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The volume. Hi,

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I'm Sloan and I know basketball.

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Today's guest started as a three star recruit

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in high school and is now a ten year

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MBA veteran. His journey from hooping

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in LA to earning first team All Conference at Colorado

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and now playing for his hometown Los Angeles

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Lakers, is this story you won't want to

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miss. So let's get to know Spencer.

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Get with it. Okay,

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So Spencer, I'm sixteen,

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which I'm sure for you those a really long time ago.

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But I need you to think back to when you

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were sixteen and tell me what you were like

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personality.

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By I mean

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not to age myself sixteens,

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like half my life will go.

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I guess, uh, you know.

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I mean I was with a sophomore junior in

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high school at that time. I

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was kind of starting to come to I was a basketball player. I understand

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I was probably gonna, you know, at least

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be able to go to Division one. So

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yeah, I mean, I think there was a lot of maturation in growth

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that kind of was happening at that time.

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And you know, but I was still in a normal high

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school experience.

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It seems like you're traveling the world and

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living out your dream already.

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Yeah, it's it is really cool. So it's sixteen.

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Obviously you grew up in Woodland Hills, which, for those of you

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who don't know, is basically a little bit outside of Los

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Angeles. But at least being in that area,

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do you have any relationships with any NBA players?

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So actually, you know, I grew up in like

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in the heart of LA like oh Okay, in like south central

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area. I mean by the time about sixteen, though, I was

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living in around like View Park, which is

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close to Cover City. My bus out to.

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Tap the

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Woodland Hills there.

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I mean, I went to high school with Larry Drew,

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ended up, you know, having a couple of stints in the NBA.

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You ended up crossing paths with a lot of guys just in

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the high school au circuit anyway.

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But I wasn't like super heralded, and I didn't

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have, you know, anybody in my family

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that was in NBA or anything like that, so I didn't get

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to kind of get you know, ushered

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in or gloomed into that, you know situation.

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Have you always been a Laker sent? Yeah,

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so your sixteen year old self would be like

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this would be crazy.

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Oh, no, listen, if you could

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have told my sixteen year

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old self that, hey, in your tenthyon NBA, you're gonna play

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for Lakers and and all that stuff like

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that, you he would have took

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whatever consequences came with that.

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He took both ACL tears, all of THO stuff be

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here.

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Yeah, yeah, well I'll do it.

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So I heard that in high school and now, obviously

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you're really smart. How

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did you balance being a student and an athlete?

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And I guess what advice can you give to kids that are trying

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to balance that student athlete life?

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Yeah?

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Yeah, yeah, I mean I cred

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my mom a lot. She got PAGY

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from USC, She's she's brilliant, stressed

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academics early. I'd like

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to think I'm fairly in touch, and so school

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kind of came easy. I was able to, you know, get

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good grades with

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effort, but not not too too much effort. I think

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what I really sacrificed growing up was just social

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life and that stuff. I think, you know, you can kind of

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pick too, you know, basketball, school,

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having fun, and so I just delayed

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my fun into Yeah, you know, I got an NBA

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basically, you know that kind of sort

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of back half of college back a couple of years college,

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Like I did have a little bit of fun like junior

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in college, but other than that, no,

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I mean I pretty much had that delayed gratification

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mentality and uh, you know,

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just stuck with what would give me far in life.

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Yeah, So after high school, what was the thought process

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with choosing Colorado? I know, you had an offer from

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Harvard, which is obviously a non

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traditional path to go down, but I think a lot of people

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now are starting to sort of try the IVY

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route and you know, they want to be that first

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option for How did that go for you?

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Basically?

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I mean, again, my my academics

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were pretty solid, So you had some

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of those prestigious schools on that side

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looking at me. I got pretty

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much most of the pact to offer, along

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with obviously Harvard, But the differentiating

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factor between most of

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the PAC.

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Twelve Colorado and Harvard was Colin.

