I’m turning my light off to save battery for a second while we’re doing this I won’t look like this I promise maybe I’ll put a Blazer on rather than doing a bit I’m trying to decide what would take more work doing the bit around not wearing the Blazer or just putting the
Blazer on and Charlotte what welcome to you just got parented by Amino Hassen because that’s how I like okay you want to do that it’s going to take you this much work do you want to just do what I’m telling you do or you can do
What you want to do but oh my God that’s terrifying look at that all right now if I move sh a lot that was a humbling moment for me yeah if it gives you any Solace my kids still haven’t figured it out they still ask for dumb things and I say
Well do it this way yeah well could we have a pet I’m like yeah like the moment you show me that you can consistently keep your room clean and do the things you’re supposed to do without having anyone tell you to do it we’ll get a pet
And it’s like okay you’re on and then like two hours later like why are there by those standards I couldn’t have a pet either so maybe we have more your kids and I have more in common than uh all right I’ll be right back you were recording that I’m brilliant oh what is This welcome to Oddball I’m Amino Hassen I’m joined as always by Charlotte Wilder have a tremendous show for you today a little bit later we’ll have the second half of our conversation with Carlos Boozer but first the Headlines I’ve just been handed this late breaking news from the Oddball news desk Kai Jones of the Charlotte Hornets has officially requested to be traded from the Charlotte Hornets according to a tweet from him that says quote I officially requested to be traded from the Charlotte Hornets # goat life kids just say
No when they come to you tell you this is what the cool kids are doing just say no Chris Paul made his Warriors debut and it kind of worked I don’t know I mean he had six points and five assists and 13 minutes of play as the Warriors
Defeated the Los Angeles Lakers Draymond green didn’t play Klay Thompson started at the four it was wonky it fre season folks St K said to Paul after the game there’s a pace to the game that has spun the watch as a coach where you just kind
Of know he’s going to be making the right play over and over he understands when we need to pull it back and get into an inaction or play faster because he understands the rhythm of the game so Chris is amazing really fun to have him on our side finally ah who amongst us
Doesn’t love a honeymoon this is like the weirdest edition of 90day fiance right like it’s it’s gonna fall apart at some point no okay I don’t know Steve Kerr is saying it’s this is really fun feels like is it but it’s no it’s essentially him announcing that he just
Bought a boat called the SS Live [Laughter] Forever on Sunday during their preseason win against the Philadelphia 7 Sixers the Boston Celtics Jaylen Brown was seen walking around with his shorts on backwards backwards to be exact and I’ve got to tell you guys I have never
Related to an athlete more do you know how many times I’ve gone out in public with my shirt on inside out or like my pants on inside out once actually or like my fly unzipped or my pants on backwards just like Jaylen like this is I haven’t related to an athlete this
Much since it’s well I guess since last week when Nicol yic said that his summer was too short how do you how does that how do you pants Charlotte usually have a button right so how do you reach the point where you left the house with the
Pants on backwards you know what I mean I ask myself that whenever it happens okay I mean I think it usually happens it usually happens with pants that don’t have buttons like sweatpants leggings the other week I did wear my leggings inside out and they had Pockets
So I was like trying to find the pockets and then I realized that the pants were just anyway do we have more I think we should just move on okay um according to reports Team USA is reportedly looking at adding Drew holiday to the roster for the 2024
Olympics so let me get this straight they want holiday to play basketball during holiday’s summer holiday you like that one yeah a lot yeah just like you drew it up huh yeah you executed that play beautifully I mean thank you I drew it up CO’s captions will get it drew see
His name his what you guys G his name is Drew and it sounds kind of like Drew okay you get it you’ll get it later in in post yeah okay thank you um the Celtics again Payton Pritchards a lot of Celtics news today well a lot happened and I love them uh
Pton Pritchard showed up in the game ready to play after getting paid agreeing to a four-year $30 million extension now I mean do you remember at Summer League which could have been three months ago or last week depending on when this is airing we were going through players who would be better if
They had different names yes was this this was an NBA Reddit segment right yes let’s roll the tape on I have I have I’m on the fence about pton Pritchard oh no yeah we got to change that one I think we got to but also I feel like maybe it’s working for
Him no I mean it it yeah it’s on it brand but I think he didn’t get on the floor most of the time in the playoffs so maybe if his name was something else is that of Payton Pritchard how about oh I have it mhm Richard Pritchard that’s a nice end to the
Segment right there I do remember that conversation now right so I think that pton clearly watches Oddball and to quote the meme that I use as a crutch most often in this segment he took it personally speaking to the Miami Herald’s Anthony Craig Tyler hero discussed his goal for the upcoming
