Hair Comments, Basketball, and Golf | 6min snip from The Young Man and the Three

Speaker 2
I don't know to be honest. Um, I've gotten it a lot everybody You go through the comments on my pictures. I don't I don't my family does and I I
Speaker 4
believe um
Speaker 5
One out of every three is cut your hair or
Speaker 2
put some gel in it or something like that But I
Speaker 5
don't know I kind of just gotten used to it
Speaker 1
You do seem like you have a uh, like a simplified version of your life It's very much, uh golf And basketball. I'm not sure which order that is
Speaker 5
It's Questionable it depends on the day. Yeah,
Speaker 1
how much so I I I I joke with people when I was grown up I would like lay in my bed And I would picture myself making moves You know Coming off a stream spin moves shot fakes whatever Then when when I retired All of my thought I'll go to bed thinking about my golf swing What's the balance for you right now between you're you're just sitting around your house. What are you thinking about?
Speaker 4
Oh, that's tough The politically correct answers basketball But uh, I'm sure I'm sure
Speaker 5
if you go back
Speaker 2
I can't remember it was one game last year. I walk around constantly like I'm trying to cut my wrist a little bit
Speaker 4
And in game I was sitting
Speaker 2
there at the freethall on some of it I was on the other end someone was shooting free does and I was sitting there kind of just like And I didn't even pay attention like I had no idea and my agent Aaron looked at me after the game and was like Was you? What were you doing out there? And I said, what do you mean? He was like you were sitting here like this. I was like, oh no like Was working on my golf swing like Uh, but yeah, no, I mean obviously basketball is you know, the most important thing right now Golf is a great getaway for me It gives me a you know, an area to escape, you know how it is The league is you know, tough all the traveling stuff and this is an opportunity to get away from me. You have
Speaker 3
a dream. He'll believe. Oh, he guessed
Speaker 4
um a huge Jordan Smith fan
Speaker 2
like When I started to get into golf probably my junior year of high school senior year of high school is when he was making his push and you know, just like the creativity around the the greens and You know, he's kind of he's kind of one of us. You know, he sprays it left sprays it right, but you know his uh ability to get out of trouble is a beautiful thing and um ever since then I've been a huge Jordan Smith fan so that would be the one uh obviously tiger tube, but um, you
Speaker 1
know
Speaker 2
He's uh, he's got a lot of things going on
Speaker 6
My feelings are hurt
Speaker 5
So we know this is gonna happen This is the first thing before we start
Speaker 6
there. This is the start this too is the start of the biggest bromance He's like he's like JJ. You might be in my top 20 You might be in my top 20 Austin has a
Speaker 1
great uh social media Profile hillbilly bogey based on hillbilly coby. I assume Uh also as a youtube channel I follow you. I watch your content. It's good stuff. I really like it. Um You're from a small town in arkansas new work. Did I say that right new work? Okay uh 2020 census 1,180 people was the population played in a witch-taw mid-sized city norman okloma's college town Could you have imagined just the difference in your life playing for the Lakers and Were you were you prepared not just like the on the court stuff and the attention but off the court just like Moving to a city like that versus where you came from
Speaker 4
Yeah, it was crazy. Um
Speaker 2
I don't think you can you know prepare yourself for that Uh just being where i'm from and you know, not really living in a big city ever and then you know Traf Knight literally the next day. I I fly to LA and i'm there and you know, that's where i've been since and uh
Speaker 4
It was it was kind of easy for me in a sense of
Speaker 2
Like you said, I love basketball golf. I don't really do much else when I'd end of the nightlife. Um, you can find me One of four places the practice facility the golf course my house and staples are crypto I keep it very simple But you know the one thing that sucks is traffic out there, you know, you got to get used to that but other than that, you know, I Gotta appreciate, you know, the way my parents raised me and you know showing me that you know, the main thing is the main thing like You can you know go anywhere and be anywhere and still keep you know, your eyes on you know, whatever you want to do And you don't have to get distracted by all the other stuff. So You know, I praise them for that. Um, just You know, like I say keeping the main thing
Speaker 1
the main thing so so a friday night for you and your hometown no game Your hometown and arc is the same thing as a friday night for you in los angeles I
Speaker 5
mean Other than everything else going on. Yeah, i'm probably on the game playing college duty or for tonight.

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