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Delon Wright on being named to the Utah Athletics Hall of Fame, His Utes legacy, 10+ year NBA career + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 2: All right, during this upcoming Utah football season, the twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six Hall of Fame class for Utah Athletics will
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  Speaker 2: be honored in week three. That'll be the Utah State Contest.
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  Speaker 2: And one member of that Hall of Fame class is
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  Speaker 2: kind enough to join us on the Sean O'Connell Show
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  Speaker 2: right now, the Utah basketball legend, the longtime NBA veteran
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  Speaker 2: Delon right here on the show. Delan, welcome, How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, thank you for having me. I'm doing really well.
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  Speaker 3: You know. I'm just happy that I'm going to be
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  Speaker 3: able to come back to Utah and I'll celebrate.
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  Speaker 2: And it'll be fun to see you be celebrated. You know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously it's not at a basketball game. It'll be at
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  Speaker 2: a football game. But uh, there are a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people right now that are kind of like champing and
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  Speaker 2: pining for, uh, the glory days of Utah basketball when
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  Speaker 2: we're producing NBA players, NBA draft picks, and there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of heavy lifting that needs to be done before
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  Speaker 2: I think we returned to that. But as an alum
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  Speaker 2: of this program and of this school, how much have
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  Speaker 2: you been able to see the changes in what's going
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  Speaker 2: on with Utah basketball And how long do you think
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  Speaker 2: it could be before or how quickly do you think
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  Speaker 2: we could get back to you know, when there's more
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  Speaker 2: delaan right type players coming through the program.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like, I like for a programing to it. Now.
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  Speaker 3: We have a few young guys that's come in that
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  Speaker 3: I've been able to check out. So hopefully they can
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  Speaker 3: grow and be the anchor and the core of you know,
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  Speaker 3: the program for the future, and then you know, just
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  Speaker 3: keep on adding players. Like you know, we have the
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  Speaker 3: portal now, so just we have to hit on a
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  Speaker 3: few gyms. Like myself, you know, I wasn't expected to
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  Speaker 3: do it idea in Utah, but somebody needs the opportunity
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  Speaker 3: out there, and hopefully they get opportunity to come to
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  Speaker 3: Utah and produce and you know, we'll be able to
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  Speaker 3: get back to those glory days.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably an unfair question to ask how you made
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  Speaker 2: it happen, but you know, like you just said, you
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  Speaker 2: didn't come in with a bunch of fanfare. Maybe you
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  Speaker 2: weren't expected to end up being a consensus All American
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  Speaker 2: and an All Pac twelve type performer, but that is,
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  Speaker 2: of course exactly what you were, and that's why you
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  Speaker 2: ended up being a draft pick out of this University
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  Speaker 2: of Utah basketball program. What was it that you were
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  Speaker 2: able to capture or maybe that you know, it was
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  Speaker 2: a teammate or a coach, or maybe it's a you know,
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  Speaker 2: the village, raising the kid, whatever it is that allowed
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  Speaker 2: you to have the success you had at the University
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  Speaker 2: of Utah.
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  Speaker 3: I really think it was my village, my family, my brother.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously being an NBA player, I had a few, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like, and my mindset coming in was always
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  Speaker 3: I know, I had two years to come in and
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  Speaker 3: hopefully try to change the program around, because I knew
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  Speaker 3: if I helped change the program around that it would
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  Speaker 3: make me look better. So I just always had to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, put the team first, put the university first,
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  Speaker 3: and reaped the benefits later once I left the school.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, my plan worked out perfectly, but I
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  Speaker 3: just didn't know that it was gonna plan pan out
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  Speaker 3: like this, so that was always my vision on going
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  Speaker 3: to Utah was to try to help turn turn around
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  Speaker 3: a program. Instead of going to a let's say, a
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  Speaker 3: U c l A where you you know, you can
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  Speaker 3: get lost in the shuffle. I wanted to go somewhereere
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  Speaker 3: I could stand out and you know, leave a leave
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  Speaker 3: a legacy well.
