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NBA star, Kenneth Faried, talks Fortnite, returning to NBA & his non-profit organization · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: we come. My next guest is Kenned for Read. He's
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Speaker 1: a professional basketball player, something I could never do. I
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Speaker 1: always dreamed of being in the league, but all I
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Speaker 1: can do is watch being in the league. He's with
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Speaker 1: the Demon Nuggets, Brooklyn next Houston Rockets. From a span
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Speaker 1: of eight years from twenty eleven to twenty and eighteen.
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Speaker 1: He also will spend time in China. We'll talking about
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Speaker 1: that in part of his interview serial Entrepreneurship is His?
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Speaker 1: Is His? His foundation I'd like to talk about. He's
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Speaker 1: the founder of the Kenneth for Reed HAT Foundation, which
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Speaker 1: stands for Humble, Appreciative and Thankful. Kenneth is a video gamer.
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Speaker 1: He stated, I got into gaming because of my dad,
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Speaker 1: and weirdly enough, because of my mom. My mom and
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Speaker 1: dad are both Xbox gamers. He's pretty good at it
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Speaker 1: because at Fortnite and the Charitable Foundation he was able
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Speaker 1: to win two hundred and fifty thousan dollars in prize money,
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Speaker 1: which had to be used for a charitable purpose. He
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Speaker 1: finished second and got two hundred fifty thou dollars, which
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Speaker 1: launched his foundation, the Humble, Appreciative and Thankful Foundation, which
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Speaker 1: stands for HAT. Kennada is definitely more than the athlete.
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Speaker 1: Like I teached him about it earlier, because I saw
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Speaker 1: him in the Body issue with ESPN, I guess he's
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Speaker 1: shown a little bit more of his athleticism. Okay, conversation,
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Speaker 1: my man, kenn It free, how you Ken? Thank you?
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Speaker 1: Thank you? I'm excited. I'm excited to be here. Uh,
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Speaker 1: this is a great opportunity for me, I just as
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Speaker 1: a person and as a man, and to be up
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Speaker 1: here with I mean no other than for Sean. I
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Speaker 1: mean this, this is love right here. Well it is
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Speaker 1: love because you know, I always like to bring individuals
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Speaker 1: on like you, because you can get stereotyped and and uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, and when I say stereotyping, stereo talking people
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Speaker 1: for being a black man. You can stereotype a tall
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Speaker 1: black man. You can stereotype being an athlete, which can
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Speaker 1: come into play about your intelligence. Come to that's all
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Speaker 1: you can do. How do you deal with I mentioned
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Speaker 1: several I depended being a black man. I've been being
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Speaker 1: a tall person. I've been an athlete. Which one do
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Speaker 1: you want to come in first? Being stereotyped because there's
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Speaker 1: three of them. I know you can stereotype though, Well
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Speaker 1: it's only because of course, you know my persona of
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Speaker 1: my hair goes with it. Um people assume is hey,
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Speaker 1: you're tall, You're you're also black. Hunty to be honest, like,
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Speaker 1: you're tall, you're black, You're you got this athletic build
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Speaker 1: about you and your handsome so I'm assuming you you
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Speaker 1: play basketball and football. But yeah, that's pretty much um
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Speaker 1: the stereotype of my whole life. Man. For me, I've
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Speaker 1: been dealing with that and I just take it with
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Speaker 1: a grain of salt. Sometimes I like to play a
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Speaker 1: little games for people like, oh, no, I'm not him,
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Speaker 1: I'm actually play lacross. I'm not that guy. Actually I
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Speaker 1: actually played on soccer. You know, I'm a goalie for
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Speaker 1: Manchester United. But I just like the best with people
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Speaker 1: so tall. But at the same token as a blessing
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Speaker 1: and the curse, you know, you God put you on
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Speaker 1: this earth and gave these blessings and you either you
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Speaker 1: either use them to your advantage or you take it
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Speaker 1: as all white me, white me. And I've never been
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Speaker 1: a person who's say why me, always said try me right.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's really interesting because of the fact that
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Speaker 1: you know your athleticism, you'll bill forced you in a direction,
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Speaker 1: and there some words I would apologize. I won't use
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Speaker 1: the word force, but it tends to put you in
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Speaker 1: the direction of expectations, you know, like you know, when
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Speaker 1: you when you're a smart person, intelligence isn't isn't isn't
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Speaker 1: written on your face isn't written in your abs, just
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Speaker 1: isn't written in your height. It's just you have to
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Speaker 1: show people that you're intelligent. Do you feel that because
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Speaker 1: of your bill, that you you have to show people
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Speaker 1: that you're more than an athlete, that you can do more,
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Speaker 1: that you're capable of achieving things beyond the basketball court. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: a hundred percent. Um. But one thing my parents was
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Speaker 1: blessed to. I was blessed to. I guess reciprocate when
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Speaker 1: they was telling me back in the day, because they
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Speaker 1: told me a lot. So it was one thing they
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Speaker 1: always said, to use what you got to your advantage.
