Trae Young on Meeting Obama, His First All-Star Appearance, and the Importance of Vets | Winging It

Winging It With Vince Carter

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Society & Culture, Sports

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🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Vince and Annie are joined by NBA All-Star Trae Young, who starts by giving some highlights from All-Star Weekend (03:10). Then he discusses meeting President Obama and rubbing shoulders with some of his favorite players (21:46). Finally, Vince talks about the important role that vets played in improving his game, and how he hopes to follow their example (30:07). Hosts: Vince Carter and Annie Finberg Guest: Trae Young Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode of Winging It on the Ringer Podcast Network is brought to you by State Farm.
0:04.8	Just like basketball, the game of life is unpredictable.
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0:12.4	Vince, I actually thought about this ad when I watched our game against the Memphis
0:15.8	Grizzlies because we came off two big wins at home and, you know, going into the game against the
0:20.8	Grizzlies there's a good shot at winning it and it totally just got blown out.
0:24.0	So talk about unexpected in basketball.
0:26.0	We were riding on a wave of some success and I think we got comfortable and just expected, hey, we've played played well we can go out there and just it's going to happen because it's happened the last two games and we ran into a team that had a different agenda and we felt that we could win the game and oh we've been
0:46.1	down we can come back and unexpectedly enough we're down 20 and 30 and then next thing I know we're down 40 I was like wow we're not going to win this game.
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1:47.0	Hello and welcome into Winging It part of the Ringer Podcast Network. I'm your host Annie Finberg as always joined by number 15, Mr. Vince Carter.
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