2024 Best of Club 520: Jayson Tatum on Celtics title vs. Mavs, NBA 2K cover, Jeff Teague as teammate

The volume. Alright, we back another episode of Club five 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:11.920 twenty podcasts. I'm the House. My name is DJ Wells, 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:15.320 Special special guests in the Building Championship edition. To my left, 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:17.520 we're gonna introduce my Man's last. But to my far left, 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:19.720 we got my dog. Bishop be hearing out the prailes. 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:21.520 How you what nasty, cool and nasty. 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:22.360 Let's get to it. 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:24.000 Look, j T, I know you know what I'm saying. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:25.800 You got your own shoe. But have you ever seen 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:28.040 the black forces with the white laces? Yeah? 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:32.680 I've seen them a couple of times. You're rocking with him. 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:37.640 I mean it's cool. J DJ introduced the other niggas. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:40.000 Like his energy. 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:45.080 To my right, I got my dog. You're not your tig? 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.080 How you were? Man, I'm chilling, bro. I got my 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.199 Jeordian's on some sixes for Team Jordan. To day, we 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.280 got some Team Jordan's building. But you know I'm an 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:52.080 anti athlete. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:54.360 They do not want to. 0:00:56.240 --> 0:01:03.240 Shout out to Kyle Man. You know what I mean, 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.400 respect to the brand. You crazy. To my left, man 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.880 who actually has a shoe? Listen, man, Champion, Champion, Champion 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:11.920 wanted the coachs to ever do it? You just killing 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.240 the NBA. They net accomplished everything you could do at 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:16.200 a young age. It took out more to build. Man, 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:17.840 we got the champion, Jayson Tadam in the bill and 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.640 appreciate you pulling up big dog. I appreciate y'all having 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:24.600 he finally can say he champed like me for you, 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:25.360 my boy. 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.560 You did do it first first, bro, you know what 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:28.920 I mean? 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:37.240 Anything but right well, he got the champion. 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.400 Man. I'm hYP bro because it's my brother man. He cool. 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:41.240 We got a Middle West group check. 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.039 We always show love in there, so I'm on the show. 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:44.200 Bro. 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:45.600 Hey man, shout out to the game. 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:47.080 Listen. We got a lot to talk about with you. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:48.720 We will talk about the first time y'all. Man. Man, 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.080 when y'all first linked up in Boston. You came to 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.280 save the Celtics. Man, I came to save you know 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:58.320 what I mean? Head story line? You know, thank you 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.320 can be my jersey number first, but I let him 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.040 keep it so I had to go fifty five. You 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.600 know I was originally zero. Did you ask for it 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.080 for fifty five? No? Did you ask for your jersey zero? 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:19.240 I said it available, I said it aa, No I 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.280 asked for I respected what he did. But I ain't 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.160 know I was gonna lose my name in the process. 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:29.519 But it's all the real JT. Yeah, I lost my 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.840 number in my name was crazy, I know I did, 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:40.560 any Bro, It's crazy. It's cool though, man, that's funny. Listen, 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:42.160 we're gonna start to the orders of be here. He's 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:43.919 super tapped, you know what I'm saying. The high school 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.120 you he was definitely on one of the coach at 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:47.000 you teams for sure. 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:50.480 It was at the Saint Louis Eagles. Yeah, Bro, you 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.600 gave boys hell back the day, back in the day. 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.800 An't rememberable matchups you had back then. Uh so, I 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:58.560 know you led the e y bill and scoring. 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:03.120 He was gunning twenty six and ten light. 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.560 I think for me, I mean, it's like everybody. 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.320 We all grew up playing against gods just in the 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:13.280 league now, Like Harry Jiles, one of my best friends, 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.040 colleyed against each other all the time. We got one 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.280 of the best hey You games, I feel like of 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:19.800 all time. 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.640 We played on ESPN semi Finals to. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.680 Go to p Jam. Yeah, and we was down twenty 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.560 and a half. We came back and my point guard 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.840 Jordan Barnes, who went to Indiana State playing overseas, and 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:33.880 now he had a half court shot at the buzzer, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.760 and that was It was crazy because you know, ag 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.119 was numberre playing in the country, playing against the best 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.200 team to go to the finals, and I committed to 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.680 Duke on TV right after that game. Grant Williams was 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:49.360 out there, Johnson coach. I'll never talked about that game. 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.520 It was like five or six pros out there and 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.720 we was at PJAM. CP was on the bench coaching. 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.520 So that's like one of my favorite AU games. I 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.920 haven't been a part of boys buckets. You go, Miles 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:07.080 Bridges forty, markol Folls forty. Damn, I forgot who the 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.520 other name was. In high school, I think your senior 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:10.960 year it went crazy. 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.120 I mean I've been all right for it for a while. 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:16.679 I say, I seen how like when you and Jaylen 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.360 Brunston was going at it in high school. 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.120 So I ain't gonna lie. Jaylen Brunston he gave us fifty. 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:27.880 Uh we played in West Virginia. Yeah, I was a junior, 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:32.640 he was a senior, and uh that was That was 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:33.640 one of the times I left. 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.040 I was like, no, we got cooked, but we ended 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:37.080 up we ended up winning the game. 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.440 But it's just cool to look back on those matchups 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.880 as like, man, people think Jaylen Brunton may be a 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:43.960 late bloomer. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:45.039 But he like been killed. 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.200 Yeah, even in the USA, like the United Team, Like 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.480 he was going crazy. No, he went on my team. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.520 He went. You'll think year after that? Oh you nineteen year, 0:04:56.160 --> 0:05:00.160 nineteen year he won MVP. Yeah, he was killing so 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.920 he was in. Yeah we tapped see our facts were 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:09.320 straight out. Now that was crazy. He was going crazy. 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.760 Uh, there was like three of us were still in 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.400 high school, some was going to college, and some had 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.040 just finished like their freshman year in college. 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.279 It was cool to have a mix of different guys. 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.320 But j he put us on his back and we 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:21.880 was in Uh. 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.279 It was in Greece and we won the gold medal. 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.839 Being from Saint Louis and being a star high school player, Like, 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:31.880 why do you choose dude? 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.920 I know here and he's a dude for twenty years. 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:43.240 But why do you choose due? That's my that's big 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.279 thirteen want. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:48.000 He shot. 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.000 Yeah. 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:58.160 Lord he alleged that dude lets you out to the. 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:01.720 Bill, But in fact he was a honest man growing up. 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.320 I never thought that I was going to do, Like, 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:08.400 I just didn't think people where I came from went 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.600 to Duke. I didn't think like that coach K would 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.719 come to my crib. I want to go to Hot State, 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.520 Greg Olden, Mike Conley and in turn of those is 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:21.280 my favorite players in college. So that's where I was going. 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:25.520 You didn't watch work for us. Just make sure shout 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:35.160 out the CP though I did watching Luk at the see. 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:44.800 All right, that's what we're like. 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.520 Oh but y'all crazy. You said high school were going 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.000 crazy going to do? What was that transition? Like, you 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.320 know what I'm saying, because obviously Holly, in high school 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.479 you get to do dudes. The place is like none 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.279 other tradition. It's very impoorant. You got a Hall of 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.719 Fame coach and the institution that's more than any player 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:01.880 you to come in like, it's humble to be in 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.520 that situation. How was that? You know? 