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Harvard really just stressed like, hey, we love you. It's

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going to be a centerpiece of you

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know, our recruiting class. You're going to be the guy

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that we want. And

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then it came when it came down of those two schools,

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I really just had in my mind that I wanted

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to go to the draft early. You

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know, at the time, I know I wasn't gonna be one and done. I wasn't

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McDonald's America or anything like that. But I really,

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in my in my heart believed I could do two

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years and lead, and there

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just wasn't a precedent for somebody

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doing that for an IVY league. So I knew if I would go to the Patrol

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of Conference, play against the best players,

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show my talent against them, that I might

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have a chance to leave after two years.

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Yeah, and what are your thoughts as a Colorado

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alumni and coach Prime coming and taking

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over.

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It's epic. It's epic.

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I went back, caught a couple of games, I got to meet him, talk

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to him a little bit.

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You know, he's he's an inspiring guy. I

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see how he's termed the program around.

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I mean, I'm excited to be a part of it. Like I

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loved every second going back.

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Yeah, super cool. So I guess

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now we jumped around. We were talking about college, but I want

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to go back to high school for a little bit. So you were a three star

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and you were ranked one hundred and twenty eighth nationally

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in high school, which is not necessarily

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a common route for a guy who's now

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been in the NBA for ten years, what advice

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would you give to high school athletes wh or not top

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ten, top one hundred recruits, but want to

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succeed in their sport.

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I mean, I think being realistic with your game.

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I think you know, for me, I grew

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gradually. I wasn't very athletic, so I

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had to gain a lot of skills and

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versatility. I think as I was able

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to get taller, stronger, and more athletic, that's

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kind of my game blossom. So that's why I was kind

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of a late bloomer in that standpoint in

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terms of high school. But yeah,

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I mean, the more you can be realistic

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with your craft, work hard every day, aboually

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develop a routine, but just

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never be.

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Too big for any

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role. Yeah, I think that's how you last ten years

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in the league.

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I've been everywhere from a first option

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to literally the fifteenth option.

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Guy doesn't dress and it is about to get cut,

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so you know, and each role

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one through fifteen has its own challenges

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that you have.

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To prepare for.

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I love that also, So I know

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in your class of those all those

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you know, one hundred and twenty seven recruits above me, there was Michael

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Carter, Williams, Anthony Davis, et cetera. Growing

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up in the AU circuit, Can you tell us

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a story about playing a guy like that?

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I mean, my best AU story is probably when we

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won the Adida Super sixty four

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going into my senior year. Yeah,

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I mean we played like Memphis Elite

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and the other guys that were big

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time at the time. You know, we

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were kind of an unholded secondary

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pump and run team from California.

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Was able to win.

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I know, now it's like all eybl on Nike

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circuit and stuff, But back then the Adida

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circuit, like it was like, what was

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it, Dida's big time Super sixty four.

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Then there's one in LMU that I can't remember

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the name of. We're like the big time terms

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at the team. So it was the equivalent of like when

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eybl type of thing.

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What are your thoughts on the way that sort of AU

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basketball has evolved into this now like crazy

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thing on social media and everyone knows these

7:08

kids before they even make it anywhere really close

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to it.

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I mean, I think in terms of exposure, it's dope,

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right, Like you want everybody to be able to expand

7:16

their brand or get their money, capitalize

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on name and likeness and all that stuff.

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I think for the

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priority of or

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the prioritization of the end game experience,

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I think it's kind of trash now

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because I've seen, you know, some guys like let guys

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go get dugs and you know, so they

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can get their high through sixty you know what I'm saying,

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Ducks on the break stuff like that, Like you know, coming up,

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we played to win.

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Yeah, you know what I mean.

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And that was just it, like you just you

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went out there, you tried to win the game you want

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or lost, whatever it was, you try to learn get better.

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Like it was kind of a simple formula.

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We didn't have as much outside noise,

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and we weren't giving guys breakaway ducks

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like yeah, you know, just so they could get their you

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know, mixtape off or whatever like so,

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so to me, that's something that

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i'd love to see change for sure.

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Yeah. And I think on that note,

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something interesting is like it's like guys are playing for

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themselves on their teams exactly, you know, because they

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want to shine, not their team. But it's a team small.

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Yeah, yeah, I don't be wrong.

