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Roommates Show with Jalen Brunson & Josh Hart
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | No gloss, no filter. |
| 0:03.1 | Just stories. |
| 0:04.8 | Spoken without fear. |
| 0:06.5 | Person who is not generous can not be an artist. |
| 0:09.4 | The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers. |
| 0:14.3 | Listen to my weekly podcast, the Pooja Abhaw on the IHeart Radio app, |
| 0:18.5 | Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:23.2 | Come for the honesty. |
| 0:24.9 | Stay for the fire. |
| 0:28.5 | Was it that conversation that made you realize you can go to the NBA or had you known prior to that? |
| 0:32.8 | No, I think after my sophomore year, I probably had an idea. |
| 0:40.0 | Like, I averaged 20 my freshman year. |
| 0:44.2 | And, you know, we had some, we had Shaq, you know, Chris Jackson. |
| 0:49.8 | I mean, we had MASH. |
| 0:51.1 | We had some really good, you know, spree, playing against spree a lot in college. |
| 0:56.9 | So we had some really good individual players at SEC. |
| 1:00.7 | My sophomore year, I was 22. |
| 1:03.9 | And then that was when I think a lot of people started asking. |
| 1:07.9 | And I'm like, I never thought about, you know, going early after my sophomore |
| 1:12.6 | year, right? And then after my junior year is when I really considered it. I think I knew, |
| 1:18.5 | I think I knew more probably my sophomore year that I was probably, probably ready. |
| 1:23.7 | You lied. I did. Your sophomore year you ever's 23.7. |
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