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Speaker 1: And I always wonder what they mean by that when
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Speaker 1: I was younger. But as I got older and flew
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Speaker 1: into the man I am today, I just understood it
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Speaker 1: more and more. And I'm thirty one today my parents
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Speaker 1: use like I said. I was younger, they told me
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Speaker 1: a lot. But now that I'm thirty one and I
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Speaker 1: understood what they meant, Hey, I have a chance here
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Speaker 1: just because I'm tall and because I'm black and people
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Speaker 1: see my athleticism and all that stuff. To use that
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Speaker 1: to my advantage. So I went to more Head State. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: everybody expecting me not even make it to the NBA.
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Speaker 1: But I use it to my advantage. I said, hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm here, I might as well keep going graduate, get
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Speaker 1: my education, show other people in my family. Not just
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Speaker 1: like I didn't really care about the outside world in
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Speaker 1: the sense of the public thought about me. I only
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Speaker 1: cared about my family and what they thought. And it was, Hey,
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Speaker 1: I want to show my family and have a eleven
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Speaker 1: year old now I had her my junior in college
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Speaker 1: named Kira On Free. I want to show her. Hey,
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Speaker 1: just because daddy is in the n b A, he
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean you can't graduate, get your degree, become that
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Speaker 1: that pillar of foundation from your family, from not just
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Speaker 1: a financial aspect, but a mental aspect, because you have
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Speaker 1: to be intelligent with the money. You can't just have
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Speaker 1: it and go, Okay, I got money, spend it foolers. Free,
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Speaker 1: Oh get this person to house, get this person to car,
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Speaker 1: and all this stuff. No, you gotta understand that, Hey,
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Speaker 1: that wealth last you for that amount of time. Right
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Speaker 1: then and there, You're making that much money because you're
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Speaker 1: because of your talents and athleticism. But what are you
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Speaker 1: going to do after? Right? Right? But you know it's interesting, Kennon,
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Speaker 1: because you know, I've been fortunate in my life, you know,
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Speaker 1: because when you're in entertainment, it's kind of like athleticism.
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Speaker 1: Income can come in and large amounts, and sometimes you
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Speaker 1: don't know what to do with that large amount. And
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Speaker 1: sometimes it comes like, oh, I just get this, you know,
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Speaker 1: I just leased this, you know, and but you don't
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Speaker 1: think any thing of it, because guess what, You're able
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Speaker 1: to buy it. You're able to purchase, You're able to
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Speaker 1: live that lifestyle. But then, like you said earlier in
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Speaker 1: your conversation, is about longevity because you're not on the
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Speaker 1: play forever and that big check needs to need to
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Speaker 1: go down the line at least twenty thirty years. That's
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Speaker 1: the process, you know. But you're a young guy. You're
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Speaker 1: thirty one now. Now this is where athleticism and then
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Speaker 1: longevity comes into play, because I know when I was
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Speaker 1: a team, thirty was a long railway. Forty I could
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Speaker 1: even imagine forty fifty. Come on, dude, really you're talking
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Speaker 1: about So we did the process of being thirty one
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Speaker 1: and become a reality to you. Um, it just became
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Speaker 1: a reality this I mean, it's COVID pandemic hit, you know. Um,
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Speaker 1: for me, I was in my twenties and the NBA
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Speaker 1: enjoying life, having fun. By the same token, just making
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Speaker 1: a little smart investments here and there, like my manumal
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Speaker 1: Elite that's where I'm wearing right now and shirt my
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Speaker 1: AU team made an investment in that, and that's through
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Speaker 1: the like you said earlier, Kenning Free Hat Foundation. So
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Speaker 1: it was a blessing to be able to have that
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Speaker 1: on my I guess, a patch on my shoulder, like, hey,
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Speaker 1: this is something I've done, this is something I build
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Speaker 1: in Now, I guess h I believe it's nine years later, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: nine years later, but to be ten years next summer.
