November 5, 2025 • 23 mins
Get to know the history and personality of one of the newest Celtics, Anfernee Simons, as he joins View From The Rafters for the first time. Simons explains why he believes the Celtics culture and coaching will take his game to another level this season. He also opens up about some of the most emotional and “craziest” experiences of his NBA career, including having a front-row seat to Damian Lillard’s game-winner against the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2019, and scoring 43 points the day after his grandfather passed away in 2022.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
All right, folks, we are blessed to have one of
the best shooters in the entire.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
World sitting on set today. View from the Raptors. This
is Anthony Simon's in his first season with the Boston Celtics.
What's it been like so far? Man, what have you
learned about Celtics culture during these last whatever three four
months that you've been here.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I can see why, you know, you went so much
for sure, just based off you know, the attention to
detail practices are very difficult. I'm on purpose, you know,
they're just you know, holding everybody accountable, each and every
each and every rep on out there on the floor.
So I will say that's it. That's the difference, and
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that's what you feel as soon as you walk through
the door.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Did you notice the banners in the gym?
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Yeah for sure, in the weight room oh there, yeah, yeah, yeah,
for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It's like twenty feet from here. For the people who've
never been here before, it's like right on the other
side of.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
The wall over here. Yeah. Yeah, you can know. Yeah,
for sure. You see it every single day.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Everyone on the highway when you drive by, you might
be able to see.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Them fanners hanging up there. The empty one is the
most important one, Dalen always says.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Right, that's the one you're trying to the next one.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, there you go. All right.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
So I said, you've been here a few months. Let's
rewind to when it all started, the trade day.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
When you learn the news first time you've been traded
in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So, I mean, obviously you probably had some understanding from
teammates and stuff like what the process is like.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
But what was it like for you to go through
it for the first time?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, I mean luckily, I think luckily you could say
it was in the all season.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Yeah, so you got trying to, you know, adjusts. Yeah. Yeah,
so like.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
You know, did you know what was coming?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
No, no, no, not really No, not really, no, not really, Okay,
I wouldn't really, not at all, to be honest, I
didn't know the day. I was just at home back
in Florida, you know, just finishing out My day was
late at night. It was late at night, I was
washing TV. My phone was on silent, you know what
I mean, I do nothing the next day, so you know,
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I put my phone on side and I was just
my phone was blowing up. I didn't know. Now, I
looked at my phone. I got a whole bunch of calls,
and I'm like, something happened.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
How long was it before you realized that your phone
was blowing up?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
It might have been like ten minutes, ten to fifteen minutes.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
It's not terrible, it's not like.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
But luckily my trainer was in town and I think
my parents called my training was like, and then he
knocked on my door.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
And that's how that seems.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Like you got an actual in person delivery, right.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
He was like check. He's like, check your phone.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
You're getting calls, you know what I mean, from your agent, head,
coach and stuff like that. So I'm like, all right,
and I laid on my phone blowing up, and I
was like, something had to happen.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
So that's that's when I found out.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
What was the first thing that went through your mind?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Before they told me where I was going?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I'm like where, I'm just like, where am I going? Like,
I hope it's not, you know, somewhere that.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Don't say don't say any right that everyone out there
is going to be like, oh he didn't want to
go there.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I hope it was a good fit, you know what
I mean. And then when they told me Boston. I'm like,
this is this is what I've been you know looking for.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
You're like Joe Mizzoula loves threes.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I love threes, right, And I just knew that, like,
you know, this environment was going to bring the best
out of me, you know, having a lot of you know,
offensive responsibilities over the past couple of years. You see,
like you know, you're watching Boston how they play and
how then they got good players, but they all play
together well, and you know, they moved the ball. They
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shoot a lot of threes, like I said, and so
that was something that you know, I liked watching you know,
Boston play because it's the way they played. And so
my k new coming here was going to be like,
all right, it's going to bring a different It's going
to ask something different of me, and I want to
be able to you know, stresh myself in that way
of you know, playing that type of basketball.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
