Club 520 - Jayson Tatum on Celtics 2024 title vs. Mavs, NBA 2K25 cover, Jeff Teague as teammate

The volume. 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.320 Alright, we back another episode of Club five twenty podcasts. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:12.800 I'm the House. My name is DJ Wells, Special special 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.480 guests in the Building Championship edition. To my left, we're 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:17.560 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 pearles. 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:21.520 How you what nasty, cool and nasty. 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:22.360 Let's get to it. 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:24.079 Look, JT, I know you know what I'm saying. You 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:25.919 got your own shoe. But have you ever seen the 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:28.560 black forces with the white laces? Yeah, I've seen them 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:33.320 a couple of times. You're rocking with him. I mean 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:38.000 it's cool. J DJ introduced the other niggas. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:40.600 Like his energy. 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:45.080 To all right, I got my dog Young, 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 --> 0:00:49.239 Jeordans on some sixes for Team Jordan. To day, we 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.200 got some Team Jordan the building. But you know I'm 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:52.080 an anti athlete. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:54.400 They do not want to. 0:00:56.240 --> 0:01:03.760 Shut to coy Man. You know what I mean, respect 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:04.600 to the brand. 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.440 You crazy? To my left, man who actually has a shoe? 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.759 Listen man, Champion, Champion, Champion wanted the coachst to ever 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.720 do it? Just killing the NBA they net accomplished everything 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:15.280 you could do at a young age. It took out 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:17.520 more to build. Man, we got the champion. Jayson Tadam 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.160 in the billing, appreciate you pulling up big dog. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.600 I appreciate y'all having he finally can say he champed 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:26.880 like me for you, My boy, you did do it 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:28.920 first first, Bro, you know what I mean? 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:38.160 Anything but raj Well, he got the champion. Man, I'm hyped, Broca, 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:38.959 it's my brother Man. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:39.399 He cool. 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.320 We got a mill West group check. We always show 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:43.760 love in there, so I'm hoped to have you on 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:45.640 the show. Bro hey Man, shout out to the game. 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:47.240 Listen. We got lots to talk about with you. We 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:48.480 will talk about the first time y'all. 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:50.800 Man. Man, when y'all first linked up in Boston. You 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:52.920 came to save the Celtics. Man, I came to save 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:54.280 you know. 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:58.360 What I mean, whole head story line. You know, thank you. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.720 My jersey number first, but I let him keep it 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:04.240 so I had to go fifty five. 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.360 You know I was originally zero. Did you ask for 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:08.519 it for fifty five? 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:09.079 Nou? 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.160 Did you ask for your jersey zero? 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:16.840 I said it available, I said it avaiable. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:19.720 No, I asked for. 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.480 I respected what he did, but I ain't know I 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.320 was gonna lose my name in the process. But it's 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:29.640 all the real JT. Yeah, I lost. 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.840 My number in my name was crazy, I know I did. 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.919 Bro, it's crazy, cool man, that's funny. Listen, we're gonna 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:42.760 start to the orders to be here. He's super tapi, 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.880 you know what I'm saying. The high school you he 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:46.639 was definitely on one of the coach at You teams 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:47.000 for sure. 0:02:47.240 --> 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, 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:56.800 an rememberable matchups you had back then. Uh so, I 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:58.600 know you led the e y bill and scoring. 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:04.040 He was gunning twenty six and ten light. I think 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.560 for me, I mean, it's like everybody. 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.360 We all grew up playing against gods just in the 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:13.320 league now, Like Harry Joles, one of my best friends, 0:03:13.320 --> 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 --> 0:03:22.720 all time. We played on ESPN semi Finals to go 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.120 to p Jam. Yeah, and we was down twenty and a half. 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.400 We came back and my point guard Jordan Barnes, who 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.480 went to Indiana State playing overseas now he had a 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.080 half court shot at the buzzer and that was It 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.520 was crazy because you know, ag was numbre playing in 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.640 the country, playing against the best team to go to 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.240 the finals, and I committed to Duke on TV right. 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:43.800 After that game. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:48.839 Grant Williams was out there, Johnson coach. I'll never talked 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:50.960 about that game. It was like five or six pros 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.920 out there and we was at pjam. CP was on 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.960 the bench coaching. So that's like one of my favorite 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.320 AU games. I haven't been a part. 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:06.400 Of boys buckets. You that Miles Bridges forty, markol Fos forty. Damn, 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.600 I forgot who the other name was. In high school, 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.000 I think your senior 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, 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:32.680 he was a senior, and uh that was That was 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:34.160 one of the times I left. I was like, no, 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.520 we got cooked, but we ended up we end up 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.640 winning the game. But it's just cool to look back 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:42.240 on those matchups. A like, man, people think Jaylen Brunston 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.119 made me a late bloomer, but he like been killing. 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.240 Yeah, even in the USA, like the Uniting team, Like 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:50.279 he was going crazy. 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.240 No, he went on my team, He went on you 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:57.200 think you're after that? Oh you nineteen year? Nineteen year 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.960 he won MVP. Yeah, he was killing. So he was in. Yeah, 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.520 we tapped you see our facts, get you straight out? 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:04.720 Now. 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.320 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 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.440 high school, some was going to college, and some had 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.960 just finished like their freshman year in college. It was 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.159 cool to have a mix of different guys. But JB 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.560 he put us on his back and we was in. 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.280 Uh. It was in Greece and we won the gold medal. 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:30.839 Being from Saint Louis and being a star high school player, like, 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:31.840 why do you choose duke? 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.920 I know mill here and he's that dude for twenty years. 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:42.800 But why do you choose d that's my that's my 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.120 big thirteen want. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:57.720 He shot Yeah, lord, he alleged that dude let you 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.719 out to the bill. In fact, he was a honest man. 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:01.720 Growing up. 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.360 I never thought that I was going to do like 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.799 I just didn't think m people where I came from 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.320 went to Duke. I didn't think like that coach K 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.160 would come to my crib. I want to go to 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:16.200 Hot State, Greg Oden, Mike Conley, and in turn of 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.680 those is my favorite players in college. 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.320 So that's where like I was going. 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:25.680 You didn't watch Wait for Us, Make sure shout out 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:34.839 to CP though I did watching look at the see. 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:47.159 All right, that's what we're like. Oh but y'all crazy? 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.359 You said high school were going crazy? Every going to do? 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:50.799 What was that transition? 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:52.880 Like, you know what I'm saying, because obviously, Holly, in 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.240 high school you get to do dudes and places like 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:56.000 none other tradition. 