March 3, 2023 • 45 mins
Tyrese talks about how he fell in love with basketball, why he looked up to his Dad, Allen Iverson, and Dwyane Wade as a kid, and what was said in the locker room after the huge comeback win over the Grizzlies. He also addresses his reaction to moving to the Sixth Man role this season, and the mental and physical struggles of dealing with an injury.
Tyrese sits down with his Mom, Dad and Uncle Brandon for a conversation about how they have motivated and supported him, why tough love was sometimes required (even from Mom), and Uncle Brandon reveals the most annoying thing about living with Tyrese these past 3 years.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Direse story. Oh my goodness, Direse Maxie is on fire. Yo.
What's up everybody. It's Tyrese Maxie here with my new podcast.
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MAXI on the mic, last name Maxie, and I'm talking
through a mic. So that's pretty cool. You know, this
is great. I'm extremely happy, extremely excited to start this
new podcast and be able to have these conversations and
be able to have these type of moments with y'all
because and I'm extremely open person. I love to have conversation.
I love to be authentic, and throughout this podcast, I
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wanted to be something that I can come on here
and tell my side of the story and show who
I am, show my personality, and I want to have
other people come on here and be able to tell
their side of the story. Extremely authentic, no fake, it's
just straight real. Today in this first episode, I want
to be able to go through some things that are
very important to my life. I would have some family members,
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three family members here that's been in my circle since
day one. And I also want to talk about how
I feel in love with the game and things out
like through outside of basketball. This is post dub against
the Grizzlies. Number two team in the West post All
Star Break, the Grizzs are really good team, really really
really good team. Two All Stars and John Murine and
Jared Jackson junior um. Those two are very dynamic and
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hard to stop. But they also have other pieces like
Desmond Baine, who is in an established young guard who
who's a baller. You know he's a baller. He shoots
the ball well. And it was a dog fight last night,
man dog fight last night. I was extremely proud of
my teammates. Tobias Harris had big shots, Joelanbad was with
Joel and Bad and James Harden was at the end
of the day, you know, he's stepped back harding for
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a reason, and you know we were able to pull
out of I fell in love with basketball. I feel
like I tell everybody. As soon as I came out
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the womb. The first thing that I remember the pictures
of me, I have a stuffed basketball in my hand,
and I had to be in hell with my mom,
with my dad or one of my grandmothers, and that's
all I remember from from the beginning of my life.
I remember having to go to tournament or high school
basketball games, or going to the gym with my father
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as soon as I got as soon as I got
out of school, and I'm staying there to eight o'clock,
nine o'clock, you know, before I even got to go
home and do all my homework and different things like that,
because that's that's just the life that I lived. And
my dad being a high school basketball coach, and he
was a Division one basketball player who knew the game,
who taught me the game. It's funny, I always tell
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people I was a fifth no, not even the fifth grade,
a second grade, eight nine years old, however older you
are in the second third grade, and my father had
me watching film. He had me watching film at the games,
like we'll go we'll play a game in New Orleans,
we'll lose in the final four, drive all the way home,
eight hours back to the Garland, Texas. And as soon
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as we get there, you know, most kids probably want
to go outside and play or get in the video
game and play bad or two k. He has me
coming up to the media room, setting me down at
ages eight and nine, rewatching basketball games. And at the time,
I'm like, dude, what are we doing here? Like why
are we rewatch this game? Happened? In the past, and
it's funny. I look back on it today and after
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every single game, I'm asking the coach for the film,
I'm watching the film. I'm watching the film at halftime
of the what happens in the end the game in
the first half, and he just made me so much
more of a student of a game. And all I
can do is appreciate him for that. My idol growing
up was one my father, because he was somebody who
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you know, he was a small guard. Everything was against him,
um and I used to tell people my dad's my
favorite player. You know, there's like, who your dad or
dad in the NBA. I'm like, no, my dad never
made it to the NBA, but he beat the odds.
He made it out of where he was from at
Hill Chris High School, and he was able to go
play the Vision one. Now on the NBA side, I
think I would have to say my two favorite players
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that I really liked. Is one reason why I wore
number three all the way up til I got to
the sixers. And of course I can't wear that there
because mister Alan Iverson, Uh, that's there's there's a reason
that that number that Jerseys on the wall Iverson. I
can't kill the crowd on the steat Alan from Yeah,
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but Alan Iverson was one and d Way was my
was my main favorite player, and uh, the Wayne Wade.
It's funny because I did a commitment video going to Kentucky.
I did in my junior late in my junior high
school and I hadn't met Dwayne Wade yet. And I'm
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going to an air U tournament and I see that
Dwayne Wade has quote tweeted, quote tweeted my announcement, my
commitment announcement. This is before I even met him. This
is crazy, before I even met him, and he quote tweeted,
Now that's how you make an announcement. And I'm like
running around with my phone showing all my family, like yo,
d Way, he just he just retweeted like he quote
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tweeted what I said, you know, my my announcement. And
I was I was freaking out in his funny. So
going into the weekend, I don't know I'm gonna see him,
and I see him walking out the gym and you know,
he's walking out with security and I like not chasing
that the room, but I'm like like, yo, the way,
like look trying to show him on my phone. It's curious,
like hey, stop, stop and I was like no, no, no, no,
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I'm just trying to show him, like tell him thank
you that he retweeted my my announcement. But but no,
I think those are those three people my father, Dwayne Wade,
and m Alan Iverson or people who are very influential
to who I am today. I feel like to jump
this podcast off the right way. I have to dive
into myself and dive into my family origin before I
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start bringing in others and talking more in depth about basketball.
I have to basically saying I have to show high
got here and show you all the people that have
been in my circle and been in my corner since
day one. And uh, those are my mom and my
father of course, and my uncle Brandon and a lot
of people know now you know that my uncle he
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lives with me. He came up here with me. He
stopped everything that he was doing, and h he's been
he's been in my corner since day one. You know,
he's been in my corner since day one. Telling me.
He used to always he's always say where we're going.
I would say, we're going to the green room, which is,
which is kind of funny because I didn't even get
to attend the draft because of COVID, but we still
had that same we had that same mentality. But but yeah,
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those three are very important in my life. You know,
I don't make a decision without conversion with all three
of them. It doesn't matter what it is and what
it's about, not just basketball, and that's just life in general.
And I really do appreciate them because it's the journey
of being in the NBA, the challenges that it brings.
Behind the scenes, nobody sees that. All everybody sees us
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out there playing on TNT or ESPN or where we're
playing and having a lot of fun and making this
amount of dollars, but it's stressed that it's involved and
that they really helped me with. So coming up off
the breakum, you know, we're gonna talk a little bit
more about that. And I can't wait for y'all to
do tune in for it. All right, ch'all, we're here,
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Maxee on the mic, And like I said, I have
my father all the way to my left, mom right
next to my left, and Uncle Brandon to my right,
and we're just gonna talk know we're gonna have a
good conversation right now. It's here. We're here Friday night
post Grizzlies, dubbed pre dinner. You know, we're kind of hungry.
But uh, but that that that's that's a different story.
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But yeah, today I'm gonna ask him a few questions.
Then we're gonna have a conversation. They're gonna have a
conversation about life, have a conversation about how we got
here today and meant for a new jersey right outside
of Philadelphia, and I think it would be great. I
kind of want to start with my mom because she
is like a background. She she holds it all together
in the background. A lot of people, you know, they
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know her, they know it when they see her faith,
but they don't know how much she puts into this. Uh.
You know, we always talk about my pops. We always
talk about unk. Being here with me makes me taking
care of the day to day stuff. But Moms is
in the background. She not she she knows a little
bit about hoops. She knows a little bit about hoops.
She played a little bit when she was when she
was in high school. But that's not she always, that's
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not her specialty. Um, she's more of a and a motivator,
she's more of a lover. She's more of someone who
who tells me that everything's gonna be okay and that
as she believes in me. So I kind of want
to talk to her. My first question to start to
jump this office. Mom, when you sit down in front
of the TV screen at six thirty your time, seven
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thirty my time, and the game is about to come on,
what is your thought process? What's going through your mind?
Did you ever see your son, you know, the person
that you held, your only son out there playing with
these guys of the names of James Hardens and the
Jolan Bees against the Lebron James Is and the John
Marint and guys of that nature. Well, I guess that's
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a good question. When I sit down, or when I'm
prepping to get finished up my day and rushing to
the TV, or even if I'm here preparing to go
to the game, and the first thing I think about
is gratefulness. You know, and I'm sure the world will
now know that I am a very very humble person,
very grateful person. So I really try my best not
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to put myself into a fan zone. With you at that.
For many many years, I've just tried to stay in
the spot. This is just my son. It's my son.
Yes he is an extremely good player on the court,
but over everything, this is my son. This is what
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I think about. I don't. I just I don't really
do a lot of social media. As you know. I
try to look now just I think it's interesting to
see what you have on, but I stay away from
social media. I never ever read articles. Um, I don't
listen to what they say on any of the station.
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I don't. I do my best to just stay in
a mom zone, and I think that helps me. So
when I do sit down, I'm really just watching my son.
I'm just watching my son play. I'm not watching Yes
it is Terrys Max, and yes Terrys Max is my son.
But I'm watching my son do what he has loved
to do since I can remember, which was maybe for
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three or four years old. When we went on our
first Disney World vacation. Everybody knows I'm a huge making
my span. So our first vacation that we took as
a family, we went to Disney World. Hold everybody up
in the car and we have some footage I believe
we have some footage of you. You were like three
years old and you're dribbling the ball but behind the back,
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between the legs, I mean, just going crazy with the ball.
