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Anthony Edwards Responds to Narrative He Shoots Too Many Threes | 2025 NBA All-Star · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Well after practice.
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  Speaker 2: Now Anthony Edwards joins us now and a man, we
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  Speaker 2: talked to you during your first All Star weekend. This
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  Speaker 2: is your third All Star weekend. So what have you
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  Speaker 2: learned in these two.
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  Speaker 1: Or three trips now and how do you approach it differently.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't learned too much. I mean, it's just it's
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  Speaker 4: fun pretty much, that's all. It's just fun.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, take me through this year.
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  Speaker 5: Olympics went to the Western Conference Finals All Star a
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  Speaker 5: few times at this young age. What's next for Anthony
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  Speaker 5: Edwards that you're trying to achieve.
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  Speaker 4: Right now? I'm trying to like figure out how to win.
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  Speaker 4: I would say, like because last year we went to
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  Speaker 4: the Western Conference Finals. But it's my coach said, like
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  Speaker 4: he had a great point. It's a difference between like
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  Speaker 4: going to the Western Conference Finals and being a Western
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  Speaker 4: Conference Finals team, you know what I'm saying. So I
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  Speaker 4: think I'm just trying to figure out how to win,
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  Speaker 4: like down the stretch in the last five minutes of
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  Speaker 4: the game, learning how to get to where I need
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  Speaker 4: to get to to put my team in the right
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  Speaker 4: position to win the game.
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  Speaker 5: Well, talk to me, and you know, everybody's saying you're
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  Speaker 5: shooting too money threes. Yeah, well it's a joy because
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  Speaker 5: you can get downhill and shoot threes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what's your response to that?
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  Speaker 4: Like when people when people say that, I'm like, they can't.
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  Speaker 4: They can't be watching me play as of this year,
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  Speaker 4: Like they be going based off like what they used
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  Speaker 4: to seeing. Like I guess they just so used to
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  Speaker 4: seeing something one way. They don't like they don't like
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  Speaker 4: expan a horizon to like, Okay, maybe he added something
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  Speaker 4: to his game. So they're like, I'm taking too many threes,
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  Speaker 4: but I shoot it at a high rate. Like it's
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  Speaker 4: not like I'm taking threes and I'm missing, Like I
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  Speaker 4: make these shots because I work, Like people don't understand
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  Speaker 4: how hard I worked on my trade ball this summer.
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  Speaker 4: So like I just laugh at it because I got
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  Speaker 4: the utmost confidence in my trade ball, Like I feel
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  Speaker 4: like I can shoot the best in the league.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't really care about what they say.
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  Speaker 1: Set In your last game before All Star, you dunked
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  Speaker 1: on chet home. I'm like, yeah, you're still taking flight
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  Speaker 1: all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of which, we talked to KD a few minutes ago,
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  Speaker 2: right and he lit up with I said, hey, if
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  Speaker 2: they brought one on one to NBA All Star Weekend, right,
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  Speaker 2: He's like, yes, that's a good idea. Yes I would compete,
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  Speaker 2: Yes I would win. Who do you think would be
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  Speaker 2: the toughest person to beat one on one if they
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  Speaker 2: had it at the All Star Weekend?
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  Speaker 3: Kevin Durant for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me why.
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  Speaker 4: He just any shot is good anytime you play somebody where, Like,
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  Speaker 4: any shot that they take is a good shot. Like
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  Speaker 4: sometimes for me, like if my body a certain way,
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, ah, that's a bad shot for me, because
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  Speaker 4: like I'm not used to I'm not accustomed to being
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  Speaker 4: like this. I want to be comfortable and shoot like
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  Speaker 4: KD is a customed to being uncomfortable with any shot.
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  Speaker 4: But he turned into a good shot. And I don't
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  Speaker 4: know how, but I watched it at the Olympics. I
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  Speaker 4: seen it firsthand. I seen it in the playoffs in
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  Speaker 4: the series. So yeah, him for sure.
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  Speaker 1: He said, Wimby, what do you think about that?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's I ain't thinking about women. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: forgot about women. Yeah, he'd be hardest, he'd be able
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  Speaker 4: to score on more so than stop. I mean, because
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  Speaker 4: he can block your shot up here and he gonna
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  Speaker 4: he want you to go to the hole so he
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  Speaker 4: can time, and so yeah, he'd be hard to beat.
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  Speaker 3: You know, And I've been knowing you for so long.
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  Speaker 5: You know, everybody talks about the offense, but what I'm
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  Speaker 5: always more impressed because you did not guard and couldn't
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  Speaker 5: guard when you.
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  Speaker 3: Was thirteen fourteen teen.
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  Speaker 5: Take me and the fans through that progression where the
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  Speaker 5: flip and the switch has just turned on to another level.
