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INTERVIEW: AJ Dybantsa Talks 2026 NBA Draft Early Career, Leaving College Basketball, Not Having An Agent, Media Criticism, Mentors & Models + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Hold up every day up week ago, click your ass
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  Speaker 1: up the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: You don't finish for y'all done morning. Everybody's DJ Envy
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  Speaker 2: just hilarious. Charlamagne the God, we are the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed
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  Speaker 2: it will be going number one in tonight's draft picking
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  Speaker 2: the nbag. Now we're putting the energy out there. He's
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  Speaker 2: going number one. Ladies and gentlemen, A j De Bonsa,
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  Speaker 2: Did I say it right?
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  Speaker 3: Hey?
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  Speaker 2: Welcome brother? How you feeling good?
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  Speaker 3: Bless?
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  Speaker 4: I can tell somebody don't like to be up this early.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be working at this early. I'm straight. How are you?
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  Speaker 5: Man?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good. I'm mad in New York for by the Week.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm ready for drafting it now.
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  Speaker 2: You're nineteen years old, you're six', nine you're From, Brockton.
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  Speaker 2: Massachusetts uh and you played FOR bya but THE Byu.
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  Speaker 2: COUGARS a lot of people WHAT i told him you
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  Speaker 2: were coming on the, show they were, like you, know at,
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  Speaker 2: first they didn't know that you were actually going to
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  Speaker 2: go to the league because you're making so much money
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  Speaker 2: seven million plus to play. College was there ever an
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  Speaker 2: option to, saying you know, what maybe not go to the.
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  Speaker 2: League maybe stay in.
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  Speaker 3: College my mom wanted me to. Graduate want you want to? Stay,
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  Speaker 3: yeah BUT i was, Like i'll graduate. Online what is
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  Speaker 3: what is the?
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  Speaker 1: DESIRE i, mean of, course you, KNOW i know that's
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  Speaker 1: every basketball player the dream to go to THE. Nba
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  Speaker 1: but when you are making money in, college what is
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  Speaker 1: the what makes you want to.
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  Speaker 3: Just go to the. LEAGUE i, mean there's always a,
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  Speaker 3: dream lifelong dream when to go play against your, best
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  Speaker 3: compete against the, best win, championships and you're making my
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  Speaker 3: money in THE nba, Too so it's a love.
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  Speaker 1: PLUS i see that you've been labeled the next big
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  Speaker 1: thing since you were like a Teaming, like how do
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  Speaker 1: you make sure you're chasing greatness and not just chasing
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  Speaker 1: expectations that people have?
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  Speaker 3: YOU i MEAN i had the same goals SINCE i
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  Speaker 3: was about thirteen WHEN i only want to take it.
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  Speaker 3: SERIOUS i MEAN i started taking it serious AROUND covid,
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  Speaker 3: time really working, out AND i still have the same
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  Speaker 3: goals and you, know having accomlished those goals yet so
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  Speaker 3: still striving to or.
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  Speaker 2: Something what made you take it? Serious i'm?
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  Speaker 5: Sorry what's your what's your headspace right? Now do you
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  Speaker 5: feel pressured or.
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  Speaker 3: Confident no, confident a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Confidence say that you haven't worked out for ANY nba
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  Speaker 1: team before the draft, Though like.
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  Speaker 4: Like like why?
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  Speaker 2: Not he said he just visited the.
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  Speaker 3: Cities, YEAH i mean it's kind of like a college.
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  Speaker 3: VISIT i mean you just visit the. City they take
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  Speaker 3: your own of, facility meet all the, coaches all the staff,
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  Speaker 3: members nutrition and. EVERYTHING i, mean you can choose work
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  Speaker 3: if you want.
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  Speaker 2: To but you feel like you didn't need to work.
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  Speaker 2: Out you felt like you didn't need to work.