So those are the things I think about, like, Wow,
that little three year old has now worked himself into
playing alongside the best players in the world. So when
I sit down at six thirty Central Standard time and
flip on my TV, I'm just grateful. I'm grateful that,
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you know, we had somewhat of a role in helping
you achieve your dream. Yeah, no, I appreciate that. I
think I'm assumingly grateful for y'all as well, because, of course,
without God, we wouldn't be here. But without you, I
wouldn't be the man I am today and the basketball
player I am today because my pops. Cool breeze. That's
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what I call my dad. Y'all, cool breeze man. Everybody
out there that that's listening to this, that no, cool breeze. No,
he cool as I don't know what I don't know,
and cool as cool a fan. He's cool as a fan.
And that's just the South Dallas and them guys. You know,
that's you know. But anyways, cool breeze. You know, I'm
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extremely thankful for him because he has made it to
where I don't need a coach. I don't need anybody media.
I don't need their affirmation about how I played. I
don't need them to tell me I played good. I
don't need them to praise me. I don't need that.
I don't need that because he created an environment of
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tough love, which was really good for me, where he
was always on me to be the best version of
Tarist Max that I could be. He I tell people,
he only told me I played good, like a good game,
like once in my life, once or twice maybe. I
think one I can remember was when we lost my
junior year in high school. We lost that state I
had I broke, I broke a state record, you know,
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and I was crying and all that because he won
a championship his junior year in high school, and I
really that was like my main goals. That's one of
the main reason I even stayed in public school. And
I wanted to be better than him, and I wanted
to win that and win state. But that didn't happen, unfortunately,
And he still lets me know that to this day,
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and the other time I think was win game one
of the of the first round last year. You know,
we beat the Raptors and I had like thirty eight
or something like that. We said early on, this is
a key match up stan Fleet and Maxie, and you
can see tonight Maxie is a big winner. And uh
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you know he he, I think you here. I don't
think you were here. Were you here? You were here
when we played the Raptors game one last ye yeah
he was here, and uh you know he This was
a this was a less a less good job. This
was more of like a all right man, good game now.
But you got a game in two days. They gotta
get locked back in like that. That gave it over
with what you know. All you can do is to
appreciate that, because that's something who we always keep me focused,
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keep me humbling. Ain't know. I love him for that
and and adjusted to introduce him cool reason. I kind
of want you to talk about what you thought. What
was the emotions going through your mind when we sat
around twenty draft that November eighteenth, in our in the
comfort of our own home that y'all built. That Mom
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was telling me a story you know the other day
that y'all know how y'all were going to get that house,
and that's a different story. But how did you feel
when you know the commissioner says, with the twenty first
overall picked, the Philadelphia seventy six are going to select
Tyres Maxie, your son, and a dream come to your
mind and dream that you probably had a lot of
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kids half. With the twenty first pick in the twenty
twenty NBA draft, the Philadelphia seventy six or selected Tyres
Maxie from the University of Kentucky and rifle and sold
for Tyres Maxie. What was going through your mind through
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that time? Man? First of all, I said to myself
to my friends back in South Baba, I wasn't gonna
pry when I saw you crying or whatever, and all
emotions just hit me like, uh, you made it. You
made it to this stage. Man. Everybody that I know
wanted to play in the NBA, and so it was
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great to see that man like me, being a basketball
guy through and through, to see my son make it
to the high it was amazing, amazing, Philip. For me,
it still is today. And by the way, I have
I've told you you played one well more than two.
I don't know. I think maybe at the most five. Well,
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I'll say one time in the NBA, one time he said,
because if you told me, you told him he played
well and then the next game you didn't play as well.
And he said, I'm never telling him. I told him
he played well last time, and you go out there
and do this. I've never said it again. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah,
and uh, but yeah, that's just a relationship that we had. Man.
You know, he'll call me after blue sometimes he'll call
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me and he just Now it's funny. Back back in
the day though, back in high school and when I
was younger, it was it was all strictly business with him.
It was all business and it was all about getting
better every single day, which he still is about that.
But now he'll just called a check on me. He'll
call a check on my mentor he'll called a check
on see how the body's feeling. Um, you know, he
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knows that I'm doing the right store. He laid the
foundation at an early age for me to just carry
on that tradition. But uh, lastly, before we get into
a nice stove conversation, I want to interest my uncle.
Y'all know Uncle B. Everybody out there that's listening to this,
that um that has been a part of my life
knows Uncle B is the mastermind behind everything nowadays and
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we go to him for everything. And I really do
appreciate him because he's been here since day one as well.
He has, Like I said earlier, he was the one
who was saying where we're going, and it was to
the green room. And I saw every time I saw him,
every day, every you know, he came over a lot,
came to the house a lot. But and every time
I saw him, he said, now before we're going, I said,
to the green room and he said all right, and
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then he'll walk out. And it's funny that, you know,
those dreams really come true. And um, and I want
to ask you from an uncle perspective. You know you
you always tell people it's funny, like they're like, who
who are you? When we're walking we were walking somewhere
we had a parents and say who are you? You
You like use homie or something. You're like, nah, I'm
his uncle. That my little nephew. He always makes sure
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that that people know, Like it was like, oh you
you make sure you're good. He's like yeah, he's gonna
I'm gonna make sure he's straight. So you know when
when your sister called you and says, um, Brandon, I'm
going to send you up there with Tyrese and uh,
I need you to and uh and for y'all don't know,
my mom is my mom was a little different. Okay,
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mom was a little different. She don't play by the kids.
So when she calls her brother, one of my only brothers,
that says, I'm setting you up there with Tyrese and
I need you to look out for him and you
to take Carol, make sure he's straight. I want to
know what's going through your mind right now. You're a
big sister, someone who you looked up to. You always
said you looked up to her. She's calling you and
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asking you for your help with her son. Well, what's
going through your mind? Then? Well, when my sister called
me first of all, then she caught it. It was
not that pleasant. But no, when she called and we talked,
we had talked about it prior. I think maybe when
you first went to Kentucky. I think we had talked then.
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And I went to Kentucky with my brother in law,
with your pops and We had the conversation then and
we talked about the week. We sat down in the
kitchen like we normally do as a family. We had
a discussion, we talked about it. At that point, I
was like, what what does that look like? So then
she explained and I was like, okay, talk to you.
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And you said the same thing. He was like, yeah,
you know, I want you to come along, want you
to come up here, be with my pops, to be
with me. Um. Then when the time came for you
got drafted to Philly, same conversation. It was like, all right, now,
look this is what this is gonna be. This is
what you got to do. Are you ready? And I'm
like yeah, I mean of course this is not only
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just her son, this is my nephew. So it was
it was a no brainer. And never been to Philly before,
didn't know what to expect, never been away from my
kids before like that. Also, didn't know how that was
going to feel, how that was gonna affact me. I
was gonna affact them. But you know, your sister comes
calling and saying she needs you, what are you gonna say? So,
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if there's anything that any of us or any any
all four of us right here could change or do
different or do better in the last three years and
to span the last two years, what if anything, what
would y'all change or what would y'all do better? And
I'll let anybody answer, whoever wants to go first. For me,
I'll go first. Actually for me, I would I would change.
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I know y'all had to. I know y'all had to
stay with an age y'all. I know y'all, I know that,
But I would ask you too if y'all could have
came and kind of stayed up here with me and Brandon,
like right away. We stayed in LA for a long
time together, so we kind of just smooth transition into it.
But I would ask y'all to stay because I didn't
know what to expect. I had no clue what to
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expect coming into the league. Thank god he was here though,
because I could lean on him. I could come back
from practice, I can come back from games when I
was frustrated, when I didn't play as much or I
didn't play at all, and I can kind of lean
on him and uh, and I really appreciate him for that.
We could you know he would, he would, he would say, Man,
you gotta a last rookie year, and he would make it.
He will make a joke out of it and make
me laugh about it. And then I was able to
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to kind of snap out of it. But I wouldn't
say I would. I would have wished y'all had you
get y'all, but y'all are busy, you know, and that's
why y'all sent him. But I wish y'all was able
to come around a little bit more at that time,
because even though I could call y'all any time, I
call you all the time, that was tough, you know,
being a rookie and someone who I thought I could.
I'm like, man, I could ball right now, I could
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start for this team right now, and that was that
was a little tough. But I let whoever wants talk now.
I think if there was one thing that I could change,
it wouldn't be necessarily anything to do with like you
being Philly. It would be like to see you play
in the tournament in college. Yeah, if I could go
back and see that again, if I could change that
and see that happened, I would love to have seen
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that happen. I think that's the one thing that you know,
we talked about a lot like, man, what if you
would have got to play in the actual tournament? For sure,
I'll tell you this right now, if I played in
this tournament, I wouldn't be into a Duffie And now
so I don't as certain instime, I'm glad. I am
glad that I didn't play in the tournament because I
got drafted to a spot that I loved, and uh,
this is an amazing spot for me. For me, I'm
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I want to speak for both of us, but I
don't know that I would change anything. I think that
every I'll say, mistake, every challenge, it happened, and we learned.
We grew through this. These last three years, I mean
we're we're tight, Like my husband and I are super
super tight. These last three years, I don't even say
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the last five years since twenty nineteen have challenged us
to our core on so many levels, and so we've
had to learn how to adjust to so many different things.