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  Speaker 4: I knew it was gonna I knew it was gonna
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  Speaker 4: be like a difference when I like watched Kawhi when
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  Speaker 4: I like watched Jimmy. But because I wouldn't watch too
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  Speaker 4: many games, like in college or in high school.
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  Speaker 3: I won't watch too many games.
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  Speaker 4: But like when they would play, I'd be like, damn,
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  Speaker 4: they playing both sides of the ball for real, Like
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  Speaker 4: they really, Like I seen one game in Toronto, Kawhi
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  Speaker 4: was like diving on the floor. He's playing against Jimmy,
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  Speaker 4: buter he was diving on the floe. I'm like, they
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  Speaker 4: really played both sides of the ball. And it just
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  Speaker 4: it just told me a lot. Like, man, when I
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  Speaker 4: get to the league, I gotta really show these folks
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  Speaker 4: that I really can't play defense like I just choose.
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  Speaker 3: I chose not to when I was in.
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  Speaker 4: High school, in college, I know like I really can,
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  Speaker 4: so I ain't tripping.
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  Speaker 3: Look.
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  Speaker 5: Also, my next question is what I love right now
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  Speaker 5: as of late those young guys and you're still a
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  Speaker 5: young guy, but you've been around Tarren Shannon, Rob Dellingham.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like they're giving you some energy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's crazy because like Arren Shann, Rob give
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  Speaker 4: me all the energy. More so because he just reminded
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  Speaker 4: me of myself, like being nineteen, knowing that I'm really good.
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  Speaker 4: But it's like everything not clicking right now. But I know,
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  Speaker 4: like I put the work in, it's just the time
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  Speaker 4: gonna come. And uh, Arren Shannon just he's just so electric,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. And he's just been waiting
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  Speaker 4: on the opportunity then and he got it. Man, he
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  Speaker 4: been making the most of it. So I'm just super
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  Speaker 4: I'm super happy. I'm happy for him.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's All Star, All NBA. You've accomplished those things.
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  Speaker 2: Then there's MVP. What do you have to do? Do
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  Speaker 2: you believe to MVP finalists and to win that award
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  Speaker 2: because everyone wants.
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  Speaker 4: That Yeah, like I said, I think step one is
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  Speaker 4: I think I think step one is learning how to win,
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  Speaker 4: because like most of the guys that's in an MVP race,
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  Speaker 4: like the top three dudes, like they know how to
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  Speaker 4: win at the end of the games. So I think
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  Speaker 4: that's step one. And then, like I said, step two
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  Speaker 4: just being better. Like my trade ball has gotten a
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  Speaker 4: lot better. My mid range is not where I needed
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  Speaker 4: to be right now, So this summer I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 4: work on my mid range. And then maybe they say
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  Speaker 4: I'll take too many mid range so I don't know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: Like I'm like, I'm just gonna keep adding things like yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna keep adding things, so you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: So maybe maybe in a year or two years, I'll
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  Speaker 4: be where I want to be, and then there'll be
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  Speaker 4: time for that.
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  Speaker 1: Now, here's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: Your sneaker flying off the shows everyone you hear the fans.
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  Speaker 1: I saw you last night and people crowd you.
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  Speaker 2: We understand the attention you're getting now, but we also
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  Speaker 2: heard you say I don't know if I necessarily want
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  Speaker 2: to be the face of the league.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they have wend before.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, why do you feel that way?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, cause it's a lot you gotta you gotta
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  Speaker 4: wear on your shoulders and and put this image on,
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  Speaker 4: you know, And I'm just I've just never been that
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  Speaker 4: type of guy, you know, even though for a time, just.
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  Speaker 5: Stop talking, tell the truth, tell the truth you can,
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  Speaker 5: I will be that guy.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm capable of being that guy, but I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to be that guy. Put it like that.
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  Speaker 4: I want to be the guy to just show up
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  Speaker 4: and hoop and just kill dudes and go home. Tell
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  Speaker 4: us why not? Like I said, because it's a lot
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  Speaker 4: you got to wear on your shoulders. I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to be that guy to try to like wear this
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  Speaker 4: perfect image. I want to be able to you know,
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  Speaker 4: live you know how I am. Like, I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to cause no trouble, get in no trouble, but I
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  Speaker 4: want to be able to live my life as who
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  Speaker 4: I am. I don't want to try to like be
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  Speaker 4: something I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: So no, You're gonna be yourself. That's always, that's always
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  Speaker 3: I think that's.
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  Speaker 2: Always authentic true, And that's why the fans we see
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  Speaker 2: that show forward number one overall, pick three, time All
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  Speaker 2: Star All NBA.
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  Speaker 3: What where my jumpers.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if you need a pass, you know we
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  Speaker 4: can't wait. Okay, then you know you know I ain't nothing.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: He know what.
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  Speaker 1: So, Anthony Edwards, we appreciate you stopping.
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  Speaker 3: Boss has always talk to you. Yes, sir, wave you baby,