Welcome back to the et cetera's podcast, always on your host Eddie Gonzalez, and today I have a special guest host, the first person to come back.

So, you know, that distinction. My guy, Kairi Irving. Kairi. How you living, man?

Great, man. Great taking it one day at a time, blessed. So, we come in. This is two days since the unceremonious into your season.

Yeah. How sooner are you back in the gym? Like, you was open this morning or?

No, no. I had to decompress, reflect, and it's only been 48 hours.

Right. So, this was so much you could do in that amount of time, but I've just been at home with my family, you know, really just dedicating time with them,

being intentional with all that, and just catching up on things that I probably missed out on throughout the season.

So, I heard, I just need you to confirm this room. I heard you play one on three as far as you're training.

And just, who, like, just get down to it. That is true. I can confirm that.

What are you doing that for?

Just trying to work on so many different situations that you can come across the game.

You know how mad I'd be if I was one of the three. And I scored.

That's the point. That's the point, man. But honestly, it's just having a creative way to look at the game, you know, just somebody's on my left, somebody's on my right.

It's not always going to be like that. But, you know, when you have somebody contesting you and bumping you a little bit more, it helps.

So, I'll just try to be creative in my workouts.

Like decent bodies. So, this isn't like me and my two boys. These are like, you know, these are players.

These are players, you know. They're not playing at the highest level that I'm at, but they definitely are part of my team.

When we go into the summertime or when I'm trying to get back in shape, they help me out.

That tripped me out. I'm like, yo, but I bet you kill doing it either way, which is the worst part about this whole thing.

So, this season has been a roller coaster. You've talked a ton about all of this.

I feel like you've been while open, you know, as far as these are controversial things, these things as people are worried about.

What I wondered as a fan, as somebody closely to the situation, was there ever a point in there where you're like, nah, I'm just going to just come back.

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