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The ETCs with Kevin Durant

Isiah Thomas

The ETCs with Kevin Durant

Boardroom Podcast Network & Cadence13

Sports, Society & Culture

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week, KD and Eddie talk to NBA legend Isiah Thomas. The two-time NBA champion discusses everything from his Hall of Fame career, to his time as an executive and head coach in the league. Plus, Isiah talks his upbringing on the westside of Chicago, how the vaunted Chicago style of basketball helped his game, and how he foresaw the evolution of basketball into the game we all see and love now. Finally, Isiah talked about his reverence for today's players, including KD, and his fit in a modern league and much, much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back everybody to the et cetera's podcast so always I'm your host Eddie

0:12.9

Gonzalez and I'm joined by my guy still the leading scorer in the NBA Kevin

0:19.8

Durant. 30 points a game now. Do you care about that number?

0:24.1

Not really. Oh yeah I do I actually do. I actually do. I want to score as much as

0:30.3

I can every night. Yeah. I know when we debate you you hold scoring titles

0:36.8

high in your hierarchy of like accomplishments so I know you can be fake

0:41.9

modest but I know you care. You want to win the scoring title. It's like I I want

0:46.1

to play my best and if it happens cool if it doesn't I'm not tripping. That

0:51.3

makes sense. That makes sense. So look we're joined by another NBA legend one of

0:57.2

the greatest of all times a lot of people call them the greatest pound for pound

1:00.9

which I think is probably true. I think it's you know all things considered two

1:06.8

time NBA champion finals MVP 12 time All-Star Hall of Famer executive coach

1:13.6

he's done it all. He's done it all. We'll talk about it. We're joined by Isaiah

1:17.4

Thomas Isaiah. How are you living? I'm good you know it's I'm really honored to be

1:22.9

here and you know just all is good I got food in the refrigerator I can pay the

1:29.1

rent I had a card that I can drive and you're really growing up you know that's

1:33.7

that's all I ever dreamed of so everything else is icing on the cake so I'm good so

1:40.9

how are you enjoying the TV side we see you every night what I appreciate most

1:45.6

about you is you you're positive when it comes to the new generation of

1:50.5

players some guys get on TV and trash them they you know they remind us about

1:54.7

their their generation who but you you're one of the few who is consistently big

1:59.5

up in these guys basically how how are you enjoying that side of the game well I

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