We've had to make a couple of mistakes, but luckily
we were really good listeners as we prepared for you
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for this stage. We listened to you know, we went
to as many parent prep events we could go to
from the NBPA to the us USA, UM to McDonald's.
You know, those platforms gave us the tools that we
needed to kind of prep and prepare for this for
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you to be in the spot. So with us going
through those things, we kind of put as much pre
work in as we possibly could to get here. Um.
So we did make a few errors, but I don't
know that I would change anything. I think everything that
we've accomplished as a unit so far has made us
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you know who we are today, So I'm not changing things.
I got a major change. Man. Man, I shouldn't tell
you you played bet a lot more. No, you should have. No,
you shouldn't have to tell you that. That's one of
the best things that ever happened to me, honest like,
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and that's not just that, that goes way beyond even basketball,
Like that just made me this competitor at life, Like
I wanted to be so good that I wanted to
I wanted to make I wanted to make him say, man,
you you did all of a job today. You know
what I'm saying. And that's that's that's where I was,
and that that made me this, this this person that
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I am today, That he did it because I sit
back now and even though we have had some some knockdown,
drag out fights behind closed doors, because I felt like
he was just so tough on you. And the one
thing the turning point for us was one day, what
was that he was eighth grade and we were arguing
about how tough he was on you, and I was like,
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you can't be this tough on him. You need to
lighten up a little bit. And he said, they you
do a good job as a parent, but you're gonna
have to let me make this dude into a man.
And from that, he said, if you can't take it
what I'm saying to him, then go in the room
and close the door, go outside for a walk, but
do what you need to do. But I'm gonna make
this dude into a man. And I said, Okay, I
get it. And so now when I see you, and
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even if you're going through whatever, I know in your
heart and in your mind that you're strong enough to
overcome it because your dad is instead old you with
all the tools to do something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And
you know you just love him for that. And and
I think that both of y'all's what y'all done is
the foundation came from Nana and Mimi. And while I'm
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on here, I want to say quick things about them
before I go to my last question to this segment.
Nana who is my uncle's and my mother's mom? And
me me who it was my my father's mom. And
those two right there create a foundation. Me and Unt
talked about it all the time. We tell people that
are like, man, where yall family dynamic come from? How
did y'all? Where did y'all get this from? And I say, man,
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those two right there then moving into the house with
with us and uh, you know, being close to UNC
as well. Them moving into the house changed everything. I
felt like they let y'all. Y'all were able to work
and do whatever y'all need to do. Y'all y'all knew
y'all were you know, y'are sitting us into good hands
with the kids, with with Memi and Nanna, them being
able to live there and get along. Nope, I mean,
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like you know, me and untalking about all the time. No,
I'm jumping all over the place. But during COVID there
was thirteen I think Mom, maybe it was over exaction,
but it was at least ten to thirteen people in
that house. Twelve It was twelve people in that house
for three months. Three months. Yeah, it was not one argument,
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not one argument every single day, physical altercation and physical
because you're ready for us to go, what's that ya go?
But it was about twelve thirteen people. You know what
that was like, Yeah, feed us and they're listening to you.
Your sisters fight every single night, every single night about it.
We were, you know, listening that this goes into competitive
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nature that that they installed in us, Like we sit
there and play taboo. We're sitting there playing taboo, and
my sisters would leave the room so mad that we
had this like routine, We'll play, will eat dinner, play
taboo off, fall asleep watching the movie together. So it
got to the point where we were playing taboo and
they would lose, playing like male first female. They would lose,
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and they wouldn't talk to us. First night they go
to the room, they just they're like, no, we're not
watching that movie, y'all cheated. I'm like, yo, we're just
trying to watch the movie and go to sleep. But like,
but no, back to what I was saying, nan ain't
med me set a foundation for all of us and
set the foundation for all of us to follow. And
the kind of just trick it down to y'all, which
made a trigger down the Unk, which he trickled down
to us. And now I feel like Kiera trickling down
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as the twins. And it's just it's one big family
and we all see eye to eye, raw step in
the same direction. Uh, there's no mishaps. There's no mishaps.
And because we're that that close knit family, everything is
has worked out so well. But this one for you?
So the last what for you or however long it's
business we've been in la. What is something that you
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could say, you could tell somebody and you ain't gotta lie.
You know this, This is authentic. I told y'all at
the beginning the Pocket, It's gonna be very authentic. Say
we need to say, um, what is the most annoying
thing that that I do? That why you have to
live here? What's like, Oh my gosh, what's wrong with this? Dude?
We're not asking y'all, we're asking Unk. So what what
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what do you have? What you got for me? On
after after living with you for the last four when
we had long how long has you been three years,
three years. If there was one thing I can say,
if I had to tell people that's the most annoying
is access is two two things. One is that this
kid is energy level is at a hundred from and
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he wakes up at six in the morning and probably
don't go to bed till about one o'clock. The second
part of that is he has a dog and they
have the exact same energy level and enthusiasm and they
go all day long, all day long. It's it's it's amazing. Now,
it's amazing that it's fun. It's you know, and I
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know what I want to say, though he can complaining
only one but it's keeping them young and them great
hair is they're slowly coming in. They're not they're not
coming in as fast as that was. You know, turned
thirty nine a couple of days ago and you only
got a little great Harry. So I think it's keeping
me young. I think it's keeping me young. But you know, honestly,
I appreciate y'all, not just coming on the day, but
I appreciate all of you guys, what y'all have done
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for myself, the sacrifices that y'all have made. Mom Dad,
as I tell these people it is all the time.
One reason why I go out here and play extremely
hard and compete at a high level and trying to
be the best version of Tyrrest Maxie I can't every
single night is because you would tell me, Mom, you
came out on the court and told me one time.
They put in a lot of their hard earned money
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to get me here, and I played. I played au games,
We drove across, we drove from telling the story. I'm
about to tell them that that I'm about to tell them,
so to wrap this up, let me let me get
y'all of this story right here, and to get y'all
to really understand how dedicated my parents are. And it's
not just me. They do the same thing for my
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little sister, to do the same thing for my my
older sisters, and they'll do it for anybody, you know,
any one of our family members, but for me in particular.
We drive from third or fourth grade, I can't remember,
it's fourth grade, playing fifth grade. So we drive all
the way from Garland, Texas. If y'all don't know, that's
where I'm from a city outside of Dallas, Garland, Texas,
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to Detroit Michigan for fifth grade National. I'm in fourth grade,
but it's fifth grade national, So as a fourth grade
of what are you nine ten? Maybe I think you
are nine nine? You're nine years old. Okay, Now, let's
really put this in perspective right here, guys, I am
nine years old, nine years old, and this basketball is fun.
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You know, it's fun. It's a thing to do. It's
a fun thing to do. I am not playing to
the ability that I'm able to play. At the whole weekend,
probably the whole week I wasn't playing great. Let's have
time of a like a consolation game and it's a
winner go home. Either we win and we stay and
played a little bit longer, or we lose and we
go home and I have like two points. I got
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two as a half time just not playing good, not
being aggressive, night shooting the ball, just not being me.
And I'm thinking, all right, my dad's gonna go off
at halftime because he was an assistant coach, or the
coach is gonna go off on us at half time,
so they you know, you know, and you kind of
like walk into like the hallway to talk. You walk
into the hallway to talk to your coach. Man, I
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go into the hallway, that door closed, and I hear
don't put steps of my mom coming into that door.
I'm thinking it's my dad. My mom opened that door.
She snatched me up and said, boy, I don't spend
all that's hard on money. I don't enjoy all the
way I don't know way. I don't spend money that
I don't even have. I don't spend money. I ain't
got to get you here, and you're gonna go out
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here and act like here and playing like you ain't
got no sense. Boy, you man, look at here, y'all.
I'm sitting there like, oh my goodness, and like y'all
if y'all really know me. My mom she don't say
anything at game. She's sitting the stands or wherever she
is and don't say anything for her. It probably took it.
Probably I probably had gotten on her last nerd for
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this week and for her to come out, come out
the stands and pulled me to the side before my
dad even got to me, before my pop's even got Tommy.
She went, oh man, she just she let me have it.
And I would never forget that day. And I know
beginning that half for two points, and I ended that
half with like twenty two points. I was going off
in that second half. I'm moved by I don't want
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to say I'm like this no more. But she's a
you know, she's superwoman. We called superwoman for a breeze
and and uh, she said, boy, you I don't spend
every time. I don't got to get you here every dime.
I ain't got to get you here. You're gonna go
out you you better go out there and play like
you knew how to play. I get you up behind
back out there. The halftime, s people was over. There
was no coach, there was no there was no cool breeze,
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there was nothing. Man after that, you know, we never
had a moment like that again. But but yeah, I
appreciate y'all coming on here today and helping me, helping
you mad at me and we're talking to him that
way and you went off on him, and she want
me mad. Even in eighth grade, that was necessary. We
had a tough week trying to get the fun together
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to get that trip. So yeah, I was, yeah, I
don't even I mean, I remember, I remember what I said,
but I do remember the game change and we want no,
the game definitely changed. They definitely changed. But yeah, I
appreciate y'all coming on here and help me kick this off.
You know, this is a special deal for me, and
this is special to be able to have this platform
and communicate and you know, express my feelings, express how
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I feel, express my experiences and also trying to give
other people platform to come on here and express their
experiences of life and different things like that. And uh,
I really appreciate y'all and love you guys. And uh
that's a rap. Okay, we're gonna take a quick break,
but next we're gonna have some some fun topics. We're
gonna talk about this game versus the Grizzlies. Like I
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said earlier, Big Tom w you know, number two team
in the West, two all stars, up and coming team.
