The Deep 3 Podcast - We Interviewed The Top 2025 NBA Draft Prospects

Episode Date: May 31, 2025

today we talk to the best NBA prospects in the 2025 NBA Draft! #nba Check out the TD3 merch: https://the-deep-3-shop.fourthwall.com/ Listen on Spotify!: https://open.spotify.com/show/3elbbqVumwqz8wlIdknsLW Listen on Apple Podcasts!: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deep-3-podcast/id1657940794 Follow us on TikTok!: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedeepthree Follow us on Instagram!: https://www.instagram.com/thedeep3podcast/ Isaac's twitter: https://twitter.com/byisaacg Mo's twitter: https://twitter.com/Mojo99_ Donnavan's twitter: https://twitter.com/Dsmoot3D 0:00- Intro 1:01- Tre Johnson 9:22- Walter Clayton Jr. 19:36- Dylan Harper 29:52- V.J. Edgecomb 40:16- Kasparas Jakucionis 49:56- Derik Queen 59:46- Jeremiah Fears 1:06:58- Ace Bailey & Cooper Flagg 1:20:20- Kon Knueppel 1:29:38- Khaman Maluach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We got A. Bailey. That's crazy. This is one of my favorites. Bro? Yeah. That means the rest of them is special. How many versions of you would you need to take down a gorilla? A thousand? At the thousand. And you're going to see him punch another one in the face.

His face is going to be over there. Us for 25 of us each. So it's a combination of body types and athletic. I don't do it like that. Don't do it like that. You just looked at my phone. He's like, people will say pass him. Yeah. But I can pass, though.

If you look back, I can pass very, very good. Trying to make a lot of different winning plays and impact the game in more ways than just scoring. Can you expound on that archetype? What is that? I mean, people see a 6-5 white guy. And they assume shooter, obviously, which is true. The cranium is crazy.

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The big three Was stolen, huh? I got to So what's all We're gonna get deep from? We literally Just the deep three Hey man,

we need something With number three It don't mean It don't mean shit abbreviation It doesn't mean a damn thing Exactly That's like that's

It means nothing Yeah We're here We're here With Trey Johnson How you doing today How's your common going so far?

It's been going Smooth's been great. How y'all been? Doing good, bro. Doing good. I know. You went to Texas? Yes, sir. We both graduated from UT. How did you enjoy your time in Austin? I was great. I met some of my best friends at the university. I had great relationships with a lot of people, met a lot of different people. It was great for me. Do you have your go-to food spots in Austin that you found? Cheba Hut. That's probably a go-to for me, wing stop or something like that. I live close to the drag, so it was a lot of good food spots. Yeah, he was over down on 6-3 at Chubas. You were saying Up 6th Street?

Every once in a while. Yeah. Every once in a while. It wasn't regular. They don't know me there. How was it playing over there at Texas for a coach who worked with your dad like 30, 35 years ago? Yeah. Was that a relationship different?

Me old. No. No. The big number. No, the relationship was kind of the same. Like, we had similar stories about him just about his practice. like how he took the game of basketball. I love the game. But that was crazy that that never changed about him. Like he loved the game so much from when he was like 22 to when I got him

around 50. So like that was crazy. Love for the game. He got crazy. But yeah, it was kind of surreal just thinking about it because me and my pop stage gap is crazy. I want to direct your attention to the screen right here. I got some real important information to show you. I'm going to show you some hair swaps. of players from your draft class, and I want you to rate from 1 to 10 how well it fits them. Gotcha. First off, we got Ace Bailey.

Like, who he swapped with? Him me, butler? Yeah. Nah, that's not him. You can't rock it? No, I don't think so. That's crazy. This is one of my favorites.

True? Yeah. That means the rest of them is. So will we give this a two? I'll give it like a four. Okay, respectful. Okay, that's not bad. Good starting point.

We got Dylan Harper. Yeah, the rest of them are bad. This is what you have a two. It's not really him. No, that's not. I don't work. I see his vision a little bit. No, yeah, you can't see it because he got that. He got that other side in him, but...

Yeah, I can tell. He likes to take a lot of charges, though, on the court. That's what he doing. Play the game the right way, you know? Tell the guy you want to bring on the mom. Exactly. We got Trey Johnson. Damn.

Hey, no, this is what about two kids? Trey, what happened? You're for sure like you're on the park Nah, I can for sure Pull it off though I can see it though I don't know I think you look at age with this

Listen you've been in Texas a lot The moly is what big out there It's rubbing off I didn't see a few dudes Pull it off Yeah I just gotta throw a hat on I don't think you're one of those dudes

Who can pull it off At least the color You can at least get the color off The color cool Color cool Yeah It does kind of fit The blonde doesn't look terrible

Yeah that's what I was looking at I really weren't looking at the hair in the back But That's all they're going to see I put that hat It looks like Billy Ray Cyrus. Billy Ray Cyrus. This is a country singer.

I can see that. We got Vijay Edgecombe. You know the crazy thing is I didn't see some dudes with that on their head. I didn't see a lot of people look like this. But no, it don't fit, it don't fit BJ. It looked crazy. Yeah, it's doing back to high school. He sounds like you got a stigma about people like that already.

No, I just doesn't see the line of it. Last one at least We got Cooper Flag Oh that didn't seem like somebody I went to Duke before Somebody that would just come in the bruise Play hard To play hard

It fits Just not my I don't know You fuck with the Soul Patch I feel like that fits him I just feel like his head's too shiny though It is Saying a Soul Patch fits somebody

Might be the most disrespectful thing You could possibly say about that No just look You don't think he could pull that off? I don't think anybody should be trying to pull up a soul patch. Absolutely not. All right, man. On the same topic, keeping it serious, who's winning in a fight, 100 men or one gorilla?

I feel like it depends who you go get for the 100 men. Let's say it's 100 U's. 100 Mues. We're not winning. We're not winning. You don't believe in yourself? Look at me and look at the gorilla. Look at a hundred of you and look at that gorilla.

But still, though, like, one hit, one hit. One punch and one pump face. I might pull out of the other people. Like one head. Yeah, one head is over. So you just got to hit somebody a hundred times. The fight's over. How many, how many versions of you would you need to take down a gorilla?

A thousand? A thousand. You can do better there. They live tons. A buck 90. They're fine. They're okay. They're okay.

So you think. I just. to the zoo the other day, and I saw a gorilla. You saw a chimpanzee probably. No, I said, I promise you, I saw a gorilla. If we get 100 men, we're killing that gorilla. Bro, give me a belt, and I'm getting 50, man. We're frying it.

We're frying. We're frying. A hundred is a lot of men. Guerrillas get tired. Exactly. I got to stop looking at the ones at the zoo. Look at the ones that's fighting for their life. You don't see some shit.

Look at the ones that fight life. The ones in the zoo, they get their food. Fad to them. Hey, he's cooking. That's a new proposition. That is the best argument we've heard all the name. That's what I've said. He's different.

Is there any one player across the league that you're most looking forward to playing against? An NBA? Yeah, yeah. In the guerrilla warfare. Probably just guard SGA. See if I can see how many possessions I get to stop without fouling. Yeah. Not many.

That's what I'm saying. That's what I want to see. I feel like I'm pretty distant. the plan. That's probably one of the only players, but I'm open to play anybody. Yeah. What do you think about your game that most people overlook? What do you think is something that you really shine at or you look across? You see what people say about you. Maybe they don't often mention that. My passing. That's one. I've been good at that since third, fourth grade passing the ball. Seeing a play before others do. Yeah, that's probably the biggest thing.

Who are you some of the biggest influences when it comes to your passing? Like, who do you look at to sharpen that aspect of your game? Man, it's not even people I look at. It's just knowing basketball having an IQ and you're willing to make the eye read. A lot of people don't want to make the right play. Like, they'd rather hold it and see if they got some first. Like, if you're open, you're getting the ball. So it's just having IQ for the game, knowing what's going to happen, like a ball screen, knowing who has to come help on his ball screen and knowing where he came from, that's where the ball going.

So does that IQ come from watching film or is it just like you have it or you don't? Or could it be like? Nah, you for sure get it from film. I'm watching film for a while. Like, my pops have me watching film. of shoot when I was in fourth grade sitting there watching the whole game I remember just falling asleep watching film yeah it's just been yeah so I've been kind of gaining that over years and then having a knowledge from him he played college so that kind of helped me out for sure

it's interesting you mentioned that something that you already pride yourself in because I feel like that's one of the areas that young players have to improve the most with like NBA spacing everything's a little bit different you have the sharper reads defenders are faster so you feel like that's something you're already on top of I feel like my shooting helped me out with spacing but I just feel like I can still become better at watching film just because I still sometimes watch the game as a fan, meaning that I still watch wherever the ball going. Instead of just sometimes watching what's going on around or what's happening off the ball or what they're doing off the ball or how somebody such and such gardens such and such.

So there's things like that I can still improve on. Awesome, man. Well, that's all the time we got what you say. Got to keep you going throughout your combine day. Appreciate you coming through. It was a fun conversation. Yes, sir. I appreciate y'all.

We're here to very special guests. We're here with Walter Clayton, Jr. How are you doing today, man? I'm doing good. How y'all doing? Doing great, man. Champion, what's your last six months of your life been like? You know, I feel like every year we see a player in your situation that grinds for four years, does all, puts in all the work, gets the moment in March Madness and just completely changes their life. What's that experience has been like? Last six months, a lot of work still, you know, like the previous years and just a lot of winning lately, you know, obviously. But, yeah, man, it's been a joy, but I've enjoyed the whole process.

Over the last, I would say, seven, eight months, what do you think has been the biggest focus of your growth and development in your game? Definitely, I've always focused on shooting, so I've continued to focus on shooting. Defensive consistency and just being a little more, less nonchalant with some of the things I do on the court. As your name's been, you know, rising up and, you know,

mock drafts and something like that, what do you think is something that you're excited to show the NBA teams and NBA fans that's like a part of your game that's underrated? I wouldn't say like a part of my game. I guess I just honestly anything. I feel like I could do anything on the court whatever the team needed me. So just excited to get out to the NBA and just win. Yeah.

Yeah, I got to talk about something really important, something that's been on all of our minds across the internet. Who do you think we went in a fight? 100 men or one gorilla? I ain't no lie. The gorilla, man. The gorilla? You could say that. You got 100 men.

mentally you got bought maybe 40 the other sick you're going to be scared if you get a hundred if you get a hundred men willingly to participate right so they're not scared once that first man see that gorilla swing on that first dude it's over like three guys to be the sacrifice of course what if it's 100 use it's like NBA athletes oh I'm cooked I ain't fighting no guerrilla you play football how are you cooked I'm running I'm not that big I don't know I think people watch a lot of planet The apes people think that they're crazy aggressive. It's not King Kong that you're fighting. I know it ain't King Kong, but they're still swinging like this.

You know what gorilla have you seen in person to scare you like this? Man, them zoos. I'd have been to a zoo before. I don't see a gorilla. I ain't fighting one. You know, I feel like one of the big things that's going to happen over your first few years in your career. You can get a lot of nicknames. You've seen Bassel reference pages.

