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The Mini Van · Club 520 Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I ain't fall. When the summer I can get
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  Speaker 1: fly all my life, all my life. All right, we're
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  Speaker 1: back another episode of I'm the host. Nadj wellis my right,
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  Speaker 1: young Nacho TI? How you feeling, my boy? I'm good Man.
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  Speaker 1: Got some special people in the building, special people. Know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. To my immediate left, We're gonna introduce
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  Speaker 1: him last as we should do our guests. My father left.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Resident Chef Bishop Grant Leaf,
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  Speaker 1: my boy be here. How you feeling cooler? National, Let's
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  Speaker 1: get a crack all right, man, I got a special
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  Speaker 1: guest him. I let you know what I'm saying. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go ahead, Latigue, introduce you. You You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: They got a little relationship. They go back a little
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  Speaker 1: bit classic. This is my rookie man, my days Indiana,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, carved out a beautiful career in the NBA. Man,
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  Speaker 1: Iowa State legend. M the coolest dudes I know in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. Man, I'm glad to have him on the show.
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  Speaker 1: George Niang, appreciate you'all for having me on. Man, it's
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  Speaker 1: a blessing. I appreciate you Slide, It's a blessing. He
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  Speaker 1: got the pr statements. If we gonna get out of
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  Speaker 1: the real quick, don't you work. But if we're gett
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  Speaker 1: into the episode, y'all see this on you table, it's
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  Speaker 1: real beer. You know what I'm saying. You got some
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  Speaker 1: product you want to promote, get out there. We got
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  Speaker 1: this one erful laptop. You know what I'm saying. Be him.
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  Speaker 1: We tried to get him too, the sketches deal last week.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't fucking with us. You got that ship on
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  Speaker 1: the day. He's just regular night for you nigs about
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  Speaker 1: the door hashtag. It's okay he flecks on the serad.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Nonetheless, I know what I'm saying, Sketchers,
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  Speaker 1: Look tea, you might go four million dollars now you
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  Speaker 1: ain't doing four meal. Yeah anything, George, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Wills around upon that a little bit later.
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  Speaker 1: You know I'm saying, you still in the league, my boy. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's get the show, get to start talking. I like
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  Speaker 1: for hearing this vibe. Don't they got the simple water.
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  Speaker 1: We had a good episode that. You know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: You're in the league still, you know, obviously know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, you playing shoes deals that night. How much
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  Speaker 1: Sketchers gotta give you to get the deals to the vibe? Like,
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  Speaker 1: what's what's the jumping at You're hopping into the sketches
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  Speaker 1: for a meal? Take? Absolutely, yeah, but that's damn that's
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  Speaker 1: easy to be here. He was being difficult, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he trying to give up his his footwear. No, I
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  Speaker 1: don't even care about a million dollars. We can talk.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to be able to world. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to wear to the club and when I'm hanging out, bro,
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  Speaker 1: I just don't want to on a five twenty podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Give me the sketcher whatever shape up the KIMK was having. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave him on life like I got the dunks.
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  Speaker 1: We can rock out, but you gotta wear him the club. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when I'm going out and hanging out with my friends,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not wearing it, bro. So so we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: see what's some comments come. Were gonna see how them
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  Speaker 1: effects change. Before the episode, I always got to start
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  Speaker 1: the episode with a Friday Ask question. Obviously, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You had a nice journey in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: He's still going on right now. But I gotta ask
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  Speaker 1: you what's been so far without giving too much details.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to snitching nobody. What would you say
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  Speaker 1: your most problematic locker room was so far and you're
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  Speaker 1: playing days. You can go from high school to college
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  Speaker 1: to NBA. Look they laugh already. Oh my god, welcome
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  Speaker 1: to five twenty. Yeah, yeah, welcome my most problematic locker room, Dan,
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  Speaker 1: I would have to say with with with yes, yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: we little go a little We had a funny, a
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  Speaker 1: funny group of guys in that locker room. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was it was PEG's last year, right, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So it was like, you know, mixed between you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think there was riff raff for him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not wanting to be there. This's that in the third
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  Speaker 1: or I don't know what what he was thinking. I
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  Speaker 1: was a rookie. I really didn't know anything. But we'd
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  Speaker 1: go on like seven game win streaks and eight game
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  Speaker 1: loosen streaks. I was confused, man, So uh as my
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  Speaker 1: first year in the league, you know, we were we
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  Speaker 1: were a troublesome group. That was a hell of a
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  Speaker 1: year for everybody. It will get into that a little
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  Speaker 1: bit later. He don't like the paces at all. He
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  Speaker 1: has no respect. I am unfortunately doing pictures fan till
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  Speaker 1: I die. But terres Haliburt and the Savior the guy
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  Speaker 1: shout out to him out the gate, shout out to
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  Speaker 1: the young being Mather too. We were on the way
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  Speaker 1: like analogy will wish us to the pictures organization. That's
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  Speaker 1: like you got for it. It's a pr S today.
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  Speaker 1: That's school. I can get out of pocket. We can
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  Speaker 1: get it there. So first started off before we can
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  Speaker 1: get to that. You know what I'm saying. Obviously we
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  Speaker 1: know how you would. You know, I'm saying, it's your
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  Speaker 1: background of basketball. Talk about your high school. That's man.
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  Speaker 1: You had a pretty goddamn good and you team. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, How did that come about? We
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  Speaker 1: all went to high school together as me Netherlands Nowell,
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  Speaker 1: Wayne Selden, Jake Layman Man. When you say high school together,
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  Speaker 1: like y'all went to high school together, y'all like it
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  Speaker 1: was like a phone called and we're going to high
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  Speaker 1: school together. No, it was. It was a boarding school,
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  Speaker 1: so you know we were allowed to do that. You
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of people said they played high school
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  Speaker 1: together and they lived on the street. That definitely was
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  Speaker 1: not the case. But you know, for for high school
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  Speaker 1: au we we had a pretty solid team. So when
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  Speaker 1: you was playing in the summer, obviously I had a whip.
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  Speaker 1: And was it a little bit easier for you to
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  Speaker 1: play high school basketball playing with the town the team
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  Speaker 1: like that? Like you said, you had a Denver prep
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  Speaker 1: school y'all playing a crazy schedule as well. How did
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  Speaker 1: that prepare you to like get into like cogge decisions
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of times, like Jeffer probably speaking on this,
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  Speaker 1: I mean he went crazy at you too, but he
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  Speaker 1: played in the high school where he lived down the
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  Speaker 1: street front, how do you think it would have been
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  Speaker 1: different for you probably going up if you went to
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  Speaker 1: a prep school situation, you think he would have got
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  Speaker 1: exposure differently? Or now, I wouldn't have made no prep school.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't do that, you can na. I'm a I'm
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  Speaker 1: a west side baby. I can't do that outside baby, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm outside, yall know me? I was outside. I went
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  Speaker 1: to every party, I went to everything, boarding school that
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  Speaker 1: ain't met no uniforms, no way you can. I wore
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  Speaker 1: white T shirts and rocket worse every day. Yeah, like,
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  Speaker 1: come on, you had to be real disciplined for that though.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure it made you a better college student. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I guess when you don't know, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: say you don't know no different like you just you know.
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  Speaker 1: So for the most part, I mean I was an
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  Speaker 1: hour away from home, and uh, I mean up there,
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  Speaker 1: there was no I was like up in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of nowhere. There was no thought of like, I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: go act up. There was nothing to act up and do.
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  Speaker 1: It was gonna do run out in the wilderness. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: because you're from the Northeast area, yeah, I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: not for everybody, but I'll tell you this, it does
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  Speaker 1: keep a lot of you know, you know how how
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  Speaker 1: to find a way to avoid trouble. There's some people
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  Speaker 1: that just walk outside and trouble finds them. So for
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  Speaker 1: kids like that, I think it's a it's a good
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  Speaker 1: idea because it'll probably save a lot of kids from
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  Speaker 1: who get in trouble in high school and can't pursue
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  Speaker 1: their dreams. Would you had a twenty eleven or twenty
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  Speaker 1: ten class, No, I was twenty twelve. I was originally
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  Speaker 1: twenty eleven, So in the in the Northeast. It's popular
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  Speaker 1: to like reclassify. I feel like I thought we were
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  Speaker 1: like the first ones. Yeah, so I was, so I
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  Speaker 1: was young for my grade, so twenty I was originally
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  Speaker 1: class to twenty eleven and I did two sophomore years.
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  Speaker 1: So it hurt me in the long run when I'm
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  Speaker 1: entering the draft and they're like, oh, he about to
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  Speaker 1: be twenty three, and I was like, did y'all win
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  Speaker 1: Peach Jam? Yeah? Yeah, how was it? I had a
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  Speaker 1: whip that was Peach Jam? Was that was the best turn?
