaker 4: has a good ball. And, man, me, in my beginning here,
- 1:32:50Speaker 4: I would arrive earlier... much earlier, at the time I
- 1:32:54Speaker 4: played in Brasília, I lived in Brasília, I arrived earlier,
- 1:32:56Speaker 4: took a bucket, cloth, I was going to clean my
- 1:32:59Speaker 4: own court, because I was going to train, man.
- 1:33:01Speaker 2: Otherwise you won't train. Otherwise you won't train, you'll train
- 1:33:03Speaker 2: slipping and you'll get hurt. So we have to train. There, no, man.
- 1:33:06Speaker 2: There you arrive, everything is ready. Dude, clothes, washed, stretched,
- 1:33:11Speaker 2: ready for you to pick up, put on and train,
- 1:33:12Speaker 2: just worry about basketball. That's crazy.
- 1:33:14Speaker 4: Here, no, man.
- 1:33:15Speaker 2: Here you have to pick up, take your own clothes
- 1:33:16Speaker 2: to wash at home. And, man, run badly, do things.
- 1:33:19Speaker 2: Not that it's a lot of work, but, like.
- 1:33:20Speaker 4: There's no way you can compete with the guys who don't.
- 1:33:23Speaker 2: Have that there.
- 1:33:24Speaker 1: Sometimes the person doesn't even have to eat at home.
- 1:33:27Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:33:28Speaker 1: Which then gets worse too.
- 1:33:28Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 1:33:29Speaker 1: There's a lot.
- 1:33:29Speaker 5: You told me that the sport there is very valued,
- 1:33:32Speaker 5: we know that. But I wanted to know if the
- 1:33:35Speaker 5: guys have the size of Oscar Schmidt there.
- 1:33:38Speaker 2: There is, man.
- 1:33:39Speaker 4: I'm not from a generation that followed him, because when
- 1:33:43Speaker 4: he was playing in 2003, I was a year old,
- 1:33:45Speaker 4: I had just been born.
- 1:33:46Speaker 2: Okay, Guilherme. You want to stay....
- 1:33:51Speaker 1: Throwing your age in our face here. I think that
- 1:33:54Speaker 1: on the Penta, the guy had 8 days of life.
- 1:33:57Speaker 2: 8 days, that's right. He was very young, man. Yeah, man.
- 1:34:01Speaker 4: And, like, I didn't follow him very closely, but of course,
- 1:34:04Speaker 4: I have a total dimension that Oscar went to all
- 1:34:07Speaker 4: the representativeness of Brazilian.
- 1:34:09Speaker 2: Basketball, like, the guy here, right? You talk about Brazil.
- 1:34:12Speaker 1: He opted to stay here, man.
- 1:34:13Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 1:34:14Speaker 4: You talk about Brazil and basketball, for the gringos, the
- 1:34:17Speaker 4: first name that comes to mind is his, man.
- 1:34:19Speaker 2: Even for us, for me, so I think.
- 1:34:21Speaker 4: This dimension that he has there is real. When everything
- 1:34:26Speaker 4: happened here, Steve Kerr spoke in a press conference about
- 1:34:31Speaker 4: how important the guys are for the history of basketball.
- 1:34:35Speaker 4: I think he is the second largest scorer behind Lebron.
- 1:34:39Speaker 2: Yes. Look how crazy. It's a lot, man.
- 1:34:43Speaker 5: And he stopped playing, he already has a quota. Yeah,
- 1:34:47Speaker 5: and Lebron James is stealing the game, man.
- 1:34:51Speaker 2: Lebron James is stealing the game, man. Because he.
- 1:34:54Speaker 5: Man, he crosses the whole court even today. That flag
- 1:34:56Speaker 5: of his there, it looks like he's in 2016, man.
- 1:34:58Speaker 5: It looks like he's not.
- 1:34:59Speaker 2: Going to stop, right, man? It looks like he's not
- 1:35:01Speaker 2: going to stop, man. I'm not going to play against him. Like,
- 1:35:04Speaker 2: he gave me a slap.
- 1:35:05Speaker 1: He gave you a slap? He gave me a slap.