You've you've mentioned that like multiple times since you came here,
since Media Day, which was the last time you and
I were able to have a conversation, but since Media
Day and now we fast forward to this time, like
what have you actually how has it brought more out
of you this environment, Like where do you think that
you're improving that Maybe it wasn't a strength in prior year.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah, just you know, obviously the physicality on the defensive end,
just to the awareness you know, like before I would
you know, kind of coast an end because you know
a little bit had to do with you know, my
big responsibility to offense. And so it was never asking
me to just like pick up fool and and be
on top of somebody as soon as the ball go
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through the basket.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So and that's what you always asking of you.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Have you ever had to do that, like did school?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
High school? No?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I was always I was always like just the score. Yeah,
I mean like just give me the ball. But you know,
obviously coming here, it's like he's asking me to do this,
and he is on me each and every time, and
I don't do it. So it puts in that mindset
of just becoming natural. And so it's it's been fun
each and every day of him pushing me, you know,
to get after it on that end.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Jalen talks about it all the time, just how much
energy it takes to do that at this level. How
different is that to play both ways? And go one
hundred every.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Possession for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
That's that's I would say that's been the adjustment for me,
especially through this preseason, is being able to pick up
full and go on to offensive end and still be
myself and play fast and do what the team needs
me to do. Just having the energy and the conditioning
to be able to do that, you know, constantly over
and over again. And so that's been the I would
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say the adjustment for you know, a lot of us
is just you know, getting in conditions to play like
that every night.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
You should never possession.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
That's why Joe Missoula gave you guys Like Sam Cansel
said it was the hardest training camp that he's ever
been involved in. For sure. He's not He's not wrong
about that.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
He's not even close. It's been. It's been a grind
for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Show's like, we're gonna play this way, and I'm gonna
make you guys be in shape to play this way.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Also said he hates preseason games and just wants you
guys going at each other in the gym every day,
which I feel like, I mean, I.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Guess some games yeah, color yeah, yeah, just you know
what I mean.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Just hit somebody else.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Yeah, right, and also just getting a rhythm.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
You know what I mean, practice is is different from
the game, and so just getting a rhythm and just
being back out on the court, you know what I mean,
just in the arena and feeling the game feel is always.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Is always helpful.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Did you find some in the preseason rhythm.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Rhythm a little bit?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, a little bit, just figuring I was kind of
the first time us playing with like p and Derek
Jayalen for standing period of time because we've been like
split up in training camp. So just playing with those
guys and just trying to figure out, you know, the
rhythm and how we want to play. I figured a
little bit of a rhythm. But obviously, I mean I'm
you know, I'm new. I'm trying to figure out my way,
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So it might it might take a little bit just
to figure out, you know, in different scenarios how it's
going to work.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Peyton mentioned he was in Oregon when you got drafted,
and you guys used to do some run in Portland.
What do you remember about him at that time and
relative he was to come down.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Probably now he was kind of chilling and pick up he.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Plays, Yeah, he played hard, but you know he was
He's always been like I always saw him as like,
you know, somebody that I knew from everybody telling me
about him, like how hard he worked and you know,
going to play against him, how good he was, and
how he was able to, you know, shoot the ball,
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get to the rim, make plays, and just be like
a tough individual player. And so I've always, you know,
enjoyed watching Peop play and especially obviously going against him
and playing with him and Pigo was always fun to
play with a player like that.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Talking about him, you Houser, I actually don't know, and
this is just donner on me. I don't know if
there's another team in the league that has like three
shooters on that level, all in the back courd.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But I've actually, I've actually yes, but JT's not shooting
it at forty plus percent on catching shoes, right, Like,
he's a lot of pull ups in his game, and
obviously they've been in your game too. But I've been
telling people to try it because people in Boston haven't
really seen you play a ton, right, They've seen you
play against the Celtics, that's probably for the most part. Yeah,
but they don't understand like how great of a shooter
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you are. You're forty two percent, I believe catching shooter
forty one percent catching shoot.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
In your career, not just like last year, Like that's career.
That is elite elite. Howser's around forty one, forty two.
Pritchard's up there. So I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
If there's an the team in the league that has
like three backcourt shooters on that level, that's pretty impressive.