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  Speaker 3: OUT i, mean, like just make a fair to. Everybody
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  Speaker 3: they don't work out for multiple. Teams SO i was,
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  Speaker 3: like you, know just take me around the city.
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  Speaker 1: Because BECAUSE i read also too that The wizards was
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  Speaker 1: saying that they might Select Darreon peterson is the number
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  Speaker 1: one pick, Nine i'm, like if you think that's because
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  Speaker 1: you didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Work out OR i, mean we'll see on draft.
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  Speaker 2: Night.
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  Speaker 3: YEAH i mean if it cost, me then it cost,
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  Speaker 3: Me BUT i don't think it.
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  Speaker 2: Will do you have an agent or you don't have an.
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  Speaker 2: AGENT i don't have an, agent so your your family's
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  Speaker 2: your agents pretty.
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  Speaker 3: MUCH i don't have an, Agent so what.
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  Speaker 2: Made you not go with the, agent because everybody usually
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  Speaker 2: goes with the. Agent i'm not everybody manage.
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  Speaker 1: It does it motivate you to potentially be the future
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  Speaker 1: number one? Pick how do you feel like it puts
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  Speaker 1: a targget on your?
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  Speaker 3: BACK i mean a lot to. Both i'm in and
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  Speaker 3: it was motivation towards the towards the. Season So i'm
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  Speaker 3: not just you, know playing for. NOTHING i want to
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  Speaker 3: be a number one. Pick there was a lifelong. Joy
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  Speaker 3: i'm in number one SINCE i was like, thirteen SO
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  Speaker 3: i don't playing on dropping in the. Draft but it's also.
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  Speaker 3: Expectation but it's gonna be a target in back.
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  Speaker 1: REGARDLESS i like that you said you you're not like.
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  Speaker 1: EVERYBODY i liked that level of. Confidence but what makes
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  Speaker 1: you different on the cour in?
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  Speaker 3: General? BOTH i mean on the, CORE i Think i'm pretty,
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  Speaker 3: Versatile Like i'm six, nine could do it, though play
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  Speaker 3: one through. FIVE i Think i'm kind of like the
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  Speaker 3: modern prototype for THE nba, game just being, long, athletic can,
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  Speaker 3: head looking past it and off the. COURT i, Mean
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  Speaker 3: i'm just. Me i'm not faking it for.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody what got you? Serious you said IN covid you
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  Speaker 2: got serious about? Basketball was? Basketball your number one? Sport
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  Speaker 2: and what made you get serious DURING?
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  Speaker 3: COVID i MEAN i was playing basketball for, fun BUT
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  Speaker 3: i didn't really care about the wins and losses through
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  Speaker 3: like you, know middle school and. EVERYTHING i, mean everybody
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  Speaker 3: was just inside the house playing video, games AND i
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  Speaker 3: just was, LIKE i want to go work, out like
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  Speaker 3: and THEN i grew five inches in the, summer so that.
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  Speaker 2: Helped that helped a little bit. Helped was that your
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  Speaker 2: only sport that you played? Basketball which you?
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  Speaker 3: SPORTS i played, Football BUT i got you talk for,
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  Speaker 3: that SO i want TO i don't want to come
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  Speaker 3: after my.
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  Speaker 4: Knees is it a friendly competition between you And?
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  Speaker 1: God like Like Theron peter sigas he LIKE i, said
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  Speaker 1: they're saying he might go number one to the with,
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  Speaker 1: it but he also says he.
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  Speaker 3: Can he feels like he can be number. ONE i,
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  Speaker 3: mean as he. SHOULD i, mean he puts in a
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  Speaker 3: lot of. Work we've been playing against each other since
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  Speaker 3: who knows, what like sixteen years. OLD i, mean so
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  Speaker 3: he should have the type of. CONFIDENCE i mean he
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  Speaker 3: won both games about the last three games he. PLAYED
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  Speaker 3: i mean he, won BUT i, mean just if y'all
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  Speaker 3: just one on one in the gym. Though, yeah, yeah
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  Speaker 3: you went on one in the. Gym, okay that's WHAT i.