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.679 They always say like when you were that's the first 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.160 big decision you make as a young man. 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.120 And for me, I only took one official visit. 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.640 I took one official visit and I got there on 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.480 like Friday morning. By Saturday, I remember, I was at 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.520 the bookstore with my mom, like, yo, like we need 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.760 to start buying hoodies, like I'm coming to do. 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:23.640 Damn. 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.200 I just felt that the vibe or the team, how 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.280 they felt about coach and how they talked about them, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.480 how close they was. I was like, man, I don't 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.440 want to waste no time of going to no other visits. 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:35.760 I was like, man, I want to go to Duke. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.040 So that was like one of the best decisions I 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.760 ever could have made. Some of my best friends I 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.480 ever met from Duke shout out to John Shire. That's 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.840 somebody I talked to every other day still, and you know, 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.280 we always talk about the brotherhood, and that's the real thing, 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.520 regardless of if you ever played with them or if 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.320 they was there twenty five years before you. It's always 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.400 love whenever you see anybody that had that uniform. And 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:02.600 I just wanted to be a part of something that 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.560 was bigger than myself. And knowing that I was only 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:07.400 gonna go to college for one year. 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:12.240 Damn, you knew that that's a lesson. Yeah, I did. 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:15.160 I knew that I wanted to. 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.800 I wanted to be somewhere that was gonna set me 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:19.600 up for the big stage. Right, you go to Duke, 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:23.400 that's the best, no disrespecting nobody else. That's the best. 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.960 One of the best college programs. Right, we always on 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:31.160 national TV. The expectations is high media training, all those 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.000 things is just preparing you for the next level. 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:34.480 And I was gonna ask, like, you know what I'm saying. 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.600 I know that that's lit, but what was that experience 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:38.880 like that first time playing in Camberton door, Like, what 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:42.719 was that first because y'r fan's crazy as hell. Yeah, So, 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:43.880 I mean a lot of people don't know. 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.040 I got hurt in our second protein so we had 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.439 our second prote I ended up. I had like a 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.760 little stress fracture in my toe and I missed. I 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:53.280 missed our first twelve games. 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:55.640 So I remember that. 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.800 I uh my first time playing. I think we played 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.840 like Tennessee State at home. And it wasn't no low management, 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.559 no minute restriction. I played like twenty two minutes straight. 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:06.880 I called it cramp. 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:08.040 Uh. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.520 So my first game was a little, a little up 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.200 and down, but we got the best fans. A lot 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.040 of people when they come to do they don't understand it, 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.199 like this is the gym, like it's so small. They 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.880 will pay They think that's where we practice at. It's 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:25.040 only like six thousand people in there, but uh, you know, 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:28.640 they definitely supporting the energy. It's crazy and uh you 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:30.680 know it's bittersweet. I only got the experience that for 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.720 one year, but it definitely was a great experience. 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.360 I was it playing for coach I said, Coach Cal 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:40.760 playing count my dog. 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.800 You know, blow head, thinking about their money, family, you know, 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:46.320 to the game. 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.720 How was that playing for coach ko Bro? I heard 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:50.199 they got a your ass a couple of times. 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.720 Hey, yo, all right, Jason. 0:09:55.360 --> 0:10:00.400 Jason here because they lost my marriage Jason, all right? 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:04.000 Playing for coach K was great. 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.920 I mean, the thing I respect most about coaches, he's 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:13.000 a leader of men, and he really understands how to 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.920 galvanize a team and how to get you to really 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:18.760 compete and play art. And I think that's the biggest 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.800 thing for kids that's coming out of high school. Everybody's talented, 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:23.800 but how can you work well with a team. How 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.120 do you learn how to compete? How do you learn 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.520 how to get outside yourself? Get outside your comfort zone? 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.240 I think Coach K was great at motivating and he 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:35.080 wanted the best for me, like he wanted me to 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:36.000 be the best pocty. 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:37.480 He wanted me to be wanted done. 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.840 He wanted me to go be where I'm matt And 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.600 I think that was that was important. That was special 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.240 because you hear a lot of stories and coaches that 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.560 like want to hold guy's back and want to keep 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.160 them k like, he pushes you to be the best 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.920 version of yourself, and that's somebody. Coach k texts me today, 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.960 like even at seventy seven, like you know, he still 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.320 tap in and we talked all the time. 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.880 Did he ever trow you, like just to get you 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.960 to play better or we have his like little antics 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:05.760 with you. 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:10.240 No, he definitely was a master manipulator. I mean we 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.840 was playing Virginia Virginia. He was playing a half Virginia 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.439 and it was the best game I had in college 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.440 at the time. I had two points at halftime, but 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.840 we was winning. I thought I was playing defense. I 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.840 came at halftime, I'm dapping everybody up. I'm like, yo, like, 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:28.640 you know, let's keep it going, We're gonna win, Like 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.959 keep playing the right way. No, Lie, I'm sitting next 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:33.080 to Millach. 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:33.880 Kate came in. 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:36.680 I'm like I'm leaning for it. I'm like, yo, like 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:37.360 let's go. 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.080 Came in, took his jacket off, and he threw it 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.200 at me. He was, like, you saw fast Saint Louis kidd. 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:45.760 He said, if I knew you was gonna play like this, 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:46.880 I would have left you back. 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:47.360 In Saint Louis. 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.880 Damn, I'm talking about He cussed me out the whole 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:53.840 twelve minutes, and like Mills, he was, I don't get mad, 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:56.880 like I don't like nobody called me soft, and I 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.439 don't want nobody disrespect wrong. 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.360 From That's how Newly talked to Murph relate. 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:09.319 You know, bro, my cousin. 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.880 But I think coaches just been there, like he knew 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:21.800 how to push your buttons. 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.880 And yeah, I scored twenty eight points in the second 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:28.200 half because I was just angry. And you know, at 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.400 the time I didn't understand, but after I realized, like 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.160 he just knew how to coach certain players. 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:35.160 He was excellent at that. 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:37.439 That's hard on points in the second half. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:42.200 Dam you didn't get no shots, getting no shots, Bro, 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:42.960 It's all good. 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:44.000 I've been there. 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:46.719 I've been there. My man ain't got no Mike. You 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.160 just say I've been there. I know this feeling, Bro. 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:55.000 I played I played on the Celtics, Brot, it's a 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:59.439 different time I life, for sure. Man. It's funny, you know, 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.720 I'm saying. You see people regards the best conference basketball. 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.640 He was in there in there. Yeah, yeah, you know 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:07.600 what I'm saying. Slew to you. But I definitely hated 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:08.839 you at the time here because I'm a little of 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:10.439 a fan and we did not have a chance to 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.760 get you off. One of the worst times of my 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.040 life doing that period because every cold player was going 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.520 to do and we didn't have a chance at all. No, No, 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:19.440 dou is a tough place to play. I mean, I killed. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.480 It's a tough place to play. What you do with it, 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.800 dang well, I ain't gonna. 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:30.240 Want to done all right, I had to. I was 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:31.360 already talking. 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:34.960 Funny, you know I did. 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:35.600 Two years bro. 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:38.080 Trying to be funny. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.160 I want to do what you have against like fos. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:41.840 You remember he didn't get no buckets. 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:42.440 We locked it up. 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:44.520 I play good, Yeah. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:46.760 You could not. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:47.959 We ain't going, bro. 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.720 Coach k We played on blew the smoke and coach 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:57.880 k right and he started coughing before the game on 0:13:58.120 --> 0:13:59.679 call in a c C and tell him that we 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:00.720 can't do the motorcycle. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:05.120 No more. We beat them that game anyway, But I had. 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:08.760 Motorcycle in the basketball. What y'all do y'all probably only 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:09.720 do that when y'all play Duke. 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.640 I had twenty six and we beat him. I ain't care. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:13.560 That's the problem. 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:15.760 Everybody pull out their best tricks when do come to team. 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.680 That was. That was very game that I was wafore 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:25.760 when I got to your team, no more bounce, none of. 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.640 That acc team you faced again and stuff. 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:29.280 Wait for it. 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:31.840 Stop. I know you ain't gonna say. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:36.480 That, honestly. North Carolina they won a championship that year. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.600 Yeah, they wanted your two. 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:39.920 They went when I was in school to. 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:44.240 Joe Berry justin Jackson a CC played the here Kennedy, Meek, 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:44.920 Steve Pon. 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:46.520 We end up we played them three times. 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:47.960 Yeah, we went to and. 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.880 One and if. 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:54.320 We ain't get cheated in South Carolina, we would have 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:55.480 met him in the championship. 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:56.920 They lost South Carolina. 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:57.960 They went to the final four. 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:02.040 That yeah, bro, that was that was that was out 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:02.440 of shape. 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:04.120 Glenn Davis, Bill Kennedy necks too. 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.800 Oh you know Carolina fan, you. 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:13.200 Like coach call right, but I fuck with coach cal 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:22.680 off Court talk about it in two different ministries about 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:24.480 you said, you know it's gonna be a one to doe. 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.240 You know what I'm saying? Season ends? How was that? 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.280 Like knowing you was like time to get paid, like 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.520 transition to be a pro? Like dream come true? How 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:31.800 was that moment? How was that summer? 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:33.320 I ain't gonna lie? 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:37.160 We lost to South Carolina and I was I was upset, 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:41.480 like because I was fully involved, like I I was 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:42.120 at Duke. 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:43.520 I was like, I want to see this through. I 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:44.680 wanted to win the championship. 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.080 The start of the season wasn't great, but we end 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.560 up we won the a CC tournament. We want four 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.360 games in four days. Nobody had ever done that, so 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.920 we ended up being a two seeds. So I'm thinking, like, yo, 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.760 were really gonna win the championship. We lost in the 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:59.600 second round and after the game, I remember I was 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.240 like DEVI state I was sick the medium in the 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:06.560 locker room, and I remember I got to the crowd. 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.320 I wanted to go to see my mom and it 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.960 just it just clicked. I was like, damn, like my 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.480 dream about to come true. And at that moment, it 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.080 wasn't like I didn't care that we just lost. It 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.120 was like, man, this is what I've been working towards 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.280 my whole life. And it was like I saw my mom. 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.680 I was like, yo, I'm about to change my mom life. 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:27.160 And at that moment, I wasn't that sad, No more 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.680 like I was. I was damn there excited. But I 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.000 remember I was a little nervous calling coach k of 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.440 like telling him like, yo, I'm not coming back to 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:39.600 school and Coach was like, you pick your agent yet 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.760 you ready? I was like, damn, Coach, like you don't 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.640 want to come back. He's like, no, Like you gotta go. 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:46.720 That's real. 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:48.160 That's real for sure. 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.400 But like I always was going to leave, but I 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:55.640 had just built the connection and relationship at Duke and 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:59.000 you know, still tied into this day, and you know, 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.760 I was just happy to be a part of that program. 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.439 The NBA is finally back. A new season means new 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.040 ways to get into the action. 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The crown is yours. 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:37.240 Noah, that's dope, man. 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:39.239 A lot of people don't get that experience, or they 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.120 coach want you to leave and like telling you pick 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:41.959 our agent and stuff. 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:43.479 Our coach was nothing like that, bro. 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:45.600 He was ready for them niggas to go. 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:46.120 Yeah. 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.440 They he was hating on us doing the draft. He's 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.000 telling two people were bad teammates, all type of stuff. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.160 It was crazy. So that's dope that coach k did 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.440 that for Yeah, yeah, that's love. Listen, we know where 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.440 you win the draft. But did you think he was 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:04.119 going number one? Mm hmmm, an't think so number one? 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:06.480 And then too was Lonzo. I ain't gonna lie Markel 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:10.600 Folks was cold in college, was wrong in fact? Watch Yeah, 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.120 he was nice. I watched him. I was like, yeah, 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.960 he's special. Alonzo was nice. But LeVar balls marketing skills 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.560 that entire summer. Yeah, that was him. That was crazy. 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:21.840 That's that should be spoken on more because I mean, 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.639 obviously he was deservers wrong, but LeVar saw him so 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.600 high for real, he saw him so hot going on campaign. 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:30.800 Who else parent was on ESPN BRO before the Like, 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:32.239 he really went crazy for that. 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:33.640 His daddy's got to do better. 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:42.840 Yeah, they got to be better. But it was a 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.000 blessing not to go to l A for me. For you, 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:46.680 I'm glad you didn't go to I mean, he probably 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:49.840 would have been filthy out there anyway, but I think 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:51.000 Boston was just perfect. 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.320 No, I mean, it definitely worked out. But like you said, 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:57.720 during that process, the narrative was it was consensus that 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.959 Markel was going number one, and when the Lakers got 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:02.840 the second pick, it was like Lonzo was going too. 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.159 So it was never the thought of my mind. Was like, 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.040 I just felt like everybody had their mind made up 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.360 and I was in LA. So Philly had the number 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.120 one picket first, they came to watch me work out. 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:18.400 The Celtics came to watch me work out. I'm sorry. 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:19.800 The Celtics had the number on Picck at the time. 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:22.320 They came to watch me in Phoenix. So Phoenix was 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.439 four so I work out for all of them. They 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:28.479 come watch me. Everybody was raving about the workout. But 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:30.600 then somebody I ain't gonna say his name of somebody 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.639 on the Celtics front office was like, Yo, one of 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.480 the best workouts I've seen. He was like, good luck 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:38.320 in your career. But you know, we got the number pick, 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.160 we probably not gonna pick you. So at the time 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:44.480 I was like like, damn, I don't want to go. Damn, Brad, 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:45.000 you did that. 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:46.879 No, it wasn't bad. I'm just playing. 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:48.280 Let me suffer. I'm sorry. 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:52.480 Come like, Brad, I got so for me. 