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  Speaker 1: That's the best tournament out Yeah? Yeah, and then you
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  Speaker 1: see it now it gets all that national that's much
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  Speaker 1: actually televised. Yeah, so I don't know. I mean, Nike
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  Speaker 1: did a really good job with the E y b L.
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  Speaker 1: It was like the first year of week first joined.
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  Speaker 1: But Peach Jam was elite. Who was the toughest matchup
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  Speaker 1: out there that you can remember? Who was like, damn
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  Speaker 1: he is nice. I gotta work on my game. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta get matchup. I don't. I mean, I just remember
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  Speaker 1: having to play the Saint Louis Eagles when they had
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  Speaker 1: Bradley Beal, Ben McLamore. That was that was crazy. You
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  Speaker 1: could do because I was like a post guy and
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  Speaker 1: them dudes were just dancing around the three point line.
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  Speaker 1: So they were yeah, yeah, oh he did he play for? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: They had him Aj Hammond's Uh who else did they
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  Speaker 1: have had a couple San Thomas? Yeah was nice? They
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: was they was cold? Then who was it? Uh? Team
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  Speaker 1: Takeover had like b j Anya, Jeremy Grant, James Robinson. Damn. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so they every game like eybl was was for real.
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  Speaker 1: That definitely helped me, you know, just playing against like
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  Speaker 1: I went to high school in Urlans, also playing against
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  Speaker 1: him kind of helped me play against like shot blockers
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  Speaker 1: in college. Yeah, I could score not at ease, But
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: how did you get to Yeah, damn, that's that's actually
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  Speaker 1: a crazy story. So I didn't have any high major offers,
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  Speaker 1: I think going into like my junior year and I
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  Speaker 1: played in the tournament and uh, Fred Hoiberg ended up
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  Speaker 1: calling me because this prep school we went on like
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  Speaker 1: a ski trip. So he called me in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of like me going down the hill tubin or something,
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  Speaker 1: and I called him back and he wanted me to
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  Speaker 1: take an unofficial visit. But people don't realize now unofficial visits.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't be paid for it, so like my mom
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  Speaker 1: had to like pay for me to go out there.
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  Speaker 1: I wasna. I was originally gonna visit just the University
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  Speaker 1: of Iowa, but then I decided to do both because
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  Speaker 1: they were both recruiting me. So we get out to
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  Speaker 1: Des Moines, and Des Moines is a forty five minute
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  Speaker 1: drive to Aimes, where Iowa State is, and my mom
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  Speaker 1: forgot a credit card. So when we go to rent
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  Speaker 1: a car, they was like, sorry, like, no, can't do
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  Speaker 1: this is like twelve years ago, and so we had
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  Speaker 1: to take a cab two Aimes, Iowa. Then my mom
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  Speaker 1: was like, I don't want them to know that I
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  Speaker 1: forgot my credit cards. So like I'm running across like
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  Speaker 1: this bean field to like get to the practice facility
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  Speaker 1: because they're not allowed to pick you up when you
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  Speaker 1: off campus and stuff like that. And eventually we had
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: to take like a megabus which is two hours to
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  Speaker 1: get to the University of Iowa. And then and then
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: finally at the mL was like, I'm gonna call a
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  Speaker 1: car service so we can just get to the airport.
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  Speaker 1: And then this is in the middle of nowhere, So
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  Speaker 1: this dude was like, you want the Lincoln or the Cadillac.
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  Speaker 1: And my mom was like, just whatever, the Lincoln. This
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  Speaker 1: dude turns out to be like a hoarder. So like
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  Speaker 1: he just had like trash like in the car, so
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  Speaker 1: like he was driving like a tuna fish can and
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  Speaker 1: like slide across. It was a crazy I was like,
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  Speaker 1: there ain't no way God wants me to go to Iowa.
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  Speaker 1: The next thing you know, I'm at Iowa State And
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  Speaker 1: it was because Fred Hoiberg. I mean he was just
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  Speaker 1: a honest dude. Told me he was gonna let me
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  Speaker 1: have the ball in my hands, and it was that's
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  Speaker 1: what it was. From there. That's crass. You might have
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  Speaker 1: been in Iowa if they had Uber back then to
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  Speaker 1: lift your college have been totally different. Shouts a home
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  Speaker 1: boy driving the tune of whip. That's nasty detail. But
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  Speaker 1: like wow, I would though like those two schools, like
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  Speaker 1: you didn't like with Bruit Nah, Like bc BC was
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  Speaker 1: like I remember Wayne Selden got an offer from them,
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: and he was like if they offer you, like, I'll
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  Speaker 1: go there with you. And Steve Donohue, I mean he's
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  Speaker 1: the coach at Penn. So we've talked because I'm in
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia now, but like nobody else was like at that point,
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  Speaker 1: like that was the first time made school. They were like, ah,
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  Speaker 1: what position does he play? Like he's not a three,
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  Speaker 1: he's not big enough to play a four. He don't
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  Speaker 1: dunk on nobody. Yeah, So it was like Providence came
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  Speaker 1: in late with like Ed Cooley, but I had already committed.
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: Billy Donovan was late. But you know, if I went
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: to Florida that I've been all bad, me different. Yeah,
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: and then like in the midst of like George Mason
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: was another school, but Larnaga took the Miami job, and
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  Speaker 1: like I said, if I could to Florida, nah, Miami.
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  Speaker 1: But I didn't really have a position. I didn't really
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: like my highlights were nasty, like people like they do
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: highlights like me. I like Nike Peach and people like
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  Speaker 1: I didn't just waste three minutes of my life watching
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  Speaker 1: jump hucks and it's crazy. You do got a nasty game,
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  Speaker 1: Like it's effective. Yeah it happened, the ball, the ball
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  Speaker 1: goes in the hoop. Yeah, it's nasty, but effect. I
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  Speaker 1: used to say that we was in practice with the Pikes,
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  Speaker 1: which I block his game so ugly, but he's so
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: nice though, Like he's the cud. Yeah, what's your goal
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  Speaker 1: to move though? What you fuck him up with? Shoot? Yeah,
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: talking a little bit. I mean I've always had that. Yeah, Jeff,
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  Speaker 1: you know he got the you know whatever. That looks sweet.
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  Speaker 1: And then he run you know, he run back. Don't
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  Speaker 1: have no emotions, just like yeah, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: He got a chap stick in his socks. I can't
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  Speaker 1: chat to Charles Rockley right with your belly button Charles
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: Rockets putting. He put vastling his belly buttons chap and
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: I was like, hey, that's the nash sh he's out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's sick, Chatti. Get the socks though. Nah. But I
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  Speaker 1: first knowed you when you was at Iowa State. I
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  Speaker 1: watched all of basketball. I watched college basketball like a
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  Speaker 1: fan back then, and you were killing but you had
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  Speaker 1: a rare game like you were doing dribble handoffs, fake
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  Speaker 1: dribble handoffs, running point, shooting threes. And I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 1: what I couldn't figure you out. I'm like, how is
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: he killings? Moving in slow motion? Yeah? I was like
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  Speaker 1: a little boris d out. Yeah, you know where It's like,
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  Speaker 1: I think the college game is so traditional where it
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: was like play through the big, like you know, when
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  Speaker 1: you first got to the NBA, played through the big.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there was no real like movement where Fred
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  Speaker 1: Hoiberg we played five out. You know, I would make
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  Speaker 1: I would play center just because I was big enough
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  Speaker 1: to you know, guard a center back back then and
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: then drag them away from the hoop. And they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: guard me that far away from the hoop. I was
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: able to just change direction and dribble, fake handoffs and
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  Speaker 1: then I could shoot three. So that's uh, that made
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  Speaker 1: me effective there. But little did I realize when I
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: got to the NBA, there was like, uh, cut all
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  Speaker 1: that ship up, he said. I first, NBA will put
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: you in a box, like they want you to do
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  Speaker 1: one thing. You're gonna do that one thing. So I
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: got a question for y'all regarding that. How you think
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: is a better situation to go forward with kids? Like
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  Speaker 1: now it's in prep because like you said, you can
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: go to college and do whatever the fuck you want too,
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  Speaker 1: as long as you found whatever coach you got going.
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  Speaker 1: But you can get to the league and they can
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  Speaker 1: kind of like shift your game. Is it more beneficial
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  Speaker 1: to be like, all right, fun college. I might as
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: well go to a G league or be in a
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  Speaker 1: structured place to where they gonna teach me how to
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: play at this level. Or do you want to go
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: to college and learn how do you play your own
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  Speaker 1: game and then just fit in once you get to
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  Speaker 1: the next situation. Man, that's tough because there's some people
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  Speaker 1: that you know, they've before they've even gotten to college,
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  Speaker 1: they've grown to college like so that they need to
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: go to like they're they're too talented, they're too big
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  Speaker 1: of a name, they need to go to the legal league.