- 1:35:07Speaker 2: Man, I fell, I said, fuck it. You hit the truck.
- 1:35:12Speaker 2: It was a subway running over me, man.
- 1:35:15Speaker 3: Before you start playing, he said, man, it's funny, the
- 1:35:19Speaker 3: whole squad accompanies him, the head of everyone, he goes
- 1:35:22Speaker 3: to the side, he does his thing, he does this.
- 1:35:25Speaker 2: And I came from close, I said, man, what is this?
- 1:35:31Speaker 2: The whole gym was looking at the guy. It was crazy.
- 1:35:33Speaker 1: We went to see... The guy knows how to farm.
- 1:35:34Speaker 2: Remember?
- 1:35:35Speaker 1: We went to see the Lakers and Clippers. The guys
- 1:35:37Speaker 1: were already hitting the ball there. There was only him left.
- 1:35:40Speaker 2: Man, when the guys arrived.
- 1:35:41Speaker 1: That's what Mitch said. It looked like BBB's camera, everyone.
- 1:35:44Speaker 2: And he knows that everyone was looking at him.
- 1:35:47Speaker 1: He was with the face of Steffen.
- 1:35:48Speaker 2: Look at him, look at him, look at him, look
- 1:35:51Speaker 2: at him, look at him, look at him.
- 1:35:53Speaker 4: And it's not just him, like I said, because in
- 1:35:54Speaker 4: my team there is the most influential of all, which
- 1:35:57Speaker 4: is Steffen, bro. The guy changed the game, changed the
- 1:35:59Speaker 4: way he played. Man, I was in Minnesota, we arrived
- 1:36:02Speaker 4: in Minnesota, it was, I don't know, bro, minus 27,
- 1:36:07Speaker 4: 28 degrees.
- 1:36:08Speaker 2: It was an absurd thing.
- 1:36:10Speaker 4: Dude, at 2am, almost 3am, there were 60, 70 people
- 1:36:14Speaker 4: in front of the hotel, in this cold, waiting for
- 1:36:16Speaker 4: the guy just to see him. Not even to get
- 1:36:20Speaker 4: a signature, just to see him pass. They try to
- 1:36:22Speaker 4: get a signature and everything, but just to see the guy.
- 1:36:25Speaker 2: Man, the guy is a legend, right? Do you understand
- 1:36:27Speaker 2: the size that he becomes?
- 1:36:30Speaker 5: But an example is the same as who should be
- 1:36:32Speaker 5: in the Lakers, bro. It's Lebron with 40 and something,
- 1:36:34Speaker 5: or should be 40, 41.
- 1:36:37Speaker 1: How does a rookie look at LeBron and say, man,
- 1:36:39Speaker 1: it's his 23rd season and he's training. How am I
- 1:36:42Speaker 1: not going to train?
- 1:36:43Speaker 2: How am I not going to train?
- 1:36:44Speaker 1: You should look at Steph Curry and say, same thing.
- 1:36:46Speaker 1: I'm going to work, man.
- 1:36:47Speaker 2: I have to work.
- 1:36:48Speaker 1: You have to go.
- 1:36:49Speaker 4: It's like that, man. You see the guy training, you say, man,
- 1:36:51Speaker 4: the guy is, I don't know, 36, 37 years old.
- 1:36:54Speaker 4: And he's training harder than me. He can't do it.
- 1:36:56Speaker 2: He can't do it.
- 1:36:57Speaker 1: He can't do it.
- 1:36:58Speaker 2: He can't do it. He can't do it. He can't
- 1:36:59Speaker 2: do it. He can't do it. He can't do it.
- 1:37:00Speaker 2: He can't do it. He can't do it. He can't
- 1:37:03Speaker 2: do it.
- 1:37:03Speaker 3: He can't do it. He can't do it. He can't
- 1:37:05Speaker 3: do it. He can't do it. He can't do it.
- 1:37:24Speaker 4: To be able to be an idol for the new generation,
- 1:37:27Speaker 4: to be able to be a guy that the kids
- 1:37:29Speaker 4: watch on TV and say, man, I want to get
- 1:37:31Speaker 4: to the NBA, just like Gui arrived, he's from Brazil,
- 1:37:33Speaker 4: he went through difficulties, just like I have the difficulties here.
