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Jaren Jackson Jr. Talks Ja Morant's Impact, Memphis Culture, Untold Draymond Story | Taylor Rooks X · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Hello, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that was a great reception. I was great. I
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  Speaker 2: was great.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you know what I meant everywhere? I meant everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I said to him, he showed me
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  Speaker 1: up with the outfit, like where'd you where'd you get
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  Speaker 1: the jacket?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I had to go change. Where's that practice?
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  Speaker 3: And there was no way I was showing up bummy,
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  Speaker 3: So you know, had to put it on a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just glad y'all liked it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you succeeded. So you mentioned practice. Two time All Star?
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  Speaker 1: Does it ever feel normal being there with all the
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  Speaker 1: superstars in the league.
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  Speaker 2: I think it shouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: It should never feel normal, just because, like you know,
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  Speaker 3: you're in rare error, especially when you go two times
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  Speaker 3: and hopefully God willing you keep going and.
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  Speaker 2: You're a part of it.
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  Speaker 3: But my dad was there, so I got to see him,
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  Speaker 3: and that kind of you know, hit me, like you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's just things hit me in that way, just when
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  Speaker 3: I see his face light up. I mean he's probably
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  Speaker 3: tripping over that. Like he wasn't drafted or anything like that,
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  Speaker 3: but he played eleven years. He was a journeyman, so
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  Speaker 3: it's huge for him. And I'm I'm just glad to
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  Speaker 3: be here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Have you ever had that conversation with him about
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  Speaker 1: what you have been able to do and how much
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  Speaker 1: he influenced the moment even if he wasn't able to
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  Speaker 1: do it In many ways, he's doing it through you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He uh. I mean when I got drafted, he came
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  Speaker 3: in my room and told me, like, on this night,
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  Speaker 3: I made more than him.
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  Speaker 2: Ever, sorry, added me, because I thought we were I
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  Speaker 2: thought we were well off.
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  Speaker 3: Which we were. You know, I thought I got whatever
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  Speaker 3: I wanted. You know, I was online buying shoes. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't really think of much. But when he told me that,
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  Speaker 3: I mean not just uh, I don't I don't remember
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  Speaker 3: if I cried or not. He probably cried, but that
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  Speaker 3: was crazy. So, I mean, he definitely just seeing him
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  Speaker 3: and my mom. When my mom has those moments as well,
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  Speaker 3: that's when it hits me. It takes a lot for
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  Speaker 3: me to realize it because I.
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  Speaker 1: Just be going, I don't be thinking yeah, because I
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  Speaker 1: so it's funny you said that. I was about to ask,
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  Speaker 1: are you a person that knows how to like soak
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  Speaker 1: in accomplishments like the fact that no, you're not working
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  Speaker 1: on it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. I had a speech.
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  Speaker 3: I had a little dinner and I had a speech
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  Speaker 3: with my family and my team was all right there,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like thanking them, and I was like
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  Speaker 3: talking and just saying what I really just felt. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, y'all know, I don't do this like I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't really do this type of thing. So reflection,
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  Speaker 3: we're working on it. We're gonna get to the spa
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  Speaker 3: or something, get to the figure out a way to
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  Speaker 3: reflect in some way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean a lot of amazing things for
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  Speaker 1: you to reflect on. This has been such a stellar season,
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  Speaker 1: such a stellar jump that we've seen you take. I
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  Speaker 1: want to dig into that. To start. John Morant called
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  Speaker 1: you the franchise. Do you feel that way?
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  Speaker 3: He'd be calling me that all the time. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like that. I've been there the longest. I've
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  Speaker 3: seen it all. I'm like the bridge between the old
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  Speaker 3: and the new generation. I'm twenty five, but it's my
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  Speaker 3: seventh year, so uh, it's just been It's been a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen. I've seen a lot of things. And he
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  Speaker 3: changed my life though, you know, he came on the
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  Speaker 3: team and it changed my life for sure. I think
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  Speaker 3: we hit a crazy ramp that we were you know,
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  Speaker 3: people thought we were going to hit at some point,
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  Speaker 3: but we hit so early and you look up and
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  Speaker 3: he's an MVP candidate and he's doing all these amazing things.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's speechless. I told him one day we
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  Speaker 2: were out.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, bro, you changed my life, bro, like
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  Speaker 3: for real, and yeah, he's changed a lot of other
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  Speaker 3: people's lives.
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  Speaker 1: How do you receive that? When you said, when you
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  Speaker 1: told John you changed your life.
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  Speaker 2: You smiled, he had his teeth, then.