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  Speaker 1: But then there's some guys that think they're too big
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  Speaker 1: for college that really need to go beat like disciplined
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  Speaker 1: and learn how to play and you know, learn how
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  Speaker 1: to grind and actually work before they actually get to league.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like a person by person basis on that one.
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  Speaker 1: But I do like what the G league ignite thing does,
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  Speaker 1: but it also can't hurt guys that think they're better
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  Speaker 1: than they are. And you get caught taking five hundred
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: grand to come out and that's the most money you
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: ever see and you don't see that that you show
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  Speaker 1: what you can't do, and they're like, why would I
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: waste time? I'm playing this kid that's real. Like you said,
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: you you gotta sell yourself one way or another. I
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: know it's a little bit later. Now we ain't gonna
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: talk about the past. But you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: nil deal how you feel you would have eight? You
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I especially what you be. You
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, the ten year player. You know
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: what college basketball loves anybody, classmate, Man, I was all
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: those you know, four years in the tournament. The farmer
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: money out there I would have had, I would have
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: had a good experience out there. But now that I
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: think about it, if I had, because I remember when
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: I got out of college, I did like a signing
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: for like ten grand and I thought I was rich.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: I was like, you couldn't tell me. I was driving
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: up to North American Minnesota buying true religion, like I
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: thought the time period I thought I was living. Yeah,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: that ain't cool to wear that, not the truth? Where
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: would you want? Man? Yeah, you don't do that, the
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: true religion. Give me a period. When you talked about
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: give me a period, trying to give me the true
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: religion fit without the uh the nigga that's built like
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: me on the front of the shirt. Just give me
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: the regular true religion fit. Just now. You don't want
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: the boot on your ship, give me a little coastal
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: symbol on that bitch. Ain't no little true religious opperside
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: of T shirts And like this bit it looked like
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: the Lucky Are Cereal box, the gray one. I wore
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: it in the summer. That was my biggest mistake because
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: you know, it gets hot. It takes me like raise
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: your hand. It wasn't the club going crazy. Was so embarrassed, dude.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I was like, from now on, just black teath in
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: the summer. But how was it? Thought? I though? Did
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: you have fun? Yeah? I mean so that was kind
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: of really like where I enjoyed, like the outside of basketball, right,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: but it wasn't too crazy where like it got out
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: of hand, like I could still manage to get controlled.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: But like people out in the Midwest, they just know
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: how to drink, man, nothing else to it. There's like
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: people that drinking and there's people from the Midwest. They
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: just they just we do a little different. Yeah, it's
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: like people like I drink. Where are you from out
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: the West coast? Nah? You know, k how much love
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: you get? I mean, it's still to this day. I
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: do a charity golf outing out there, I do a
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: basketball camp. I don't do it anything else anywhere else
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: because that was like the craziest amount of love that Like,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: that's true. It was wild, and that's crazy. We sitting
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: here with two people who could have went to BC. Yeah,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: that's crazy. That would have been elected you and had
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the city going crazy. I was I thought about going there.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: What it targe you the wake visit or just because
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: they had another guard coming in. Honestly, my mama had
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: a dream, That's really what it was. Damn. She said,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: you gotta go to Wake forest Ship. I had a dream.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: It's less it was over and then let's talk about
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: that's crazy. So you know what I'm saying, you do
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: your thing. Iway stay Now it's time to go to
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: the NBA. How was it like the workout process? You
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Because you were second round pick,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: so I imagine you probably had to do a lot
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: more shit than like you know, most people have to
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: who going on a couple of top slots. Was it
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: more favorable for you or was it like more of
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: a stressful time? Like damn, Like I gotta go get
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: this ship cracking, Like yeah, I mean to be honest
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: with you, you know, my agent had a good plan
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: of like what teams he knew, like actually would value
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: like what I was, what I brought. And I remember
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: my last workout was Indiana, and I just remember him
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: he all the other workouts, whether it was like the Clippers,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I forget who else I worked out for, but he
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: was like that one like you need, like that's the
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: one you need to shill. And I'm like, what are
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: you talking about, Like they're about they're trying to trade.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: He's like they might trade that first round pick, but
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: they have a second round pick. Da da da. So
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I think I was in there with like Yogi Pharaoh,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Check Diallo, maybe even Bryce Johnson. I can't remember, but
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I ended up playing really well in that workout and
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Kevin Pritchard I remember, yeah it came and had a
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: conversation with me after and I was like, oh damn,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: that went better than all the other workouts. Then you
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: get to draft night and I was the best worst
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: night in my life. It was fifty picks before you
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: That was like four hours of sitting there just waiting.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: It felt like forever and then you know that's when
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: you can. I mean, that whole trade happened. He was
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: coming in then, so Jeff really kind of stole like
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the limelight because it was like the Indiana kids coming
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: back like yeah, I'm like, yeah, yeah, we ain't gonna
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: talk about fifty. We just got this dude. He chose
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: that weekend number. I feel would tell you said you
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: was gonna pick fifty. I was gonna where zero, but na,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: he wasn't giving that up. So I had forty four
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: so I can throw a west side elligates. But I
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: was just as mad as you. But go ahead. Nah.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: But I want to ask you, though, was you thinking
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: NBA the whole time or was you like, yo, I
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: might have to go overseas or nothing, like, no, I'm
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: going to the league. I mean I always like the league.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Was always like that's where I wanted to go. But
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I never was like working
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: on like I gotta get to the league where like
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: most people do. I was like I'm trying to be
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: All American or I'm trying to be you know what
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, first Team All American or like a big
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Big twelve Player of the Year and then it was like,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: oh shit, your name's on draft boards. Like I was like, damn,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I could actually because my whole like like if you
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: look at my game, like yeah it is nasty, it's effective,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: but like I never really thought because nobody ever gave
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: me like the reassurance to be like, yo, you your
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: game is league. You know what I mean? Like you,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: it was always like yeah, you nice, like if we
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: played at the y MC. I've always been I mean,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: like someone stay true to who he was. But like
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: you look at my game now, like you watch like
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: college film, I was spin moves up and understil Like
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: now it's like catching, shooting and drive and obviously I
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: could do other stuff, but you realize, like if you
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: could fit a role, there's probably like five to six
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: to seven roles on the team. If you could fit
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: one of those, you could really like just stick it out.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Like I didn't realize that. Like when I first got
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: to Indiana, like I'll never forget, it was preseason and
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I got in and I traveled and I seen Nate McMillan.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: He was walking to like the coach's hudder, and he
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: was like someone has to talk to him. He travels
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: every time he's about to dribble into my head, I'm like,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I should just never dribble again, you know what I mean? Like,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: so you gotta find like where you where you really fit,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: and who's going to give you an opportunity to do that?
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Like not throwing shade at him, but it like it
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: kind of helped me realize, like, all right, there's some
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: things that I could get away with before, but now
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: it's like all right now the box of like being
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: a corner three point maker. That that helped me just
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: stick around long enough to get more opportunities to show
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: what else I could do. Who puts you? Like? Who?
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Who got you into that mindset? Though? Because Quinn Snyder, Yeah, uh,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: he's like a I don't know how to explain it,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: but he's like a basketball and yeah, like a mad scientist.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Like that's like he's just so in depth with his detail,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: you know that. I just remember like he had one
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: of the assistant coaches come talk to me. It was like, hey,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: you know, obviously we signed to you, but if you
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: want to play, like you have to make that shot
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: and not let someone just straight line drive you on
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the other end, all right, just start running to the corner,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I'll pass it the ball. Corner threes. So literally, like
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: my first year when I was with them, all I
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: did was just rep out corner threes. And you know
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: how the NBA is, like if you don't know who
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: a dude is and you out there, the ball gets
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: passing on three point line, you're like, man, so if
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: you miss, all right, they're gonna keep. But you start making,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: then you start getting reputation like all right, like this
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: dude can make shots. And then you know the evolution
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: of three point shot and making you know, on the move,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, all that, and then you eventually figure
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: out like damn, if I can make three pointers and
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: keep guys out of superstars laps when they ice oning,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: that's that's a role, you know, And that's kind of
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: like what I've carved out here. And uh, it didn't
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: look that promising when I was my rookie year, but
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: it took some time to figure out, and uh, I'm
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: going this is year seven. So it's crazy. A salute
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: to that bro, because the way that you made it,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: like you said, you didn't have a situation where you
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: just came in and got drafted. I'm playing and I'm
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: here next contract. You had to really grind, and like
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: you said, you came into a situation to that shit
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: changes a lot of players because you came into a
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: votel situation in Indiana where a lot of unmoving parsons
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: going on and a lot of things should have happened
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: that didn't happen. Also, like you said, shout out to
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: coast with Milan, but you know where he was at
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: with the organization of that and with the players. That
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: was all different places. And this is your first experience
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: in the business of basketball. That can break a lot
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: of people because, like you said, you big toe a
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: player of the year, Like you come in like I'm
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: used to do whatever I want to and it's like, nah,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: you gotta do this. That breaks a lot of players
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, off the sense of I've been doing
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: this shit in my whole life and now you're telling
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: me how to play. But like you said, you took
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: advantage of a situation and you're making a full career
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: out of that ship. Now we're talking about the pace.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Who was your fatman? You
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: was a rookie? Who was your who was your guy?