Season and how the Heats failed to attempt to land Damen Lillard and trade him away was you know motivation saying quote if you look around the league I’m right there with every young guy that they say is the next thing or whatever it is I know my value I know I’m one of
Them and I don’t need to say it I’ll show you okay I’m I’m no Linguistics expert but I kind of feel like he said it right he said I don’t have to say it right and then he said it I’m Miss I’m trying to do the I feel like I’m doing
Word count right now as I’m trying to add this up um yeah if you say you don’t have to say it you just said it which means you do have to say it well I mean you could say I don’t have to say it but
Then you don’t say it but then he said it right before that he said I don’t have to say it but then he had already said it by then huh is he contradicting himself also by the way you know who else looked around the league and measured Tyler Hero’s value the Miami
Heat and the Portland Trailblazers too I’m assuming because they said no also so I think a few teams probably looked around the league and and checked out Tyler Hero’s value see I I don’t have to say it I’m just saying it yeah we’re not saying it we’re just we’re saying it by
Way me meanwhile in Portland this was [Applause] happening [Applause] In other news Dylan Brooks is already busting out some moves in Houston dance moves that is here he is at the rocket scrimmage that’s nice they’re gonna have the worst record in the league aren’t they yeah I mean I have a few questions when the announcer
Says that the what does he say he goes give it up for Dylan Brooks it sounds like he’s announcing like a bridal party walking into the reception after a wedding like is Dylan Brooks being hazed did he decide to do this I have I feel like we might need to do an
Investigation on why was Dylan Brooks dancing Charlotte you’re going to Houston oh no also I like the idea that you’re saying what is this a bridal party when Bridal parties and weddings got that from sporting events specifically basketball PA announcers were doing that yeah that’s why they do
That Charlotte they didn’t make it you thought like when your grandmother got married there was a guy saying coming in no all away from Holland oh it all makes a lot more sense now oh you thought you thought your parents like the lights got low and laser show started And ah can we move on Victor wanyama debuted in front of 13,000 Spurs fans in an open scrimmage had some quotes Charlotte listen to some of these quotes it really warmed my heart to see that every time a player of our team stepped onto the zore they almost had a standing
Over it’s all I expected but it still feels good when H to say I think the best players can be the ones who make his teammates better so this is someone I want to get close to you can’t win by just yourself and I gotta say Charlotte uhuh since time in
Memorium every time a human being has to learn a new language the first words you learn are all the cuss words all the the George Carlin words right this guy he learns English oh prim and proper oh I’m so happy about the standing ovation oh I
Want to get to know my guy what is this who is this guy oh goodie two shoes over here what did we get a basketball Russell Wilson from France oh no it does sound it does sound like he learned to speak English using a book of basketball
Platitudes but what if it’s also just like really nice what if he’s just a sweet boy I don’t want a sweet boy I want wow that’s crazy that’s crazy oh man this is time for me to unveil my limited fake Mason Betha wow killer that’s crazy he said he don’t
Want a sweet boy all let’s just let’s just end this segment right here man oh my God all right let’s pick up where we left off with Carlos Boozer breaking a backboard at the pump camp where he play with Matt Barnes I broke five backboards in high school that’s insane yeah the most
Rememberable one was at the Double you guys know Dan and David PP the pump Brothers the pump Brothers yeah so I got discovered at their basketball camp in Cal St Dominguez Hills it was called the West Coast Camp pump brothers and I broke a backboard during one of the
Games and it like went viral like yo this kid from Alaska he dunks like a grizzly bear I remember Matt bar Matt Barnes was my teammate and he was like yo everybody talking about you I’m like what you mean he goes you broke a backboard right I was like yeah he was
Like everybody’s like yo this dude’s like seven feet I’m like I am you one of those like like Urban mths or whatever but yeah but that was that was the camp I got discover that and I broke a backboard after their Camp being from Alaska I feel like people who are from
Alaska that becomes like such a personality trait like everybody I know from Alaska it’s like whoa you’re from Alaska that’s that’s wild uh do you do you ever do you go back do you feel like that you know I’m you don’t live there now I’m assuming but how you cook
Outdoors like on are you catching salmon with your bare hands like what are we doing I wish I could say I catch salmon with my bare hands but no I go back every July and August just about you know Co would thre a little monkey
Wrench in the travel but I like to go back in the summer guys I’m not I don’t want to go back in the winter it’s winter in Alaska is like the kind of cold that gets to your bones so I I like to stay away from the winter up there
But the Summers I go back I live in Miami Florida I’ve been here for 20 years I picked palm trees when I had a choice to pick where I wanted to live and it’s hard to leave Miami if you guys have been down here for to go back