It's You're gonna put a little bit of pressure on
the opponents this year.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, for sure, just you know, being on that opposite
wing and making that defensive choose if he wants to overhelp,
wise overhelp and give me a wat of get a
wat a three for me, Peyton or you know Sam
or you know, he's gonna stay there and we get
a free free lane. So that's it's gonna be, you know,
pretty fun playing that way and making them kind of
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choose and who to who to help off of.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Hey, you mentioned at the start Orlando, right, that's where
you were born and raised Ultimount Springs. To be exact,
I spent some time down there. I was in Maitland
for a year. I was waiting for the Magic back
in the day. You have a smile on your face.
What do you think of Maitland.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, I used to right next door, right to Ultimate. Yeah,
I used to work out at at the r DVV.
There you go, Yeah you was there. It's called RDV.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Yeah, yep, it's back in the day.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's been a while.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
So our DV complex is where the Magic used to
have their practice facility and their front office was located
there as well. But there was like a huge gym,
like a workout facility attached to it. There were a
few times when I was out there playing playing ball
with some some of the guys and like Dwight Howard
would just like pop out from the other side of
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the wall and like actually played basketball with us.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Like it was like the media game is dominating.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well he took it easy a little bit more than
Joe did the other media members, But yeah, it was
a lot of fun. But growing up in Orlando, you
probably well you had access to the RDV complex, but
you probably met some players growing up, like went to
camps and what was it like growing up in an
environment where you had an NBA team right down the road?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, I mean like when you growing up in that
type of environment, it's like you don't really think about
it in that way, but like you know, obviously you.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Like you yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
So like when we when I go workout RDV, I
think it was on like Mondays and Mondays and Wedday Wednesdays.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Were like the public side or were you in the
practice facility work.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
I was in the public side.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
So they gotta they gotta they had, Like you and
I played against each other.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
I played a couple of times on that little double court,
but they.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Had I would have read I would have walked away
like sobbing if I played against it.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
I feel like rembered that they had.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
They had like another gym that's like on the back side.
So that was the gym where like a lot of
us worked out at. And so you would see like
all the players walking through there to get to the
other gym where the you know, the Magic players might
have came in and worked out at. So you was
always constantly seeing those players walk through the gym, and
so you kind of took it for granted for sure,
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you know what I mean, you seeing guys man I
played for the Magic, but it's from Orlando. Area coming
there and work out like Austin Rivers or somebody like that.
But it was always fun, like you know, seeing those
top players there and working on the same gym just
you know, kind of made you want to, you know,
work harder.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
For sure, kids out there who live in the Boston area,
listen to Anthony right now, do not take it for
granted that you have the Celtics right down the road
if they come to your school for like an event
or something like, soak it in. Because me, I grew
up in upstate New York, none of that.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
None of that.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Like the Syracuse basketball players were the closest we had
to like professional basketball, so like it really is something
that kids out there like t take a seat and
like enjoy when you have that opportunity.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
How did that prepare you for the journey that is
the NBA, because I feel like everyone's obviously journey is
different and no progression is linear. But you had an
interesting route not going to college, going as a IMG
academy and then getting drafted in the first round, but
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largely sitting for two or three years learning from the best,
but really not getting the opportunity that most first round
draft picks get What did you take from your experience
growing ups being around those NBA players and then able to.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Take that into your first job in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, just I think growing up early on, I never
first of all, I never really liked was, you know,
a person that got starstrucked over, you know, players other
than maybe like Tam Mac was my favorite player. So
I was always like, I always saw them as you know,
a normal person. Obviously you did a great things and
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played basketball in the NBA, which I wanted to do,
but I always saw them as you know, just.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
A normal person.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
So when I came into the NBA, I kind of
took that same mindset for myself as that you know,
obviously I have a long road ahead of me. I knew,
you know, coming in that I wasn't gonna you know,
play that much, and so I kind of just dove
into making progressions every single day and learning, you know,
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whether it was you know, losing a hundred times in
one on one or two on two and.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Three on three just getting beat up.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
And so I just you know, took the one thing
from that day that I got better, even though I didn't.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Come out overall as the winner.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
And so I kind of try to stay patient and
dive into that while I wasn't playing, just to help
me like when I do get a chance, you know,
