Nikola Vucevic on His “Welcome to the NBA” Moment, Love for Batman, and More | Off Guard

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🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Austin and Pausha welcome two-time All-Star and current Chicago Bulls center Nikola Vucevic for an in-person, in-depth chat on everything from his brief time with the Philadelphia 76ers to becoming an All-Star with the Orlando Magic to the trade that eventually sent him to the Bulls (21:14). The guys also dive into Nikola’s off-court interests as he explains his love for Batman, ‘Star Wars,’ and his car collection (53:43), before throwing him into the deep end for another classic edition of Rapid Fire (69:23). Hosts: Austin Rivers and Pausha Haghighi Guest: Nikola Vucevic Producers: Ben Cruz and Eduardo Ocampo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:59.5	What's up everybody? Welcome to another episode of Op-Card. I'm Pasha. As always, I'm joined by my guy Austin.
1:09.1	And today's an awesome episode. I'm really excited because one of my good friends is going to be our
1:14.0	guest, Austin, who's going to tell the audience who's with us. There we got Boots of Bitch to the House,
1:18.0	bro. Big dog. Nickel of Boots of Bitch. Boots of Bitch. Boots of Bitch. Yeah, what's going on?
1:24.4	What's going on, man? I'm really excited to do this because I feel like,
1:28.0	obviously, I know you really well, but a lot of people don't know that much about you. You're a
1:31.4	really good player that people don't know a lot about. Reserved. He's a reserved guy.
1:36.0	Take a quiet type of thing. You do your business and then off to court, you're completely just,
1:42.3	you know what I mean? I know a little bit about you. You know way more about him, obviously.
1:46.8	But yeah, the world, I feel like, because you just don't like, you could probably do a lot more
1:50.2	in terms of like social media, Instagram, all these different things. And you just kind of choose
1:54.9	to be more of just to, you know, just do your work, kind of go back overseas, hang your Orlando,
2:00.2	chill out. Yeah, I'm not only have proved like social media, only have Twitter, mainly just to kind of
2:06.8	read the news, you know, see what's going on in the world, things like that. I'll tweet here in
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