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Speaker 1: Nine years later, I still have it up and running
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Speaker 1: every The kids are un tremendous job of promoting the brand,
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Speaker 1: being part of the brand and really understanding what the
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Speaker 1: brand means. And that's just being a hat, being humble,
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Speaker 1: appreciate and thankful. And that's my biggest I guess, my
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Speaker 1: biggest chip on my shoulder. I always been humble, appreciate
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Speaker 1: and thankful for anything. Really, really you've been You've been humble?
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Speaker 1: Now you could, I could. I gotta stop you that.
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Speaker 1: If anybody just to start just just google the body
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Speaker 1: issue Okay, definitely got to stop him on his humble talk.
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Speaker 1: See I know for a fact, I know for a fact.
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Speaker 1: See I wouldn't even gonna go there. But he keeps
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Speaker 1: throwing out the word humble. But you know I'm humble.
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Speaker 1: I'm humble, I'm humble. Uh So how does that? Because
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Speaker 1: I'm just having fun with you, Cannon, because I love
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Speaker 1: you to death. Man, we're talking about Well, I gotta
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Speaker 1: be able to slide this into the conversation because you
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Speaker 1: did it. You didn't, I didn't. I didn't force you
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Speaker 1: to do it. Nobody told you. Hey man, you wouldn't
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Speaker 1: be naked. And then how some people put some hot
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Speaker 1: little basketball on certain parts of your body and you
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Speaker 1: jump up and down and we will put in the
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Speaker 1: magazine how how that sounded? Was that a hard pitch, Cannon?
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Speaker 1: Or was that a picture? You just? Oh, I got
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Speaker 1: this covered? You saw earlier dishes? You go, man, why
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Speaker 1: they ain't picked me yet? How I talk about that
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Speaker 1: whole journey that, Kenny, Because see I know you did
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Speaker 1: some again. You're in NBA, somebod I can never do
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Speaker 1: you in the body issue again. Something I can never do,
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Speaker 1: but talk about your humbleness in doing the body issue
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Speaker 1: of ESPN. Okay, well, I guess it's not. I guess
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Speaker 1: I can't. I'm so confused, right, it's hard to say,
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Speaker 1: you know. I went out there. It was funny because
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Speaker 1: my my rookie year in the league. Basically I saw
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Speaker 1: the body issue and I saw ESPN. I saw the
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Speaker 1: SPS Awards, and I saw all that beautiful stuff, and
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Speaker 1: I said, hey, that's the body issue, and whoa, these
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Speaker 1: people are really naked. I love to be naked. I
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Speaker 1: love to be free. I want to do that. It
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Speaker 1: looks like all right, So I didn't think of it
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Speaker 1: as Okay, you have to be naked and your body
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Speaker 1: be basically showing all your stuff off. I thought, maybe
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Speaker 1: you be like naked, but you you're covered in certain
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Speaker 1: areas right right, right right, But no, you just free.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, wow, okay, I'm ready, Hey here
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Speaker 1: do this. I'm not gonna be afraid. And it was
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Speaker 1: the second year. Um, they basically said, hey you, we'll
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Speaker 1: we'll love to have you. Um there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: other players that's gonna be in it. But all you
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Speaker 1: gotta do, all you have to do is just play.
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Speaker 1: Kenny f Read you know, uh, but it isn't a
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Speaker 1: good way because it's part of your brand, you know,
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Speaker 1: because you know, Lord knows, you know, you're using your
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Speaker 1: second year. So I know the players on the court
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Speaker 1: gave you a hard time. I find a hard time
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Speaker 1: about that when they were guarding you and all that
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Speaker 1: stuff and warm ups and all that stuff. So I
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Speaker 1: know they've taken care of you. But what I love
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Speaker 1: about you, man, is that there is a position that
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Speaker 1: people do in life where they stopped themselves. They say
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Speaker 1: they don't want to do something, They worry about what
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Speaker 1: people think and and it's but it's all part of
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Speaker 1: a brand build, you know, as part of your personnel.
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Speaker 1: Like you said, you know, you're tall, you're black, your hairstyle,
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Speaker 1: you're a good looking guy. So that's part of being
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Speaker 1: a I think it's just like being a model. You know,
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Speaker 1: you are you. You can't be a model, you know,
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Speaker 1: and that there's no doubt in my mind. But that's
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Speaker 1: that's physical, you know. You know the thing about being physical,
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Speaker 1: there's always a time living on being physical. And so
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Speaker 1: that's what we said right now, you know, because of
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Speaker 1: COVID and you went over to China, and and that
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Speaker 1: to extend your basketball career, because I guess what they
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Speaker 1: write nice checks over in China by the way, y'all okay,
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Speaker 1: and uh and so and so. Now you're back at
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Speaker 1: home right now. What is it from a physical standpoint?