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: That just the first trip we had, he pulled me aside,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: and you know he was like, listen, you know your
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: rookie year is gonna be crazy. But you know I
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: got you, Dad. I'm gonna ask you to do a
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: couple of things here and the A couple of things. Yeah,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I remember. One of them was the dove soap at
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: the at the every game. I can appreciate that my
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: man cares about his hygiene, you know what I mean.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: He wasn't using the week week soap said. He made
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: you go get the dove so so every so everything.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: You probably still get the dumb yeah, absolutely, So not
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: go go crazy. I don't want to interrupt your interview
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: for real. Go ahead. You don't that they give you.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: It was like handsen it like yeah, no, no, like
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about like it's up on the wall like type.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: So I thought, okay, my bad. I didn't like he'd
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: be like, hey, yo, here's something. You know. I ain't
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: gonna go in to detail, but you know, just let
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: me every every road game that we have, like can
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I get some some dove soap? You know what I mean?
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: So I always carry around like soap. I also had
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: to carry around the cards. Uh, got to go. Get
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: long has done us. So you know when when some
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: of the other events, you know it didn't step up
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: to you know what i mean, helped me out. My
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: my good man, would you know what I mean look
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: out for me and uh but another one and then
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: not pay and then not pay you. So that's kind
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: of like like a lost art. So when when he
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: first was like, yeah, like here you go, like this
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: is what I expect out of you, you know what
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, Like I'm gonna look out for you if
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: you ever had any questions, you know what I mean.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: And from there that was that was the best season,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I mean, I think every
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: rookie should have have a vet that actually like looks
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: out for them. I mean I think I was the
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: only rookie on the team, but he actually like showed me, show,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: showed me the game, you know what I mean, like
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: kept it reil and you know that was a rough
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: season for me, but you know, my God always always
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: kept interesting. Another one was Al Jefferson. I can't forget him.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: He was making me get him a breakfast sandwich before
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: every shoot around and Jimmy John's after every shoot around
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: with like potato chips and water. And I remember Weir
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: was in New York and uh, I ordered like an
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: egg sandwich from and they did some fancy like this
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: is the Southern dude, so he like wants scrambled eggs, bacon, cheest,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: like just the regular way. Not so they gave me
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: like poached eggs and it was like right before the
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: bust was coming down. But I ordered the omelet for myself,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: so I'm like, oh, like I got an omelet. But
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: so I ended up like cutting half an omelet and
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: like tuck the post eggs off, threw it on the bagel,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: put the bacon on it, and like there's some cheese
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: on it. Put it together, and I'm walking down because
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: whenever like the breakfast sanwich was sucks, he'd be like, yo, fella, man,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: it's the worst shit I ever had. And I'd be like,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: oh yeah. He would be like you the worst rookie
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: out and ever had, man like you shout out like
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: stupid like that, and he was just joking, but you know,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: after all, you'd be like, damn, I gotta be better.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: So when I'm getting on the bus, I'm like shake.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: He always set in the back, so I walked it
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: all the way down in the back and I'm like, damn,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: he definitely gonna know. I cut this off and it's
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: like hanging out the big gol like listen. So we
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: ride and I remember we're in New York. Were riding
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: the shoot around, which is crazy. We had to shoot
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: around in New York. That's crazy, sou He's we like
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: ten minutes in and he's like, yong fella and I'm like,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: oh shit, like here we go. He was like, this
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: got to be one of the best ones ever. Man.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I was like this, like, you couldn't even make this
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: shitt up. But he shout out to big as. He was, No,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: you didn't have to do that. Shit. Do what I'm saying.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: You didn't really have to do that. So shout out
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to YouTube for putting the fourth that man if I
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: didn't want, Yeah, he had that motherucker post. Oh my
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: mom nah. But George, though you laugh, would you know
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: how I was? I was? He was cool. Nobody telling me.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: That's why I asked. I was like, I know some
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: of his rookie stories here that school. He took it easier.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: That boy, you had to do so cool. I got
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the best part about his rookie years after our season
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: was over, my fat Yeah you could. This is the podcast.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: We don't have to because that interesting. But literally he
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: my rookie year after the seasons. We're playing one on one. Yes, yeah,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: this is where my knee problems start. You remember that ship. Yeah,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I slipped, bro, I'm a free agent. I slipped. I
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: banged my knee on the ground. I'm like, oh shit,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I was so scared. I thought I ended it. I
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: thought I looked at him. I'm like, oh shit, I
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: got quick playing. I just left. I ain't come back
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: to the facility at all. I sucked up my ship.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: My agent called me. I think I sucked my ship up.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: But I had like two or a little piece of
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: my niscuits. It was over, damn. But then he still
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: had to go collect that. I went through that motherfucking
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: drill sh Minnesota. I'm over there. She was hurt, like,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: are you figuring this out? Yeah, they do yours on
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the knee or nothing. I was like, hell, yeah, we
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: go sign this motherfucker. Yeah, that's one thing I'll say,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: my nigger, he go gets to that check and I'll
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: respect that, no question. So that's you know what I'm saying,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: you go through that first year and then after that,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: you know, take us a little bit through that journey,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: because I'm saying you obviously moved around a little bit.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: He was in the G League. How was it like
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: going through that first year in the NBA and they're
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: transitioning to the G League and then you end up
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: transditioning back out to Utah. But how was that Thompston
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: for you? Like, man, that was a humbling experience. That's like,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, you I get cut, you know, so you
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: hit rock bottom. You're like, damn, but I just mess
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: up the only opportunity that I'll ever have to to
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: play in the NBA. And and then the best thing
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I did was I was able to sign a exhibit ten,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: which is like you're going down to the league with
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors, so I could see how yeah,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: so I could see how like k D Steph Clay Draymond,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: how they work like every day. And then to be
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: around guys like andre I goodal A, Sean Livingston, like
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: you got to see like, so I went from one
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: one side of the spectrum to the other where it's
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: like they just won a championship and so just to
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: see how they had a daily routine. I think that
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: was the biggest thing for me, is just you know,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: you can't just work on the days that you feel
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: like work. And it was more or less that, you know,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: you gotta do it everywhere every day and get a
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: little bit better every single day. So obviously that was humbling,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: you know, being there and being in the G League
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: having to start making you go. I think I made
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: six hundred and fifty my rookie year, and then my
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: checks every two weeks were like nine hundred dollars because
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I was making twenty five grand in California, damn and
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: a Cruise Warriors. That's when it was like, all right,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: I better make I better make this shakeout or you
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: know what I mean. I don't got no other choice.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: So obviously the G League is a it's the same game,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: but it's totally different. You can get away with, you know,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: over dribbling and stuff like that. But it allowed me
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: to show what I really was doing in college at
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: kind of the NBA level. And then I got that
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: two way contract, which rather than having to be on
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: a ten day which is I can't imagine the pressure
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: to do is on a ten day, got a field,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: so then I was allowed to like you know, play
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: the rest of the year on a two way. Obviously
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: he got practice time, you know, summer league, and I
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: had a good summer league and I ended up getting
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: signed as like one of the fourteen fifteenth man. And
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: the thing that saved me was Tabo Cephalosha had got
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: suspended for five games. Yeah, so they had to play
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: me in like spot minutes and I made shots for
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: five games. He came back played over me, but I
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: ended up getting back in the rotation and from there
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: on how it was. And that's real, breaking a rotation.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Like I always say, it's like as much as people
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: talk about athletes and like how much they get paid, Yeah,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: but you couldn't imagine like people grind up for them
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: to days. You gotta make the most out of nothing
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: because you ain't getting too many opportunities borrowing somebody getting
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: crazy injured. You probably not gonna shoot the ball that much.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: You gotta do something in that time period for a
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: team to be like, hey we got to keep him around.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Why are they looking at eight other different prospects. But
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: like you said, you made that shit happen. Got there,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: got the All Star got it cracking. And then you
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: get to Utah and know what I'm saying with coach Schnyder,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: how was that because you was a Utah when Utah
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: and what I'm saying had like a revamp. You know
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, You got you got Rudy. How was
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: that experience? Like getting back nickname? Oh wow, I was
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: gonna bring that up. Now he had a fire nickname.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: See here you go. What that's the g wagon it
