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🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | Minnesota. So when you hear Minnesota, you just hyped that you got picked first. I was just like, I'm ready to who. |
0:05.2 | Anthony Edwards. The end. My goodness. What a move for Antony Edwards. |
0:12.1 | Hurtig. Hanging. Scoring. Cross the bomb. What's up, everybody. Welcome to boardrooms out of office. |
0:19.2 | My name is Rich Climman. Today I'm here with NBA All-Star NBA Superstar Anthony Edwards and his partner and business manager Justin Holland. Welcome to the boardroom, fellow. |
0:30.6 | Appreciate you. Appreciate it. |
0:31.6 | Long time coming, man. We've been talking about this for a while and this, this is like unique and special for me because you know |
0:38.4 | for me my relationship with kevin and our partnership has been an incredible like 12 year run and i |
0:44.0 | think it was the chemistry and just the way we complement each other that's been so special and i you know |
0:49.6 | from speaking to justin have realized that you guys have so many of those like similar elements. You both grew up in Atlanta, right? Yeah. I read that you, it wasn't all basketball growing up, right? You played a handful of sports. Yeah. And then you locked in on hoop around the eighth grade. Was that around the same time you guys met? Yeah, like eighth and ninth grade, yeah. For me, it's like, I remember I met KD his rookie year |
1:11.2 | through a mutual friend of ours. And at the time, I didn't realize it, but just like any |
1:16.3 | relationship or any partnership looking back on it, I realized that the chemistry was clearly |
1:20.6 | there the first time we met. And I think any special business partnership, just like any |
1:25.1 | special relationship, there's just something. There's just something there. |
1:27.9 | Yeah, it's, I guess our relationship when we first met, uh, didn't know where, I didn't know where it would end up. Yeah. But, uh, it didn't take very long to realize that, uh, that we definitely had a bun. And what was that kind of connection? Like, how did you even approach him on, um, you know, being the guy that would kind of mold his basketball career? And you were at ex-Houper as well. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, I was actually working for the city of College Park back then, and I was training multiple kids. I had some, you know, some high major guys, a couple of guys that were McDonald's All-Americans. And his uncle, his uncle brought him to me. And when he brought him to me, you know, he was pretty much just looking for somebody to work him out and, you know, just be, you know, a mentor to him and just, you know, just kind of guide him and lead him in the right direction. That's kind of where the relationship started. And when you picked up hoop in the eighth grade was like, did you automatically connect with the sport on a different level? was different than when you played baseball and football? I mean, just playing against my older brothers made me start loving the game. I think before eighth grade, I was already in love with the game, but after eighth grade, I think it kind of grew on me. And did you realize you were, it was different when you first started playing? No, not when I first started playing. Because I was good at football. You were? Yeah. I was just throwing the rock around the office. That's why I'm fucking drenched right now. What was your experience playing ball? You played in college as well? Yeah, so I played at Liberty University in Virginia. Did you even think of yourself as a trainer? So I was working |
2:52.6 | around the sport. I ran youth sports in college park. You know, a lot of people know me from playing |
2:56.8 | basketball around the city of Atlanta. So, you know, people just kept asking me to train, man, |
3:00.8 | you should train, you should train, you should train. And one day I was just like, you know, let me try it out. |
3:04.7 | You know, there was a couple of good kids around the gym, and I just kind of started doing it naturally. |
3:08.6 | And then, you know, I found out that that was my way, you know, to stay around the game. And, you know, my passion was always basketball. So that was my way to, you know, stay in touch with the game and impact the younger kids, the way that my coaches did for me when I was coming up. And then you stayed and went to Georgia. |
3:05.3 | Was that at the time, I assume, |
3:07.3 | you was being recruited by everybody in the country, right? Yeah. And what was that for you to stay home? What was the kind of reason behind that? It was right up the street. My sister was, she was about to have her baby, my nephew, so I ain't want her trying to get on the plane and all that. |
3:42.5 | So she can just hop in the car and drive 45 minutes and be there. Yeah. Did you feel like you was going for a year? Did I feel like we're going to school for a year? Yeah. Like did you know it was one and done heading into it? Pretty much, yeah. Yeah, that was a plan. That was a plan, right? And how involved early on, like for you as a trainer, like looking at your guys' career |
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