- 1:37:35Speaker 2: But I want to get there, I want to get to.
- 1:37:38Speaker 4: The NBA because it's my dream too. So today, for me,
- 1:37:42Speaker 4: being this example for the kids and being able to
- 1:37:45Speaker 4: show them the way to do this, man, it's work.
- 1:37:49Speaker 2: I wasn't the best. I wasn't the fastest. Like the
- 1:37:51Speaker 2: guy said. But I was the one who worked the most.
- 1:37:54Speaker 2: And I achieved.
- 1:37:54Speaker 4: And being able to show this to the kids today
- 1:37:57Speaker 4: is the main thing for me.
- 1:37:58Speaker 2: Especially my brother.
- 1:37:59Speaker 4: My brother is a guy who listens to me a lot.
- 1:38:02Speaker 4: He's asking me all the time. Tips, this and that.
- 1:38:04Speaker 2: What he has to do. He works a lot. He works.
- 1:38:05Speaker 1: He likes to work.
- 1:38:06Speaker 2: And he saw it from close. Because the fight is complicated.
- 1:38:08Speaker 2: The fight is... It's hard. It's hard. But when the
- 1:38:11Speaker 2: prize arrives... It's worth everything, man. It's worth everything you've
- 1:38:21Speaker 2: been through. You say, man, I'd do it all over again.
- 1:38:22Speaker 2: You'd do it, right? All over again.
- 1:38:23Speaker 4: Since the beginning, since the moment of the draft, when
- 1:38:26Speaker 4: I was there crying with my dad and my mom,
- 1:38:28Speaker 4: until what I'm seeing today.
- 1:38:20Speaker 2: Guilherme Santos.
- 1:38:46Speaker 5: Which player would you take from another team to take
- 1:38:49Speaker 5: to the Golden State Warriors?
- 1:38:51Speaker 4: Dude, I would take LeBron from the Lakers to take there,
- 1:38:53Speaker 4: because I really wanted.
- 1:38:55Speaker 2: To see Steph and LeBron playing together. Then you kicked.
- 1:38:57Speaker 2: In the Olympics, when I played against them together, when
- 1:39:01Speaker 2: I saw the guys, I said, the guys put the
- 1:39:02Speaker 2: name of the Avengers of this team.
- 1:39:08Speaker 4: Because they had a World Cup there, and they lost
- 1:39:10Speaker 4: the World Cup to Germany. The United States lost the
- 1:39:12Speaker 4: World Cup to Germany, which had been going on for
- 1:39:14Speaker 4: a long time. Then the guys said, yeah, let's put
- 1:39:15Speaker 4: together the best and let's all go to win the Olympics.
- 1:39:18Speaker 2: Let's go win.
- 1:39:18Speaker 4: Then the guys entered the box and you said, okay,
- 1:39:21Speaker 4: you listened.
- 1:39:23Speaker 2: The guys are coming.
- 1:39:26Speaker 1: It can't be, it can't be.
- 1:39:28Speaker 5: And there was, wow, the last Olympics, the two together,
- 1:39:30Speaker 5: there's a picture with one with a short forehead.
- 1:39:32Speaker 2: It was awesome. It was awesome.
- 1:39:35Speaker 1: Three most difficult opponents to face?
- 1:39:38Speaker 2: Luka, Dontch, Shea and Jokic.
- 1:39:44Speaker 4: Man, Luka and Shea are very difficult to score. You
- 1:39:46Speaker 4: don't know what these guys are going to do, man.
- 1:39:48Speaker 4: It's like they're playing streetball, man. He hits to one side,
- 1:39:51Speaker 4: you cut it when you saw the guy was on
- 1:39:52Speaker 4: the other side, doing the sixth. Then you say, man,
- 1:39:54Speaker 4: I was here, now it's gone.
- 1:39:55Speaker 1: From what you said to me, what impresses me is Jokic,
- 1:39:58Speaker 1: because he does like this, look.