We're gonna talk a little bit more about, you know,
my year, the ups and downs of NBA season, the
third season, which a lot of people say is a
season that you proved yourself in. You know how I
start off fast, got hurt, trials and tribulations, come back,
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start with a slump, getting consistent, and ramp it back up.
And uh, and to let y'all know that it's really
good to talk to people when you're down. And for
the mental health aspect, you know, it's it's good to
help that a lot of people can help you and
find people that are able to help you and build
you up when you when you need it. So it's
gonna be great. Welcome back to MAXI on the mic
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here with Tyres Maxie with the mic in front of me.
I want to talk a bit about the season so
far and give you guys a little inside perspective on
the life of being in bea player. I feel like
I started out the season really well and uh, you
know the foot injury that I had, um, you know,
mentally and physically, it took a toll on me. I
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mean I was able to snap out of it, but
it really hurt me for a little bit. How this field,
I was right there, he see the look out his face.
He liked how it came off his hands. Just couldn't
get it to go. Oh. Now, mactually is hobbling. And
that's the last thing anyone he's a fan of the
Sixers or Doc Rivers wants to see with all the
guards they have injured coming into this game, he's gonna
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try to walk it off here. Oh yeah, he stepped
on Javon Carter's foot. It's gonna tie up the shoelace.
Got another look at it here and turned that ankle.
This is my first year coming into training camp knowing
what my role was. I knew what my role was.
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I knew what the team inspected of me. I knew
what the organization was kind of lean lean on me
to do, and I was ready for it. I was prepared.
I had worked all summer. I worked over time, worked harder,
and I feelt like anybody else has worked in the
association to be where I was, to be in a
position that I was to perform as leve I need
to perform at And I'll say this my rookie year,
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I came in with probably no expectations. I feel like
they had no expectation for me. They were probably going
to send me out to the G League. I come in,
I proved myself, and I was able to help us
win playoff games. At the end of that year, you know,
I went through a stretch or I didn't play. I
didn't play in like middle of the season, and I
remember coach Doc CAUs me into the office He's like, Taris,
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you're gonna win playoff games for us. You're gonna be
able to win playoff games for us. I'm looking around, like, coach,
I didn't play last three games? Well, how am I
gonna win to play? How am I going to help
us win a playoff game? I don't get in the game.
What do you mean? And like I was literally I
came home and told my uncle, like, dude, coach Doc
just told me I'm gonna help us win a playoff game.
And I We're both sitting there looking at it. Her
like you didn't play last three games, and I'm like,
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I don't know. But then I come back my second
year and I get put into a role where I'm
starting and everything's going on, and I think I excel
in that role. And you know, at the break we
get bring James Harden in and now the roles change again.
So this third time and my role has changed and
less than less than a year and a half and
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he comes in and he's been great. You know, I
really do appreciate him because what he's brought to the table,
where he's brought to me mentally, what he's helped me
with help my game with you know that that's for
another day. You know we're gonna get him, try to
get him. Are for another day. But so that happened.
Then then, like I said, this year, you know we
started out, you know I started out really well. Go down,
break the foot and you don't have to go through
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some adversity. But adversity is good. Adversity is what life's
all about it. You know, when everything is going smoothly,
everybody can put a smile on their face and everybody
can go out there and look happy. But when you
hit that brick wall and then you fall down and
you have to get back up, that's what That's what
real players are about. You have to be able to
adapt on the fly. Our strength coach that I met
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in my rookie year, he told me as soon as
I got to the first day where I was like, hey,
you say it was working out at nine, he was
like yeah, but Joel came in and you know you
got you gotta get the pushback livid because Joel and
Joe la beat. He said, you know, rook I'm gonna
tell you this right now, this is an ever changing,
an adapting environment and you have to get used to it.
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And that just stuck with me. That stuck with me,
So now I'm able to change on the fly or
adapt into whatever role I have to get put into.
And I think me started at the beginning of the
year the last two years and then coming back and
you know Coach Doc sitting me down and saying that
he felt as if that for this team, they know
that I'm a start, a callo player in the league.
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They know that I've proved myself, but for this team,
it will be helpful for us for me to come
off the bench and played this six man type of role.
Number One two, we know hurding Maxle was gonna be
great off the bench. You have to be very mature
in situations like that because that can be the difference
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in winning big and not taking your team to the
next level. Because you know, I could have I could
have sat there, I could have been upset, I could
have pout it. I could have let it hurt us,
let it affect my teammates and my spirit. But that's
not how we were going to to proceed because at
the end of the day, my teammates and this team
still needs me to be very productive on the basketball court,
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and my spirit that I feel like I bring to
the team and how I bring the camarade and bringing happiness.
You know, we needed that as well, So you know
it as a competitor, it hurt me because you know,
I want to be a starter. I want to be
the you know, I want to be this this top guy,
and I want to be the best I can possibly be.
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But as someone who who is sure of themselves and
someone who has worked extremely hard to believe in themselves,
and you know, someone who I really like to win.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what
it is. If you're playing cards, if you're playing checkers,
if you're playing chess, whatever it is. If we just
if I'll tell you I'm about to beat you to
the poland back. I want to win. So if the
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coach tells me that this is they feel like this
is the best way to win, I'm willing to try anything.
I'm going to try it because at the end of
the day, this team, and I know it's only my
third year, but this is a team that can get
over that hump, that can get over that humping and
do something special because you never know how many times
this this you have a team like this in your
career that has a shot at winning title. So coming
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off the break, we knew that the challenges that we
had ahead of us, a couple of a few games
that we're having ahead of us, we're going to be tough.
And the game versus Memphis the last night was was
extremely tough because we came in and we had a
practice the day before, and you know, coming off the break,
you know, guys are are resting and guys won't be
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as sharp as they were at the at the stopping
point of the season when when the break started and
we had sloppy practice, Coach Doc was all us big time,
and you know, he told us that we're gonna scratch
that one, but we're gonna have to come out here
tomorrow and at shoot around and at the game and
show resilience and have to show up. And I feel
like we really did that at shoot around. You can
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tell the focus that guys that came and shooting around
with that morning. And you know, it always started. It
starts with our leaders. It starts with Joe, it starts
with James, starts with Tobias, and you start trickling on
to me and Melt and Peter Tucker and guys like that.
And because of that focus that we had in shoot around,
we were able to flip a switch because they jumped
(41:44):
out on us. They jumped on as big time. I
think we were down fifteen. I had to do a
sideline interview at the end of the first quarter, down fifteen,
and I'm like, what positive I'm going to talk? What
I got to come up with positive things to say?
And we're getting out behind, kicks stopped, you know, in
the locker room back of the game, coach doctor, he
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shouted out to Bias Harris because Tobias Harris has been
the biggest professional and all of this um he's been
the biggest professional. With James coming in on our team,
and you know, us kind of catered to playing with
James and playing with the big fella, and you know,
kind of my emergence of who I've become as a player.
And he's just been solid. He's been steady, he's been solid,
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he's been a pros pro for him to basically win
that game for us down the stretch, after you know,
I was messing, I said, dude, you just shot an
air ball and then you came back and hit two,
big corner three. I said, that's that's like next level stuff.
Like a lot of people don't can't do that. That's hard.
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You shoot an airball in a fourth quarter and then
we go back to you two times and you hit
him and you put us over that hump while you're
guarding their best player. Um, that was big time stuff, man,
And that just shows who we are, who we can
be at the end of the season, and a thicket
of every week. At the end of the show, I
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want to reflect on the week that we've had and
tell y'all what I'm thankful for, and tell y'all how
I can get one percent better at something and the
week that we're looking ahead too. First, I'm gonna say
this week, I am very thankful that I am back
at home. You know, I love All Star Break. All
Star Breaker is great, but you know, it's always good
to come back home to where you actually live and
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you get in your own house, your own bed. Thankful
that my parents came up. They came up for this,
this this tough week of games. You know, they're always
great to see them. And I'm extreme thankful that I
get to see my dog. I was away from him
for about a week and a half. You know, he
was gone, my son, and it's good to see him.
It's good to see him, and he's been great, you
know today, just relaxed with me post post Grizzlies dub
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and I love him for that. And I think one
thing that I can get one percent better after next week,
I'll say one on the court and one off the court.
One on the court is, um, I think I get
better at making some shots from yesterday because I couldn't
make a shot and I couldn't make a shot. I
was in the gym to day and I was laughing
with a you know, my trainer and my player development,
and he was like, are you scared to shoot over
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ten from three? You know you shoot the ball really well.
You can't be scared to you over ten? I said,
Now he's scared. I just was like, all right, now
one of the easy to go in okay, but uh,
you know I say that. And then secondly, UM, just
just communicate more with my siblings. With my siblings, you know,
I try to talk to him every day. I know
I talked to my mom and dad four or five
times a day, but I try to leave my sisters alone.
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You know, they're busy once once busy and becoming a
senior in high school next year. And I don't know
if you'd ever answered the phone. You know, they know,
teenagers are a little bit different these days. And then
my oldest sister, she's um, you know, she's exploring a
new option. She just got a dog too, a great Dane,
and uh, I'm gonna kind of mess with her about
that because her track record with dogs is it's not
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very great. You know, they somehow end up in my
mom's house. So you know that those are my two
things for this week. And I'm thank y'all opportunity in
to max you on the mic, last named Maxie and
I'm talking through the mic. Rate and subscribe and I'll
see you guys next week. Peace Out,
Direse story. Oh my goodness, Direse Maxie is on fire. Yo.
