Where's That Tiger: Tyrus Thomas
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🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Baton Rouge native and former LSU Basketball forward Tyrus Thomas (2004-06) joins this week's edition of Where's That Tiger. A former No. 4 overall draft selection in the 2006 NBA Draft, Thomas recalls his playing days with the Tigers, talks about the importance of mental health, and gives an update on what he's doing now after his professional career.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another edition of Where's That Tiger. |
| 0:11.9 | I've got my co-host Justin Vincent and special guest today, Tyrus Thomas, former men's basketball player. |
| 0:17.7 | Welcome. |
| 0:18.6 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:20.6 | So I, word on the street, what I heard last time we were chatting, y'all two lived across |
| 0:26.3 | from each other at LSU. |
| 0:29.3 | I was like, oh, I got to hear some of those stories. |
| 0:32.2 | There's no stories. |
| 0:33.1 | There's no stories. |
| 0:34.3 | We had different lifestyles. |
| 0:36.2 | We had different schedules, the whole nine. But yeah, we crossed many a paths. Okay. Back in the day, old West Campus apartment. He was grouchy. You was grouchy. I'm still grouchy. When Allie would like to be wild. Oh, yeah, he's the one. |
| 1:14.2 | JV would be mad. Like, man, y'all get out of here with all that. He actually just texted me last night. Asked me about a basketball game. I was like, hey, man, I didn't know what number it was. He changed his numbers like he changed his underwear, so we don't never know who's calling you. But I realized it was him. I love that. y'all keep up with a lot of former teammates and just former student athletes. |
| 1:14.2 | Like, how's that? was calling you, but I realized it was him. I love that. Y'all keep up with a lot of former teammates and just former student athletes. |
| 1:17.8 | Like, how's that relationship continue to grow past the college days? |
| 1:27.1 | I think, you know, it's one of those things with, like, you know, you spend so much time around people that even those two, three years, |
| 1:30.1 | whatever it is, it seems more than, you know, a casual relationship because of the bonds |
| 1:36.9 | that you might have, you know. |
| 1:39.1 | I know, especially for our time, just going through Katrina, it was a big, you know, it was a lot of downtime and a lot of unusual events that kind of |
| 1:47.7 | brought guys together for things that probably would last normal than, longer than normal. |
| 1:55.3 | Yeah, that's true. |
| 1:57.0 | So one of the things that we like to talk about is where you are now and take us through the path of |
| 2:03.2 | Leaving Baton Rouge back to Baton Rouge and how we are today |
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