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:56.800 It's very important. 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:58.600 You got a Hall of Fame coach and the institution 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:00.719 that's more than any player you to come in. 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.159 Like it's humble to be in that situation. How was that? 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:04.520 You know? 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.679 They always say like when you were that's the first 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:10.600 big decision you make as a young man. And for me, 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.000 I only took one official visit. Like I took one 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.520 official visit and I got there on like Friday morning. 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.040 By Saturday, I remember I was at the bookstore with 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.440 my mom, like, yo, like we need to start buying hoodies, 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:22.760 like I'm coming to do. 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:23.680 Damn. 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.240 I just felt that the vibe of the team, how 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.320 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 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.440 want to waste no time of going to no other visits. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:35.760 I was like, man, I want to go to Duke. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.080 So that was like one of the best decisions I 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.720 ever could have made. Some of my best friends I 0:07:41.840 --> 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 --> 0:07:52.320 we always talk about the brotherhood, and that's the real thing, 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.520 regardless of if you ever played with them or if 0:07:55.560 --> 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 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.520 was bigger than myself. And knowing that I was only 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.080 gonna go to college for one year, Damn, you knew. 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:12.800 That that's a blessing. Yeah, I did. I knew that. 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.280 I wanted to. I wanted to be somewhere that was 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.160 gonna set me up for the big stage. Right, you 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:22.720 go to Duke, that's the best, No disrespecting nobody else, 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.520 but that's the best, one of the best college programs. 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:27.680 Right. We always on national TV. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.600 The expectations is high media training, all those things is 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:33.080 just preparing you for the next level. 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:34.439 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 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.880 like that first time playing in Cameron door, Like what 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.520 was that first because y'r fan's crazy as hell. 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:43.880 Yeah, So, I mean a lot of people don't know. 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.040 I got hurt in our second protein so we had 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.439 our second prote I ended up. I had like a 0:08:49.480 --> 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. 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:55.720 So I remember that. 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.839 I uh, my first time playing. I think we played 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.880 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. 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:06.920 I called it cramp. 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:08.040 Uh. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.560 So my first game was a little a little up 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.240 and down, but we got the best fans. A lot 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.080 of people when they come to do they don't understand it, 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.040 like this is the gym, like it's so small. 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.200 They will pay they think that's where we practice at. 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.600 It's only like six thousand people in there, but uh, 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.960 you know they definitely supporting. The energy is crazy and 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.360 uh you know it's bittersweet. I only got the experience 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.720 that for one year, but it definitely was a great experience. 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.640 How was it playing for coach? Said coach cal. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:44.440 Playing my dog? You know, hend thinking about that money family, 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.320 you know, 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 --> 0:09:50.160 they got a you ask a couple of times. 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.120 Hey, yo, all right. 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:59.080 Jason, Jason, Jason over there? 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:04.040 All right? 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 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:18.760 compete and play art. And I think that's the biggest 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.840 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 0:10:26.160 --> 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 --> 0:10:36.880 be the best pocket. But He wanted me to be 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.520 wanted done. He wanted me to go be where I'm 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.200 matt And I think that was that was important. That 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:43.760 was special because you hear a lot of stories and 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.199 coaches that like want to hold guy's back and want 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.840 to keep them. K like he pushes you to be 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.200 the best version of yourself, and that's somebody. Coach K 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.480 texts me today like even at seventy seven, like, you know, 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.360 he's still tap in and we talked all the time. 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.920 Did he ever try you, like just to get you 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.959 to play better or we have his like little antics 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:05.240 with you. 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:10.240 N He definitely was a master manipulator. I mean we 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:14.640 was playing Virginia, Virginia. He was playing at Virginia and 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.679 it was the best game I had in college at 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.760 the time. I had two points at halftime, but we 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:23.160 was winning. I thought I was playing defense. I came 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.880 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 --> 0:11:32.000 keep playing the right way. No, lie, I'm sitting next 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:36.040 to Millach K came in. I'm like, I'm leaning for it. 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:39.199 I'm like, yo, like, let's go. Came in took his 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.520 jacket off and he threw it at me. He was, like, 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.640 you saw fast Saint Louis kid, He said, if I 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:46.160 knew you was gonna play like this, I would have 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.800 left you back in Saint Louis. Damn I'm talking about 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.000 He cussed me out the whole twelve minutes, and like Mills, 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.400 I was, I don't get mad, like I don't like 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.040 nobody called me soft, and I don't want nobody disrespect 0:11:58.080 --> 0:11:58.640 where I'm from. 0:11:58.840 --> 0:11:59.880 That's how Newly talked to Mr. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:06.000 Relate, Because. 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:20.400 You know, Bro, my cousin, but coaches just been there, 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.280 like he knew how to push your buttons. And yeah, 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:26.000 I scored twenty eight points in the second half because 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.480 I was just angry. And you know, at the time 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.160 I didn't understand, but after I realized, like he just 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.160 knew how to coach certain players. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.200 I mean, he was excellent at that. That's hard on 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:37.439 points in the second half. 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:42.240 Damn, you don't get no shots, getting no shots, Bro, 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:43.000 It's all good. 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.360 I've been there. I've been there. My man ain't got 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:46.640 no mic. 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:46.960 You can't. 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.800 I've been there. I know this fling, Bro. I played. 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:55.880 I played on the Celtics It's a different time I life, 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:58.480 for sure. 0:12:58.520 --> 0:12:58.720 Man. 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:00.360 It's funny, you know what I'm saying that you see 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.560 people regards the best conference basketball. He was in there 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.440 in there, yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying. Slew 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.040 to you, But I definitely hated you at the time 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:09.600 here because I'm a little of a fan and we 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.040 did not have a chance to get y'all. One of 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:13.880 the worst times of my life doing that period because 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.000 every cold player was going to do and we didn't 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.160 have a chance at all. No, No, dou is a 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.240 tough place to play. I mean, I killed. It's tough 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:26.400 to play what you do with it, dang, I ain't 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.480 gonna want to done all right, I had to. 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:31.000 I was already. 