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  Speaker 1: You need to make sure you saw it.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: It's really cool though, because obviously we all know how
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  Speaker 1: electric and dynamic and exciting of a player John Morant is.
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  Speaker 1: But it feels like this season it went from maybe
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  Speaker 1: people feeling like you were like the Robin to you
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  Speaker 1: guys are co star superheroes together. Does it feel that way?
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  Speaker 2: I mean everyone's got to be Batman. I mean everyone.
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  Speaker 2: You can't, you can't have that mentality at any point.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean he gives me that confident to just
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  Speaker 3: go out there and be myself, which is that like
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  Speaker 3: somebody who you know takes control on.
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  Speaker 2: Both sides of the ball. A vocal leader.
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  Speaker 3: That's another thing I had to, like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: grow into, but really do more of just being more vocal,
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  Speaker 3: especially for the younger guys. Like now that I'm saying,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm young, but they're even younger now, Like
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  Speaker 3: these guys are born in two thousands.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, these guys are born these fast. Yeah, these guys
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  Speaker 2: sound crazy.
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  Speaker 3: They're on TikTok twenty four seven, like it's it's wild.
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  Speaker 3: You got to be a real leader. But yeah, like
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  Speaker 3: now I'm really understanding what it means.
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  Speaker 2: It's great. I have so much help with that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: from from everybody.
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  Speaker 1: But I think you bring up an interesting point because
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  Speaker 1: it's something I actually talk about a lot. Is it
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  Speaker 1: feels like the importance of having a good VET is
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  Speaker 1: becoming somewhat of a lost start because you have to
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  Speaker 1: teach the younger guys good habits, what it means to
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  Speaker 1: be a pro and sometimes when you don't have that VET,
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  Speaker 1: you can really fall behind because you don't understand all
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  Speaker 1: the things that it takes. Do you agree with that?
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  Speaker 1: And also, who was your VET in that moment?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I had I had Mike Conley and Marc all
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  Speaker 2: the best bet and then I had I still had
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  Speaker 2: z Bo.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, all the guys in Memphis, we stick around,
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  Speaker 3: so we have different culture. Like I see z Bo
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  Speaker 3: and Ta like they're my homies around the city.
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  Speaker 2: Still. Yeah, and uh, off the court.
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  Speaker 3: On the court advice, I mean they were great at that,
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  Speaker 3: Like they just always at insight. There have so many stories.
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  Speaker 3: I'd Garrett Temple at Shelvin mag Army Caspy. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Dylan was really my vet. Dylan was really my vet, so, uh,
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  Speaker 3: that was my guy. I was at his house like
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  Speaker 3: I was sleeping on this couch sometimes like I had
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  Speaker 3: a crib but like.
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  Speaker 2: Still I was like, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But honestly, you see he's obviously referring to Dylan Brooks
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  Speaker 1: and you. When I had a Rockets game, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the younger players were talking about what Dylan and
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  Speaker 1: Fred have been used into just that culture. So Dylan
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  Speaker 1: seems to be a super super solid that. Yeah, do
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  Speaker 1: you feel that response ability to the young guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it kind of just you have to, cause like
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  Speaker 3: you don't want to like rob them of that experience
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  Speaker 3: of just not having anybody because that just sucks, like
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  Speaker 3: that would just it's just a different feeling. And I
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  Speaker 3: know if I didn't have anybody, I well, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: but I would rather have somebody, So I'm.
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  Speaker 2: There for him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So this season, there's been a lot of really
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  Speaker 1: positive changes to your game. And we chatted before your game.
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  Speaker 1: I would to see it against the Rockets, and you
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  Speaker 1: told me that a major focus this off season was
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  Speaker 1: pace pace, seeing what the defense was going to do
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  Speaker 1: and making them wrong. I would just love for you
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  Speaker 1: to elaborate what you wanted out of how you use
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  Speaker 1: pace and how you got there.
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  Speaker 3: Uh well, I mean if you look at a lot
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  Speaker 3: of the players who like Jokice and Luca, like you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're not very fast, but somehow, like the defense is
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  Speaker 3: always doing what they want.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not always.
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  Speaker 3: About playing at like one speed, it's about change the speed.
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  Speaker 3: It's about human It's really about like human reaction. And
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  Speaker 3: we kind of me and one of my coaches went
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  Speaker 3: over kind of like human behavior one time.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, what do you think he's going to do?
