WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:13.000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:54.295 --> 00:00:59.266 First I called the guy who recruited me. 4 00:00:59.300 --> 00:01:04.271 He spent all that time trying to get me on board. 5 00:01:04.305 --> 00:01:07.412 So I let him know first. Boeheim called me, and then. 6 00:01:07.446 --> 00:01:13.590 Boeheim's like, Darius, you need to think this through. 7 00:01:13.625 --> 00:01:15.316 Little did he know, I'd been thinking 8 00:01:15.351 --> 00:01:17.974 about this for liketwo, three months now. It isn't just. 9 00:01:18.008 --> 00:01:20.045 It isn't just I woke up the next day, I'm like, yeah. 10 00:01:20.080 --> 00:01:23.393 I told him, I don't even know how to put this right now. 11 00:01:23.428 --> 00:01:25.947 I'm, I'm not coming to Syracuse. 12 00:01:25.982 --> 00:01:28.950 We have breakingnews here in Syracuse as Darius. 13 00:01:28.985 --> 00:01:31.125 Bazley has de-committed from the orange. 14 00:01:31.160 --> 00:01:34.024 I'm standing here with Darius bazley, the first guy to jump 15 00:01:34.059 --> 00:01:35.474 straight from high school to the g league. 16 00:01:35.509 --> 00:01:38.201 Darius bazley, let'stalk about this, the 17 00:01:38.236 --> 00:01:39.961 ninth-rated recruit in the. 18 00:01:39.996 --> 00:01:43.103 Class of 2018, according to ESPN.Com, he has de-committed 19 00:01:43.137 --> 00:01:47.935 from Syracuse to play in the g league. 20 00:01:53.630 --> 00:01:55.908 We live in a society now where everybody 21 00:01:55.943 --> 00:01:58.980 abides by the rules. 22 00:02:00.534 --> 00:02:04.400 And people don't even know whatthe rules is, 23 00:02:04.434 --> 00:02:05.125 or where it came from. 24 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:06.505 They just abide by it. 25 00:02:06.540 --> 00:02:10.440 When garnet and Kobe cameout I think people where still 26 00:02:10.475 --> 00:02:11.855 having a hard time, myself 27 00:02:11.890 --> 00:02:14.858 included, wrapping their headaround the idea of a high school 28 00:02:14.893 --> 00:02:18.068 kid going into the NBA. 29 00:02:18.103 --> 00:02:20.001 I mean, to be honest, I don't even really 30 00:02:20.036 --> 00:02:23.143 remember exactly when the pushback 31 00:02:23.177 --> 00:02:26.422 started. I mean, LeBron James is arguably the best player 32 00:02:26.456 --> 00:02:29.252 of all time, and a couple of years after he goes pro we're 33 00:02:29.287 --> 00:02:30.736 going to ban people from doing that? 34 00:02:30.771 --> 00:02:34.430 Why are we considering holding dudes back from making 35 00:02:34.464 --> 00:02:38.123 an honest living when we don't do that in tennis 36 00:02:38.158 --> 00:02:39.435 we don't do it 37 00:02:39.469 --> 00:02:41.989 in golf, we don't do it when itcomes to serving our country? 38 00:02:42.023 --> 00:02:46.821 Well, I, I think at the time, my own view 39 00:02:46.856 --> 00:02:50.756 was that we didn't want our scouts 40 00:02:50.791 --> 00:02:52.862 in a high school gymnasium. 41 00:02:52.896 --> 00:02:56.866 Just what a good look for the NBA to kind of be chasing 42 00:02:56.900 --> 00:02:59.040 around kind of high school kids. 43 00:02:59.075 --> 00:03:03.148 Frankly, I don't know what the difference is between that and 44 00:03:03.183 --> 00:03:05.115 seeing them in college at gyms. 45 00:03:05.150 --> 00:03:09.603 The NBA is saying, well, this is really something the ncaa 46 00:03:09.637 --> 00:03:11.225 could fix. And we have the. 47 00:03:11.260 --> 00:03:13.054 Ncaa saying, weare powerless because that's an 48 00:03:13.089 --> 00:03:16.437 NBA rule. A circular argument going on there. 49 00:03:16.472 --> 00:03:20.269 But once that rule came into effect, now it's like, all 50 00:03:20.303 --> 00:03:21.753 right. Now, let me, let me 51 00:03:21.787 --> 00:03:23.651 hone in on the college that fits me. 52 00:03:23.686 --> 00:03:26.067 Yes, athletes are paid in an education, the only 53 00:03:26.102 --> 00:03:28.346 currency more difficult to spend than bitcoin. 54 00:03:28.380 --> 00:03:31.349 With Kevin durant, man, we was talking college 55 00:03:31.383 --> 00:03:32.522 because he committed to Texas 56 00:03:32.557 --> 00:03:34.731 and then I committed to the university of Richmond. 57 00:03:34.766 --> 00:03:37.665 Michael beasley was on theteam. Mike wasn't talking about 58 00:03:37.700 --> 00:03:42.118 college. He went from aau to the, you know what I'm saying? 59 00:03:42.152 --> 00:03:45.017 Just because you're a really good basketball player, 60 00:03:45.052 --> 00:03:47.434 doesn't mean you're ready, uh, physically 61 00:03:47.468 --> 00:03:50.264 emotionally and the like to step into the NBA at age 18. 62 00:03:50.299 --> 00:03:53.267 But there is something slightlytroubling about a billion 63 00:03:53.302 --> 00:03:56.753 dollar sports enterprise where the athletes are not paid a penny, 64 00:03:56.788 --> 00:03:59.894 because they aren't. And as thehead of the ncaa Mark. 65 00:03:59.929 --> 00:04:02.932 Emmert will tell you, they don't want that to change. 66 00:04:02.966 --> 00:04:06.418 This was another way of us assuring 67 00:04:06.453 --> 00:04:09.145 that your pick wasn't based upon 68 00:04:09.179 --> 00:04:15.013 a grown man beating up on a bunch of kids. 69 00:04:20.018 --> 00:04:22.986 Everybody in the environment was like, I hope 70 00:04:23.021 --> 00:04:24.816 that he fail. People hoped Darius 71 00:04:24.850 --> 00:04:26.852 failed because of the system. People hope 72 00:04:26.887 --> 00:04:33.031 Darius failed because he's represented by rich Paul. 73 00:04:34.412 --> 00:04:37.415 A lot of people when you say, love the game, a lot of 74 00:04:37.449 --> 00:04:38.692 people love what they get from 75 00:04:38.726 --> 00:04:40.245 the game. It's a separating factor. 76 00:04:40.280 --> 00:04:44.076 Look at all the top guys in ourleague right now. All guys 77 00:04:44.111 --> 00:04:48.080 performing well. They love the game. Kevin durant right now, 78 00:04:48.115 --> 00:04:52.326 today, will play basketball in this room right now. 79 00:04:52.361 --> 00:04:54.777 He don't care. He just loves the game. 80 00:04:54.811 --> 00:04:56.192 All right. Take one. 81 00:04:56.226 --> 00:04:59.057 Wait a minute, this kid's 16, he can handle, shoot, 82 00:04:59.091 --> 00:05:03.889 athletic and he loves the game? Oh, you know what? 83 00:05:03.924 --> 00:05:06.271 Come on. 84 00:05:07.445 --> 00:05:12.070 I believe college is necessary for most kids. Right? 85 00:05:12.104 --> 00:05:14.279 And most kids aren't one and done. 86 00:05:14.314 --> 00:05:19.249 It was truly about trying to dowhat's best for Darius. And, 87 00:05:19.284 --> 00:05:22.598 when you take on this responsibility, my mind was, 88 00:05:22.632 --> 00:05:24.427 just kept racing about environment 89 00:05:24.462 --> 00:05:27.430 and what is this kid going to do for, you know, the next 90 00:05:27.465 --> 00:05:32.021 eight months and how can I put him in the best position 91 00:05:32.055 --> 00:05:35.404 to where he's not behind? 92 00:05:45.448 --> 00:05:50.142 Give it to me! Give it to me! 93 00:05:50.177 --> 00:05:54.457 He could never have done that. Oh my god! 94 00:05:57.633 --> 00:06:02.431 In addition to Nike, Adidas and under armour, 95 00:06:02.465 --> 00:06:06.366 we now have puma and new balance coming back in, 96 00:06:06.400 --> 00:06:07.643 having abandoned the industry. 97 00:06:07.677 --> 00:06:11.198 There was a time whennew balance was very much part 98 00:06:11.232 --> 00:06:14.581 of the NBA and on the feet of lots of NBA athletes in the 99 00:06:14.615 --> 00:06:18.412 80's the times change. Goals change. Businesses change. 100 00:06:18.447 --> 00:06:22.243 They were in a decent Lane of performance running. 