Hello.

Welcome to SportsCenter.

We just watched you assess your performance tonight.

I feel like I showed my abilities catching the shooting ball.

I feel like I showed my athleticism on.

I just showed the world that I've been working and I'm getting better.

And I love the feeling of progress.

Uh, the draft is three weeks away.

Minnesota has the first pick.

Describe your level of communication with them.

Um, it's funny you guys asked me that.

I just met with them, had a workout for them yesterday.

And I met with them the night before that.

And I think it went really well.

I think they liked me a lot.

I think the whole office like me, and I'm looking forward to see what they do when they when they get caught.

How badly do you want to be picked first?

Overall, Anthony E mean it's a dream come true.

I feel like if I get picked first overall, I got bragging rights.

I just can't stop there.

I gotta prove myself.

I got approved that I should be the number one pick.

I gotta prove they picked me that I belong out here and I'm a stay Give our SportsCenter fans watching right now.

Anthony accomp for you.

When you watch the MBA, who's a player on TV you look at and said I could be that guy were kind of close to him.

I don't think I think the guy that that was playing he's retired now.

His name Dwyane Wade.

I look on the TV and I could be that guy I could or I could be better than him.

But he's retired, so I feel like nobody in the N b A now, but my favorite players, Kevin Durant and I look at him a lot.

Maybe like he's really good.

Very cool.

Very cool.

How is the pandemic affected?

You know your preparation.

The draft is five months delayed.

Now How What have you been doing to stay in tip top shape and improve like you mentioned?

I feel like the pandemic was nothing to me.

I was already living in a pandemic because all I wanted to do was get better.

I'm a in home kids.

All I wanna do is get better, play with my dogs and play the game all day.

That's all I wanna do.

What about the MBA?

Are you looking forward to the most?

I feel like just being on the court, and I just want to see how people compete, how people go out every night, preparation the food they eat for the nutrition.

And I just want to see how people get better every day and stay like being the whole year.

Lots of chicken parm.

That's the key, Anthony.

One more question for you who have been the people in your life, the most important people in your life.

Once your name is announced on draft night, who are the people in your mind and the people that really were the most important for you to arrive at this point?

E feel like my mother and grandma the most important people in my life.

I feel like eighth grade.

I met this dude name went for Jordan.

He played a key rolling and my success, uh, Coach Jordan played a key role in my success on I feel like a dude that stays in the back of lot.

Name is Andrew Banks.

I've been doing it since I was like, eight years old.

He he's always help looked out.

He's like an uncle to me and then my Uncle Chris.

I mean, he's like, pops with me.

I love my Uncle Kristen Shoutout to everybody.

I just shot out the Uncle Chris, uncle's or the best.

Anthony, you're a great kids.

You seem like a great kid.

Best of luck.

Hope your pick first overall.

And thanks for joining us here on SportsCenter.

We'll see in the top 10 highlights Sunday.

Thank you so much.

Be blessed.

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