What's up everybody. It's Tyrese Maxie here with my new podcast.
(00:25):
MAXI on the mic, last name Maxie, and I'm talking
through a mic. So that's pretty cool. You know, this
is great. I'm extremely happy, extremely excited to start this
new podcast and be able to have these conversations and
be able to have these type of moments with y'all
because and I'm extremely open person. I love to have conversation.
I love to be authentic, and throughout this podcast, I
(00:47):
wanted to be something that I can come on here
and tell my side of the story and show who
I am, show my personality, and I want to have
other people come on here and be able to tell
their side of the story. Extremely authentic, no fake, it's
just straight real. Today in this first episode, I want
to be able to go through some things that are
very important to my life. I would have some family members,
(01:08):
three family members here that's been in my circle since
day one. And I also want to talk about how
I feel in love with the game and things out
like through outside of basketball. This is post dub against
the Grizzlies. Number two team in the West post All
Star Break, the Grizzs are really good team, really really
really good team. Two All Stars and John Murine and
Jared Jackson junior um. Those two are very dynamic and
(01:29):
hard to stop. But they also have other pieces like
Desmond Baine, who is in an established young guard who
who's a baller. You know he's a baller. He shoots
the ball well. And it was a dog fight last night,
man dog fight last night. I was extremely proud of
my teammates. Tobias Harris had big shots, Joelanbad was with
Joel and Bad and James Harden was at the end
of the day, you know, he's stepped back harding for
(01:50):
a reason, and you know we were able to pull
out of I fell in love with basketball. I feel
like I tell everybody. As soon as I came out
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the womb. The first thing that I remember the pictures
of me, I have a stuffed basketball in my hand,
and I had to be in hell with my mom,
with my dad or one of my grandmothers, and that's
all I remember from from the beginning of my life.
I remember having to go to tournament or high school
basketball games, or going to the gym with my father
(02:33):
as soon as I got as soon as I got
out of school, and I'm staying there to eight o'clock,
nine o'clock, you know, before I even got to go
home and do all my homework and different things like that,
because that's that's just the life that I lived. And
my dad being a high school basketball coach, and he
was a Division one basketball player who knew the game,
who taught me the game. It's funny, I always tell
(02:55):
people I was a fifth no, not even the fifth grade,
a second grade, eight nine years old, however older you
are in the second third grade, and my father had
me watching film. He had me watching film at the games,
like we'll go we'll play a game in New Orleans,
we'll lose in the final four, drive all the way home,
eight hours back to the Garland, Texas. And as soon
(03:18):
as we get there, you know, most kids probably want
to go outside and play or get in the video
game and play bad or two k. He has me
coming up to the media room, setting me down at
ages eight and nine, rewatching basketball games. And at the time,
I'm like, dude, what are we doing here? Like why
are we rewatch this game? Happened? In the past, and
it's funny. I look back on it today and after
(03:40):
every single game, I'm asking the coach for the film,
I'm watching the film. I'm watching the film at halftime
of the what happens in the end the game in
the first half, and he just made me so much
more of a student of a game. And all I
can do is appreciate him for that. My idol growing
up was one my father, because he was somebody who
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you know, he was a small guard. Everything was against him,
um and I used to tell people my dad's my
favorite player. You know, there's like, who your dad or
dad in the NBA. I'm like, no, my dad never
made it to the NBA, but he beat the odds.
He made it out of where he was from at
Hill Chris High School, and he was able to go
play the Vision one. Now on the NBA side, I
think I would have to say my two favorite players
(04:21):
that I really liked. Is one reason why I wore
number three all the way up til I got to
the sixers. And of course I can't wear that there
because mister Alan Iverson, Uh, that's there's there's a reason
that that number that Jerseys on the wall Iverson. I
can't kill the crowd on the steat Alan from Yeah,
(04:42):
but Alan Iverson was one and d Way was my
was my main favorite player, and uh, the Wayne Wade.
It's funny because I did a commitment video going to Kentucky.
I did in my junior late in my junior high
school and I hadn't met Dwayne Wade yet. And I'm
(05:03):
going to an air U tournament and I see that
Dwayne Wade has quote tweeted, quote tweeted my announcement, my
commitment announcement. This is before I even met him. This
is crazy, before I even met him, and he quote tweeted,
Now that's how you make an announcement. And I'm like
running around with my phone showing all my family, like yo,
d Way, he just he just retweeted like he quote
(05:26):
tweeted what I said, you know, my my announcement. And
I was I was freaking out in his funny. So
going into the weekend, I don't know I'm gonna see him,
and I see him walking out the gym and you know,
he's walking out with security and I like not chasing
that the room, but I'm like like, yo, the way,
like look trying to show him on my phone. It's curious,
like hey, stop, stop and I was like no, no, no, no,
(05:46):
I'm just trying to show him, like tell him thank
you that he retweeted my my announcement. But but no,
I think those are those three people my father, Dwayne Wade,
and m Alan Iverson or people who are very influential
to who I am today. I feel like to jump
this podcast off the right way. I have to dive
into myself and dive into my family origin before I
(06:09):
start bringing in others and talking more in depth about basketball.
I have to basically saying I have to show high
got here and show you all the people that have
been in my circle and been in my corner since
day one. And uh, those are my mom and my
father of course, and my uncle Brandon and a lot
of people know now you know that my uncle he
(06:30):
lives with me. He came up here with me. He
stopped everything that he was doing, and h he's been
he's been in my corner since day one. You know,
he's been in my corner since day one. Telling me.
He used to always he's always say where we're going.
I would say, we're going to the green room, which is,
which is kind of funny because I didn't even get
to attend the draft because of COVID, but we still
had that same we had that same mentality. But but yeah,
(06:52):
those three are very important in my life. You know,
I don't make a decision without conversion with all three
of them. It doesn't matter what it is and what
it's about, not just basketball, and that's just life in general.
And I really do appreciate them because it's the journey
of being in the NBA, the challenges that it brings.
Behind the scenes, nobody sees that. All everybody sees us
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out there playing on TNT or ESPN or where we're
playing and having a lot of fun and making this
amount of dollars, but it's stressed that it's involved and
that they really helped me with. So coming up off
the breakum, you know, we're gonna talk a little bit
more about that. And I can't wait for y'all to
do tune in for it. All right, ch'all, we're here,
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Maxee on the mic, And like I said, I have
my father all the way to my left, mom right
next to my left, and Uncle Brandon to my right,
and we're just gonna talk know we're gonna have a
good conversation right now. It's here. We're here Friday night
post Grizzlies, dubbed pre dinner. You know, we're kind of hungry.
But uh, but that that that's that's a different story.
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But yeah, today I'm gonna ask him a few questions.
Then we're gonna have a conversation. They're gonna have a
conversation about life, have a conversation about how we got
here today and meant for a new jersey right outside
of Philadelphia, and I think it would be great. I
kind of want to start with my mom because she
is like a background. She she holds it all together
in the background. A lot of people, you know, they
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know her, they know it when they see her faith,
but they don't know how much she puts into this. Uh.
You know, we always talk about my pops. We always
talk about unk. Being here with me makes me taking
care of the day to day stuff. But Moms is
in the background. She not she she knows a little
bit about hoops. She knows a little bit about hoops.
She played a little bit when she was when she
was in high school. But that's not she always, that's
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not her specialty. Um, she's more of a and a motivator,
she's more of a lover. She's more of someone who
who tells me that everything's gonna be okay and that
as she believes in me. So I kind of want
to talk to her. My first question to start to
jump this office. Mom, when you sit down in front
of the TV screen at six thirty your time, seven
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thirty my time, and the game is about to come on,
what is your thought process? What's going through your mind?
Did you ever see your son, you know, the person
that you held, your only son out there playing with
these guys of the names of James Hardens and the
Jolan Bees against the Lebron James Is and the John
Marint and guys of that nature. Well, I guess that's
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a good question. When I sit down, or when I'm
prepping to get finished up my day and rushing to
the TV, or even if I'm here preparing to go
to the game, and the first thing I think about
is gratefulness. You know, and I'm sure the world will
now know that I am a very very humble person,
very grateful person. So I really try my best not
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to put myself into a fan zone. With you at that.
For many many years, I've just tried to stay in
the spot. This is just my son. It's my son.
Yes he is an extremely good player on the court,
but over everything, this is my son. This is what
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I think about. I don't. I just I don't really
do a lot of social media. As you know. I
try to look now just I think it's interesting to
see what you have on, but I stay away from
social media. I never ever read articles. Um, I don't
listen to what they say on any of the station.
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I don't. I do my best to just stay in
a mom zone, and I think that helps me. So
when I do sit down, I'm really just watching my son.
I'm just watching my son play. I'm not watching Yes
it is Terrys Max, and yes Terrys Max is my son.
But I'm watching my son do what he has loved
to do since I can remember, which was maybe for
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three or four years old. When we went on our
first Disney World vacation. Everybody knows I'm a huge making
my span. So our first vacation that we took as
a family, we went to Disney World. Hold everybody up
in the car and we have some footage I believe
we have some footage of you. You were like three
years old and you're dribbling the ball but behind the back,
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between the legs, I mean, just going crazy with the ball.