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  Speaker 3: And it's like all right, Well, every workout we had
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  Speaker 3: we just made sure we had an actual person playing
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  Speaker 3: defense on me. So every time I'm learning more about
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  Speaker 3: what you're thinking when I do this. So I can
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  Speaker 3: put myself in your shoes like in the game in
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  Speaker 3: real time, it's like, okay, wow, you really are You
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't want to go here. That's a like you want
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  Speaker 3: to be lazy and not do that. Okay, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to do this. Or if you do that, okay, then I.
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  Speaker 2: Have to do this. So it's like it's like boxing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like boxing, so yeah, and anticipating and then
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  Speaker 1: changing based.
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  Speaker 3: On you can't do it with cones, Like everyone wants
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  Speaker 3: to work out with cones and that ain't that ain't it?
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  Speaker 3: I Mean I feel like if you got but like
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  Speaker 3: you know, you have to be blessed enough to like
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  Speaker 3: I'm about to give the good answer there, you have
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  Speaker 3: to be blessed enough to have.
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  Speaker 2: Like the ability to get people in your workout. It's
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  Speaker 2: like a bunch of people.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, if you have cone use those but
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying they're not gonna move that, they're not gonna
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  Speaker 3: hit you either, So like you gotta get I'll be
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  Speaker 3: getting fouled in my workouts.
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  Speaker 2: I make sure I get fouled hard like everything.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think though, people don't understand about that,
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  Speaker 1: that ability to use pace to your advantage. Because to
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  Speaker 1: your point, people will watch somebody like Luca play and say,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he looks so slow, but he's slow by choice,
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  Speaker 1: and that is really allowing him to really take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of defenders. What do you think people don't understand about
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  Speaker 1: how you use pace?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely by choice, it's all. It's all here.
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  Speaker 3: He knows where everybody is on the court, so he
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  Speaker 3: can take his time. You know, people be doing euro steps,
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  Speaker 3: but now it's slow steps. Like you you got two steps,
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  Speaker 3: you can take them at any time you want. So
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  Speaker 3: if I dribble and I go on my first step,
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  Speaker 3: I can hang on this leg forever long I want,
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  Speaker 3: and then put this leg down three seconds later, and
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  Speaker 3: that just gives me another second, another second, And the
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  Speaker 3: game is like so small now, like we're better by
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  Speaker 3: like this margin. Everything is small seconds middleseconds, So you
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  Speaker 3: need all those seconds like when you're a pro.
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  Speaker 2: But back when you're younger, like when we were younger,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have to do no this.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have to do pace. There is no pace.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just blocking everything. We're running around and I'm going home,
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  Speaker 3: Like that's really it.
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  Speaker 1: But now you talked about human behavior I'm just curious.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell us, like one player's tendency that's interesting
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  Speaker 1: to you? Just give me. The crowd wants it, right,
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  Speaker 1: we want to hear a tendency or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I'll say like if I know Dylan Dylan, okay,
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  Speaker 3: or give an.
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  Speaker 1: X teammate, but go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Give an X.
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  Speaker 3: That's my that's my ex So Dylan Dylan, when he
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  Speaker 3: guards me, I know that like, Okay, you like to
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  Speaker 3: use your chest. You don't like to use your arms
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  Speaker 3: because your arms aren't as long. So so when you
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: when I when I go to whatever hand I want
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  Speaker 3: to go with, I know that you're gonna jump it
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  Speaker 3: really hard. So when I do it, I should always
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  Speaker 3: be ready for that counter immediately with you. Specifically, now,
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  Speaker 3: your teammate aiming, he's he's he has longer arms, so
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  Speaker 3: I know that when he jumps, he's probably going for this.
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  Speaker 3: I have to put I have to put the ball here.
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  Speaker 3: So when I also change direction, I'm also not going
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  Speaker 3: to put in front of him because then he's also
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  Speaker 3: going to use his other arm. But with Dylan, I
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  Speaker 3: can you know he's more about using his chest and
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  Speaker 3: his size and his strength. So okay, it may be
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  Speaker 3: a different battle. I also know Fred. I'm just using
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  Speaker 3: all Rockets players. I know Fred likes to swipe down,
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  Speaker 3: so you can't put the ball down. Yeah, and you
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  Speaker 3: got to know a lot of what these people do
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  Speaker 3: because I mean, this is the little things that will
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  Speaker 3: change everything. Like we've had close games, We've had not
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  Speaker 3: close games, but the close games are decided by players
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  Speaker 3: that are all throughout the game, like not just last play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's also the little things that like change you
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  Speaker 1: from being a really good player to a great player.
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  Speaker 1: It's how you make those leaps when you're thinking about
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  Speaker 1: all of the tiny details all of the time. Speaking
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  Speaker 1: of details, you know, I mentioned, of course Jared Big
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  Speaker 1: into fashion. I want to know, Oh, your top five
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: NBA closets? Who has the best? Okay you you want.