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  Speaker 5: Mean maybe they've compared you To Paul george when he
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  Speaker 5: was twenty years, old you see.
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  Speaker 3: Similarly, YEAH i like The Paul george. Count, yeah he
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  Speaker 3: was super athletic when he's in The indianda, days just
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  Speaker 3: getting to his spots against to his, middies like a dynamic.
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  Speaker 3: Score SO i actually do like that. Count are they.
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  Speaker 4: Teaching uh players like?
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  Speaker 1: Yourself are they preparing y'all for like the business side of,
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  Speaker 1: things especially with y'all making so much money in?
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  Speaker 3: COLLEGE i, mean, yeah there's like different classes you can
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  Speaker 3: take on stuff like. THAT i think high school are
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  Speaker 3: starting to like incorporate there now because you can be
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  Speaker 3: like fourteen years old making. Money SO i think it
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  Speaker 3: was kind of.
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  Speaker 4: Needed how do you keep your hunger when you got
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  Speaker 4: all that money in your?
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  Speaker 3: POCKET i, MEAN i accomplished WHAT i want to accomplish.
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  Speaker 3: IT i, mean like throughout high, SCHOOL i MEAN i
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  Speaker 3: always wanted to be in McDonald's america and stuff like,
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  Speaker 3: that SO i had to get. There WHEN i was in,
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  Speaker 3: COLLEGE i wanted to make it to the. Tournament and
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  Speaker 3: then NOW i want to be. Numb one pick and
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  Speaker 3: then it's gonna be more goals on. Morgo So i'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna stay.
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  Speaker 1: Motivated have you learned to say no the opportunities because you,
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  Speaker 1: know every bag nothing?
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  Speaker 3: Right, YEAH i Mean i'm probably the. Most i'm not
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  Speaker 3: gonna say the, most but a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 3: of brand news coming at. Me only chose, Three SO
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  Speaker 3: i mean we just choosing the right, money not. Everybody
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  Speaker 3: and what brands are you working?
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  Speaker 2: Now of?
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  Speaker 3: COURSE i see The RedBull had on Red, Bull nike
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  Speaker 3: and fanatics and.
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  Speaker 2: Fanatics.
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  Speaker 5: Ye are there any ANY nba players that you study for?
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  Speaker 4: Improvement?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah so my fair player Is Kevin. Durant BUT i
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  Speaker 3: watched a lot Of, Shaye Anthony, Edwards, Luca tracey, McGrady Paul,
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  Speaker 3: George let's goes. ON i watch a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Films do you have any mentors in the?
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  Speaker 3: League Mentors Kevin Duran Probably Kevin. Durant, yeah what do
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  Speaker 3: you like about his? Game you're just super. Simple do
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  Speaker 3: like seven feet and you can just do. Whatever he
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  Speaker 3: gets to a spots and like two. Drobbls, yeah that's
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  Speaker 3: so easy to. DO i mean you asked the, question he,
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  Speaker 3: asked what DO i like about? It who keeps you? Grounded?
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  Speaker 1: Man when everybody's like telling you how great you? Are
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  Speaker 1: when you know you're projected to be number, one you're
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  Speaker 1: making all this? Money, like who keeps you? Grounded my
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  Speaker 1: daddy behind?
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  Speaker 3: ME i mean it's kind of hard for me to
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  Speaker 3: like get like too out of myself because he's always
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  Speaker 3: nippicking that. Stuff so what do you call nip? PICKY i, mean,
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  Speaker 3: LIKE i have forty three, points you probably then that's
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  Speaker 3: a good. Game he was, Like, nah you only have
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  Speaker 3: like sex. REBOUNDS i can't never impress The african father, man,
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  Speaker 3: Right so what? What? What you?