101 00:06:22.278 --> 00:06:26.006 They started to develop a bit of a kind of 102 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:27.456 dad shoe reputation. 103 00:06:27.490 --> 00:06:29.596 A handful years ago, there was a desire 104 00:06:29.630 --> 00:06:30.942 for the brand to be seen more 105 00:06:30.976 --> 00:06:33.531 as a global sports brand, not just a running brand. 106 00:06:33.565 --> 00:06:37.776 It's hard to be a huge global footwear brand 107 00:06:37.811 --> 00:06:39.433 if you don't have basketball. 108 00:06:39.468 --> 00:06:41.435 I know what Nike standsfor. I know what Adidas stands 109 00:06:41.470 --> 00:06:45.439 for. There's kind of this blankcanvas with new balance. 110 00:06:45.474 --> 00:06:49.857 Basketball. What are you going to do next? Pphow are you 111 00:06:49.892 --> 00:06:51.894 going to come to market? 112 00:06:53.620 --> 00:06:56.450 Well, de-committed from Ohio state or de-committed 113 00:06:56.485 --> 00:07:00.765 from Syracuse? Oh, I see. Okay. 114 00:07:00.799 --> 00:07:04.009 Uh, and then he de-committed from the g league. 115 00:07:04.044 --> 00:07:07.910 So he's in the de-commitment stage. 116 00:07:12.984 --> 00:07:14.882 In my head I'm like, new balance? 117 00:07:29.276 --> 00:07:31.899 Guys his age don't even get this and I'll 118 00:07:31.934 --> 00:07:34.454 speak to him about how he feelsabout it. 119 00:07:34.488 --> 00:07:36.559 Then that'll help us understandwhat's the next step. 120 00:07:36.594 --> 00:07:38.803 Darius bazley is now participating in what 121 00:07:38.837 --> 00:07:42.462 could add up to a million dollar internship with. 122 00:07:42.496 --> 00:07:43.773 New balance. 123 00:07:43.808 --> 00:07:45.465 He's going to be an intern. He starts in 124 00:07:45.499 --> 00:07:46.500 January. It's for three months. 125 00:07:46.535 --> 00:07:48.157 He'll live in Boston. 126 00:07:48.191 --> 00:07:50.193 New balance? Oh, they signed Darius bazley. Oh, that's 127 00:07:50.228 --> 00:07:51.436 pretty dope. He's doing something different. 128 00:07:51.471 --> 00:07:54.922 There aren't that many internships that, where guys 129 00:07:54.957 --> 00:07:56.786 are offered a million dollars tobe anppintern. 130 00:07:56.821 --> 00:08:00.376 He done finessed the whole situation. 131 00:08:00.410 --> 00:08:01.929 I like him. I don't know him, but 132 00:08:01.964 --> 00:08:04.967 I like him. Damn, I should've tried that shit. 133 00:08:05.001 --> 00:08:08.349 As far as just thinking, like, dang you know. 134 00:08:08.384 --> 00:08:09.627 A million dollar intern. 135 00:08:09.661 --> 00:08:12.940 I mean, it's great. But it's like for me, my life didn't 136 00:08:12.975 --> 00:08:16.841 change. You know, I, I'mwearing new balances now, that's 137 00:08:16.875 --> 00:08:18.498 the only thing. 138 00:08:22.260 --> 00:08:24.538 For him deciding not to play in the g league and saying, I'm 139 00:08:24.573 --> 00:08:27.403 going to take a year to train, I thought was the 140 00:08:27.437 --> 00:08:30.613 most fascinating and disruptivething I've ever 141 00:08:30.648 --> 00:08:33.133 seen in basketball. 142 00:08:33.167 --> 00:08:37.275 I do think it's possible to bust your ass for eight 143 00:08:37.309 --> 00:08:40.450 months without being on a team and not hurt your pro 144 00:08:40.485 --> 00:08:43.799 potential, but I'm sure it takes a lot of discipline. 145 00:08:43.833 --> 00:08:46.353 People pay attention toespn. People pay attention to 146 00:08:46.387 --> 00:08:47.630 all these different news sites. They hear 147 00:08:47.665 --> 00:08:50.702 what pundits say. They hear what we talk about. 148 00:08:50.737 --> 00:08:54.050 If you're playing behind closeddoors, you don't have to go 149 00:08:54.085 --> 00:08:57.571 through that. Now that's a giftin a way, but it's also a curse 150 00:08:57.606 --> 00:09:02.818 because we're not talking about you. Now you're an enigma. 151 00:09:10.550 --> 00:09:13.345 The best high school basketball players have 152 00:09:13.380 --> 00:09:15.002 had a level of fame 153 00:09:15.037 --> 00:09:18.281 going back to lew alcindor. What has changed 154 00:09:18.316 --> 00:09:22.354 dramatically is how they get toinfluence it. You know. 155 00:09:22.389 --> 00:09:23.873 It used to be just newspapers 156 00:09:23.908 --> 00:09:27.290 shaped how they were viewed. Thanks to social media, 157 00:09:27.325 --> 00:09:30.742 if a fan is interested they canget it right from the kid now. 158 00:09:30.777 --> 00:09:33.642 Kids are building brands at a lot earlier 159 00:09:33.676 --> 00:09:35.195 stages than we ever thought. 160 00:09:35.229 --> 00:09:39.130 LeBron is a brand, and then Steph curry and Kevin durant 161 00:09:39.164 --> 00:09:44.135 and you name it. The players have moved right in with their 162 00:09:44.169 --> 00:09:46.447 social media, et cetera. 163 00:09:46.482 --> 00:09:49.450 Very good. Breath. 164 00:09:49.485 --> 00:09:51.970 Perfect! 165 00:10:06.088 --> 00:10:08.642 No, I've definitely dealt with young kids like this before 166 00:10:08.677 --> 00:10:12.715 just Darius was significantly different coming straight out 167 00:10:12.750 --> 00:10:14.061 of high school. 168 00:10:41.295 --> 00:10:44.436 There's no question but that 18 is young. 18 169 00:10:44.471 --> 00:10:47.439 is very young. I recall when I was 18 170 00:10:47.474 --> 00:10:51.651 how much I thought I knew, and I now know how little I knew. 171 00:11:05.492 --> 00:11:09.392 At 18, me personally, going straight from high school 172 00:11:09.427 --> 00:11:13.431 to a office environment would, uhh, would be a shock. 173 00:11:13.465 --> 00:11:16.227 You know what I mean? I feel like it would be a 174 00:11:16.261 --> 00:11:17.435 definite culture shock for me. 175 00:11:17.469 --> 00:11:23.268 I can personally attest to the months 176 00:11:23.303 --> 00:11:24.511 and the weeks before 177 00:11:24.545 --> 00:11:26.237 he moved in, people asking me almost every single day. 178 00:11:26.271 --> 00:11:28.515 Where's he going to sit? Who's he reporting to? 179 00:11:28.549 --> 00:11:30.448 Is he actually going to do work? Is this for real? 180 00:11:30.482 --> 00:11:35.625 We promised him, we promised his family, 181 00:11:35.660 --> 00:11:37.455 we promised rich that it was. 182 00:11:37.489 --> 00:11:38.801 This was going to be a real deal thing. You're 183 00:11:38.836 --> 00:11:41.459 coming to work every day. 184 00:11:59.166 --> 00:12:02.825 Of course you're nervous, you're concerned. 185 00:12:07.209 --> 00:12:10.177 And you get butterflies. 186 00:12:25.641 --> 00:12:27.712 When I became commissioner 187 00:12:27.747 --> 00:12:29.438 we came back to the office, I was an adult, 188 00:12:29.472 --> 00:12:31.440 and I turned around to the guysand said, what are we ..., 189 00:12:31.474 --> 00:12:33.442 and the girls. I said, what do we do now? 190 00:12:33.476 --> 00:12:36.652 "Oh my god, what did we get ourselves into?" 191 00:12:47.456 --> 00:12:51.425 It will be overwhelming for some kids to be, okay, 192 00:12:51.460 --> 00:12:54.428 hi, you've graduated high school. Now you're an intern. 193 00:13:04.784 --> 00:13:07.959 Coming from high school, I'm used to going to school 194 00:13:07.994 --> 00:13:11.445 in a class filled around my peers. 195 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:16.796 Hi. I'm Jamie. Nice to meet you. I'm really short. 