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  Speaker 3: I'll say, oh, tyres Maxie.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, I would not anticipate Tyrese Maxie.
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  Speaker 3: He's coming up okay PG.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah mmm, I like this because you're not giving the
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  Speaker 1: usual cast of characters. You know what I mean. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's dresses very oh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but yes, everybody knows that he's he's got it.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't even need me, he doesn't need the love.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he doesn't need it, uh J Dove, J Dove.
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  Speaker 3: I was just what I mean, he had it on
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  Speaker 3: at practice.
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  Speaker 1: So he always has a nice jersey like it's he has.
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  Speaker 1: He dresses a little retro. Ye, give me one more.
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  Speaker 3: M hm.
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  Speaker 2: Do you like what Dylan wars? I've been in his closet?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Well not to not to throw another list
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  Speaker 1: at you, but when I was prepping for this, I
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: was watching a lot of Jared interviews and someone asked
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  Speaker 1: him what he would want to do if he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: playing in the NBA, and his response was be a
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  Speaker 1: host and an interviewer. So number one, don't take my job.
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: Number two, what NBA players would you want to interview?
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  Speaker 1: Like if you were in my position? Who do you like?
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  Speaker 2: Who?
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  Speaker 1: Are you curious what they have to say?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? My goodness, who's really gonna be unfiltered?
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Those are the best ones, right? Probably An and
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  Speaker 1: is a great interview.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's the he's the he's the best you
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: gotta get. Probably G. G. Jackson. Yeah, he's great.
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  Speaker 3: He's like precious, like young, like it's so thankful every time,
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  Speaker 3: giving backstory like jokes, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yokice, just because I feel like I break them out
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  Speaker 2: of his show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's like I like, we want to hear Jokic,
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  Speaker 1: and we do very much. So maybe you're going to
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  Speaker 1: be the interviewer that gets the scoop. I'll pitch it
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  Speaker 1: to the NBA. We'll see what we can do.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I've interviewed him before one time when he
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  Speaker 3: won MVP, Like I was like a little guest on there.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, oh, yeah, thanks, but damn, bro, it's a
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  Speaker 3: huge But you just do this all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I I'm used to it. Another one. So of course
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: we are in San Francisco Bay area. Yeah, there we go.
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: So I want to talk about a warrior really quick.
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  Speaker 1: So one of the really good Jaron stories is when
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  Speaker 1: he was deciding whether or not he wanted to return
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: to Michigan State, he got a call from the one
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  Speaker 1: and only Draymond Green, and I would like you to
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  Speaker 1: tell that story. And what I will say before this
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: is I've heard you tell the story, but I've never
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  Speaker 1: heard you tell it full because whenever he gets to
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: the phone conversation, he says, and then he said a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of stuff I can't say. So I called Draymond Green,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, I'm gonna ask Jaron about this story.
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  Speaker 1: Does he have permission to tell me exactly what you said?
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  Speaker 1: And Draymond said, you can tell me, So please tell
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  Speaker 1: me the story of how it went when Draymond called
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: you and convinced you to go to the league.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, obviously you know coaches, Oh's the goat. And
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  Speaker 3: he had just kind of laughed at my face when
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  Speaker 3: I told him I wanted to stay in school, and yeah,
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: laughed hard too. And then and then he drove me
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: to class, like one of my last classes.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I was late because I had been meeting
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  Speaker 2: with him, and got me out of that, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And then I went to my house and I still
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: kind of was on the fence in my head. But
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: then he I guess he gave Draymond my number and
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: I didn't. I've never really known this guy. And he
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: kind of just calls me. He doesn't even introduce himself,
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  Speaker 3: and he's just like, what the fuck are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: And he's just like are you serious? Like I'm like hello,
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  Speaker 2: Like he's like, how high do you want to go? Man?