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  Speaker 2: Know what was it when you decided to go to
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  Speaker 2: the league and your, Mother i'm sure wanted you to
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  Speaker 2: get your? Degree how difficult was? That how was that
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  Speaker 2: kind conversation or does she?
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  Speaker 3: Understand, no she, understood AND i told her That i'll graduate,
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  Speaker 3: online So i'll graduate with the next like four. Years
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  Speaker 3: so that's kind of how she, heard and she let me.
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  Speaker 2: Go, now when you make it to the, league you're,
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  Speaker 2: nineteen so you'll be. Twenty is your mom gonna let
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  Speaker 2: you live on your? Own or what a thing we all?
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  Speaker 3: Going my mom's actually staying you tall my sisters about
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  Speaker 3: the finish school out. There she's a, senior she played,
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  Speaker 3: volleyball so she's gonna stat there for a.
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  Speaker 1: Year, yeah what's something the average person doesn't understand about
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  Speaker 1: being who you are right? Now like the top rank
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  Speaker 1: prospect in this in this social, MEDIA.
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  Speaker 3: I, mean they probably just think you got everything easy
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  Speaker 3: because like you've just seen a, Lot BUT i mean
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  Speaker 3: it's a lot of, pain a lot of hours that
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  Speaker 3: just go unsee a lot of people to see like
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  Speaker 3: The glinton and glamor there's not even too many people
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  Speaker 3: you can talk to about the current. Position you, YEAH i.
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  Speaker 3: Can you got to be like people in my, position
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  Speaker 3: which are guys like THE nba or you, know guys
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  Speaker 3: in this pre draft. Process have any of them reached
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  Speaker 3: out like like the people the OG's basically, YEAH i
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  Speaker 3: MEAN i have a lot OF nba mentors LIKE i
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  Speaker 3: mean And Tatum, Brown paulow or even like older Guys Jamal,
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  Speaker 3: crawford like the guys that's been, there top high school
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  Speaker 3: guys to college guys to be in like top five.
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  Speaker 3: Picks the kind of showed me the. Ways what did
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  Speaker 3: they tell? You and you only go through this? One
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  Speaker 3: so try to enjoy the. Process i'm just gonna be a,
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  Speaker 3: lot but just try to enjoy it all you enjoying,
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  Speaker 3: IT i mean a little, bit a little.
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  Speaker 2: Bit how do you keep the wolves? Away because you
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  Speaker 2: know tonight is draft, night there's gonna be a million
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  Speaker 2: and one women out there weight and there's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a million one. Guys how do you keep the wolves?
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  Speaker 2: Way to make sure that you stay focused on?
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  Speaker 3: Mommy just locking especially not like. THIS i, mean it's
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  Speaker 3: probably gonna be a lot going, on but just stay
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  Speaker 3: close to the people you, know get your. Security you'll
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  Speaker 3: be allowed there through this whole?
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  Speaker 5: Process right was louder the criticism or the?
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  Speaker 3: Praise it's kind of even right. NOW i, mean you
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  Speaker 3: had a lot of praise to social media that they're
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  Speaker 3: all praising, You but then you can on social media
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  Speaker 3: and they're all criticizing you for a little thing you.
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  Speaker 3: Do SO i think it's a little bit of little,
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  Speaker 3: bit but you don't let that get to. You. Well,
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  Speaker 3: CRITICISM i, mean you need, criticism but like, Hatred, nah
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  Speaker 3: you can hit all you, want But i'm not Feel
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  Speaker 3: i'm not.
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  Speaker 1: Listening how do you tell the difference? Now because, most,
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  Speaker 1: honestly most criticism is actually just.