196 00:13:16.830 --> 00:13:18.211 I'm Linda. Great to meet you. 197 00:13:18.245 --> 00:13:21.421 You know, I'm able to like clown around in the 198 00:13:21.455 --> 00:13:25.425 classroom, crack jokes, be on my phone, you know, like, 199 00:13:25.459 --> 00:13:28.359 blurt out certain stuff here and then, so you go to 200 00:13:28.393 --> 00:13:31.155 work, and it's just kind of like... 201 00:13:35.607 --> 00:13:37.506 You just want to be professional, but you don't 202 00:13:37.540 --> 00:13:40.405 really don't know like what to do like, 203 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:42.131 I just didn't want people to not like me. 204 00:13:42.166 --> 00:13:45.445 So in workday, you're going to have to log the hours 205 00:13:45.479 --> 00:13:46.687 that you work every day. 206 00:13:46.722 --> 00:13:48.862 Umm, and there... I printed this for you so it's just- 207 00:13:48.897 --> 00:13:51.313 So it's kind of like clocking and clocking out? Ppyeah, clocking in 208 00:13:51.347 --> 00:13:55.489 I'm sure it was a crazy cultureshock for Darius. 209 00:13:55.524 --> 00:13:59.079 What questions do you have? Anything? Ppno, nothing right now. 210 00:13:59.114 --> 00:14:01.185 I know, it's probably a lot right now. 211 00:14:01.219 --> 00:14:02.807 But your tax forms and stuff. 212 00:14:02.842 --> 00:14:05.430 I don't know what tax is. I mean, I know 213 00:14:05.465 --> 00:14:06.466 what tax is but I don't... 214 00:14:06.500 --> 00:14:08.295 Yeah, and that's why... so, I can't legally 215 00:14:08.330 --> 00:14:10.297 tell you what to put here. 216 00:14:15.544 --> 00:14:17.926 Db! B bro. 217 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:21.481 What's up? I am being sent home 218 00:14:21.515 --> 00:14:25.312 already, bro. You're only 27 minutes into this 219 00:14:25.347 --> 00:14:27.694 - job. There's no way. - No, I'm just playing, 220 00:14:27.728 --> 00:14:30.421 I was about to say, man, there's no way. 221 00:14:30.455 --> 00:14:31.905 I was about to say. 222 00:14:31.940 --> 00:14:33.976 No, but there's a forml got 223 00:14:34.011 --> 00:14:36.392 to fill out on here and it's about taxes, and I 224 00:14:36.427 --> 00:14:39.430 don't know anything about this. So I kind of need to know.. 225 00:14:39.464 --> 00:14:42.951 These are all our like... Employee handbook, 226 00:14:42.985 --> 00:14:44.435 the confidentiality agreement. 227 00:14:44.469 --> 00:14:46.644 At first, I thought, you know, a shoe, 228 00:14:46.678 --> 00:14:48.680 people are just putting together random colors and 229 00:14:48.715 --> 00:14:52.995 selling them I learned that that's not how it goes. 230 00:14:57.689 --> 00:14:59.795 In this blocking, I don't love. 231 00:14:59.829 --> 00:15:03.488 The language barrier, I think sometimes happens in corporate. 232 00:15:03.523 --> 00:15:08.390 America where there's a different vernacular that 233 00:15:08.424 --> 00:15:10.012 people speak at. 234 00:15:12.463 --> 00:15:14.948 What do you mean by blocking again? 235 00:15:19.297 --> 00:15:23.577 All this goes into the final product of me having 236 00:15:23.612 --> 00:15:24.958 a shoe that I wear on the courtand 237 00:15:24.993 --> 00:15:27.443 you paying me a couple of millions of dollars? 238 00:15:29.687 --> 00:15:33.553 This is harder then I thought. 239 00:15:33.587 --> 00:15:36.728 Oh. This is what work really is. 240 00:15:36.763 --> 00:15:40.146 This is what the grind of work really is. 241 00:15:40.180 --> 00:15:41.664 It would have been different for him going to 242 00:15:41.699 --> 00:15:44.081 college and dealing with professors that he's never 243 00:15:44.115 --> 00:15:45.703 had to deal with or in subjectshe's never 244 00:15:45.737 --> 00:15:47.912 taken before or never contemplated. 245 00:15:47.947 --> 00:15:51.088 You know. Everything at that age that you do is new. 246 00:15:51.122 --> 00:15:54.436 And so of course, I don't know anybody 247 00:15:54.470 --> 00:15:56.300 that goes into a first job and he says, 248 00:15:56.334 --> 00:15:59.268 well, I got this knocked. 249 00:15:59.303 --> 00:16:02.858 I'm going to have to figure this out. 250 00:16:05.826 --> 00:16:07.483 As much as I thought I knew what training 251 00:16:07.518 --> 00:16:10.176 was, I didn't know anything about my 252 00:16:10.210 --> 00:16:13.213 body. I just came from losing the sweet 253 00:16:13.248 --> 00:16:14.870 16 or winning a championship 254 00:16:14.904 --> 00:16:16.596 the year before and having a pizza after practice. 255 00:16:16.630 --> 00:16:20.186 You in high school, hanging around with your friends, 256 00:16:20.220 --> 00:16:21.428 getting up shots for an hour. 257 00:16:21.463 --> 00:16:24.431 You think that's a hard workout. That's not a workout. 258 00:16:24.466 --> 00:16:27.020 That is not the kind ofconditioning your body needs in 259 00:16:27.055 --> 00:16:32.336 order for you to be successful at the 0.0001% level. 260 00:16:34.476 --> 00:16:37.306 It's not the same as going to gleague practice every day. 261 00:16:37.341 --> 00:16:39.101 It's not the same as going to college practice 262 00:16:39.136 --> 00:16:40.620 every day. It's not the same as going to 263 00:16:40.654 --> 00:16:41.793 practice in Europe every day. 264 00:16:41.828 --> 00:16:43.657 You're going to be playing in that spot, 265 00:16:43.692 --> 00:16:45.418 Trevor ariza, in that corner. 266 00:16:45.452 --> 00:16:47.247 And then, they're going to ask you to come out of 267 00:16:47.282 --> 00:16:49.905 that corner, like Trevor ariza and you got to make a play 268 00:16:49.939 --> 00:16:52.287 going downhill. You got to makea route 269 00:16:52.321 --> 00:16:53.736 coming off the screen. It shows me 270 00:16:53.771 --> 00:16:57.982 how good and where you want to be and what's at stake. Now, I 271 00:16:58.017 --> 00:17:00.433 got to be the one to be like, come on. 272 00:17:00.467 --> 00:17:02.918 This is what's at stake. Let's go. 273 00:17:02.952 --> 00:17:06.887 I would say for Darius that when I initially saw his game, 274 00:17:06.922 --> 00:17:08.717 he looked extremely thin. 275 00:17:08.751 --> 00:17:11.513 All I want you to do is make that needle go as far as 276 00:17:11.547 --> 00:17:13.101 you can. Push down just far 277 00:17:13.135 --> 00:17:14.826 as you can. Nice. Because you will do that for 278 00:17:14.861 --> 00:17:17.691 almost two minutes. Okay? That's our goal. 279 00:17:18.589 --> 00:17:19.797 While breathing. 280 00:17:19.831 --> 00:17:21.385 I think one of the things that I worried 281 00:17:21.419 --> 00:17:23.387 about with him is, how about his sides? 282 00:17:23.421 --> 00:17:25.423 Hey, is this going to happen intime? 283 00:17:25.458 --> 00:17:27.598 Can he, you know, gain weight? 284 00:17:31.464 --> 00:17:33.638 Can you shoot the ball if you play with James harden? 285 00:17:33.673 --> 00:17:35.916 Can you be that guy that can shoot the ball 286 00:17:35.951 --> 00:17:37.401 consistently from the three point line, because the 287 00:17:37.435 --> 00:17:38.574 defense is always going to collapse 288 00:17:38.609 --> 00:17:41.439 on a op three or a James harden? But also, can you pace 289 00:17:41.474 --> 00:17:44.787 the game? Can you run? And thenalso, are you long? 290 00:17:44.822 --> 00:17:45.995 Can you be a solid defender? 291 00:17:46.030 --> 00:17:50.931 Can I put you on a guy like giannis and say, try? 292 00:17:54.176 --> 00:17:57.283 What happens with theone and done rule, in my 293 00:17:57.317 --> 00:18:01.942 opinion, doesn't end the conversation because there's 294 00:18:01.977 --> 00:18:04.773 still the question of what's going on at the college level. 295 00:18:04.807 --> 00:18:08.915 There darn well ought to be flexibility from the ncaa, but. 296 00:18:08.949 --> 00:18:13.092 Those two words don't seem to go together. 297 00:18:13.126 --> 00:18:15.335 Ncaa and flexibility. 298 00:18:15.370 --> 00:18:19.443 For Darius bazley, him coming to that school does wonders 299 00:18:19.477 --> 00:18:22.894 for that school for what they will be like and ticket sales 300 00:18:22.929 --> 00:18:27.140 and Jersey sales and TV rights deals, and 301 00:18:27.175 --> 00:18:28.141 what's going to happen with the. 302 00:18:28.176 --> 00:18:29.763 Acc network. And now, we can 303 00:18:29.798 --> 00:18:31.869 do more features on Darius and tell his story. 