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Speaker 1: Do you stand with your career? I know you still
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Speaker 1: stand in shape. Is a stand in shape to continue
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Speaker 1: a basketball career or you're ready to move on? Um?
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Speaker 1: I'm standing in shape because I want to get back
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Speaker 1: into the NBA. UM. I'm pushing myself and doing things
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Speaker 1: that pretty much got me there and just standing focused
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Speaker 1: like that and not letting the outside distracts. And UM,
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Speaker 1: I have fun in my twenties pretty much. And it
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Speaker 1: was it was nice, you know, I enjoyed it. Me
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Speaker 1: going over to China was also a blessing. Um, most people,
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Speaker 1: we wouldn't see that as that because of the fact
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Speaker 1: that it did kind of stop me from going to
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Speaker 1: the NBA with the bubble and everything. It kind of
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Speaker 1: holding me from that decision, even though I got out
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Speaker 1: of it early. But COVID protocols and the way he
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Speaker 1: was setting up things that just wasn't letting fever players in.
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Speaker 1: So I just respected that and had to respect it.
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Speaker 1: And I just put my acts pretty much to the
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Speaker 1: ground and showed everybody why they called me manimal and
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Speaker 1: why everybody say, hey, this kid never stopped working. He's
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Speaker 1: a worker, he's he's this, he's that. He give it
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Speaker 1: his all every time you step on the court. And
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Speaker 1: that's truly who I am. And I just wanted to
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Speaker 1: show everybody that and remind everybody that, and slowly but
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Speaker 1: surely people want to see it. People are going to
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Speaker 1: see it. Well, I have no doubt about it. But
16:57
Speaker 1: you've always been had a life where you know, you
16:59
Speaker 1: want to find start athletes coming out of high school.
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Speaker 1: You know you more head stayed, you finished your career
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Speaker 1: as at all time rebounding broke. I think Tim Duncan's
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Speaker 1: record all times rebounds and so but along with that,
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Speaker 1: it's like you don't let what people think. And I
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Speaker 1: gess that's that's the core my interview with you cannot
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Speaker 1: because you know, not letting people put you in the box,
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Speaker 1: letting letting people limit you based on your capabilities. What
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Speaker 1: drives you, is that what was instilled in you by
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Speaker 1: your parents that drives you, or just a natural level
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Speaker 1: of competition that drives you. It's it's honestly both um.
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Speaker 1: My father would my father would say when I was younger,
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Speaker 1: I would do things here, do things in the house
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Speaker 1: with me. Man, he saw me doing in the house
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Speaker 1: with me, and I just do it. Listen, listen to
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Speaker 1: them and pay attention. And I probably get frustrated, like,
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Speaker 1: don't doing this with you every day? But it was
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Speaker 1: it was my dad. And as to say, it's token,
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Speaker 1: it would translate to hey, my cousins will come over
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Speaker 1: and I would instantly tell them, Hey, we're waking up
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Speaker 1: in the morning, we're gonna work out. Hey, when you
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Speaker 1: get up in the morning, I don't want to hear
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Speaker 1: you complaining about like while we're getting up this early,
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Speaker 1: like we're working. And then it turned to my father
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Speaker 1: just no new every time around my cousin, YO, come on, push.
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Speaker 1: I was pushing my cousins just as much as my
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Speaker 1: father would say, Hey, you got it, you got this, son,
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Speaker 1: just give it your best. But it was it was
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Speaker 1: never my father was never as a forcing me to
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19:23
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24:38
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24:40
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24:42
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24:54
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24:56
Speaker 1: Ricky okay, So you don't say I gotta call you
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25:23
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25:27
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25:29
Speaker 1: blow torches. Right then I realized I can't do this.
25:35
Speaker 1: So the ability to be able to manipulate these games
25:41
Speaker 1: and play basketball, play football, to play Fortnite. Talk about
25:45
Speaker 1: that journey of developing these talents, these skills as a
25:48
Speaker 1: game gaming pro, talk about it. Honestly, it's just my
25:54
Speaker 1: way of escape me from my environment. I grew up.
25:59
Speaker 1: I grew up in the hood. Like I mean, like
26:01
Speaker 1: the typical hood story. Hey, this kid came from nothing
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26:11
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26:23
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26:28
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26:31
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26:34
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Speaker 1: corner store. Right there, you live right upstairs from that.
26:42
Speaker 1: So and then all these game members, Hey, you got
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26:51
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26:54
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26:58
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27:06
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27:11
Speaker 1: it's snowing, it's raining. You can't go outside and go
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27:22
Speaker 1: I'm dead tired. Dank shirt was white now was black.