People have 10 nicknands. You probably never heard of eight of them. If you could pick your one nickname that'll stick for the rest of your career right now, what would it be if it was up to you? I ain't got no nicknames. Everybody just called me walks. Do you get the single name treatment? Yeah, single name.

I'm good with that. I want to play a quick game. I'm going to name two NBA players. You tell me who's the better dunker. So who comes to your mind, you know, whether it be dunk contest, dunks, in-game dunks. Just entertainment factor. LeBron or Vince Carter? Vince.

Yeah, easy. That's a goat dunker. He's a goat dunker? It's not that easy of a conversation, is it? I thought I put him against someone who's pretty known for his athleticism. I thought it would be a chance. I mean, Vince do like, if Vince don't. It's going to be kind of crazy.

You know, Braun. I think we just not seen so much of it. Brown, my favorite player. So would you rather get dunked on by someone like LeBron than Vince? For sure. Because LeBron is big, though. Your back is on the ground. Bron is kind of expected.

You know what I'm saying? Bronc came down the lane. You got, don't know what it is. Vince, might jump over you. So it's going to be talked about for a while. It just depends on how you want to get humiliated, I guess. Okay. Let's go to even more difference of styles for this one.

Anthony Edwards or Blake Griffin. Dunk him? Yeah. I'm going to say. Blake. I ain't gonna lie. He was catch some crazy loss from CP. Through contact. Yeah, I'm gonna say Blake. But I feel like Ant might be, have like the dunk discography to rival Vince Carter. You might be one of the only people that are gonna get there. Nah, that's, it depends, man. I ain't a lot of depend on what dunk. Like Aunt Baseline dunk. Yeah. Cutting out of two feet

that one time was crazy. So yeah. And he's gonna talk to you too afterwards. So I think it's a little bit worse. That's a good point. I don't know. It's low key worse whenever somebody just look at you know. Yeah, Blake's me just. Yeah. Okay. Last one for this. Zach Levine or Zion. Williamson? Getting done so Zion, it feels like it hurts. He's shot by a gunner stab with a night. He's so big. He's so big.

Like, that body to body in the air is going to hurt. Yeah. I'm going to say, Zach. I ain't going to lie. Really? You have more of a chance. He's probably going to just dunk with so much authority. Yeah.

It's going to be bad. So I'm going to say Zach. Yeah. So off a different topic of non-dunking. What, when you look across, you see all the mock trash, you see everybody comparing you to, what do you feel like people get wrong about your game? Something that you think maybe they overlook in something you can do that they think you can or vice versa? Um,

I don't really pay attention to it at all. I just focus on what the decision maker's saying. Yeah. Okay. Well, is there anything that you think you're that's underrated that you think you, or something that you're proud of a skill set you developed over time? Um, over time, I'll just say the shooting factor. Yeah.

Makes sense. I'm always kind of focused on the shooting. In your, in your younger days, just about like, I don't know, two, three years ago, when did you like, like, like, yeah, exactly. When did you, like, make that switch in your head when it comes to deciding between a football career and a basketball career? Oh, when did I decide that? Yeah. Well, I stopped playing football at the end of my sophomore year.

So going into junior high school, I tried to stop playing, like, my ninth grade year, but my circle around me wouldn't let me. So, fully got off of a junior year. Do you have a moment that made you stop playing football? Yeah. Every day. I hate it practice, bro. Sure. I hate it going out there.

I just enjoy practicing basketball more. football practice, I go out there and sit on the side, drink my water. I was chilling. Coach would be like, he's taking mental reps. Mental reps is the most polite way to say, I'm not going to prove in the game. That's crazy. That's what's the way? Athlete.

Athlete. Yeah, I was like, why receiver, DB, all that. Put the ball on his hands. It'll be more athletic. What is your favorite one to play? Favorite was probably a free safety. I just do whatever I want back there. The rest of the defense kind of locked in today's zone.

I just roam around. Do you think that football experience of being an athlete on the course? on the field, do you feel any of that in your game today? You think you brought that physicality over? I say it definitely helping with the physicality part for sure. And just sometimes, you know, seeing something before it might happen. You take a draw charge or you're using and hit. It's not some slight. For sure. Makes sense. Yeah. Is there any player that you look across the league right now that you're like, I want to play against them? That you're most looking forward to being on the opposite side of the court with? I mean, obviously, LeBron,

you know, just growing up, that being my favorite player, always watching him. He's been in the league since I was born. So, yeah. What's your favorite Lebron moment across the years? Man, favorite brawl moment? Probably when he went back to Cleveland and won it. I ain't going to lie. Yeah, that's a seminal moment. I feel like one of the, because I mean, I were a little bit older than you. So one of our first memories of watching sports around like, we're not that old.

That's crazy. A little three or four years old. One of the main memories I have when basketball first got into our lives is when he went to Miami. Do you remember that? Were you too young for that? I remember all the jerseys getting burned. I remember all that. I was on vacation, actually, whenever he announced it on TV, so I had watched it.

It's like a core memory you mentioned? Yeah, for your application. For sure. So on the court, outside, we don't know like shooting. It's the easiest thing in the world for you or one of the better shooters in the class. What do you find most difficult for a player your caliber? What was like one of the hardest transistors that you had to make in college? I ain't going to say it was hard, but it definitely took some time, just adjusted to the speed of the game.

My high school team, we played pretty fast. But whenever I got to college, the speed of the game, just air, everybody more athletic had to adjusted out. Do you think that there's anything in the NBA that is probably going to take you a little bit to get adjusted to? I don't know, maybe just all the traveling, just the whole lifestyle in general, you know, it's definitely going to be different. Much longer seasons, lots of flights. Yeah, for sure. 82 games. It ain't 30 something no more. We have 40. Yeah, you hear that a lot of people talk about how they hit that rookie wall and people always talk about like, is the league in Houston whatever? They're probably tired. That's a lot of games to play. Not used to that. You got to be ready for.

Did you have a moment in this season where you're like, dang, like, this is a long season right now? Oh, nah. This year was pretty, it was pretty good. I mean, our coaches at Florida was pretty good about just making sure everybody was right. Everybody's body was feeling good and, you know, adjusting practices however we felt. So not this season I didn't. Yeah. Dude, when you look to think back to that time around March when everything was going crazy,

was there a moment that maybe you got to mention on Instagram, a comment, some like that, where you're like, well, people that I didn't expect to be talking. about me you're talking about me um i seen i wasn't really looking on twitter until like after march uh end it but i seen like a couple people following me i think it was after final four like it was a bunch of people following me like that was in the league and they was just saying like good luck in the final so i wouldn't really expect and all that who stuck out there else um probably darn i ain't a lot don't michael he sent me his number everything he was like hit me if you need anything you got a little coach p connection there too so oh that's yeah yeah donovan mitchell is such

an interesting player do you is there anything that you take from his game you look at him as a player's inspirational for sure like his uh floaters you know he got all those like getting to the mid range area euro step floaters two foot floaters like he's just great in that area so it's forcing teams to kind of step up then he just get down low so great three level score who also on the league do you watch and do you think like really influences your game um influences my game yeah someone has moves that you think i should add that to my bag yeah that's my back i see a little bit of jama i i see a little bit of jama i I hear people talking about Jamal Murray.

I can see that a little bit. Jamal, I think Don a little bit. And then, I don't know. I'll just say them too. I used to watch Bradley Bill a lot. Yeah. What about his game stood out to you? Just how efficient he was with his dribbles.

Like, he catch the ball, two, three dribbles, bucket. Create the space, get a bucket. Yeah. That's a big, like, obviously, like, one-on-one thing. How often are you playing, like, one-on-one, two dribbles, three dribbles, stuff like that? This past season, I wasn't a lot. We was kind of, like, standing in the offense a lot. but I definitely, it's been something I've been working on throughout the whole

pre-drive process over there in L.A., so. Yeah. Awesome, man. Well, that's all the time I got with you today. We've got to keep moving to your next obligation of this busy common line day. We appreciate you coming through, man. Appreciate you all having me. How's your day going?

Great. Yeah. Busy day? Yeah, happy to be here. How y'all day going? It's going good. It's going good. It's going good.

It's going good. It's going on. We're here with a very special guest. We got Dylan Harper here on the show today. Yeah, man. How's your draft process going? What's it been like? I mean, it's been great.

I feel like I went to Santa Barbara for about a month, a month and a half. Got good working, got away from everything, just work on my craft and my body. So the process has definitely been great. We're definitely tiring. What's it like having a teammate all year that you know you're going through this whole process with? You're probably going to be drafted real close spot-wise. Is there a little competition there or is it all support? I mean, we both definitely, we both competitive, but I think it's all support.

I mean, we like one big family, my family, his family, we all close together. So it's just been great, you know. No, come places like here, I know I'm going to have someone I'm going to be with the whole time. So it's just great to have him by my side and just, I'm just happy to see where me and him going to go. Yeah. What of the battles in practice between y'all two? Do you guys play one-on-one a lot? Yeah, I mean, beginning the season, we play one-on-one all the time. I mean, that just comes from, I think, I was wanting to get better.

But in the summer, in practice, when we're against each other, we guard each other all the time. But then during the season, you know, you got to go do game, playing, film, stuff like that. So we're always on the same team. but now we had some good battles who's the winner me naturally naturally he's not he it's like I mean I'm gonna say me but he gets me sometimes I mean he's 610 shoot over pretty hard to guard your dad was in the league for years on years and years had a successful successful career as a player how was the workouts for you

growing up I have to imagine like they must have been the militant style nah that's not him he got to go play golfing bowl but working out with him I mean You just played a lot of one-on-one, to be honest. I think it was more just playing just, like, because, like, you can work out all day, but it's different than playing one-on-one, three-on-five-on-five, but my mom workouts was the hard workouts. I'm talking about, like, ball handling, conditioning for, like, an hour,

stuff like that. So, I mean, my mom was definitely the harder one, but really? Yeah, my dad is mostly just, like, learning the game and playing the game behind. At what age, because obviously, you know, your dad was in the league, what age did the ties start to turn in?

Like, you started to, like, you started to really like beat him like COVID 8th 9 grade I mean he he he's getting a little old so yeah he ain't old so I mean I don't think he don't play he ain't playing me no more but like eight grade freshman year we used to play a lot yeah it would just be like I died win but he get the foul in and yeah yeah yeah someone won't get mad and this game is to be all right I want to direct attention to the screen right here no I bet I'm going to show you some NBA hair swaps of people in your draft class and I want you to rate it from 1 to 10

how well it fits them I bet first off we got Ace Oh my God Jimmy Butler He looked like Jim Nah He can't play that off You can't rock it

That's zero He's zero He like He like no I don't see the vision I don't see the vision He ever get them I'm gonna call him to him

Cut his hair As far as all these are gonna go This one isn't too bad Next up We got Dylan Harper I mean I look good In any hairstyle That's not my preferred hairstile

style. I get myself like, it's still me at the end of the day. I'll get like a 7 to 8. Yeah, if I see you in real life with this. I'm calling the cops man. I look crazy though. Yeah, there's a little Zach Efron going on. That's cool. HSM 2. Yeah, yeah. I can see break dancing in this.

I love like on Zach and Cody. All right, next up. We got Trey Johnson. I see division. I see division. He looked like, I see division. He looks like Rick Fox. Yeah, exactly.