304 00:18:31.903 --> 00:18:34.803 Mind you, every time these young men hit 305 00:18:34.837 --> 00:18:36.184 the court, they face the 306 00:18:36.218 --> 00:18:38.634 possibility of a career ending injury. So, I appreciate 307 00:18:38.669 --> 00:18:42.845 the fear of delayed entry because it may mean no entry. 308 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:44.916 If something happened to dariusand he 309 00:18:44.951 --> 00:18:46.849 really couldn't play, or it turned out he wasn't as good 310 00:18:46.884 --> 00:18:50.991 as everybody thought, uh, the school could pull the offer 311 00:18:51.026 --> 00:18:54.133 in a heartbeat. And I don't think anybody 312 00:18:54.167 --> 00:18:55.410 would lose any sleep over it. 313 00:18:55.444 --> 00:18:57.412 It happens. It doesn't happen all the time, 314 00:18:57.446 --> 00:18:59.414 but it happens. And we've seen it before. 315 00:19:08.561 --> 00:19:11.495 With the mentality of somebody that been 316 00:19:11.529 --> 00:19:13.221 in the gym for the last 18 317 00:19:13.255 --> 00:19:15.430 years, now you putting them in an office 318 00:19:15.464 --> 00:19:17.121 environment with people that's not 319 00:19:17.156 --> 00:19:18.950 athletic, people that probably don't 320 00:19:18.985 --> 00:19:20.435 talk too much basketball. So now, 321 00:19:20.469 --> 00:19:24.611 you all the way is awkward. Andl mean, that's a place where 322 00:19:24.646 --> 00:19:28.236 you got to really try to fit in. 323 00:19:34.380 --> 00:19:39.178 I'm Darius. I'm with the marketing team. 324 00:20:12.452 --> 00:20:13.902 To me, I thought everyone was just like, 325 00:20:13.936 --> 00:20:16.905 oh, look at this kid coming in to work. 326 00:20:16.939 --> 00:20:20.426 We think he only plays. Like, this fancy kid, 327 00:20:20.460 --> 00:20:22.980 he got this camera crew following him around. 328 00:20:23.014 --> 00:20:24.602 He got a cubicle near 329 00:20:24.637 --> 00:20:26.846 the window. I've been here for three years. 330 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:28.848 I don't even got that. So, I try to do things that 331 00:20:28.882 --> 00:20:33.991 would make them like me. I mean, obviously be myself. 332 00:20:36.580 --> 00:20:38.409 I don't know if you're doing something important. 333 00:20:38.444 --> 00:20:42.413 I don't even know if you reallydon't even want to talk to me. 334 00:20:47.384 --> 00:20:50.421 - Hello? - Db! 335 00:20:50.456 --> 00:20:53.148 - Waz up? - How are you getting. 336 00:20:53.182 --> 00:20:54.425 Along with your coworkers? 337 00:20:54.460 --> 00:20:57.497 We get along well. They all gotgreat personalities. So... 338 00:20:57.532 --> 00:21:01.432 Are you interacting with everybody? Ppyeah. I'm 339 00:21:01.467 --> 00:21:05.022 not saying everybody, but I mean, I'm getting 340 00:21:05.056 --> 00:21:08.405 around to it. At first, I wouldjust walked 341 00:21:08.439 --> 00:21:09.406 through the halls and like, 342 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:10.890 and I would try to keep my headdown 343 00:21:10.924 --> 00:21:13.513 so nobody said hello or anything. 344 00:21:17.828 --> 00:21:21.901 To go from work and tocome home and you're just like, 345 00:21:21.935 --> 00:21:25.905 you have nobody to talk to. Like you just... 346 00:21:25.939 --> 00:21:29.736 You're literally in a house by yourself while 347 00:21:29.771 --> 00:21:31.807 you just chilling. There's nothing to do. 348 00:21:31.842 --> 00:21:35.155 You're by yourself. I'm not thetype to like go out and all 349 00:21:35.190 --> 00:21:39.712 that stuff. I'm literally at myhouse by myself. 350 00:21:48.307 --> 00:21:53.933 These times, I don't even have an appetite to eat. 351 00:22:02.804 --> 00:22:05.082 Wakey, wakey. Eggs and bakey. 352 00:22:05.116 --> 00:22:07.843 Some days, I'll ask 7:00 ams. 353 00:22:10.881 --> 00:22:15.851 Head down. And then, separate and knock it down. 354 00:22:15.886 --> 00:22:18.233 Then, you go to work at 9:00 am. 355 00:22:38.943 --> 00:22:40.669 Then, you lift at 12:00. 356 00:22:40.704 --> 00:22:45.605 Yeah. It's heavy. Good. Look up here. Four. So 357 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:46.917 push right where my fingers are. 358 00:22:46.951 --> 00:22:51.404 2:00, 2:30, after I'm done lifting and go get food. 359 00:22:51.439 --> 00:22:56.409 I go back to work until 5:00. 360 00:22:57.479 --> 00:23:03.243 And then I go home for about hour and a half 361 00:23:03.278 --> 00:23:09.422 and I get ready to go to basketball at 8:00. 362 00:23:09.457 --> 00:23:13.150 Or sometimes, I'll have basketball at 10:00. 363 00:23:21.848 --> 00:23:25.714 And then, I get home at like 12:00 364 00:23:25.749 --> 00:23:30.374 and then you got to get up and do all over again. 365 00:23:30.409 --> 00:23:32.721 It's going to be hard as hellpp..For you to go out 366 00:23:32.756 --> 00:23:34.447 and learn, what's a real work day? 367 00:23:34.482 --> 00:23:36.035 What's a real work daywhere there are actually things 368 00:23:36.069 --> 00:23:38.313 that I need to make sure that I accomplish throughout 369 00:23:38.347 --> 00:23:41.316 my work day while I am training, while I am 370 00:23:41.350 --> 00:23:42.455 going, getting my head beat in 371 00:23:42.490 --> 00:23:44.457 by this trainer who is putting me through drills 372 00:23:44.492 --> 00:23:46.079 I've never seen before, who is 373 00:23:46.114 --> 00:23:48.323 pushing my conditioning to a level I've never 374 00:23:48.357 --> 00:23:52.465 witnessed before internally. 375 00:23:52.500 --> 00:23:53.604 No. I'm just not doing 376 00:23:53.639 --> 00:23:55.434 it as fast as you did, so I'm not doing it right. 377 00:23:55.468 --> 00:23:58.437 So yeah, if you're nothaving some kind of 378 00:23:58.471 --> 00:24:00.439 breakdown, you're not experiencing. 379 00:24:00.473 --> 00:24:04.166 That shit because that shit is real, man. 380 00:24:14.867 --> 00:24:16.800 It was crazy being in an environment that 381 00:24:16.834 --> 00:24:18.042 I want to be one day because 382 00:24:18.077 --> 00:24:20.459 you know, you're just getting aglimpse of it. Just didn't 383 00:24:20.493 --> 00:24:23.116 like, you know, it's right there in front of you. 384 00:24:23.151 --> 00:24:25.602 And I can be here. 385 00:24:29.916 --> 00:24:32.436 All star we going up, man. 386 00:24:32.471 --> 00:24:35.094 We're all born with somesmall 387 00:24:35.128 --> 00:24:38.097 increment of entitlement and ego. 388 00:24:38.131 --> 00:24:41.376 This ain't no regular shit. We at the spot, bro. 389 00:24:41.410 --> 00:24:46.450 But that can't be the majority of the 390 00:24:46.485 --> 00:24:48.521 glass. You don't know which city you 391 00:24:48.556 --> 00:24:50.489 going to. You don't know what your 392 00:24:50.523 --> 00:24:52.732 team mates look like. You don'tknow what your 393 00:24:52.767 --> 00:24:54.458 coach is like because you haven't had any 394 00:24:54.493 --> 00:24:58.393 experience with him. There's a possibility you may 395 00:24:58.427 --> 00:25:02.086 be sent to the g league. And so, if 396 00:25:02.121 --> 00:25:05.814 you're coming into this league with ego and entitlement, 397 00:25:05.849 --> 00:25:10.163 and that is what is your foundation is built upon that, 398 00:25:10.198 --> 00:25:13.615 more times than not, the building is going 399 00:25:13.650 --> 00:25:18.206 to crumble. And depending on where you're drafted, you may 400 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:21.450 not get a second chance around. 