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  Speaker 3: I started to pick up on the voice. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: I said, bro, like, I just I like, I like
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  Speaker 3: it here.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Man, you know I've had it.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter what you want to do, man,
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: you want to some of it. I forgot, I'll be honest,
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: but I was just like, I remember, he's talking so loud.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: I had to put on speaker and put it away
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: from you. It's like, dang, bro, it's kind of on
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: my ass. I don't even think you have many positives
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: like about other things to say. I think you just
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: kind of got off the phone after that. But I
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: definitely was just like, all right, well, everyone's just gonna
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: think I'm like, I'm tripping.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: So yeah, did so. Did the call from Draymond genuinely
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: help influence the decision to go to the league? No, No,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: you're like I was gonna. I got to figure it.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: It was my dad.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Me and my dad had a little talk and he
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: was like, yeah, you can go ahead and do it, bro, Like,
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: I know, it makes sense. I don't know if I was.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: I don't think I was nervous. I think it was
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: just like I had moved. I moved around a lot
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: as a kid anyway for my parents' jobs, and I
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: kind of was tired.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Of moving like I'd moved.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: I'd been in a different high school, junior, senior, and
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: now college.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: I'm like, damn out again.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: And I kind of just wanted to stay put for
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: at least like two years, two or three years.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: But yeah, now I've been in the same place for
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: seven years.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: But I mean, it's been such an amazing basketball journey.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Really cool to watch you now here at the All
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Star Game for a second time. There's obviously been a
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: lot of talk about the All Star Game, the competitiveness,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: how he can continue to make it excitement when you
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: step on the floor. Do you feel like Priday is
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: on the line of that All Star Game that you
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: have to show up and show out? Here we go.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: I told them earlier, I said, I'm just going to
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: pick up full court.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, we're into that.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna do it just
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: because you know, let's just set a different tone. Yes,
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: it's a different format. Obviously, you're not trying to get
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: blown out in a game to forty in the first game. Uh,
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: but yeah, I mean the way that's set up in
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: the past, there's different things that it was set up
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: around the game that kind of they don't put you
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: in the best position to always get completely loose and
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: everything for the game, Like there's a lot of stoppages.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: It's a show. It's it's for everybody else.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: What you start to learn when you're really in it,
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: it's like, Okay, then you're thinking, okay, if I go
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: too hard and I'm not me per se. But let's
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: say I'm like twelve years in and I gotta stretch
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: like I'm older, so I gotta like, I really gotta
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: get I gotta get there, so I'm not about to
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: be running like I'm not about to be doing all that.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: But if i'm I don't know, if you really.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: Get that mindset, you get ready to play, which I
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: think they've organized it better. I think it's good. I
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: think everybody's on the same page. I think everybody's gonna
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: like it.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was good that one year they played
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: the like it.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Was so good in Chicago when we the first year
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: of that elam ending that like, you know, the fourth
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: quarter you played at the score. That was one of
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: the last times I remember thinking.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: People are taking charges.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a great All Star game.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: I was like, look, that's that's fire.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: I thought it was dope too, but something obviously it
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: was similar players in the games that they were complaining about,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: so there obviously was something else going on. So I
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: don't think it's just a mentality thing, like I think
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: everyone's still grateful to be here and loves it. And yeah,
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: it can't just be a layup line, for.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Sure, it can't. But I love that this year, you
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: all know that the winner of the Rising Stars Game
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: is going to compete against all starts and they are
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: not going to be joking around, like y'all better be ready.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: I was at the game. I was staring them all
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: down when they won. I got two of my teammates
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: on that team, so I'm at there. One of them
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: they said they want to dunk on me. That's cool.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: You know it's school school, so I'm sure you saw
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: they know as you should. You are a big consumer
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: of women's sports. I know that you watched probably the
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: unrivaled one on ones. It was so fire. Shout out
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: to Fee for winning that. I want to see that
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: come to the NBA. It will never happen. It will
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: never happen.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: We're playing ones.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: But why see, it's because y'all don't know how to
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: chance being a little vulnerable, your ego, your pride gets
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: in the way, Like that really is why we will
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: likely never see it.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we need someone else to blame. If it's just
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: me out.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: There's my fault, yes, like dang on my eye.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: On my break, like no, yeah, but.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: It would be that to me, would be such an
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: easy premiere event that everybody would tune into.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: It would be crazy.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Who would you challenge? Oh, Kyrie, Oh tell me how
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: that's gonna go in your head?
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Already.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: We talked to him about this. We talk about it
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: all the time. One time he went out to dinner
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: and talked about it, and another time last time I
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: was an All Star game, we talked about it. I
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: just fail, bro, like you're doing all this like I said,
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Like I said, I'm just gonna stay still. Like if
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: I stay still, I'm fine, because like you're not. I
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: feel like if you go by me like you're I
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: feel like you're trying to make a show out everything,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: like you want me to move my feet and I'm
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: just gonna stay still no matter what you do, Like
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: I'm just getting you know what I mean. If you
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: try to get by me, I'm just gonna try to
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: get the chase down, or I'm just gonna force you
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: into the step back you like, and there's other things.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously he's amazing.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: It sounds simple, but I would definitely challenge Kyrie because
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: I think he's just insane with that.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: He's insane, so so skilled. What's his response to your
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: assessment of how that would go?