See, I'm giving me this a nine. Wasn't he like magazine covers or sexiest player in the NBA back today? Oh, wait, wait, how you remember that? He got it on his wall. Why do you remember that, bro? He's the same. There's an aura index up here. For sure.

Will we give him this a good nine? It's all research. He has to be prepared. That's probably the best one I've seen yet. Okay. Last one. VJ. This is straight hot Cheetos.

He looked. Oh, I forget. What's shot? Oh, was it? The Thomas? Oh, SciShow Bob? Yeah, he looked like Sajobob. That's like, nah, Vij, you can't rock that.

I can't give that like a two. He can't. No love for the little yada haircut. You can't rock that. Okay. Sticking on the topic of serious conversations, we got to talk about the number one topic on the internet as of late. Who would win in a fight?

100 men and one gorilla. What side are you on? The gorilla. Really? Yeah, you put in, look, imagine you out there. Bring it down. A hundred men, right? Yeah.

So you all got a game plan. 25, 25, arm, arm, leg, leg. True. Y'all going to rush him. He's going to throw at least 20 people off like this. So then the fear of fact, you're going to kick in for you. You're going to be like, dang. And you're going to see him punch another one in the face.

His face going to be over there. You're going to be like, damn. So now the next 15 people that try is over because they are afraid. And they're like, you know, you're not going to try your hardest when you fear. It's like playing like your older brother. And you're like, yeah, I know I ain't going to win, but no way. So under what scenario, how many men will it take to beat a guerrilla then 100's a lot of men that's what I'm saying if a hundred can't do 100 regular men like we'll

say average size dude average size dude again 511 you understand how strong gorillas do you think this gorilla's king con bro they're not made a titanium I mean they only first off can a hunter you beat a gorilla absolutely absolutely I'm tearing a gorilla to shreds okay so I'm back the first 10 you're going to look at it and be like do I really want to go and do it 90 punches it got to be like a hundred dedicated men that know like okay you get a hundred dedicated men No. You're a hard worker? Yeah, 200.

Me? What was the hundred? You're a hard worker? You got working with it? No. I'm not being a, I'm not being a gorilla. So what if you have to? You're just going to stand there and die?

You're going to fly back? Nah, it's over. You're right? I'm running. I'm just going to try to run. Hey, BJ, look at you. Hey, buddy. I'll see you soon.

Yeah, hell of no. Is there a, is any one specific player you're looking forward to playing against? I mean, my brother. Yeah. But, like, that's an obvious one. And be able to definitely like LeBron, James Hardin. Like Katie Cunningham, I guess, my favorite players.

I say those guys, some of the guys that play like you. Exactly. Be on the same court as them. Just, that's like a dream come true. Speaking of those guys, if you were to add one skill of all time of any NBA player to your game, what would it be? Steph Curry shooting. That's a great answer. Yeah, I'd add that any time.

What's number two, though? That's a little bit harder. You got like eliminate that. Kyrie handle? Kyrie handle? Oh, okay. Or Kawhi defense, one or two. Do you think that Kyrie is the most skilled player of all times?

son? Yes, I do. I feel like at his size and what he does, a lot of people can't do or would never be able to do. He ain't from Jersey, so I'm going to say yes. Speaking of, I'm going to name two NBA players. I want you to tell me who has a better scoring bag. Topical. We say Kyrie. Kairi or James Hardin? That's an incredibly general. James Hardin. I'm a lefty. So Kyrie's a most skill player of all time. I mean, James Harder average 37. He did. He did. I feel like skill, like, he mastered, like, foul baiting and how to The NBA had to plan around him, right? Exactly.

Kyrie can shoot with either hand, like, go whichever way you want to go. Have you wanted to get a bucket, Kyrie can do it for you. James Harden now, he got, like, 45 moves that you can't stop. Yeah. You got to, like, you got to play him to the side because you just, you ain't going to stop him. LeBron or Kobe? LeBron. See, I'm glad you said that.

A lot of people are going to, you mean, he said Kobe when you say scoring back. Why is it so obvious? I mean, he's the most, you have the most points all the time. Yeah. I feel that it's pretty hard to do. If Kobe was able to play as long as long as he was. he did. And as good as he was, he would have did the same thing. So, I mean, that's what I'm going to Brown. Okay. Janus or Yokic? Yonkich. Yonkish. Yonis is my guy, though. Shout out Yonis. Yonis.

Yonish is crazy. Yonis has less of a scoring bag, but like, Yon move, that's really effective. Yonis, like, you can't, Yonis strong. That's a difference. That's a creature. I ain't know. Yeah. Wait a minute you got to stand under the rings. Exactly. But I got, nah, I'm going, Yon He's seven foot. He's like Luca at seven foot. Yeah. You know, is there any, if you could choose your nickname that's going to stick for me for the rest of your career right now, what would you want it to be? I don't know.

Because you're going to have a lot on best-o reference. D-Harp. I mean, that's what the thing people call him. D. Harb is this nice, regular. It's not too flashy. What's your favorite nickname in the NBA from any players that you've seen? Or one of the artists is like, that's kind of cold. LeBron James, a goat.

You're just like me. You're so serious. You're so serious. I'm so serious. They're going to put the unicy on TikTok. You've seen edit with that clip. Tomahawk. Speaking of Janus, I saw that everyone saw that work out that you and A's did with him.

On the court-wise, what was the most eye-opening thing that he puts you on to? He pays so much attention to the details and it's like how hard he goes. And like, it's less reps, but like the speed he goes at like most people can't do that. So really just he broke it down and was like, you could be in a gym for 45 minutes. But if you working as hard as he was, he was. working your 45 minutes gonna feel like two hours back to the bullshit real quick here's one more

oh my god I mean he won't be bald soon I don't know about this dude he'll want to see coop with the solace so I'll give like a six coop coop ball oh no go to fire somebody man

look on nah come on he looked like a shark boy he looked like he got a treehouse for a red on his back out yeah he got a zero registered weapon

Yeah, he looked like a bird man You can truck trees with that Mohawk Have we ever seen a Mohawk Like especially in the last like 10 years Not that big Mohawks just don't look good And no, yeah I don't know what they ever did

Last one He's rocking it He's cool He's rocking it He can't deny the aura He feel it Hell not Yeah, wow

Come on I mean I'll give it like It's the most regular one I've seen yet So I give like a six Don't ever go blind though. Dan shut out the eyebrows.

Yeah. Okay, man, that's all the time I got what you said. We've got to keep moving throughout your combine experience. Yes, sir. Appreciate you coming through, much. Appreciate you. Thank you. We're here with another special guest.

We got Vijay Edgecombe in the chair. How you doing, man? How's your combine experience going? It's going good, man. You know, it's the first day. I'm just enjoying it. You know, I'm saying I had to get up early, but it's fine. Yeah.

That's fine. How early you have to get up? That sounded like it was real early. Yeah. Yeah, no, no, no, I put like seven. Oh, okay. I thought those buildings are like 5 a.m., but Adam Silver, your league is crazy.

Is that a normal last time? Yeah, like seven, like seven, like seven. What's, uh, you know, a lot of times this Combine Week is the first time. A lot of casual NBA fans will be learning about all the players in this draft, getting to know all of you guys. And I think when people see you, they think about your athleticism, obviously. Yeah. What do you feel like is something that gets overlooked because they focus on your athleticism?

Me being able to score the rock at all three levels. I think that's what everyone will look just because I can dunk. They expect me to that. Let's run, the plane and go dunk, you feel me? That's not easy, man. But, yeah. Which are, from all three levels, what's, like, your favorite spots to kind of get to? I'm going to say, the wings.

You know, the mid-range, like, mid-post area. Just hit a little mid-range or something. Or the elbows, I'm saying the elbows for the mid-range, for show. You know, I had the cup, just got a little lay-up or something. Yeah. Yeah, that. Left side, right side, don't matter. I want to direct your attention to this screen.

I want to show you something that is a great importance. to us. I'm going to show you some NBA hair swaps of people from your draft class and I want you to rate how much this new haircut fits them. Right. One to ten. We got A's Bailey. It feels very realistic. It looked, nah, I feel like he can pull it off kind of though.

You know who I see with this now? Waka, Falka Flame. I do see that. I do see that. That's a good pull. Yeah. I'm noticing. On a scale of one to 10? One to 10. Six, bro. This one isn't too bad. It is not real. It is. It looks like. Yes.

We got Dylan Harper. Two. This is bad. I feel like he's just ready to call the cops at any moment for no reason. Are you allowed to be here? Yeah, we could have find a better one for it. I thought it was a look, my bad. We got Trey Johnson.

Damn, Trey. He aged. Yeah, he looks old. Leaks dressing on. I don't know with a mullet, though. He's a little stylish. Yeah, I'm going to say like a two. also. Damn. I don't rock or don't.

And we got VJ. Edgecom. Zero. I said this was a 10. This is one of the best ones. What? It looks real. No, it don't. You never tried to grow your hair before? I have, but not that, not that much. Not that much? No. The sound cloud rapper look? No. The color don't fit me. No. It's like rich the kid type lives. It fits you. Nah. Ain't even enough here. And last but not at least. Cooper flag. You can pull that off.

that in like a few in like in like later 18, 20 years? Yeah, he looks like in the end of his career. Facts. Except without that little thing right there though. It looks like an Italian egg. This guy's running a pawn shop for sure. Yeah, like a five, man. He can go either or you feel him. He can be really good or really bad.

He can fix my car. If he's there, there's a crowbar in his back to the trunk all the time. Oh, me. On a more serious note, is there any one specific player that you think about that you look mostly forward to playing against? Brian. Every single person that said that so far? Yeah, I mean, we grew watching Brown, man.

Is that your goat? Yeah, to me. This is my goat, I say. I never watched my goat. So what's your top five players of all time? Of all time, Brown, going based up the history. Mike, MJ, Cobb. Five of all the stuff.

Yeah. Kareem, Kareem Magic. Rounded up, something like that. Do you have a, what's your favorite LeBron moment, if he's your favorite player growing up? Is there any growing up one moment that sticks out to you? I mean, everyone's going to say the Block White James one. Yeah.

But now I was watching him when he was in Miami. I probably just remember, like, that whole series against San Antonio. That's what I remember, the 2013 one. That's when I first started watching basketball. Yeah, so that's the one I remember. So I remember that scene Brown, the one when he blocked, I don't know if you don't remember this, but he blocked, splitter when you went down.

That brought sounded like an atomic boom. So, like, he jammed him right there, you feel me? So that's probably my favorite brown moment. When you first started watching basketball, who were some of the guys that you feel really, like, influenced your game and how you play the game? Wade and Brian. Yeah, it makes sense. But mainly, all right, doing weight, I know I was going to be six and I.

Six-three, that's attainable. I can do it. I had a friend. I'd have been somewhere around six-four, you know, somewhere around. So Wade, for sure. What was it about his game specifically that you've taken and translated into your game right now? Him being a two-way player, you know, a high-level defensive player and offensive player. So that's something that pride myself in.

So one question we've asked every single person up here so far. I want to know if you have a different answer or you feel the same way. Who would win a fight? 100 men or one gorilla. Oh, my gosh. 100 men or a gorilla? Yes. One gorilla.