Anywhere else but um I love Alaska man I got so much love up there like I I go home I talk to my friends my high school Coach George Houston one of my mentors and my mom and my dad loves to fish he’ll go up there just for a month just
To go fishing for a month in the summer so it’s it’s a beautiful place if you haven’t been boo I’m gonna read a a a headline for you I need you to explain to me what’s happening here all right star player mold by wolf pack during make out
Mishap it sounds like he got he listen at the end of the day you gotta F places to do your thing in Alaska I lived in a house there was seven of us and the three bedroom you can’t bring your girl back to the crib when you got a house
Full of people you know what I mean so literally just you know we we the good thing about Alaska there’s a lot of trails and people go hiking and really you know me and my girlfriend go up there just to get to know each other a
Little bit respect you know what I mean but there’s a lot of wild animals so there’s there’s Bears roaming around there’s a pack of wolves you’ll see deer all the time porcupines and there was one one occasion where we got a little we weren’t alone I’ll put it like that
We weren’t alone so you know that’s H that’s the part like because it’s like you’re telling he’s he’s in the you gotta guys gotta get the book he’s talking about the book you got practice and oh my dad tied my my my right arm with the belt so
I had to use my left hand and then like a Wolfpack was eating a deer I’m like what and then he’ll he’ll go back and talk about like yeah I went to down to California I shattered a backboard and I met with Coach K came up and and coach
Beim and all these coaches came out oh by the way my sister got caught in quicksand yeah and I said I thought that was just in the cartoons Man true story man like this is the thing like we me we discovered so much because we weren’t
Used to it so we were we’re going behind the apartments and walking down paths and next thing I know my sister’s sinking and I’m like just get up and she’s like screaming at me like I can’t I and I’m like well it’s just dirt and we had no idea what quicksand was so
This is wild to me because when I was growing up I was terrified of quicksand quicksand was something that I was like I know I’m going to encounter this at some point in my life this is the scariest thing I think from The Princess Bride I think I got really scared um so
The fact that this actually happened to you is like it maybe I was right to be a little bit scared Carlos definitely it’s unless you’ve encountered it it’s just something that you see on TV but when you’re actually in the moment it was scary like I’m kids we’re not even
Supposed to be outside my parents are still at work it’s just me and my sister we’re just exploring picking blueberries and just you know having a good time and next thing I know she can’t move and I’m like what’s going on here it was like it
Was a freaky moment for a kid to be honest with you Carlos when you were uh going through the process of deciding what school to go to you went on a couple campus visits when you went to UCLA Baron Davis was your host yeah
Baron Davis is a friend so I need you to give me the craziest Baron Davis story from when he was a teenager back then man BD one of my big bros man he’s always been a mentor for me I’ve known BD since I’m 16 17 years old and on my
Visit I mean obviously it was great game man they played UNLV was like they had Shawn Maran on the other team and I mean UCLA was loaded though they had BD they had EJ backing up BD they had Dan gazar they had galani mcco like they were
Loaded they had my boy Matt Barnes who played a with me since we like 14 years old Ray young that crew Jason Capo Sniper Shooter anyway so they they destroy you UNLV at home up in pulie and we go back to I can’t remember whose crib it was it might have been Rico’s
Crib we go back to the C Rico is like running through the Halls like almost butt naked just having he’s like bro sorry man this is how we get down to La you know like we just won it’s the weekend you know we gonna have a good
Time but it’s but BD was also like he was just real with me he was like Boo like I can see you take you take basketball real serious man he was like like if I was going to stay i’ tell you to come but I’m going be I’m probably
Goingon to be a top five top 10 pick and you know if it was me you know I would go to dup you know you you have a chance to do with somebody with Coach K and if if I could if I could get coached by
Coach K I would take it too and he was just keeping it real with me because he wanted to play with me but he knew his stock was through the roof and he wasn’t the year I come in so I just and and that was a moment for me where Baron
Davis became like you know one of my mentors because he told me the truth like as bad as youel they wanted me to come and Coach Lavin and everybody wanted me to be a part of that that 99 class BD was like like boo if I was
Gonna stay I’d tell you to come but I’m not gonna be here you know you take basketball serious like I do you should go to dup that’s an incredible thing to do as a mentor as someone who’s invested in in a person as opposed to you know an
Institution did did you carry any of that with you or you know as a mentor what what kind of Mentor were you you like who are who are some of the guys that you took under your wing oh man so many you know Julius Rand Jordan Clarkson you know Darren Williams like