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.760 I grew up with Kobe fan like, I always wanted 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:58.119 to play for the Lakers, so don't do it for 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:00.399 them to have the number two pick, And it was 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:02.159 like they didn't even it wasn't even have thought that 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:04.800 I was going to get drafted. Like that was kind 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.720 of devastating. So I never worked out for the Lakers. 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.320 They never came to watch me work out. And then 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.919 it was like a week before the draft, Philly and 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:18.000 Boston traded the thirty one three and I wanted to 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.720 go to Phoenix. Phoenix had the fourth pick. Errow Watson 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:22.960 was a coach I went out there. I was looking 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.639 at houses. The weather was nice, and they had a 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:27.159 young team. I was like, man, I'm gonna go get 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:29.960 the play. And then I remember Coach k was like, Yo, 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:32.200 Boston want to have you for a second workout. 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:33.320 You should go. 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:35.760 I'm like, coach, like, they just came off the Eastern 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:38.800 Conference finals. They got a veteran team, like, I'm probably 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:40.719 not gonna play. I don't want to go. Yeah, And 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:42.920 he was raving about Brad Stevens. He was like, Brad's 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:44.840 one of the best coaches in the league. Like, just 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:48.320 go for another workout. And I remember I went up 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:51.160 to Boston like three days before the draft. I had 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:54.359 another workout and I didn't know where I was getting 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:57.760 drafted until they called my name. Dang, and but you 0:20:57.800 --> 0:20:59.800 know the rest was history and it all worked. 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:01.600 Out for sure. That's crazy because I know from the 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:03.480 outside looking in, like I said, we fell from some 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:05.080 of the propaganda from the bar ball. We didn't know 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:06.720 it was sowing up like that. So to hear you say, 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:10.920 like the Lakers was that locked in? That's crazy. Yeah. 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:11.800 I was. 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:13.960 I was sick too, because it was like I was 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:15.960 so close to my dream and I might play for 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:18.320 the Lakers. It was like best case scenario, and they 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:20.199 was mine was made up. They didn't want to come 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:22.280 watch me work out and had me come in. 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:25.040 I was like, man, so you didn't think he was 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:26.800 gonna play it all Boston. 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:32.200 And then I get drafted. Gordon Hayward signed with the Celtics. 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:34.240 I called my agent like, yo, I gotta get traded 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:37.400 in the Summer League before I ever played a game, 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:37.760 like yo. 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:41.040 He like relaxed, just waited out. 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:42.359 Man, he's doing too much. 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:45.240 Basically, he's like you got I'm like, yo, I'm trying 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:45.600 to play. 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:46.200 I want. 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:46.560 I don't. 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:49.080 I didn't get drafted to come off the bench and 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:50.000 not start. Yeah. 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:52.520 Yeah, he was like, yo, just like you're in a 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:55.320 great organization. They're gonna teach you how to play. 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:55.520 The right way. 0:21:56.359 --> 0:21:57.760 I ain't gonna would have been worried. 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:01.440 Yeah, wrapped the head said j. 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:08.320 They picked up Jordan and then JB just got drafted 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:10.439 the year before, and JB didn't even play that much 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:10.879 a year. 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:12.679 So I would have been concerned too. 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:16.280 Ain't so at first, I'm like, but this is before 0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:19.240 Kyle even came. But then when Kyle came here was cool. 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:21.159 Because we we traded a lot of people for kay 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:21.800 I ain't lit. 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:28.800 Yeah, yeah, you had wonder like you had. I'll rock 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:30.840 with you purely off the skill. But I think what's 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:33.200 so crazy about you is like you accomplished so much 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:35.480 in a short little time that people like want to 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:38.240 down play. It's just like it's not his fault that 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:39.720 he came in the league killing a lot of people, 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:42.320 taking adjustment periers. You was on the veteran team with 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:44.000 a lot of people trying to get contracts, with a 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:46.440 lot of people trying to prove themselves. It still flourished, 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:49.160 like I had a crazy work got with crazy man. 0:22:49.720 --> 0:22:52.560 Yeah that was at that time. That was like the 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:55.280 most fun I ever had playing basketball. Like we lost 0:22:55.280 --> 0:22:58.040 our first two games and Gordon got hurt on opening 0:22:58.080 --> 0:22:58.520 the night. 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:00.479 Which was that was like tragic. 0:23:00.760 --> 0:23:03.800 Yeah, we lost in Cleveland, played back to back, we 0:23:03.840 --> 0:23:04.720 lost to Milwaukee. 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:07.000 I was like, damn, it's gonna be a tough year. 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:09.480 We won sixteen games. 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:11.600 Straight and that's when I was like, Kyrie might be 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:14.840 the best basketball player I've ever seen player. Kyrie won 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:18.120 and he got hurt and we had like twenty three 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:21.960 games left, and I remember it was me Smart t Row, 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:26.240 Marcus Morris, Baines al and we was already the two 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:29.080 seed and we had twenty three games that like play 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:31.560 like learn how to play with each other. And then 0:23:31.560 --> 0:23:34.280 we got to the playoffs and it was like, man, 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:36.880 were just like everybody's favorite team because we was all young. 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:40.560 Nobody expected us to beat Giannis in the Bucks. Then 0:23:40.560 --> 0:23:43.440 we beat Joel and then Playedbron in the conference finals. 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:45.880 We was rolling. I ain't gonna a lot, like we 0:23:45.880 --> 0:23:48.400 were just out there like having a ball for sure. 0:23:48.440 --> 0:23:50.640 I gotta ask, man, how was it going saying send 0:23:50.720 --> 0:23:52.439 Lebron to tweet the follow you back to Duncan on 0:23:52.480 --> 0:23:54.680 him in the playoffs. That's a hell of a transition. 0:23:55.720 --> 0:23:57.560 No, it was definitely a full circle moment. 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:03.520 And I remember like when we beat we beat Philly 0:24:04.080 --> 0:24:06.160 and they had swept Toronto. That's when the tweets start 0:24:06.240 --> 0:24:09.480 going viral. I made that tweet in eighth grade, like 0:24:09.480 --> 0:24:10.679 when I first got on Twitter. 0:24:11.359 --> 0:24:13.600 Yeah, we know, we see the times, but it's just funny. 0:24:13.320 --> 0:24:15.920 Head it's like twenty twelve or something like that. 0:24:16.119 --> 0:24:16.600 Was a fan. 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:24.399 I would never tweet did you take a picture with Bron? 0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:31.159 But when I took oh, it was twelve, it was 0:24:31.200 --> 0:24:36.240 already six three on top of his hand. You kid. 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:49.280 I was like, no, actually crazy that Louis. That's funny, 0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:50.359 that's funny. 0:24:50.400 --> 0:24:51.960 No, I want you to be going though, for real. 0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:52.399 I want to. 0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:54.040 I love bro. 0:24:54.040 --> 0:24:57.320 Cherry Rose your game, Bro. I was playing with him, man, 0:24:57.320 --> 0:24:59.280 that little stint that y'all head bro Bro. 0:24:59.560 --> 0:25:03.240 So teague though, like in the right before the season, 0:25:03.960 --> 0:25:06.600 before training camp, that's gods start coming in like two 0:25:06.800 --> 0:25:07.440 three weeks. 0:25:07.280 --> 0:25:08.399 Before the younger guys. 0:25:08.440 --> 0:25:10.159 I was in there like a month and we was 0:25:10.160 --> 0:25:13.680 having like open, open runs. And I remember the first 0:25:13.720 --> 0:25:16.760 time I called back home and I called back, I said, Yo, 0:25:17.640 --> 0:25:21.199 Terry Rozier is like that, bro. And you know, when 0:25:21.200 --> 0:25:23.520 you're younger, you think the guys that come up the 0:25:23.560 --> 0:25:26.639 bench or not starting, you think they just bums or 0:25:26.720 --> 0:25:29.200 average man. When I seen trow in that first pick 0:25:29.280 --> 0:25:32.800 up game, I was like, no, like Terry really got. 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:34.320 Game come, you know. 0:25:34.480 --> 0:25:37.640 And for ninety five percent of the league, you got 0:25:37.640 --> 0:25:39.520 to be in the right spot and have an opportunity. 