It is Saturday. Saturday? I don't know. I'm done. It is Saturday, the eight. Thank you for the specific date at Summer League. We are in the Blue

Wires studios. This is Road Trip and I am Ali Clifton and I am not here alone. I promise. He is Richard Jefferson. Yes, I am. Right on cue. We're waiting for

Channing. There was 26.4 seconds left on a game that he was calling for Summer League and he's actually bringing our guest

that's going to walk right in and fill these two chairs that you can't see. But having said that, we're going to discuss a little bit

because I first want to know I was waiting for you in the hallway and I was waiting and I was waiting and I was waiting and then I found out that you were talking to

the one and only. What did Greg Popovich have to say to you? Well, this is the thing. Pop is still like your grandfather. I'm kind of ducking through the wind quick trying to go and all

saying, oh, hey, Pop. He gives me a hug. I'm like, hey, man, congratulations. You know, on the contract. I'm like, I'm so glad that kid is with you. The two years that I had with Pop were two of the most pivotal

of my entire career, maybe my entire basketball life. Go great. But I need to go great on a scale of one to 10. For, you know, their skills. But I say this is that they taught me how to be a better spot

up shooter. He taught me the thing. I won't say taught me, but just he stayed on me about the about the staying in shape and keeping all these things that, you know, Pop and Spurs have always been ahead of it. And I shot 40%

because of Chippin and because of Pop because they taught me so many things and that extended my career. So I am forever grateful to that man. And when we were talking about Wimby, he's like, look, Wimby's great. He's talented. It's going to take time because again, you're comparing him to Tim Duncan. You're comparing him to David Robinson. David Robinson went to school in the Naval Academy for four years. Then he did like a year of military service. But the time David Robinson showed up. He was like 24 years old or 23 years old. Yeah, Tim Duncan went to school for four years. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

Had David Robinson and a monster squad around him. And it was like Tim Duncan was rookie of the year and first he mall MBA. But he was 22 years old. So to compare all of these guys to are to compare Wimby to them who were three, four years older than him.

You know, I think I'm glad that pop is there for his development. Right. However long pop decides a coach. I know this. If the kid is going to make it, he's in the best situation possible.

And I think that's great. Wow. Yeah, that's well said. And I don't think anyone would doubt that. Obviously, we're talking about this, having coming off his debut, where he finished with nine points, eight boards, three, six, five blocks.

But just shut the ball two of 13 from the field.

I don't care about the two for three. I, yeah, I was going to say, we also kind of talked about it. You weren't here at the end of the other episode with Channing when it comes to just like the purpose of summer league.

Right. But for someone like him, does that change?

No, no, no, the, and that's the thing about being a player, especially doesn't matter if you're the number one pick or if you're a guy trying to make the team, it's all a very similar process. Your head is spinning.

Right. Like he just left Euro league where he's been with this team. He's been in France. There's no language barrier. There's not. I'm saying like it's all he left his team is like, imagine leaving your college team.

And what's a lot of these guys do and then playing basketball a couple weeks later, not like, you know, NCAA has been done since March, you know, early April. So these guys have, you know, whatever a lot of time. He's been playing, playing, playing, and then boom straight here.

So a lot of these guys have had months shooting NBA three months, understanding what they're going to do, getting ready for the draft, getting ready for the draft, working two, three hours a day.

And then he's just finished and came. So I look at the things his passing, his shop walking, those are the things that I look at that you can't teach.

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