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All right, Rips, did you drive with Dwight and Chad? We're here troubles immediate day and joining us now is a blazer for Jeremy Grant. Jeremy,

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I welcome to the show, and congrats on the new deal man.

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That's awesome. Thank you, thank you, thank you, honor and bless

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what's it like to get that kind of security? I mean, this is

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a job obviously, people know from the outside there's not a lot of security

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unless you get a deal like you got. Uh. Definitely again, Uh,

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just blessed to you know, be able to have the opportunity to to

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to get the security, like you said. Uh. Thankful for you know,

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Joe and Jody and and the organization for trusting in me. I'm curious

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when you signed that, did you go out and buy something? Uh?

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When I signed that, did I go out and buy something something cool?

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You know? I got, I got, I got my family a lot

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of a lot of things. You know. I got a few cars,

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uh for myself and cars for my family. So what's the favorite rig that

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you have, the car that you're most proud of. I gotta I gotta

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Bentley. It's uh, it's it's beautiful. It's it's yeah, are you

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scared to driving? No, No, not at all, not at all.

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Uh driving pretty fast sometimes. What kind of car did the family yet

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I got? Uh? I got, I got my partner Porsche. Uh,

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I got I got Actually I got my brother better card than I got

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uh mayback truck and I got my other brother Range. Yeah, so you

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took good care of of course they take a good care of me. So you know, we were just talking with Matisse and he goes, Hey,

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in the real world, I'm a young man, but now in basketball terms,

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I'm like an old guy. And for you, now we were just

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talking about this, only four guys on the roster who were here last year.

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You're one of those guys included. So what's it like for you to

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see all the new faces and a lot of them are young, and they're

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gonna come to you for advice. They want to know your take on the

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NBA life and how to make things happen. Uh. It's it's an honor

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to be able to get this far in the NBA, to be honest,

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going on my tenth year in the in the league, So to be able

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to super long, to be able to share what I've learned, and you

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know, in the last decade with the new guys, it's important always having

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you know, a mentor leader, h a vet, you know, to

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be able to teach you and show you the ropes, because no one really

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teaches you or shows you. But to have somebody who's been through it and

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teach you, it's huge. So I'm I'm taking that role very seriously.

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Who did that for you? I had Elton Brand and Philly he helped me

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a lot. Jason Richardson, Uh, he helped me as well. Those

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were in Philly, and then uh when I got to Okay see Russ Russ

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Westbrook. Uh he yeah, he took me under his wing and it helped

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me a lot. So all right, so with the team that's here,

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what do you think about the additions? First off, with DeAndre Ayton, you've competed against him. What do you think he's going to bring to the

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club. I think he's gonna bring a lot. I think, uh, a lot of energy. Uh. He has great touch, great shoot and

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touch H And I mean defensively, I mean I think he could do a

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lot. I think he could do a lot. And I think it's you

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know, it's been a while since I played with the you know somebody like

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that. So I'm I'm extremely excited to you know, see what he brings.

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I think he has he has a lot more to give to than than

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he has the opportunity too in the past. So I'm I'm excited about this.

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Looks like with uh scoot here, it's gonna be a little more running

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in faster pace, more up tempo. Do you like that? Definitely?

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I definitely like that. Uh it plays to my advantages long athletic wing.

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I like, I love to run to run the court, so playing at

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that tempo is uh, it makes the makes the game a lot easier.

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So what if you guys talk about in terms of what it's going to take to get to that next level defensively and you're a key cogging now, so

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what's it gonna take now with the guys that you have. I think we

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have a defensive team. I think the trades that you know that Joe's made

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has shifted us from you know, a hea heavily offensive power to a defensive

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team, and I think that benefits us. You know, obviously with DeAndre

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rob me matis like we have we have a lot of defenders so I look

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forward to it. I look forward to us, you know, shutting teams

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down and winning in that way. You know. Last summer I saw some

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pictures I think on Instagram from they were you in Paris? I think is

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a fashion week over there? I think? Yeah? And so I want

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to talk to you about that. Guys, anybody who's seen you walk into

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an arena and knows you have an interesting fashion is that gonna carry you through

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your career and maybe something post career? Are you that interested in it?