It says 100 U's 100 elite athletes. 100 me? Yep. And a gorilla going to win, bro. What? Nobody has picked the 100 men, by the way. None of y'all have face. Everybody's been saying the guerrilla wins.

The gorilla, it depends, though. Like, are they all jumping them or are they going like? Whatever strategy. You're in charge. You are the general. Okay, if we're being honest, if you send them one by one, the 100 men going to lose. If you just let them jump him, the 100 men might win. That's like 20,000 pounds away.

But it depends. It depends. It depends on who's fighting. If you haven't an average, an average dude, yeah, guerrillas winning. Damn. A hundred youths. 100 me? Yeah. I'm going to beat that girl.

Thank you. Finally, somebody's being aware. If it's a hunting, I'm going to beat that girl. But we all got to jump him the same time. You're going to tire the gorilla out. I think people will overrate the shit out of these gorillas. A hundred of you are fucking a gruel up. Man, a silverback, though, man.

You're seeing their arms as tall as us. I never seen a gorilla in person before. Me either. We're all just talking. Yeah, I'm just chatting. Yeah. When you look across the league, is there any teams? Is there any team that has, like, the best,

who has the best jerseys to you? Anybody that stands out to you? Jerseys. Hmm. Gee. Best jerseys? It's a lot of good jerseys. When I think of them,

I think of, like, Toronto immediately. Toronto. They have classic history. Memphis is up there. Memphis, Toronto, like the throwbacks for sure. Yeah. Currently, I like the Wool's jersey. It's pretty smooth.

I like the Wool's jersey. Um, yeah. Miami has some, some good ones, too. I used to like when they used to have, like, the nicknames on the, back. Yeah.

I thought that was far. Like when, when they had like King James, stuff like that? I thought she meant like back in 2020. No, no, no, no.

Okay. Is it like, what they're on the bottom? Yeah. Those are not nicknation. Yeah. I read ticket. I was like,

oh, you? No. I'm talking about it. And they had like, you know, like King James. Okay. Yeah.

That was not. Those are not. Nicknaker. Okay. I was like, okay. So I'm saying. Like, I'll trip.

You know, obviously you're one of the best dunkers in your class where you're most known for. I want to name two NBA players and I want you tell me who's the better dunker. Okay. LeBron or Vince Carter?

Vince Carter. No hesitation for your goat? Love Brian, man. Vince Carter, man. Vince Carter, man. Vince is definitely got more creativity with it. He's higher too, if you're being honest. Yeah.

They both really, they both dunk hard. But I'm going to say Vince, which shows. He jumbled with people. Would you rather get dunked on between the two? Who are I either get dunked on? Yeah. You'd rather be like a poster by LeBron or Vince Carter? Can I take one of them to the chest?

Who are you taking? Fitz. Brunch, man. Do it hurt? You might get a cracked skull. So I'm saying, like, so I'm going to say Vince, Michelle. Okay. Anthony Edwards or Blake Griffin?

Big versus small, both elite. I'm going to say how, oh, my. I feel like Blake, just because Blake is taller, that's why I'm going to go and. Yeah. And, you know what I'm saying? You got to get up. You got to jump a little higher. More difficulty?

Yeah, he definitely has more airtime. He definitely has way more air time. But never forget, aunt concussed John Collins whenever he broke on him. Like, he hurts people. You feel me? Like, he just caught loony. Yeah, that's my dog. You know what I'm saying?

Like, he, I'm going to say aunt, for sure. Tough choice. Zach Levine or Zion Williamson? Zach. You didn't even care what I said last? Exactly, Levine. I think he, like, top three ever. Yeah.

When it comes to, like, creativity and all that. Yeah. Zach Levine for sure. Didn't matter who I said, it was going to be Zach. Yeah. Yeah. Only Viscard would probably might have topped in field show if you asked me. I agree with that. Do you have any nicknames of yours that you like?

Because you know over the years you're going to get a lot of them. You can check your best reference page. You're going to see a bunch. If you could pick the one that sticks to do forever, do you have my nickname? Mmm. Me and my grandma call me money. Money? Yeah, right?

Because like it's like a little backstory. Like every time, like back home in the island, like we go outside. We go outside a lot. So every time I come home, I'm asking for money. Yeah. You asking for money? Yeah, I'm asking for money to go to a store, get me like a chipper juice or something like that.

That's hilarious. Yeah, but it's like a thing on the island, they call me like 2.5? 215? Yeah, 245. That's what they call me. Oh, okay. 2.5.

We got two more. Yeah, they call me 2.5. Got conch and a don't. Wow. I don't rock with that, man. He got so much younger with that. He's like 13. He looks like, yeah.

Yeah, he got some little brothers. He looked just like the... Where he loved playing? Nah, I get that like a three, man. He looks like he's a teacher's nightmare. He looks so misbehavior. Spit balls constantly. Oh, bro.

Last but not at least. Oh, that fit him low-key, though. Yeah? That's hard. It looks like he a part of opium or something. That's for sure. No, I'm going to say, I'm going to give him like a seven for... Yeah, I like that one.

Okay, the first good rating on here. I like it. Yeah, I like that's a small. Great, man. Well, that's all the time we got with you today. Appreciate you coming through. It was a great conversation. I hope you have a good rest of your conference.

Yes, sir, man. Thank you, brother. We're here with a very special guest. We got Casperis, Yaku Shona, is on the show today. How are you doing, man? How are you enjoying being around all your fellow draft class people today? Yeah, I'm excited all this process in just the first day, but I'm really excited to meet all the players I played against this year.

I got to meet them in person, talk to them just about anything, you know, and just see. see the persons more than basketball players. How did you enjoy your year of college? I know you played overseas before that. What were the differences like? What did you enjoy more about this or less? Yeah, so definitely the fans were very nice at Illinois.

It would be like $17,000 every game sold out. They would cheer for you before the game after the game. I always try to help you, I would say. And I really enjoy the fans for sure. And basketball part, the facilities, coaching staff, teammates, just the players in general were incredible. Which fans are more harsh? Illinois fans are college fans in general or back overseas?

I think if you look at the EuroLeague fans, like there's partisan, like all the Serbian teams, Greek teams, their fans are just crazy. You cannot compare them to anywhere in the world. I think they're just doing sometimes too much. Yeah, but here the fans really care. They show the support and they're coming to every game. So I would say more crazies in Europe, but here there's more quantity, I would say, of the fans. Do you feel like playing overseas helped you like transition over to the college games?

Because a lot of times we hear people who have played in, play professional overseas. They come to America and they'll be like, oh, this game is actually a lot easier than what I thought it was going to be. Yeah, so maybe. a little bit, I'll think, yeah, because just the experience to working out with pros. There was Ricky Rubio at some point, Jabari Parker, a lot of ex-NBA guys and the EuroLeague stars were in my team. So you're just getting advices from them, and being with them every day just makes you better overall. And just you can ask them questions if you don't know anything. So you just can improve a lot more.

What do you think was some of the best advice that you've gotten from those guys? Yeah, so I said before in one interview, the Jabari Parker, he said, like, be you like water fitting everything. It's like Bruce Lee quote, I think. We'll give it to Jabari Parker. But yeah, but I heard from him before, then from Bruce Lee. Did you hear from him and think he made it up and then later on found out of his Bruce Lee? I mean, kind of.

But still, I think it's like a lot with me, just to like be adaptable and be flexible in every situation and just in basketball, let's say, do what the team needs you to do for to win. And is that something you pride yourself in in your game going into the NBA, making a transition? Because obviously you don't know where you can get drafted. You don't know what the situation is going to be like. Is your versatility something that you really focus on? Yeah, I think I'm adaptable. I can adapt to every scheme, every situation. And whatever team needs me to do, to win, I can do.

I'll just do my best, give my all-out effort on both ends of the floor and be the best version of myself. Awesome, man. So I don't know if you've seen it lately. One of the biggest talking points on the internet lately has been the question that we all need your answer for. Who wins in a fight? 100 men or one gorilla? Yeah, so I know one time also they asked me before, I said, I bet on us.

Yeah. I believe in us. Yeah. I like that confidence. I like that. Yeah. Most people are coming up here, they're saying the gorilla, they're saying they're scared. I keep asking if it's 100 U's, would you feel confident yourself versus guerrillas?

No, we're taking the gorilla down. Yeah, I feel like you got it. Yeah. I like that. That's real dog mentality. Exactly. Yeah. Well, behind every dog, you need at least a game plan.

What would be your game plan to destroy this gorilla? I think, so we have quantity advantage. Yes. I think we are, we are smarter a little bit. True PG. A little out of a lot. We just have to go almost all together, maybe not too much, but we cannot go one by one because then it will be the advantage for the guerrilla.

But if we just go all together and try to probably first maybe going to eyes for him to be blind or whatever, plug the eyes, yeah. And then it's advantage for us. That's a real strategy. You take out the eyes, take out the knees. We're going for eyes and ATOs. Exactly. And we're taking this gorilla out.

You're playing dirty. I like that. When you look across the NBA and you think about you're going to be on a team soon playing against all these stars you grew up watching. Is there any one player in specific that you're most excited to play against? One specific. Yeah. One guy you're going to circle on your calendar as soon as you see it for the first time.

Yeah, it's just when I was little, I really liked LeBron. It's just his leadership and how he approached the game. He's off-the-core stuff of his recovery and how he treats the game. game it just stuck with me and yeah that would be so cool to what a professional answer I love that most people were like man he dunks on motherfuckers faces you're like he spends a million dollars a year on his body I got to get like that I love that in my bag right speaking of lebron I want to name two NBA players and you tell me who you think is the better dunker better dunker okay yeah in-game dunk contest whatever whatever it means to you okay

lebron james or Vince Carter it's a hard one they're different type of dunkers yeah potentially two of the best of all time yeah lebron's more powerful and about give to Vince just because of the style of dunking and just the iconic 360 windmill in the round contest you got to yeah i have to give that's fair nobody said lebron yet so you're not alone anthony edwards or blake griffin it's a hard one one the best small guy dunkers versus one the best powerful small guy he's like six four yeah compared to blake you know but like Anthony Edwards more. Okay.

He's dunking and, yeah, for sure. Yeah, he has some of the most disrespectful dunks you can imagine. Disrespectful. Blake's like,

he's bigger, so you finish people. It's not quite as much. Blake is teabag many of people on his dunks. And he hasn't? I'm just saying, I'm just saying,

listen. We can go tea back for tea back. We can go back and back. They're both extremely disrespectful. As pal Gasol. But the thing of Blake is that, like after he dunks on you, he might just sink your hand afterwards.

He's not nice like that. But he's not as mean as Anthony Edwards. Fair. Last one at least, Zach Levine or Zion Williamson? I have to give to Zach. Everyone said Zach too. Why is it so easy? Is that 2016 dunk out?

Yeah. It was just crazy, you know, like, I don't know. Also, Zion is more probably powerful dunker, but I like the style more of Zach. That makes sense. Do you have a nickname that you like of anything you've gotten over the years? because, you know, as you go throughout your NBA career, you're going to get a lot from your ever, whatever team drafts you with their fans

are going to give you a lot of nicknames. If you could decide the nickname you have for your whole career, what would it be? I don't have a nickname. Like, I would just present myself like KJ or K or Kass because it's easier to say. Yeah. So everyone calls me different.