I'll be fully prepared for it, or you know, just
being the right mindset to go out there and play
my best basketball. So the first couple of years were
they were hard, but I you know, I felt like
I had the right mindset. I had the right support
system to help me through everything. I would say, had
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good veterans that were constantly keeping me involved in everything
that was going on.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
And good guys to learn from too.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
In the back for sure, Colin.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
But mentally, yeah, how did you get through that? Especially
being a teenager and you come in and you think
you're invincible and you're ready for your shot, and to
not take the journey for granted.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Right, I mean that was the for me. I think honestly,
I didn't at all. I didn't. I didn't feel like
I was invincible.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
No, Yeah, I knew like coming in, Yeah yeah, yeah,
I knew coming in. I'm like, I'm like, you know,
I know, I know, I feel like I'm talented enough
to play with these guys, but I knew I wasn't
physically ready for them, you know what I mean, Like
I wasn't physically and like mentally, I didn't understand the
game enough as much as they did because I didn't
go to college. So I'm coming from playing you know,
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kind of high school basketball. You know, the way that
philosophy is is not the same as college and another
step off the NBA. So you know, I think Mikonell
just like I needed to learn as much as possible
from all these guys.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
You know that play my position and played at a
high level.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
So go ahead, just real quick.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
That rookie, your rookie season was the year that Damian
Lillard hit the shot right in the Western Conference Finals
in Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
The look in the camera, Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
And so you have experience going to that level of
the playoffs as well, but what was that moment.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Like, oh, that was one of the like crazy ex
experience just the whole playoffs, just being sitting there front
row and be able to watch it.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Just the intensity.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, there's just the intensity behind each and every series
and how you know how gritty it got, you know
what I mean, that was one of the things that
like really opened my eyes to how NBA basketball especially
the playoffs has played and also make gave me some
more humility, like you know, as to myself, am I
ready for this right now? And I will tell myself
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like yeah, you need you need it, You need to
need to work a little bit more.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
So that just constantly gave me, you know, the that kind.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Of the the want to to go out there and
work hard as I can to be able to contribute
as fast as I can.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
It's interesting to hear you say that that, like you
kind of recognized and again to the humility comment that
you you kind of understood early on, like maybe I'm
not ready for that.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Yeah, now it.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Seems like you are ready for that. And you've had
the last couple of years to really be like the
lead dog for the Portland trail Blaze since Dame went
out the ding was traded in Milwaukee. How have the
last two years helped to prepare you for this role
here with the Celtics where you know, this is what
they're aiming for every single year.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yeah, I think you know, taking on that role was
was definitely you know a difficult thing because you were experiencing,
you know, a lot of different things just on the
defensive end.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
You know, seeing a.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Whole bunch of coverages and you're trying to work through
it whether they go good or don't go good, you know,
so you just learning each and every game. And so,
you know, coming in this situation, I knew that I
wouldn't have the same obviously the same role, but I
think I could take those things and apply it to
any situation that I get put in. In this situation,
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and I knew, you know, coming in, I knew I
was gonna be able to have to do some things
in Portland that I never did. So I was, you know,
pretty excited about the opportunity to grow as a as
a player. And I think, you know, that's why I
was most excited for. I knew Joe was gonna push
me to be the best version of myself, and so
that's something that I was, you know, I'm always excited for.
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And that's one of the things I thought about with
my trainer is that, you know, this environment is going
to bring It's gonna bring the best out of me,
you know what I mean. It's gonna show me who
show myself, like who I am as a person, as
a player, and you know, really answer those questions about
what I asked before, like, you know, do what I
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really want?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Want it, you know what I mean. So that's that's
the thing I'm excited about.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I appreciate that. I appreciate just hearing you say that.
You don't hear that all the time in the NBA.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
No, But also, I mean, you've experienced hard coaching from
your father talking about it.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
And is Joe on that level?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Is right?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah, which way does it go?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Well, you can say they both on that level, but
I think, you know, from a psychological standpoint, I think
my hearing it from my dad was way worse. And
obviously I was younger, so I was I wasn't mentally,
you know, mature enough to really take that sometimes take
that coaching.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
But yeah, from hearing from my.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Dad was was you can say, it's way worse than
getting it from Joe. But now I'm older, I understand,
you know, the coaching that Joe gives me. I understand
it because it's like I heard it before. I heard
the type of you know, commitment, you know, the coach
has to getting me better, you know, as a player.