So those are the things I think about, like, Wow,
that little three year old has now worked himself into
playing alongside the best players in the world. So when
I sit down at six thirty Central Standard time and
flip on my TV, I'm just grateful. I'm grateful that,
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you know, we had somewhat of a role in helping
you achieve your dream. Yeah, no, I appreciate that. I
think I'm assumingly grateful for y'all as well, because, of course,
without God, we wouldn't be here. But without you, I
wouldn't be the man I am today and the basketball
player I am today because my pops. Cool breeze. That's
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what I call my dad. Y'all, cool breeze man. Everybody
out there that that's listening to this, that no, cool breeze. No,
he cool as I don't know what I don't know,
and cool as cool a fan. He's cool as a fan.
And that's just the South Dallas and them guys. You know,
that's you know. But anyways, cool breeze. You know, I'm
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extremely thankful for him because he has made it to
where I don't need a coach. I don't need anybody media.
I don't need their affirmation about how I played. I
don't need them to tell me I played good. I
don't need them to praise me. I don't need that.
I don't need that because he created an environment of
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tough love, which was really good for me, where he
was always on me to be the best version of
Tarist Max that I could be. He I tell people,
he only told me I played good, like a good game,
like once in my life, once or twice maybe. I
think one I can remember was when we lost my
junior year in high school. We lost that state I
had I broke, I broke a state record, you know,
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and I was crying and all that because he won
a championship his junior year in high school, and I
really that was like my main goals. That's one of
the main reason I even stayed in public school. And
I wanted to be better than him, and I wanted
to win that and win state. But that didn't happen, unfortunately,
And he still lets me know that to this day,
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and the other time I think was win game one
of the of the first round last year. You know,
we beat the Raptors and I had like thirty eight
or something like that. We said early on, this is
a key match up stan Fleet and Maxie, and you
can see tonight Maxie is a big winner. And uh
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you know he he, I think you here. I don't
think you were here. Were you here? You were here
when we played the Raptors game one last ye yeah
he was here, and uh you know he This was
a this was a less a less good job. This
was more of like a all right man, good game now.
But you got a game in two days. They gotta
get locked back in like that. That gave it over
with what you know. All you can do is to
appreciate that, because that's something who we always keep me focused,
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keep me humbling. Ain't know. I love him for that
and and adjusted to introduce him cool reason. I kind
of want you to talk about what you thought. What
was the emotions going through your mind when we sat
around twenty draft that November eighteenth, in our in the
comfort of our own home that y'all built. That Mom
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was telling me a story you know the other day
that y'all know how y'all were going to get that house,
and that's a different story. But how did you feel
when you know the commissioner says, with the twenty first
overall picked, the Philadelphia seventy six are going to select
Tyres Maxie, your son, and a dream come to your
mind and dream that you probably had a lot of
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kids half. With the twenty first pick in the twenty
twenty NBA draft, the Philadelphia seventy six or selected Tyres
Maxie from the University of Kentucky and rifle and sold
for Tyres Maxie. What was going through your mind through
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that time? Man? First of all, I said to myself
to my friends back in South Baba, I wasn't gonna
pry when I saw you crying or whatever, and all
emotions just hit me like, uh, you made it. You
made it to this stage. Man. Everybody that I know
wanted to play in the NBA, and so it was
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great to see that man like me, being a basketball
guy through and through, to see my son make it
to the high it was amazing, amazing, Philip. For me,
it still is today. And by the way, I have
I've told you you played one well more than two.
I don't know. I think maybe at the most five. Well,
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I'll say one time in the NBA, one time he said,
because if you told me, you told him he played
well and then the next game you didn't play as well.
And he said, I'm never telling him. I told him
he played well last time, and you go out there
and do this. I've never said it again. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah,
and uh, but yeah, that's just a relationship that we had. Man.
You know, he'll call me after blue sometimes he'll call
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me and he just Now it's funny. Back back in
the day though, back in high school and when I
was younger, it was it was all strictly business with him.
It was all business and it was all about getting
better every single day, which he still is about that.
But now he'll just called a check on me. He'll
call a check on my mentor he'll called a check
on see how the body's feeling. Um, you know, he
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knows that I'm doing the right store. He laid the
foundation at an early age for me to just carry
on that tradition. But uh, lastly, before we get into
a nice stove conversation, I want to interest my uncle.
Y'all know Uncle B. Everybody out there that's listening to this,
that um that has been a part of my life
knows Uncle B is the mastermind behind everything nowadays and
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we go to him for everything. And I really do
appreciate him because he's been here since day one as well.
He has, Like I said earlier, he was the one
who was saying where we're going, and it was to
the green room. And I saw every time I saw him,
every day, every you know, he came over a lot,
came to the house a lot. But and every time
I saw him, he said, now before we're going, I said,
to the green room and he said all right, and
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then he'll walk out. And it's funny that, you know,
those dreams really come true. And um, and I want
to ask you from an uncle perspective. You know you
you always tell people it's funny, like they're like, who
who are you? When we're walking we were walking somewhere
we had a parents and say who are you? You
You like use homie or something. You're like, nah, I'm
his uncle. That my little nephew. He always makes sure
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that that people know, Like it was like, oh you
you make sure you're good. He's like yeah, he's gonna
I'm gonna make sure he's straight. So you know when
when your sister called you and says, um, Brandon, I'm
going to send you up there with Tyrese and uh,
I need you to and uh and for y'all don't know,
my mom is my mom was a little different. Okay,
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mom was a little different. She don't play by the kids.
So when she calls her brother, one of my only brothers,
that says, I'm setting you up there with Tyrese and
I need you to look out for him and you
to take Carol, make sure he's straight. I want to
know what's going through your mind right now. You're a
big sister, someone who you looked up to. You always
said you looked up to her. She's calling you and
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asking you for your help with her son. Well, what's
going through your mind? Then? Well, when my sister called
me first of all, then she caught it. It was
not that pleasant. But no, when she called and we talked,
we had talked about it prior. I think maybe when
you first went to Kentucky. I think we had talked then.
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And I went to Kentucky with my brother in law,
with your pops and We had the conversation then and
we talked about the week. We sat down in the
kitchen like we normally do as a family. We had
a discussion, we talked about it. At that point, I
was like, what what does that look like? So then
she explained and I was like, okay, talk to you.
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And you said the same thing. He was like, yeah,
you know, I want you to come along, want you
to come up here, be with my pops, to be
with me. Um. Then when the time came for you
got drafted to Philly, same conversation. It was like, all right, now,
look this is what this is gonna be. This is
what you got to do. Are you ready? And I'm
like yeah, I mean of course this is not only
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just her son, this is my nephew. So it was
it was a no brainer. And never been to Philly before,
didn't know what to expect, never been away from my
kids before like that. Also, didn't know how that was
going to feel, how that was gonna affact me. I
was gonna affact them. But you know, your sister comes
calling and saying she needs you, what are you gonna say? So,
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if there's anything that any of us or any any
all four of us right here could change or do
different or do better in the last three years and
to span the last two years, what if anything, what
would y'all change or what would y'all do better? And
I'll let anybody answer, whoever wants to go first. For me,
I'll go first. Actually for me, I would I would change.
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I know y'all had to. I know y'all had to
stay with an age y'all. I know y'all, I know that,
But I would ask you too if y'all could have
came and kind of stayed up here with me and Brandon,
like right away. We stayed in LA for a long
time together, so we kind of just smooth transition into it.
But I would ask y'all to stay because I didn't
know what to expect. I had no clue what to
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expect coming into the league. Thank god he was here though,
because I could lean on him. I could come back
from practice, I can come back from games when I
was frustrated, when I didn't play as much or I
didn't play at all, and I can kind of lean
on him and uh, and I really appreciate him for that.
We could you know he would, he would, he would say, Man,
you gotta a last rookie year, and he would make it.
He will make a joke out of it and make
me laugh about it. And then I was able to
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to kind of snap out of it. But I wouldn't
say I would. I would have wished y'all had you
get y'all, but y'all are busy, you know, and that's
why y'all sent him. But I wish y'all was able
to come around a little bit more at that time,
because even though I could call y'all any time, I
call you all the time, that was tough, you know,
being a rookie and someone who I thought I could.
I'm like, man, I could ball right now, I could
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start for this team right now, and that was that
was a little tough. But I let whoever wants talk now.
I think if there was one thing that I could change,
it wouldn't be necessarily anything to do with like you
being Philly. It would be like to see you play
in the tournament in college. Yeah, if I could go
back and see that again, if I could change that
and see that happened, I would love to have seen
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that happen. I think that's the one thing that you know,
we talked about a lot like, man, what if you
would have got to play in the actual tournament? For sure,
I'll tell you this right now, if I played in
this tournament, I wouldn't be into a Duffie And now
so I don't as certain instime, I'm glad. I am
glad that I didn't play in the tournament because I
got drafted to a spot that I loved, and uh,
this is an amazing spot for me. For me, I'm
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I want to speak for both of us, but I
don't know that I would change anything. I think that
every I'll say, mistake, every challenge, it happened, and we learned.
We grew through this. These last three years, I mean
we're we're tight, Like my husband and I are super
super tight. These last three years, I don't even say
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the last five years since twenty nineteen have challenged us
to our core on so many levels, and so we've
had to learn how to adjust to so many different things.
We've had to make a couple of mistakes, but luckily
we were really good listeners as we prepared for you
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for this stage. We listened to you know, we went
to as many parent prep events we could go to
from the NBPA to the us USA, UM to McDonald's.