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  Speaker 3: Hate, yeah most criticisms. Hate BUT i CAN i know
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  Speaker 3: WHAT i need to do. BETTER i can myself. Accountable
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  Speaker 3: SO i mean when it's something that's Like, okay he
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  Speaker 3: needs to do this on the court or you gotta
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  Speaker 3: do this, BACK i can kind of figure out like,
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  Speaker 3: okay like, right but it's just like pure, hatred like you,
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  Speaker 3: suck Like i'm. Not and you said you only you're
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  Speaker 3: you said you're enjoying the process just a little. Bit,
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  Speaker 3: yeah well just a little. BIT i mean it's a,
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  Speaker 3: lot but it's a. Lot BUT i Mean i'm trying.
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  Speaker 4: To like media, commitments getting up everything.
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  Speaker 1: Everything, yeah, yeah when you're gonna tell everybody back, off,
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  Speaker 1: man they're already.
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  Speaker 3: Off don't Understand i'm talking.
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  Speaker 4: About in, general like back, off give me a breather
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  Speaker 4: of let me just sit.
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  Speaker 3: Down after the, draft after the. Draft, okay you know.
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  Speaker 2: It's, crazy, right if you go to The Washington, wizards
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  Speaker 2: you check that team is competitive, already, right you get,
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  Speaker 2: trade you Get. Anthony but then if you go To,
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  Speaker 2: utah that's like. Home so it's either either way you,
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  Speaker 2: go it's a win win win for.
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  Speaker 3: You, yeah you can say.
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  Speaker 2: That is there a team that you would, prefer of, Course,
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  Speaker 2: nah what everyone picks?
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  Speaker 3: Me m.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm can you change the? League it's if you go
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  Speaker 2: to The. Wizards it's like my, knicks, guy have a.
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  Speaker 2: Problem who was your team growing?
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  Speaker 3: Up The. Celtics, YEAH.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't feel to see the next. Win i'm just,
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  Speaker 2: curious how do you.
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  Speaker 3: Feel i'm excitement back to the. LEAGUE i was that game.
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  Speaker 3: FOUR i was that game for is a great. GAME i,
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  Speaker 3: Mean i'm a basketball. Fen at the end of the,
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  Speaker 3: Day i'm nostalg just running. It SO i wasn't like
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  Speaker 3: ruining for the next.
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  Speaker 2: Day he was rooting for The.
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  Speaker 3: Knicks it was a good. Game LIKE i was just
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  Speaker 3: being a bandwagon BECAUSE i was reporting right when og
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  Speaker 3: and we had the. TIPPING i was going crazy at.
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  Speaker 1: Your, age, man nineteen years, old like like, like what's
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  Speaker 1: harder developing your game or protecting your?
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  Speaker 3: Piece protecting my? Piece? Right, YEAH i Mean i'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: develop my. Game i'm being alive almost every single with.
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  Speaker 3: THAT i take some rest, days But i'm in the
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  Speaker 3: live rooms every single. Day SO i mean the improved
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  Speaker 3: might not be rapid Because i'm working out so, much
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  Speaker 3: BUT i MEAN i could see improvements for. Sure is it.
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  Speaker 3: Loud what's like just the world around you right? Now,
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  Speaker 3: yeah that's, Loud BUT i MEAN i got the right.
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  Speaker 5: People and what matters more to you being drafted first
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  Speaker 5: or being drafted to the right.
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  Speaker 3: TEAM i it's a little bit of. Both BUT i,
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  Speaker 3: think like the WAY i, Play i'm super adaptable to
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  Speaker 3: any situation that you, know any TEAM i go, To
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  Speaker 3: i'll Be i'll be able to be the right.
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  Speaker 1: Fit what's the biggest sacrifice you've made that people don't?
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  Speaker 1: See people don't.
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  Speaker 3: SEE i don't. KNOW i mean one of the biggest
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  Speaker 3: sacrificers was just leave my family and going to school In.