0:25:39.760 --> 0:25:42.439 It's only a handful of guys that can go on 0:25:42.480 --> 0:25:44.880 any team and be who they are. And that don't 0:25:44.920 --> 0:25:47.520 mean that the other guy's not that good is just 0:25:47.600 --> 0:25:51.000 those five percent of players are really that good. So 0:25:52.080 --> 0:25:54.440 you know, obviously you don't never see somebody get hurt. 0:25:54.440 --> 0:25:56.320 But it was a blessing to disguise for Kyrie to 0:25:56.320 --> 0:25:59.119 get hurt. T Rogue got the show. You know, you 0:25:59.160 --> 0:26:02.119 can leading the team and beat the starting point guard 0:26:02.160 --> 0:26:05.359 and uh, you know, do all those things. But I remember, 0:26:05.440 --> 0:26:07.840 like it was September or whatever I called back home. 0:26:07.880 --> 0:26:09.520 I was like, t Rope is cold. 0:26:09.880 --> 0:26:11.480 He was killing bro what I feel like? He was 0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:13.240 your like leader, bro? He was. 0:26:17.160 --> 0:26:18.720 He was in the cut. You feel me you was 0:26:18.720 --> 0:26:21.120 doing your thing. He was nigga at the front, like 0:26:21.359 --> 0:26:22.000 what's had. 0:26:21.920 --> 0:26:24.200 When he tried to dunk on Brons when it got crazy, 0:26:24.520 --> 0:26:27.159 I was like, last game, Yeah he ready to go. 0:26:27.320 --> 0:26:31.639 You know he's done enough. I'm just trying. But the 0:26:31.680 --> 0:26:34.080 moment was crazy, the scary try because all boy act 0:26:34.200 --> 0:26:36.199 like everybody so the neck like you know who he was, 0:26:36.240 --> 0:26:43.760 bro Spoky that that snatched back clipping Lewis crash at 0:26:43.800 --> 0:26:45.760 the game, I said that out of pocket. Yeah, y'all 0:26:45.840 --> 0:26:49.480 was hard for that, you know what. I love Boston fans, 0:26:49.560 --> 0:26:51.159 even though when I played there it was COVID. We 0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:54.720 didn't have a fan of staying. That's why I wasn't 0:26:54.720 --> 0:26:57.879 hooping like that fans. I'm I'm a performer, like I 0:26:57.960 --> 0:27:02.800 need a crowd. They had fake crowd. Wasn't even out 0:27:03.040 --> 0:27:06.240 was stays even now Pella, Nah, I ain't no whop 0:27:06.359 --> 0:27:08.800 like the problem with Yeah, I ain't no practice player, Bro. 0:27:09.800 --> 0:27:12.159 I need a real show, bro saying you turned it 0:27:12.480 --> 0:27:17.159 was crowd noise. Mama's here. Yeah, I'm waiting at j 0:27:17.320 --> 0:27:20.040 T Mama. She all wanted the crowd for my son, 0:27:22.560 --> 0:27:25.280 little duce running on the cour You got secure, you 0:27:25.320 --> 0:27:30.480 can running on the to get your I tripped over 0:27:30.520 --> 0:27:34.879 the shoot dud. He do whatever he want. That's fine. 0:27:35.000 --> 0:27:37.480 I wouldn't know, friends that we really was cheering for 0:27:37.560 --> 0:27:42.080 each other. Like what I'm like, I have my best game, 0:27:42.160 --> 0:27:44.439 We're on national TV. Didn't feel like I. 0:27:44.520 --> 0:27:46.760 Tell people that was the hardest. That's got to be 0:27:46.800 --> 0:27:48.000 like the toughest NBA season. 0:27:48.040 --> 0:27:50.440 That was terrible, bro, That's why you fans. 0:27:51.160 --> 0:27:54.560 You gotta do it the nose swab every morning like 0:27:54.600 --> 0:27:56.320 it was. You just didn't know who was gonna play. 0:27:56.640 --> 0:27:58.760 Man, it was terrible. You had to sit and wait 0:27:58.800 --> 0:28:01.280 thirty minutes before you can go on the gym. We 0:28:01.400 --> 0:28:04.919 all just up there text and I'm like, yeah, this 0:28:05.000 --> 0:28:07.040 is over for me. And that's crazy that y'all say that, 0:28:07.080 --> 0:28:09.000 because I hear all the players say like that was 0:28:09.000 --> 0:28:10.960 a trying time. But it's like everybody else in mediate 0:28:10.960 --> 0:28:12.680 but like that Lakers aren't count because it was COVID. 0:28:12.680 --> 0:28:15.160 I'm like the niggas was playing, So that was really hard. 0:28:17.280 --> 0:28:18.080 Advice over y'alls. 0:28:18.359 --> 0:28:20.560 That was tough. That was tough. I don't know about them. 0:28:20.560 --> 0:28:21.280 For me, it was tough. 0:28:22.720 --> 0:28:26.960 I'm playing crowd, especially being on the road. I want 0:28:26.960 --> 0:28:29.560 to apologize to Boston because that wasn't my best performance. 0:28:29.920 --> 0:28:31.160 There wasn't no fans. 0:28:30.880 --> 0:28:32.159 There, but you was ready though. 0:28:32.200 --> 0:28:33.879 I mean, we don't want to talk about your Michael 0:28:34.040 --> 0:28:36.520 Urban stories, but he was ready to play. 0:28:36.720 --> 0:28:40.440 Man stop. I wouldn't coke. I was just cleaning my 0:28:40.480 --> 0:28:44.520 nose a lot. I didn't want coach. He's out of pocket, bro. 0:28:49.560 --> 0:28:53.040 He always played too much for wrestler's gonna beat. You 0:28:55.720 --> 0:28:59.880 need your help. Start out, bro, what you said you're going, 0:29:00.040 --> 0:29:01.320 how you rank fakes? 0:29:01.440 --> 0:29:04.800 Listen, see nigga, you didn't come on here to do this, 0:29:04.960 --> 0:29:11.400 but we're here. Everybody just sees the clips and fuck them. Really, 0:29:11.600 --> 0:29:16.800 you don't give a fuck honestly excuse nigga. But since 0:29:16.840 --> 0:29:19.040 you want to break it up, I said, a real 0:29:19.120 --> 0:29:20.040 karate black belt. 0:29:20.080 --> 0:29:23.720 He agreed. He wrestling, He dumps off the ropes at 0:29:23.760 --> 0:29:26.640 the house. He's the biggest wrestling fan in the in 0:29:26.680 --> 0:29:27.000 the world. 0:29:27.880 --> 0:29:33.240 Yes, why you add this, I'll be leaving stuff alone. 0:29:34.720 --> 0:29:37.320 But I'm saying a real karate black belt is somebody 0:29:37.320 --> 0:29:40.160 who just plays in w w E. Like not saying 0:29:40.240 --> 0:29:42.160 the top wrestlers or nothing, but like the nigga that 0:29:42.480 --> 0:29:44.600 they had LaVar Ball out there, so it's like eight 0:29:44.680 --> 0:29:47.360 niggas bills like LaVar Ball, that wrestle will get paid. 0:29:48.240 --> 0:29:49.560 So a motherfucking real. 0:29:49.440 --> 0:29:52.280 Karate earl type nigga with the black belt will beat 0:29:52.280 --> 0:29:53.360 the ship out of one of them. 0:29:53.400 --> 0:29:58.000 Bro, I don't care. 0:29:58.240 --> 0:30:02.480 I'm not worried about you want to run, I'm not 0:30:02.600 --> 0:30:03.240 worried about it. 0:30:03.960 --> 0:30:08.920 We're not worried. We're not gonna disrespect out here. Man. 0:30:09.640 --> 0:30:15.280 It's crazy almost trying to deal with them something one 0:30:15.400 --> 0:30:17.560 piece then the aw call me too. 0:30:18.560 --> 0:30:18.680 Bro. 0:30:18.800 --> 0:30:21.520 Stop laughing at him. I tell you how you're laughing 0:30:21.800 --> 0:30:28.680 at the lunchtime person. Laugh Getting next? Bro? All right, man, 0:30:28.960 --> 0:30:30.840 shoes is crazy. What was that feeling? Like, you know what 0:30:30.840 --> 0:30:32.920 I'm saying, that she was going to be a signature 0:30:32.920 --> 0:30:34.160 athlete in your own shoe. 0:30:34.200 --> 0:30:34.840 Man, that's hard. 0:30:35.160 --> 0:30:36.280 No, it was dope. 0:30:36.400 --> 0:30:40.160 I mean for me, I don't I don't take anything 0:30:40.160 --> 0:30:40.640 for granted. 0:30:41.240 --> 0:30:43.760 I'm still young enough where I remember the days of 0:30:44.480 --> 0:30:46.720 playing two K with my cousin, like yo, I'm gonna 0:30:46.760 --> 0:30:48.640 be on the cover one day, or going to full 0:30:48.680 --> 0:30:50.880 locker like, man, somebody gonna buy my shoes one day, 0:30:50.960 --> 0:30:53.560 or getting a jersey for Christmas, Like, man, somebody gonna 0:30:53.560 --> 0:30:56.600 get my jersey for Christmas. So it's like it's still 0:30:56.640 --> 0:30:58.880 a wild moment, like when we go on the road 0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:02.920 and kids on the sideline of kids in the crowd 0:31:03.120 --> 0:31:05.959 holding up my shoes, Like three years in, it's my 0:31:06.000 --> 0:31:08.760 third shoe, and it's still like, man, like all the 0:31:08.760 --> 0:31:10.400 guys in the league, all the shoes you could have 0:31:10.400 --> 0:31:11.920 went to go by and it's like, man, you want 0:31:11.960 --> 0:31:12.600 to go buy mine. 0:31:12.640 --> 0:31:16.080 It's like that should is still dope to me even 0:31:16.080 --> 0:31:16.640 to this day. 0:31:16.880 --> 0:31:19.160 For sure. How's a design process like to be hands 0:31:19.160 --> 0:31:20.720 on with something like you said, you get to see 0:31:20.760 --> 0:31:22.400 out in the world and the second side that question 0:31:22.560 --> 0:31:24.560 is how do you feel about people playing against you 0:31:24.600 --> 0:31:25.200 and your shoes? 0:31:26.840 --> 0:31:29.400 So that's it. So the first part, it's an eighteen 0:31:29.440 --> 0:31:33.120 month process. So like the threes is out, the forest 0:31:33.200 --> 0:31:36.440 is done, we're working on the five. So okay, it's 0:31:36.480 --> 0:31:39.200 like it's a long process because you like, you want 0:31:39.240 --> 0:31:41.280 to enjoy what you're wearing now, but you're on meetings 0:31:41.320 --> 0:31:43.360 about when the forest is coming out and they're like, 0:31:43.360 --> 0:31:45.360 all right, well we need to start designing the fives. 0:31:45.800 --> 0:31:46.880 So it's tough. 0:31:46.960 --> 0:31:48.840 It's trying to kind of stand in the moment because 0:31:48.880 --> 0:31:50.440 you're like, man, I just want to focus on what's 0:31:50.480 --> 0:31:54.200 going on right now. But shout out to everybody on 0:31:54.240 --> 0:31:55.880 the on the team team, Taylum and. 0:31:55.920 --> 0:31:58.400 Jordan Brand, they work very hard. 0:31:58.800 --> 0:32:01.520 We always on calls it get and it's just dope 0:32:01.560 --> 0:32:03.920 to see all the work to go behind and all 0:32:04.000 --> 0:32:05.920 how long it took. And it's like when you finally 0:32:05.960 --> 0:32:08.400 see the final product, when you get to see all 0:32:08.440 --> 0:32:11.560 the color ways and tell stories organically and people that 0:32:12.200 --> 0:32:13.240 you know can relate. 0:32:13.000 --> 0:32:17.080 To whatever you're trying to tell, it's dope. 0:32:17.600 --> 0:32:20.240 And for me, you know, seeing guys wear my shoes, 0:32:20.400 --> 0:32:23.440 whether they college or the women's team in college or 0:32:23.440 --> 0:32:29.080 the w NBA players. We just played Detroit like two 0:32:29.160 --> 0:32:31.320 games ago, and shout out to Tim Hardaway. Tim Hardao, 0:32:31.320 --> 0:32:33.480 we've been wearing my shoes like a year and a 0:32:33.560 --> 0:32:37.440 half now. Always notice whenever I play Tim, they don't 0:32:37.480 --> 0:32:41.200 never wear them, but we always joke and laugh about it. 0:32:41.240 --> 0:32:42.880 So he ain't wearing when we play the other day. 0:32:43.280 --> 0:32:45.040 Then they went to Miami and he had them on. 0:32:46.040 --> 0:32:48.400 But I get it, like man, being a competitor, you 0:32:48.520 --> 0:32:50.200 try and compete against somebody like you don't want to 0:32:50.200 --> 0:32:52.120 how they sneaks on, you know. 0:32:52.160 --> 0:32:53.120 I totally understand that. 0:32:53.200 --> 0:32:55.360 But I shout out to all the guys in the 0:32:55.440 --> 0:32:58.240 league that we're the Tatum threes or twos or whatever, 0:32:59.120 --> 0:33:01.560 and I really do a ship the threes is wrang, bro. 0:33:02.240 --> 0:33:06.640 You think you're gonna have like a a Tatum team 0:33:06.720 --> 0:33:08.200 with the guys who were like you can? 0:33:08.440 --> 0:33:11.120 I mean what Steph just do he signed there? 0:33:11.200 --> 0:33:12.360 And the Soldiers? 0:33:12.440 --> 0:33:16.040 Yeah whatever you want to come, just crazy lebron. 0:33:16.040 --> 0:33:25.120 So I'm about trying to be a lebron So even 0:33:25.160 --> 0:33:27.160 about trying to get DROs big start War two, but 0:33:27.520 --> 0:33:29.880 it didn't work. Give me the grand out with Rolls, 0:33:30.640 --> 0:33:33.080 but my boy taking shoot man. 0:33:33.520 --> 0:33:36.080 That'd be dope if you know, we keep building the 0:33:36.160 --> 0:33:38.720 business and we get to a point down the road 0:33:39.280 --> 0:33:41.480 ten years from now when I'm one of the older guys. 0:33:41.840 --> 0:33:46.400 Uh, anything happened. So that's far. I got asked, what 0:33:46.440 --> 0:33:48.840 was the ascitement like? What was like a better feeling? 0:33:48.840 --> 0:33:51.240 I know you're very grateful, but being two K getting 0:33:51.240 --> 0:33:54.280 your own shoes, that's too far. Ass accomplishments. But be 0:33:54.400 --> 0:33:56.400 on the cover of two K, bro, it's crazy. 0:33:57.120 --> 0:33:58.400 Oh that's a good question. 0:33:58.520 --> 0:33:59.080 I ain't gonna lie. 0:33:59.080 --> 0:34:02.920 I bought that two K. I can't believe I bought it. 0:34:02.920 --> 0:34:04.680 It's not nothing like that. I'm not saying like that. 0:34:04.720 --> 0:34:07.000 I ain't bought two K in a long time. I 0:34:07.080 --> 0:34:07.960 usually get it delivered. 0:34:08.000 --> 0:34:13.480 Support black, appreciate it. 0:34:14.440 --> 0:34:15.720 You could have send me one bro. 0:34:19.000 --> 0:34:20.760 This ship man. 0:34:24.719 --> 0:34:28.000 Kind of send me shoes. That's crazy. I got some 0:34:28.120 --> 0:34:29.600 j T. I never get tho j T. 0:34:30.320 --> 0:34:30.480 Keep it. 0:34:31.200 --> 0:34:36.120 I got some tools, got some tools great some on 0:34:36.160 --> 0:34:42.440 the way I saw Jordan, I got the Jordan athlete. 0:34:42.440 --> 0:34:45.319 Now on the way, what do use the platform? Kid? 0:34:46.120 --> 0:34:47.400 So you gotta start bullying people. 0:34:48.719 --> 0:34:50.600 I think the moment when I found out I was 0:34:50.640 --> 0:34:53.680 on two K was more special just because it was 0:34:53.680 --> 0:34:56.560 my birthday and it was on the Netflix. 0:34:56.560 --> 0:34:58.000 Thing I did was starting five deuce. 0:34:59.000 --> 0:35:01.759 He surprised me, and at that moment, like I kind 0:35:01.760 --> 0:35:03.680 of got emotional, like I teared up a little bit, 0:35:04.080 --> 0:35:05.920 just because it was like, man, it's my son sharing 0:35:05.960 --> 0:35:09.160 this moment with me. This is something I always dreamed of. 0:35:09.320 --> 0:35:11.520 It was like being on the cover of two K 0:35:11.680 --> 0:35:14.720 is like legendary, and hev your on shoe as well. 0:35:14.760 --> 0:35:20.800 But man, two K twenty five is like right, everybody 0:35:20.800 --> 0:35:21.080 played to. 0:35:22.360 --> 0:35:24.279 I just wish they wanted did Joe game like they 0:35:24.320 --> 0:35:26.600 did it like when you was on the cover. Because 0:35:26.680 --> 0:35:30.279 Nigga can't make a shot for ship, I ain't no, 0:35:30.400 --> 0:35:34.480 I'm wrong, Now get to it about his game, im no, no, 0:35:34.360 --> 0:35:40.920 no wrong. They made him all about the gameplay, like 0:35:40.960 --> 0:35:43.400 when you create a player on the wreck and stuff 0:35:43.400 --> 0:35:46.920 like can't nobody make a shot but me. My nephew 0:35:47.239 --> 0:35:52.400 sells me. My best friends tell me I got to 0:35:52.400 --> 0:35:55.239 carry boy. My back is getting heavy. People complain about 0:35:55.239 --> 0:35:57.160 the game play. I try to text you at and 0:35:57.200 --> 0:35:59.360 tell him, tell Ron he to get this fixed. He 0:35:59.400 --> 0:36:04.080 didn't respond. But anyway, you ain't never taket me. I 0:36:04.120 --> 0:36:05.560 ain't okay. Okay, you're right. 