You know, those platforms gave us the tools that we
needed to kind of prep and prepare for this for
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you to be in the spot. So with us going
through those things, we kind of put as much pre
work in as we possibly could to get here. Um.
So we did make a few errors, but I don't
know that I would change anything. I think everything that
we've accomplished as a unit so far has made us
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you know who we are today, So I'm not changing things.
I got a major change. Man. Man, I shouldn't tell
you you played bet a lot more. No, you should have. No,
you shouldn't have to tell you that. That's one of
the best things that ever happened to me, honest like,
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and that's not just that, that goes way beyond even basketball,
Like that just made me this competitor at life, Like
I wanted to be so good that I wanted to
I wanted to make I wanted to make him say, man,
you you did all of a job today. You know
what I'm saying. And that's that's that's where I was,
and that that made me this, this this person that
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I am today, That he did it because I sit
back now and even though we have had some some knockdown,
drag out fights behind closed doors, because I felt like
he was just so tough on you. And the one
thing the turning point for us was one day, what
was that he was eighth grade and we were arguing
about how tough he was on you, and I was like,
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you can't be this tough on him. You need to
lighten up a little bit. And he said, they you
do a good job as a parent, but you're gonna
have to let me make this dude into a man.
And from that, he said, if you can't take it
what I'm saying to him, then go in the room
and close the door, go outside for a walk, but
do what you need to do. But I'm gonna make
this dude into a man. And I said, Okay, I
get it. And so now when I see you, and
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even if you're going through whatever, I know in your
heart and in your mind that you're strong enough to
overcome it because your dad is instead old you with
all the tools to do something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And
you know you just love him for that. And and
I think that both of y'all's what y'all done is
the foundation came from Nana and Mimi. And while I'm
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on here, I want to say quick things about them
before I go to my last question to this segment.
Nana who is my uncle's and my mother's mom? And
me me who it was my my father's mom. And
those two right there create a foundation. Me and Unt
talked about it all the time. We tell people that
are like, man, where yall family dynamic come from? How
did y'all? Where did y'all get this from? And I say, man,
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those two right there then moving into the house with
with us and uh, you know, being close to UNC
as well. Them moving into the house changed everything. I
felt like they let y'all. Y'all were able to work
and do whatever y'all need to do. Y'all y'all knew
y'all were you know, y'are sitting us into good hands
with the kids, with with Memi and Nanna, them being
able to live there and get along. Nope, I mean,
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like you know, me and untalking about all the time. No,
I'm jumping all over the place. But during COVID there
was thirteen I think Mom, maybe it was over exaction,
but it was at least ten to thirteen people in
that house. Twelve It was twelve people in that house
for three months. Three months. Yeah, it was not one argument,
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not one argument every single day, physical altercation and physical
because you're ready for us to go, what's that ya go?
But it was about twelve thirteen people. You know what
that was like, Yeah, feed us and they're listening to you.
Your sisters fight every single night, every single night about it.
We were, you know, listening that this goes into competitive
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nature that that they installed in us, Like we sit
there and play taboo. We're sitting there playing taboo, and
my sisters would leave the room so mad that we
had this like routine, We'll play, will eat dinner, play
taboo off, fall asleep watching the movie together. So it
got to the point where we were playing taboo and
they would lose, playing like male first female. They would lose,
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and they wouldn't talk to us. First night they go
to the room, they just they're like, no, we're not
watching that movie, y'all cheated. I'm like, yo, we're just
trying to watch the movie and go to sleep. But like,
but no, back to what I was saying, nan ain't
med me set a foundation for all of us and
set the foundation for all of us to follow. And
the kind of just trick it down to y'all, which
made a trigger down the Unk, which he trickled down
to us. And now I feel like Kiera trickling down
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as the twins. And it's just it's one big family
and we all see eye to eye, raw step in
the same direction. Uh, there's no mishaps. There's no mishaps.
And because we're that that close knit family, everything is
has worked out so well. But this one for you?
So the last what for you or however long it's
business we've been in la. What is something that you
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could say, you could tell somebody and you ain't gotta lie.
You know this, This is authentic. I told y'all at
the beginning the Pocket, It's gonna be very authentic. Say
we need to say, um, what is the most annoying
thing that that I do? That why you have to
live here? What's like, Oh my gosh, what's wrong with this? Dude?
We're not asking y'all, we're asking Unk. So what what
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what do you have? What you got for me? On
after after living with you for the last four when
we had long how long has you been three years,
three years. If there was one thing I can say,
if I had to tell people that's the most annoying
is access is two two things. One is that this
kid is energy level is at a hundred from and
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he wakes up at six in the morning and probably
don't go to bed till about one o'clock. The second
part of that is he has a dog and they
have the exact same energy level and enthusiasm and they
go all day long, all day long. It's it's it's amazing. Now,
it's amazing that it's fun. It's you know, and I
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know what I want to say, though he can complaining
only one but it's keeping them young and them great
hair is they're slowly coming in. They're not they're not
coming in as fast as that was. You know, turned
thirty nine a couple of days ago and you only
got a little great Harry. So I think it's keeping
me young. I think it's keeping me young. But you know, honestly,
I appreciate y'all, not just coming on the day, but
I appreciate all of you guys, what y'all have done
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for myself, the sacrifices that y'all have made. Mom Dad,
as I tell these people it is all the time.
One reason why I go out here and play extremely
hard and compete at a high level and trying to
be the best version of Tyrrest Maxie I can't every
single night is because you would tell me, Mom, you
came out on the court and told me one time.
They put in a lot of their hard earned money
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to get me here, and I played. I played au games,
We drove across, we drove from telling the story. I'm
about to tell them that that I'm about to tell them,
so to wrap this up, let me let me get
y'all of this story right here, and to get y'all
to really understand how dedicated my parents are. And it's
not just me. They do the same thing for my
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little sister, to do the same thing for my my
older sisters, and they'll do it for anybody, you know,
any one of our family members, but for me in particular.
We drive from third or fourth grade, I can't remember,
it's fourth grade, playing fifth grade. So we drive all
the way from Garland, Texas. If y'all don't know, that's
where I'm from a city outside of Dallas, Garland, Texas,
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to Detroit Michigan for fifth grade National. I'm in fourth grade,
but it's fifth grade national, So as a fourth grade
of what are you nine ten? Maybe I think you
are nine nine? You're nine years old. Okay, Now, let's
really put this in perspective right here, guys, I am
nine years old, nine years old, and this basketball is fun.
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You know, it's fun. It's a thing to do. It's
a fun thing to do. I am not playing to
the ability that I'm able to play. At the whole weekend,
probably the whole week I wasn't playing great. Let's have
time of a like a consolation game and it's a
winner go home. Either we win and we stay and
played a little bit longer, or we lose and we
go home and I have like two points. I got
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two as a half time just not playing good, not
being aggressive, night shooting the ball, just not being me.
And I'm thinking, all right, my dad's gonna go off
at halftime because he was an assistant coach, or the
coach is gonna go off on us at half time,
so they you know, you know, and you kind of
like walk into like the hallway to talk. You walk
into the hallway to talk to your coach. Man, I
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go into the hallway, that door closed, and I hear
don't put steps of my mom coming into that door.
I'm thinking it's my dad. My mom opened that door.
She snatched me up and said, boy, I don't spend
all that's hard on money. I don't enjoy all the
way I don't know way. I don't spend money that
I don't even have. I don't spend money. I ain't
got to get you here, and you're gonna go out
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here and act like here and playing like you ain't
got no sense. Boy, you man, look at here, y'all.
I'm sitting there like, oh my goodness, and like y'all
if y'all really know me. My mom she don't say
anything at game. She's sitting the stands or wherever she
is and don't say anything for her. It probably took it.
Probably I probably had gotten on her last nerd for
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this week and for her to come out, come out
the stands and pulled me to the side before my
dad even got to me, before my pop's even got Tommy.
She went, oh man, she just she let me have it.
And I would never forget that day. And I know
beginning that half for two points, and I ended that
half with like twenty two points. I was going off
in that second half. I'm moved by I don't want
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to say I'm like this no more. But she's a
you know, she's superwoman. We called superwoman for a breeze
and and uh, she said, boy, you I don't spend
every time. I don't got to get you here every dime.
I ain't got to get you here. You're gonna go
out you you better go out there and play like
you knew how to play. I get you up behind
back out there. The halftime, s people was over. There
was no coach, there was no there was no cool breeze,
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there was nothing. Man after that, you know, we never
had a moment like that again. But but yeah, I
appreciate y'all coming on here today and helping me, helping
you mad at me and we're talking to him that
way and you went off on him, and she want
me mad. Even in eighth grade, that was necessary. We
had a tough week trying to get the fun together
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to get that trip. So yeah, I was, yeah, I
don't even I mean, I remember, I remember what I said,
but I do remember the game change and we want no,
the game definitely changed. They definitely changed. But yeah, I
appreciate y'all coming on here and help me kick this off.
You know, this is a special deal for me, and
this is special to be able to have this platform
and communicate and you know, express my feelings, express how
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I feel, express my experiences and also trying to give
other people platform to come on here and express their
experiences of life and different things like that. And uh,
I really appreciate y'all and love you guys. And uh
that's a rap. Okay, we're gonna take a quick break,
but next we're gonna have some some fun topics. We're
gonna talk about this game versus the Grizzlies. Like I
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said earlier, Big Tom w you know, number two team
in the West, two all stars, up and coming team.