401 00:25:32.910 --> 00:25:37.432 Just texted Darius, checking tosee if he's coming in today, 402 00:25:37.466 --> 00:25:42.126 but haven't heard back from him. 403 00:25:45.474 --> 00:25:48.926 With any employee, teammate, team member, especially 404 00:25:48.961 --> 00:25:50.756 a young guy, he's got a lot of stuff going on 405 00:25:50.790 --> 00:25:52.723 and a lot of attention. Sometimes, you need 406 00:25:52.758 --> 00:25:56.451 to have some reminders about staying on the path. How do 407 00:25:56.485 --> 00:26:00.489 you juggle going to all starweekend one day where you're at 408 00:26:00.524 --> 00:26:04.114 huge parties with LeBron, Ben Simmons and other superstars, 409 00:26:04.148 --> 00:26:07.393 and then literally a day or twolater, you are 410 00:26:07.427 --> 00:26:08.532 being expected to follow up on 411 00:26:08.567 --> 00:26:10.810 projects that you've been working on. I had to 412 00:26:10.845 --> 00:26:12.191 sit him down and be like, hey, you know, 413 00:26:12.225 --> 00:26:16.644 do you want to keep doing this? Is this what you want? 414 00:26:21.303 --> 00:26:25.445 I purposely left him alone. I purposely not 415 00:26:25.480 --> 00:26:29.449 babied him. I purposely not flew to Boston every week to 416 00:26:29.484 --> 00:26:33.626 check on him, to see how he's doing, purposely because 417 00:26:33.661 --> 00:26:37.699 you have to be responsible and you know, 418 00:26:37.734 --> 00:26:41.807 he's going into adulthood wherehe has to be responsible. 419 00:26:41.841 --> 00:26:43.015 And he has to be professional 420 00:26:43.049 --> 00:26:46.535 and he's going to get paid to do a job. 421 00:26:52.818 --> 00:26:56.442 What's up y'all hey, what's up? 422 00:26:56.476 --> 00:26:57.719 Rock and roll live, what's up bro? 423 00:26:57.754 --> 00:26:59.997 You good? It's nice to meet you bro. Bro. 424 00:27:00.032 --> 00:27:04.346 Damn, that hoodie is tight as fuck. I'm so blessed 425 00:27:04.381 --> 00:27:06.659 to be working with you guys. I'm so happy for this 426 00:27:06.694 --> 00:27:08.765 collaboration and I think it's going to be awesome. 427 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:11.871 It was great meeting Jayden. You know, he 428 00:27:11.906 --> 00:27:14.287 just wasn't like laid back and it was just like, yeah. 429 00:27:14.322 --> 00:27:17.670 Okay that's fine. You can do that. He really was like up, 430 00:27:17.705 --> 00:27:20.431 active. To see that, to see how he interacted 431 00:27:20.466 --> 00:27:21.432 with people, to see how 432 00:27:21.467 --> 00:27:23.676 he carried himself. People think of 433 00:27:23.711 --> 00:27:25.436 18, teenagers, like just immature. 434 00:27:25.471 --> 00:27:29.682 He's not immature, you know what I'm saying, he loves is fun 435 00:27:29.717 --> 00:27:30.925 or whatever, but he's not immature. 436 00:27:30.959 --> 00:27:33.444 And then you got me just coming from the 437 00:27:33.479 --> 00:27:35.446 immature and then seeing that it's just 438 00:27:35.481 --> 00:27:37.069 like, that's what you want to be. 439 00:27:37.103 --> 00:27:42.695 I hate to interrupt. But I'm about to dip. 440 00:27:42.730 --> 00:27:44.559 Pleasure meeting you. Yeah! 441 00:27:44.593 --> 00:27:46.216 Mind if I get a picture of you? 442 00:27:51.462 --> 00:27:54.707 Oh you about to dip? 443 00:27:54.742 --> 00:27:58.021 That's lit, thank you for coming through bro. 444 00:27:58.055 --> 00:27:59.436 To his credit. He waslike, 445 00:27:59.470 --> 00:28:01.887 no man, I'm in, I'm want to make this 446 00:28:01.921 --> 00:28:04.441 as fulfilling and gratifying asl possibly 447 00:28:04.475 --> 00:28:05.718 can for the last five, six weeks. 448 00:28:05.753 --> 00:28:08.963 There's a time and place to be professional. There's a time. 449 00:28:08.997 --> 00:28:14.002 And place to, you know, relax a little bit. Be yourself, 450 00:28:14.037 --> 00:28:17.316 laugh, trip out with your friends. And 451 00:28:17.350 --> 00:28:19.663 I think that I've learned that. 452 00:28:23.046 --> 00:28:26.739 There's no quote on quote, perfect way to prepare 453 00:28:26.774 --> 00:28:30.432 for going to the NBA. One of the biggest things that I wanted 454 00:28:30.467 --> 00:28:37.439 him to align himself with is needing to build good habits. 455 00:28:39.096 --> 00:28:40.753 Yeah, you put them on some new balances 456 00:28:40.788 --> 00:28:42.099 and they post in on their page. 457 00:28:42.134 --> 00:28:44.757 And they tell you like I'm surethat it will get 458 00:28:44.792 --> 00:28:47.104 other people just more interested. 459 00:28:47.139 --> 00:28:48.727 That's so, this is so helpful. 460 00:28:48.761 --> 00:28:51.660 I developed habits. I developeda routine. 461 00:29:00.255 --> 00:29:02.016 I didn't realize how big that was. 462 00:29:02.050 --> 00:29:07.228 Come on. 6more. Last 5. 463 00:29:07.262 --> 00:29:11.508 Both legs equally. 4... 3... 464 00:29:15.132 --> 00:29:18.170 - Good. Let's do it then. - Let's do it then. Pp.. 465 00:29:18.204 --> 00:29:23.485 Yeah. Fair enough, get that thing down. Okay. 466 00:29:25.902 --> 00:29:29.422 It's like, that's where theinternship came in clutch for me 467 00:29:29.457 --> 00:29:33.012 because now it's just like I'm building habits off the court, 468 00:29:33.047 --> 00:29:36.464 like, that I know that aren't an everyday thing. 469 00:29:44.575 --> 00:29:46.819 When you think of new balance, what comes to mind? 470 00:29:46.854 --> 00:29:48.648 What fabric do you prefer to train in? 471 00:29:48.683 --> 00:29:51.099 Cuz I don't mind working on a cotton team, 472 00:29:51.134 --> 00:29:53.308 some people will find that like, annoying. 473 00:29:53.343 --> 00:29:55.448 What matters to you more for a workout, comfort or style? 474 00:29:55.483 --> 00:29:57.865 Where do you keep up with the latest fashion trends? 475 00:29:57.899 --> 00:29:59.521 I think that's like really important. 476 00:29:59.556 --> 00:30:02.421 I think all the lifestyle b-ball questions, 477 00:30:02.455 --> 00:30:03.456 those are really good here. 478 00:30:03.491 --> 00:30:05.424 So what teaches you how to network. 479 00:30:05.458 --> 00:30:07.495 Yes, I am Darius bazley, but also 480 00:30:07.529 --> 00:30:10.636 I am a guy that wants to understand business. 481 00:30:11.775 --> 00:30:14.122 He's getting the opportunity tolearn the business. 482 00:30:14.157 --> 00:30:16.193 Understanding what goes into 483 00:30:16.228 --> 00:30:18.126 making the shoe from a technology 484 00:30:18.161 --> 00:30:23.614 standpoint, fabric standpoint, from the way they 485 00:30:23.649 --> 00:30:27.860 mold the foot. Why it's important from a 486 00:30:27.895 --> 00:30:31.450 marketing standpoint, from a rollout standpoint, 487 00:30:31.484 --> 00:30:33.728 from a demographic standpoint, from a price 488 00:30:33.762 --> 00:30:35.868 standpoint? People don't even understand that. 489 00:30:35.903 --> 00:30:38.215 It's a lot that goes into the business of 490 00:30:38.250 --> 00:30:41.425 making a shoe. He understands that. 491 00:30:44.670 --> 00:30:46.430 Excited to talk to you guys today. And 492 00:30:46.465 --> 00:30:48.605 lucky enough, I got to bring my guy Darius here. 493 00:30:48.639 --> 00:30:50.641 He's going to talk to you guysand ask you guys some questions. 494 00:30:50.676 --> 00:30:53.782 Did y'all know new balance got stuff like this coming out? 495 00:30:53.817 --> 00:30:59.340 Do you guys like stuff like this? Like this cammo vibe? 496 00:30:59.374 --> 00:31:02.136 Y'all like the zipper, like the, like the pocket on this? 497 00:31:02.170 --> 00:31:05.173 Remove the zipper and keep thatlogo on the side. 498 00:31:05.208 --> 00:31:07.210 Get rid of this little patch right here? Yeah. 499 00:31:07.244 --> 00:31:10.869 This is more like workout, thisis more lifestyle. Yeah! 500 00:31:10.903 --> 00:31:13.423 Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. Before he shows 501 00:31:13.457 --> 00:31:15.770 you this, there's some shoes inhere that's better than 502 00:31:15.804 --> 00:31:17.772 any shoe that's on ya'll feet. 503 00:31:17.806 --> 00:31:22.742 That's not your size. That one... 504 00:31:22.777 --> 00:31:24.434 You're going crazy, right? 