Jabari Smith Jr. on Kevin Durant Joining the Houston Rockets and Fixing NBA All-Star Weekend
The Young Man and the Three
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4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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This week we welcome Jabari Smith Jr. of the Houston Rockets and Trey Murphy III of the New Orleans Pelicans to the show! Jabari discusses his new contract extension and the Rockets’ busy offseason, which of course included trading for Kevin Durant. He also shares what went into the Rockets rebuilding the past few years and his thoughts on herd coach Ime Udoka, and what makes his teammates Amen Thompson and Alperen Sengun such special talents. Jabari and Trey also reminisce on their summer league experiences and their first few years in the NBA before pitching ideas to fix NBA All-Star weekend. Let’s go!
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| 0:37.5 | I wasn't athletic growing up. Like, when I was, I didn't dunk until I was in ninth grade. I was 6.5. But I'm 6.4. I'm 6.4, 6.3 in 8th grade. You weren't athletic. I didn't talk about senior. He's talking about ninth grade. I mean, how does that? I was 6'5 though. Like, I'm tall. |
| 0:54.6 | You know what I'm saying? |
| 0:55.6 | Like, people in my grade is dunking. Like, it's easy. You know what I'm saying? You didn't dunk till senior year? Yes. Did you say that when you did all the dunk contest shit? Did you say that in the- I didn't tell them that, but like, if they asked me that, yeah, Yeah, I didn't dunk tells us in senior high school. |
| 0:51.8 | Man, I don't believe that. |
| 0:53.6 | First of all. |
| 0:54.1 | What you want to? |
| 0:54.6 | I'm not going to lie, buddy. |
| 0:55.6 | I can look it up. If they asked me that, yeah, I didn't dunk tells a senior high school. Man, I don't believe that, first of all. |
| 1:11.7 | What you want to? |
| 1:12.1 | I'm not going to lie, buddy. |
| 1:13.1 | I can look it up. |
| 1:31.7 | So here today, young man in the three. |
| 1:34.8 | It's been a while since we've been in these chairs, had the microphone. |
| 1:35.8 | Feels nice. |
| 1:38.0 | Tommy, how are you feeling today? |
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