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There's always gonna be an element of that, right, Like

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like in the NBA now everywhere you

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go, like everybody wants to do well, you know

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what I'm saying, But you have to understand

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your role and try to be a star in that as well for

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the collective's success, because you

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know, rising tide raises off ships, you know,

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And like I said, there's been times where I've

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averaged twenty in the league and a

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sixteen point a game or a sixteen point

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game might be considered bad.

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And obviously we lose, and you know,

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I have to be better.

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Whereas like you know, I've been again the six

8:44

seventh eight guy, whatever you come in, you get sixteen

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points, you probably played really well, you're super

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efficient, you help your team win. It's the same number,

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but different context, and so guys

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gotta understand that.

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Yeah, So I liked hearing about you at sixteen.

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Again, that was so long ago, I know, almost

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not your life ago. I feel like I really

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got to know you as a sixteen year old. I don't know if we would be friends.

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I feel like maybe about Yeah, okay,

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now I want to know about you now. So, Spencer,

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what was your eye made it moment. I

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made it moment the

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head scratcher quite literally.

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Yeah, no, that that's tough. I mean I

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haven't really dwelled in uh

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and some of the accomplishments. I mean, I probably.

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Go back to maybe my game winners against

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Detroit, which

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probably came in my fourth year

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in the NBA, maybe just

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because of everything that had gone on. You know, my

9:39

first year is not playing it all pretty much

9:42

getting cut you know, and deallely

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signed to Brooklyn all sort of stuff, and then you

9:46

know, to come back play the Pistons.

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Now I had to be my fourth year. I think it was my third year because

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I signed late.

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That year, but yeah, probably my fourth year and having

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the game winners one in the in Little

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Caesars and and you

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know, a couple of big shots in Barclays as well, probably

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was what I really felt like, you

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know, actually, let.

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Me take that back, let me take that back.

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Yes, those were big time os where

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I felt like solidified in the NBA. But

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probably the one game that I can

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remember in Detroit that I

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remember being like I belong was against

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the Wizards. Ironically, John Wall

10:23

well, just a podcast within something like that, you

10:26

know, at the time it was one of the best point guards in the league and kind

10:28

of.

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Look up to. I think

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that was like my first twenty point game or something. I

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would say that was cool. I

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like tiped dunk my own missing that game and stuff.

10:38

It was.

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It was kind of cool. Yeah.

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I saw the John Whole podcast. He said, you're gonna sleep

10:41

for a year after retired, Like, I

10:44

are.

10:44

You being for rip? Do you think, yeah,

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you're.

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Like a man caven like Hibernate y?

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Ok, yeah, No, like like you said, I mean,

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think about it.

10:51

I climbed from what one twenty

10:54

eight my high school class to

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even get to the spots and things

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and now tend your career, and you

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know, that's that's been an odyssey of itself.

11:03

You know where things have happened that haven't

11:05

necessarily been the greatest, and you

11:08

know, now.

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Yeah, when it's all done, ye, I'm

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gonna take it a nice little siesta.

11:13

So obviously, the free agency process is something

11:15

that you're very familiar with, and people in

11:18

and around the league are very familiar with. But US

11:20

fans we have so much to say about

11:22

it and sort of don't really know what actually goes into

11:24

it. When you are looking

11:27

at teams and talking to them. What are green

11:29

flags that you look for?

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Green flags? I think, you

11:34

know obviously when they have a specific

11:36

plan for you, you know, and then you

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look around the roster, it doesn't seem to be like conflicting

11:41

messages.

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Yeah, you know.

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Sometimes and this hasn't necessarily happened

11:46

to me because I was mostly in free agency.

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Just like one major times, yeah,

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U nles' say.

11:51

They have three centers on the roster and then they

11:54

promise you know, another saying that they're going

11:56

to start or something like that.

11:57

It's like that makes sense, you know,

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So you know, some of that goes on.

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I think obviously, you know, you definitely want

12:04

the financial component to be whatever

12:06

you want it to be in terms of market value. Then

12:09

you gotta look at like living areas,

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uh, you know, is

12:14

it is it conducive to whatever lifestyle

12:17

you enjoy?

