Dereck Lively on Playing with Kyrie, Luka and His Experience Making the NBA Finals
The Young Man and the Three
ThreeFourTwo Productions | Wondery
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Our guest this week is non other than Dereck Lively II of the Dallas Mavericks. In this episode, Lively opens up by talking about his passion for Legos and how it helps his hand-eye coordination. Then he gets into his draft night and thinking he might be a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder. He also gets real about learning how to play with Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving and what it was like for the Mavs to make the NBA Finals his rookie year. This interview is so great and we're excited for you all to here it.
The episode also features Pablo Torre of the podcast, "Pablo Finds Out" to talk about Mavs/Thunder, a recap on their fantasy football team and then the guys draft BEST TOYS. Let's go!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Wondry Plus. |
| 0:16.8 | Welcome in episode seven, young man in the three. |
| 0:20.8 | We got a great episode this week, Mr. Derek Lively. |
| 0:23.1 | We taped this little context. |
| 0:25.0 | We taped this last Wednesday in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:28.8 | We had a few technical difficulties with some of the post-production on it. |
| 0:32.6 | And so we're going to put this out today. |
| 0:34.8 | Mr. Jason Gallagher has decided to grace us with his presence today for a bunch |
| 0:40.4 | of reasons that we will get into. And our friend Pablo Torre, right now the leader of the |
| 0:47.6 | young man in the three fantasy football league is in the building. Pablo, what's up, dude? |
| 0:52.9 | What a season. What a season. |
| 0:54.4 | I feel like a 7 foot 1, 20 year old dominating this league with you guys, frankly. |
| 0:59.4 | Before we get to fantasy, Jason, you were at the game last night. |
| 1:02.7 | What did you think? |
| 1:04.5 | Oh, Thunder Mavs? |
| 1:06.6 | Pretty good. |
| 1:08.2 | I predicted beforehand that I thought the Thunder were going to win because they really, really, really need to win. They need to beat the Mavericks. You didn't see that kind of urgency from the Mavs side. I think there was a little bit of just like, yeah, let's try to win it. But with the Thunder, it was like, no, we need to show we can |
| 1:27.8 | we can beat this team, you know. So, yeah, it's a fun rivalry. Those fans hate Luca, more than any |
| 1:35.4 | fan base, I think, in the NBA. What does that mean? How does how do you express a unique |
| 1:39.8 | hatred of Luca? Pablo, do you know Jason's weird thing where he's basically like a fan of both |
| 1:45.1 | teams and he's gets dragged back and forth between both? Somehow, somehow, somehow he's creating |
| 1:50.6 | original musical compositions that pay tribute to Luca while living in Oklahoma City. It's very, |
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