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Definitely? Definitely. I love fashion. I love the shop. I love

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to see the artwork that these designers put out. So it's something It's something

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that I'm very interested in. And uh yeah, I'll continue to, you

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know, follow that direction for my career, God willing and and after as

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well. So you know, I was born in Tulsa, So I grew

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up a huge Sooner fan. I I love your Your father was a part

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of the like one of the best Sooner teams of all time. He played

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here in Portland. What what did he tell you about Portland before you came here? So I was born here, I lived here for my first two

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years. I don't really remember it, but you know him and my mom

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just telling me how beautiful it is nature wise. You know a lot of

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people here enjoy you know, nutrition and holistic things, and uh, they

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were just telling me things like that about you know, about being here.

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So how key is the nutrition and learning? How guys that come to the

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league. I remember Zach Collins when he first came in, He's like, I didn't know anything about nutrition. A lot of young guys are like that.

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How key has that been in you as you've learned over the years how

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to better take care of your body for the longevity you know, with ten

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years in it's huge, it's huge. I think when you're young, you

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can get away with eating eating pretty bad because your your body recovers really fast.

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But once you hit a certain point and you got it, you know,

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I got a decent amount of miles on your body. You gotta understand

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that any small thing helps, So you gotta, you know, start eating

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healthy and things like that. So, uh, the young guys, they'll

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they'll catch on. But sometimes, you know, it's it's hard to tell

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somebody something when uh they're young and it doesn't affect him as much. Have

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you seen you've been out of the practice facility. I'm sure it's there a

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young guy kind of floating under the radar that we don't really know too much

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about. That's gonna surprise us. Oh, we gotta we got a lot

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of good young guys. To be honest, I don't want to jinx anybody,

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so I'm not gonna say nothing, but I definitely I definitely come back

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uh uh and and and talk to you about it when it when it comes.

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How good is scoop Man? School is really good? He's really good.

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He's really talented, really athletic, and he brings a different he brings

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a different what do you say, just a different gear. He brings a

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different uh look to the team. His pace is is different. It's not

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something that you see often. And uh, he's growing, He's growing,

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He's getting better. He's gotten better since I've been here this summer, and

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I'm looking forward to him continue to get better. Can he maintain that pace?

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Is that sustainable to play? I mean I've seen him G League and

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stuff. He plays a hundred miles an hour. Can you keep doing that?

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Yeah? I think I think he definitely can. I think, uh,

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you know, he'll have to condition his body to do that for eighty

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two games and more hopefully. But yeah, it's it's definitely something that you

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know he can he can keep up. He'll figure out, you know,

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when to turn it on and you know. But but right now, yeah,

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he's young, he could he can definitely do it. So and one of the guys I'm impressed by it is Chris Murray. What's your take on

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what you've seen from him so far? He's good, He's good. Uh,

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Talenton, young guy, you could do a little bit of everything,

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very coachable, he listens and yeah, you could tell he wants it.

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He works really hard, so you can tell he wants it, and he'll

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be a good player for sure. What's your take on the tantem of Dame

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and your honest together, that's gonna be. It's gonna be a good team.

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It's gonna be a good team. Yeah. I'm excited to you know,

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see him play and play against him, to be honest, but uh,

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I think that's gonna be. It's gonna be a great team. You're probably used to it by now, But how hard is it to say goodbye

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to teammates you're tight with. Oh, it's tough, it's tough. It's

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definitely always tough, no matter how long you you're in the NBA. It's

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my fifth team, So no matter how long you're in the NBA, you

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know the business by now, I gotta say bye to a lot of guys.

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So but it never it never gets easy. You're always gonna go through

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that over and over every time. So, uh, it's it's a part

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of the business. So one final question for you, Santa Barbara, you

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went there last year, going back this year. How much do you enjoy

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getting away for camp like that? Excited? I'm excited to get away for

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camp, especially with you know, we got a bunch of new guys, so for us to you know, be able to come together and you know,

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figure out each other's personalities, figure out each other, how we play

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on the court together and and everything. So I'm excited for that to you

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know, be isolated with the teams all right. Jeremy Grant traivel Aser Media

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Day. Jeremy, good luck this year. Congrats on the new deal.

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It's awesome and we look forward to seeing you play. Yes, sir,

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thank you.