We're gonna talk a little bit more about, you know,
my year, the ups and downs of NBA season, the
third season, which a lot of people say is a
season that you proved yourself in. You know how I
start off fast, got hurt, trials and tribulations, come back,
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start with a slump, getting consistent, and ramp it back up.
And uh, and to let y'all know that it's really
good to talk to people when you're down. And for
the mental health aspect, you know, it's it's good to
help that a lot of people can help you and
find people that are able to help you and build
you up when you when you need it. So it's
gonna be great. Welcome back to MAXI on the mic
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here with Tyres Maxie with the mic in front of me.
I want to talk a bit about the season so
far and give you guys a little inside perspective on
the life of being in bea player. I feel like
I started out the season really well and uh, you
know the foot injury that I had, um, you know,
mentally and physically, it took a toll on me. I
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mean I was able to snap out of it, but
it really hurt me for a little bit. How this field,
I was right there, he see the look out his face.
He liked how it came off his hands. Just couldn't
get it to go. Oh. Now, mactually is hobbling. And
that's the last thing anyone he's a fan of the
Sixers or Doc Rivers wants to see with all the
guards they have injured coming into this game, he's gonna
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try to walk it off here. Oh yeah, he stepped
on Javon Carter's foot. It's gonna tie up the shoelace.
Got another look at it here and turned that ankle.
This is my first year coming into training camp knowing
what my role was. I knew what my role was.
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I knew what the team inspected of me. I knew
what the organization was kind of lean lean on me
to do, and I was ready for it. I was prepared.
I had worked all summer. I worked over time, worked harder,
and I feelt like anybody else has worked in the
association to be where I was, to be in a
position that I was to perform as leve I need
to perform at And I'll say this my rookie year,
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I came in with probably no expectations. I feel like
they had no expectation for me. They were probably going
to send me out to the G League. I come in,
I proved myself, and I was able to help us
win playoff games. At the end of that year, you know,
I went through a stretch or I didn't play. I
didn't play in like middle of the season, and I
remember coach Doc CAUs me into the office He's like, Taris,
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you're gonna win playoff games for us. You're gonna be
able to win playoff games for us. I'm looking around, like, coach,
I didn't play last three games? Well, how am I
gonna win to play? How am I going to help
us win a playoff game? I don't get in the game.
What do you mean? And like I was literally I
came home and told my uncle, like, dude, coach Doc
just told me I'm gonna help us win a playoff game.
And I We're both sitting there looking at it. Her
like you didn't play last three games, and I'm like,
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I don't know. But then I come back my second
year and I get put into a role where I'm
starting and everything's going on, and I think I excel
in that role. And you know, at the break we
get bring James Harden in and now the roles change again.
So this third time and my role has changed and
less than less than a year and a half and
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he comes in and he's been great. You know, I
really do appreciate him because what he's brought to the table,
where he's brought to me mentally, what he's helped me
with help my game with you know that that's for
another day. You know we're gonna get him, try to
get him. Are for another day. But so that happened.
Then then, like I said, this year, you know we
started out, you know I started out really well. Go down,
break the foot and you don't have to go through
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some adversity. But adversity is good. Adversity is what life's
all about it. You know, when everything is going smoothly,
everybody can put a smile on their face and everybody
can go out there and look happy. But when you
hit that brick wall and then you fall down and
you have to get back up, that's what That's what
real players are about. You have to be able to
adapt on the fly. Our strength coach that I met
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in my rookie year, he told me as soon as
I got to the first day where I was like, hey,
you say it was working out at nine, he was
like yeah, but Joel came in and you know you
got you gotta get the pushback livid because Joel and
Joe la beat. He said, you know, rook I'm gonna
tell you this right now, this is an ever changing,
an adapting environment and you have to get used to it.
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And that just stuck with me. That stuck with me,
So now I'm able to change on the fly or
adapt into whatever role I have to get put into.
And I think me started at the beginning of the
year the last two years and then coming back and
you know Coach Doc sitting me down and saying that
he felt as if that for this team, they know
that I'm a start, a callo player in the league.
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They know that I've proved myself, but for this team,
it will be helpful for us for me to come
off the bench and played this six man type of role.
Number One two, we know hurding Maxle was gonna be
great off the bench. You have to be very mature
in situations like that because that can be the difference
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in winning big and not taking your team to the
next level. Because you know, I could have I could
have sat there, I could have been upset, I could
have pout it. I could have let it hurt us,
let it affect my teammates and my spirit. But that's
not how we were going to to proceed because at
the end of the day, my teammates and this team
still needs me to be very productive on the basketball court,
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and my spirit that I feel like I bring to
the team and how I bring the camarade and bringing happiness.
You know, we needed that as well, So you know
it as a competitor, it hurt me because you know,
I want to be a starter. I want to be
the you know, I want to be this this top guy,
and I want to be the best I can possibly be.
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But as someone who who is sure of themselves and
someone who has worked extremely hard to believe in themselves,
and you know, someone who I really like to win.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what
it is. If you're playing cards, if you're playing checkers,
if you're playing chess, whatever it is. If we just
if I'll tell you I'm about to beat you to
the poland back. I want to win. So if the
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coach tells me that this is they feel like this
is the best way to win, I'm willing to try anything.
I'm going to try it because at the end of
the day, this team, and I know it's only my
third year, but this is a team that can get
over that hump, that can get over that humping and
do something special because you never know how many times
this this you have a team like this in your
career that has a shot at winning title. So coming
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off the break, we knew that the challenges that we
had ahead of us, a couple of a few games
that we're having ahead of us, we're going to be tough.
And the game versus Memphis the last night was was
extremely tough because we came in and we had a
practice the day before, and you know, coming off the break,
you know, guys are are resting and guys won't be
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as sharp as they were at the at the stopping
point of the season when when the break started and
we had sloppy practice, Coach Doc was all us big time,
and you know, he told us that we're gonna scratch
that one, but we're gonna have to come out here
tomorrow and at shoot around and at the game and
show resilience and have to show up. And I feel
like we really did that at shoot around. You can
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tell the focus that guys that came and shooting around
with that morning. And you know, it always started. It
starts with our leaders. It starts with Joe, it starts
with James, starts with Tobias, and you start trickling on
to me and Melt and Peter Tucker and guys like that.
And because of that focus that we had in shoot around,
we were able to flip a switch because they jumped
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out on us. They jumped on as big time. I
think we were down fifteen. I had to do a
sideline interview at the end of the first quarter, down fifteen,
and I'm like, what positive I'm going to talk? What
I got to come up with positive things to say?
And we're getting out behind, kicks stopped, you know, in
the locker room back of the game, coach doctor, he
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shouted out to Bias Harris because Tobias Harris has been
the biggest professional and all of this um he's been
the biggest professional. With James coming in on our team,
and you know, us kind of catered to playing with
James and playing with the big fella, and you know,
kind of my emergence of who I've become as a player.
And he's just been solid. He's been steady, he's been solid,
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he's been a pros pro for him to basically win
that game for us down the stretch, after you know,
I was messing, I said, dude, you just shot an
air ball and then you came back and hit two,
big corner three. I said, that's that's like next level stuff.
Like a lot of people don't can't do that. That's hard.
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You shoot an airball in a fourth quarter and then
we go back to you two times and you hit
him and you put us over that hump while you're
guarding their best player. Um, that was big time stuff, man,
And that just shows who we are, who we can
be at the end of the season, and a thicket
of every week. At the end of the show, I
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want to reflect on the week that we've had and
tell y'all what I'm thankful for, and tell y'all how
I can get one percent better at something and the
week that we're looking ahead too. First, I'm gonna say
this week, I am very thankful that I am back
at home. You know, I love All Star Break. All
Star Breaker is great, but you know, it's always good
to come back home to where you actually live and
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you get in your own house, your own bed. Thankful
that my parents came up. They came up for this,
this this tough week of games. You know, they're always
great to see them. And I'm extreme thankful that I
get to see my dog. I was away from him
for about a week and a half. You know, he
was gone, my son, and it's good to see him.
It's good to see him, and he's been great, you
know today, just relaxed with me post post Grizzlies dub
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and I love him for that. And I think one
thing that I can get one percent better after next week,
I'll say one on the court and one off the court.
One on the court is, um, I think I get
better at making some shots from yesterday because I couldn't
make a shot and I couldn't make a shot. I
was in the gym to day and I was laughing
with a you know, my trainer and my player development,
and he was like, are you scared to shoot over
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ten from three? You know you shoot the ball really well.
You can't be scared to you over ten? I said,
Now he's scared. I just was like, all right, now
one of the easy to go in okay, but uh,
you know I say that. And then secondly, UM, just
just communicate more with my siblings. With my siblings, you know,
I try to talk to him every day. I know
I talked to my mom and dad four or five
times a day, but I try to leave my sisters alone.
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You know, they're busy once once busy and becoming a
senior in high school next year. And I don't know
if you'd ever answered the phone. You know, they know,
teenagers are a little bit different these days. And then
my oldest sister, she's um, you know, she's exploring a
new option. She just got a dog too, a great Dane,
and uh, I'm gonna kind of mess with her about
that because her track record with dogs is it's not
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very great. You know, they somehow end up in my
mom's house. So you know that those are my two
things for this week. And I'm thank y'all opportunity in
to max you on the mic, last named Maxie and
I'm talking through the mic. Rate and subscribe and I'll
see you guys next week. Peace Out,
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