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  Speaker 3: California i'm From, boston SO i was three hours. BEHIND
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  Speaker 3: i had a whost. Family that's super grateful for. Them
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  Speaker 3: BUT i, mean like see if stuff like, that like
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  Speaker 3: people just see That i'm out at, school but they
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  Speaker 3: don't realize, that like, Gag i'm moving three hours, behind
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  Speaker 3: six hour, flight can't see my family every. Day so
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  Speaker 3: just a little stuff like, that how'd you? ADJUST i,
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  Speaker 3: mean it was, good kind of got me ready for
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  Speaker 3: college in my. Life but even THOUGH i brought my
• 12:03
  Speaker 3: parents out with me to, college so ACTUALLY i guess
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  Speaker 3: it didn't get me raise so because they're with.
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  Speaker 5: Me so what's been the biggest, distraction if?
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  Speaker 3: ANY i mean just people trying to get to. You
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  Speaker 3: BUT i MEAN i don't really be paying, attention BUT
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  Speaker 3: i mean it's a distraction to some.
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  Speaker 4: People, yeah you think players today are being forced to
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  Speaker 4: grow up too?
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  Speaker 3: Fast, no, ACTUALLY i just got this. QUESTION i don't think.
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  Speaker 3: SO i, mean obviously you have money in your, pocket
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  Speaker 3: so you might be able to take care of family
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  Speaker 3: from a younger. Age BUT i mean you can still
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  Speaker 3: be a. Kid you can still try and joy. This
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  Speaker 3: be a. KID i, MEAN i am you're too tall
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  Speaker 3: to be a. Kid i've seen Some i've seen some
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  Speaker 3: seventh seventh for fifteen year. Olds, yeah what's something with? That?
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  Speaker 1: Man i've seen one dude that's seven five seven. Six
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  Speaker 1: well he's, uh who's he's related to the girls FROM
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  Speaker 1: U c L.
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: A i, think, oh uh Bet, Dylan yeah that's, yeah
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: he's like seven, three he's like Sixty, Jesus, yeah he's.
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: Crazy what do you do against something like?
• 13:03
  Speaker 4: That are you going to the painting in? Somebody seven?
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: SIX i like WHEN i was Watching The Next, player
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: whenever they would go in with beyond just going back out,
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: LIKE i, mean.
• 13:11
  Speaker 3: It's, Tough like his presence is just like Like, Wemby
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: like why are you trying to lay the ball up
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: like he just he's right. THERE i am fIF, like
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: well like twelfth, grade not like eleventh grade doing. THAT
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: i don't even know what's going through. KIDS i wasn't
• 13:25
  Speaker 3: playing against like seven three. Guys do you think about that?
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: Though like how do you how are you going to
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: adjust your game to those type of athletes seventh three?
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: Athletes?
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: Yes because he played to the, rim you play.
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: Them dunk got to go for THE i, mean if
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: you go for a, lab probably a. Block So blacker
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: just gets your.
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: Midy but the league has changed so. Much i'm sure
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: when you pops watching the, league everybody went to the
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: whole right now was the. Thing but now it seems
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: like more and more people are changing and they're shooting.
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: Outside, yeah they're stretching.
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: Out you change your game to.
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: THAT i, MEAN i grew up in this, ere So
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: i've Been i've been playing like that for my whole.
• 13:56
  Speaker 5: Life does all this fame and attention make you second
• 14:01
  Speaker 5: guest or make it hard for you to trust people's
• 14:03
  Speaker 5: intentions around?
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: YOU i mean since the, YOUNGER i wasn't trusted. People
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: SO i was never trusting people, regardless.
• 14:09
  Speaker 5: Not even In boston nor all the white.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: PEOPLE i don't. KNOW i didn't say, that but.
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: Mine, doors what gave you trusted? Shoes so?
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: YO i MEAN i just to see how people. Move
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: AND i have a. Cop my dad was a. Cop
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: SO i THINK i had built in LIKE i can't trust.
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: Nobody you, said you know when you said WHEN covid,
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: hit you started training? Crazy what did your training include
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: with it was just personal. Traders did you go into
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: the park busting busted?