- 1:39:59Speaker 2: The ball falls.
- 1:40:00Speaker 1: It's impressive.
- 1:40:01Speaker 2: How did you do that?
- 1:40:01Speaker 1: It's impressive.
- 1:40:02Speaker 2: You play against him, you hit him. First he runs
- 1:40:04Speaker 2: like that, it seems like he doesn't want to play.
- 1:40:06Speaker 2: He's running like that. Then when you see him, out
- 1:40:09Speaker 2: of nowhere, he goes like this. He's not even looking.
- 1:40:12Speaker 4: The guy under the free kick. There was a ball
- 1:40:14Speaker 4: like that, I was marking him at the post. I
- 1:40:16Speaker 4: was supporting him and he was trying.
- 1:40:18Speaker 2: To push me under the air. And I was here.
- 1:40:19Speaker 2: He had passed the ball and I was still here.
- 1:40:24Speaker 2: You didn't see that he had passed the ball? I
- 1:40:26Speaker 2: didn't see that he had passed the ball. When I
- 1:40:29Speaker 2: saw us catching the ball, I was like, what happened?
- 1:40:30Speaker 2: He's a monster. Who is the best reviewer in the
- 1:40:32Speaker 2: locker room? Man, I think the most famous guy I've
- 1:40:39Speaker 2: ever seen in the region is Buddy Hilde. Really? Man,
- 1:40:42Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys know him, but man...
- 1:40:44Speaker 2: What level?
- 1:40:46Speaker 4: No, man, level like this, the coaches couldn't stand him,
- 1:40:49Speaker 4: so much that he was funny. He would open his
- 1:40:50Speaker 4: mouth and the coaches would go, you know?
- 1:40:52Speaker 2: At the moment, at a serious moment, everyone was talking seriously,
- 1:40:55Speaker 2: he would say something, everyone would stop the serious mood
- 1:40:57Speaker 2: and start laughing.
- 1:40:57Speaker 1: Cool, it's good to have these people. Did you win
- 1:41:01Speaker 1: the Olympics for Brazil or the NBA title?
- 1:41:04Speaker 2: Wow, man.
- 1:41:05Speaker 4: I'm going to put both. Because there's no way to
- 1:41:08Speaker 4: decide between one or the other.
- 1:41:10Speaker 2: You're right, monstro.
- 1:41:12Speaker 1: How many years did you lose your baby?
- 1:41:17Speaker 2: I knew you were right. Man, how many years? It
- 1:41:22Speaker 2: was with Ju now, my fiancée. Now, 2020. Seriously, I knew.
- 1:41:26Speaker 2: We knew.
- 1:41:26Speaker 1: Most famous WhatsApp contact? I think it's Neymar, man.
- 1:41:32Speaker 2: Neymar, Steph too, tell us. No, Dudu, no. Dudu still
- 1:41:38Speaker 2: has to eat a lot of beans.
- 1:41:39Speaker 1: Dudu, you're the most famous future. Got it? To pass
- 1:41:45Speaker 1: the guys everything.
- 1:41:46Speaker 2: Monster.
- 1:41:48Speaker 1: Worst dessert in history? I like it.
- 1:41:54Speaker 2: I heard a quindim. I like quindim. I like quindim too.
- 1:41:56Speaker 2: I think it's good. Man, worst dessert in history. How
- 1:42:00Speaker 2: is that? Is it sagu? For me, I think it's sago.
- 1:42:03Speaker 2: Is sago a dessert?
- 1:42:04Speaker 1: Sago, I think it's a fruit.
- 1:42:05Speaker 2: No, it's those little balls. Is it a dessert? It's
- 1:42:08Speaker 2: a dessert. I don't like it, man. For me, it's...
- 1:42:10Speaker 2: And your favorite, then? My favorite is my mother's three-layer
- 1:42:14Speaker 2: ice cream.
- 1:42:16Speaker 1: Your mother knows how to make ice cream?
- 1:42:18Speaker 2: What?
- 1:42:18Speaker 1: Three-layer?
- 1:42:19Speaker 2: It's generational, man. It's from the family. It comes back.