505 00:31:24.468 --> 00:31:26.850 You like loud course shoes? 506 00:31:26.885 --> 00:31:28.921 So for basketball shoes, you rather loud 507 00:31:28.956 --> 00:31:30.923 than like black, gray or whatever. 508 00:31:30.958 --> 00:31:33.339 - You stand out anywhere bro. - Alright, cool. 509 00:31:33.374 --> 00:31:36.964 Well, all this is ya'lls, but y'all got to win it. 510 00:31:36.998 --> 00:31:40.519 So we going to play knockout for all this. 511 00:32:01.505 --> 00:32:04.405 I have zero influenceover the ncaa. 512 00:32:04.439 --> 00:32:05.958 I spent a little time wondering 513 00:32:05.993 --> 00:32:08.443 about what I can make them do because I know 514 00:32:08.478 --> 00:32:09.513 the answer is nothing. But 515 00:32:09.548 --> 00:32:12.447 to the extent we all share, and I think we do, 516 00:32:12.482 --> 00:32:17.418 the league, the union players and the ncaa in improving 517 00:32:17.452 --> 00:32:20.662 the game of basketball. They need to confront 518 00:32:20.697 --> 00:32:22.595 the issue of compensation for these players. 519 00:32:22.630 --> 00:32:27.807 These players are worth a ton of money, a ton of money. 520 00:32:27.842 --> 00:32:30.396 When I was commissioner, I saidto the ncaa, 521 00:32:30.431 --> 00:32:32.260 you're worried about kids leaving school 522 00:32:32.295 --> 00:32:36.264 I got a great idea. How about if the NBA ensures 523 00:32:36.299 --> 00:32:40.441 the top number of prospects, sothat they're 524 00:32:40.475 --> 00:32:43.858 not afraid they'll be injured, and if they get drafted, 525 00:32:43.892 --> 00:32:45.653 they'll pay us back. If they don't get drafted, 526 00:32:45.687 --> 00:32:47.793 they won't pay us back. And thencaa 527 00:32:47.827 --> 00:32:51.659 came back and said, oh, thatonly works if you do it for all 528 00:32:51.693 --> 00:32:55.387 sports. And we said, okay. 529 00:32:55.421 --> 00:32:57.872 These guys are starting this at15, they 530 00:32:57.906 --> 00:32:59.115 don't see a payout until 19? 531 00:32:59.149 --> 00:33:02.428 Like, and everyone else is getting paid off their back? 532 00:33:02.463 --> 00:33:06.432 So, that's the, that's the, that's the 533 00:33:06.467 --> 00:33:08.296 missing link. When does this get 534 00:33:08.331 --> 00:33:12.093 turned into, when can theymonetize their reach, basically? 535 00:33:12.128 --> 00:33:16.442 If Darius bazley had gone to Syracuse, he would have 536 00:33:16.477 --> 00:33:21.413 been an unpaid billboard for Nike. Instead, he took the 537 00:33:21.447 --> 00:33:23.001 deal with new balance and he 538 00:33:23.035 --> 00:33:25.451 was a paid billboard for new balance. 539 00:33:29.455 --> 00:33:32.872 It's finally here, I'm sending out my seeding kit. 540 00:33:32.907 --> 00:33:37.429 As you see I got this dope bookbag. These notepads, parking 541 00:33:37.463 --> 00:33:40.259 pass, portable charger. These shoes here. 542 00:33:40.294 --> 00:33:42.434 Actually, these are going to ...Quavo. 543 00:33:42.468 --> 00:33:47.818 I got the new balance shoes thelntern. Uh, yeah. 544 00:33:47.853 --> 00:33:50.476 Just as a thank you for 545 00:33:50.511 --> 00:33:54.860 following my journey and you know, as hopes 546 00:33:54.894 --> 00:33:58.346 that they keep following my journey. 547 00:34:54.713 --> 00:34:57.647 Today's my last day. I thoughtl'd read my seeding kid letter. 548 00:34:57.681 --> 00:35:03.204 I think it, um, really just wraps up, um, 549 00:35:03.239 --> 00:35:08.658 reflects my time here at new balance. I'm coming 550 00:35:08.692 --> 00:35:12.075 to the end of my internship at new balance. In just 551 00:35:12.110 --> 00:35:15.596 three months, I've learned so much. When I first started, 552 00:35:15.630 --> 00:35:17.425 I thought that making a shoe was simple, 553 00:35:17.460 --> 00:35:19.910 but I couldn't have been more wrong. The shoe 554 00:35:19.945 --> 00:35:22.085 has to hit milestones before going into production. 555 00:35:22.120 --> 00:35:25.157 We have to get prototypes, style testing, record their 556 00:35:25.192 --> 00:35:27.021 measurements. At times a shoe can get sent 557 00:35:27.055 --> 00:35:28.781 back to the designers more thana hundred times. 558 00:35:28.816 --> 00:35:31.439 We have to find the right materials, look into future 559 00:35:31.474 --> 00:35:33.959 trends and eventually hit our margin targets. 560 00:35:33.993 --> 00:35:38.826 I hope you enjoy everything. I have to get back to work, peace. 561 00:35:38.860 --> 00:35:41.656 Sincerely, the intern. 562 00:35:41.691 --> 00:35:44.418 It's funny. The buildup before 563 00:35:44.452 --> 00:35:45.557 his arrival was so significant. 564 00:35:45.591 --> 00:35:49.216 And then he's here, and then the novelty wears off 565 00:35:49.250 --> 00:35:50.803 a little bit after a while. And then he's 566 00:35:50.838 --> 00:35:52.426 somebody who's part of the team, 567 00:35:52.460 --> 00:35:55.498 to him suddenly being gone. It's sad, 568 00:35:55.532 --> 00:35:57.500 because he's super funny kid, 569 00:35:57.534 --> 00:35:59.674 that's really smart. And he's brought a lot 570 00:35:59.709 --> 00:36:01.435 to the table and he's contributed a ton. I, 571 00:36:01.469 --> 00:36:06.440 for one will be really sad to see him go. But we've 572 00:36:06.474 --> 00:36:07.993 all valued his time here and 573 00:36:08.027 --> 00:36:09.236 hope that it has served him well. 574 00:36:09.270 --> 00:36:14.241 There's no one way thatworks because there's now a 575 00:36:14.275 --> 00:36:20.868 fourth way. Don't go to college, go to college, 576 00:36:20.902 --> 00:36:24.112 go to g league. I guess I'm gonna, I guess I'm 577 00:36:24.147 --> 00:36:28.979 adding a fifth, go to g league, go to international play 578 00:36:29.014 --> 00:36:32.017 or get an internship in a shoe deal. 579 00:36:32.051 --> 00:36:34.813 We'll see. 580 00:36:36.884 --> 00:36:39.818 The next two, three months for Darius will be hell. 581 00:36:39.852 --> 00:36:45.030 A good hell, without the fire. 582 00:36:45.064 --> 00:36:47.757 With sun and ocean. 583 00:36:53.452 --> 00:36:56.110 We'll do everything. All court work, 584 00:36:56.144 --> 00:37:01.495 strength and conditioning work. Preparation in terms of teams 585 00:37:01.529 --> 00:37:04.670 and rosters and different things like that, work. 586 00:37:04.705 --> 00:37:07.328 Bazley was sort of out of sight, out of mind 587 00:37:07.363 --> 00:37:09.157 for a lot of people, myself included. I wasn't, 588 00:37:09.192 --> 00:37:11.884 I wasn't calling new balance saying, hey, how'd he do 589 00:37:11.919 --> 00:37:14.128 today. You got any footage of his workout. 590 00:37:14.162 --> 00:37:16.924 So it's like a chess game. I think 10, 15 years 591 00:37:16.958 --> 00:37:18.753 ago you would have a pawn and you would have a bishop. 592 00:37:18.788 --> 00:37:22.412 You would have a rook andeverybody did different things. 593 00:37:22.447 --> 00:37:24.449 I think you still have that to certain degrees, 594 00:37:24.483 --> 00:37:27.417 but you have more queens on thecourt. 595 00:37:27.452 --> 00:37:30.627 You have more interchangeable parts on the court. 596 00:37:30.662 --> 00:37:33.320 And this is a really, really intense 597 00:37:33.354 --> 00:37:34.976 time for guys that are entering 598 00:37:35.011 --> 00:37:38.394 the draft. I mean, no mistakes on social media, 599 00:37:38.428 --> 00:37:42.294 no incidents off the court. And then on the court, 600 00:37:42.329 --> 00:37:44.986 you just got to bust your ass and play well. 601 00:37:45.021 --> 00:37:48.196 So we haven't been talking about Darius bazley. 