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Your vocabulary is like insane. I'm like half

12:21

these words and you're saying, like I have not learned with those

12:23

people. What does

12:25

that mean?

12:27

It just it just blends well okay, okay, you

12:29

know, for example, let's.

12:32

Say you wanted to party like I think Miami's probably

12:34

yeah, okay, oh, Miami's yes.

12:39

But yeah, I think, uh, it's just a multitude

12:41

effective.

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So I want saw a story where Shaq said

12:52

he had signed the team mid season and he like broke

12:55

the record for the amount of money

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I don't know, spent in Walmart in one day

13:00

or something because he just moved to the city. So he like

13:02

bought like TVs, like food,

13:04

refrigerators, et cetera in the first forty

13:06

eight hours that you signed with the Lakers. What went

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into that whole process?

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Oh, I just I mean I

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just got it jet and came home. I

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didn't break any Walmart rules. I mean, obviously

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I already had this house. Yeah,

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I'm from here, so you know when I

13:23

signed, I mean I should have a house and does

13:25

too. But both of those places

13:27

were like home. So when it was come in time for that

13:30

kind of decision, Yeah, that's really all

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I was doing was just going back to the crib basically

13:34

and just trying to like reset,

13:36

regroup, take a split second to kind

13:38

of refocus, and then yeah, figure

13:41

out what that team needs for me, and dive

13:43

in.

13:44

Cool. So you're playing the Calves

13:46

on Saturday, walk us through your

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preparation process for that game, or I

13:50

guess any game, whatever.

13:51

Tim would have been.

13:53

Yeah, I mean I think that one's a little bit interesting

13:55

because that's a new game. So you

13:58

know, I probably have to get there eight

14:00

or nine in the morning, so you know, I'll be up

14:02

relatively early.

14:03

Yeah, it'll probably just be smooth before

14:05

that game. Nothing too crazy.

14:07

What's your smoothie order?

14:09

No, I can't if I give, if

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I can recipe, yeah, if I get a

14:13

secret recipe, I gotta kill you. That's

14:17

that's the way it works. That's the secret sauce. That's

14:20

what like that's that's that's

14:23

beef and fruit or how.

14:24

Every city you drink the same smoothie.

14:26

Roughly, Wow, roughly, I have a

14:29

couple of staples in this mooth and then sometimes

14:31

you know, you switch it up, okay, Yeah, and then also

14:33

sometimes certain cities have uh

14:36

more health food obsually like sea laws,

14:38

et cetera, and some don't.

14:39

So the situation is giving like Plankdin

14:41

from SpongeBob where they like steal this

14:43

secret thing for the okay, you.

14:45

Can't do that track pat formula, it stays,

14:47

uh, it stays locked up in the center.

14:49

On the topic of food, what is your post game cheat

14:52

meal?

14:53

Cheat meal?

14:53

Yeah, cheat meal

14:55

is like when you're like, because you know, you're

14:58

an athlete, right, like you have to be really healthy. But like,

15:00

let's say you just like have a really good game whatever

15:02

and you go home, you're like, oh, I need to go Chick fil a like that

15:04

type thing.

15:05

Oh no, I don't even bullshit like that.

15:06

Oh so you never have this.

15:09

Basically, So like

15:12

nine percent of the time I eat steak and fruit,

15:14

like that's my entire diet basically, But

15:17

how.

15:17

Do you cook your seak medium?

15:21

With that being said, though, my cheap

15:24

thing to do is peach

15:26

cobbler. I love peach trousers.

15:27

Okay, but that still follows

15:30

with like the fruit thing.

15:31

You know, like.

15:33

I guess I meant like raw fruit

15:35

basically, like oh not like

15:38

or or smooth.

15:43

Well, okay, this question now

15:45

has changed a little because you seem pretty picky. But what is

15:47

your favorite restaurant in.

15:48

LA I

15:50

don't have one of my favorite restaurant in New

15:52

York, which I was just there's Coke co

15:55

Ote Korean.

15:57

It's like the only mission to Star Korean steakhouse

15:59

in the country. Fire Wow.

16:02

Have we tried to try the Kogi truck?

16:04

Do you know?

