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🗓️ 6 September 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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How to Turn a Messy Past into a High-Performance Future
Caron Butler went from a rough childhood and juvenile incarceration to NBA All-Star and now a coach/mentor shaping elite performers. In this live episode, Tai and Caron get brutally practical about turning chaos into discipline, managing A-players, the real “why,” and what actually works for health and performance (spoiler: cold plunges, bands, meditation).
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| 0:00.0 | I was incarcerated for numerous offenses. |
| 0:04.5 | What was the craziest moment in your growing up years? |
| 0:08.2 | As a juvenile, I probably arrested easy 13, 14 times, which was all due to carrying guns, |
| 0:15.2 | but it ended up giving me two years away from my family, which was the best two years ever |
| 0:20.7 | because it removed me |
| 0:22.7 | out of a situation where everything is slowed down, right? People say product of your environment, |
| 0:28.6 | product of this, product of that. I was just making some dumbass decisions at a young age, |
| 0:33.4 | and I needed guidance, I needed mentorship, and I just, quite frankly, didn't have it at the time. |
| 0:39.5 | Here in my garage. |
| 0:43.8 | Who here is a Miami Heat fan? |
| 0:46.8 | I know we got some. |
| 0:47.7 | I've got to have a few. |
| 0:49.6 | But he played a lot of people. |
| 0:50.4 | He played in L.A., L.A. Clippers. |
| 0:52.2 | That's when I remember him because I was born in L.A. |
| 0:54.7 | We were talking. Okay. |
| 0:57.1 | So, Karan Butler, welcome to the Ty Lopez show. We're doing a special live event version. |
| 1:06.7 | And I appreciate you coming out all the way from Miami. So you've been coaching one of the coaches there in Miami Heat. |
| 1:13.6 | I'm going to open with a controversial question. |
| 1:17.6 | What is the city anywhere in the world? |
| 1:23.6 | It's the number one basketball city. |
| 1:25.5 | And we're talking has created the most professional athletes. |
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