602 00:37:48.231 --> 00:37:51.165 Yes, he'sbeen very disruptive in the way 603 00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:52.580 he's going about it, but we haven't talked about 604 00:37:52.615 --> 00:37:54.272 him all year, the same way we talked about 605 00:37:54.306 --> 00:37:56.343 a ja morant, the same way we talked about a. 606 00:37:56.377 --> 00:37:58.414 Rui hachimura, the same way we talked about. 607 00:37:58.448 --> 00:38:00.347 Rj Barrett or cam reddish or 608 00:38:00.381 --> 00:38:01.934 Zion Williamson. So now you're coming out 609 00:38:01.969 --> 00:38:04.903 to the scene. We get a chance to see you for the first time. 610 00:38:04.937 --> 00:38:07.457 So how are you psychologically going to be 611 00:38:07.492 --> 00:38:10.253 able to handle taking criticism from people? 612 00:38:10.288 --> 00:38:13.808 Agents are trying to do what's best 613 00:38:13.843 --> 00:38:15.672 best to put their clients in the best 614 00:38:15.707 --> 00:38:19.607 positions, but as much as you try to manipulate it, 615 00:38:19.642 --> 00:38:23.231 this is what I believe, it's really hard to fool the NBA. 616 00:38:23.266 --> 00:38:26.096 It's really hard to fool them. Everybody makes mistakes 617 00:38:26.131 --> 00:38:29.514 on players, but they make very few. 618 00:38:35.071 --> 00:38:38.730 Hour long jog, got some chik-fil-a, 619 00:38:38.764 --> 00:38:41.526 about to go hard. 620 00:38:45.115 --> 00:38:48.429 Because I didn't have a chance to put anything into my body. 621 00:38:48.464 --> 00:38:49.499 Let me see. 622 00:38:49.534 --> 00:38:51.812 Because we were rushed out of the house. So I 623 00:38:51.846 --> 00:38:53.020 grabbed chik-fil-a for everybody. 624 00:38:53.054 --> 00:38:54.953 Well, at least you were thoughtful. 625 00:38:54.987 --> 00:38:58.128 Very thoughtful. I appreciate that. 626 00:39:06.551 --> 00:39:10.969 Gm's, presidents, headcoaches, scouts, they all 627 00:39:11.003 --> 00:39:14.144 gathered in one gym to watch mework out. 628 00:39:15.318 --> 00:39:18.494 I kind of felt like myshot was a bit flat. 629 00:39:18.528 --> 00:39:20.427 Flat. I'm just like, aw, man, 630 00:39:20.461 --> 00:39:22.670 it's tingling through mebecause it's just like, this is 631 00:39:22.705 --> 00:39:28.366 big. This day matters just likethe combine, these days are big. 632 00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:29.850 We know how tall you are, your 633 00:39:29.884 --> 00:39:32.335 vertical, your wingspan, your hand size. 634 00:39:32.370 --> 00:39:36.408 We know all those things. What we don't know is 635 00:39:36.443 --> 00:39:40.412 how you think on a daily basis. And what 636 00:39:40.447 --> 00:39:43.933 buttons push certain things andhow it affects you. 637 00:39:43.967 --> 00:39:46.418 We don't know that. That's so hard to 638 00:39:46.453 --> 00:39:47.902 evaluate. So when people get on these. 639 00:39:47.937 --> 00:39:51.423 Gms about picking certain... They don't know that. 640 00:39:51.458 --> 00:39:56.601 For Darius, the biggest thing that I've always been harping 641 00:39:56.635 --> 00:40:00.432 on him is to understand how to think to gain. 642 00:40:00.467 --> 00:40:04.402 Build good habits, think to gain. 643 00:40:08.923 --> 00:40:10.856 Definitely I learned a lot and didn't 644 00:40:10.891 --> 00:40:12.893 realize I was learning. Interviewing with 645 00:40:12.927 --> 00:40:14.446 teams, when they ask me about new balance 646 00:40:14.481 --> 00:40:15.861 and I have all this stuff to tell them. 647 00:40:15.896 --> 00:40:18.312 I was talking to Sam presti today. I was telling him 648 00:40:18.346 --> 00:40:20.452 about the focus group. Those clothes, 649 00:40:20.487 --> 00:40:22.454 how many of those that they're making. 650 00:40:22.489 --> 00:40:23.455 Some stuff they already have for 651 00:40:23.490 --> 00:40:26.562 fall 2020. Even with shoes, youhave to 652 00:40:26.596 --> 00:40:29.012 make at least two years ahead of time. 653 00:40:29.047 --> 00:40:31.463 You have people who look into future trends 654 00:40:31.498 --> 00:40:33.327 to make the color ways of this 655 00:40:33.361 --> 00:40:35.467 shoe, to see what'd be hot. Andl went in, 656 00:40:35.502 --> 00:40:38.436 on and on and on and eventuallyl'm like, 657 00:40:38.470 --> 00:40:39.816 all right, he's probably sick of me 658 00:40:39.851 --> 00:40:43.786 talking about this. Let me close it up. 659 00:40:46.651 --> 00:40:48.618 There were 20-some guys that were invited 660 00:40:48.653 --> 00:40:51.034 into the green room with 30 first round picks, 661 00:40:51.069 --> 00:40:54.313 and bazley wasn't one of those invited. 662 00:41:01.562 --> 00:41:05.463 As far as I know, he's still anticipated to be 663 00:41:05.497 --> 00:41:07.223 drafted into the NBA. 664 00:41:07.257 --> 00:41:12.366 It's great for the league, it's not designed for 665 00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:15.542 the faint of heart, though, because these young men don't 666 00:41:15.576 --> 00:41:17.336 know exactly where they're going. 667 00:41:17.371 --> 00:41:19.442 Their agents think that they'regoing to help 668 00:41:19.477 --> 00:41:23.446 them get some place or someplaceelse, and often 669 00:41:23.481 --> 00:41:28.589 they're disappointed. So it's an interesting time. 670 00:41:41.844 --> 00:41:45.261 With the first pick in the 2019 671 00:41:45.295 --> 00:41:48.436 NBA draft the New Orleans pelicans 672 00:41:48.471 --> 00:41:52.717 select Zion Williamson from Duke university. 673 00:41:55.478 --> 00:41:59.586 2019 NBA draft the Memphis grizzlies 674 00:41:59.620 --> 00:42:02.485 select ja morant. 675 00:42:09.665 --> 00:42:13.151 With the sixth pick in the 2019nba draft 676 00:42:13.185 --> 00:42:17.500 the Phoenix suns select jarrettculver. The Atlanta. 677 00:42:17.535 --> 00:42:21.262 Hawks select Jaxson Hayes. The Minnesota timberwolves 678 00:42:21.297 --> 00:42:26.440 select Cameron Johnson from theuniversity of north Carolina. 679 00:42:30.755 --> 00:42:34.482 With the 13th pick, the Miami heat select 680 00:42:34.517 --> 00:42:39.108 Tyler herro. With the 14th pickthe Boston. 681 00:42:39.142 --> 00:42:42.490 Celtics select Romeo Langford. 682 00:42:46.494 --> 00:42:49.739 With the 15th pick of the 2019 NBA draft 683 00:42:49.774 --> 00:42:54.917 the Detroit pistons select sekou doumbouya. 684 00:42:54.951 --> 00:42:56.539 When you decide you're going to go 685 00:42:56.574 --> 00:42:58.437 into the NBA, that's big boy school. 686 00:42:58.472 --> 00:43:00.681 You're saying, all right, evaluate me. 687 00:43:00.716 --> 00:43:03.235 And if you think I'm really good, take me. 688 00:43:03.270 --> 00:43:05.030 If they don't take you, they'resaying, 689 00:43:05.065 --> 00:43:06.998 I think somebody's better than you. 690 00:43:07.032 --> 00:43:09.276 That's what you ask them to do. 691 00:43:09.310 --> 00:43:10.760 You put yourself in that position. 692 00:43:10.795 --> 00:43:15.558 The 22nd pick in the 2019 NBA draft 693 00:43:15.593 --> 00:43:19.666 the Boston celtics select grantwilliams 694 00:43:19.700 --> 00:43:23.117 from the university of Tennessee. 695 00:43:31.470 --> 00:43:35.129 With the 31st pick in the 2019 NBA draft 696 00:43:35.164 --> 00:43:38.892 the Utah jazz select Darius bazley 697 00:43:38.926 --> 00:43:42.447 from Cincinnati, Ohio. 698 00:43:42.481 --> 00:43:46.451 I'm proud of you. I knew you would do well. 699 00:43:46.485 --> 00:43:50.973 Thank you. Thank you. I'm proud of you, bro. 700 00:43:51.007 --> 00:43:53.354 Thank you. Yeah boy! 701 00:43:53.389 --> 00:43:54.666 Thank you. 702 00:43:54.701 --> 00:43:58.049 It did sort of surprise me when he 703 00:43:58.083 --> 00:44:00.085 was taken kind of middle of the first round. 704 00:44:00.120 --> 00:44:03.675 Uh, that was, that was above where I had him, 705 00:44:03.710 --> 00:44:06.436 that was above where, uh I 706 00:44:06.471 --> 00:44:07.714 think most people had him slotted. 