0:36:06.840 --> 0:36:07.440 They were nervous. 0:36:09.719 --> 0:36:14.160 He was nervous. Two K squads out the box. Yeah, 0:36:14.719 --> 0:36:17.120 we gotta get better. He was nervous. He was nervous. 0:36:17.120 --> 0:36:20.560 Michael gonna come, I said, just got here. I was 0:36:20.600 --> 0:36:26.480 like just eight because you like he what he takes 0:36:26.520 --> 0:36:35.680 me back? Yet? Are on it? 0:36:37.000 --> 0:36:39.400 Get Mike tied. 0:36:41.360 --> 0:36:44.080 That's freaking Mike. We're gonna tell you his backstory when. 0:36:44.480 --> 0:36:46.279 I ain't never care. I always come through, bro. 0:36:46.440 --> 0:36:48.440 Now you do, Bro, You've always been. That's one thing 0:36:48.440 --> 0:36:50.000 I wanted to say, like when you when it comes 0:36:50.040 --> 0:36:53.200 to fans and stuff like you, d Rose and a 0:36:53.239 --> 0:36:56.040 couple of teammates, y'all always been great with fans. I 0:36:56.080 --> 0:36:58.520 was never good with fans, like I ignore kidding a heartbeat. 0:36:59.160 --> 0:37:01.520 You was good, Bro. No, I'm not saying like that, 0:37:01.600 --> 0:37:05.640 like baby, like I hear him and I just go 0:37:05.719 --> 0:37:09.160 back there. I get you don't ignore anybody like and 0:37:09.200 --> 0:37:10.000 that's what make you you. 0:37:10.480 --> 0:37:12.040 While you starts, you gotta shoot. 0:37:12.040 --> 0:37:13.840 That's while you can be sold on the two K 0:37:13.960 --> 0:37:17.000 cover because you treat everybody respect. I wasn't disrespecting. I 0:37:17.080 --> 0:37:20.279 just feel like something that but. 0:37:22.280 --> 0:37:22.760 That's crazy. 0:37:23.200 --> 0:37:26.440 But now he great at that though and I used 0:37:26.440 --> 0:37:28.480 to see that when we was in Boston, and like 0:37:28.600 --> 0:37:30.239 even like when you had a little Mikey in here 0:37:30.280 --> 0:37:31.960 man to sign his jersey and see how excited he 0:37:32.080 --> 0:37:34.440 was about that. I'm like, man, he really got it, 0:37:34.480 --> 0:37:35.440 you know what I mean? You got that? 0:37:35.640 --> 0:37:35.759 Bro? 0:37:36.239 --> 0:37:37.879 When did you start that? 0:37:37.960 --> 0:37:38.200 Though? 0:37:38.280 --> 0:37:40.640 Like, when did you like become like damn my low 0:37:40.680 --> 0:37:43.640 key famous? Was it high school? Was it walk on campus? 0:37:43.640 --> 0:37:46.440 A dude? Like, when did you start embracing that moment? 0:37:46.880 --> 0:37:47.920 I mean it's a progression. 0:37:48.120 --> 0:37:50.520 Like when I was in high school, I got to 0:37:50.560 --> 0:37:53.520 a certain point. That's when social media took off. I 0:37:53.520 --> 0:37:55.400 would come out the locker room. I was signing three 0:37:55.440 --> 0:37:57.440 four hundred autographs after the game. 0:37:57.600 --> 0:37:58.360 In high school. 0:37:58.719 --> 0:38:00.920 Yeah right now, ain't the cash in? 0:38:01.480 --> 0:38:04.040 And that support is crazy? You and sexy red boy 0:38:04.120 --> 0:38:05.239 Saint Louis getting. 0:38:04.960 --> 0:38:16.080 Behind shots pocket no disrespect. I know you can't say 0:38:16.120 --> 0:38:17.840 trying me no more. But the Chinese food out there 0:38:17.840 --> 0:38:19.480 and fire to the shouts to the fried Rice. 0:38:28.880 --> 0:38:35.840 Brothers was crazy. What's the shop. 0:38:42.920 --> 0:38:48.320 Were out of pocket? I wouldn't be. He was arguing 0:38:48.360 --> 0:38:51.560 about Nelly and somebody. Bro. He was really hot at me, 0:38:53.560 --> 0:38:54.640 even better than Nelly. Bro. 0:38:54.719 --> 0:38:56.960 He was really bad. Bro Tea the type of guy 0:38:57.000 --> 0:38:58.759 he would just say. He'd come in the locker room 0:38:58.880 --> 0:39:01.800 just say some wow. She just to like get a reaction. 0:39:04.280 --> 0:39:04.400 Yo. 0:39:04.520 --> 0:39:06.000 He used to say, like, and I. 0:39:05.880 --> 0:39:09.919 Love James Harden used to be like, no, no, no, yeah, 0:39:11.640 --> 0:39:13.399 you said, don't know, Koche is my favorite player. 0:39:13.400 --> 0:39:15.080 He just say anybody is better than Koche. See, you 0:39:15.120 --> 0:39:17.480 can't do that. I got the trouble about this. 0:39:18.440 --> 0:39:20.160 He's just just trigger Who's what you say? 0:39:20.160 --> 0:39:22.680 It was better than that. I can't just saying somebody wow. 0:39:22.840 --> 0:39:25.359 He was hot. He was like, what, that's the first 0:39:25.360 --> 0:39:26.479 time I ever got in ridded. 0:39:26.520 --> 0:39:30.799 I'm used to listen to though. Was you warming up 0:39:30.840 --> 0:39:31.960 to he? 0:39:32.080 --> 0:39:32.160 Was? 0:39:33.400 --> 0:39:34.399 He so. 0:39:36.520 --> 0:39:37.239 Shaumanized? 0:39:37.280 --> 0:39:46.640 Crazy? Yoh? Trying to go ahead? 0:39:47.640 --> 0:39:53.919 I got Jackson, I got Michael Jackson, the best rapper 0:39:53.960 --> 0:39:54.560 from Indiana. 0:39:55.400 --> 0:39:56.840 Shout out Freddy Gibbs. 0:39:58.680 --> 0:40:03.879 I guess no respect. I'm just saying he's not from 0:40:03.920 --> 0:40:05.879 Mars City, from from Gary. 0:40:06.040 --> 0:40:13.120 Yeah we speaking Gary, the best rapper from Indiana. All right, 0:40:14.719 --> 0:40:24.400 y'all got sexy Nelly uh Chester Changstera used to listening 0:40:24.400 --> 0:40:29.640 to this, yeah yeah. 0:40:29.920 --> 0:40:33.200 He getting paid right now from the country dude using 0:40:33.200 --> 0:40:35.560 his song Boozo or something like that. 0:40:35.880 --> 0:40:37.560 So y'all, y'all have some ship, but you have some 0:40:38.400 --> 0:40:40.879 I ward for this because of Nelly. So yeah, that's 0:40:40.920 --> 0:40:41.640 that's a big statement. 0:40:42.480 --> 0:40:44.000 I thought Nelly was rolled back in the day. 0:40:44.760 --> 0:40:47.000 There's people better than I got better music. 0:40:49.239 --> 0:40:50.320 It's a handful of people. 0:40:51.360 --> 0:40:53.040 He stop that. 0:40:53.160 --> 0:40:55.400 I mean he did, and half he didn't go down 0:40:55.840 --> 0:41:00.279 j T favorite rapper Z though. That's how that's how 0:41:00.320 --> 0:41:01.920 me and him got cool. I'm like, dang, you listening 0:41:01.920 --> 0:41:04.440 to jay Z brought you about tea. 0:41:05.440 --> 0:41:08.560 He came to the team and this was during the 0:41:08.560 --> 0:41:11.520 COVID season, so the season started late, like November December. 0:41:11.560 --> 0:41:15.160 Our first game was on Christmas. Yeah, he didn't talk 0:41:15.200 --> 0:41:18.920 for the first like three weeks. He ain't had nothing, got. 0:41:18.920 --> 0:41:21.040 To test people out, bro, dark times bro. 0:41:22.280 --> 0:41:25.279 And then one day this nigga did not shut up, 0:41:28.040 --> 0:41:29.399 Like he ain't talked for like three weeks. 0:41:29.560 --> 0:41:32.120 Was something wrong with it? Different? 0:41:33.320 --> 0:41:35.600 And then after that he just from the day he 0:41:35.640 --> 0:41:38.280 got traded to the day he got traded, he talked 0:41:38.480 --> 0:41:39.000 every day. 0:41:39.239 --> 0:41:45.080 Wow, man, that's how it became cool. 0:41:45.200 --> 0:41:46.240 Don't remember that moment? 0:41:46.520 --> 0:41:48.640 I do I remember because I was like, man, they 0:41:48.680 --> 0:41:51.160 think I'm weird. I don't know. I really didn't think 0:41:51.160 --> 0:41:53.799 he was weird. I'm really roasting y'all in my head, 0:41:53.840 --> 0:41:57.680 but really being cool. Yeah yeah, I was like, man, 0:41:57.800 --> 0:41:59.960 I said something to him and we started shooting again 0:42:00.040 --> 0:42:01.520 than I was beating and shooting every time. 0:42:02.000 --> 0:42:03.719 Yeah, can we get on that story because every turn 0:42:03.800 --> 0:42:05.680 and say he whooped your ass one day and practice 0:42:06.000 --> 0:42:06.600 one one. 0:42:06.719 --> 0:42:08.680 I mean that's probably the reason. Like I don't address 0:42:08.719 --> 0:42:09.360 a lot of things. 0:42:11.000 --> 0:42:12.799 People say a lot of things on the internet on 0:42:12.920 --> 0:42:15.080 TV about me, and it's cool, everybody got a job, 0:42:15.800 --> 0:42:19.640 but I like your platform and podcast and I feel 0:42:19.680 --> 0:42:21.080 like I had to come up here and addressing things. 0:42:21.080 --> 0:42:24.120 I had e T in a crew message right, and 0:42:24.200 --> 0:42:28.719 sometimes you just can't let people get away with lying. 0:42:27.760 --> 0:42:29.960 Get on the camera, just. 0:42:31.719 --> 0:42:32.359 Allegations. 0:42:32.480 --> 0:42:35.520 I don't want to talk about me, he said, he 0:42:35.600 --> 0:42:36.840 used to talk. 0:42:37.160 --> 0:42:40.480 This was e t first year coaching. He still wanted 0:42:40.520 --> 0:42:43.080 to hoop. T wasn't. 0:42:43.680 --> 0:42:45.799 I ain't gonna say he wasn't playing, but like I was. 0:42:45.719 --> 0:42:48.640 Starting at no, I was six, man, he was going, 0:42:52.440 --> 0:42:53.000 he was coming up. 0:42:54.200 --> 0:42:55.320 He came in his git. 0:42:57.520 --> 0:42:58.880 Don't do that, but tem. 0:42:59.280 --> 0:43:03.080 That T like he got this demeanor like he don't 0:43:03.080 --> 0:43:04.800 he just real, nochalant like everything. 0:43:04.800 --> 0:43:05.920 He's just that's facts. 0:43:05.920 --> 0:43:06.040 Bro. 0:43:06.200 --> 0:43:08.439 He being practiced. She was kind of like barely tied. 0:43:09.080 --> 0:43:11.239 But after practice he would want to play one on one. 0:43:11.280 --> 0:43:14.279 He wanted We would always shoot at the practice and 0:43:14.440 --> 0:43:16.160 me and him and Et would play one on one 0:43:16.640 --> 0:43:18.120 damn it like every day. 0:43:19.040 --> 0:43:21.720 And he would win some spots like if we played. 0:43:21.880 --> 0:43:30.520 Yeah, he's sixteen, I'm five nine. He was him up, 0:43:30.600 --> 0:43:34.759 he was he was scoring et. 0:43:36.840 --> 0:43:37.920 Damn, I was. 0:43:37.840 --> 0:43:38.880 Score on YouTube. 0:43:38.880 --> 0:43:46.279 Bro, and some of those I don't know about like that. 0:43:46.520 --> 0:43:50.879 You're not gonna let you do he Bro, he used 0:43:50.880 --> 0:43:53.280 to lock him up sometimes, That's. 0:43:53.160 --> 0:43:54.439 What he was talking about. 0:43:54.560 --> 0:44:01.919 He was trying to get it. We was thinking about 0:44:01.960 --> 0:44:10.400 my niggas co people. Get Covid man, Like he was 0:44:10.400 --> 0:44:12.319 trying to come back and hoop now, like, Bro, Bro, 0:44:12.400 --> 0:44:14.200 get cobD man. You might have to suit up. Bro. 0:44:14.320 --> 0:44:16.160 We was playing with King to the court that day 0:44:16.200 --> 0:44:19.799 at home. I twin cross Et, I go to later 0:44:19.880 --> 0:44:21.959 ball up. Grabbed me out the air. 0:44:22.080 --> 0:44:23.080 He'sing hard, Bro. 0:44:23.920 --> 0:44:27.120 Brad Stevens walking the baseline like for a split second, 0:44:27.160 --> 0:44:30.960 Et lost his mind, like he almost got fired, Like 0:44:31.000 --> 0:44:33.040 he grabbed me out the air. Not like that found 0:44:33.080 --> 0:44:35.120 me just like the so I wouldn't get the lay up. Yeah, 0:44:35.440 --> 0:44:39.040 and Brad, Brad non confrontational. Brad just looked at him 0:44:39.040 --> 0:44:40.319 like the hell are you doing. 0:44:42.040 --> 0:44:43.840 That's when I knew it was time to me stopped playing. 0:44:46.680 --> 0:44:49.600 He tripped on me and some ship. He ain't got 0:44:49.680 --> 0:44:50.480 much around He. 0:44:52.040 --> 0:44:53.040 Get the joint. 0:44:55.920 --> 0:44:57.600 Like the thing. I couldn't have believed it. Like you 0:44:57.640 --> 0:45:00.000 know most of the star players, they get their shot 0:45:00.000 --> 0:45:02.040 I took, then they gonna go about their business. He 0:45:02.080 --> 0:45:04.320 would be looking for you, like, oh, we ain't playing 0:45:04.320 --> 0:45:06.799 to day. I'm like, and he different. He we in 0:45:06.880 --> 0:45:08.720 the gym for another two hours. 0:45:08.800 --> 0:45:11.360 We would play one one every day and I'm like, 0:45:11.640 --> 0:45:13.560 he's different, Like he want to be in here for 0:45:13.600 --> 0:45:14.400 another two hours. 0:45:14.600 --> 0:45:16.680 I really don't even want to be in here, but 0:45:16.680 --> 0:45:17.879 I'm gonna play against. 0:45:17.600 --> 0:45:20.799 Him because I like he wouldn't he didn't really want 0:45:20.840 --> 0:45:21.640 to be at practice. 0:45:23.520 --> 0:45:25.440 I'm a coach that. 0:45:27.560 --> 0:45:31.759 Kids, because that was third good washer of the gym 0:45:31.840 --> 0:45:38.480 now have been submitted it fucking running all day. 0:45:40.280 --> 0:45:41.880 But I want to say he liked this, Like a 0:45:41.880 --> 0:45:44.160 lot of people don't necessarily want to go through the 0:45:44.760 --> 0:45:46.719 practice schedule, but if they want to compete, if you 0:45:46.760 --> 0:45:49.080 want to go to workout of shooting drills and play 0:45:49.120 --> 0:45:51.640 one on after practice, like everybody want to compete. 0:45:51.680 --> 0:45:53.560 So that was our thing. After practice. 0:45:53.560 --> 0:45:56.120 We would always play one on one me, him and 0:45:56.280 --> 0:45:58.120 uh E t out the practice. 0:45:58.480 --> 0:46:00.600 Do you give him a little credit though, in ET 0:46:00.760 --> 0:46:02.359 for sharpening your skills a little bit? 0:46:03.360 --> 0:46:05.719 That's a little bit. I'm trying to get the where 0:46:05.760 --> 0:46:06.200 you showed. 0:46:06.040 --> 0:46:07.080 Him a little love? Bro. 0:46:07.960 --> 0:46:10.239 The ET teacher was what fucking drill. 0:46:10.360 --> 0:46:14.920 That you use? The funny thing about ET he would 0:46:14.920 --> 0:46:18.040 tell like E T B E T was assistant coaches 0:46:18.080 --> 0:46:20.920 at this point for sure. ET was like, where am 0:46:20.960 --> 0:46:24.680 I going to teach Jason Table? Who I'm a teacher 0:46:25.080 --> 0:46:28.080 better than me? I'm like, good point ET. 0:46:28.960 --> 0:46:29.520 About that too. 0:46:29.600 --> 0:46:34.799 Thought was the wildest, funniest coach I ever had, and not. 0:46:34.719 --> 0:46:35.680 Even trying to be funny. 