27:25
Speaker 1: But you know, you gotta get it in. You gotta hustle.
27:30
Speaker 1: It's raining, snowing outside. What else is there to do?
27:32
Speaker 1: You can't like, you don't have the accessibility of a
27:36
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27:38
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27:49
Speaker 1: the my outside world can be like, or this is
27:52
Speaker 1: a world where my life can be like. So I
27:55
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27:59
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28:02
Speaker 1: It was Inbay Live so I was playing NBA Live.
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Speaker 1: It was playing mad I was my own excuse me.
28:09
Speaker 1: I was playing Game Day. Then I was playing Resident Evil.
28:14
Speaker 1: I was playing Uh. I was playing Hey. I sat
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Speaker 1: in my environment my father, and I'm telling me, hey,
28:19
Speaker 1: this this game because games didn't have no ratings back then,
28:24
Speaker 1: right brand that far though, playing that, I'm like, hey,
28:29
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28:37
Speaker 1: all that stuff that's not supposed to be, like that's
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Speaker 1: I can be this person on the game. So hey,
28:46
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28:51
Speaker 1: just my parents make me play video games. Hey, you
28:53
Speaker 1: gotta read these books and do this stuff too. So
28:56
Speaker 1: it was okay, I could read these books real quick,
28:58
Speaker 1: do all this stuff, do all these words, keep learning,
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Speaker 1: to these video games because I don't want to think
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Speaker 1: about the outside world and what's really going on and
29:10
Speaker 1: the negativity. I want to think positive and I feel
29:13
Speaker 1: like I can control stuff. And that's what it does
29:16
Speaker 1: is a control thing. Well, you know the thing about
29:19
Speaker 1: it when you when I look at you. First of all,
29:21
Speaker 1: I appreciate the humbleness, which is part of half foundations
29:26
Speaker 1: narrative being appreciative. I hear that in that interview. I
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29:31
Speaker 1: you do represent that. And then you represented all phases
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Speaker 1: that being the foundation. How does your foundation work, who
29:41
Speaker 1: you're focusing on helping with your HAT foundation, and what's
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Speaker 1: the future of HAT. Well, hopefully the future of HACK
29:48
Speaker 1: can be expanded to many of states. Sir um. Just
29:55
Speaker 1: it's just basically the health that you. It's healthy you
29:58
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30:17
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30:20
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30:27
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30:31
Speaker 1: we want to make sure that you've got a scholarship,
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30:41
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30:45
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30:50
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30:56
Speaker 1: a better person, not just man, not just female, because
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31:09
Speaker 1: person going out there feeling is confident as you were
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Speaker 1: on the court, but in the classroom or just in
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31:23
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31:26
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31:29
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31:32
Speaker 1: worry about Nothing I gotta do is worry about whole
31:35
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31:38
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31:41
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31:44
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31:51
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31:54
Speaker 1: I know that I come from an inner city, six usters,
31:56
Speaker 1: two brothers, so I know about what you're talking about.
32:00
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't when I grew up. I didn't
32:01
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32:04
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32:06
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32:08
Speaker 1: When I walked outside that door, it was just a
32:10
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32:13
Speaker 1: just to give us a little bit better, to seek
32:15
Speaker 1: a little bit better opportunity because they saw there were
32:17
Speaker 1: opportunities out there. And when I look at your skill set.
32:20
Speaker 1: I have Rick Fox on the show and he was
32:21
Speaker 1: talking about he owned a gaming leave part of the
32:24
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32:28
Speaker 1: and he was just talking about the value of these teams. Now,
32:31
Speaker 1: I know you wanted fourth, Now you won this second place.
32:34
Speaker 1: Where does the future hold for you in that whole
32:35
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32:38
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32:40
Speaker 1: gonna be part of the league. What does it take you?
32:42
Speaker 1: Kenneth for Reid a k A. Nord Well that's what
32:48
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32:51
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32:54
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32:58
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33:03
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33:05
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33:07
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33:13
Speaker 1: I have five kids of my own, three boys, two girls,
33:16
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33:20
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33:23
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33:32
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33:35
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33:39
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33:42
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33:48
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33:55
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33:58
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34:02
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34:06
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34:18
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34:20
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34:24
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34:28
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34:32
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34:35
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34:38
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34:42
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34:45
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34:47
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34:51
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34:54
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34:56
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35:00
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35:02
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35:06
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35:08
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35:12
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35:16
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35:20
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35:24
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35:27
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35:30
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35:34
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35:37
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35:40
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35:46
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35:49
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35:51
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