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  Speaker 2: And you certainly did stand out obviously, first round draft
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  Speaker 2: pick coming out after the college accolades that I just mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: All American status, Pac twelve, All Pack twelve Team, All
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  Speaker 2: Pack twelve defense interesting for me. I grew up here
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  Speaker 2: in the state of Utah, moved here when I was
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  Speaker 2: nine years old, and I kind of watched the transition
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  Speaker 2: of Utah being a basketball state and the University of
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  Speaker 2: Utah being a basketball school into some of that maybe
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  Speaker 2: focusing more on football. And you were part of an
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  Speaker 2: era where the football team was growing into being in
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  Speaker 2: the Pac twelve, the basketball team was growing into being
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  Speaker 2: in the Pac twelve. And it's actually basketball that had
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  Speaker 2: individuals decorated faster, right You and some of your teammates
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  Speaker 2: ended up being more I think, more of a seamless
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  Speaker 2: transition into the Pac twelve than it took the football
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  Speaker 2: team a couple more years before they really achieved the
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  Speaker 2: ultimate success and even from individual players. From your perspective
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  Speaker 2: as a basketball player, and I'm sure attending some football
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  Speaker 2: games and seeing all the hype that was going on
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  Speaker 2: there and attendance has since your era dwindled at the
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  Speaker 2: Huntsman Center. I mean, what is that like for a
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  Speaker 2: player to be on the roster, to be on the team,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe your your team is not the primary focus
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  Speaker 2: of the fan base anymore like it was when I
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  Speaker 2: was a child.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like that, That's exactly how it was when I
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  Speaker 3: got there. When I got there, well the year before
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  Speaker 3: when I when I committed there, they were like signing
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  Speaker 3: twenty five, So I didn't get to go to a
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  Speaker 3: game when they weren't as good, but I seen videos
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  Speaker 3: and stuff. So when I mean even my first few
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  Speaker 3: games there, the hunting wasn't really packed as it was
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  Speaker 3: when I left. So for me, like I took an
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  Speaker 3: account all those things, like all those things motivating you
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  Speaker 3: going to the football games, seeing them sold out, seeing
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  Speaker 3: how the fans, you know, really embraced the football team.
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  Speaker 3: I always knew that if things went the right way,
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  Speaker 3: that the hunting would fill up and they would want
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  Speaker 3: to see US play. You know, I was just like
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  Speaker 3: they needed a player, They needed a few of the
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  Speaker 3: guys to come rally behind, and then the other few
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  Speaker 3: guys that are there really embrace the fans, and we
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  Speaker 3: make sure we gave them a reason to come out
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  Speaker 3: in supportive.
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  Speaker 2: Dylan Wright is our guest here on the Sean O'Connell Show,
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  Speaker 2: former Utah All Everything player who will be inducted into
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  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty six Utah Athletics Hall of Fame class
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  Speaker 2: at the Utah State Game this upcoming football season. The
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  Speaker 2: university always takes pride in their athletic departments, developing NBA talent,
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  Speaker 2: developing NFL talent, developing Olympic gymnasts, developing people who go
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  Speaker 2: on to great success at the next level. And I'll
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  Speaker 2: sit here on sports talk radio and I'll brag about
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  Speaker 2: it and say, yeah, this is a great university for that,
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  Speaker 2: without ever having taken that journey myself. So I'm asking you,
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  Speaker 2: how did the University of Utah develop you into being
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  Speaker 2: an NBA player? What did your time at the University
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  Speaker 2: of Utah I do to prepare you for what you
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  Speaker 2: would eventually face in the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So that was also another reason why I wanted to, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, play for the university. You saw Larry Kostiac was,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a former NBA player, former NBA coach, and
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  Speaker 3: that was his selling point to me was, you know,
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  Speaker 3: our style of play was going to be similar to
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  Speaker 3: to a NBA system. So they did a great job
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  Speaker 3: of implementing me into that system and letting me, uh
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  Speaker 3: kind of have the freedom they gave me, which was
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  Speaker 3: to make decisions for you know, the team, whether I
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  Speaker 3: was on defense or offense. So I feel like the
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  Speaker 3: system being playing under Larry Kiak was very beneficial for me.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, the assistant coach did a great job
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  Speaker 3: also when he wasn't around, of keeping me accountable and
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  Speaker 3: keeping the rest of my team's accountable.
