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Dalton Knecht Reacts to the Rescinded Trade to the Charlotte Hornets · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Dalton. Have to imagine these last couple of days couldn't
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  Speaker 1: be easy for anybody. How have you handled it and
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  Speaker 1: what's kind of what's helped get you through it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a crazy, uh you know time. You know,
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  Speaker 2: not too many of the people done that coming back.
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  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, I just wanted
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  Speaker 2: to hoop. You know. I told that to JJ and
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  Speaker 2: Robb when I got back. Is that was the main thing.
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  Speaker 2: I want to go hoop, like I want to play.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I got in late, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, they said Wednesday was
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  Speaker 2: my return, so I was excited to come back here
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  Speaker 2: and play with my guys.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like yourself out there today. How did you
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  Speaker 1: kind of keep that mental focus and like you said,
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  Speaker 1: kind of focus on the basketball and do it like
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  Speaker 1: you did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I was going to play my game
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  Speaker 2: whenever I returned, So you know, I was going to
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  Speaker 2: go out there, hit some shots and you know, play
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  Speaker 2: some defense with my guys, and you know, go out
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  Speaker 2: there and.
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  Speaker 3: Next cute, Hey, Delton, welcome back. We talked about this,
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  Speaker 3: I think before the Clipper game, just kind of like
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  Speaker 3: the shock from the Luca trade and the just how
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  Speaker 3: wild of a situation that was, Like, can you just
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  Speaker 3: take us a little bit through the process of getting
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  Speaker 3: the call, getting to Charlotte, and then being told that
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  Speaker 3: you were gonna come back. I mean, like what was
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  Speaker 3: that even?
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  Speaker 2: Like, uh, it felt like a movie, you know. After
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  Speaker 2: that game came back that night or not that night.
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  Speaker 2: The next day, I went to go get some shots
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  Speaker 2: up in the gym, twenty three throws in. I usual
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  Speaker 2: always shoot twenty five right before I shoot, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: Rob called me up there and told me the news.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's hard. You know, I got drafted here,
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  Speaker 2: so LA means a lot, so you know, hearing that.
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  Speaker 2: Then I go to Charlotte in the morning with one
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  Speaker 2: of my guys and then you know, get introduced and
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  Speaker 2: started meeting all those people, and then fly out to
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  Speaker 2: Detroit to what was called my debut game to then
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  Speaker 2: now I'm flying back to La. Rob called me and said,
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  Speaker 2: you're coming back, and you know, I was just excited
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  Speaker 2: just to go out there and hoop. No matter where
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  Speaker 2: I was going, I just wanted to go. I told
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  Speaker 2: that to JJ and Rob. You know, I get into business.
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  Speaker 2: So at the end of the day, I told them,
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  Speaker 2: like just let's go play basketball.
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  Speaker 4: What did JJ or Rob say to you once you
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  Speaker 4: got back, or even whether it's on the phone or
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  Speaker 4: getting back to LA. I guess just for your mental state.
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  Speaker 4: I guess emotional state after the I guess it was
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  Speaker 4: forty seventy two hours of I guess the unknown, or
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  Speaker 4: think you're gonna be on Charlotte and having to come back.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we sat down and talked right when I
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  Speaker 2: got back. We had a couple of conversations, and we
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  Speaker 2: ultimately agreed Monday I wouldn't play because I got in
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  Speaker 2: super late from my flight, so we knew Wednesday I
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  Speaker 2: was gonna play, and I was just excited just to
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  Speaker 2: go out there and do what I'd love to do,
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  Speaker 2: is go out and compete and play with my teammates.
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  Speaker 5: Dalton, what's the reception been like from the locker room
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  Speaker 5: and your teammates and just kind of welcoming you back
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  Speaker 5: and obviously kind of knowing you've been going through a
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  Speaker 5: lot the last week or so.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, every single one of them came up and
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  Speaker 2: uh pretty much hugged me and said it was good.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they said, uh, welcome back. And then obviously
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  Speaker 2: tonight they said Uh, it's your debut game again. So
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, I mean, it's just
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  Speaker 2: a business. I get we're rob and JJ are going
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  Speaker 2: so you know, at the end of the day, I
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  Speaker 2: just going out there and doing my job and play basketball,
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  Speaker 2: do what I.
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  Speaker 1: Love to do.
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  Speaker 5: Along the business side of things that the Hornets are
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  Speaker 5: I guess petitioning to try to reverse it again, what
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  Speaker 5: kind of what's your understanding of where those things stand
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  Speaker 5: and how did you become aware of that situation.
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  Speaker 2: I had no clue, to be honest. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just doing what I love to do, going out there
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  Speaker 2: and playing and you know, uh, like I said, whatever
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  Speaker 2: happens happens. I'm just gonna compete hard wherever I go.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, hopefully it's LA So wherever whatever happens,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna go out there. I don't really care
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  Speaker 2: about anything.
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  Speaker 5: I just want to go play and just to follow.
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  Speaker 5: You were returning to a Lakers team that has Luca
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  Speaker 5: Dancic on it. Just what are your thoughts on getting
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  Speaker 5: to play with them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy, you know, the passes that he was
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  Speaker 2: making out there is crazy. You know, they told me
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  Speaker 2: first thing back is no matter what when he has
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  Speaker 2: the ball to be ready to shoot like he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: get it. He's gonna get it to you no matter what.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, seeing that a couple of passes like
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  Speaker 2: a R Braun, he wasn't even looking, so I was
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  Speaker 2: crazy excited. I appreciate it.