Sometimes they will call me Kass. Sometimes they will call me K. Yeah. Some people KJ, but the nickname, nickname, I never got one. And I don't even know what's what, what is called me. could be, for me, yeah.

If not a nickname, do you have a celebration in mind that you would unlock once you get on the court? Celebration. There's a lot of cameras at these NBA games. I get ready. You got an aura for him. I just like to be more calm, like no celebration. Oh, you're like a stone cold killer. Yeah, I prefer that than showing off too much.

Yeah, a big Tim Duncan guy, a big Kauai Leonard guy. Okay, I see. I see it. Like KD a little bit too. Yeah, yeah. He'll give a snarl at most. Yeah. Is Katie one of your players that you looked at growing up that you draw inspiration from

or if not, is there anybody else that you really look at and you say, I got to take a lot from his game because it'll fit me and stuff like that? Yeah, so a couple players, there's no one that I would model game after, but I would take I like to watch Lucas playmaking and how he creates shots for himself. I like Andrew Nemhart's defense, how he gives like 100% and active hands. just take like care about defense and i like jelans brunson two-feet game too just those are great answers that's great answers andrew nimar's defense is a fantastic answer yeah yeah so that's why it's just all different guys different styles and i just like to take something from each one not

taking whole package from from one guy do you remember where you were when you heard the news that lucid dachsh had been traded to the lakers uh in the locker room at illinois i think it was it was before game day or game day morning I think or something like that and we all heard and we all said

oh it's probably is it July 1st yeah yeah one of the most surprising moments I can imagine not July

April 1st my bad yeah April 1st but everybody said no it's a joke it's a joke and then we saw that it's real it was it was big news

yeah all right great man that's all the time we got with you today appreciate you coming through it was a great conversation hope you have a good rest of your week yeah

thank you guys You're going to do great. Thank you. Thank you, bro. Isaac, watch you about a little bit. Really? Nice talking, man. I ain't, I need to use that short, though.

All you see is the waistline up. What's your favorite to watch? I'll be seeing y'all on TikTok. I'll be forgetting, like, what y'all, like, what y'all be doing. But I've, I've seen the faces. Yeah, I probably appreciate you, man. Well, obviously, we've seen you a lot, too, on our TVs, on our TVs, especially. March Madness. What's the past six months been like for you seeing going through all this

leading up to the draft? It's just been like I mean first when it first happened it's just been crazy like the buzzer be there and then it kind of slowed down but I mean it was back to work like getting ready for this time and then and then workouts and then yeah was there any specific novocation you remember on Instagram or whatever that you see so-and-so followed you during March that you really sticks with you. Ray Lewis. Ray Lewis. That's dope.

Oh, yeah, because you are from Baltimore. I forget about that. Yeah. Yeah, that's cool. That's insane for you. So other people were like Donovan Mitchell or so-and-so players. Ray Lewis is cool as hell. I understand why that sticks into you.

Yeah. That's great, man. Well, you know, this Combine Week is probably going to be for casual fans one of the first times they get to know you in your game and all your other draft mates. What do you think is something that they need to learn about your game? That's probably overlooked by scouting reports. Oh. Probably, like, what I can do in a game.

Like, probably, like, I can take over a game or I can get everybody involved. Like, I just really understand the game. So I just want people to, like, realize. Is your IQ in your passing that you think are, like, underrated? Who are some of the people that you've looked up to to really, like, hone in on that skill? Brown, his IQ crazy, Yolkich. Really, I mean, I feel like my IQ is natural, so I didn't really look at people, but like, I just, I just, I just watch other people just take parts of their games of, like, scoring and, like, defense. Like, I used to watch, I know people don't watch Tony Allen.

I used to watch Tony Allen defense. Wow, yeah. Getting those hands out moving your feet. That's first team. That's first team. It is. First team, well, D. I saw you had a dairy queen sponsor.

Yeah. What's your go-to order at Dairy Queen? I just get an Oreo Blizzard. I just You flip it upside down To make sure you do? No No

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And then my second time They didn't want to hear it They didn't care And I had my idea And I was like And I was like My name is so similar As somebody gave me a discount before

And then It just It was like we don't Basically we don't care I don't care Well that's gonna imagine being an employee. My name is similar. That's funny.

Gotta get your opinion on one of the hottest questions on the internet. We've been asking everybody that sits on this share today. We've got a variety of answers. I want to know where you stand on. 100 men versus one gorilla. Who's going to win? I ain't going to lie, bro. No, that gorilla.

No, yeah, that gorilla. Wait, no, like, sometimes I think because, like, if you got, like, Brock Lesnar, like, a lot of boxes, like a lot of big people. S-O-D, we're talking about the normal human beings. You said Brock Lesnar. Oh, okay. It's 100 Jews.

Yeah. But you're not Brock Lesnar, but you're you. I got my money on you. I got a gorilla. You don't believe in yourself? You're not a fight in like that? Bro, bro, that gorilla probably zero body fat. Bro, it got like eight pack.

It's strong. I don't mean none. Do you know how long your arms are? Do you know the amount of reach and damage and how your game pill will just disrupt that gorilla? If your punch, your punch probably going to be 100 pounds. If you're a regular-sized athlete, that gorilla is, what, like, 800, no body fat? No body fat, yeah.

Hey, I ain't going to last, since, like, a lot of technology, like, we can kind of put that. Like, I feel like we can do that. We can simulate this bitch. Yeah, try GPT. Go ahead and do that game plan for you. I feel. Is there any one player across the NBA that you're most excited to play against? I want to guard

Braun Kyle Rhee I did want to guard Mello KD I want to guard Kady Yokic

I was going to say A lot of perimeter players You want to guard You don't want to guard any bigs Yeah I mean I'm definitely going to guard A lot of bigs

But they're going to get The guards going to want to get switches Yeah I want to guard And B Yeah Who else?

It's probably It's probably it You're trying to guard the whole league Yeah Yeah, I like that. Yeah, the faces of the league. Oh, I want to go to an.

I want to go out of the face is of the league. Brother, he's from Baltimore. They talk crazy. One time I played, I lived in D.C. for a couple of months, and I played basketball there at some random rec center. Y'all are insane. Yeah. So is that where you think, like, you get your edge from and all that or what? Yeah, because, like, we was all competitive.

Like, I played at the park a lot and then, like, bro, like, like, best friends, bro, turn into, like, enemies at that. Yeah. At that time, like, just, like, you suck. you trash go home like we're talking we're talking trash to each other yeah i want to show you on this screen some NBA hair swaps of players in your draft class and i want you to rate from 1 to 10 based on how well it fits them all right first off i got cooper flag oh no no zero you don't think this will work for no so if his future has this in store should you're not this yeah i can't see him with a ball i feel like that touch is really good though he looked like he got

some interesting skill sets with that look. Like he could be changing attire or be making me a pastrami sandwich. So personal. No, but the best skills. Yeah. Hey, I ain't gonna like, he probably got he probably got to get rid of this. Okay.

Just completely smooth. Yeah. Slick. Okay. Slippery. Oh, no. I said like you play guitar. Guitar.

A guitar. He'll demon right there. Yeah. No, he can shred for sure. Get out of my room, Mom. common i ain't gonna lie i ain't gonna i ain't gonna i don't hate it i don't hate it but no like i say like a three okay this is better than some of the ones we've seen so far so we'll give him that got ace bailey that's tough right you're the first person to finally agree we all think it kind of fits

no no that kind that kind of fit them no they probably say that because it's personality but that fit oh it doesn't fit his personality no no No, like, that seemed treacherous, like. So he is not a demon. He's going out there that hurts him. He's got different motives on the court. Such a funny word. We got Dylan Harper.

It's a complete opposite of treacherous. Yeah. No, no, just like get out of my room. He looks lovely to be around. He's a pocket full of sunshine. I don't like it, though. Just drink O.D. Mountain dude. That's hilarious.

If you could pick any skill set from one big across the league to add to your game, what would it be? Shooting. Shooting from who? Cherry? No, I ain't going to lie. I feel like I'm being a cheat court if I shoot that well. Outside of that. Because I can't get too.

Yeah. Like, I feel like I'd be a cheat cool. Let me just give me, like, who's that? efficient and take like a good amount of shots um little damon ruler action malik blezley okay yeah oh okay second best three points here this year i like that i'm gonna name two NBA players I want you tell me who's a better dunker mm-hmm lebron james or Vince Carter Vince I mean I mean he I mean he proved that lebron is definitely a great dunker but like Vince proved that no contest he got a lot of he got a lot of tricks so yeah okay okay Anthony Edwards or Blake Griffin.

Two different styles. Yeah, but no. No, they both used to dunk on people, but like, with Blake, you like, like you, like, like you felt it. Like, you felt bad for, I mean, hey, you might get chest pains after that. I mean, I feel bad for people that aunt dunks on. Yeah. No, definitely like Wayne, well, his name, no, not Wayne Ellerton. That was Gabe.

Yeah, yeah, felt bad. What's crazy is. There's like, there's like four that are crazier than that. We didn't even talk about the real crazy ones, John Collins. Wananabi. to Wada Navi. But Blake Griffin, no, no, that was DeAndre Joe. Anthony Black.

Yeah, Kendrick Parkins. Oh, no, no, I ain't. You guys got Bobby's here. No, I ain't gonna allow Blake, no, Blake Griffin, probably, I don't know, probably Blake Griffin, too. I mean, it probably got been a dunk contest, but. Who do you think you stand a better chance against when it's going to stop in that dunk? I don't know.

You might have more Blake. No, no, no, no, no. You don't believe in yourself again? Blake, no, no, no. Blake, Blake, like, no, you got to look at the, like, the mass and, like, the strength of it because... Real physics. Yeah. Not little, though.

Yeah, I'm not. But, like, Blake, bro, like, he come down in the middle of lane, take off from, like, a little outside of the, of the dunker circle. Bro, like, like, him strong, he's strong just coming down, like the ass strong, too, but him just coming down. Like, you got to look at the, yeah, like, like, he said, the physics, like, probably, probably an. Awesome. Well, man, that's all the time we got with you today. Got to keep you moving out throughout your day. Experience the rest of the car.

Combine. Appreciate you coming through. Thank y'all. Appreciate it. We're here with another special guest joining us today. Jeremiah Fears. How you doing today, man? Good. How you doing? How's the Combine been seeing all your draftees with you being around the whole class? Man, it's been great. We all just enjoying the moment, kind of like regrouping, obviously the AAU and stuff like that. So we've got to play with each other and against each other too. Nice. You're commonly referred to you in this class is probably having the best handle in the draft. Yes, sir. Keep glazing. Who did you look at growing up, looking at NBA players and really draw moves from?

Who are your biggest inspirations there? Probably Kyrie, Jamal Crawford, too. Boy, had a handle. Who's the NBA player who has handles that you think is underrated? Like, their handlework, doesn't really get the love. Bones Heidel. He got it back. So when it comes to the handle, what makes, like, someone an elite ball handler

versus someone who just is, like, in, regularly? I mean, it's an eye. Obviously, levels, like you're saying, there's levels to it. Yeah. But I feel like the way, where they get to their spots, the way it looks, the way they get it done. Like, some people have a handle, but they really don't use it. Like, they just use the basics between cross, the in and out. Sounds like you got to have creativity.