0:46:35.680 --> 0:46:39.600 We was playing in Milwaukee and I think at the half, 0:46:39.640 --> 0:46:41.240 I had to be like three for ten. I missed 0:46:41.239 --> 0:46:44.160 like four or five threes, so I missed. My laste 0:46:44.160 --> 0:46:47.440 were walking off and he just so it's like he. 0:46:47.480 --> 0:46:49.239 Got an innocence about it. He run up to me, 0:46:49.800 --> 0:46:52.799 He's like, yo, you know you can make some of them, right, 0:46:59.800 --> 0:47:01.319 I know? What he's trying to say. But how he 0:47:01.600 --> 0:47:04.239 conveyed the messages. It's so crazy because like how do 0:47:04.360 --> 0:47:07.239 I even respond to this in the moment. You don't laugh, bro, 0:47:08.120 --> 0:47:12.880 Like yeah, I'm trying to. I'm trying. That was a 0:47:12.920 --> 0:47:17.680 good time, bro, so soild. I just talked okay, like 0:47:17.960 --> 0:47:20.920 look at j T. Man, he want the ball, man, 0:47:21.239 --> 0:47:26.400 he pissed on the line, get the ball like a 0:47:28.880 --> 0:47:34.640 ball you see. 0:47:34.640 --> 0:47:37.759 If I forget it was a funny year. I give 0:47:37.840 --> 0:47:41.000 T credit though. I wanted a d roll with autograph. 0:47:41.120 --> 0:47:43.400 Jersey and I ain't know that they was cool. I 0:47:43.560 --> 0:47:45.960 know that they knew each other from way back, and 0:47:46.239 --> 0:47:50.560 team made sure I got an autograph Detroy Piston de 0:47:50.719 --> 0:47:51.240 Rose Jersey. 0:47:51.360 --> 0:47:53.280 Yeah, I was like, man, go up to him. Break. 0:47:53.760 --> 0:47:56.239 I went him to him and he looking like he 0:47:56.320 --> 0:47:56.759 want mark. 0:47:56.840 --> 0:48:00.719 I'm like, yeah, like I need want to some It. 0:48:00.719 --> 0:48:02.359 Was like nervous that go up to as. 0:48:03.200 --> 0:48:05.719 That's what made me like kind of get like drawn 0:48:05.760 --> 0:48:06.320 to you, Paus. 0:48:06.400 --> 0:48:09.040 But it's like you was so cool, like man, he's 0:48:09.040 --> 0:48:12.600 a star, like superstar. But he'll be like remember you, bro, 0:48:12.800 --> 0:48:15.360 like he'll show you love, like he ain't give me 0:48:15.400 --> 0:48:16.120 no love right now. 0:48:16.320 --> 0:48:16.799 It's cool. 0:48:16.840 --> 0:48:19.760 But he'd be like you remember you want to get Atlanta. 0:48:19.800 --> 0:48:21.279 I'm like, you. 0:48:23.960 --> 0:48:26.080 Know what I'm saying right on, Bro, you know what 0:48:26.120 --> 0:48:28.920 I'm saying e T. E T like that too. T 0:48:29.040 --> 0:48:30.839 give you a lot of love. And I was like, dang. 0:48:31.200 --> 0:48:32.920 So when I seen him start working together. E T 0:48:33.160 --> 0:48:35.040 was like, man, that's he like a little bro bro. 0:48:35.239 --> 0:48:37.759 But he cold. The only person he would ever say 0:48:37.800 --> 0:48:39.800 something else to get under his skin and be Luca 0:48:39.880 --> 0:48:44.160 bro anytime we mentioned Luca, even though it definitely ain't 0:48:44.160 --> 0:48:46.240 no beef with them and it's just competitive spirit. 0:48:46.320 --> 0:48:49.520 But E T would be like, yeah, Luca Cold, like 0:48:50.040 --> 0:48:50.960 about to get forty. 0:48:52.280 --> 0:48:55.359 To go crazy. I was like, tay the game, before 0:48:55.360 --> 0:48:57.080 the game you got to play, somebody talk about Luca 0:48:58.000 --> 0:49:01.560 T be like that's my favorite players looke. He'd be 0:49:01.640 --> 0:49:07.239 like ja, he'd be like wow, I'll be like cold. 0:49:10.120 --> 0:49:11.640 I knew he was gonna get at least a thirty 0:49:11.640 --> 0:49:13.440 two point performance on the bench. You just want to 0:49:13.440 --> 0:49:15.360 see somebody kill see some. 0:49:15.360 --> 0:49:18.160 Motherfuckers knew how to trigger him, though I do him going. 0:49:18.760 --> 0:49:21.840 I text him now. I couldn't say nothing in the 0:49:21.880 --> 0:49:25.160 first game this year, you went crazy. I ain't want 0:49:25.160 --> 0:49:31.960 to get you a little. I was just like, up, yeah, regression, 0:49:32.040 --> 0:49:32.279 but he. 0:49:32.400 --> 0:49:34.759 Was killing bro. He was killing this ship. Been good 0:49:34.840 --> 0:49:35.839 for so far for sure. 0:49:36.000 --> 0:49:37.640 Listen, man, we definitely want to talk about I had 0:49:37.680 --> 0:49:38.840 last year to get the ring, but I want to 0:49:38.880 --> 0:49:40.279 ask you, know what I'm saying, planning gets to words 0:49:40.320 --> 0:49:41.920 of twenty two coming up a little bit short, But 0:49:42.080 --> 0:49:43.960 how was that experience? You know what I'm saying, moted 0:49:44.000 --> 0:49:45.480 you to be ready to get that chip last year. 0:49:46.600 --> 0:49:47.600 I mean it's certain things. 0:49:47.480 --> 0:49:49.800 That you go through in real time that you don't understand, 0:49:49.920 --> 0:49:52.440 like how this is going to prepare you for the future, 0:49:53.200 --> 0:49:56.560 because losing in twenty two is like devastating. Like we 0:49:56.760 --> 0:49:58.640 was the eleventh seed. We end up getting to the 0:49:58.680 --> 0:50:03.040 two seed. We beat Katie and Kyrie, We beat Yannis, 0:50:03.120 --> 0:50:05.800 the defending champs. We go to Miami and win in 0:50:05.880 --> 0:50:08.360 Game seven, Like that was one of the toughest runs 0:50:09.000 --> 0:50:11.520 I can remember in recent years, and then to fall 0:50:11.640 --> 0:50:13.000 up short, it was like, man, we just did all 0:50:13.080 --> 0:50:16.120 that for nothing. It was devastating. And then the next 0:50:16.200 --> 0:50:18.520 year we kind of like we like overlooked teams a 0:50:18.560 --> 0:50:20.320 little bit. We just wanted to get back to the finals. 0:50:20.360 --> 0:50:22.680 We end up going six with Atlanta in the first round, 0:50:22.800 --> 0:50:25.040 Like we didn't handle business the way we should have 0:50:25.120 --> 0:50:28.319 and put ourselves in a whole. We was down three 0:50:28.600 --> 0:50:30.359 and you damn it gotta be perfect to win four 0:50:30.400 --> 0:50:32.560 games in a row. And you know I sprained my 0:50:32.600 --> 0:50:34.960 ankle to first play the game, and you know, the 0:50:35.080 --> 0:50:38.359 margin for ERRORGE is that much shorter when you down three. 0:50:38.840 --> 0:50:40.680 So I think last year was the perfect balance of 0:50:40.840 --> 0:50:45.040 like obviously we got KP, we got Drew, and I 0:50:45.080 --> 0:50:46.960 think our team was just in the perfect space of 0:50:47.120 --> 0:50:52.640 like everybody got paid, everybody had individual success and awards. 0:50:53.200 --> 0:50:56.080 The only thing we haven't done besides Drew was winning championship. 0:50:56.680 --> 0:50:58.720 And I give a lot of credit to our coaching 0:50:58.760 --> 0:51:02.040 staff and Joe just the way we prepared, Like in 0:51:02.160 --> 0:51:05.680 our mindset, we knew how to play, and we really 0:51:05.840 --> 0:51:08.920 we just got better every single day. We approached how 0:51:08.960 --> 0:51:10.839 we was going to play the Bucks the same way 0:51:10.880 --> 0:51:12.920 we was gonna play the Wizards. Like we didn't look 0:51:12.960 --> 0:51:15.920 past nobody, and we lost eighteen games last year and 0:51:15.920 --> 0:51:18.400 we went sixteen and three in the playoffs. Like I 0:51:18.520 --> 0:51:21.600 know we're still playing. Nobody want to give us our credit, 0:51:21.680 --> 0:51:23.600 But like the ship we did last year was special 0:51:24.680 --> 0:51:25.760 get credit. 0:51:26.280 --> 0:51:29.759 I don't know you different anybody else is just like hey, 0:51:29.880 --> 0:51:32.080 as a Patients fan, please tell me that we was 0:51:32.120 --> 0:51:32.719 the hardest team. 0:51:32.800 --> 0:51:33.239 You know what I'm saying. 0:51:33.320 --> 0:51:34.480 Las shot in the post season. 0:51:34.360 --> 0:51:36.440 That big a dude go out of Celtic's Gary down 0:51:36.480 --> 0:51:36.960 for old. 0:51:39.719 --> 0:51:40.520 Luck. You can never. 0:51:44.840 --> 0:51:47.520 No, I mean I said, I'm a record for saying it, 0:51:47.600 --> 0:51:51.640 Like yes, sir, it's the patience. That was the hardest 0:51:52.680 --> 0:51:53.920 series that we had last year. 0:51:54.080 --> 0:51:54.360 Just like. 0:51:55.920 --> 0:51:58.680 How fast they played. They were subming three people at 0:51:58.719 --> 0:52:04.040 the time. Teacher mcconna was unreal at home, like was 0:52:04.080 --> 0:52:06.799 doing over topping. Like the role players that they got, 0:52:07.200 --> 0:52:10.320 they're just also selfless. They don't move, they don't stop moving. 0:52:11.360 --> 0:52:15.480 Everybody played without the ball, and they just like they 0:52:16.680 --> 0:52:18.960 the way they play, they trying to they like bait 0:52:19.080 --> 0:52:22.040 you in the play how they play and like that 0:52:22.200 --> 0:52:24.719 works for them. And you know our thing is like 0:52:25.080 --> 0:52:27.200 we want to get stops and defense and you look 0:52:27.280 --> 0:52:28.919 up the score might be one hundred and thirty five, 0:52:29.040 --> 0:52:31.000 Like that's the game that they want to play. And 0:52:31.560 --> 0:52:33.160 when they get you playing that way, like they can 0:52:33.200 --> 0:52:36.320 beat anybody. And you know, we came back in overtime 0:52:36.400 --> 0:52:40.439 the first game Game three was down nineteen. In Game four, 0:52:40.800 --> 0:52:43.040 ship we went down to the wire like we swept them. 0:52:43.080 --> 0:52:46.000 But like every game we did tying. 0:52:46.680 --> 0:52:47.840 It was with all good. 0:52:47.760 --> 0:52:50.120 Games though for the most part, like exciting games to 0:52:50.200 --> 0:52:51.160 be I should say. 0:52:51.080 --> 0:52:52.800 I give any a lot of credit. Like we was 0:52:53.000 --> 0:52:55.279 dog tired after every game after that. Listen, we don't 0:52:55.280 --> 0:52:57.399 get nice things offense, so they complimences me to lots 0:52:57.440 --> 0:53:00.960 of me because thisigga still there be like like that. 0:53:01.480 --> 0:53:03.400 The way we start off this season, I don't know 0:53:03.440 --> 0:53:04.759 if I could be happy this year or not. Man, 0:53:04.800 --> 0:53:06.960 it's thanks for the word. That's all do right now now. 0:53:07.280 --> 0:53:10.160 When Drew first got traded from Milwaukee, what I tell 0:53:10.160 --> 0:53:13.759 you we was gonna win, I told you go get Drew. 0:53:14.280 --> 0:53:16.960 Got we got traded from it. Yeah, I said, go 0:53:17.080 --> 0:53:20.719 get Drew. Y're gonna win. He said, I'm already on it. 0:53:21.080 --> 0:53:21.959 I know you wasn't. 0:53:22.000 --> 0:53:24.520 Man said I'm on it. And then I seen it happen. 0:53:24.600 --> 0:53:25.680 I said, damn, he was on it. 0:53:29.600 --> 0:53:31.840 He really got pulled over there in the time of contact. 0:53:31.920 --> 0:53:32.520 No tempering. 0:53:32.880 --> 0:53:35.440 Yeah, man, I'm just saying though him joining the team, though, 0:53:35.480 --> 0:53:38.200 how was it, Bro? Did you think like when you got. 0:53:38.120 --> 0:53:40.600 There of course I got aspirations of winning, but he 0:53:40.719 --> 0:53:42.520 was like, no, this is gonna help us. 0:53:43.160 --> 0:53:44.840 No, I mean absolutely. 0:53:45.320 --> 0:53:47.120 Drew was on the team with me in twenty twenty 0:53:47.200 --> 0:53:49.719 one when he was in the Olympics, fresh off he 0:53:49.840 --> 0:53:52.440 just won a championship with the Bucks. Came with us 0:53:52.480 --> 0:53:54.640 and we wanted to go medal together. And I just 0:53:55.120 --> 0:53:56.880 I understood at that time that Drew was like a 0:53:56.960 --> 0:53:59.319 Swiss army. Notight he couer, yeah, guard the one through 0:53:59.360 --> 0:54:02.200 the five. He could be on ball, he could play 0:54:02.239 --> 0:54:03.759 off the ball. You put him in a dunker, he 0:54:03.800 --> 0:54:07.560 can set screens, he can score on any matchup. He 0:54:07.719 --> 0:54:12.080 not like you know, he a team player. When the 0:54:12.120 --> 0:54:13.640 big games, he gonna do what he's supposed to do. 0:54:13.760 --> 0:54:16.400 And not that he's gonna fall back, but he just 0:54:16.520 --> 0:54:19.879 know how to how to play with you know, superstars, 0:54:19.920 --> 0:54:24.640 and he liked the ultimate teammate. So when we got 0:54:24.719 --> 0:54:28.080 Drew is definitely like our confidence roles are like, man, 0:54:28.120 --> 0:54:30.360 we just felt that much better about what he was 0:54:30.400 --> 0:54:30.800 about to do. 0:54:31.400 --> 0:54:31.600 Yeah. 0:54:31.640 --> 0:54:33.799 Yeah, as a Pacers fan hating because y'are cheating, you're 0:54:33.840 --> 0:54:36.160 not supposed to have Derek White Andrew, and then switching 0:54:36.200 --> 0:54:39.480 to you and JB. That's not fair man. Life ain't 0:54:39.520 --> 0:54:39.920 fair man. 0:54:40.880 --> 0:54:42.600 Every white got cold when he cut the hair. 0:54:42.719 --> 0:54:44.520 When he cut the hair, they had to pay for 0:54:44.640 --> 0:54:47.799 that though, I mean they salary cap Man. 0:54:48.680 --> 0:54:52.960 Tax bill is probably nuts. Imagine. I know he's selling 0:54:53.080 --> 0:55:01.680 the tape for re boy, this tax bill is crazy. 0:55:01.760 --> 0:55:04.160 It's worth it, though, Bro. I mean, championships is for 0:55:04.280 --> 0:55:06.799 sure worth it. But y'all to a great story so far, 0:55:07.800 --> 0:55:09.080 for sure. I mean I want to ask you know 0:55:09.080 --> 0:55:10.480 what I'm saying, having to crazy summer. You know what 0:55:10.480 --> 0:55:12.560 I'm saying, getting the dring? You know, matter, how do 0:55:12.600 --> 0:55:14.640 you come back motivated? Obviously you a professional, you come 0:55:14.719 --> 0:55:18.839 to hoop, but like having such accomplishments a short amount time, 0:55:18.880 --> 0:55:20.560 what keeps you motivated and locked in and coming to 0:55:20.640 --> 0:55:23.920 this season? H I think for me, one thing is like, man, 0:55:24.120 --> 0:55:25.080 I'm only twenty six. 0:55:25.560 --> 0:55:30.400 I think a lot of people, not some fans of 0:55:30.440 --> 0:55:32.719 people in the media might view like, oh, you've been 0:55:32.719 --> 0:55:34.919 in the championship, You've been in conference final, Like they might. 