- 1:42:21Speaker 2: What's the first layer?
- 1:42:22Speaker 1: Man, the first layer.
- 1:42:23Speaker 4: Mom, condensed milk, you know what it is? It's like
- 1:42:25Speaker 4: a condensed milk... Man, it's like a cream, you know?
- 1:42:31Speaker 4: The one in the middle is chocolate. And the last
- 1:42:34Speaker 4: one is a lighter layer that she makes with egg whites.
- 1:42:36Speaker 4: It's even disgusting when you say it like that, right?
- 1:42:39Speaker 2: No, no, no. I'm loving it. Man, it's very good.
- 1:42:42Speaker 2: I love ice cream. I love ice cream. Ice cream
- 1:42:44Speaker 2: is very good.
- 1:42:45Speaker 1: So it's the three layers of mom's ice cream.
- 1:42:47Speaker 2: That's right.
- 1:42:47Speaker 1: Best mythical dessert in history.
- 1:42:50Speaker 2: Pudim.
- 1:42:50Speaker 1: Worse.
- 1:42:50Speaker 2: Quindim. Just to rhyme. Your favorite, Jacques? My favorite?
- 1:43:02Speaker 1: Petit Gâteau. I like it a lot.
- 1:43:04Speaker 2: Very good. With ice cream, right? With a lot of
- 1:43:06Speaker 2: ice cream. And the worst?
- 1:43:07Speaker 1: The worst of all times is... It's.
- 1:43:13Speaker 2: Hard to think of the worst, right? Because usually you
- 1:43:15Speaker 2: don't eat.
- 1:43:15Speaker 1: Wow, my grandma used to do a thing... Do you
- 1:43:17Speaker 1: like it, kid?
- 1:43:18Speaker 2: My grandma used to do it.
- 1:43:19Speaker 1: She'd take an egg, beat it, and then she'd eat it.
- 1:43:22Speaker 2: My grandma... Biggest NBA duo? Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson.
- 1:43:33Speaker 2: They were the ones I liked. Did he like it?
- 1:43:35Speaker 2: Did you like that one? Shaq and Kobe?
- 1:43:37Speaker 1: I'm with your brother. Your brother said Shaq and Kobe.
- 1:43:41Speaker 2: I said, yes, I think I'm with him. But I...
- 1:43:43Speaker 2: It's complicated too.
- 1:43:44Speaker 1: I'm not going to take away the merit.
- 1:43:45Speaker 2: You chose.
- 1:43:46Speaker 1: Calm down.
- 1:43:46Speaker 2: Okay, fine.
- 1:43:49Speaker 1: Biggest advice you received at the NBA?
- 1:43:52Speaker 4: Dude, when I got there, Varejão talked to me, like, seriously,
- 1:43:57Speaker 4: and said, Gui, I'll give you an advice now, it's
- 1:44:00Speaker 4: easy to get to the NBA, in quotes, because it's
- 1:44:04Speaker 4: very hard.
- 1:44:05Speaker 2: The hardest thing is to stay in the NBA. That
- 1:44:07Speaker 2: opened my eyes, man, 100% of what I had to
- 1:44:09Speaker 2: do to stay in the NBA.
- 1:44:10Speaker 4: I think it was the thing that really changed.
- 1:44:13Speaker 1: You can't screw up.
- 1:44:15Speaker 4: There's a lot, but imagine 60 guys every year coming
- 1:44:17Speaker 4: and wanting to take your place.
- 1:44:19Speaker 2: Every year.
- 1:44:19Speaker 1: And there are 450 players. And there is like.
- 1:44:22Speaker 4: In the NBA, there are 450 and there are 60
- 1:44:24Speaker 4: new every year.
- 1:44:26Speaker 2: For you to keep yourself, you know? 80 games. 82 games.
- 1:44:30Speaker 2: You know? And more playoffs. Yeah.
- 1:44:33Speaker 1: It's a lot of work.
- 1:44:35Speaker 2: It's hard.
- 1:44:35Speaker 1: God bless me. Mark Curry in training or LeBron in
- 1:44:39Speaker 1: the game?
