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Stephon Castle Reacts to Winning Rookie of the Year _ Inside the NBA · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: The Rookie of the Year.
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  Speaker 2: My pleasure to announce the KIA Rookie of the Year
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  Speaker 2: Stefan Castle of the San Antonio Spurs. Back to back,
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  Speaker 2: back to back for the Spurs, An joining Tim Duncan
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  Speaker 2: and David Robinson and Wemby as San Antonio Rookies of
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  Speaker 2: the Year really wasn't close. In the balloting four hundred
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  Speaker 2: and eighty two total points compared to two forty five
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  Speaker 2: for Zachary Resachet. Jalen Wells won twenty three, Alex Saar
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  Speaker 2: of Washington was fourth, and Zach Edy of Memphis was
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  Speaker 2: fifth in the In the balloting, Spurs the first team
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  Speaker 2: to have back to back winners since Minnesota had Andrew
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  Speaker 2: Wiggins and Carl Anthony Towns. You know what I think too,
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  Speaker 2: I think All Star Weekend I think played a big
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  Speaker 2: role in the recognition factor for Stefan Castle, playing on
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  Speaker 2: a team that didn't make the playoffs, but he was.
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  Speaker 2: He was the Rising Stars MVP, he was in the
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  Speaker 2: Dunk Contest a lot of he opened a lot of
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  Speaker 2: eyes too.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 3: He's had a terrific season, but we don't have We
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  Speaker 3: had INNI Spurs game this year, so.
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  Speaker 1: We had Webb Domino.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had we had winby Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so we don't we don't get to watch him
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  Speaker 3: play a lot. Uh, but he had a terrific season.
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  Speaker 3: The All Star weekend was really his breakout party. When
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  Speaker 3: people are like, oh, but guys who who in the
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  Speaker 3: NBA are like, oh, he's going to win Rookie.
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  Speaker 1: Of the Year.
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  Speaker 4: Well, if you went in bass san Antonio so much,
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  Speaker 4: we might.
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  Speaker 1: I like San Antonio.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great city.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, what you think. I'm happy for the kid. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he played well. I was I was saying to myself,
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  Speaker 4: Alex Sar probably would win it, you know when you
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  Speaker 4: know this summer, you know when all the rookies were now,
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  Speaker 4: but listen, he played well. I'm happy for him, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm happy for the Spurs organization.
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  Speaker 2: Fifteen points for rebounds, four assists, shot forty three percent
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  Speaker 2: and twenty eight percent from deep tell you what, yes.
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  Speaker 3: When they get healthy. But him and Wimby and Fox, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they got a nice little bit some building blocks down,
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  Speaker 3: the serious building blocks.
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  Speaker 2: First, we have Stefan Castle, who is joining us now.
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  Speaker 2: He is the KIA NBA Rookie of the Year. Congratulations Steffan.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: So now, uh, you've got a Tim Duncan story to
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  Speaker 2: tell because he was a Spurs Rookie of the Year
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  Speaker 2: and your dad was a teammate of his at Wake Forest.
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  Speaker 2: Uh what does this mean to you to be in
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  Speaker 2: that company.
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  Speaker 5: It's definitely a full circle moment. You know, I can't
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  Speaker 5: help but think about you know, the target that's put
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  Speaker 5: on my back. But you know, I just think it's
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  Speaker 5: none that I'm not ready for.
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  Speaker 4: Stephan and shack here congratulations. When you first came into
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  Speaker 4: the league as a rookie, did you say, Hey, I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to get this war. A lot of people haven't
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  Speaker 4: really set my name a lot, but I'm gonna let
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  Speaker 4: the world know. I'm gonna put the world on the others.
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  Speaker 4: I will be the rookie of the year. Was that
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  Speaker 4: your thought process?
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  Speaker 5: Definitely, especially coming in with all the confidence that I
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  Speaker 5: have in myself as a player, that was definitely a
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  Speaker 5: gold of mine from from day one. So you know,
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  Speaker 5: I'm just happy I was able to execute it.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Number one. Congratulations. But I asked Victor this question last year.
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  Speaker 3: You probably lost more games this year than you lost
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  Speaker 3: your entire life. How was that how was that mentally?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you come from winning the championship, but losing
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  Speaker 3: takes his toll on you mentally. Who did you talk
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  Speaker 3: to and how did you handle it mentally? Just because
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  Speaker 3: like most nights, you're not going to win.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, we had great bests on our team
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  Speaker 5: that seemed really every level of basketball, so you know,
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  Speaker 5: just taking every game, you know, as a lesson, you know,
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  Speaker 5: whether we win and lose, trying to get better from it.
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  Speaker 5: So just having those guys, you know, like my teammates,
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  Speaker 5: just encouraging me, uplifting me, supporting me after every game.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's really what got me through all that.
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  Speaker 6: Well stuff, you don't mind more of a comment than
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  Speaker 6: a question. First, congratulations, Just so the viewers that he
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  Speaker 6: knows his dad played for my BASI, Stacey played for
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  Speaker 6: my brother Vince, who then Stacey calls come out of
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  Speaker 6: young assistant coach at Yukon, who played for my brother Vents.
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  Speaker 6: Then he goes to Yukon. So he is the family.
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  Speaker 6: We've been knowing him and his family forever. I used
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  Speaker 6: to sponsor his dad on those trips. He ate a lot.
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  Speaker 6: But I'm just proud of you and excited that you
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  Speaker 6: and your family and your dad, who actually is a.
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  Speaker 3: Great You know, there's only a thirty minute show, right
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  Speaker 3: and you know he's going to answer this, A.
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  Speaker 6: Great person in terms of how a parent should behave
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  Speaker 6: when they have a star basketball player.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I appreciate that. Thank you. Emmy's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Last thing on this end, and I always like to
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  Speaker 2: ask award winners this question as you think back Compington,
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  Speaker 2: Georgia Kid Newton High School, Rams in the house here, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: where does your mind go when you in terms of
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  Speaker 2: influences on your career, who would celebrate a moment like
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  Speaker 2: this with you?
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  Speaker 1: Definitely? Well straight, definitely to my my high school coach.
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  Speaker 5: I mean he never gave me anything from day one
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  Speaker 5: and it made me work for everything. So you know,
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  Speaker 5: my parents they obviously disciplined me, but to get it
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  Speaker 5: from a coach, I feel like that that just means
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  Speaker 5: so much more and I feel like it just it
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  Speaker 5: just it just.
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  Speaker 1: Set me on the right path to to be where
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  Speaker 1: I am right now.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, let's give him some love.
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  Speaker 1: What's his name, Coach Gibbons, Coach Alan Maine Gibbons. That's
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  Speaker 1: my guy.
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  Speaker 2: Very good, very good. Congratulations to you.
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  Speaker 1: Sir, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: One year he's going from n c A a champion
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  Speaker 2: at Yukon. Yeah, and getting the trophy and then uh
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  Speaker 2: beat it, beat to.
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  Speaker 3: Death down in San Antonio. Yeah it but it all
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  Speaker 3: ends well, yeahs well, and they got a bright feature
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  Speaker 3: down there.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 1: All right hey eight