These are guys I played with that just became close to me Nate Robinson like a lot of these guys like we we get them in our in in our in a league and we become teammates but we become friends like it goes beyond the court and those are the
Relationships that last a lifetime you know I think I think about some of the things that we’re doing now like businesses and you know obviously most of us now are older and we’re raising kids and we’re athletes raising athletes and we tap in with each other you know
Just to give advice or or to congratulate or what have you so I think ultimately it’s like that paying it forward you know somebody mentored me and gave me great advice and I’m paying it forward to the next Generation so they can pay it forward to the
Generation after that boo when you think about kind of the experience at Duke and having played with so many guys that went on to the league but not only that but also you got mix in there Reggie love who went to work for President Obama yeah did in the moment did you guys
Realize you were with a special group I mean I know you guys were successful won a national championship all that but like in terms of these people are gonna go on and do great things did you know that or is it just kind of like these
Are just my teammates yeah I mean we obviously we didn’t know re was going to end up being Obama’s right-hand man but at the same time we knew that we had a special group of basketball players but we were all very close like there’s very few times when you get to the league
Where you have a a college like fraternity where you’re super super close um on and off the court and you know you think about what D’s doing obviously a GM now the Warriors and EB Elton BR a GM of the Sixers and you know Reggie love wait till his book comes out
Okay you know Jay will the great things that Jay will is doing on and off the basketball court and business I mean Matt Christensen who was like a walk-on for us has like a billion dollar hedge fund up in Boston so there’s a ton of guys from that that 2001 champion ship
Duke team that are doing great things in life and we didn’t know we were going to be doing all this stuff after after we graduated college or whatever but we knew we had good guys on the team and the cool thing is about our Brotherhood
You can really make a phone call tap in and and get advice or get some knowledge or just catch up like we all we have a huge group chat probably like 40 of us that we write every week and right now we talking about Duke football man just
Got hurt but Duke football on the on the map right now don’t SLE now yeah all the best to Riley man that was that kid a stud man I hope he’s okay all right we’ll get you out on this one booze fill in the blanks if I wasn’t an NBA player
I would have become a I either would have became a football player or an attorney I just I had a class and college where hold on talking about those are two really really different things yeah no I mean I love football I’m a huge Eagles fan ever since Randle
Cunningham when I was eight obviously being from DC my entire family is watching fans and you know we had Ripken and those guys back in Doug Williams Back in the Day art monk but when I saw Randle cutting ham I was like what is that like I never saw a guy run
Like that sidearm throw as far as he could throw and then on the other side of the ball we had Reggie White sacking on quarterback so anyway I’m a huge football fanatic and then I took a class in college I can’t remember the name of the class
But we got a chance to basically just argue and debate about cases and and I was like dang this is something and I come on guys how many how many law orders have you guys watched I’m all in I’ve watched every episode bro a lot a
Lot yeah so it would either be football or an attorney the book is called every shot counts Carlos booer thanks for joining us on Oddball appreciate it guys are you excited uh for what to come to New York this week oh yeah no should be fun should be fun you
Don’t sound excited enough I mean look it’s gonna be my first time at the Oddball New York setup um I’m interest I’m curious to see what it’s like you know Miami we got Miami on lock New York we got to get those people up to speed you know I feel like got
Show what Oddball is all about yeah they’re not ready for what’s about they’re like oh yeah so you guys are doing a show like Pablo where you sit down and you talk to the microphone nah it ain’t that kind of show no do you think do you think they’re ready have
You been prepping them at all I’ve tried I’ve tried uh I don’t really it’s hard to it’s a hard thing to explain what whatever this is did did you did you do what I told you to do yes you walked in there and you cleared out flag I put an oddball flag
In the no you’re supposed to walk in go right up to that middle table everyone s and just clear out all laptops doesn’t matter pens on the ground and say look at them dead in their eyes and go oops and that way they know like we mean
Business you didn’t do that you walked in like Victor wanyama like oh I’m terribly excited to work with all is that you did that yeah I did you didn’t prep them for what was coming nobody can it’s it’s on you this is all G to be on
You this is not my fault I’m gonna walk away Carnage and like why are you try why do you want to like just yeah and everyone’s gonna be crying and saying Charlotte what why didn’t you tell us and you’re and I’ll say and I’ll say
What did Tyler hero say you gonna take I don’t have to say it no all right see you guys in New York
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