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:37.560 Talking funny, you know I did two years bro, trying 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:38.080 to be funny. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.200 I want to do what you have against like fours. 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.480 You remember, he ain't getting no buckets. We locked it up. 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:47.959 I an't play good. Yeah, we ain't going bro. 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.760 Coach k We played on blew the smoke at Coach 0:13:53.840 --> 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 --> 0:14:01.920 can't do with the motorcycle no more. We beat them 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:05.480 that game anyway, But I had motorcycle in the basketball. 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.319 What y'all do y'all probably only do that when y'all 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:09.760 play Duke. 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.640 I had twenty six and we beat him. I ain't care. 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.120 That's the problem. Everybody pull out their best tricks when 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:16.080 do come to team. That was. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:20.400 That was very game that I was wafore when I 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:25.479 got to your team, no more bounce. 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.640 That a CC team you faced again and stuff? 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:33.480 Wait for it stop. I know ain't gonna say that honestly. 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:36.520 North Carolina they won a championship that year. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.640 Yeah, they wanted joll your two. 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:40.080 They went when I was in school too. 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:44.040 Joe Berry justin Jackson a CC played the here Kennedy 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:44.920 Meek Steve Pension. 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.440 We ended up we played them three times. Yeah, we 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:47.960 went to and. 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:53.000 One and if we ain't get cheated in South Carolina, 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:55.480 we would have met him in the championship. 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:56.960 The lost South Carolina. 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.360 They went to the final four. That ye is bro 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.040 was that was that was out of shape. Glenn Davis, 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:04.200 Bill Kennedy knicks too. 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.800 Oh you know Carolina fan like you. 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:16.080 Like coach call right, but I fuck with coach Calfklater. 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.720 In two different ministries about you said, you know it's 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:24.480 gonna be a one to doe. 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:25.000 You know what I'm saying? 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.040 Season ends? How was that like knowing you was like 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.200 it's time to get paid, like transition to be a pro? 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.320 Like dream come true? How was that moment? How was 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:31.800 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 --> 0:15:43.400 at Duke. I was like, I want to see this through. 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.720 I wanted to win a championship. The start of the 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.200 season wasn't great, but we end up we won the 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:51.480 ACC tournament. We want four games in four days. Nobody 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:52.960 had ever done that, so we ended up being a 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.560 two seeds. So I'm thinking, like, yo, were really gonna 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.520 win the championship. We lost in the second round and 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:00.400 after the game, I remember I was like, state, I 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:04.400 was sick the medium in the locker room, and I 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.120 remember I got to the crowd. I wanted to go 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.400 to see my mom and it just it just clicked. 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.320 I was like, damn, like my dream about to come true. 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.360 And at that moment, it wasn't like I didn't care 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:17.680 that we just lost. It was like, man, this is 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:19.800 what I've been working towards my whole life, and it 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:21.280 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. 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.200 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 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.000 remember I was a little nervous calling coach k of 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.440 like telling him like, yo, I'm not coming back to 0:16:34.480 --> 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 --> 0:16:45.160 want me to come back. He's like, no, Like you 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:45.640 gotta go. 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.160 That's real. That's real for sure. 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.400 But like I always was going to leave, but I 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:55.640 had just built the connection and relationship at DO and 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:59.000 you know, still tied into this day, and uh, you know, 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.800 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 --> 0:17:07.080 ways to get into the action. 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Nah, that's dope, man. 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:39.280 A lot of people don't get that experience where they 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.160 coach want you to leave and like telling you pick 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:42.000 our agent and stuff. 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.800 Our coach was nothing like that, bro. He was ready 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:46.960 for them niggas to go. Yeah. They he was hating 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:48.040 on us doing the draft. 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.000 He's telling two people were bad teammates, all type of stuff. 0:17:51.040 --> 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 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:58.480 you win the draft. But did you think it was 0:17:58.520 --> 0:17:59.200 going number one? 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:00.680 Mm hmmm? 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:05.280 Any think so went number one and to a Lonzo 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.160 I ain't gonna lie. Markel Folks was cold in college, 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.440 was wrong in fact. Watch Yeah he was nice and 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.480 I watched him. I was like, yeah, he's special. Alonzo 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:17.879 was nice, but LeVar balls marketing skills that entire summer. 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.280 Yeah, that was him. That was crazy. That's that should 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.040 be spoken on more because I mean, obviously he was. 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:27.040 Deservers wrong, but LeVar saw him so high for real, 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:28.960 he saw him so hot going on campaign. Who else 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.360 parent was on ESPN bro before the like, he really 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:32.239 went crazy for that. 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:41.040 His daddy's got to do better. Yeah, that wasn't they 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:43.439 got to do better. But it was a blessing not 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:44.439 to go to l A for me. 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:46.359 For you, I'm glad you didn't go to I mean, 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:48.240 he probably would have been filthy out there anyway, but 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:51.040 I think Boston was just perfect. 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:52.440 No, I mean, it definitely worked out. 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:56.720 But like you said, during that process, the narrative was 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.080 it was consensus that Markel was going number one, and 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:01.840 when the Lakers got the second pick, it was like 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:04.560 Lonzo was going too. So it was never a thought 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:06.119 in my mind. Was like, I just felt like everybody 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:11.000 had their mind made up. And I was in LA 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:13.239 so Philly had the number one picket first, they came 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:15.800 to watch me work out. The Celtics came to watch 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:19.240 me work out. I'm sorry. The Celtics had the number 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:20.520 one picke at the time. They came to watch me 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.920 in Phoenix, so Phoenix was four. So I work out 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:27.080 for all of them. They couldn't watch me. Everybody was 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:29.720 raving about the workout. But then somebody I ain't gonna 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.280 say his name was somebody on the Celtics front office 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:34.800 was like, Yo, one of the best workouts I've seen. 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:37.040 He was like, good luck in your career. 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:38.439 But you know, we got the number one pick, we 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:39.480 probably not gonna pick you. 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:43.359 So at the time I was like like, damn, I 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:45.359 don't want to go. Damn, Brad, you did that. No, 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:48.359 it wasn't bad. I'm just playing. Let me suffer. I'm sorry, 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:51.399 come on, I got to. 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:54.320 But for me, I grew up with Kobe fan like, 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.800 I always wanted to play for the Lakers, so don't 0:19:57.840 --> 0:19:59.400 do it for them to have the number two pick, 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:01.720 And it was like they didn't even it wasn't even 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.040 a thought that I was going to get drafted. Like 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.280 that was kind of devastating. So I never worked out 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:09.640 for the Lakers. They never came to watch me work out. 