16:05

It's like this like Korean truck in La and

16:07

it's like Korean barbecue and it's like in Venice

16:09

like on ABACINNI like, oh, literally

16:12

the best food I've ever had it sincetat.

16:13

Oh yeah, if you like Korean barbecue.

16:15

And which NBA

16:18

fandom is the craziest to play.

16:19

Against to me, probably

16:21

the Knicks, just because I had like beef

16:24

with them for so long because like when

16:26

I was in Brooklyn the first time, they were ass.

16:28

So I used to troll them all the time

16:30

because.

16:31

You got to remember, like in terms

16:33

of prestige and franchise,

16:35

like of course the Nets and a little brother to the Knicks,

16:38

but we was really whooping the ass, you feel me, So

16:40

they would talk crazy and it's like, yo, y'all haven't been good

16:42

for a long time. So then when I got back

16:45

the tables, that kind of turned and they were giving

16:47

me hell.

16:47

Yeah yeah, I mean you didn't Spike ever get into

16:50

it?

16:50

No, No, me and Spike never got into it. I don't think Spike

16:52

was invested enough at the time because like.

16:54

They they weren't.

16:54

Yeah yeah, Like I don't have like thirty

16:57

point games in the Guard and stuff like walk

16:59

off dunks, and ship like, yeah they

17:01

weren't.

17:02

Yeah they suck In the next five

17:04

years. Who do you think is going to be the stace of the league

17:06

and why?

17:07

I hope it's Anthony Edwards because man, that boy

17:10

good. He's nice and

17:12

he's got a he's.

17:13

Got his personality. It's just like,

17:15

yeah, he's.

17:16

He's funny, but he's got like a streak to him where he

17:18

wants to take on the challenge.

17:21

Yeah.

17:21

I think a lot of guys, don't you know. I think a

17:23

lot of guys they'll play offense. So I played

17:25

the offense date like Anthony Edwards

17:27

game of line wants to stop the best guy.

17:29

Like, yeah, it's some of that old school

17:32

throwback Kobe type type.

17:33

Stuff or what you know, the

17:35

rumors about MJ being his dad? I

17:39

did.

17:41

So.

17:41

You played on five different teams in your career

17:43

with some pretty incredible teammates.

17:45

Can you give us your starting five of

17:48

your best ever teammates? Oh?

17:52

Man, uh.

17:55

Luca for

17:58

shows in there at

18:01

the one. Uh

18:04

Bron is definitely my four.

18:07

KDS, my three a

18:10

DS, my five. I

18:17

didn't really play with James.

18:18

You feel me like we on the same team, But I didn't

18:20

really play with him, So I mean I

18:22

would probably have to go

18:26

Kyrie.

18:26

At the two.

18:31

No, Jalen Brunson love.

18:37

Over over Kyrie's at two.

18:38

Yeah yeah, Like probably as a one,

18:42

I.

18:42

Might be able to give j B to nine I

18:44

think, you know, but as

18:47

a two, like I don't understand Kyrie

18:49

at the at the two is it's

18:51

tough. Like if Kyrie

18:54

was like six seven, it'd

18:57

be a it'd be a different style of conversation through

19:00

in Dallas.

19:01

Obviously, Jayn Brunson wasn't the same

19:03

player that he is now in New York. But could

19:06

you I know you only played with him for a year, but could you guys

19:08

see that like he had something like cooking

19:10

in him like he was going to be a star star.

19:13

I don't know if I don't know if I'm gonna go with star, but

19:15

like you definitely saw

19:17

it. I mean when we when he got

19:19

those Lucas style possessions when we were in the first

19:22

round against Utah, like we were beating

19:24

Utah without Luca.

19:25

You know what I'm saying.

19:25

Some of that is like that was running through him.

19:28

Yeah.

19:28

Yeah, like you know in

19:31

that series, obviously you could see like Okay,

19:34

this guy could really like run a team.

19:36

He could score at a big time

19:38

level. I think he had forty in one of the games. So

19:41

you just knew like some of that.

19:43

Obviously, it's also Dallas offense because like, man,

19:46

they they make it easy on the guard

19:48

over there.