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: He's you know him, He has a response to everything
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: you say like he's he's one of those guys who
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: has like, oh no, I'm gonna do this, do this,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna do this like it's just how point guard.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: That's how point guards talk.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: If you ever talk to point guards, they just sound
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: like they know everything they do.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, all right. I have some questions about some
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: other All Stars. So we were actually in the building
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: together when KD got his thirty thousandth point. It was
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: a wild, wild time. Crowd went crazy, as they should.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I know that growing up, Katie was one of your
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: favorite players. Even though he's one of the best, one
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: of the most elite, and has talked about it in
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: that way, I still feel like he is not rated properly,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Like people don't fully understand how amazing of a score
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: he is and how great of a player he is.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Do you feel that way?
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: I think that's because he's just not mysterious, Like he's
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: in the field, like he's in your fase. He'll say
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: what he feels, and like a lot of that. A
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: lot of the times, I feel like your like mystique,
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: will you know, get you to be looked at I
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: guess in a different tone, but like if you really
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: look like there's just if you put the numbers out there,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: there's just no possible way for him to be looked
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: at as anything other than like one of the greatest
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: to ever touch of basketball.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And he's one of.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Those people like during the lockout, he's playing, Like I
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: used to live in d C. So he's playing for
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: free at the park all the time, every game, even
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: if it's not I mean all the games are sold out,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: but he would play even if there's no crowd.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: He's playing just because he loves it that much.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: And like, those are the people you can't take for granted,
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: like for the sport, like if you really care about
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: the sport, like that's that's everything.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: He's a lot to the people out here. When he
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: was here, I mean, they were cheating when they were playing,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: but he was, he was he was doing it here
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: like he he's one of the he's one of the
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: everybody already.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Knows how I feel.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Like, what makes kd not just such an elite score,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: but one of the most impossible people to guard?
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Well, he puts that like Dirk kind of he puts
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: the ball up here when he shoots, you can't block it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: You just have to hope for the best.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: People have tried eyes, people have tried to block it
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: when he could probably block it. But I mean, he's
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: just so technical, Like when he works out, he works
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: on the little things that like not a lot of
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: people concentrate on, and that just it takes you to
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: a whole other level.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Like he's very, very polished, very technical. Everything he does
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: is with purpose. Yeah.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Well, anytime I'm asking how anyone gets guarded, You're always
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the one to go to. Because you were one of
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the youngest people to win Defensive Player of the Year.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Dwight beat you by only like seventy eight days. You
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: could have been Yes, it was almost yours. But when
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: we think about the DPOY Award, obviously Wemby is an
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: unreal talent defensively and offensively. But right now, of course
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: he's one of the favorites to win that award. Do
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: you feel like that is a narrative that people can
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: get out of. Do you feel like you have space
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: to potentially, you know, be up there, because sometimes with
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: your awards it can feel like it's decided.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you gotta go get Wemby. You gotta
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: go get him, you gotta hunt.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta figure out a way to just make
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: an impact defensively, because if you're in that conversation, that
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: means your team's winning. Your team's one is one of
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: the highest defenses. That's what happened when I won. Our
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: team was unreal outside Dylan Garden the best player to
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: take their mind off me a little bit, and then I.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Just come out of nowhere. I'd Steve.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: So Yeah, I mean, I mean, Wenby's doing something I've
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: never I mean, no one, no one's ever seen. So
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: it's unbelievable to watch, and it's beautiful. It's beautiful for
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: the game to see him out there doing it, because
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, that means he's healthy, he's able to do it.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Because I was always think that people would say like,
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: I wonder if his frame would be able to hold
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: up with that, and he's showing.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: It for sure.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously a few all stars from your draft class.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: My producer and I were talking about this. I thought
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: it was fascinating that from your draft class, you're the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: only player draftsed in the top four to still play
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: for the team that drafted you. And then Trey Young
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: is the only player in the top eleven that is
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: still playing for the team that drafted him. Some other
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: notable one. Of course, we're Shay who was dropped eleventh
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and Brunson, who was drafted thirty third. Brunson is still
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: our Brunson is gone as well. What story, though, do
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: you think that that tells about your draft class?
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: I mean we have we have an insane draft class.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: I mean Luca would have been right there.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, until I'm sure everyone remembers where they were when
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Matt Bomb dropped.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: I'm most sleep for real, he was up.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Though, So what's going on? I'm like, Sean's were you hacked?