Yeah. Basically, you got to be creative with it. And you got to kind of have like some pops and flash and dancing to it a little bit too. Yeah. And what, you know, obviously people focus on your handle, like we said? What part of your game do you feel like people overlook because they're only looking on the surface, no way? Probably do without a rebound.

A lot of people don't realize it, but I average, every since, like, my first year of high school, I've been averaging, like, five, six rebounds of games. Is that always something you focus on, or did you learn that at some point? I mean, I kind of figured out, like, I ain't going to tell you about my cheat code, but I kind of figured out of the cheat code to steal some rebounds.

Okay, it's been half rebounding. I love it. I feel me. I want to name two NBA players. I want you to tell me which one of them has a deeper scoring bag, Kyrie or James Harding. Kyrie for so James Hardin got a, he feel me, he got the step back, but Kyriegis, he could score in certain ways.

He gets scoring a post, he can score in the mid-range, you can store, he's like a three-level score. James Harden, I'll say, probably, it's either the three-of-the-layer with him. He don't really shoot a lot of mid-range. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, it's best. He wasn't in that mid-range dog. Yeah, it's true.

He had that unstoppable move. Yeah, that step-back. That step-back is. He might catch you with it. He might catch you with it. Okay, this is an interesting one. I don't know where you're going to fall on this. LeBron James or Kobe Bryant

That's a real bad work It's a hard one It's cool I just mess with both for y'all But I only can pick one So I'm going with Kobe It's not a bad answer It's not

Yeah Kobe kind of model his game after MJ 2 So MJ was the I mean I ain't going to say too much But MJ was too Go? I don't want no hatred

Yeah Let's stay apolitical Okay Yonis or Yokic? Yokich. He affected the game in so many ways. And he's shoot better than Yonis, but Yonis, you still nice, bro. He's adding the mid-range to his bag now, too.

He is. I mean, he might get dangerous. He might get the mid-range in a three, and then it's going to be hard to guard him. But Yolkitch, you just could do everything. He could pass, rebound, defend. Got a little slow feet, but it's other than that. He got everything else. So, yeah.

who's winning to fight 100 men and one gorilla man it's been a famous the viral question lately everyone everyone wants to know your answer I try not to interact with this one but I say the gorilla bro he's so big if you think about it

one dude gonna get like his body ripped and half and everybody is gonna be like I'm not fighting the way people are talking about this gorilla is like he's a transform Like, just this robot, this killing him next to winter soldier. He's very beatable. I mean, he's beatable, but he's not just going to stand there like, yeah, hit me. You don't think a hundred years could take on a girl in?

No. No way. So that's so fast. A hundred? Yeah. Nah. It's like a thousand. Okay.

A hundred? Nah. He might slap 50. It's overwork. I'm going to sit that one out. I'm good. Is there any one player? across the league that you're most excited to play against?

Ant man. Ant man. Interesting why him. His mentality, he built different. He wired different. And he's a competitor for sure. So that's probably something I'm looking forward to playing against. Is that something you feel like you relate to?

Yeah. Got some hand in you? His mentality is like it's something you don't see in this generation no more so. You say some in this generation. So that sounds like you have some older influences in your life. Yeah. Where did that come from? Really just watching the game at a young age, being around my uncles and my dad.

They're young, old. So I mean, call them old heads, but they're like young goals. They've been drawing that into you from a young age. Yeah, just that mentality. Go out there and kill whoever in front of you, don't matter who it is. Who are some of the players that you watch growing up that you took their, not only their game, but also their mentality? Curry. I watch Curry.

I watch Kyrie, Katie. Now I started watching Ant Man when he was playing with Atlantic Express. on the Under Armour Circuit. I've probably seen it via a video. He was, like, telling all the top players he was coming for him. Yeah. And, like, he stood on that, so kind of been following him ever since then. Out of all the all-time players in the history of the league,

if you were to add one skill to your game, what would it be? Besides Curry shooting. Everyone says that. Yeah. Yeah, I was, feel me? Red your mind. I say probably probably LeBron, just to what he is student of a game. He studies the game.

know the ends and out. Oh, you have the bronze brain. Yeah. He knows the ends and out to the game and the preparation and just everything he puts into his body and his work to let him play this long. It's amazing. Yeah. What do you feel like it's something that over your college year that you learned the most about your game and really improved on? Really my, I say probably always had an IQ, but I feel like the more more I played, the easier it was for me. So like, I say, for example, to start the season, I was getting about six, seven assists with me. Six, seven. And in game, like, 20 points of seven assists.

And then I'm like, okay, that's cool. But towards the end of the season, I'm like, I get 30 in 10. So I feel like that kind of helped me along the way and just continuing to take a game by game. And it kind of helped me a lot. I know some players that's like that as well, just the longer they play, the easier but comfort them. So, yeah, I feel like that's working with you in the NBA, learning the next level of that speed, next level of that space. And just seeing that first game and progression from my rookie year to hopefully year 15. Yeah, yeah, it's going to be a fun one.

It is. Oh, man, that's all the time I got you today. I appreciate you coming through. It's a great conversation. Thank you. It was fun, man. I enjoyed it. We're here.

The very special guest, Ace Bailey in the chair. How are you doing, man? How are you going going? How are you going going? Great. How y'all doing? Doing good, man. That's good.

We just had Dylan in the chair before you a couple minutes ago, and we were talking about how it's such a unique experience that you get to be here with him and vice versa throughout this whole experience, for sure. All of college into this. What's that been like being with him? I see him, man.

Ty's in his face, man. I see his face. No, I'm just joking. No. It's good. Knowing I got somebody I put in the work with it in college, seeing him succeed also with me is just a blessing. I mean, you see it, but you don't see it a lot.

And then me and him coming together just doing this process. just been together, it's just blessing. How competitive does it get throughout the year? Are you guys ever like, I'm going to go two? You're going to go three. Do you guys ever get competitive with it? No, we don't.

I mean, we talk to each other a day. It's never like, to me, it's never like two, three, three. It's just work for, we just, whatever happens, happens. When we get there, just put in the work. That's awesome, man. Do you feel like, so obviously you're known as being prolific score. That's obviously the thing you're most known for. What do you feel like people overlook when they think about your game,

something that you're really good at that doesn't quite get the attention? people will say passing but I can pass though if you look back I can pass very very good I can pass I can play mate I mean I can get the I can make the right shot

I can make the right pass and right read yeah that's something you look forward to showing in the NBA yeah for sure but I know if I like if I got the shot I know I got the shy and it's perfect I know I worked on this shot I'm gonna shoot it that's fair when you were younger what was the moment whether it be in high school or middle school

where you actually like knew oh like I'm actually different I'm like that. Junior year. My junior year, how I say that? Because that's when the head thing got easy. What moment actually, like, happened on the court? I played against SFG, Stry for Greatness.

That Marietta, and then Block Brownie came down, dunked on one of his teammates, and it was like everything was getting easy. Yeah. Getting to the realm and making the right shots. After that game, it was just like, I wouldn't even say that game. It was before that game. But I actually had the moment that. I kind of caught like, okay, he's nice.

Yeah. Okay, he's nice. I can see this. And then I guess after that game, more people can't to watch the next game, played against Quayvoteo team, and it was the same thing. So it was like,

I guess that tournament just showed out. It was just like, okay, he's actually nice. Awesome, man. I want to put your attention to the screen. I'm going to show you some Indian hair swaps. Vijay. People in your class. I want you to rate these from one to ten.

First, you got Vijay. Don't do that, BJ. No, now I got my mess bad, man. Did I mess with it? Vsiel on a scale on one of ten? Yeah, one to ten. No, zero. Zero.

My man can't have that. No, that's not my man style. If you're starting here with zero, it's been to get a whole lot worse. You might have to go to negative numbers? Yeah, that's not my man's style. No, I don't do that to Vijay, man. I think this is valid for me. Me personally, I'll give this a hate.

No, I'll do my man. Trey-Johnson. He didn't hate this, yeah. He liked it, but, no, true. Not you? Not my man's true, man. That's my man. That's my man.

That's my man. He said he could rock it. He liked the blonde in his hair. He looked old doing the way he looked. He does the beard. He looks older, he's been to some things. Got Dylan. D. Herb, no, the herb, no.

Give him a two. Two, no. He can't do my men's like that. He looks like he's a great teammate. Like, he's sneaky athletic. No, no, no. Play the game the right one guy. He feels like he shoots the ball only.

He does way more than that. He does way more than that. Yeah, he does way more than that. Okay. We got Ace Bailey. Hard. I can't have Jerry. 10 out of 10.

You know, it's crazy. I was thinking about dreads. Me looking at this, and me looking at this, now, no, no, no dress. No dress. No, no, no. I feel the aura coming through this screen. This fits.

No, they don't. No, it don't. I feel like it take away my, like, face. Nah. I just didn't stick to the braise. Wear it up. Wear it up. Nah.

Okay. Next one. We got Cooper Flag. No, cool. They did you bad, my man. You got a ball head. Nah, that ain't cool. No, that ain't cool.

That ain't cool. That ain't got you with a little brook. That ain't him. That ain't it. Zero out of ten? That ain't there. All these zero out of ten, he's just bad. That's just bad.

That's great. Speaking of, staying on similar topics, staying on utmost seriousness of what we do up here. For sure. Who's winning in a fight? 100 men? One gorilla. Corrilla, whoops. Oh, 100 U.

That's age you. 100 U's. A hundred Mies. The gorilla winning. The gorilla winning against you? I'm going to be real. Six-nine, six-ten? Don't lie to yourself.

Come on now. Don't lie to yourself. So, do you go fight a hundred guerrillas? I mean, a hundred you versus a gorilla. 75 of me. Give me a gorilla. Easy. Wild, man.

I'm going to be ridiculous. I'm going to be realistic with myself. You got to be real. But 100 men is a lot of men. There's a lot of men, but do you know, like, the strength of the gorilla? That's pretty goddamn strong. It's a lot. This is a hundred men, though.

Bro, you're 6-10. They feet is like hands. You're not small. Six-10. A hundred of you? Oh. hide on me but you have a hundred men

you're talking about reach you bite my fist I got no hand it's over with you can out smart you got 99 more his body force yo

and he's got four hands more hands no rules it's just straight up hands I mean you want to bring some with you if I bring some with me it's over with it's over

give me a belt no weapons no weapons hand to hand combat. He's thinking use his natural. It's natural. Everything is natural. It's over, bro. It's over. I'm just going to be real, bro. There's no way a hundred of me is beating a gorilla.

Like, what? It depends on, like, the size of a gorilla and all that, too, though. Standard gorilla, like, 800 pounds. Yeah. It's a lot of pounds. Yeah, boy. And I don't even think a standard gorilla is 800 pounds. Probably 600? That's still a lot.

But you don't think that you got... Okay, Nageo. I don't know. But you don't think you can outsmart the gorilla? Like, humans are are so much smarter than animals are smart too though that's a lot of people don't realize they think animals actually banged no thumbs like us though they got they got a extra pair of hands like they got mallets they got bow they have bangs you know the bite force and like the punch force of gorillas if he ground one in me squeeze me as oh like he bite a leg i can't that person

can't have no more but i feel like if i feel like if a hundred men like rush a gorilla at once it might be a different thing but i feel i don't know it all depends Yeah. I'm going to name two NBA players. You tell me who has a better scoring bag. Kyrie or James Hardin? James. Two of the best of all time. It's tough.