19:50

Well just to let that, but

19:52

yeah, no JB. JB's cold. JB's

19:55

super cold.

19:56

Okay, So during your NBA career all

19:59

ten years, was been the hardest player you've had

20:01

to.

20:01

Guard, probably

20:05

prime James Harden s

20:07

Houston James Harden. Yeah, that's yeah,

20:09

because he was like.

20:11

I hope many seasons to understand what I'm saying, but

20:13

he was like fact quick, like.

20:17

No, I'm telling you, really strong

20:19

as hell, but he's like he was really quick.

20:22

So all that like like lawyer to

20:24

sleep, lawyer to sleep, tweet and tween tween

20:27

twins and they'd hit that sharp cross and if

20:29

he shifts you, he gets you on you know what

20:31

I'm saying, on his hip, You're not you're not

20:33

getting around him.

20:33

And then obviously we all know about the step back.

20:36

Yeah, he got the leg hitting the whole nine. It's four point

20:38

play.

20:39

And you know when you go back

20:41

five years or so, when he was

20:43

doing all that sweep through stuff.

20:45

They was conned every time.

20:46

Yeah, he gets like yeah, like now they

20:48

don't really give it to him and say skinny

20:51

er. I mean he wasn't ever skinny for real, but you

20:54

know, like he would do that. He didn't hit in

20:56

the game with twenty free throws

21:00

fifteen threes, yeah, you

21:02

know, taking.

21:04

Obviously not not made because that'd be insane.

21:06

Yeah, you know, so like, how are you gonna stop that shot?

21:08

P file Like he's gonna make eighteen out of twenty free

21:10

throws. He's already in a rhythm. If he makes seven

21:13

out the you know, twenty

21:16

or seven out to fifteen threes, he's already damn

21:18

at forty points. Yeah, it's crazy,

21:21

I hear you.

21:29

So now, obviously you're Lebron's teammate.

21:32

What is one behind the scenes thing that he's

21:34

done. It's really like show you like he's

21:36

just that great.

21:38

I think it's just a routine. Every day

21:41

he's locked in, ready to go. He's

21:43

always getting his work in. He's just

21:45

he's militant about it, more so than

21:47

anybody I've ever seen in my in my career,

21:50

and obviously I've been around a plethora

21:52

of great players, but he just seems to be

21:54

the most like diligent.

21:56

Yeah, like every single day.

21:59

Okay, Spender. So you know, like in a high

22:01

school yearbook where there's superlatives like who's

22:03

most likely to be president, who's most likely

22:05

to you know, be famous? Whatever? Me

22:08

and you were going to do some Lakers team superlatives.

22:11

Okay, so are you ready?

22:14

Okay?

22:14

Who is the most stripped Vanda?

22:18

That's obvious? Okay? Who is the best playlist?

22:24

Playlist?

22:27

Or like on the team bus, who's getting off?

22:29

I think a d might

22:31

get the US really does.

22:33

I wouldn't touch it that, Okay? Who is the best

22:35

golf game?

22:37

Are ye?

22:40

Who is the best crib? And it can't be Lebron

22:42

or yourself?

22:43

Not ad got the best crib? Like

22:46

Delo did that?

22:46

Backyard podcast says says,

22:49

like the White House different definitely

22:52

mine.

22:52

I mean I think it's cool.

22:53

I like this house. There's such good lighting.

22:57

I did it for the lighting.

22:58

But you

23:00

know that's always how I think. Like I'm I'm a taktok

23:02

mindset, you know, Like especially when I

23:04

walked in, I was like okay, and I already like started

23:06

taking selfies on the couch Yeah, who

23:10

is the team dad?

23:12

Team dad? Since

23:14

I've been around, probably gave

23:17

Vincent.

23:18

Really okay, yeah, not Bron,

23:20

Like I feel like as like the old Like

23:22

I know, he's like okay whatever, I know he yeah.

23:25

Bro kind of goofy like he

23:28

he can, yeah, jump

23:30

through generations and like I

23:32

think that's one of his best gifts too, Like he's very

23:34

smart, but he knows how to like bond

23:37

with a twenty year old is the same as your bond

23:39

with a forty year old, like speak the language

23:41

that he needs to speak to communicate his message.