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:12.720 And then it was like a week before the draft, 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:17.600 Philly and Boston traded the thirty one three and I 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:19.840 wanted to go to Phoenix. Phoenix had the fourth pick. 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:22.600 Errow Watson was a coach. I went out there I 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.359 was looking at houses. The weather was nice, and they 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:26.960 had a young team. I was like, man, I'm gonna 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.359 go get the play. And then I remember coach k 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:31.439 was like, Yo, Boston want to have you for a 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.800 second workout. You should go. I'm like, coach, like, they 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.280 just came off the Eastern Conference finals. They got a 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:39.680 veteran team, like, I'm probably not gonna play. I don't 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:42.400 want to go. Yeah, And he was raving about Brad Stevens. 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:43.800 He was like, Brad's one of the best coaches in 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:47.600 the league. Like, just go for another workout. And I 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:49.639 remember I went up to Boston like three days before 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:53.800 the draft. I had another workout and I didn't know 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:56.320 where I was getting drafted until they called my name. Dang, 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.040 and but you know the rest was history and it 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:01.399 all worked out for sure. That's crazy because I know 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:03.000 from the outside looking in him, like I said, we 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:04.639 fell from some of the propaganda from the bar ball. 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:06.080 We didn't know it was sowing up like that. So 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.439 to hear you say, like the Lakers was that locked in? 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:09.960 That's crazy. 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:11.800 Yeah. I was. 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:13.200 I was sick too, because it was like, man, I 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:15.880 was so close to my dream and I might play 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:18.159 for the Lakers. It was like best case scenario, and 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:20.080 they was mine was made up. They didn't want to 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:22.280 come watch me work out and had me come in. 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:25.080 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 --> 0:21:32.160 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. 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:37.400 I'm in the Summer League before I ever played a game, 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:41.560 like yo. He like relaxed, just waited out. Man, he's 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:44.800 doing too much. Basically, he's like you got I'm like, yo, 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:45.600 I'm trying to play. 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:48.480 I want I don't. I didn't get drafted to come 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:50.000 off the bench and not start. Yeah. 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:52.560 Yeah, he was like, yo, just like you're in a 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:55.159 great organization. They're gonna teach you how to play the 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:55.600 right way. 0:21:56.359 --> 0:22:00.359 I ain't gonna lie. Would have been worried, Yeah, wrapped 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:01.400 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 --> 0:22:10.240 the year before, and j he didn't even play that 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:10.879 much a year. 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:12.679 So I would have been concerned too. 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:15.960 I ain't so at first, I'm like, but this is 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:18.840 before Kyle even came. But then when Kyle came, he 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:20.879 was cool because we we traded a lot of people 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:22.600 for kyin lot. 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:28.600 Yeah, yeah, you had wonder that like you had. I'll 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:30.679 rock with you purely off the skill. But I think 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:32.960 what's so crazy about you is like you accomplished so 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:35.440 much in a short little time that people like want 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:38.160 to down play. It's just like it's not his fault 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:39.520 that he came in the league killing a lot of 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:41.840 people taking adjustment periods. You was on the veteran team 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:43.920 with a lot of people trying to get contracts, with 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:46.480 a lot of people trying to prove themselves. It still flourished, 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:49.160 like I had a crazy crazy man. 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:52.560 Yeah that was at that time. That was like the 0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:55.240 most fun I ever had playing basketball. Like, we lost 0:22:55.280 --> 0:22:58.080 our first two games and Gordon got hurt on opening 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:01.760 the night, which was that was like tragic. Yeah, we 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:04.840 lost in Cleveland, played back to back, we lost to Milwaukee. 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:07.000 I was like, damn, it's gonna be a tough year. 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:10.919 We won sixteen games straight and that's when I was like, 0:23:11.040 --> 0:23:13.800 Kyrie might be the best basketball player I've ever seen player. 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:17.640 Kyrie won and he got hurt and we had like. 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:20.879 Twenty three games left, and I remember it was me 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:25.440 smart t row Marcus Morris, Baines al and we was 0:23:25.480 --> 0:23:28.000 already the two seed, and we had twenty three games 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:30.680 that like play like learn how to play with each other. 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:34.280 And then we got to the playoffs and it was like, man, 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:36.399 we were just like everybody favorite team because we was 0:23:36.440 --> 0:23:40.439 all young. Nobody expected us to beat Giannis in the Bucks. 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:43.440 Then we beat Joel, then played Lebron in the conference finals. 0:23:43.720 --> 0:23:45.879 We was rolling. I ain't gonna a lot, like we 0:23:45.880 --> 0:23:47.200 were just out there like having a. 0:23:47.280 --> 0:23:48.400 Ball for sure. 0:23:48.440 --> 0:23:50.600 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 --> 0:23:53.280 him in the playoffs. 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:56.480 That's a hell of a transition. No, it was definitely 0:23:56.480 --> 0:23:57.600 a full circle moment. 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:03.520 And I remember like when we beat we beat Philly 0:24:04.119 --> 0:24:06.200 and they had swept Ronto. 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. 0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:16.159 It's like twenty twelve or something like that. He was 0:24:16.200 --> 0:24:16.639 a fan. 0:24:21.440 --> 0:24:24.399 I would never tweet you take a picture of Bron, 0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:28.680 But when I, oh it. 0:24:28.520 --> 0:24:33.520 Was twelve, it was already six three on top of 0:24:33.560 --> 0:24:39.920 his hand. You kid, I was like, no, that you 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:50.320 actually crazy that Louis. That's funny, that's funny. 0:24:50.400 --> 0:24:52.040 No, I want you to speak going for real. I 0:24:52.160 --> 0:24:55.760 want to I love bro Cherry Rose your game, Bro. 0:24:56.000 --> 0:24:57.960 I was playing with him. Man, that little stint that 0:24:58.040 --> 0:24:58.720 your head bro. 0:24:58.960 --> 0:24:59.120 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 --> 0:25:08.440 three weeks before the younger guys. 0:25:08.480 --> 0:25:09.160 I was in there like. 0:25:09.080 --> 0:25:12.320 A month and we was having like open open runs. 0:25:12.640 --> 0:25:14.960 And I remember the first time I called back home 0:25:15.640 --> 0:25:16.480 and I called back. 0:25:16.320 --> 0:25:20.000 I said, Yo, Terry Rojier is like that, bro. 0:25:20.600 --> 0:25:22.440 And you know, when you're younger, you think the guys 0:25:22.480 --> 0:25:25.400 that come up the bench or not starting, you think 0:25:25.440 --> 0:25:28.679 they just bums or average man. When I seen Trod 0:25:28.680 --> 0:25:30.280 in that first pick up game, I was like, no, 0:25:30.600 --> 0:25:33.120 like Terry really got game. 0:25:33.040 --> 0:25:34.320 Now, come, you know? 0:25:34.520 --> 0:25:37.680 And for ninety five percent in the league, you got 0:25:37.680 --> 0:25:39.520 to be in the right spot and have an opportunity. 0:25:39.800 --> 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 --> 0:25:54.080 you know, obviously you don't never want to see somebody 0:25:54.080 --> 0:25:55.800 get hurt. But it was a blessing to disguise for 0:25:55.920 --> 0:25:58.479 Kyrie to get hurt. T Roge got the show. You know, 0:25:59.119 --> 0:26:01.800 you can lead the team and be the starting point 0:26:01.840 --> 0:26:04.879 guard and uh, you know, do all those things. But 0:26:04.960 --> 0:26:07.520 I remember, like it was September or whatever I called 0:26:07.520 --> 0:26:07.880 back home. 0:26:07.880 --> 0:26:10.480 I was like, t rope is old. He was killing 0:26:10.520 --> 0:26:11.520 bro what I feel like? He was? 0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:13.240 Youll like leader bro, he was. 0:26:17.200 --> 0:26:18.480 He was in the cut. You feel me. 0:26:18.520 --> 0:26:20.800 He was doing your thing. He was nigga at the front, 0:26:21.000 --> 0:26:21.840 like what's had. 0:26:21.960 --> 0:26:23.720 When he tried to dunk on Brons when it got 0:26:23.720 --> 0:26:27.159 crazy like the 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 --> 0:26:34.120 moment was crazy, the scary ty because a boy act 0:26:34.200 --> 0:26:36.560 like everybody so the neck like you know who he was, bro. 0:26:37.520 --> 0:26:42.639 Spoky That that snatched back clipping Lewis was crash. 0:26:43.240 --> 0:26:45.399 But so at the game I said that out of pocket. Yeah, 0:26:45.560 --> 0:26:48.560 y'all was hard for that, you know what. I love 0:26:48.680 --> 0:26:51.080 Boston fans, even though when I played there it was COVID. 