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The ETCs with Kevin Durant

Rick Famuyiwa

The ETCs with Kevin Durant

Boardroom Podcast Network & Cadence13

Sports, Society & Culture

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

This week KD and Eddie are joined by famed writer, director and producer Rick Famuyiwa, known for his work on movies and TV series like The Wood, Brown Sugar, Dope, The Chi and The Mandalorian. Rick, KD and Eddie talk about Rick's journey from a highschool hoops star, to a walk on at USC and all the way through Hollywood as a filmmaker. They also discuss Rick's forthcoming Magic Johnson documentary, the difference in play styles between basketball in the 80s and basketball now, the idea of the lack of animosity in today's game, the role someone like Stacy from The Wood plays in real life neighborhoods. Plus, Kevin tries to get Rick to jump ship from his beloved Lakers to the Brooklyn Nets bandwagon and much, much more.

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0:00.0

Welcome back everybody to the Accelerus podcast with KD as always I'm Eddie Gonzalez

0:14.1

I'm here with the now 11 time all-star. I'm counting it. I don't know if it counts

0:19.0

I don't know how it works. I'm counting K. This is 11 times. Yeah, I'm counting it too.

0:23.4

I'm still excited that you made the team, man. You earned it. You deserve it. Thank you.

0:27.4

It's been dope to watch all that happened for you. I don't want to spend too much time on your job.

0:31.8

Yeah, man. I don't care about this. We got a special guest, though.

0:34.5

Yeah, man. So I want to break the 4-4 real quick and say when we put together like a list

0:40.2

of names that we wanted to talk to on this podcast, this man's name was high up on the list

0:45.0

and we were so excited that we were able to put this together, Kevin and him to have

0:50.4

busy schedules obviously and it's got a lot going on. It's got a attractive name at the

0:55.8

moment. So I want to welcome Rick, family, you may know him as the writer, director, executive

1:03.4

producer of many different things that you love and know like the wood, the shy. He's

1:08.6

done several episodes of Mandalorian. He did brown sugar. Brown sugar. Excuse me. Talk to

1:14.4

me. Our family wedding. He also directed, wrote dope. Big fan of your work, man. And we

1:19.8

have plenty to talk about. I want to start in one spot away from work, though. I did a

1:25.0

ton of research and I found out you used to be quite the basketball player. The oldest clip

1:32.0

I found of you was an article from, I believe it was 1990 in the Los Angeles Times. And you were

1:38.6

a stud at a huge camp in Santa Barbara, a couple NBA players watched this camp watch this full circle

1:44.7

moment. Couple NBA players are also in this camp including Tyson and your former head coach

1:50.4

and current assistant coach, Jacques Ron. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Man, you, man, you, you, you dug,

1:55.7

you dug in the crates. I had to, man. I had to find that. What was your, what was your game like?

2:03.0

You know, you're six, four, small four, they say? Yeah. Yeah. I'd be, look, I was one of those,

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