Cole Swider - The Journey To The NBA, Learning From Lebron James, and Embracing The Process

The Casey Adams Show

Listener.com Podcast Network

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Cole Swider is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association, on a two-way contract with the South Bay Lakers of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Villanova Wildcats and the Syracuse Orange. - Follow Cole Swider on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coleswider/ - Subscribe to The Casey Adams Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-casey-adams-show/id1328795944 Follow Casey on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/casey Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CaseyAdams TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@caseyadams YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CaseyAdams - Follow The Casey Adams Show on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caseyadamsshow Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CaseyAdamsShow TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@caseyadamsshow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CaseyAdamsShow - [00:00:00] - Cole Swider: Basketball Prodigy. [00:02:44] - Getting injured [00:05:29] - Unexpected broken hand ends season. [00:08:15] - Exploring faith and self-growth. [00:11:20] - Athletic history-making journey. [00:14:10] - Meditating since age 10. [00:17:05] - Rookie Serakiou Johnson thrives. [00:19:53] - The Draft Process [00:22:36] - "Exhausting job interviews, now eating game time." [00:25:31] - Dafted by Lakers. [00:28:36] - Belief in hard work pays off. [00:31:32] - Lebron: Great Team Leader. [00:37:14] - Podcasting journey. [00:39:57] - Friends for years, return often. [00:42:47] - "Aspiring despite doubt and hardship." [00:45:43] - "Dreams become reality with pressure." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome back to the Casey Adams show. Today I am joined by Cole Swider. Thank you so much for coming on, Cole.
0:07.1	Hey, no doubt, man. I appreciate you having me on. Of course. We met, I want to say like three, four months ago at the Chargers game. And ever since I followed you, it's been epic just seeing all your content, the recent podcast, and more so just understanding your
0:21.7	story. I know we have some mutual friends, Jordan from Super Coffee and everything, but
0:25.9	excited to dive in today, man. Yeah, man. It's been crazy. It's been a crazy last couple
0:30.9	years. And yeah, I know Jordan from Liddy when I was 14 years old. I met Jordan. So we've gone
0:36.1	back and forth on Instagram and text and everything
0:38.0	like that. But it's, it's cool to see like another young guy, another guy coming up in the industry. So yeah.
0:43.4	So how long you've been playing with the Lakers now? It's my, it's my rookie year. Yeah. So last year I graduated from
0:49.4	Syracuse University. And after the draft got picked up by the Lakers and move with them ever since.
0:55.7	I know you were you transferred to Syracuse from Villanova, correct?
1:02.1	Basketball, right?
1:02.9	This has been your entire life.
1:04.3	Where did this passion for the game even come from?
1:07.2	And when did you realize like, all right, I'm going to, I'm going to go down this path
1:10.7	and, you know, see how far I can go and aspire to be in the NBA? Like, where? can come from and when did you realize like all right i'm gonna i'm gonna go down this path and
1:11.0	you know see how far i can go and aspire to be in the nb a like where did this passion begin
1:16.3	yeah so i mean it starts off of my parents my dad's 68 my mom 6-3 so okay the jeans are there
1:21.8	my dad played at my dad played at four university my mom played at university new hampshire so two
1:26.6	division one programs um wow and from the day i was born my dad kind of put the ball on my hands right so
1:32.2	uh my parents actually started the youth basketball league in town um when i was in second grade so
1:37.6	they kind of gave me like this access to the gym um wow the ability to play against my friends
1:43.1	and my dad always played me up, right?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Listener.com Podcast Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Listener.com Podcast Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.