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The Woj Pod

Atlanta's Trae Young

The Woj Pod

ESPN

Sports

4.6722 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young joins The Woj Pod to discuss his rise toward NBA stardom, his wild college season with the Oklahoma Sooners (16:19), hanging out with Baker Mayfield (24:28), his childhood studying Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant in OKC (7:45), the Hawks rebuilding and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome into another edition of the WogePod here at our Seaport Studios in Manhattan with Atlanta Hawks Guard, Tray Young. Stay with us.

0:15.0

Trey, do you remember the last time, maybe the only time, you and I have been in these ESPN Seaport studios.

0:25.1

Yeah, it's crazy because the last time I was here was draft day.

0:31.3

Early in the morning, crazy day.

0:34.5

But yeah, that's the last time, I think.

0:37.0

It would have been draft day, I think.

0:38.6

Draft Day, 2017.

0:41.0

It was the morning of the draft.

0:42.7

You were here with your dad Ray, your agent Omar Wilkes from Octagon, and you were here

0:50.0

doing all the morning shows.

0:51.2

You were doing Get Up, maybe Sports Center.

0:54.6

I remember I was here.

0:55.5

Jay Billis, we were in there.

0:57.2

And I remember standing in the, we had those big windows that overlooked the river there.

1:03.0

I remember standing there with your agent Omar Wilkes.

1:06.1

And I think your dad, too, trying to navigate that night of the draft.

1:12.3

And I think I had reported the day before the draft, maybe that night before,

1:16.5

that Dallas was interested in trying to move up to get Donchich.

1:21.3

And I knew Atlanta was kind of in the driver's seat there, you know, with the pick.

1:25.6

And that was a, you think back to that draft and that

1:31.4

night, like how much uncertainty there was right until you, the deal came down just as the

1:37.2

third pick was being announced, I think, they were ready. They had, I think, reported the

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