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: went for mini Vintag told me to talk about I'm
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: talking about nah. So I was. I was out the
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: rotation and we was beating Brooklyn like bad, and they
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: subbed me in the game and I had a chance
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: to go up and dunking, you know, like them the
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: rim grade is like barely over the rim. So Joe Ingoes,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: who's like the king of talking shit on the team,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: was like, man, what the heck was that? I was like, whoa, whoa, Listen,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I'm not like a Ferrari like the rest of y'all.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: More like a minivan. I need a couple of apps
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: around the block five get the top speed and then
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: the silar reports like the minivan. I love that. And
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: then I was screwed after that if you would have
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: went to the rucker there like the minivan, Yeah, like escalade,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. When I heard it, I
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: was like, they call you the minivan. Yeah, this dude
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: was talking when I was shooting threes in the corner,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: you know, trying to make a living. This dude was
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: on the bench like yo, No, he was like you
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: made that. I knew you was gonna look at me.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: That's why it was so fun. Compete that gets him
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: because it's like somebody you watched go through it and yeah,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: it's like damn, he having his moment and he was killing,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: mocking shoot. And like you said, your time is impeccable
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: because a lot of people come in the league different
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: times to where your specialty may expire in two years.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: You can't in a situation to where it now the
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: premium the most important position. Like you look at guys
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: like Doc and Robinson, k Robinson, I've had a ship
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: telling them to do one thing and now they're kind
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: of like, where really fuck with that? But he hit
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: at the right time. My god. As you can get
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: a test to free agency matters about timing out, about
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: situation timing and you in a perfect a perfect situation
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: right now, boy, and you go are better than what
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: they give you credit for our times like yo, And
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: that's that's another thing that I want to talk about.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Let him know. The perception is crazy. You got a
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: little yeah, because at the end of the day, someone
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: will look at someone that looks like they can defend, right,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: but someone will drive past them four straight times and
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: they don't even you know what I mean, don't even
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: bad eye. But if someone go by me, oh look
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: at them, look defend That's what I mean. Yeah, I
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: would never defender though. Yeah, but you know what it
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: was is like because you have like the emotionless face
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: that people didn't think that you cared right. So like
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: he would even tell me on the bench watched this
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: like he'll go go throw a lob and be like
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: and coach, be like just in the game today, Like
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: what because yeah, for real? But he'd be doing the
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: same stuff like dropping down and be a nice pass
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: lay up and be like he look look at him,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Look he looks like he's sleep out of there. Like look,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what do you want him? Like that? Like
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: that was never you, but he he knew you knew
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: how to play the game, and now that I'm seven
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: years in, I know exactly. So would you call yourself
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: an elite defender? Uh? I mean, Okay, here's what I'm
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: gonna say. I feel like there's guys that get picked
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: are you know in the playoffs, are like that guy's
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: in every Like I'm doing two things. I'm talking crazy
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: shit and I'm just gonna be ultra physical, like you
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: gonna have to have me just fouled, like you know
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: what I mean. It's not like you're gonna have to
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: hit tough contested jump rover. You're not just gonna and
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: then like think you're just driving by me, Like if
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: you drive by me one time, it's like, you know
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: exactly where Like these other guys that are out there
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: that get picked on, they're like they don't want to
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: touch nobody up. Yeah, No, it ain't sweeting. We ain't
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: switching for y'a. So how was it like when you
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: had to leave Utah? Was it bitter sweet dad? No?
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: I mean that hurt. I mean that really hurt. Like
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: that was like the first time where I felt like
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: I really like earned earned my roster, spart earned to
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: be there, and it was like, yeah, like we we
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: signed Rudy Gay, Like you know, we're going in a
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: different direction, and you know, I'll never throw shade on
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: another player, but obviously you look at other people and
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: where they are in their career, like Rudy Gay has
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: had a hell of a career. But in my mind,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: in my mind, I was like, but like what I did,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Like I shot forty percent, like you know what I mean,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I came in, never complained and like that was just
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: taking for granted. But you know, like it up once
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: you left, like because it seems like that was all
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: like super cool, like even seeing y'all after the game, like, yeah,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: was a cheesecake factory and shit, I'm like that's the
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: only place I could go for real. Ru Rudy was
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: there temporarily, he was trying. He still there, but I'm
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: just saying I just felt like they probably I don't
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: think that was really where he probably wanted to go
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: at first though you think really wanted to be there.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: I mean shit, I mean, I mean you go where
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: the money. I mean, you go where the money goes.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: But so like you when you're like when you're a
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: free agent, you're thinking like if the team sign signed
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: someone that kind of does the same thing that you
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: do for more money than where you're making. They chose
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: him over you, so I had to go find another place.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, which that was like damn, So you didn't
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: really value what I did. You felt like you had
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: to go get someone else to do something that I
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: did and think they're gonna do it better. So that
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: was my first time and that I never had free
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: agency where teams were like, hey, we're asking about you.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: So I was like, I was like, damn, like that
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: that really Like that was one where when I got
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: to Philly, I was like, damn, I I missed Utah,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: but I know they don't really care about me. And
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: then when you play alongside like two superstars that like
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: demand like double teams and stuff like that, you like, shit,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: I thought I was opening Utah, but yeah, even like
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: I just double team, try to trapping. I hope he missed,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Like you know what, I'm getting wide open shot after
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: wide open shot, and it's it was. It was a
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: blessing because I didn't think it was a blessing in
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: the beginning, but it really helped, like helped me show
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: the NBA or other gms like how much more I
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: have to offer in my game if I'm given the
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: opportunity and you own a team that's highlighted in the
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: last everybody's seeing you every week. Yeah, you think it's
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's a difference, but you think it's
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: a really big difference, like when you and them smaller
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: market teams, Like even if you're going crazy, yeah for sure,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: look at Dave Millard ye talk about it. It It should
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: have been an all star off the jump. But like
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: being in Sacramento, it's like even though they're playing good
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: as hell this year and it's yeah, yeah, they still
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: they're like third in the West, and they still don't
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: even get like they gonna around get to two seed
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: and they still don't give a shit and they haven't
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: made a playoffs in fifteen years. Like the bean Man,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: they was it was due, They was due for a
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: good year. Yeah, but I mean what you mean there
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: was dude, They was due seven years ago. They was
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: doing year. They ain't been good since Baby was there.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Come on, man, that what they're doing over there, that's
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: real effort. It's not just the luck, you know what
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: I mean. Damn, I ain't saying it was luck. I'm
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: just saying it was like it's just supposed to. Yeah,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that ain't no they were sketchers. You'd
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: be like, nah, they ain't doue that bullshit. All I'm
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: saying is they they are good team here. They had
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: every fucking draft pick since my fucking ninety seven. So
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: you first draft first round, you do for a good
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: season and disrespect him marpen Backley, but boarded they fuck
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: up that draft that was supposed to get them back
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: by sill over there no after body had the picks
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: on the draft. Shout out to my nigga. The bris
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Cousins fuck the same time. So now blodie out of there.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: See you go. That's why they made it. You play
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: with two, you know what I'm saying, Hollo tanem so
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: far in your career, I gotta ask you. I think
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: obviously we know where you're going with this, But what's
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: the difference between playing with Donovan and Rudy and the
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: difference between playing with Hardening and b Oh? I mean
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: and b demand though I do it for you, bro,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: he demands double teams. Rudy didn't demand no double Yeah.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, like Rudy is like think about who we
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: had like in Utah, right, like we had all a
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: like six eight you know, not really NBA athletic like
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: shooters like Royce, Nio Joe and Goes Boy. Yeah, we
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: even had Mike Conley. So I mean quins Steiner was like, hey,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: worst comes to worst, just press up into your guy,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: stay on his hip, going to the rim rudy, you
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like at the end of the day,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: I remember sometimes just guided my guy and the rudy
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: and then just falling right off into the big like
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: he gonna either block. It effected like you're going full speed,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: gotta shoot over a seven two shot blocker. It changes
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: the game and we're taking away the three point line,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: I mean defect. Like, so we were allowed to play
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: defense a crazy way which didn't give any teams advantage.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Like if you wanted to beat this, you would have