707 00:44:07.748 --> 00:44:12.511 I'm in the NBA, bro. I'm in thenba. I got drafted. 708 00:44:12.546 --> 00:44:16.792 Let's go, bro. I can't wait to get to work. 709 00:44:16.826 --> 00:44:19.415 That's all I can think about isgetting to okc. Like. 710 00:44:19.449 --> 00:44:24.523 I really want to go tomorrow, just get to work, bro. 711 00:44:24.558 --> 00:44:26.629 I really loved it there. They seemed 712 00:44:26.664 --> 00:44:29.425 seemed really genuine like they had a classy 713 00:44:29.459 --> 00:44:31.047 organization, everybody cared. 714 00:44:31.082 --> 00:44:32.670 I just can't wait to get to work, 715 00:44:32.704 --> 00:44:37.709 man. This is crazy, man. This is crazy. This is wild. 716 00:44:37.744 --> 00:44:38.917 You're now in the NBA, bro. 717 00:44:38.952 --> 00:44:40.401 I'm in the NBA. 718 00:44:40.436 --> 00:44:42.403 Now looking back at everything, 719 00:44:42.438 --> 00:44:43.750 what do you have to say? 720 00:44:43.784 --> 00:44:47.512 It was all part of the plan. Itworked. You know, it worked. I'm 721 00:44:47.546 --> 00:44:51.758 here, that's all I can ask for. I'm here. I won 722 00:44:51.792 --> 00:44:53.483 tonight. I won. Mr. Presti. 723 00:44:53.518 --> 00:44:56.452 I just want to congratulate youand tell you 724 00:44:56.486 --> 00:44:58.454 how excited we are to have you. And the 725 00:44:58.488 --> 00:45:02.838 main thing that I want to make sure that you understand is, 726 00:45:02.872 --> 00:45:06.565 we're looking at you because of your maturity and your 727 00:45:06.600 --> 00:45:09.430 understanding that you've got a lot of work ahead of you. 728 00:45:09.465 --> 00:45:10.431 Right! 729 00:45:10.466 --> 00:45:13.952 And that this is a place where players 730 00:45:13.987 --> 00:45:16.058 get better and they improve, but it's 731 00:45:16.092 --> 00:45:19.199 all going to come down to your attitude, your work ethic, 732 00:45:19.233 --> 00:45:22.650 and a lot of the things you learned at that internship, 733 00:45:22.685 --> 00:45:24.756 quite frankly. You know. Real 734 00:45:24.791 --> 00:45:26.758 life experiences, but we're really 735 00:45:26.793 --> 00:45:29.450 excited about having you. You fit the profile of the 736 00:45:29.485 --> 00:45:31.107 players that we've had success with, 737 00:45:31.142 --> 00:45:33.627 and um, you know, we'll have a great plan for 738 00:45:33.661 --> 00:45:35.146 you. At the end of the day, a lot of 739 00:45:35.180 --> 00:45:36.734 it's just going to come down toyour commitment 740 00:45:36.768 --> 00:45:38.494 and your persistence. And I have a lot of 741 00:45:38.528 --> 00:45:41.773 confidence that that's going to work out. Pp.. Yeah. Well I 742 00:45:41.808 --> 00:45:45.397 just want to say thank you onmy behalf, of taking this chance 743 00:45:45.432 --> 00:45:48.055 on me. And I'm excited to come in and get to work. 744 00:45:48.090 --> 00:45:53.026 As long as guys have a choice and they're able to 745 00:45:53.060 --> 00:45:57.133 make that choice unconstrained, that's fine. Unfortunately, 746 00:45:57.168 --> 00:46:01.793 they don't have the choice ofcoming straight into the league. 747 00:46:01.828 --> 00:46:07.350 I'm a by-product of a college education. Let's throw the 748 00:46:07.385 --> 00:46:08.662 education part out the door, because 749 00:46:08.696 --> 00:46:10.008 who really knows if you're actually getting 750 00:46:10.043 --> 00:46:12.700 education or not. I'm a by-product of 751 00:46:12.735 --> 00:46:14.737 the network that comes from 752 00:46:14.772 --> 00:46:17.775 the value of an education. But I think if a kid wants 753 00:46:17.809 --> 00:46:19.466 leave from high school, leave from high school. 754 00:46:19.500 --> 00:46:20.881 If you want to come to college for one year, 755 00:46:20.916 --> 00:46:23.435 come to collegefor one year. I don't understand 756 00:46:23.470 --> 00:46:28.061 why there has to be a ceiling on, hey, you have to do this. 757 00:46:28.095 --> 00:46:33.273 One and done has not been a problem. What one and done has 758 00:46:33.307 --> 00:46:36.621 been is a convenient scapegoat. Jordan spieth 759 00:46:36.655 --> 00:46:39.451 was one and done, anybody have a problem with that? 760 00:46:39.486 --> 00:46:43.421 Anybody think that Jordan spieth was making a mockery 761 00:46:43.455 --> 00:46:45.768 of education by only going to college for a year? 762 00:46:45.803 --> 00:46:50.531 I think you have a more open-minded culture, you have 763 00:46:50.566 --> 00:46:52.948 a more principled head of the player's. 764 00:46:52.982 --> 00:46:55.398 Association in Michelle Roberts. 765 00:46:55.433 --> 00:46:59.126 The tide is shifting on whetherguys should get paid, 766 00:46:59.161 --> 00:47:00.610 and it's like, if that's not going to happen, 767 00:47:00.645 --> 00:47:03.441 well obviously the other option is let them 768 00:47:03.475 --> 00:47:05.650 go pro and only make guys play in college 769 00:47:05.684 --> 00:47:07.445 that want to play in college. 770 00:47:07.479 --> 00:47:10.137 As long as the status quo remains that 771 00:47:10.172 --> 00:47:11.345 these young men are not being paid, 772 00:47:11.380 --> 00:47:16.419 then the attraction of the college option, 773 00:47:16.454 --> 00:47:18.042 in my view, isn't going to diminish. 774 00:47:18.076 --> 00:47:23.737 It seems clear that the NBA is going to go the route 775 00:47:23.771 --> 00:47:26.636 of allowing high school playersto come into the league again. 776 00:47:26.671 --> 00:47:31.434 I think many people in college are applauding that, 777 00:47:31.469 --> 00:47:34.437 that's going to take this off our plate now. 778 00:47:34.472 --> 00:47:39.442 Now that's the NBA's problem, when college's problems 779 00:47:39.477 --> 00:47:40.788 are going to be exactly the same. 780 00:47:40.823 --> 00:47:42.445 They're not going to change one iota. 781 00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:47.450 You wonder, when do the kids, and I say kids, 782 00:47:47.485 --> 00:47:49.970 the players, profit? And so maybe 783 00:47:50.005 --> 00:47:55.079 it should have changed in a strong way a long time ago, 784 00:47:55.113 --> 00:47:58.427 but I'm sure that Adam silver will figure 785 00:47:58.461 --> 00:48:00.015 it out, because he's a smart 786 00:48:00.049 --> 00:48:03.915 guy. And whatever the NBA doesl'm going to support completely. 787 00:48:03.950 --> 00:48:05.813 Darius is someone, and again he doesn't know 788 00:48:05.848 --> 00:48:08.092 know this yet, who will addressthe first 789 00:48:08.126 --> 00:48:11.336 rookie class, the next rookieclass, and help them understand 790 00:48:11.371 --> 00:48:15.444 the options that exist and why he took the path he took. 791 00:48:15.478 --> 00:48:20.656 He is a trailblazer of sorts. Again, he's not the first but 792 00:48:20.690 --> 00:48:23.417 he's the most recent. And his story, I'm glad you're 793 00:48:23.452 --> 00:48:26.489 telling it, but I'd like to hear him tell it as well on 794 00:48:26.524 --> 00:48:28.422 this basketball court to our next class of 795 00:48:28.457 --> 00:48:30.183 rookies, because it's a story that should be told. 796 00:48:30.217 --> 00:48:35.119 Something to take awayfrom this, definitely, is bet 797 00:48:35.153 --> 00:48:40.124 on yourself. You know. Take, take a risk. I think 798 00:48:40.158 --> 00:48:44.438 with me, this whole thing, I'vealways thought positive. 799 00:48:44.473 --> 00:48:50.513 We did it. We conquered the mountain. 800 00:48:50.548 --> 00:48:54.000 Be open minded, open to all newthings. 801 00:48:54.034 --> 00:49:00.213 Umm, you know. That's it, really. 802 00:49:49.676 --> 00:49:53.473 Hello. Hello. 803 00:50:14.839 --> 00:50:18.532 Hey, hey, hey, hey!