Do not love playing basketball. Do you agree with that statement or do you disagree with 100%?

Agree with that statement. No question. And even when he said it I

Agree with him. I mean those conversations I've even had with Pat

Personally, you know, I mean we all within our realm have those conversations because you you been a lead long enough

You see it. You see it. You know, I mean, we always tell young guys that come in a lead

Like we work two to three hours a day

It's no it's no reason why you should ever be late why it should be anything else come come before this. This is

What you get paid millions and dollars millions of dollars to do

And you have access to the gym to be able to work on your game do whatever it is

You need to do and some guys don't do it. Some guys show come come to a gym practice ten minutes before

Practice right and think whatever we do it in my day day is done, right? I mean, we'll sit on a

Fucking video game longer than they work on their own game. You know, I mean, so it's crazy, right?

Like it's mad when they not playing and mad when they're not playing

They got every excuse blaming coaches blaming this blaming that and it's like you're not even putting in your full

Effort to get everything you want out of being a good basketball player

You know, I mean so you I know for me being an Italy so long you see that shit so much and you wonder why?

So many guys you'd be like man. What happened to that guy?

What I got on play if you really just pay attention to it you you will understand why they don't play

They don't love the game. Yeah, I love it. They love everything that comes with it

But yeah, and to that like there's a lot of dudes that just fall under that just being so naturally gifted

Yeah

That they don't have to or I wouldn't say they don't have to

But that they don't put that extra work in they don't treat this shit

Like like they life depend on it and and they just show up and they give you 20

They give you 30 like there is some a lot of those guys that are just naturally gifted

That's a whole nother percentage of guys. That's a whole nother percentage. That's a whole

So it's a small percentages of guys that really just this is everything, you know to us like it's really just everything to us

You know, I mean one example always I always like tell young guys

It's like like me and PG was playing in the game. He got hurt and people don't talk about what it takes to even recover to come back and be

Even a better player from something like that. You know, I mean, it's great

Like the the mentality the work ethic everything that go on that mental mind. Everybody don't have that bro

I'm telling you everybody don't have that

I literally was in that game like we we would to go play in the FIBA World Games

So not even what two years later to be going to get a fucking gold medal with him

After seeing what just happened like to me that speak volumes of just a work ethic a person have everybody don't have it

Do you think that you know the whole?

contract year is a real thing on both sides guys that are you know on their rookie deals a year before their next contract or

Have you ever seen that in the league where some guy just got paid and it's like I'll tell you

Yeah

Yeah, you see it from both ways guys say man, I gotta get paid

I got to do this and you see some guys get paid and be like, huh? I'm good. Yeah, I'm chill. I mean like it definitely varies, you know, I mean like like I remember um, I

Remember my contract year after I got paid

It was it was a it was a it was a thing to me like man fuck that

I gotta work twice as hard, you know, and and I remember that was

After we did the Olympics played in Olympics came out that that next year and I had my average 27 my best year up to that point just because I didn't want my contract to be an issue or even be talked about so

I'm gonna work my ass off even more, you know, I mean I had the opportunity to be around 11 of the best players in the world we go win a gold medal. So it's like my motivation was even pushed

Like even higher, but that's me. You know me some guys be like shit. I'm cool. I'm good

This is all I needed. I turn it back up in three four years when my contract is up, you know work like that yeah, that that shit meant something to me like when you get that contract and you

Not only the best player on a team, but the highest paid player on a team like that shit means something

It comes with a lot. And so like I think the new age guys like they don't look

That's our time was so damn and make us feel like we old as fuck

Our

Time it's like you have to work. You really have to work for everything that you got you know, I mean and what came with that you even had the

Oversee that nowadays, it's like oh, I got it. I'm good

It's like it shouldn't be that like, you know

I mean like I felt like I had to start all the way over every time

I got a new deal like you know, I gotta be more than what with what that just showed

You know, I mean and it pushed me

Yeah, it's good that you had that attitude because I would imagine on the flip side of that some guys like you said

They do get their money. They chill out and in your guys's age

How much more money you guys are getting paid now compared to your first couple of deals and I'm sure there's some guys that are

Regretting that they didn't you know, take it seriously because the contracts now are just yeah

I mean, that's it's that's what's scary about it because I don't think there's there's a select few of the guys that I think like

Anthony Edwards, for instance, like he's a guy that's gonna continue to get better

He wants to be the best player in the league Jason Tatum. He wants to be the best player in the league mention my boy

Who Lamella Lamella?

Like these young guys like that. Those are the examples, but there's a lot of guys a lot of these young guys

I think that that are gonna kill

Everything that we work for to get you know, I mean our CBA up to par

I think that it's gonna come to a point where it's gonna collapse because they're not taking this shit serious as we used to and that's where my frustration come from because I hate when people take those moments for granted because

They don't know what it's like. I mean my first my first deal out of my

Rookie deal was nine and a half million dollars a year. I remember getting killed saying. Oh, he's overpaid

Yeah, that's too much money

In comparison with guys

Now you have guys looking at the standard like oh all I gotta do is average seven points and I can get a hundred million

Dollars a year and it's like that's that's your standards. That's what we going on. You know, it's doodoo

I think like yeah, like I don't I got it. I got to get X Y & Z for this next one

Damn, cuz it was a criteria. You know, I mean you had to get

You know all NBA and all-stars like you had like it was a criteria like also our criteria to was

Winning and winning right winning like that was the thing like you gotta win. You gotta be getting a playoff not no

Lottery team saying like I did my part. I'm still get paid like you had to be a winner

It's changed now

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