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  Speaker 2: How many of your teammates you still talk to on
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  Speaker 2: a regular basis. I mean a lot of these guys
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  Speaker 2: are working in offices now, and obviously some of you
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  Speaker 2: are still in the NBA. Is there like a is
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  Speaker 2: there a running youth group chat from the fourteen to
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  Speaker 2: fifteen season still?
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, we don't have a group chat, but I
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  Speaker 3: talked to about six or seven of the guys just
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  Speaker 3: checking in. I know everybody has their own lives now,
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  Speaker 3: A lot of a lot of everybody the fathers now,
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  Speaker 3: So you know, you just try to check in when
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  Speaker 3: when you can. And I'm pretty sure one day once
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  Speaker 3: everybody's done playing and all settled in a new life
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  Speaker 3: where all we'll all meet up and get to rumins.
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  Speaker 2: The lone Where Where does you know, being inducted into
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  Speaker 2: your alma maters Hall of Fame? Where does this rank
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  Speaker 2: for you? How meaningful is this for you as someone
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  Speaker 2: who's obviously gone on to a really healthy NBA career,
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  Speaker 2: and right you've made an incredible career for yourself and
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  Speaker 2: the future for your family based on being a great
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  Speaker 2: basketball player. So I could see maybe college and the
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  Speaker 2: importance of your college experience kind of fading because of
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  Speaker 2: what you've done at the NBA level. But I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to put words in your mouth. How meaningful is
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  Speaker 2: this for you to be recognized by the University of Utah?
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  Speaker 3: Do you know what? I was just thinking about that
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  Speaker 3: the other day. So when I was getting all the
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  Speaker 3: accolades for Utah, you know, to the Bob Coosey, the
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  Speaker 3: first team, first team off back twelve, I was just like, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: that's just another thing I want like, I'm not really
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  Speaker 3: you know, I was excited for it, but I always
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  Speaker 3: have bigger goals, and now that I'm pretty much done playing,
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  Speaker 3: is very surreal to get in ADUCTEEP into the Utah
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  Speaker 3: all the same. So I would say it's up there
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  Speaker 3: with being drafted, because you know that that's me leaving
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  Speaker 3: the legacy, you know, behind for my kids and my
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  Speaker 3: grandkids to see. So I would say it's right up
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  Speaker 3: there with being drafted and playing in the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: So what's going to be next for Delon Wright? Have
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  Speaker 2: you have you planned out this next chapter? If the
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  Speaker 2: NBA career is indeed over? Uh, do you know what
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna do next?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I just want to get the ten years which
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  Speaker 3: I did in the NBA. I'm not a fish to retire,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, I've just been golfing and hanging in
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  Speaker 3: Los Angeles with my family, enjoying not having to get
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  Speaker 3: up and work out and you know, the grind of
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  Speaker 3: a of a basketball season. So I haven't officially maybe planned,
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  Speaker 3: but you just say I'm golfing and just figuring out
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  Speaker 3: life right now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, to be fair though, I mean you you could
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  Speaker 2: do that, but you're gonna get bored of it, even
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  Speaker 2: that at some point, will you be we be a
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  Speaker 2: basketball lifer, Will you be a coach? At some point,
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  Speaker 2: will you be in a personnel department maybe somewhere. Could
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  Speaker 2: you see yourself back maybe at the University of Utah?