0:26:51.119 --> 0:26:54.439 We didn't have a fan of staying. That's why I 0:26:54.560 --> 0:26:57.720 wasn't hooping like that fans. I'm I'm a performer, like 0:26:57.800 --> 0:27:02.400 I need a crowd. They had fake crowd noise. Wasn't 0:27:02.440 --> 0:27:06.000 even out stays even now, Pa, Nah, I ain't no 0:27:06.040 --> 0:27:08.800 hooper like the problem. Yeah, I ain't no practice player, Bro. 0:27:09.800 --> 0:27:12.439 I need a real show, bro saying you turned it 0:27:12.520 --> 0:27:17.159 was crowd noise. Mamas there, Yeah, I'm waiting at j 0:27:17.320 --> 0:27:20.040 T Mama. She all wanted the crowd. Put my son, 0:27:22.600 --> 0:27:24.600 little Duce running on the court. 0:27:24.800 --> 0:27:28.040 Security you can run on the like to get your 0:27:29.600 --> 0:27:33.120 I tripped over the ship. He do whatever he want. 0:27:33.840 --> 0:27:36.800 That's fine. Yeah, I wouldn't know friends that we really 0:27:36.960 --> 0:27:37.880 was cheering for each other. 0:27:38.000 --> 0:27:42.720 Like what I'm like, I have my best game. We're 0:27:42.720 --> 0:27:44.840 on national TV. Didn't feel like I tell. 0:27:44.680 --> 0:27:46.840 People that was the hardest. That's got to be like 0:27:46.920 --> 0:27:47.960 the toughest NBA season. 0:27:48.040 --> 0:27:51.520 That was terrible, bro, That's why your fans you gotta 0:27:51.560 --> 0:27:54.800 do it the nose swab every morning like it was. 0:27:54.920 --> 0:27:56.280 You just didn't know who was gonna play. 0:27:56.640 --> 0:27:59.080 Now, it's terrible. You had to sit and wait thirty 0:27:59.160 --> 0:28:01.520 minutes before you can go on the gym. We all 0:28:01.640 --> 0:28:05.040 just up there texting like I'm like, yeah, this is 0:28:05.119 --> 0:28:07.000 over for me. And that's crazy that y'all say that, 0:28:07.080 --> 0:28:08.960 because I hear all the players say like that was 0:28:09.040 --> 0:28:10.960 a trying time. But it's like everybody else in mediate 0:28:10.960 --> 0:28:12.280 but like that Lakers weren't count. 0:28:12.080 --> 0:28:14.200 Because it was COVID. I'm like the niggas was playing. 0:28:14.240 --> 0:28:18.880 So that was really hard. Advice over y'alls. That was tough. 0:28:18.920 --> 0:28:20.760 That was tough. I don't know about them. For me, 0:28:20.800 --> 0:28:25.360 it was tough I playing crowd, especially being on the road. 0:28:26.640 --> 0:28:28.639 I want to apologize to Boston because that was my 0:28:28.720 --> 0:28:29.480 best performance. 0:28:29.920 --> 0:28:32.200 There wasn't no fans there, but you was ready though. 0:28:32.200 --> 0:28:33.840 I mean, we don't want to talk about your Michael 0:28:34.040 --> 0:28:37.200 Urban stories, but he was ready to play man stop. 0:28:38.080 --> 0:28:41.000 I wouldn't coke. I was just cleaning my nose a lot. 0:28:41.240 --> 0:28:49.600 I didn't want coach. He's out of pocket, broo. He 0:28:49.720 --> 0:28:56.080 always played too much for Wrestler's gonna beat you your. 0:28:57.760 --> 0:29:00.240 Start out, bro What you said you're going, how you 0:29:00.360 --> 0:29:01.320 rank fakes. 0:29:01.480 --> 0:29:04.680 Listen, see nigga, you didn't come on here to do this, 0:29:04.960 --> 0:29:11.360 but we're here. Everybody just sees the clips and fuck them. Really, 0:29:11.640 --> 0:29:16.200 you don't give a fuck honestly, excuse me this nigga. 0:29:16.480 --> 0:29:18.480 But since you want to break it up, I said, 0:29:18.680 --> 0:29:20.040 a real karate black belt. 0:29:20.080 --> 0:29:20.560 He agreed. 0:29:20.720 --> 0:29:23.800 He wrestling, He dumps off the ropes. 0:29:23.640 --> 0:29:24.120 At the house. 0:29:25.000 --> 0:29:27.000 He's the biggest wrestling fan in the in the world. 0:29:29.240 --> 0:29:33.000 Why you add this, I'll be leaving stuff alone. 0:29:34.720 --> 0:29:37.280 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 0:29:42.520 --> 0:29:43.640 they had LaVar Ball out there. 0:29:44.000 --> 0:29:46.280 So it's like eight niggas bill like labarn Ball, that 0:29:46.440 --> 0:29:47.320 wrestle will get paid. 0:29:48.280 --> 0:29:51.320 So a motherfucking real karate earl type nigga with the 0:29:51.400 --> 0:29:53.360 black belt will beat the ship out of one of them. 0:29:53.440 --> 0:30:02.400 Bro, I don't care. I'm not worried about it. I'm 0:30:02.440 --> 0:30:08.640 not worried about it. We're not. You're not gonna disrespect here. 0:30:08.760 --> 0:30:08.920 Man. 0:30:09.600 --> 0:30:12.600 It's crazy almost trying to deal with them something the 0:30:15.160 --> 0:30:17.320 one piece then a w you call me. 0:30:17.360 --> 0:30:21.080 Too, Bro, stop laughing at him. I tell you how 0:30:21.080 --> 0:30:23.880 you're laughing at the lunch tyme of person laughing getting next? Bro, 0:30:28.040 --> 0:30:30.680 all right, man, shoes is crazy. What was that feeling like? 0:30:30.720 --> 0:30:31.960 You know what I'm saying, that she was going to 0:30:32.040 --> 0:30:34.160 be a signature athlete in your own shoe. 0:30:34.200 --> 0:30:38.080 Man, that's hard. No, it was dope. I mean for me, 0:30:38.920 --> 0:30:40.640 I don't I don't take anything for granted. 0:30:41.240 --> 0:30:43.720 I'm still young enough where I remember the days of 0:30:44.480 --> 0:30:46.760 playing two K with my cousin, like yo, I'm gonna 0:30:46.760 --> 0:30:48.680 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 --> 0:30:56.560 get my jersey for Christmas. So it's like it's still 0:30:56.640 --> 0:30:58.840 a wild moment, like when we go on the road 0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:02.880 and kids on the sideline, of kids in the crowd 0:31:03.120 --> 0:31:05.920 holding up my shoes, like three years in, it's my 0:31:06.000 --> 0:31:08.720 third shoe, and it's still like, man, like all the 0:31:08.800 --> 0:31:10.360 guys in the league, all the shoes you could have 0:31:10.440 --> 0:31:11.920 went to go by and it's like, man, you want 0:31:11.960 --> 0:31:14.200 to go buy mine. It's like that should is still 0:31:14.360 --> 0:31:16.600 dope to me even to this day. 0:31:16.880 --> 0:31:17.240 For sure. 0:31:17.280 --> 0:31:19.680 How's a design process like to be hands on with something, 0:31:19.800 --> 0:31:21.280 like you said, you get to see out in the world. 0:31:21.320 --> 0:31:23.160 And the second side that question is how do you 0:31:23.200 --> 0:31:24.520 feel about people playing against you? 0:31:24.600 --> 0:31:27.320 And your shoes. So that's it. 0:31:28.080 --> 0:31:30.840 So the first part, it's an eighteen month process. So 0:31:31.080 --> 0:31:33.960 like the threes is out, the forest is done, we're 0:31:34.000 --> 0:31:37.280 working on the five. So okay, it's like it's a 0:31:37.400 --> 0:31:39.760 long process because you like, you want to enjoy what 0:31:39.800 --> 0:31:42.160 you're wearing now, but you're on meetings about when the 0:31:42.240 --> 0:31:43.800 forest is coming out and they're like, all right, well 0:31:43.840 --> 0:31:46.840 we need to start designing the fives. 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 --> 0:31:54.120 going on right now. But shout out to everybody on 0:31:54.240 --> 0:31:57.440 the on the team, Team Tatum at Jordan Brand, they 0:31:57.560 --> 0:32:00.280 work very hard. We always on calls it gain and 0:32:00.960 --> 0:32:02.520 it's just dope to see all the work to go 0:32:02.600 --> 0:32:05.080 behind and all how long it took. And it's like 0:32:05.280 --> 0:32:07.360 when you finally see the final product, when you get 0:32:07.400 --> 0:32:10.880 to see all the color ways and tell stories organically 0:32:10.920 --> 0:32:13.240 and people that you know can relate. 0:32:13.000 --> 0:32:17.040 To whatever you're trying to tell, it's dope. 0:32:17.600 --> 0:32:20.200 And for me, you know, seeing guys wear my shoes, 0:32:20.440 --> 0:32:23.400 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 --> 0:32:31.520 games ago and shout out to Tim Hardaway. Tim Hardaway's 0:32:31.520 --> 0:32:34.000 been wearing my shoes like a year and a half now. 0:32:34.760 --> 0:32:38.120 Always notice whenever I played Tim, they don't never wear them, 0:32:39.680 --> 0:32:41.400 but we always joke and laugh about it. So he 0:32:41.440 --> 0:32:43.560 ain't wearing when we play the other day. Then they 0:32:43.600 --> 0:32:46.360 went to Miami and he had them on. But I 0:32:46.480 --> 0:32:48.760 get it, like man, being a competitor, you try and 0:32:48.800 --> 0:32:50.840 compete against somebody like you don't how they sneaks on, 0:32:51.960 --> 0:32:54.680 you know, I totally understand that. But I shout out 0:32:54.680 --> 0:32:56.640 to all the guys in the league that we're to 0:32:56.680 --> 0:32:59.640 Tatum threes or twos or whatever, and I really do 0:32:59.720 --> 0:33:02.320 a ship there is raw, bro, you. 0:33:02.400 --> 0:33:06.960 Think you're gonna have like a a Tatum team like 0:33:07.040 --> 0:33:09.800 guys who were like you can. I mean what Steph 0:33:10.000 --> 0:33:12.680 just do he signed here in front of them soldiers? Yeah, 0:33:13.320 --> 0:33:16.840 wherever you want to come, just crazy Lebron. So I'm 0:33:16.840 --> 0:33:25.560 about trying to be a Lebron. So you're about trying 0:33:25.560 --> 0:33:27.959 to get the big start War two but it didn't work. 0:33:28.280 --> 0:33:30.720 Give me the grand out with them b rolls. But 0:33:32.160 --> 0:33:34.200 my boy taking shoot man, that'd be dope. 0:33:34.400 --> 0:33:36.720 If you know, we keep building the business and we 0:33:36.800 --> 0:33:39.920 get to a point down the road ten years from 0:33:39.960 --> 0:33:41.440 now when I'm one of the older guys. 0:33:41.840 --> 0:33:45.360 Uh, anything happened. So that's far. 0:33:45.840 --> 0:33:48.320 I asked, was the ascitement like? What was like a 0:33:48.360 --> 0:33:50.560 better feeling? I know you're very grateful, but being on 0:33:50.600 --> 0:33:52.320 two K getting your own shooting, that's too far. 0:33:52.440 --> 0:33:55.479 Ass accomplishments. But be on the cover of two K, bro, 0:33:55.720 --> 0:33:59.080 it's crazy. Oh that's a good question. I ain't gonna lie. 0:33:59.080 --> 0:34:01.000 I bought that two K. I can't believe I bought it. 0:34:02.920 --> 0:34:04.600 It's not not like that. I'm not saying like that. 0:34:04.720 --> 0:34:06.960 I ain't bought two K in a long time. I 0:34:07.080 --> 0:34:14.759 usually get it delivered. Support black, appreciate it. You could 0:34:14.880 --> 0:34:25.720 send me one, bro. This man kind of send me shoes. 0:34:26.760 --> 0:34:27.440 That's crazy. 0:34:27.600 --> 0:34:28.360 I got some j T. 0:34:28.600 --> 0:34:30.600 I never get those j T. Let me keep it up. 0:34:30.600 --> 0:34:32.759 We got to I got some tools, got some too 0:34:33.320 --> 0:34:40.040 great some threes on the way that I saw Jordan. 0:34:41.400 --> 0:34:44.279 I got the Jordan athlete. Now on the way, what 0:34:44.400 --> 0:34:47.359 do use the platform? Kid? 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 --> 0:34:53.640 on two K was more special just because it was 0:34:53.719 --> 0:34:56.520 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 0:35:01.800 --> 0:35:03.640 of got emotional, like I teared up a little bit 0:35:04.120 --> 0:35:05.919 just because it was like, man, it's my son sharing 0:35:05.960 --> 0:35:06.600 this moment with me. 0:35:07.560 --> 0:35:09.080 This is just something I always dreamed of. 0:35:09.320 --> 0:35:11.480 It was like being on the cover of two K 0:35:11.719 --> 0:35:16.279 is like legendary and heavy on shoe as well. But man, 0:35:16.360 --> 0:35:21.120 two K twenty five is like right, everybody played to. 0:35:22.400 --> 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 --> 0:35:33.680 I'm wrong, now get to you talking about his game? 0:35:34.000 --> 0:35:36.680 No, no, no, he wrong. They made him. 0:35:38.800 --> 0:35:42.000 All about the gameplay, like when you create a player 0:35:42.480 --> 0:35:44.279 on the wreck and stuff like can't nobody make a 0:35:44.280 --> 0:35:44.880 shot but me. 0:35:46.360 --> 0:35:50.279 My nephew sells me. My best friends tell me. 0:35:52.000 --> 0:35:54.000 I got to carry boy. My back is getting heavy. 0:35:54.320 --> 0:35:56.560 People complain about the game play. I try to text 0:35:56.600 --> 0:35:59.200 you at and tell him, tell RONI to get this fixed. 0:35:59.320 --> 0:36:04.000 He didn't respond. But anyway, you ain't never text me. 0:36:04.040 --> 0:36:09.759 I ain't. Okay, okay, you're right. They were nervous. He 0:36:09.920 --> 0:36:14.120 was nervous. Two K squads out of the box. Yeah, 0:36:14.760 --> 0:36:16.200 we gotta get better. He was nervous. 