That is tough. Your first instinct, almost went James. No, I'm going to say Kyrie because he'd be using both of his hands. James Hart just, he can use the right, though. He got great creativity. But so do, um, Kari. I got to go, Kari. Okay.

LeBron or Kobe? Kobe. Oh, I was fast. Kobe. A lot of people are saying, A lot of my, a lot of my play styles. It's a little bit of Kobe in there with the mid-range and the post phase and all that. Yeah.

So, Kobe. Brian, don't get me wrong. Brown, still, Brian. But I'm going to go with Kobe. Okay. And that's all we got for you today, man. It's all the time we got. We appreciate you coming through.

For sure. It's a great conversation. Appreciate it. I think you can take down on the gorilla. I think you can get more contact you. But I appreciate it. You're going to set this up actually. We're going to set this up actually.

much is a lot of women, bro. I'm not if a man, we bite me couple times, especially we're going to run. I appreciate it, man, I have to you, sir, but he's in five hours. Hey, you guys,

what are the thing? Oh, my bad thing, man, man, man, man, man, oh, okay, we get sure to go out there. Oh, okay,

we get sure through it. Hey, A's Bailey, Odie's folder for you. We're here with a very special guest, Cooper flag. Hey, man, I'm just going to show you it.

You let me know from 1 to 10 How well these NBA hair swaps You and your draftees Oh my God This is not as bad as you think Again, not now But like down the line, maybe You got a promising future

No Get it off the screen Where I can We got Kahn That's not bad This is not bad That's not bad Okay

I think yours was better than this Tom will pull it off This looks like a real life first You've dealt with some kids when you're like this one of young. That's what I was going through. You went to school with middle school? Maybe not middle school.

But like before middle school, you definitely saw some kids with the big mohaw. Yes. I agree. Next up. Another team of years. Oh. Show.

Wait, I actually kind of like that. It works. It's a fit. Across everybody that we've asked, this has been the consensus favorite. Yeah, I actually like that.

Yeah, it's better than years, better than cons. Yeah, for sure. Okay. More normal one. Ace Bailey. The Jimmy Butler drifted bread.

That's not bad either. I like this. I like this. He didn't like it for himself, but I think he could pull it on. I can see why he wouldn't love it for himself. But, you know, it's not terrible. It's not bald head with the sole head. The sole passion.

I forget the sole patch. Last one. We got Dylan Harper. Oh, man. Yeah, that's rough. Why is it rough? What is that? Like a Troy Bolting coach?

High school. You're the first one. You're a bald. Yeah. I don't know about that one. SM 2. This man was doing sing-alongs in the crib without the musical. Oh, man, outside of the nonsense.

How are you enjoying this whole draft process? You know, obviously it's very different for you. Did it just for a lot of the people in your class? How are you taking in the life? Yeah, I mean, it's been an incredible experience. I think this whole opportunity has been super cool for me. And I think a lot of the guys, too, would say the same thing. It's just been such a cool experience, you know, go through the year and then, you know,

start this process off, go through the workouts, you know, just work on our game. Then they'll be able to come out here and do some, testing and kind of just hang out, we see all the guys again and do a bunch of me. It's pretty cool stuff. You know, this whole experience is just kind of surreal. What is it meant to you to do this with your teammates, going through the whole process? Like, you guys had a very successful season and then to, you know, follow this up and really just keep it going.

Yeah, I mean, I think having five us here is a really cool experience. I don't know how many times that's happened, but I think it's just a really cool experience for us being out to just hang out, you know, in the hotel together, you know. talking and go through this whole experience, you know, have people to be around that they are comfortable with. It's really cool. It adds a lot to the experience. When people talk about you, they talk a lot about your versatility, how you're a do-it-all-guy can fit in any scheme. What part of your game do you pride yourself in most? You know, when somebody highlights all these things about you, what do you feel like is the one thing that really stands out to you that your development

has made you proud of? Yeah, I think that's what I would say is the versatility aspect of it of just trying to make a lot of different winning plays and impact the game in more ways than just score. or, you know, just defending. But just trying to do it all of the same time at a high level of just impacting the game in a ton of different ways. And which players have inspired you to play that way? Because I've heard you said before you love Jason Tatum.

Yeah, I mean, I was a Celtics fan growing up, so obviously watching Tatum play. He's very versatile as well. I mean, anybody that's pretty versatile, I mean, on the Knicks, McHale Bridges right now, I like watching the play. He's pretty versatile as well. But just any of those guys that are really versatile

and can guard a lot of positions. score the ball at any level, is just fun for me to watch. What's one of your favorite things to do on the basketball court? What's your favorite type of play to at least watch or actually do? Probably either throw a lob, maybe like a block off the backboard, or then probably like a dunk. Like that? We're running out of time with you. So I've got to ask you, the thing we've been asking everybody, the most pressing question

on the internet, everybody wants to know your opinion on. 100 members, one gorilla. Who's winning that fight? Okay, I got some questions in my own. Okay. Do I get to pick the people or is it just 100? You get to draft them. Actually, let's say it's 100 you.

100 me. I'll win. Nah, I'll, no, don't double back. Stay confident. I'll win. A hundred me will win, especially if I can have, like, you know, that link, you know what I'm saying, where you don't have to say anything. You can just, like, think it.

Oh, okay. I have mine. You know what I'm saying? I would definitely win that one. And I think if I could draft the team, I could get the hard. Okay, what if it's GM of the year? Us for 25. us each. So it's a combination of body types and athletic.

I don't do it like that. Don't do it like that. Hold on. You just looked at my physique. He's like, I know. I got a six-fouring. That's all I got for you. Stay confident. Stay confident. Yeah. Nothing. I think my boys over here are going to hold it. Yeah. All right. There we go. You heard it. Top-of-line defense. When you look across the NBA, is there any one player in specific that you're looking forward to playing against the most matching up with? Um, somebody that, I mean, obviously, I think LeBron, I think that would just be, you know,

cool to be able to play against him. Obviously, I think his time is, you know, kind of coming to an end soon in the next couple years or whatever. So I think just being able to play against him would be kind of, I mean, it's a surreal feeling and just knowing that, you know, what he's been able to do for the game and, you know, been able to accomplish is just insane. So I think it would be cool playing against him. Awesome, man.

Well, we've got to keep you going on your, I'm sure, a very busy day. You appreciate you coming through. Sure. Appreciate you. Looking at yourself, bald. Thank you, guys. Thank you, good day. We're here, the very special guest, Colin Kinnibbla.

How are you doing today, man? Doing all right, good to be here. You've been joining the combine. We were just talking about you got blood drawn here. I didn't know that was that intense. Yeah, we've been running around, doing a bunch of tests, a lot of media. I'm happy you told me that. I actually put my name into this draft class as well, so I'll see him there.

Sounds good. I'm scared to you. So I actually might withdraw. Yeah, man. So obviously this whole week, in this whole, you know, draft season is finally upon us. The casual NBA fans are finally going to be learning all of you guys's games, getting familiar with you. People look at you, obviously the first thing you're known about, Shooter.

What do you feel like they overlook whenever they look at your draft profile? I think, honestly, on the defensive end, you know, I take a lot of pride on that end. And people look at my archetype, whatever, and I probably think I'm not a good defender. But I think that ends a separator for me. Can you expound on that archetype? What is that? I mean, people see a 6-5 white gown. And they assume shooter, obviously, which is true.

Yeah, how does it feel of knowing that every time that you get a drive- comparison, they're like, Luke Canard. There's a common theme. It's funny, I saw Aaron O'Flalo, and I was like, ooh, I like it. It's different. And I hadn't thought of him in a while. Aaron O'Falllo is an interesting one. Carolello's not about a mention.

There we go. I want to direct your attention to this screen. I want to show you some NBA hair swaps of people in your draft class, and I want you to rate it from one to ten, based on how well it fits them. based on how well it fits them yeah it's a caveat right there first off

we got coop I love this I like this this is magic he's speechless yeah he froze I'm gonna go

I'm gonna go four on that one it's just the facial hair the ball would have been all right the sole patch off what are you rating as Mr. Clean is probably like a seven That's put your thumb up

Twins Okay We got Colin Cinnipple Yeah that's awful That's a one The bird man Have you ever thought about something like this? How many of your brothers trying to need this?

My little brother The one that's closest to me in age Had a little Mohawk in like fourth grade But fourth grade's a lot of time Yeah Okay I think we can give you a six I don't think it's too bad

Six Me person I give this a three because you look really defined as a kid. Yeah. You can't yell at your mom. You chew on pencils.

Exactly. Spit balls. The rest of the hair is too short, too. That's true. That's something's crazy. Okay. Another teammate of yours. Come on.

This works. Yeah, I think. It kind of fits. Yeah. It's kind of a look. It's hard. Seven or eight. That's solid.

It looks like on 2K. You know, you're on my player. Yeah. This don't look out of the, out of the world at all. I grew. He's Bailey. Hard. The dreads.

The Jimmy Butler. Yeah. That actually looks all right. Yeah. He hated it. He hated it with all his hair. Yeah, I mean, I don't think he'd like it, but I think it actually, like, works. Yeah.

You won't look at him, you won't look at him something like that crazy. Go seven. Okay. Last but not least, we got Dylan Harper. Yeah, that one doesn't fit. That's basically your hair. Just longer? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, that's a bad. That's a two. I don't like that one. Cooper is the only one who correctly identified whose haircuts that is. Do you know? It looks like you remember Luke Babbitt? That's a good bull.

This is Troy Bolton. What a name. You're a ball, Miller, really. That's Aaron Lafala, Luke Babbitt, he's cooking. Is there any player across the NBA that you most look forward to playing when you get drafted? Lining up against? I mean, obviously, like, LeBron Curry, but being a Bucs fan growing up, Yonis, that would be special. So most people in your position now at this close to draft, they refuse to admit they were ever a fan.

At what point do you think you're going to have to drop the fandom? Yeah, I mean, it's done. It's done? The bucks are out. I guess I'm not a fan anymore. Unless they draft you. With that caveat. Okay.

You know, obviously, you went to Duke, storied franchise. I mean, history of a team. Who do you think is your all-time Duke starting five? All right. They asked me this at the final four, and I did it based off college career, and I messed up, so I got to redeem myself. Okay. That's your redemption time. So many names.

people think Bobby Hurley. I'm going to go Jay Williams because he was a dog. Okay. You watch Jay Williams highlights at Duke. He's unbelievable. Uh-huh. Problem. All right. Lightning speed. Yep. I'm going to go a little small ball, so I'm going to go late in there at the five. Oh, wow. Fair, fair. Okay. I like that tactic. Grant Hill's at the small forward. Has to be there. Lock. Yep. At the shooting guard, we're going JJ Redick, all-time lean score. Okay. And then Shane Batty at the four.