0:55:34.840 --> 0:55:36.440 Think I'm older than what I am. Like, boy, you 0:55:36.560 --> 0:55:44.000 look thirty kicked off early that I never understood that. 0:55:44.000 --> 0:55:45.920 He I'm like, why is it his fault? Because he 0:55:46.120 --> 0:55:47.600 was successful? Early, like you came in to the league, 0:55:47.600 --> 0:55:50.000 goach like, don't aging for it? Are you get mad 0:55:50.000 --> 0:55:52.279 at him for it? He was still killing. I mean 0:55:52.280 --> 0:55:52.920 it's some truth to that. 0:55:53.040 --> 0:55:55.400 Like, the expectation for me was just way higher because 0:55:56.000 --> 0:55:58.320 I went to the Conngresce Finals at twenty. So for 0:55:58.440 --> 0:56:01.440 me being twenty six, like I got a lot of basketball, 0:56:01.560 --> 0:56:05.200 left a lot and that feeling of winning the championship 0:56:05.239 --> 0:56:07.680 and having that parade, it was like, man, I want 0:56:07.719 --> 0:56:11.480 to do this ship again and again and again. And 0:56:12.320 --> 0:56:14.759 you know, my favorite players, like the guys I looked 0:56:14.800 --> 0:56:17.560 up to, they didn't just win one championship, like they 0:56:17.600 --> 0:56:18.840 ain't coming to the League of. 0:56:18.920 --> 0:56:20.719 Like or make one All Star game. 0:56:20.920 --> 0:56:24.920 You know, they have so many it'd be your own guys. 0:56:25.480 --> 0:56:28.480 That's what j T was on the real one. 0:56:29.360 --> 0:56:31.440 He didn't say nothing about an All Star game, bro 0:56:41.640 --> 0:56:42.719 your own guys. 0:56:45.840 --> 0:56:48.239 Game like that. Not a lot of people say that. No, 0:56:48.360 --> 0:56:49.960 I was just talking you got you got one of them. 0:56:52.280 --> 0:56:58.120 I was going to George, I'm back. 0:56:58.880 --> 0:56:59.439 That's good. 0:57:01.960 --> 0:57:06.879 Oh man, Well sorry with you to begin nothing. 0:57:07.080 --> 0:57:11.120 Just like the motivation came from like, man, yeah, I 0:57:11.239 --> 0:57:14.040 understand the space that I'm in and trying to maximize 0:57:14.080 --> 0:57:16.520 this window of like I want to be one of 0:57:16.560 --> 0:57:19.200 the best players to ever played, and I understand the 0:57:19.200 --> 0:57:20.840 window that I have right now and God will and 0:57:20.920 --> 0:57:24.160 I stay healthy. That you know, I feel like I 0:57:24.760 --> 0:57:26.680 put it in the time and effort to take care 0:57:26.680 --> 0:57:29.240 of my body to you know, eat the right things 0:57:29.360 --> 0:57:32.040 and work on my game to be one of the best. 0:57:32.120 --> 0:57:34.680 That you know, it's not just I don't I want 0:57:34.720 --> 0:57:36.400 to be one of the best players to ever play. 0:57:36.640 --> 0:57:39.120 And not to say that it's about rankings, but I 0:57:39.200 --> 0:57:41.280 want to accomplish everything that's in front of me. 0:57:42.600 --> 0:57:44.000 I know he's about to, you know, get out of here. 0:57:44.000 --> 0:57:46.560 I want to ask you, like he speaks for us, 0:57:46.720 --> 0:57:48.800 is God for real? How you feel about him? 0:57:48.840 --> 0:57:49.000 Man? 0:57:49.120 --> 0:57:51.160 See watching him win the championship with you bro, I 0:57:51.240 --> 0:57:51.919 know that was big. 0:57:52.360 --> 0:57:55.880 No, that's like easily one of my favorite, if not 0:57:56.000 --> 0:58:00.400 my favorite teammate I ever had from a professional state point, 0:58:00.480 --> 0:58:04.200 like when I got drafted at nineteen, Seeing how Al 0:58:05.080 --> 0:58:08.400 approached every practice day, every game day, every off day, 0:58:09.160 --> 0:58:13.080 it's a testament to like his career. It's year eighteen 0:58:13.160 --> 0:58:15.840 and like it was year seventeen. Last year, we relied 0:58:16.560 --> 0:58:19.080 heavily on Al to help us win a championship. It's 0:58:19.080 --> 0:58:21.600 not a lot of people in year seventeen that's starting 0:58:21.640 --> 0:58:23.160 on the team that's going to the finals. 0:58:23.880 --> 0:58:26.320 In that game three against Indiana, he had like eight 0:58:26.400 --> 0:58:30.360 three I remember, and it's like we needed him to 0:58:30.400 --> 0:58:31.000 win that game. 0:58:31.320 --> 0:58:34.919 So Al took me under his wing, you know, since 0:58:35.120 --> 0:58:39.200 my first day, and you know somebody that's like always 0:58:39.280 --> 0:58:41.920 been there for me, somebody I've learned a lot from 0:58:42.120 --> 0:58:44.840 from the standpoint of like having a routine. I got 0:58:45.480 --> 0:58:49.480 my routine from watching Al have a routine. That's why 0:58:49.560 --> 0:58:51.480 he's been in the league for so long and been 0:58:51.560 --> 0:58:54.880 so successful. So Al is one of the best people 0:58:54.960 --> 0:58:58.560 you would ever meet, one of the best players Hall 0:58:58.600 --> 0:59:02.120 of Fame career and help him get over that top, 0:59:02.320 --> 0:59:04.880 get over the top and win a championship, was like 0:59:05.520 --> 0:59:06.160 that was special. 0:59:06.360 --> 0:59:08.800 Now. I was so happy for hour Bro, because I 0:59:09.000 --> 0:59:11.919 want the coolest dudes ever. Bro. He just do his job. 0:59:12.040 --> 0:59:15.200 He'll help you anything, give you any advice you want, 0:59:15.240 --> 0:59:18.040 the best for everybody. So I know when y'all got 0:59:18.120 --> 0:59:19.920 him back, when Brad went back and got him, I 0:59:20.040 --> 0:59:22.320 was like, man, y'all gonna have a special run. And 0:59:22.440 --> 0:59:26.000 he ain't stopping. No tom soon still going now, keep 0:59:26.000 --> 0:59:28.000 you in that check, my boy, keep moving facts fact 0:59:28.360 --> 0:59:30.040 before we got out here. Obviously we know you played 0:59:30.080 --> 0:59:31.760 win championships, but do you have any personal goals you 0:59:31.760 --> 0:59:32.680 can share with us the season? 0:59:32.720 --> 0:59:32.880 Man? 0:59:34.040 --> 0:59:37.480 Uh Man, I want to win another championship, brokay obviously, 0:59:37.640 --> 0:59:41.960 like you want to win MVP, you want to first 0:59:42.000 --> 0:59:46.640 team All NBA again, and those things and winning MVP 0:59:46.840 --> 0:59:49.280 or wanting to have that as a goal, that's not 0:59:49.360 --> 0:59:50.000 a negative thing. 0:59:51.320 --> 0:59:52.120 That's what I'm saying. 0:59:52.640 --> 0:59:54.800 If you you aspired to do that, you're playing at 0:59:54.840 --> 0:59:57.080 a high level, you're playing fishing, you're dominating. Your team 0:59:57.200 --> 1:00:00.320 is one of the best, and even if you don't win, right, 1:00:00.360 --> 1:00:02.439 it's only one person that can win, but it's five 1:00:02.480 --> 1:00:04.960 people every year that's playing at an NBV level for sure. 1:00:05.800 --> 1:00:08.680 So just trying to, you know, continue to dominate, being 1:00:08.760 --> 1:00:12.840 more efficient and understanding that this window we have, like 1:00:13.120 --> 1:00:16.439 trying to get better every day and you know, winning 1:00:16.440 --> 1:00:18.880 the championship and getting our ring the other night was 1:00:18.960 --> 1:00:20.040 one of the coolest moments. 1:00:20.080 --> 1:00:21.360 And it's like, man, I want to do that ship 1:00:21.840 --> 1:00:23.080 again and again again. 1:00:23.880 --> 1:00:25.800 For sure. Man, listen, maybe I get out here. Man, 1:00:25.840 --> 1:00:31.080 we appreciate you slide, not this mans. He's on Netflix starting. 1:00:31.400 --> 1:00:35.080 Got my wife watching Start in five and she was like, dang, 1:00:35.200 --> 1:00:38.640 Jason's a real serious dude. I said, don't believe that. 1:00:40.880 --> 1:00:43.760 That's not He's funny. Like she was like, no, he's 1:00:43.800 --> 1:00:44.920 just so like mature. 1:00:45.480 --> 1:00:46.919 I didn't know he was only twenty six. 1:00:47.000 --> 1:00:49.120 I'm like, you think you call me immature? 1:00:52.080 --> 1:00:53.800 No, I ain't saying you fake, but I'm just saying 1:00:53.840 --> 1:00:55.880 like you always that's why people think you older. You 1:00:56.000 --> 1:00:59.360 carry yourself super like mature and put together like no 1:00:59.560 --> 1:01:03.600 shot that, but your clips against a clips is totally different. 1:01:03.640 --> 1:01:05.440 Like I'm going. 1:01:09.160 --> 1:01:11.600 And then you tell me yours, it's like, well season, 1:01:11.800 --> 1:01:21.640 like come here son, you know, but you always carried 1:01:21.640 --> 1:01:27.120 itself Like I was like, but now that it's dope 1:01:27.160 --> 1:01:29.400 to watch your show man be on there for show 1:01:29.440 --> 1:01:31.040 that now this new season, but definitely check out the 1:01:31.040 --> 1:01:32.919 Start five you have. How was that process of filming 1:01:33.000 --> 1:01:34.400 that man? Like, you know what I'm saying. Obviously you've 1:01:34.400 --> 1:01:36.320 always been a constant professional, but to let people in 1:01:36.440 --> 1:01:39.959 like your personal life, that type of the cameras always rolling, how. 1:01:39.920 --> 1:01:40.600 Was that experience? 1:01:41.120 --> 1:01:44.560 Uh, it got better or you got used to it 1:01:44.600 --> 1:01:47.320 as a season went on, right, They did a good 1:01:47.400 --> 1:01:49.560 job of like blending in with all the other cameras 1:01:49.600 --> 1:01:53.280 that's always following you, having people at your house and 1:01:53.520 --> 1:01:57.560 in your personal space, and you know with family time, Uh, 1:01:58.280 --> 1:01:58.840 it's different. 1:01:59.480 --> 1:02:02.360 And right I'm on camera, I'm more of a. 1:02:02.640 --> 1:02:06.480 Reserved guy, like T said, like, yeah, that's I am 1:02:06.640 --> 1:02:07.960 that person that they saw on Netflix. 1:02:08.040 --> 1:02:10.520 But you know, I'm more open off the camera and 1:02:10.600 --> 1:02:11.080 things like that. 1:02:11.280 --> 1:02:15.040 But it was cool, and it was cool to be 1:02:15.200 --> 1:02:17.680 a part of the first season that they documented, like man, 1:02:18.320 --> 1:02:20.880 they saw when I got covered two K, they saw 1:02:20.920 --> 1:02:23.520 when I win the championship sor so to be able 1:02:23.560 --> 1:02:25.600 to look back years from now have those moments and 1:02:25.800 --> 1:02:27.920 my mom was on there, my son, some of my 1:02:28.040 --> 1:02:29.560 best friends, and. 1:02:29.680 --> 1:02:31.520 Just being on the first season like that, that was dope. 1:02:31.520 --> 1:02:33.040 And you know, I was glad I was a part of. 1:02:33.440 --> 1:02:34.760 And I think the far part about it is you 1:02:34.840 --> 1:02:36.400 got to see all of the media excerpts, a lot 1:02:36.440 --> 1:02:38.680 people like speaking down to like you said, the high expectations, 1:02:38.720 --> 1:02:40.280 how they spoke about you all year and for you 1:02:40.360 --> 1:02:42.600 to win, especially the way they documented its super far 1:02:42.640 --> 1:02:44.320 because it made a lot of people just deal with 1:02:44.400 --> 1:02:45.080 the results of it. 1:02:45.520 --> 1:02:49.520 And I mean that's like they never gonna stop talking 1:02:49.560 --> 1:02:51.080 about That's what. 1:02:51.160 --> 1:02:52.960 I realized in that moment when we won, is like 1:02:53.360 --> 1:02:55.000 I thought I was gonna go on a rent and 1:02:55.160 --> 1:02:58.120 like go back and everybody that ever had something to 1:02:58.200 --> 1:02:59.160 say about me, And it's. 1:02:59.000 --> 1:02:59.960 Like you about to crash out. 1:03:00.720 --> 1:03:03.360 You think you are, Like He's like, man, when we win, 1:03:03.520 --> 1:03:06.520 like I got receipts, and it's like, man, that's not 1:03:06.600 --> 1:03:08.960 what this is about. Like when I was winning, I'm 1:03:09.000 --> 1:03:12.000 holding up the trophy, my mom, my grandma, crying, my son, 1:03:12.560 --> 1:03:15.160 I got my homies, I got eighteen thousand people in 1:03:15.240 --> 1:03:17.520 the stands. It's like, yeah, it's about the people that 1:03:17.600 --> 1:03:20.680 supported you and rocking with you through the ups and downs. 1:03:20.720 --> 1:03:23.439 It's like, regardless we win and not like they still 1:03:23.480 --> 1:03:26.200 probably talk about me on first take tomorrow exactly, that's 1:03:26.280 --> 1:03:29.520 never gonna go away. So I don't never trip off 1:03:30.640 --> 1:03:32.400 U m v P this year, though, Bro, I'm gonna 1:03:32.400 --> 1:03:32.840 give it to you. 1:03:34.640 --> 1:03:36.720 You see how he was like, yeah, all that came 1:03:36.760 --> 1:03:39.720 to his mom, He grabbed the trophy. I'm crashing out 1:03:42.200 --> 1:03:46.760 the trophy say something. Now, that's me. That's why that's 1:03:46.800 --> 1:03:47.280 why he is. 1:03:47.800 --> 1:03:54.480 Say Steven Day, We're coming for you, crashing out him 1:03:54.520 --> 1:03:57.120 on the fat time you got Yeah, I was fine. 1:03:57.360 --> 1:03:58.080 That was hard, bro. 1:03:58.200 --> 1:04:00.520 I was hype for him, but he did that anything we. 1:04:00.560 --> 1:04:02.960 Want group project. 1:04:03.080 --> 1:04:03.320 You know. 1:04:04.920 --> 1:04:10.520 See what I'm saying, like Neflix. So y'all you get 1:04:10.560 --> 1:04:12.640 to see like that. He do this all day, bro, 1:04:13.320 --> 1:04:16.320 He joke all day. That's why I get the joking from. 1:04:16.520 --> 1:04:19.280 I started joking on them. I ain't jumping on the team. 1:04:19.840 --> 1:04:23.320 I joke on change. Sure man, we gotta get out here, Jayson. 1:04:23.360 --> 1:04:25.400 We appreciate you man telling people that could dropping news, 1:04:25.480 --> 1:04:27.040 the shoes man, the new colorway dropping. 1:04:27.840 --> 1:04:30.960 Uh we got a new colorway dropping. What's this October? 1:04:31.040 --> 1:04:32.200 I think the second week in November. 1:04:32.360 --> 1:04:36.240 Okay, so I want my team? Yeah, okay, Pike, we yeah, 1:04:36.360 --> 1:04:45.240 so maybe we're not, but we got here, be here 1:04:45.320 --> 1:04:46.439 telling people that grass some merch. 1:04:46.560 --> 1:04:49.080 We finally got the ship shop club. 1:04:51.160 --> 1:05:00.240 We locked in. Appreciate the volume. Yeah,