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: That? Now that was my eighth grade. Coach he used
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: to bring me down the high. Schooler SO i was
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: like fourteen thirteen fourteen playing against my nineteen year. Olds
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: it was not physical beating me. Up we was outside
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: there because no gyms was allowed DURING. Covid, YEAH i
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: was just getting beat, up getting on the, floor dapping
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: on the, floor AND i kind of just built my.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: Toughness were you good or or was it with?
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: Nah?
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: NOW i was just like, Talent YEAH i was.
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: Wrong Talents you've seen the, potential but LIKE i didn't
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: Have LIKE i wasn't fluid AND i GOT i went
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: from like five eleven and like six.
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: Three what was the moment that you thought you were
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: gonna make? It was it you growing or did you
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: bust somebody's? Ass finally he was, like OH i.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: COULD i. KNEW i KNEW i was gonna make it
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: ONCE i was an eighth grader and they're, like, yeah
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: you can play a varsity.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: Mmmm and THEN i. Started he started during that, Time,
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: yeah at eighth. Grade, Yeah jesus Was.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah it was getting wild AND i was, like, oh,
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: YEAH i keep doing this OUT i should Be how.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Many fights did you get in being an eighth grade
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: and STARTING vosit BECAUSE i know you had to be feeling.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: Yourself, Bro i've never been in a fight in my.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Life you gotta fight because somebody.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: They were.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: BULLYING i.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: WENT i went to a private school In, Needa. Massachusetts
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: like they we weren't fighting over. There, yeah what was
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: one part of your game that THAT nba scout is
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: still on the?
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Destiny like they listening this morning drafting and, night is,
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: like what's something that you feel like they might be?
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: Overlooked maybe my playmaking and. ABILITY i THINK i like
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: act so much gravity to the point where LIKE i
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: get into the pain AND i can just make easy.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: Reads made my teammates better M.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Hm And Paul george is the only? Person do you
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: model your game After paul George? Is that's something the
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: scouts is, saying, Say, okay who do you model your?
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: GAME i think the most accurate WHEN i got was chasing.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: McGrady that some pressure, there, Now, Yeah, tracy it was
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: nice you used to watch them when he was, young, Though,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: bro how old you think you?
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Young now you had to go Google tracy.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: McGrady who do you think you played like? That? Nobody nobody.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: SEES i think that pretty much gave THE i, Mean
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: i've Heard tace Mcgrad i've heard Jaylen, BROWN i Heard Taller,
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: SHAY i heard Of Taller brunton earlier this. WEEK i
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Heard Paul. GEORGE i pretty much heard all the. Acrones
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: have you spoken To? Tracy? YEAH i have metemore. Time, okay,
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: yeah a Starreaking any good advice he gave, you there's
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: a time you keep going IF i want to get
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: into the gym in the gym, right, well.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: We look forward to seeing you.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: TONIGHT i like the way you answer questions to like very,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: quick to the. Point you know you always say less than.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: NECESSARY i think that's the right.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Way did you learn this? EARLY i MEAN i had
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: a camera front of my. FACES i was, thirteen SO
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: i can't just learn AS i. Went somebody had to tell.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: You it's, like, yo you have a lot of.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Attention don't say the wrong thing to use against.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: You THAT i, MEAN i kind of see people or even,
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: myself they're trying to mix up my. Words so try
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: to say. Quick and then your father.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: Get getting ye answering.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: From the, congo, right, yeah he is my Mama, jamaican
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: SO i have both sea yeah, yeah so you are.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Already definitely can't bring no white girl, home.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Not even think. About he is.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Disciplined he's just like right, now, well, congratulations, congratulations night
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: you go number, one all that.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Stuff APPRECIATE. A. J.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Debonsa DID i, say, right, yeah you? Did, regardless, club good.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Morning hold up.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Every DAY i wake, up pack your ass up the breakfast.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Club you're finished with your dumb h