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: God, yeah, for real? Literally, I think I think literally
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: our draft class is unreal.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I got no words for our draft class.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: I just think that we're especially with the players that
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: weren't in the Lotto like what they've been able to do.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: I mean, you got an MVP candidate for the past
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: two years. It wasn't even in the Lotto.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Last year, three players from your draft class finished top
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: five and MVP voting.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and when you think.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: About it, the players that are on different teams, like,
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: what they've been able to do on different teams was substantial.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: It wasn't like you were getting moved because you weren't producing,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: so you get you get moved because you were producing.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: So it's it's kind of it's crazy. It's crazy how
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: it works. The business is like that. But no, I'm
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: blessed to still be there.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Yes, cool, No, for sure, Killton and Memphis. Okay, a
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: few more for you. I do want to talk about
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the Grizzlies a bit before we go. I have obviously
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: watched a bunch of you alls games, gone to watch
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: job been able to cover you all out on the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: sideline this season, and it is so clear to me
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: how you all have grown, Like it feels like a
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: more mature, consistent team. Does it feel that way to you?
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: We are older, for sure, does have a wedding, you know,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: we were at the wedding. That's when we're we're talking
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: about that at the wedding, Like, bro, you're you're married,
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Like you know what I mean, your kids walking right here,
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: like you know, Cary is trying to try Cary is
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: trying to play one on one.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Like kar Is Jaw's daughter.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Everyone's like, we just have a different I think way
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: of thinking about things, probably more appreciation for our time
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: with each other and everything like that, not taking it
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: for granted, especially when people are getting moved from the
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: old team and we were just turned lit and mobbing
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: at a whatever in the post game.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, those are good times.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: We knew how to mob for real. But yeah, I
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: think we're just I don't know, we got older. I
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: think that's just some regular human being stuff.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I always say honestly that I think you
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: have like a very high emotional intelligence, Like you're just
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: an innate observer. I think of people and you understand them.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: But it feels like, yeah, you know, it feels like,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: really your growth on the court has also coincided with
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: just your growth as a human being. What synergy have
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: you seen between those two.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think time alone helped that a
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: lot like just you know, being in my house. Just
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: being able to process things like that kind of just
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: helps your brain get to it's a different thoughts you
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: might might not have had had you not just stopped
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: to think and process and grow.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's really what helped you. Obviously, being
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: around people and asking questions and if you have therapy,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: do that.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: We're big therapy advocates on this show. To go once
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: a week have for a long time.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Sure, I'm going seven days a week, every day, going
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: every day.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: In some way I'm going, But I think literally it's
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: all about just being able to process things, at least
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: for me. I think everybody's different, but I'm the only child,
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: so I think that goes with what I know.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: With a high emotional.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Intelligence, Yes, there you go see a high EQ. What
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: does that have to do or what does music do
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: for you? There? Like writing, is that therapeutic for you?
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: The making of the.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Music, The making of it at times depends what I'm making.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: I feel.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Trip J, right, you better go download some music from
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: trip J?
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Is it on? It's everywhere everywhere. There's a lot of you'll.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Like something, you'll like some every there's so much of it.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: But I think if I'm making a song, it's just
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: about what I'm feeling at that moment, and it's really
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: just a release as far as what comes out. You know,
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: that's probably a little bit more strategic. I'm probably not
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: just giving, like maybe not that song exactly, but you know,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: that's that's a beautiful thing that happened. And now all
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: my friends are producers and artists. I can just my
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: studios in my house. I just walk up there. I
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: can walk up there. Excuse me, Yeah, for sure. I
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: don't gotta drive. That's right there. I can just go
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: get it done. It's just a great place to be,
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: even if you're not making music, just sitting in there
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: being around just that's it.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: What do you thinking Jello's hit in that corner? You
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: doing it?
