Brook Lopez kind enough to sit down and visit.

And Brooke.

There's a word that's used often to describe basketball teams by coaches and players, and that word is connected.

How well does that describe your entire group?

It definitely defines us.

You know, It's a great description for our team, you know, We're just we are connected.

It is about team.

It's not about you, but this questions about you.

You've been around the league, you've seen you've seen some stuff.

What's it like to be part of this team?

This connected group, this best team in the MBA?

Yeah, I've never been a part of anything like this before.

It's ah so special, so unique.

And, yeah, I've been in the league for, you know, I think this is my 11 season now, so I've seen a lot of different teams.

A lot of good, a lot of bad.

But this team by far is the most special group.

They really come in every day.

It's ah true team.

Their own selfish guys were out there playing for one another, and we're on her having fun doing it.

You know it's hysterical to me is to go back and look at, like, basketball reference in the number of threes you took in the very early days.

As in nothing.

Imagine telling that guy that you know something you're gonna be pulling from the timeline and you're supposed to be doing it.

I How hard would it have been to have you imagine that that would become kind of what you're great at?

It would've been tough to imagine, honestly, you know, because I always had confidence and shooting a three.

But to this extent in is deep as I've been doing it, it's It's been very, very surprising that 2008 rookie Brooke, I'm pretty sure he'd be shocked.

I'm just trying to make sense of the sonic the hedgehog in the hat.

And what?

Just what we What do we got going?

Postgame Here posted.

This is just my normal stuff.

If I'm gonna be on TV or you know I'm not whatever it is, but Sonic.

I grew up.

I grew up a Genesis kid, you know, there's a Nintendo kids because I was a second Genesis kid growing up.

So Sonics my guy and then the Pizza planet had, uh I'm just wearing my Disney fandom ominously on my head, I guess.

Technically understood.

And you know what?

That's just fine.

That's just fine.

You're on the right network for that.

You know what?

I grew up on Atari's someday, like Google That and like, look at what we dealt with, man.

We we had to We had to walk uphill both both ways in the snow.

I'm an old man anyway.

Thanks.

Thanks for coming by, man.

Congrats on the victory and keep doing what you're doing.

Well, see, in the finals, if you do, I appreciate it.

Thank you for having me.