Ooh, you didn't consider Coop? Coop. He was there one year. Yeah. One year. Shane Batty, like, unbelievable. A four-year player, I believe. Yeah. He had unbelievable career, so I'm going just off Duke career. Okay, so what was your answer last time that you felt like was wrong? I put Bobby Hurley at the one. And he's well-deserved.

He's an all-time leader and assists. Yeah. And I put Paul at four because I couldn't think of a four fast enough, but Paul is obviously great. Now you've had time to think about it. But now, Shane Badiye had a great duker. Yeah. Okay.

He got yelled at. That's how I'm happy. And Blue Devils were like, how could you forget? Quick question. Obviously, earlier this year, I seen Vincent, several videos of you explaining how to pronounce your name. Yeah. I saw these videos.

I know how to say it. But in that research, I saw on your Wikipedia. What is your middle name? Two. Roman numeral two. That's into, I've never seen that. It's so cool. What's the backstory one of that?

Yeah. So my dad's name's Khan as well. So he's Khan Knapple. And they just threw, you know a lot of people do the Roman numeral at the end of the last name. They just threw it as the middle name. So I had two uppercase eyes, Roman numeral two, Knapple. That is one of the coolest the names I've ever seen. That is a cool place called it.

One to connipple. That's one of the hardest shit to have been. Something right. Con the second canipple. Exactly. That's awesome. What element of your game are you most excited to continue to improve during your rookie year coming up? What do you feel like you still have?

You still got some room to go? Yeah, absolutely. I think my off-the-bounce shooting can really improve. You know, I didn't shoot a whole ton of them this year. And something I'm really looking forward to continue to work on. And then my creativity finishing, you know, in college there's not as much space. There's three guys in lane, so it's tough to not go off two feet and shot fake. So just like floaters, outside hand finishes, all that stuff.

And is there anybody in the league right now that you look at for inspiration for that? You know, I think somebody, I mean, obviously, he has an unbelievable floater is Trey Young. And, you know, like, I'm not going to have a good of a, he's good of a flotter as tray. And I'm not going to use it as much as he does. High bar. Yeah. But his touch around the basket is unbelievable. defensively, what do you think such you, apart from the average perimeter defender?

I think a lot of guys, when somebody makes a move and they get beat, they stop pursuing the play. So somebody I think of like Brandon Pajemski, like he's always, even if he gets beat, he's always pursuing the play to make it a tough shot. So I really try to take that from him and just continuing to pursue even if a guy gets around you a little bit, make it a tough shot, make it a contest. I just play hard. Sneaky Athletic, Real Hustler in Brandon Peterms. I'm going to name two NBA players. I want you to tell me who has a better scoring bag. Better scoring bag.

Yeah. Cairo Irving or James Hardin. This is like elite of elite. Yeah, I mean, I think Hardin, I mean, he shot so many free throws, shot so many threes. He spams those. Step back threes. But it's so, as a score, it's so hard to stop a guy from scoring. It gets a free throw line.

I think people get so mad about free throw bad. That's the skills. Yeah, absolutely. like it's absolutely a skill that he got a free throw line a ton and it's free points so so would you go on the record and saying free throws are ethical hoops it's not fun to watch it's not fun to watch the thing I would do get mad at is when the defender jumps like if you stay down it's not a file yeah so but like some of the some of the stuff where guys are grabbing people's arms and throwing it up or it's not it's not fun to watch lebron james or Kobe Bryant's better scoring bag scoring bag

Kobe just it's a tough one your instinct is like Kobe but then you're like yeah i'm just thinking like Kobe wasn't like he was a really good athlete once he was getting older and even like when they were won the championships in like 2010 2009 like it was just a lot of tough yeah tough shots i think lebron's still a more efficient yeah um so let me go Kobe okay and last one yonis or yokech I think Janus is a better score Yeah He's a better score He didn't approve from memories

Yeah I yeah I think Yilch is a better player More crafty around the rim But Janus scores more So I'm gonna give to Janus Awesome Well it's how the time we got with you today man

We appreciate you coming through It's a fun conversation Hope you enjoy the rest of your week Yeah I appreciate it guys Thanks Thank you We are here A very special guest.

Our third Duke player of the day, Kami in Mali Wash. How are you doing today, man? I'm doing great, man. How are you enjoying this whole experience being at the Combine? I mean, it's fun. It's fun seeing a lot of different players out here and just being able to enjoy every moment.

Is it nice to be able to, like, be with your teammates here? Is that it added another extra level experience with them? Yeah, I mean, being able to be here with, like, for my teammates, it's just a special thing and just makes it more fun. So when it comes to your basketball journey over the last, you recently just started playing not that long ago. What was the easiest thing to develop for someone like you? Man, it's just like the mentality.

It's like it was easy for me to develop that. The mentality of just like working hard and keep it going, no matter what happens, no matter the highs and the lows. I just kept the same work. Where do you think that comes from? I think it just comes from my background, how I grew up. And it's just like I grew up in Coimpa.

and it's just like a kid from Coimpe, and in Uganda, it's just like I had that mentality already and just translated it in the basketball court. Yeah. What players do you think have had the biggest influence on you and how you've shaped your game over the years? I would say Janus had a lot of influence because when I just started playing basketball, this was like Janus is prime. This is back-to-back MVP, defensive player of the year. And I'm seeing all that and just went and had a background checkup.

I saw he grew up in Greece. His story was such an amazing story to me. And it made me believe that I can make it up there, too. Yeah. Are there parts of Yonis' game that you feel that you've been able to, like, to take from and put directly into your game? I mean, I haven't yet because, I mean, I still have a long way to go. I still have a lot of stuff to develop on.

But I would say the defensive side is just like I've been playing defense and just hang my head on the defensive end. And does that constant improvement in the fact you said you have a long way to go? which says a lot about your potential, obviously. Does that excite you? Is that one of your favorite parts about the game is constantly improving? Yeah, I mean, he excites me and it just keeps me going, knowing that I have a lot of stuff to learn,

I have a lot of new stuff to learn, and I have a lot of stuff to get better on. So that keeps me going each and every day. Yeah. What's the skill set that you think that you had over the last few years, especially at Duke, that you haven't had a chance to showcase us yet, but when you get to the league, people will be like, oh, like, he's more versatile than I thought he was.

I mean, it's probably just maybe my scoring on the offensive side, not only catching lobs or maybe in a couple of ISOs and shooting the ball. So I believe I'll be able to showcase it next year because the league, it's more space and it's more spacing. It's different from college basketball. Awesome, man. I want to diverse your attention to this screen. I'm going to show you some NBA hair swaps for people in your draft class.

I want you to rate it from 1 to 10 based on how well it fits them. Yeah. First off, we got Dylan Harper. He don't fit after it. Yeah, I don't know why y'all did him. Is he out of ten? He liked it? Yeah, he didn't think it was terrible.

It's not a zero. I mean, it's not terrible. It's not a zero, but it just doesn't match it. But I said, it's a solid six. We got his teammate. We got Ace. Oh, my God. Did he like that?

No, he hated it. Yeah. He said he was thinking about getting dressed and he saw this. He said, never mind. I can fall Four Wow Better than he gave himself

He hated You've seen people like this That's all in the court Yeah but This is Jimmy Bellet Exactly Nah It's different

It's not Derek Queenstead It doesn't fit his personality I think it absolutely does Okay Next up We got yourself With the blonde fro

Oh my 10 No way Everybody's like it This has been The consensus his favorite. Nah, I can't, I can't do that.

How do you think your parents will react if you had blonde hair? My mom would go crazy. My mom would go crazy to seeing me without hair. It would be, yeah, it might be better when maybe it's black and I didn't have to change it, but. Yeah. I like it. Everybody else liked it up here? 10 out of 10.

It's a realistic one. Five. Con. Zero. That's bad. It doesn't match him. You don't think he can rock the rock star look? No, I don't think God can do that.

It's not his bag. Yeah. He'd be in gusers all day, man. Okay. Last but not least. We got Cooper. Is that the avatar or what? Just a regular bald, me.

I think it looks good with that, too. I give it an eight. Okay, okay. Yeah. I feel like seeing yourself bald at this age is just like, oh, my. My goodness. Does you scared of the future? Your life flashes before your eyes, you're not lying.

Yeah. Okay. Well, I'll just leave that on the screen for us to marinate while we talk about the rest of the conversation. Is there one player in particular that you're most looking forward to being on the court with playing against when you get drafted? I mean, it's a lot of players. It's just like a lot of different players. But I got to experience that already at the Olympics. I played LeBron and all the guys and beat.

But, I mean, as I say, the honest really motivated me throughout my life. me throughout my whole journey, so I would love to be on the floor with him one day. What was that experience like playing, you know, in the Olympics and being on the same floor as some of, you know, the biggest names in basketball? I mean, to me, I feel like it went by so fast. It just happened that quick and finished that quick. But to me, it's just like I was blessed to be in that position. And it showed me the gap I had between the NBA players and me.

and I felt like I belonged there. I belonged there with them. And it was just a very special experience, just being able to be on the floor with them. Yeah. Did you enjoy Paris? Yes, I enjoyed Paris. I mean, it was a lot of traffic,

but I got to watch other games and I got to watch other different teams play, the Olympics. You get a chance to watch, like, the different sports, like swimming in and diving and stuff like that. Did you have a favorite, just like non-basket sport at the Olympics? Yeah, I mean, I watched, the beach volleyball stuff.

You'll be so good at beach volleyball. I don't know about that. But then it ended up raining and just didn't finish the game. Then I wanted to go watch track and people running, but it's just like I wasn't able to make it that all time. So out of all the pros that you've came across throughout your basketball playing career, who's been the most helpful in actually like giving you like game-changing advice for your game?

I mean, I've really met a lot of pros. I've played with a lot of pros on my national team. But I have people like, I always go and ask them for guidance. And one of them is like my elder brother to me. His name is Maria Schellke. And he guides me through everything. He played in the league. And he's playing professional overseas.

So I always go get guidance from him and ask him. somehow she do some stuff and we don't play the same position actually he's a god but i get to learn a lot of stuff from him so yeah awesome man to wrap this up before we get you out here on the rest of your day we've got to ask you the question that has been the most disgusting amongst everybody that sat here in this chair who would win in a fight 100 men or one gorilla i mean it depends what a hundred men like 100 guys like me yeah we're definitely defeated gorillas. You would kill a guerrilla?

Yeah. We're from Africa. Yeah. Yes, a hundred of me is killing a gorilla because I'm a regular person. I'm 7-2, like 250. Exactly. So yeah. Yeah, so we'd sacrifice the first 10 people.

Everybody else, we're going to be able to kill the gorilla. See, we get like, Trey Johnson up here. He's like, I got to sacrifice 50 of me. You're like, 10 will do. Yeah, 10 of me will go first and then get to, if we go there with a strategy, I think, it's over with it's all okay don't don't give us some machete or belt it's all again again no weapons no okay no what about a hundred of him 100 of mo he's he's african he's right exactly yeah i'm a hundred of him yeah i don't know you're not asking

buddy you're getting cut to i'm not gonna ask you know you don't send a chance you can't even I don't do it I can't do it that's all the time I got you today man we appreciate you coming through it was a fun conversation I know black I know black I hope you enjoy the rest of your draft week

thank you so much yeah thank you I'm sure man I'm trying to make all that's right yeah I love you that's money

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