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  Speaker 2: They need they need a lot of help right now
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  Speaker 2: to develop this program. Are you going to be a
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  Speaker 2: basketball lifer who always works in some capacity in the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. When I was playing, I always said no. I
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  Speaker 3: always said I couldn't be a coach because you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're they're at the office and at the gym, loan
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  Speaker 3: in the players, and you know, I always fought against that.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll say now that maybe in a few years
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  Speaker 3: I'll get back to it. But as of now, I
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  Speaker 3: don't really I don't really see myself doing anything with basketball.
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  Speaker 3: I would love to explore to do something else and
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  Speaker 3: excel at that. But if if it all comes with,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Pusshuve, I'll come back into basketball in some capacity.
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  Speaker 3: I would love to do something with Utah. If i'll
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  Speaker 3: do you know what, that's the academic department. I don't
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  Speaker 3: only see myself coaching, but something in a you know,
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  Speaker 3: the academic department or athletic departments. Sorry not athletics.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm always interested when it comes to professional athletes
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  Speaker 2: in this because right this this time, transitioning out of
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  Speaker 2: being an athlete can be tough. Being a basketball player
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  Speaker 2: is a huge part of your identity. And like, if
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  Speaker 2: you're if you're not going to stay in basketball, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll just go with that assumption for now. What else
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  Speaker 2: interests you?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: What else are you into or have you been into?
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  Speaker 2: Are you a guy who, like you don't know real estate?
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  Speaker 2: There's guys in fashion, there's dudes who are entrepreneurial. What
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  Speaker 2: what intrigues you? As you know, you keep these possibilities open.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I am heavy into real estate. If I'm not
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  Speaker 3: watching golf, I'm watching like house tours n It's a YouTube.
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  Speaker 3: It's a YouTube channel where they show like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: fifty million, hundred million dollar houses, and that kind of
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  Speaker 3: intrigues me to one day try to build something or
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  Speaker 3: live in one of those times. I don't know whatever,
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  Speaker 3: whatever happens happens, but yeah, real estate, I can see
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  Speaker 3: myself to diveing into that heavy. It's a whole in
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  Speaker 3: the world. So I've just been trying to learn it
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  Speaker 3: and see if it's for me, but that's probably number
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  Speaker 3: one on my lists.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have a favorite NBA stop? I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: got to be a lot of different places in your career.
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  Speaker 2: Was there one season or one place that stands out
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  Speaker 2: for you is the most meaningful or the most fun
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  Speaker 2: or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely Toronto. Being trapped there and being there for
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  Speaker 3: three and a half years was probably my favorite stop,
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  Speaker 3: just because, you know, I got to see a lot
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  Speaker 3: of underdog type of players grow into superstar star rows,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that whole bench mob on my you know
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  Speaker 3: that I was on a part of all became starters.
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  Speaker 3: So that was very unique for fourth year seniors to
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  Speaker 3: come into the NBA and become All Stars and seniors.
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  Speaker 3: So that was that was That was probably my favorite stop,
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  Speaker 3: just because I was there the longest.
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  Speaker 2: Your final stop, if it is your final stop, is
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  Speaker 2: the eventual New the eventual world champions in the New
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  Speaker 2: York Knicks.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: What's it like to be part of a franchise going
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  Speaker 2: through that kind of like renaissance revival and getting back
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  Speaker 2: to you know, the legendary championship season that they ended
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  Speaker 2: up with.
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  Speaker 3: That was unfortunately my second team that did that. The
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  Speaker 3: Raptors won right when got traded, and then the next one,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the next year I left, So I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if it's something. I don't know if it's me
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  Speaker 3: or if something's going to come back around for me
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  Speaker 3: to win one day. But yeah, it was crazy to
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  Speaker 3: be a part of going to the Eastern Conference finals.
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  Speaker 3: The previous year they won it, and then the im
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  Speaker 3: pretty much running it back and one into the finals.
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  Speaker 3: It was a very unique to see the city come
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  Speaker 3: alive and support their New York Knicks. And I was
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  Speaker 3: happy for those guys because all those guys are good guys.