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: had to make like twenty five mid range jump shots
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: at like a fifty percent clip, which is like unheard of.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: And then you you know, Donovan was so athletic, dynamic,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: like he just creative out there, like you've seen him
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: last night. He hits someone with a sham guy and
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: then a pull up three like you know what I mean,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: And then he's just he's just he was something that
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: we didn't have. We always you know, I hate to
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: say unathletic, but like to the NBA standard of like,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: so none of us had the ability to like really
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: go buy anybody. And Quinn's a mastermind at creating advantages.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Then you have Donovan and someone that could play one
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: on one. So it's like two different dynamics because now
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: I'm playing with guys that don't need any action, like
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: they all go get a bucket regardless from the other
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: side of the core in the corner being double team
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: like we played last night. I don't know when y'all
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: gonna art, But against the Bucks, I mean, James, we
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: was down fifteen points going into the fourth quarter. It
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: was like James Harden was like, all right, come on,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: like you know what I mean, lay up, three step
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: back and next thing, you know, you like like Jayalen
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: McDaniel said to me, he was like, oh we win it.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, Like this dude just really just
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: put the team on his back. And I mean it
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: did just two different people, but the dynamic dude of
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Joel and and James, I don't know, I don't know
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: if you've ever seen a pick and roll tandem like
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: that in this error of the game with switching because
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: you can't switch, like were you gonna put your big
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: on James, because we're you gonna do, put your the
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: guard that's guarded on Joel like it's over, and then
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: you surround that with shooting, you know what I mean,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: That's how you get some chicken and in that way,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: like you said it regardless and if you don't cover,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: they're gonna get free throws. And I asked a question
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: because people, as much as I'm not the biggest Rudy fair, Yo,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: his defense changed a lot. Like so being able to,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: like you said, close out and send somebody to the
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: room can't be just effective. It's being able to throw
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: the ball in the post if you playing the right
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: way right, No, you you ain't lying. I mean. The
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: thing about Joel is that you want to come double team.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: He has that mid range where he'll just shoot over you.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Elite you see teams just get discouraged because they come
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: to double and he's looking and shooting right over you,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: whereas like Rudy, it's more of like a lob threat.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: But on the defense event, he's he's stopped another team
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: from scoring twenty easy thirty easy points because they ain't Jilly.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: You know, Jill, you're thinking about that shit for you
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: coming to back. Come on, I remember we played, remember
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: what he was in India. They're like, go bear, I
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: remember dan Bert, Go bear. If you go in there,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: just think about it, whether if you're gonna kick out
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: or try and shoot a layer, because damn, his blocks
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: turn into like they're like turnovers for us. They're leading
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: the fast break points for them. And like you said,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: that's a part of the getting that people don't really
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: put together. Like like you said, a quick little contest
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: or a block is a layup on the other ear.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: It's just an effect of getting that bitch in the posts. Also,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: James Hard boss here, I don't, I don't know. That's crazy. Yeah,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: James Hard not gotta at absolutely like for no reason.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: I understand every about respected those who had good years.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: I shot down't nobody, but James Harden was cooking two
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: eleven and seven. Give somebody else, Just give somebody else.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: He's a hitter. That's just what it is. It's an
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: equal opportunity. If anybody else had this stet line, but
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: the Max do talk about it, but it's crazy. I
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: got a question, though, what are you listening to game day?
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: You got some music that gets you together or you know,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: obviously being in Philly, you know Meek Miller eventually comes on.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: But you know who I really really been listening to
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: his NBA Young Boy, Yes, my CEG. That's why I mean,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: so I don't So here's the thing. It's like where
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: I've come, where I've come from. I can't really say
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: that I really, you know, understand something he's talking about.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: But it's okay. I'm here to god. When I heard
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: you fuck with NBA with your boy to your boyfar
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: that one, I ain't gonna lie, bro, that shocked me. No.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: I mean it's not like like it's one of those
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: things that I'm listening to on a constant basis. But
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: his music definitely gets me me hype. That's what's something.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: I remember what he was listening to because we had
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: a whole argument last week about NAS and I just
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: refused to believe that he had one of my playing
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: your locker room. But I was getting ready for a game. Respectfully.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: He was a great teammate, you know, who you put
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: me on though, okay, which helped me. You know, ladies
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: out there, Eric Bellinger, come on man, yeah yeah that's
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: a good one. I ain't knock us. We be added
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: about music. That's a good one. Yeah. So I didn't
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: know nothing about it. He was like, Yo, you got
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: this one in head, played this for you? So who
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: do you he put you on? Eric B? But who
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: who you fu with on R and B side? Though?
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Did he the R and B guru? Uh? Debatable? I
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: mean I'm very I like, uh genuine, but see but
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: you gotta understand, like, so I'm mixed. I'm mixed, right, okay,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: So like that that side that you know what I mean,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: that side where you're talking about like like someone had
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: a cookout, Like I ain't really got too many of those,
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: I respect. I got the flow, you know what I mean?
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: So I'm still being put on too, you know what
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: I'm Okay, I gonna sit up here and lie to
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: you and make up something that I never want to
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: be you. I got the girl. What's what's y'all doing? Utah? Though?
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Like off the court, what did y'all do? Like for
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: they wouldn't playing? It was actually cool because it actually
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: gave me like time to just not feel like, you know,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: you're in the city where there's do you like, I
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: gotta be doing something like the views. It was cool,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: there was there's good people out there. But I was
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: never in a rush to like try and go meet
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: up at dinner or I just it was just slow paced.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: So it was more or less just chill. I mean
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: there was like rooftops that you know had, I mean
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: simple stuff, nothing that you you know, No, I was
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: just wondering. I ain't never kicked in Utah, so I
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: always yeah, yeah, I mean there's park City is when
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: there's sundance out there. There's there's some good times to
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: remind you, Iowa no dispectful. We just talking about recruiting
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: that I I was flat so like you, I had
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: like mountains and I'm talking about the vibe, vibe like
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: because drinking wasn't really so now you and Philly. You
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, how is it going outside? And
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: Philly like, how's that can Rodder? You know what I'm saying.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: You're in the locker room with the homies and you're
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: stepping out as this before we go down after a game.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: What is the what are the fans because I've been
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: to Philly and they getting their ass kicked boom brutal
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: let me talking like yeah, like I remember, like you
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: might have to pull the clip on this one. But
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: we played Denver and it was like Joel's first match
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: up against your kitchen. They was going like they was
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: necking MVP right and he kicked it to me in
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: the corner and we was down three. Jamikah Green blocks
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: my three. I get the rebound back. We're still down three.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: There's like three seconds left, but I had like a
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: I gotta just score quick, you know what I mean.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: I just got my ship blocked, so i'd rather than
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: kicking it out the tyres, actually I shoot a floater.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Time ends we lose. This is like doctors like what
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: the man. I'm walking off the court, They're like, you
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: fucking suck of that song. I'm like, damn. So I'm
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: driving driving up, you know, because there's like a ramp
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: to like get out and then so I'll never forget this,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: like people know, like your car after out there, like
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: I don't even know why we signed your batucking like no,
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: it's it was. It's crazy, but I can appreciate it
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: because they actually care, you know what I mean, where
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: it's like I wouldn't want to go to a place
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: where it's just like you know what I mean, where
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: I have to stay in field like every night, like
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: you see people in there who are like it's a
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: blue collar you know city where it's like I'm an electrician.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: I make eighty K year if I'm going to a game,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, like I put a lot of my
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: hard earned money, and it's like I want to see
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: you play your best, you know what I mean. I
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: can appreciate that, and it definitely makes you want to
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: be prepared when you get out there, like you ain't
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: going out there like I don't know if I got
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: it tonight, not at home. At least you ain't the
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Philly fans stretchers, the motherfucker's blue Santa Claus I speak.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I'm I'm saved g because
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: obviously the professionally he's a Sixers organization players right now.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: But Eagles fans, y'all fucking sucked. They are probably the
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: worst fan base. I speak for me, I know he
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: going to the crib. Oh, I'm happy they flew where
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: they flew to right back in that cage the Eagles.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: What I'm hurts he's the guy. I respect that a lot.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: He cold, but the Eagles niggas. They don't get no
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: player around here. But like you said, how was it once?