0:36:16.520 --> 0:36:17.080 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 --> 0:36:26.200 like just eight because you like he what time? He 0:36:26.320 --> 0:36:35.680 took me back? Yet what we do are on it, 0:36:38.840 --> 0:36:43.000 Mike tied. That's freaky, Mike. We're gonna tell you his 0:36:43.120 --> 0:36:46.239 backstory when I ain't never care. I always come through, bro. 0:36:46.440 --> 0:36:47.680 Now you do, Bro, you always been. 0:36:47.960 --> 0:36:49.279 That's one thing I wanted to say, like when you 0:36:49.520 --> 0:36:52.279 when it comes to fans and stuff like you d 0:36:52.560 --> 0:36:55.439 Rose and a couple of teammates, y'all always been great 0:36:55.480 --> 0:36:55.879 with fans. 0:36:55.920 --> 0:36:58.120 I was never good with fans, Like I ignore kidding 0:36:58.160 --> 0:37:00.239 heartbeat you was good, bro. 0:37:00.440 --> 0:37:03.480 No, I'm not saying like that, like baby, like I 0:37:03.640 --> 0:37:06.719 hear him and I just go back there. I get 0:37:07.440 --> 0:37:09.960 you don't ignore anybody like and that's what make you you. 0:37:10.480 --> 0:37:12.440 While you starts, you got to shoot. That's while you 0:37:12.760 --> 0:37:14.759 can be sold on the two K cover because you 0:37:14.840 --> 0:37:15.840 treat everybody respect. 0:37:15.960 --> 0:37:22.760 I wasn't disrespecting. I just feel like something that that's crazy. 0:37:23.239 --> 0:37:26.239 But listen, now he great at that though, And I 0:37:26.320 --> 0:37:28.279 used to see that when we was in Boston and 0:37:28.400 --> 0:37:30.040 like even like when you had a little Mikey in 0:37:30.080 --> 0:37:31.880 here man the sign of Jersey and see how excited 0:37:31.880 --> 0:37:32.520 he was about that. 0:37:32.960 --> 0:37:34.680 I'm like, man, he really got it, you know what 0:37:34.719 --> 0:37:35.759 I mean? You got that? Bro? 0:37:36.239 --> 0:37:38.840 When did you start that though? Like, when did you 0:37:39.120 --> 0:37:41.520 like become like damn my low key famous? Was it 0:37:41.600 --> 0:37:43.600 high school? Was it walking on campus? 0:37:43.640 --> 0:37:44.040 A dude? 0:37:44.200 --> 0:37:47.080 Like, when did you start embracing that moment? I mean 0:37:47.120 --> 0:37:49.680 it's a progression. Like when I was in high school. 0:37:50.120 --> 0:37:51.959 I got to a certain point. That's when social media 0:37:52.040 --> 0:37:54.680 took off. I would come out the locker room. I 0:37:54.840 --> 0:37:57.400 was signing three four hundred autographs after the game. 0:37:57.600 --> 0:37:58.320 In high school. 0:37:58.719 --> 0:38:00.880 Yeah, now, ain't the cash in? 0:38:01.480 --> 0:38:04.000 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 --> 0:38:12.440 Behind shots pocket no disrespect. 0:38:15.480 --> 0:38:16.880 I know you can't say joy me no more. But 0:38:16.960 --> 0:38:18.680 the Chinese food out there, fire to the shouts to 0:38:18.680 --> 0:38:19.400 the fri Rice. 0:38:28.880 --> 0:38:36.000 Brothers was crazy. What's the shop. 0:38:38.120 --> 0:38:47.840 Boy out of pocket? I wouldn't may be he was 0:38:48.000 --> 0:38:49.600 arguing about Nelly and somebody. 0:38:49.719 --> 0:38:54.080 Bro. He was really hot at me. It was better 0:38:54.120 --> 0:38:54.479 than Nelly. 0:38:54.520 --> 0:38:54.640 Bro. 0:38:54.719 --> 0:38:55.439 He was really bad. 0:38:55.920 --> 0:38:57.600 Bro Tea the type of guy. He would just say. 0:38:57.800 --> 0:38:59.520 He'd come in the locker room and just say some wow. 0:38:59.640 --> 0:39:02.239 She just to like get a reaction out of you. 0:39:04.280 --> 0:39:04.400 Yo. 0:39:04.520 --> 0:39:06.640 He used to say, like, and I love James Harden 0:39:06.719 --> 0:39:11.600 us to be like, no, no, no, no, yeah, are 0:39:11.640 --> 0:39:13.439 you saying I don't know Kobe is my favorite player. 0:39:13.560 --> 0:39:15.319 Just say anybody is better than Koche. See, you can't 0:39:15.360 --> 0:39:17.400 do that. I got 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 --> 0:39:20.880 It was better than them? 0:39:21.000 --> 0:39:23.960 I can't just saying somebody wow, he was hot. He's like, what, 0:39:24.840 --> 0:39:26.680 that's the first time I ever got in ridded. I'm 0:39:27.239 --> 0:39:28.120 used to listen to though. 0:39:30.000 --> 0:39:31.920 Was you warming up to he? 0:39:32.120 --> 0:39:34.360 Was he so. 0:39:36.520 --> 0:39:37.680 Shaumanized? Crazy? 0:39:38.320 --> 0:39:47.719 Yoh Man trying to go Indian Go ahead, I. 0:39:51.360 --> 0:39:51.920 Got Jackson. 0:39:52.360 --> 0:39:55.640 I got Michael Jackson, the best rapper from Indiana. Shout 0:39:55.680 --> 0:39:56.800 out Freddy Gibbs. 0:39:58.640 --> 0:40:03.880 I guess no respect. I'm just saying he's not from 0:40:03.920 --> 0:40:05.919 mar City, from from Gary. 0:40:06.400 --> 0:40:12.000 We speaking Gary, the best rapper from Indiana. 0:40:12.719 --> 0:40:20.319 All right, y'all got sexy Nelly uh chere. 0:40:20.360 --> 0:40:30.319 Changsterea used to listen to this, Yeah yeah, he getting 0:40:30.360 --> 0:40:33.560 paid right now from the country dude using the song 0:40:34.480 --> 0:40:35.400 Boozo or something like that. 0:40:35.880 --> 0:40:37.520 So y'all, y'all have some ship, but you'll have some 0:40:38.400 --> 0:40:40.839 I wear 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 --> 0:40:43.960 I thought Nelly was wrong back in the day. 0:40:44.760 --> 0:40:48.560 There's people better than they got better music about. 0:40:49.200 --> 0:40:53.359 It's a handful of people. He stop that. I mean 0:40:53.360 --> 0:40:54.359 he did a half. 0:40:54.800 --> 0:40:57.759 He didn't go down j T favorite rapper Z though. 0:40:58.360 --> 0:41:01.239 That's how that's how me and him got cool. I'm like, 0:41:01.320 --> 0:41:04.239 d you listening to jay Z brought you about? 0:41:05.440 --> 0:41:08.480 He came to the team and this was during the 0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:11.560 COVID season, so the season started late, like November December. 0:41:11.560 --> 0:41:15.120 Our first game was on Christmas. Yeah, he didn't talk 0:41:15.200 --> 0:41:18.680 for the first like three weeks. He ain't had nothing, 0:41:18.760 --> 0:41:19.919 got to test people out, bro. 0:41:20.120 --> 0:41:21.000 Dark times bro. 0:41:22.320 --> 0:41:25.239 And then one day this nigga did not shut up, 0:41:28.080 --> 0:41:29.680 Like he ain't talked for like three weeks. I was like, 0:41:29.960 --> 0:41:32.080 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 --> 0:41:38.240 got traded to the day he got traded, he talked 0:41:38.480 --> 0:41:38.960 every day. 0:41:39.239 --> 0:41:46.200 Wow, man, that's how it became cool. 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 --> 0:41:51.200 think I'm weird. I don't know. I really think he 0:41:51.320 --> 0:41:51.600 was weird. 0:41:52.360 --> 0:41:54.879 I'm really roasting y'all in my head, but really being cool. 0:41:55.000 --> 0:41:58.400 Yeah yeah, I was like, man, I said something to 0:41:58.520 --> 0:42:00.600 him and we started shooting again than I was beating 0:42:00.719 --> 0:42:01.520 and shooting every time. 0:42:02.000 --> 0:42:03.759 Yeah, can we get on that story? Because ever turn 0:42:03.800 --> 0:42:05.680 and say he whooped your ass one day and practice 0:42:06.239 --> 0:42:06.560 be 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 --> 0:42:11.960 a lot of things. People say a lot of things 0:42:12.000 --> 0:42:14.160 on the internet on TV about me, and it's cool. 0:42:14.200 --> 0:42:17.840 Everybody got a job, but I like your platform and 0:42:17.960 --> 0:42:20.239 podcast and I feel like I had to come up 0:42:20.239 --> 0:42:21.040 here and addressing things. 0:42:21.080 --> 0:42:21.520 I had E T. 0:42:21.760 --> 0:42:24.840 We and a crew message right, and sometimes you just 0:42:24.920 --> 0:42:28.759 can't let people get away with lying, get on the camera, just. 0:42:31.719 --> 0:42:33.600 Allegations. I don't you want to talk about me? 0:42:35.040 --> 0:42:36.960 He said, he used to talking. 0:42:37.200 --> 0:42:40.480 This was e T first year coaching. He still wanted 0:42:40.520 --> 0:42:42.799 to hoop. T wasn't. 0:42:43.680 --> 0:42:45.520 I ain't gonna say he wasn't playing, but like I 0:42:45.640 --> 0:42:48.279 was starting at for no, I was six many he 0:42:48.360 --> 0:42:54.560 was going out. He was coming up to he came 0:42:54.640 --> 0:42:59.759 in his git don't do that, but tem that T 0:43:00.160 --> 0:43:03.320 like he got this demeanor like he don't. He just 0:43:03.400 --> 0:43:06.239 real nonchalant like everything. He's just that's facts. Bro. He 0:43:06.360 --> 0:43:09.120 being practiced. She was kind of like barely tied. But 0:43:09.400 --> 0:43:11.200 after practice he would want to play one on one. 0:43:11.280 --> 0:43:14.160 He'd wanted. We would always shoot at the practice and 0:43:14.440 --> 0:43:16.120 me and him and Et would play one on one. 0:43:16.640 --> 0:43:20.760 Damn it like every day, and he would win some spots, 0:43:21.000 --> 0:43:22.439 like we played yeah spot. 0:43:25.719 --> 0:43:30.480 He's sixteen, I'm five nine. I mean he was him up, 0:43:30.600 --> 0:43:38.120 he was he was scoring et, Damn, I was scoring 0:43:38.160 --> 0:43:45.440 on YouTube. Bro, and some of those I don't know 0:43:45.520 --> 0:43:48.040 about like that. You're not gonna let you do exactly, 0:43:49.440 --> 0:43:53.120 he Bro. He used to lock him up sometimes. That's 0:43:53.160 --> 0:44:01.719 what he was trying to get it. We never thinking 0:44:01.719 --> 0:44:10.600 about co people get covid man. Like he was trying 0:44:10.640 --> 0:44:12.560 to come back and hoop now, Like, Bro, Bro, get 0:44:12.600 --> 0:44:13.960 covid man. You might have to suit up. 0:44:14.000 --> 0:44:15.960 Bro. We was playing with King of the Court that 0:44:16.040 --> 0:44:19.520 day at home. I twin cross, Et, I go to 0:44:19.600 --> 0:44:21.960 lay the ball up, grabbed me out the air. 0:44:22.120 --> 0:44:23.000 He'sing hard, Bro. 0:44:23.960 --> 0:44:27.120 Brad Stevens walking the baseline like for a split second, 0:44:27.200 --> 0:44:30.920 Et lost his mind, like he almost got fired. Like 0:44:31.040 --> 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, 0:44:35.760 --> 0:44:39.160 and Brad Brad non confrontational. Brad just looked at him like. 0:44:39.560 --> 0:44:40.319 The hell are you doing. 0:44:42.040 --> 0:44:43.840 That's when I knew its top of me stopped playing. 0:44:46.680 --> 0:44:49.640 He tripped on me and some ship. He ain't got 0:44:49.719 --> 0:44:50.600 much true around. 0:44:52.239 --> 0:44:57.360 The joint, like the thing. I couldn't have believe it. 0:44:57.440 --> 0:44:59.640 Like you know, most of the star players, they get 0:44:59.680 --> 0:45:01.600 their shot I took, then they're gonna go about their business. 0:45:02.000 --> 0:45:04.040 He would be looking for you, like, oh, we ain't 0:45:04.040 --> 0:45:06.480 playing to day. I'm like, and he different, He ain't 0:45:06.520 --> 0:45:08.680 we in 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 --> 0:45:13.520 he's different, Like he want to be in here for 0:45:13.600 --> 0:45:15.719 another two hours. I really don't even want to be 0:45:15.760 --> 0:45:16.040 in here. 0:45:16.600 --> 0:45:19.440 But I'm gonna play against him because like he wouldn't 0:45:20.040 --> 0:45:21.640 he didn't really want to be at practice. 0:45:23.880 --> 0:45:25.200 Coach Bron't that. 0:45:27.560 --> 0:45:32.080 Kids, because that was fucking third good. The gym down 0:45:33.280 --> 0:45:38.440 might not have been submitted. I fucking running all day, 0:45:40.320 --> 0:45:41.240 but I want to say. 0:45:41.120 --> 0:45:43.280 He liked this, Like a lot of people don't necessarily 0:45:43.280 --> 0:45:45.520 want to go through the practice schedule. 0:45:45.560 --> 0:45:47.040 But if they want to compete if you want to. 0:45:47.000 --> 0:45:49.279 Go to workout of shooting drills and play one on 0:45:49.400 --> 0:45:52.560 after practice, like everybody want to compete. So that was 0:45:52.600 --> 0:45:55.200 our thing. After practice we would always play one on 0:45:55.280 --> 0:45:58.120 one me and and uh E t out the practice. 0:45:58.520 --> 0:46:00.600 Do you give him a little credit though, in ET 0:46:00.800 --> 0:46:04.080 for sharpening your skills a little bit. That's a little bit. 0:46:04.880 --> 0:46:06.200 I'm trying to get them where you show him a 0:46:06.239 --> 0:46:09.960 little love, bro, the ET teacher was what fucking drill 0:46:10.080 --> 0:46:10.879 that you used? 0:46:13.040 --> 0:46:15.960 The funny thing about Et he would tell like E 0:46:16.080 --> 0:46:18.600 T B E T was assistant coaches at this point 0:46:18.920 --> 0:46:21.279 for sure. ET was like, what am I going to 0:46:21.320 --> 0:46:25.560 teach Jason Table? Who I'm a teacher better than me? 0:46:26.160 --> 0:46:29.440 I'm like, good point ET about. 