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: It's getting played in the arenas, ain't it. He's got
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: someone doing it live.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: I can't lie. There's like two more if they saw
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: the snippets, there's two more.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: But I mean that's that's fire.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you had a song that was in NBA
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: two K. What is your overall goal with music? Is
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: it something that's just an outlet? Do you want to
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: have you know, one of those very viral moments.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: This hits me and my team asked me that all
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: the time, like what do you want to do? Like
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: where do you want to I just didn't have a plan.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: I just like making it. So I just made a
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: bunch of songs all the time. I probably have like
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: probably close to a thousand songs.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been doing for like five years. Yeah, So
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: like it's just you know.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: I just didn't really feel like telling anybody because at
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: the time, like the response was just so weird, like
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: it's like, oh, you're doing the music. I'm like, bro,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: I don't feel like talking about it.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I didn't feel like talking about it. So I'm like,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: yeah at this point, yeah, we're in two k just
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: because it sounds good.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: It's like a game song.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: It can't sound bad at this point, like it's been
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: too long. So yeah, I still have no goal.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: I will probably perform, Yeah, probably do like rolling Loud
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: or something, but do like one song get out of.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: It, Yeah, I get out of.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: The do like one like mosh pit type of song. Yeah,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: and just scream and yell and just dip.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, you all would be surprised with the
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: amount of NBA players that have music that they just
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: don't put out. Jaylen Green has a bunch of songs
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: that have never been put out. Yes, Jalen Green has music. Really, Yes,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: he has music. I just interviewed him about it. Kad
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: has a bunch of songs. Lil Wayne told me him
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: and Kad have a song that might go on one
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: of his albums. Yeah, so KD is legit. And then
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: also Lou Williams has thousands of songs that just don't
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: get put out. So y'all just have these data basis
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: of tracks and Miles Bridges and Miles Bridges.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: That was my roommate.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Ah, do we have some collapse.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: We do have collabs. Oh, put it out the collapse.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: They'll get it one day. They'll get it one day.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Best athlete rapper current right now?
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Me.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, but you can't you can't say you tell me
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: and you can't Yeah, you can't say you.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: I can't say no.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: And you can't say Dame like Dame's great. Yeah, you
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: can't say. You can't say.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Damn best athlete mm hmmm. Oh gg Jackson, I just
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: won't allow So he's a He used to play the
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: drums in the church. He used to sing, not even
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: used to he sings. He actually knows how to record
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: himself and play instruments. He's amazing, like natural talent wise.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: He came to my house and made some songs at
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: my house. I was like, Oh my gosh, you're actually
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: you're actually oh yeah, he's making it in like twenty
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: seconds or like twenty minutes. But he's amazing. And I literally, look,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: I told him he can't. He can't release music yet.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: I wanted him to just I.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Just told him to wait, like just at the time
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: I told him no, he was like eighteen. It's like
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: just wait, yeah, like you're eighteen, so just trust me
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: on this.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Just like wait, I'm not even saying you got to
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: get a little bit better, because you can do everything.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: You can sing. He probably has more songs than me
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: because he can make he can do it himself.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: He's a producer as well. I love that. I'm I'm asked,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: y'all start a boy band, and I'll do that.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: I'll do the boy band.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, we ask every guest this. At the end of
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: the show, Jaren, please tell me your biggest assist off
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: the court who's given you your biggest assist.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Who's given it given me one yep, my biggest assist
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: in life period.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: And this is deep.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: This is what you're asking the final question after all
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the Okay.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Uh, I'll say my parents. I won't pick either, but
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know my mom.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: I love his mom is just the best. I love
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: that you said.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: If you're if you're a woman, my mom will literally
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: hug hug you just for existing and just I think
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: everything she's done for women in sports and just everything,
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: she's just so motivating. Like I used to watch her,
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: like make videos in our basement of plans she had
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: for women in sports about a decade ago, and she
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: would just sit there and she'd have all these binders
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: of like everything. And when she went to work at
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: the NC DOUBLEA, she was still crafting thiss just planned
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: to do stuff, and I think she was always going
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: to do it. But her being with the players Union
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: and leading them, I mean, there's not I ask all
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: the time, is there anything else like you're trying to do?
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: And like you know, she's she gives me interesting answers,
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: but yeah, she's she's unreal. She still helps me with
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: so much stuff in my life. And then my dad
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: just taking care of us this whole time, from when
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: I was born to now, flying me anywhere for any
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: AU tournament, getting me up early to go shoot even
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: if I didn't want to be, you know, giving me
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: advice on the game even when I didn't want to,
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: and every single thing in between, never making me feel
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: like we weren't well off, and we weren't we were
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: well off, but just never making me feel like there
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: was a question, you know, getting us our dream house.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: My mom drew a dream house and she and he
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: got it for I love the house. You kidding me?
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: We moved from that house. I was pissed. I was
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: so mad at them, But it's just like all the
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: all that little stuff. Yeah, they're my heroes for real.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: That's beautiful. Giving up for good parents.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: That was so sweet.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: No, it was so sweet. But honestly, I mean, I
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: mean this, as you said, I know your mom. I
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: haven't had the pleasure of meeting your dad, but your
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: mom is amazing. She is a fighter and advocate. She
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: is such an intelligent, kind woman, so it is no
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: surprise that you are as amazing as you are. Thank
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: you so much, my friend, for doing the show. For
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: being here and for always giving me your time. It
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: means the world to me. Please give it up for
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Jared Jackson.