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: You know, I say what you deal with Utah? Now
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: you were Philly A little bit different of a vibe
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: stepping out, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I VP
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: candidates and your team. I'm sure going out was probably
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: a little bit more lit there it was in Utah,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: I would imagine. Yeah, I mean we have a good
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: time as a team. You know, obviously New York's made
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: up the street if anything, but Philly is uh. They
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: definitely show love and we definitely have people on the
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: team that you know, you know how to have a
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: good time, that's for sure. Nothing wrong with that. Absolutely.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: You know, you gotta kick back, relaxing, enjoy yourself every
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: once in a while. You can't be always up tight.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm fucking oh oh you was here with
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: team You're a nasty nigga. J Well, the time I
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: got talking about what was you outside here? I know
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: you was here for a year, but it was revel
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Oh wow about yeah, what was uh they had with
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: like under the bridge catileg wrench Ye, Jeffery, have you
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: taken off too near? Oh yeah, yeah, that's a good time.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: I seen him in here, it'd be like it's row
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: Hill man, it'd be a lot of mixed, mixed motherfuckers
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: experience in any sometimes he's crazy, crazy crazy. I'm just
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: saying there was like, okay, this motherfuck he didn't take
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: you to the trench like it was it was it
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: was and though yeah, tremors and all that ship was gone.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah you went in there, you probably he was probably
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: in that motherfucker jumping with arms in the area. That's
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: what you think crazy. Don't let him patient with you now.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: But he didn't take you know where where it was
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: really like happening. Yeah, you ain't going a couple blocks
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: away for long. I've been what's the place across the
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: street that longs you went to the icon? Yeah, I'm
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: custu man. Okay, lets the boat, baby, Okay, y'all retarded
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: being so much trouble man. I'm just like, what's the
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: difference between your team this year and last year? Like,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like I got I was I
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: did like some radio showing on that text that yeah,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: you're like hilarious, but it was like the way I
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: said it was like you have a roster, like when
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: someone takes like a max contract, if like he was
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: beneficial for us, like get in there and passed, like
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So like when I'm when
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: I signed to come there, you know, I'm thinking like, oh,
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: this is perfect, like another big guard that can get
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: into lane and loves to pass, Like how many more
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: open shots am I gonna get? And then when you
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: decide like like so the team doesn't get anything from that,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: I'm not playing, Like so now you gotta start from
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: like minus thirty three million, like that's tough, and everybody
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: knows like he wasn't just getting traded head up, you
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: know what I mean. So now when you thinking about
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: stuff you can't control you out there like damn, like
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: am I playing too well? Like am I going to
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: get attached on to him to get these as? Then
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: you twitter the worst thing because you know you're going
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: to Sacramento? Are you going to Detroit? Are you going
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: to you know what I mean? You like, dang, I
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: just got here, like like I'm just getting acclimated and
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: then when you trade for someone you know as dynamic
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: and prolific as James Harden, I mean, you gotta like
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: change the way you do things because like he has
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: to fit you know what you're doing. So we didn't
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: have enough time to really get that rolling. I think
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: this year we've had time him to like build chemistry
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: and see what we like and what we can be
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: better at. And it obviously took us a little bit,
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: but I think you could when you'll watch, you could
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: see glimpses of like, oh damn, like they for real.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: And then there's other times where you're like, all right,
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: they still got they still got some ship to figure
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: out before they are are really good to you. Bro
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: ye got hurt oh Man twenty five in the first half.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: I think that little injury kind of setting back a
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, I mean I think when you play
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: with and you have that much athleticism, when you have
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: something like that mentally, I mean you would No, I've
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: never I've done moved fast enough to but yeah, for sure,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: and then you know the adjustment of coming off the bench.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: But now he started, I think he's damaging like twenty eight. Yeah,
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, like I know, y'all went through like that
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: little moment. Oh, ye got hurt the first time we
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: got hurt and it was like damn because James was
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: out too. Yeah James, And was it Joel for a
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: little bit too with his knee or something. Yeah, we were,
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: we was fighting. I remember we was doing Charlotte and
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: lost to them, So that was damn. Shout out to
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Charlotte Hornets. I can't wait till y'all geme, like y'all
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: start to get everybody. Yeah, yeah, how you like playing
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: with my dog? PJ? Shout out to PJ. PJ Tucker Man,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: he's got to be top top three, top top two
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: teammates of all time, like just a if you go
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: on a ward, you want that guy on your team
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: and he won the best dude, one of the best.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: Super shout out to PJ man. You already know super
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: cool you Yeah, Like he's like the prototype of your game.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: Like when you look at a player, you'd be like, Okay,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: can he be PJ Tucker? Yeah, And that's what you're
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: probably not for sure. Well before that, it was like
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: Jared Dudley, Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, he
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: had a long PJ play. What's his like eight, it
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: was like sixteen sevent. Yeah, now you're doing it right.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: And that's the far thing, you say, like to see
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: somebody create an avenue and see somebody flourishing. It's just
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: like I can keep doing this another ten years because
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: what I do is still important, right. No, I think
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: the coolest part is like I think as an og
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: like he sees people are coming up in his shoes
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: and the like, you know kind of school you to
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: the game. And I know this is year seven for me,
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: but I still have a lot to learn in the fact,
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: you know, he's won a championship, he's been to the
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: Mountain tips, so you know, telling me on how to
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: prepare for certain games or what to do leading up
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: to the playoffs. He's huge. He's a huge contributor on
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: our team. So pause, I'm about to go. I was
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: about to be like, see you will of to day.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know what we're immature over here. We're not
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: gonna go about like you gotta be his teammate to
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: realize how many fucking shoes. No, even then, you have no,
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: you have no like here I thought it was bad.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: Like so he has his locker in the pax facility,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: and then he has like a whole area gotta be
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: like ten by ten with like shoes like on shoes
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: like this, but a whole lockers feel. Then you got
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: the locker room at the arena that got like a
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: whole other locker with just like the boxes of like
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: some more shoes. And then he got like a whole
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: like thinking about them laundry buckets he got them and
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: just shoes like whatever. And then there's the back equipment room.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: It's crazy. People have told me he has like a house.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: Whenever you bring it up to him, he'd be like,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: I'm been there, it's crazy. He'd be like these ones.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: I got these ones like twelve years ago. I might
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: wear it every night. I'm gonna wear He switched his
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: shoes like four or five times. He has like two,
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: you know the sixteen shoes back. He got like two
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: of those on the road. He don't play. You gotta
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: like be his teammate, realize that shit. Yeah, they didn't
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: explain it to people. They people be looking at me
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: like I'm crazy when I tell the story, like this
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: nigga got shoes and you got kicks. And the crazy
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: part is this dude got kicks and will wear the
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: same shoes the whole year. Oh, I know them saying
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: black kobes he wore was sponsored by Adas. Put black
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: tape over the white. Tell the story reason I got
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: in trouble. Tell us Butler got me in trouble. Damn
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: what shit I was wearing? I was sponsored by Adidas,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: and I put on some kobes, put tape all around them,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: black it out. So and we're the same ones all
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: year hot? How how you do? I don't know, man,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: probably like every three games. But you know I got
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: more weight, you know what I mean. It's some black
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: me forces tray on the tire. Come on, you already
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: wearing the low cut socks, the no show socks. So
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: you try to get him in the black mins looks.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: I can't read. I can't. You'll never wear those shows,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: act because I get it. Tell us somebody black man
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: is crazy. I'm just saying, if somebody's wearing some low
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: top air forces, I am not going near them. They're
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: ready to rumble, you know what I mean. And that's
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: like your boys you're talking about. Hoop and air Max
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: nineties was insane. I don't know. Anless made it so
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: much but I respect I respect it. But yeah, he
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: told me because he got beat by the cops. Yeah,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: so it's like it's the only shoe that felt good
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: on his ankle, you know, yeah, crazy ankle was crazy.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's about that. Damn. I mean, I guess
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: I'll walk that back. But I just thought he would
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: just own that, like the no I used to hooping
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: like Katie's Kobies, And he was like, man, he's the
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: only shoes my ankle could fit in. N if you
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: seen walk towards you with a max, that's damn like
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: the Black Forces, he gonna ask for a change. You're
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: trying to up the blakey on you. But either way,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: you don't want the answer to what he about to
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: ask you, what shoes do you hooping? Know me, we're
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: working at the sketchule. We're gonna get after this podcast.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: You see right now hooping the honestes last year, I
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: hooping some pgs. I usually just find I have Nike
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: has like four or five shoes. I find one that fits,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: and I'll get him in all the color of the
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: jersey and then that's it. You're rocking the b shoes.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: He ain't plugging with the US. I don't do the
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: a's Like he said the same shoe for three years,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: that you can't really rock a big man shoe because
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: them look like school busters. And I love and I
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: love my dog Joel, but yeah, some shoes are respect it.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: But that's how I felt about you'all a couple of
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: years ago, y'all trying to bring the ewings back. Y'all
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: was on the fucking pocket. I hated that notion. When
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: I see everybody words a bunch of you, Jeff, you
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: got hit though, so I'm gonna let you out a
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: bunch of every he slept on. He was't bad man,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: stop it. What's better? Barkley's Barkley talk about it easily?