0:46:29.239 --> 0:46:32.520 That too, thought was the wildest funniest coach I ever had, 0:46:33.360 --> 0:46:36.280 and not even trying to be funny. We was playing 0:46:36.400 --> 0:46:39.840 in Milwaukee and I think at the half I had 0:46:39.880 --> 0:46:41.560 to be like three for ten. I missed like four 0:46:41.640 --> 0:46:44.600 or five threes, so I missed. My laste were walking 0:46:44.680 --> 0:46:47.719 off and he just so it's like he got an 0:46:47.719 --> 0:46:50.319 innocense about it. He run up to me, He's like, yo, 0:46:51.440 --> 0:46:59.840 you know you can make some of them right. I 0:47:00.080 --> 0:47:01.960 know what he's trying to say about how he conveyed 0:47:02.000 --> 0:47:02.520 the messages. 0:47:03.080 --> 0:47:05.040 It's so crazy because like how do I even respond 0:47:05.080 --> 0:47:08.560 to this in the moment. You don't laugh, bro, Like yeah, 0:47:08.680 --> 0:47:13.600 I'm trying to. I'm trying. That was a good time, bro, 0:47:14.400 --> 0:47:18.440 so sould I just talk? Okay? Like look at j 0:47:18.600 --> 0:47:26.279 T Man he went the ball man he pissed like 0:47:26.360 --> 0:47:37.359 all you see if I forget it was a fun year. 0:47:37.520 --> 0:47:41.040 I give credit though. I wanted a d roll with autograph. 0:47:41.120 --> 0:47:43.400 Jersey and I didn't know that they was cool. I 0:47:43.560 --> 0:47:45.920 know that they knew each other from way back, and 0:47:46.280 --> 0:47:50.560 team made sure I got an autograph Detroy Piston de 0:47:50.719 --> 0:47:51.239 Rose Jersey. 0:47:51.360 --> 0:47:53.239 Yeah, I was like, man, go up to him. Break. 0:47:53.800 --> 0:47:56.239 I went up to him and he looking like he 0:47:56.360 --> 0:47:58.360 won't mark. I'm like, yeah, like I need want to. 0:47:59.800 --> 0:48:02.399 So it 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 0:48:05.800 --> 0:48:08.040 to you, Paus. But it's like you was so cool, 0:48:08.239 --> 0:48:10.600 like man, he's a star, like superstar. 0:48:10.719 --> 0:48:12.319 But he'll be like I remember you. 0:48:12.440 --> 0:48:15.279 Bro, like he'll show you love, like he ain't give 0:48:15.320 --> 0:48:17.279 me no love right now. It's cool, but he'd be 0:48:17.400 --> 0:48:19.760 like you remember you want to get Atlanta. 0:48:19.800 --> 0:48:25.600 I'm like, you know what I'm saying. Right on, Bro, 0:48:25.840 --> 0:48:26.520 you know what I'm saying. 0:48:27.080 --> 0:48:27.279 E T. 0:48:27.680 --> 0:48:29.360 E T like that too. E T give you a 0:48:29.440 --> 0:48:31.480 lot of love. And I was like, dang. So when 0:48:31.480 --> 0:48:33.560 I seen him start working together. E T was like, man, 0:48:33.600 --> 0:48:35.920 that's he like a little bro bro. But he cold. 0:48:36.480 --> 0:48:38.360 The only person he would ever say something else to 0:48:38.440 --> 0:48:41.719 get under his skin to be Luca Bro anytime we 0:48:41.840 --> 0:48:44.520 mentioned Luca even though it definitely ain't no beef with 0:48:44.600 --> 0:48:46.680 them or no, it's just competitive spirit. But E T 0:48:46.800 --> 0:48:50.279 would be like, yeah, Luca Cold. I'd be like about 0:48:50.280 --> 0:48:54.120 to get forty, they go crazy. I was like, tay 0:48:54.200 --> 0:48:56.600 the game, before the game, you gotta play, somebody talk 0:48:56.600 --> 0:48:59.800 about Luca T like that's my favorite players. 0:48:59.840 --> 0:49:06.279 Look, he'd be like JB. Saud be like wow, I'll 0:49:06.320 --> 0:49:07.280 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 --> 0:49:13.480 two point performance on the bench. You just want to 0:49:13.480 --> 0:49:15.360 see somebody kill see some. 0:49:15.400 --> 0:49:18.360 Motherfuckers knew how to trigger him though, I him going. 0:49:18.800 --> 0:49:19.520 I text him now. 0:49:21.000 --> 0:49:23.200 I couldn't say nothing. The first game this year, you 0:49:23.280 --> 0:49:25.960 went crazy. I ain't want to get you a little. 0:49:25.880 --> 0:49:32.480 I was just gone up, Yeah, regression, but he was 0:49:32.600 --> 0:49:35.120 killing bro. He was killing to shipping good for so 0:49:35.280 --> 0:49:37.040 far for sure. Listen, man, we definitely want to talk 0:49:37.040 --> 0:49:38.440 about the I had last year to get the ring. 0:49:38.480 --> 0:49:39.480 But I want to ask you know what I'm saying, 0:49:39.560 --> 0:49:41.279 planning gets the words and twenty two coming up a 0:49:41.320 --> 0:49:43.360 little bit short. But how was that experience? You know 0:49:43.360 --> 0:49:44.719 what I'm saying moreed you to be ready to get 0:49:44.760 --> 0:49:45.480 that chip last year. 0:49:46.600 --> 0:49:48.360 I mean, it's certain things that you go through in 0:49:48.440 --> 0:49:50.719 real time that you don't understand, like how this is 0:49:50.800 --> 0:49:53.880 going to prepare you for the future, because losing a 0:49:53.960 --> 0:49:57.600 twenty two is like devastating. Like we was the eleventh seed. 0:49:57.800 --> 0:50:00.359 We end up getting to the two seed. We beat 0:50:00.440 --> 0:50:04.640 Katie and Kyrie, We beat Yannis, the defending champs. We 0:50:04.760 --> 0:50:07.000 go to Miami and win in Game seven, Like that 0:50:07.200 --> 0:50:09.759 was one of the toughest runs I can remember in 0:50:09.840 --> 0:50:12.440 recent years. And then to fall up short, it was like, man, 0:50:12.480 --> 0:50:15.200 we just did all that for nothing. It was devastating. 0:50:15.600 --> 0:50:17.440 And then the next year we kind of like we 0:50:17.680 --> 0:50:19.440 like overlooked teams a little bit. We just wanted to 0:50:19.480 --> 0:50:21.239 get back to the finals. We end up going six 0:50:21.320 --> 0:50:24.000 with Atlanta in the first round, Like we didn't handle 0:50:24.080 --> 0:50:26.960 business the way we should have and put ourselves. 0:50:26.560 --> 0:50:29.120 In a whole. We was down three, and you damn 0:50:29.120 --> 0:50:30.960 it gotta be perfect to win four games in a row. 0:50:31.680 --> 0:50:33.359 And you know I sprained my ankle to first play 0:50:33.400 --> 0:50:35.960 the game, and you know, the margin for error is 0:50:36.040 --> 0:50:39.200 that much shorter when you down three. So I think 0:50:39.280 --> 0:50:42.440 last year was the perfect balance of like obviously we 0:50:42.520 --> 0:50:45.680 got KP, we got Drew, and I think our team 0:50:45.840 --> 0:50:49.280 was just in the perfect space of like everybody got paid, 0:50:50.120 --> 0:50:52.640 everybody had individual success in 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 --> 0:51:12.759 we was going to play the Wizards. Like we didn't 0:51:12.800 --> 0:51:15.880 look past nobody, and we lost eighteen games last year 0:51:15.880 --> 0:51:17.600 and we went sixteen and three in the playoffs, Like 0:51:18.360 --> 0:51:20.200 I know we're still playing. 0:51:20.360 --> 0:51:22.200 Nobody want to give us our credit, but like the 0:51:22.280 --> 0:51:23.920 ship we did last year was special. 0:51:25.480 --> 0:51:29.799 Credit I don't know different anybody else is just like, hey, 0:51:29.880 --> 0:51:32.120 as a Patiss fan, please tell me that we was 0:51:32.120 --> 0:51:32.719 the hardest team. 0:51:32.800 --> 0:51:34.480 You know what I'm saying last shot in the post season. 0:51:34.360 --> 0:51:36.560 That big a dude go out of Celtic's Gary down for. 0:51:39.719 --> 0:51:40.560 Luck. You can never. 0:51:44.880 --> 0:51:47.520 No, I mean I said, I'm a record for saying it, 0:51:47.640 --> 0:51:53.000 Like yes, sir, the patience that was the hardest series 0:51:53.040 --> 0:51:53.960 that we had last year. 0:51:54.120 --> 0:51:54.360 Just like. 0:51:55.920 --> 0:51:58.680 How fast they played. They were subbing three people at 0:51:58.760 --> 0:52:04.040 the time. Teacher mcconna was unreal at home, like was 0:52:04.120 --> 0:52:06.839 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. 0:52:11.400 --> 0:52:15.480 Everybody played without the ball, and they just like they 0:52:16.680 --> 0:52:18.080 the way they play, they trying to. 0:52:18.160 --> 0:52:21.719 They like bait you into play how they play and 0:52:21.880 --> 0:52:22.799 like that works for them. 0:52:23.520 --> 0:52:25.440 And you know, our thing is like we want to 0:52:25.480 --> 0:52:27.719 get stops and defense and you look up the score 0:52:27.800 --> 0:52:29.440 might be one hundred and thirty five, Like that's the 0:52:29.480 --> 0:52:32.000 game that they want to play. And when they get 0:52:32.080 --> 0:52:34.480 you playing that way, like they can beat anybody. And 0:52:34.880 --> 0:52:37.000 you know, we came back in overtime. The first game, 0:52:37.600 --> 0:52:41.359 Game three, was down nineteen in game four, we went 0:52:41.440 --> 0:52:44.000 down to the wire like we swept them, but like 0:52:44.160 --> 0:52:46.000 every game we did tying. 0:52:46.719 --> 0:52:48.919 It was with all good games though for the most part, 0:52:49.120 --> 0:52:51.240 like exciting games to 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 --> 0:52:55.319 dog tired after every game after that. Listen, we don't 0:52:55.320 --> 0:52:57.439 get nice things offense. So they complimenced me to lots 0:52:57.440 --> 0:52:57.600 of me. 0:52:57.640 --> 0:53:01.000 Because this nigga still there be like like that. 0:53:01.480 --> 0:53:03.440 The way we start off this season, I don't know 0:53:03.440 --> 0:53:04.799 if I could be happy this year or not. Man, 0:53:04.800 --> 0:53:06.400 it's a thank for the word. That's all I did 0:53:06.480 --> 0:53:09.360 right now now. When Drew first got traded from Milwaukee, 0:53:09.680 --> 0:53:12.839 what I tell you we was gonna Winna, I told 0:53:12.920 --> 0:53:15.600 you go get Drew got we got traded from it. 0:53:15.920 --> 0:53:19.879 Yeah, I said, go get Drewy're gonna win. He said, 0:53:19.920 --> 0:53:22.960 I'm already on it. I know you wasn't. Man said 0:53:23.000 --> 0:53:25.160 I'm on it. And then I seen it happen. I said, damn, 0:53:25.239 --> 0:53:30.680 he was on it. He really got pulled over there 0:53:30.800 --> 0:53:33.840 in the time of contact. No tempering. Yeah, man, I'm just. 0:53:33.880 --> 0:53:36.279 Saying though him joining the team, though, how was it, Bro? 0:53:36.440 --> 0:53:39.040 Did you think like when you got there? Of course 0:53:39.120 --> 0:53:41.440 I got aspirations of winning. But he was like, Noah, 0:53:41.520 --> 0:53:42.520 this is gonna help us. 0:53:43.200 --> 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 0:53:52.520 --> 0:53:54.680 and we wanted to go medal together. And I just 0:53:55.120 --> 0:53:56.920 I understood at that time that Drew was like a 0:53:56.960 --> 0:53:59.319 Swiss army night. He could yeah, guard the one through 0:53:59.360 --> 0:54:02.239 the five. He could be on ball, he could play 0:54:02.280 --> 0:54:03.759 off the ball. You put him in a dunker, he 0:54:03.800 --> 0:54:06.280 can set screens, he can score on any matchup. 0:54:07.520 --> 0:54:10.399 He not like, you know, a team player. 0:54:11.880 --> 0:54:13.520 When the big games, he gonna do what he's supposed 0:54:13.520 --> 0:54:16.120 to do, and not that he's gonna fall back, but 0:54:16.200 --> 0:54:19.879 he just know how to how to play with you know, superstars, 0:54:19.920 --> 0:54:24.480 and uh, he like the ultimate teammate. So when we 0:54:24.520 --> 0:54:28.120 got Drew is definitely like our confidence roles are like, man, 0:54:28.160 --> 0:54:30.640 we just felt that much better about what he's about 0:54:30.680 --> 0:54:30.800 to do. 0:54:31.440 --> 0:54:31.600 Yeah. 0:54:31.640 --> 0:54:33.839 Yeah, as a Pacers fan, hating becuse y'are cheating. You're 0:54:33.840 --> 0:54:36.160 not supposed to have Derek White Andrew and then switching 0:54:36.239 --> 0:54:36.839 to you and JB. 0:54:37.040 --> 0:54:39.719 That's not fair, man, life ain't fair. 0:54:39.800 --> 0:54:42.600 Many White got cold when he cut the hair. 0:54:42.719 --> 0:54:44.560 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. 0:54:48.719 --> 0:54:50.239 Tax bill is probably nuts. 0:54:51.760 --> 0:54:59.279 Imagine. I know he's selling the tape for we were, 0:54:59.760 --> 0:55:02.680 but boy, this tax bill is crazy. It's worth it, though, bro, 0:55:02.960 --> 0:55:05.439 I mean, championships is for Shure worth it. But y'all 0:55:05.560 --> 0:55:08.480 to a great story so far, for sure. I mean 0:55:08.480 --> 0:55:09.840 I want to ask you what I'm saying having to 0:55:09.880 --> 0:55:12.000 crazy summer. You know, I'm saying getting the dring? You know, 0:55:12.200 --> 0:55:14.400 matter how you come back motivated. Obviously you're a professional. 0:55:14.400 --> 0:55:18.239 You come to hoop, but like having such accomplishments a 0:55:18.239 --> 0:55:20.120 short amount time, what keeps you motivated and locked in 0:55:20.239 --> 0:55:21.040 and coming to this season? 