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  Speaker 3: And when I got one of my injuries, they all
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  Speaker 3: checked on me and made sure I was good, and
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  Speaker 3: I stayed in contact with Og the most, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I was rooting for him. So I'm glad that they won,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm glad that New York was able to celebrate
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  Speaker 3: after fifty plus years.
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  Speaker 2: I was just in New York last weekend, and I've
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  Speaker 2: had to travel there a bunch in recent years, and
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  Speaker 2: it's wild how just more visible the Knicks fandom is
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  Speaker 2: now that they have won that championship than it was
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  Speaker 2: even like three or four years ago. They've taken kind
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  Speaker 2: of the number one spot. It seems like in the
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  Speaker 2: city again over from the Yankees or from the Jets
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  Speaker 2: or the Giants or anything else. It's like New York
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  Speaker 2: is once again a Knicks town, if that makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. Even on the road wherever we went, we
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  Speaker 3: probably had just as much fans of the opposing home team.
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  Speaker 3: So I didn't realize that was, you know, such a
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  Speaker 3: big fan base until I'll play for them and I
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  Speaker 3: can see, you know, how that can how that city
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  Speaker 3: can be a mixed you know city. Now, before I let.
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  Speaker 2: You go, Delon, you know, you're going in as an
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  Speaker 2: individual Hall of Famer at the University of Utah. When
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  Speaker 2: people are you know, talking about the great utes of
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  Speaker 2: all time, your name is going to be put on
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  Speaker 2: that on that list because of your college accomplishments at
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  Speaker 2: Bob Coosey Award, because of your uh, you know, your
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  Speaker 2: your NBA career that followed after your draft position, all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff. What would you like Utah fans to know?
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  Speaker 2: What would you like Utah fans to say about you
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to legacy and being a Utah basketball player.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just I was a good, humble guy. I never
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  Speaker 3: put myself before the team, and I knew that with
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  Speaker 3: the team success would come individual success and that was
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  Speaker 3: always my main goal coming there. And I know that
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  Speaker 3: I'm getting the recognition, but it was truly a team effort,
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  Speaker 3: from the coaching staff to the training staff, all my teammates,
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  Speaker 3: the fan base who motivated me, you know, seeing seeing
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  Speaker 3: them get behind me once the teams start to or
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  Speaker 3: not get behind me, but get behind the you know,
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  Speaker 3: my teammates and I once we start to get better
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  Speaker 3: and put a better effort into winning. And I just
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  Speaker 3: embraced Utah so much. All my golf head covers, I
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  Speaker 3: have Utah everything all around my house Utah. So I
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  Speaker 3: really am Utah through and through. And this is truly
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  Speaker 3: honor for me to you know, getting duned into the
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  Speaker 3: Utah Athletics Hall of Fame. So I just you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm very proud that I have going into this and
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  Speaker 3: I'm not getting a recognition once again, but this is
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  Speaker 3: you know, a community award.
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  Speaker 2: Well, congratulations, we look forward to seeing you at the
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  Speaker 2: game coming up, and congrats on a great career. Hopefully
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  Speaker 2: we see around Salt Lake City more often.
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  Speaker 3: Delon, Thank you, thank you, A pleasure, pleasure of being
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  Speaker 3: here and talking to you guys, and I look forward
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  Speaker 3: to seeing you guys, you know. Coming up soon.
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  Speaker 2: That is Delon Wright going into the Utah Athletics Hall
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  Speaker 2: of Fame with the twenty twenty six class. Zane Beatles,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Daria b Jack, Katrin Smigen from Skiing, Delon Wright, Jerry Pim,
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  Speaker 2: former basketball head coach, and the nineteen ninety one softball
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  Speaker 2: team are going in. Good get James awesome to catch
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: up with the lawn, right, big fan of the LANU,
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  Speaker 2: and he carved out a really nice career for himself,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of like not probably not the traditional path
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  Speaker 2: in the NBA, right he was changing teams as often
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: as he did, but man, making it more than a
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: decade in the top league in the in the world, obviously,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: and that's a that's an accomplishment in and of itself.