- 1:44:41Speaker 2: Mark LeBron in the game. Man, there's no way to
- 1:44:43Speaker 2: mark Steph. There's no way. There's no way. Like, LeBron,
- 1:44:47Speaker 2: he's strong.
- 1:44:47Speaker 4: Sometimes you make a mistake there, you support him, he
- 1:44:49Speaker 4: makes a mistake. Now, Steph, if you press, bandage.
- 1:44:52Speaker 2: He cuts, bandage. If you stay a little distant, ball
- 1:44:54Speaker 2: of three. There's even a thing like that in.
- 1:44:57Speaker 4: at the training camp, he hit it there, hit it there,
- 1:45:01Speaker 4: I defended him like hell, he gave a step back,
- 1:45:03Speaker 4: went to kick me, I almost lay down with him,
- 1:45:06Speaker 4: the ball fell, he looked at me like this, pointed.
- 1:45:12Speaker 2: With the killer from the outside, pointed, I got you.
- 1:45:16Speaker 1: You know?
- 1:45:16Speaker 2: It's different, so I prefer to score the Lebron in
- 1:45:19Speaker 2: the game. Yeah, man.
- 1:45:20Speaker 5: That thing that he comes, mythical, hitting the ball like this,
- 1:45:23Speaker 5: and then the ball, wrong kick on the court, he.
- 1:45:27Speaker 2: I'm not the one who's making mistakes.
- 1:45:29Speaker 1: I pass the tennis on the court and I say,
- 1:45:33Speaker 1: it's wrong.
- 1:45:34Speaker 2: What's wrong?
- 1:45:35Speaker 4: The court.
- 1:45:36Speaker 2: And it was wrong, man. It's crazy.
- 1:45:38Speaker 1: He's a robot, man.
- 1:45:39Speaker 2: It's different.
- 1:45:41Speaker 1: Luba de Pedreiro or Leonardo da Vinci?
- 1:45:44Speaker 2: Luba de Pedreiro, from Brazil. I'm a Brazilian. I'm a patriot.
- 1:45:48Speaker 2: He was a monster. Very good.
- 1:45:53Speaker 1: Did you like to share this idea with us at Podpah, bro?
- 1:45:55Speaker 2: You're crazy, bro. What's this?
- 1:45:56Speaker 4: You guys are... You guys are an inspiration. I was
- 1:45:58Speaker 4: just telling you guys here when I got here, bro.
- 1:46:01Speaker 4: If you get here, bro... I'll correct you if I'm wrong,
- 1:46:05Speaker 4: but you guys... At the beginning, you guys were together
- 1:46:06Speaker 4: with Flow, right?
- 1:46:07Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
- 1:46:08Speaker 1: Podpah divided the space.
- 1:46:09Speaker 2: And the structure you guys created here today is absurd.
- 1:46:11Speaker 2: Very cool, right, bro? Thank you. Very hard work.
- 1:46:14Speaker 1: Exactly.
- 1:46:14Speaker 2: It's the same thing. Like, bro, Gui, you're cool to
- 1:46:16Speaker 2: be there at the NBA, but doing this here, bro...
- 1:46:18Speaker 2: It's really another thing, too. You guys are... Diferent from everyone, right?
- 1:46:24Speaker 2: All that you are conquering.
- 1:46:25Speaker 5: Brother, thank you very much, really, but I make your
- 1:46:27Speaker 5: words mine, because what you've been doing is very giant.
- 1:46:29Speaker 5: I think you'll have an idea only when you stop,
- 1:46:32Speaker 5: because now you can't have it.
- 1:46:34Speaker 1: You can't have it. Now it's not even for you
- 1:46:37Speaker 1: to have an idea, you'll have to work and conquer
- 1:46:40Speaker 1: more after your brother. But that's it, bro.
- 1:46:48Speaker 5: What you've been doing is something really great. Enjoy the process,
- 1:46:52Speaker 5: because your parents know that it goes fast, bro.
- 1:46:56Speaker 2: It goes fast.
- 1:46:56Speaker 5: Like, your draft was yesterday. Today is your third season
- 1:46:59Speaker 5: at NBA. The next one is no longer a novelty. So, congratulations, bro.