0:55:22.200 --> 0:55:24.279 I think for me, one thing is like, man, I'm 0:55:24.320 --> 0:55:25.120 only twenty six. 0:55:25.600 --> 0:55:30.400 I think a lot of people, not some fans of 0:55:30.480 --> 0:55:32.719 people in the media might view like, oh, you've been 0:55:32.760 --> 0:55:34.680 in the championship, You've been in conference final, Like they. 0:55:34.680 --> 0:55:36.319 Might think I'm older than what I am. Like, boy, 0:55:36.400 --> 0:55:43.480 you look thirty. You kicked off early that I never 0:55:43.560 --> 0:55:45.839 understood that. I'm like, why is it his fault? Because 0:55:45.880 --> 0:55:47.320 he was successful early? Like you came in to the 0:55:47.400 --> 0:55:49.839 league going like, don't aging for it? Are you get 0:55:49.920 --> 0:55:51.160 mad at him for it? He was still killing. 0:55:52.120 --> 0:55:52.920 I mean, 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 Congresce Finals at twenty So for 0:55:58.440 --> 0:56:00.880 me being twenty six, like I got a lot of 0:56:00.920 --> 0:56:04.520 basketball left a lot and that feeling of winning the 0:56:04.600 --> 0:56:07.400 championship and having that parade, it was like, man, I 0:56:07.520 --> 0:56:10.640 want to do this ship again and again and again. 0:56:11.480 --> 0:56:14.480 And you know, my favorite players, like the guys I 0:56:14.560 --> 0:56:16.920 looked up to, they didn't just win one championship like 0:56:17.480 --> 0:56:18.840 they're coming to the League of. 0:56:18.960 --> 0:56:23.759 Like or make one All Star game, you know, so man. 0:56:23.680 --> 0:56:26.520 It'd be your own guys. That's what j T was 0:56:26.560 --> 0:56:28.480 on the real one. 0:56:29.360 --> 0:56:31.440 He didn't say nothing about an All Star game, bro, 0:56:36.800 --> 0:56:43.840 your own guys about. 0:56:45.840 --> 0:56:48.239 Game, Like that's not a lot of people to 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 --> 0:57:02.520 I was going to George, I'm back, that's good. Oh man, 0:57:03.840 --> 0:57:06.879 Well sorry with begin nothing. 0:57:07.080 --> 0:57:10.640 Just like the motivation came from like, man, yeah, okay, 0:57:11.080 --> 0:57:13.400 I understand the space that I'm in and trying to 0:57:13.480 --> 0:57:16.440 maximize this window of like I want to be one 0:57:16.480 --> 0:57:19.120 of the best players I ever played. And I understand 0:57:19.160 --> 0:57:20.760 the window that I have right now and God will 0:57:20.800 --> 0:57:24.080 and I stay healthy. That you know, I feel like 0:57:24.120 --> 0:57:26.520 I put it in the time and effort to take 0:57:26.560 --> 0:57:28.920 care of my body to you know, eat the right 0:57:29.000 --> 0:57:31.680 things and work on my game to be one of 0:57:31.720 --> 0:57:34.280 the best. That you know, it's not just I don't 0:57:34.400 --> 0:57:35.920 I want to be one of the best players to 0:57:36.000 --> 0:57:38.840 ever play. And not to say that it's about rankings, 0:57:38.880 --> 0:57:41.280 but I 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 --> 0:57:46.200 I want to ask you, like he speaks howl hor 0:57:46.280 --> 0:57:48.800 for that's is God for real, how you feel about him? 0:57:48.880 --> 0:57:51.040 Man? See watching him win the championship with you, bro, 0:57:51.160 --> 0:57:51.919 I 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 --> 0:58:00.439 my favorite teammate I ever had from a professional point, 0:58:00.480 --> 0:58:04.240 like when I got drafted at nineteen. Seeing how Al 0:58:05.120 --> 0:58:08.400 approach every practice day, every game day, every off day, 0:58:09.200 --> 0:58:13.080 it's a testament to like his career. It's year eighteen 0:58:13.200 --> 0:58:15.240 and like it was year seventeen last year, and we 0:58:15.440 --> 0:58:18.720 relied heavily on our to help us win a championship. 0:58:18.920 --> 0:58:20.720 It's not a lot of people in year seventeen that's 0:58:21.200 --> 0:58:23.160 starting on the team that's going to the finals. 0:58:23.920 --> 0:58:26.680 In that game three against Indiana, he had like eight three. 0:58:28.360 --> 0:58:30.520 I remember, and it's like we needed him to win 0:58:30.640 --> 0:58:34.520 that game. So Al took me under his wing, you know, 0:58:34.680 --> 0:58:38.720 since my first day, and you know somebody that's like 0:58:38.840 --> 0:58:41.680 always been there for me, somebody I've learned a lot 0:58:41.760 --> 0:58:44.520 from from the standpoint of like having a routine. I 0:58:44.680 --> 0:58:49.280 got my routine from watching Al have a routine. That's 0:58:49.320 --> 0:58:51.080 why he's been in the league for so long and 0:58:51.360 --> 0:58:54.040 been so successful. So Al is one of the best 0:58:54.640 --> 0:58:56.640 people you would ever meet, one of the best players 0:58:58.400 --> 0:59:02.160 Hall of Fame career and help him get over that top, 0:59:02.360 --> 0:59:04.880 get over the top and win a championship was like 0:59:05.560 --> 0:59:06.200 that was special. 0:59:06.400 --> 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 knew 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 --> 0:59:21.480 was like, man, y'all gonna have a special run. 0:59:22.280 --> 0:59:24.920 And he ain't stopping. No tim soon still going. 0:59:25.680 --> 0:59:27.680 Now, keep in that check, my boy, keep moving facts 0:59:27.800 --> 0:59:29.760 fact before we got out here. Obviously, we know you 0:59:29.800 --> 0:59:31.520 played to win championships, but do you have any personal 0:59:31.560 --> 0:59:32.680 goals you can share with us the season? 0:59:32.760 --> 0:59:37.480 Man 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 --> 0:59:46.680 team All NBA again, and those things and winning MVP 0:59:46.880 --> 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. 0:59:51.360 --> 0:59:52.160 That's what I'm saying. 0:59:52.680 --> 0:59:54.800 If you you aspired to do that, you're playing at 0:59:54.840 --> 0:59:56.880 a high level. You're playing a fishing, you're dominating. Your 0:59:56.920 --> 0:59:59.720 team is one of the best, and even if you 0:59:59.760 --> 1:00:01.440 don't win, right, it's only one person that can win, 1:00:01.520 --> 1:00:03.800 but it's five people every year that's playing at an 1:00:03.840 --> 1:00:07.280 NBB level for sure. So just trying to, you know, 1:00:07.560 --> 1:00:11.880 continue to dominate, being more efficient and understanding that this 1:00:12.040 --> 1:00:14.840 window we have, like trying to get better every day 1:00:14.920 --> 1:00:18.160 and you know, winning the championship and getting our ring 1:00:18.240 --> 1:00:20.040 the other night was one of the coolest moments. 1:00:20.080 --> 1:00:21.400 And it's like, man, I want to do that ship 1:00:21.880 --> 1:00:24.240 again and again again. For sure. 1:00:24.320 --> 1:00:26.480 Man, listen, maybe get out here, man, we appreciate you. 1:00:26.520 --> 1:00:31.760 Slide not this mans, He's on Netflix. Starting got my 1:00:31.840 --> 1:00:35.640 wife watching Start in five and she was like, Jason's 1:00:35.640 --> 1:00:41.120 a real serious dude. I said, don't believe that. That's 1:00:41.240 --> 1:00:42.400 not He's funny. 1:00:42.560 --> 1:00:44.960 Like she was like, no, he's just so like mature. 1:00:45.480 --> 1:00:47.320 I didn't know he was only twenty six. I'm like, 1:00:47.840 --> 1:00:49.160 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 1:00:53.880 --> 1:00:55.920 like you always that's why people think you older. You 1:00:56.000 --> 1:00:59.800 carry yourself super like mature and put together like no shot, 1:01:00.480 --> 1:01:03.600 but your clips against a clips is totally different. 1:01:03.640 --> 1:01:10.560 Like I'm going and then you tell me yours, it's like, 1:01:10.840 --> 1:01:20.360 well season, like yeah, come here son. You know, but 1:01:20.840 --> 1:01:26.240 you always carried itself like I was like, no, that 1:01:26.720 --> 1:01:28.920 it's dope to watch your show man be on there. 1:01:29.080 --> 1:01:30.880 For shore that now s new season, but definitely check 1:01:30.880 --> 1:01:32.560 out the Start five you have. How was that process 1:01:32.560 --> 1:01:33.840 of film of that man? Like you know what I'm saying. 1:01:33.840 --> 1:01:36.000 Obviously you've always been a constant professional, but to let 1:01:36.040 --> 1:01:38.720 people in like your personal life, that type of the 1:01:38.800 --> 1:01:39.959 cameras always rolling, how. 1:01:39.960 --> 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. 1:02:02.680 --> 1:02:06.480 Reserved guy, like T said, like, yeah, that's I am 1:02:06.640 --> 1:02:08.000 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 --> 1:02:15.080 But it was cool, and it was cool to be 1:02:15.200 --> 1:02:17.720 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 --> 1:02:23.560 when I won 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 --> 1:02:27.960 my mom was on there, my son, some of my 1:02:28.040 --> 1:02:29.600 best friends and. 1:02:29.680 --> 1:02:31.520 Just been on the first season like that. That was dope, 1:02:31.560 --> 1:02:33.080 and you know, I was glad I was a part of. 1:02:33.560 --> 1:02:34.960 I think the fire part about it is you got 1:02:35.000 --> 1:02:36.680 to see all of the media excerpts of like people 1:02:36.840 --> 1:02:38.800 like speaking down like you said, the high expectations, how 1:02:38.800 --> 1:02:40.640 they spoke about you all year and for you to win, 1:02:41.000 --> 1:02:43.120 especially when they documented it super far, because. 1:02:42.880 --> 1:02:44.440 It made a lot of people just deal with the 1:02:44.520 --> 1:02:45.080 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 --> 1:02:52.640 about what I realized in that moment when we won, 1:02:52.800 --> 1:02:54.560 is like I thought I was gonna go on a 1:02:54.640 --> 1:02:57.880 rent and like go back and everybody that ever had 1:02:57.920 --> 1:02:59.240 something to say about me, And it's like he. 1:02:59.240 --> 1:03:00.000 Was about to crash out. 1:03:00.760 --> 1:03:03.080 You think you are, Like he was like, man, when 1:03:03.120 --> 1:03:05.600 we win, like I got receipts, and it's like, man, 1:03:06.240 --> 1:03:08.560 that's not what this is about. Like when I w 1:03:08.840 --> 1:03:11.520 I'm holding up the trophy, my mom, my grandma crying, 1:03:11.600 --> 1:03:14.800 my son, I got my homies, I got eighteen thousand 1:03:14.840 --> 1:03:17.160 people in the Standard. It's like, yeah, it's about the 1:03:17.200 --> 1:03:20.040 people that supported you and rocking with you through the 1:03:20.160 --> 1:03:22.600 ups and downs. It's like, regardless we win or not, 1:03:22.760 --> 1:03:24.800 like they still probably talk about me on first Take 1:03:24.840 --> 1:03:25.720 tomorrow exactly. 1:03:26.040 --> 1:03:29.280 That's never gonna go away. So I don't never trip 1:03:29.360 --> 1:03:31.000 off U m v. 1:03:31.040 --> 1:03:32.840 P this year though, Bro, I'm gonna give it to you. 1:03:34.640 --> 1:03:36.720 You see how he was like, yeah, all that came 1:03:36.800 --> 1:03:39.720 to his mom. He grabbed the trophy. I'm crashing out 1:03:42.240 --> 1:03:46.760 the trophy, say something, Now, that's me. That's why, that's 1:03:46.840 --> 1:03:47.120 why he. 1:03:47.240 --> 1:03:54.560 Is Steven Day. We're coming for you, crashing out on 1:03:54.640 --> 1:03:58.120 the fat. Yeah, yeah, I was fine. That was hard, bro. 1:03:58.240 --> 1:04:00.360 I was hype for him, but he did that any thing. 1:04:00.440 --> 1:04:05.320 We want group project. You know, see. 1:04:07.040 --> 1:04:10.600 What I'm saying, like neflix, So y'all you get to 1:04:10.640 --> 1:04:13.840 see like he do this all day, bro, He joke 1:04:13.960 --> 1:04:16.600 all day. That's why I get the joking from. I 1:04:17.040 --> 1:04:19.280 started joking on them. I ain't joking the other team. 1:04:19.840 --> 1:04:22.800 I joked on every change. Sure, man, we gotta get 1:04:22.800 --> 1:04:24.760 out here, Jayson. We appreciate you man telling people that 1:04:24.800 --> 1:04:27.040 can dropping news, 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 --> 1:04:33.080 I think the second week in November. Okay, so I 1:04:33.400 --> 1:04:41.520 want my team. Yeah, Okay, Fike, we yeah, so maybe 1:04:41.520 --> 1:04:45.680 we're not, but we got here, be here telling people 1:04:45.720 --> 1:04:46.520 that Grass and Birks. 1:04:46.600 --> 1:04:49.320 We finally got the ship. Shot Club five. 1:04:51.160 --> 1:04:56.080 We locked in. Appreciate the volume. 1:05:00.080 --> 1:05:00.240 Yeah,