23:43

It's it's actually pretty amazing.

23:45

Yeah, it's so cool. Okay. Lastly

23:47

for the supperlatives. Okay, this

23:49

is a multiple park questions. So is there

23:51

a Lakers team group chat? Who texts

23:54

on it the most? And what is it called?

23:58

Oh? Yeah, now there is. It's like, I

24:01

don't forget. It's forced. I

24:04

mean it's on my phone force four forty

24:06

dollars or some I don't know.

24:07

It is not exciting. I was really I really

24:09

wanted.

24:10

To eat something.

24:11

Yeah, I don't know what it is. Who texted

24:13

the most? I

24:15

don't know who gets ignored the most? Is ruly nobody?

24:18

I want to have what we gotta.

24:19

Say houses

24:22

English in texting.

24:24

Oh he texts me. He text English perfectly,

24:26

it's just when he speaks sometimes.

24:27

Yeah, do you text on it a lot?

24:31

I just got it.

24:32

Yeah. So it's like, yeah, the

24:35

new guy. Yeah, they have to

24:37

they had to add you. Everyone had to get the notifications.

24:39

But the chat like

24:41

that. Okay. Lastly, so this

24:43

podcast is called Sloan Nose. Okay,

24:46

so this next segment is called Sloan

24:48

Knows Your Game but to you. So I'm gonna ask you

24:50

trivia about yourself, Spencer, And

24:52

I feel like you're a competitive guy and you may think

24:54

that you're gonna be really good at this, but no one is good

24:57

at it, like really no one. And I know you're

24:59

really smart and I'm sure you have a good memory,

25:01

but I go deep. Okay yeah

25:03

yea. So Also another thing I

25:05

want to add is this is not like a complaining with

25:08

the ref situation, like I will tee you up and like this

25:10

podcast episode can be over, so

25:12

like you need to like you cannot complain

25:14

about the scoring. Like this is very much like I

25:16

mean, I'll give you sometimes, I'll give you like half

25:19

points. We'll see how that goes. Okay, what

25:22

was your high school GPA?

25:25

Uh? I think it was three

25:27

point four?

25:30

Actually, is three point two? Really? Over

25:33

one? Okay? In your first

25:35

ever college game, Colorado

25:37

beat Fort Lewis by how many points?

25:42

I'm pretty sure it was up by like a million in the game,

25:44

but maybe won by fourteen.

25:49

Okay, I'm gonna give you one more guess because the a million was

25:51

closer than the fourteen.

25:52

Yeah, thirty

25:55

two?

25:55

Oh okay, thirty five, thirty five, that's like I have

25:57

a point. So okay, you're at point five.

26:00

I guess In your sophomore season in Colorado,

26:03

how many games did you start?

26:06

That's got old?

26:07

Yeah, but how many games was that? Oh?

26:11

Shit?

26:14

The college season is usually if

26:16

you're good, you go like twenty

26:19

three and ten thirty

26:22

three?

26:22

Yes, hey, look

26:25

at.

26:25

That one point five points? Great?

26:28

Okay. In your first NBA season with the Pistons,

26:31

what was your season high in minutes?

26:35

My first shit, my first

26:37

season should have had the twenty point game.

26:39

So this

26:41

is no. I know, I know I'm saying. So that

26:43

means I at least hit thirty

26:46

minutes. Uh So I'm gonna

26:48

go with no,

26:50

no, no, I'm gonna go twenty eight.

26:52

Oh, so goes twenty nine that

26:54

Lake Hassidy. That's sweet. Credit, that's

26:57

pretty good. That was good. I gotta and

26:59

I could see like this and they were yell okay,

27:01

So like two points. I feel like that's like basically

27:03

where we're at in twenty

27:05

nineteen to twenty twenty. You average

27:08

the most points in your career with the nets. How

27:10

many points did do you average per game? But I want to be like exact

27:12

to the decimal, like my math

27:14

teacher would be, like, you have to wrap, you know, or else

27:17

it.

27:17

Does not count. I know roughly

27:19

what it was, but I'm

27:21

gonna go twenty point six.