- 1:47:03Speaker 5: It's really cool what you've been doing, representing several guys. Like,
- 1:47:07Speaker 5: the girl got crazy that Gui came.
- 1:47:10Speaker 2: You know? It's really cool.
- 1:47:12Speaker 5: I don't know if you'll end up going through House
- 1:47:14Speaker 5: and stuff, because there's going to be NBA House.
- 1:47:16Speaker 2: Anyway.
- 1:47:17Speaker 1: But that's it, I'm very happy to have you here. Man,
- 1:47:19Speaker 1: the guy is just like me, man.
- 1:47:21Speaker 5: I'm giving myself the moral that I think he's a
- 1:47:24Speaker 5: bad cat.
- 1:47:25Speaker 2: No, what's that? Ah, and I brought a thing here too, right?
- 1:47:29Speaker 2: For you guys. I can't stop showing it.
- 1:47:32Speaker 1: What a thing, come on.
- 1:47:34Speaker 2: I couldn't, I couldn't. I saw a wall full of shirts.
- 1:47:36Speaker 1: The walls full of shirts.
- 1:47:38Speaker 3: This one, you're crazy. Oh, Mitka, it's my size, huh? No,
- 1:47:45Speaker 3: shut up, he'll sign it and we'll leave it.
- 1:47:47Speaker 2: No, I have it later, I have more, I'll give
- 1:47:49Speaker 2: one to each. This one leaves it on the wall
- 1:47:51Speaker 2: if you want. I did it on purpose. This is crazy, man.
- 1:47:58Speaker 2: Go talk, Mítio, go to the block. Sign here. Sign
- 1:48:02Speaker 2: for us.
- 1:48:03Speaker 4: Wow, man.
- 1:48:04Speaker 3: This will take a few years, it will be more
- 1:48:09Speaker 3: expensive and we will sell, you know?
- 1:48:11Speaker 2: Go, go, yes, Mítio. Go leiloar, bro, leiloar for us. Yeah? Uh-huh. Man,
- 1:48:15Speaker 2: you owe me a Diogo Nauti.
- 1:48:16Speaker 1: Shaq came here and got.
- 1:48:10Speaker 2: Check. Check. Check. We're together. Thank you, brother. Congratulations.
- 1:48:39Speaker 3: Represent Brazil. It's really cool. And it's great to see
- 1:48:44Speaker 3: the affection the guys.
- 1:48:45Speaker 2: Have for you here in Brazil. I just want to
- 1:48:47Speaker 2: thank the Brazilian people who follow me. They send positive energy. Really,
- 1:48:52Speaker 2: thank you. I follow everything.
- 1:48:54Speaker 4: And let's go up and represent Brazil at a higher
- 1:48:56Speaker 4: level in the NBA.
- 1:48:57Speaker 2: It's crazy. It's crazy. It's really cool. You know it.
- 1:49:00Speaker 1: You're going to do a lot of things. My God,
- 1:49:04Speaker 1: I'm excited to go to the next Olympics. It's not far, Mítico.
- 1:49:06Speaker 2: No?
- 1:49:07Speaker 1: It's going to represent, man.
- 1:49:08Speaker 2: You're going to be there, I'm sure.
- 1:49:10Speaker 1: Where is it next? I don't even know. The United States.
- 1:49:13Speaker 2: In your house. It's law, right? No, let's be there.
- 1:49:16Speaker 2: I'm going to be there. It's us, guys. We're together.
- 1:49:19Speaker 5: I hope you enjoyed it. If you liked it, leave
- 1:49:20Speaker 5: your like, subscribe to the channel. Follow Gui Santos and
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- 1:49:25Speaker 1: Follow Podpah. Let's go to 10 million subscribers. Follow me,
- 1:49:29Speaker 1: follow Mítico.
- 1:49:29Speaker 2: Very happy.
- 1:49:33Speaker 1: Mítico Jovem, faça as honras.
- 1:49:35Speaker 2: É nóis, família.
- 1:49:36Speaker 3: Segue o Podpah Record aí, tá?
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