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: Who even as a big man who got a cold
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: shoe like always personally, canna think of that's cold at
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: that time period that you would have warred with Shot.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: I can't think of no other bit. I'm talking about
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: Senders though, Blue was crazy Mexic Seations, one of the
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: fire shoes ever. And Barkley's like right below Pindy as
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: far as like signature wise, niggas don't talk about it.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: Barkley had that fire. Yeah, but damn not not the
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: Joel said, you got hardened too. He ain't gon swing
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: the Mate show love man, he got some cold shoes. Yeah,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: you gotta switch pre fifteen sixteen. He's fourteen. Damn, that's
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: how he'd be getting on bron Semples. You gotta take
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: some of his You got it you cold? That was
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: a crazy This guy's the worst. You get immature, Nah
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: what you usually leave them? And he's still here. I
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: mean he got him outside his lock. I'm applying. Okay,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: let me slide. I ain't even wearing fourteen, but I
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: got a couple of the pe Kobe Jeffer west Side
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: Nigga through. I appreciate he's throwing them out, man, go ahead, slide.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: All right. Now, we're about to put you on the clock.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: You know s. We're gonna ask you a couple of questions.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: You don't gotta spit too long. I don't know. I'm
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: saying this tells how you feel. We're gonna do a
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: top five first off, we're gonna talk start off with
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: top five your favorite players, oh of all time? Yeah,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: you ain't gotta put him in order, but what are
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: you fucking with? I definitely gotta go with Michael Jordans.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: That's your top absolutely I respect Yeah. Uh, Kobe Braun
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: Uh since me in Indiana and Larry Bird. Oh, you
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: don't gotta do that. I'm at four right and uh Curry,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry Katie. Katie would be in there if I
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: didn't have Larry burning there. But I grew up in Boston,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: so damn you had thirty. He drafted me to Indiana,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: so you know he got a special places. Yeah, I
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: respect that. Like, what do you what are you frustrated about?
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: You just grunted puffing over there needs some extra oxygen.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: Come on, go ahead. He don't respect any other players.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: You don't like the pacers. He's a Larry Bird. Yes,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: it's time to put we can't record on Sundays on
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: the board greatly be to be depleted. All right. So
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: that's your top five for players, all right? And I
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  Speaker 1: got top five cities. What's your top five cities? You
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: don't been around the NBA? Where's your top five places
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  Speaker 1: to go out at night? No? I know how to
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  Speaker 1: road trips will, but ain't got getting into the tail.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying. Toronto is one facts,
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  Speaker 1: Miami is two facts. Uh, just this don't go on anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: These three off New York, LA, Phoenix. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he got a nice top. So I'm gonna throw Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: in there from me. Yeah, product placement. Yeah. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: been able to really, you know, experience Atlanta, you know, thoroughly,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, we've either been on the back to back,
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  Speaker 1: we haven't really had like three four days in Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: but I've heard a great things. Y'all be shitty, we'll
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  Speaker 1: be having no fire as cities and on the back
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  Speaker 1: to back. Hey play in Minnesota, and we used to
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  Speaker 1: leave fucking Atlanta so fast I can imagine, because like
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  Speaker 1: I know, y'all probably can't st talking to too much.
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  Speaker 1: But can y'all take a letter fly like fron the Palm,
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  Speaker 1: Like I know, you travel the same, paying nothing when
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  Speaker 1: you ride free like that, you know, pay for a
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  Speaker 1: charter when you already got a charter. No way to
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  Speaker 1: make no sense. But there are some people who do
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  Speaker 1: shout they checked different. We don't know who that is.
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  Speaker 1: Check different, all right, So you know what I say.
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  Speaker 1: So we ain't gonna talk about what I'm saying in
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: the off season, but you know we're coming to mind
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  Speaker 1: as far as what you might do, what you think
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  Speaker 1: about doing it. You can moving on this too. How
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  Speaker 1: is it when you like thinking like all right, cool,
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  Speaker 1: I might want to fuck with this, or I'm looking
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: throughout the season like this look cool, like I wonder
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  Speaker 1: how I feel with this? Now it's more open. You
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: got boys, like you said back then you had to
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  Speaker 1: just deal whatever the fun they said. Now you'll can
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: get on the Twitter, but like fuck with this or
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: he going crazy over here? Is that looked upon of
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  Speaker 1: your decision where you're kind of thinking about what you
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  Speaker 1: might do, or just like I'm just gonna keep in
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  Speaker 1: the back of my head just in case it becomes
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  Speaker 1: relevant because a lot of fans on nowhere is talkers
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: all the time. Obviously no tampering and ship, but you
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: know your agents do that shit for you, Like we're
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: joining teams, not even join the team, Like you know,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be mad at this, like nothing to a criminate,
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  Speaker 1: but just like look at situations like that might be
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  Speaker 1: cool type shit. But yeah, yeah, I mean I think
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  Speaker 1: everybody had human Yeah, I mean like you always got
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: your own opinion. I mean, for the polically correct crowd,
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: I think you should not tweet that I'll keep the
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: thoughts to yourself. Yeah, don't be stupid. Yeah, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think they're guys talk over the summer, what they
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: what they want to do. I'm sure there's some recruiting
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  Speaker 1: going on right now. We'll just have to wait and
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: see what, you know, two years from now happens. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there'll be some crazy stuff going on. I
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: just hate the bullshit they'd be like, look, y'all, just
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: because athletes make good money compared to most people, it's
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: still a job. If I'm about to transfer a job.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: Who over there, what's got going on? What's your PTO? Like,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: y'all boss school, they fucking with you. Everybody does that.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: It's just now that's just like, hey, we can do
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: this too. Quit trying to put us in the box
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  Speaker 1: like we weird, Like this is literally our job. Facts.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: I see, I got a question for you know what
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, since as far as his your directory wise,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think is the next step of his game?
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  Speaker 1: But you see going crazy for him, don't people? Boys? Yeah,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: he never gonna do I under ten? How mean being
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: on the other side of the spectrum now, like being
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: a player now working in the office. G is one
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: of those guys that you you spot out like, man,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: he can help our team be a better player, a
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  Speaker 1: better team, a better ball club because he does the
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: little things. Obviously you can shoot the ball, so he
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: knows what he has to do. You just gotta perfect
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: those I always tell people, do what you do best.
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  Speaker 1: Don't start trying to do shit like trying to dunk
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: on niggas. Shit. But you keep hitting up quarter three,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: you're gonna walk away. Yeah, well will pay man, that's
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: hard man, get to Brits boring all to a go off.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of people say, like I mean, being
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: the start. Obviously it is a cool thing. But if you,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: like you said, your situation, you came in, regrind and
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: rebuilt yourself to the point to where now you're gonna
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: have to you know what I'm saying, longevity the league.
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  Speaker 1: You're doing everything you want to do the right way
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: and as far as fun to me, because a lot
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: of people be in situations they still like you said,
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  Speaker 1: you're a seven, shit, you're eight. They might have to
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: figure some shit out in the whole situation. Now you're
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: in a situation your team contended. It's lit And before
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: we get out of here, how is it playing for Doc?
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  Speaker 1: I always wonder how they's playing for Doc Rivers. Yeah, nah,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: Doc is you know, he's a motivator man. I mean, obviously,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: he's one of the best coaches to ever you know, coach,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: and he does a great job of just motivating this group.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: And he's he's had so much experience, so he's pretty
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: much seen everything you know in the game. So the
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: fact that you know, I've been able to play unto
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: him for two years has been a super great experience
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: for me and it's allowed me to grow as a player.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: But I think the coolest part is he actually is
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: still like confidence where some coaches wouldn't do that. He's
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: that's important and it don't matter about excess and those
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: you gonna go out there and motivated like he's he
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: got some of the best pregame, halftime post games, which
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: is where you're like, all right, like I run through
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: a wall for this dude. He used to be in
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: my heads. I'll still hate on Doc Rivers a little bit,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: but it's only because I hate that Boston team won championship.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: It's really not on Doc. It's just I hate that
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: team as a whole, Like I love Rondol's one of
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: my favorite players, but that team I hate that. Yeah.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: KG was cold, right, Alan was cold with part persons
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: cold but together. I hated them. I hated them and
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: I hate when I'll be hearing them talking to I'm like, man,
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: all right, y'all gotta chip man, but y'all gotta input
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: on everything. It's always always Celtic with the input on
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: everything on social media. I'm like, yo, y'all can cut
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: that shit out, man, because that okay, be here. I
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: can't hit on Doc Rivers where I gotta let a slot.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, you just spoke highly. I ain't talking about Doc.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, ok I gotta let the hate go.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: I'm here you grow baby whatever you won't. But just
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: know this is a fucking current player. He's saying great
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: things about Doc. With that, that means I gotta keep
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: the smugg going by myself. Then fuck it, I'll take
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: it off. But hey, we're about to get out of here.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: G appreciate you, my boy man. Check my boy out.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: You know where the fund him at the Philadelphia Players
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: on from top t in the corner. Find him in
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: the corner shout out to the minivan