27:24

Spetzer, Okay, yes that

27:26

is Rex.

27:27

I always say twenty one, so I remember it was open twenty

27:29

point.

27:29

Five, which I guess technically if you were

27:32

to round up, it would be twenty one, you know,

27:34

because we're both so smart. So we're doing so

27:37

we're like three points. Well, that's that's much better

27:39

than most people I've been doing. I mean,

27:41

even though you didn't go to Harvard, you have a Harvard brains.

27:44

Wow, that's that's score. I remember now

27:47

sixty hundred.

27:48

Yes, I saw that. There was an

27:50

article written in the Harvard Crimson about

27:52

how you out of fourteen hundred and can

27:54

you actually tutor me? I'm doing my suffering

27:56

now I need some tutoring.

27:58

Fun fact, I took that my freshman year high

28:00

school and took it again.

28:02

Oh my gosh.

28:02

That's why.

28:03

That's why I didn't take the twenty four hundred and one, because like by

28:05

my junior year, they said if I took

28:07

it again and then I have to do that one.

28:09

I was like, yeah, I'll just live at that score.

28:10

No, okay, how many threes?

28:13

Oh?

28:13

Sorry this season? How many threes did

28:15

you average per game? Or how many threes have you

28:17

averaged per game?

28:21

Uh? Taken or made?

28:23

No? Made two? Well

28:27

to the decimal.

28:28

Fucking one point

28:31

eight?

28:31

Yes, oh

28:33

my gosh. Yeah, it's the best well

28:36

nos trivia of all time.

28:37

Wow.

28:39

Okay, this well, we'll see you

28:41

a good memory. I think you can get this. You were drafted thirty

28:43

eighth in the twenty fourteen NBA draft.

28:46

Who was drafted thirty seventh and who was

28:48

drafted thirty nine.

28:53

Thirty seven was Deandrew Dames.

28:54

Yes, do you know where you went to college?

28:57

Uh?

28:57

You can't. Yes, he went to my eigh Oh.

29:00

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

29:02

Okay, thirty nine was

29:06

that.

29:08

I can get me?

29:10

Yes?

29:10

Can can you tell me where I went to college?

29:13

Yes?

29:13

There we go. Okay, two point six out of one,

29:16

two, three, four, five, six

29:18

six not Hey,

29:21

hey, hey, okay, this is crazy. It's crazy.

29:24

This is your last question. Okay, what

29:26

was your free throw percentage your rookie year?

29:30

It was high as yes, it was high as point

29:32

it was like.

29:35

Coult it take not but it was like ninety

29:38

one or ninety two or but to the

29:40

decimal ninety one

29:42

point two.

29:43

Okay, there's this has to be a cheat code.

29:45

Yes, that's crazy. Oh

29:48

my god, this is a slow nose left right

29:50

here. Listen, this is Spencer

29:53

knows. This is crazy. Now, Spencer for the

29:55

last question, who

29:57

do you want to nominate to be the next slow

29:59

nose?

30:00

Yes?

30:01

To beat me or just to do it?

30:02

To do it, and then maybe if you

30:04

want to be strategic about this, you pick someone

30:07

that wouldn't beat you. You know what I mean?

30:08

Oh, if I want to pick somebody that ain't gonna be baby, I

30:10

nominate Luca Doches.

30:12

Okay, I mean that is the good nomination. Luca. Don

30:14

Did you heard it right? Here people, spencered in

30:16

withity Luca. We're about to take that phone

30:18

call right out for this episode.

30:19

And if I want to nominate somebody that possibly could

30:21

beat me, Lebron James.

30:22

Oh what a great nomination. That's

30:24

so Look, we have actually never heard of that guy. I don't think

30:26

I can have him on. He's not like big enough as a guest.

30:29

I think he's not really there.

30:31

Yeah no, but you're you're

30:33

the Thanks guys, like, thanks

30:38

for listening. You can get links to my socials and

30:40

see behind the scenes fun from Spencer and I in

30:42

the show notes, or just search at Sloan

30:44

Notes on Instagram, TikTok and

30:46

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