So each and every time I you know, get chewed out,
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you know what I mean, I know it's he's trying
to help me, so I'm not I don't take it,
you know, too personal.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Your dad helped you get to hear, and hopefully Joe's
going to help you get sure as we watch you
go the rest of the season.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
We're gonna wrap up here.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
But before we go, I got to ask you one
last question because Abby and I when we were doing
some research for this episode, we read up on your
incredible performance the day after your grandfather away back in
January of twenty twenty two. For those of you who
don't know, and most people probably don't because they weren't
following the Blazers at that time, forty three points was
it the day after his grandfather passed away? Take take
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us back to that moment and what that day meant
for you and kind of what took over your body
during that performance.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Right, you know?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I think, Yeah, just just speaks on some you know,
stories really just right themselves.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Literally coming back from from Florida, I throve from from Orlando,
I mean to Portland, to Orlando, go to the field,
I mean to go see him for the last time.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Then I flew all the way back to Portland.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Had the day before the game and then you know,
obviously finding out then I played the game, and then
you know, obviously feeling some type of way a little bit,
you know, you know, I feel like you've seen them
for the last time, and so, you know, going out
there and just playing my game and just you know, everything.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Was just coming to me like, you know, like it
was meant to be. It meant to be, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I just really couldn't explain how, you know, how the
game went, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
I was just like I was just out there playing,
playing free and ended up you know, going for a
big night.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Pretty incredible story, incredible.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
I reached out to Brooke Oldendam, who does the sidelines
for the Portland Trailblazers, and that was one of the
stories she mentioned, and she said, you made her cry.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
And the postgame interview because no one knew. How did you?
Speaker 6 (21:26):
Are you able to compartmentalize that and be able to
do your job and focus?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah, it's definitely difficult, but I think I always see,
as you know, basketball is an escape from you can
say anything that's going on outside of that, and so
I always used that as an escape, and so you know,
I really didn't really think about it until the game
was over and I was like, yeah, so I was
like emotional, didn't get emotional about it.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Another thing Brooke told me on a lighter note and
people let you get out of here, but that you
became a little bit of a foodie.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
In Portland a little bit.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Yeah, what's your what's your go to? And then have
you found anything here in Boston yet?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I enjoy Italian food, so I'm excited about Yeah, I'm
excited about going to all the.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
You know, Italians.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Yeah, a little a little bit of Asian food.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I touched a little bit in that Caribbean food I love.
I love Caribbean food.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Can be hungry, yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Growing up and growing up in Florida, you get some options. Jamaica,
Florida is top tier. You know.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I've been pretty much opened anything over the past couple
of years. At first, I was real picky about my food.
I was like almost you know, like a little kid
like I did. I always like stuff.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Yeah, I used to be like no vegetables.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Chicken nuggets only.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Baby. Yeah, I'm trying to you know, expand expanding a
little bit. There you go slowly though, this is.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Capitals of the United States, I would say here in Boston,
so you got options. Hey, Anthony, this has been a
lot of fun having this conversation. It's been a lot
of fun watching you work your way into this organization
making an impact on the court. We can't wait to
watch you go the rest of the season. I think
you're gonna be draining quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Of threes this season. That's that's just, that's just a yeah.
Maybe I gotta get the man won a dunk contest.
I gotta get back in twenty one. I love it.
But we appreciate you coming on. Good luck the rest
of the season, and maybe we'll leave this again down
the road for sure. All right, man, thank you, thank you,
All right, folks, we are blessed to have one of
the best shooters in the entire.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
World sitting on set today. View from the Raptors. This
is Anthony Simon's in his first season with the Boston Celtics.
What's it been like so far? Man, what have you
learned about Celtics culture during these last whatever three four
months that you've been here.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I can see why, you know, you went so much
for sure, just based off you know, the attention to
detail practices are very difficult. I'm on purpose, you know,
they're just you know, holding everybody accountable, each and every
each and every rep on out there on the floor.
So I will say that's it. That's the difference, and
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that's what you feel as soon as you walk through
the door.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Did you notice the banners in the gym?
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Yeah for sure, in the weight room oh there, yeah, yeah, yeah,
for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It's like twenty feet from here. For the people who've
never been here before, it's like right on the other
side of.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
The wall over here. Yeah. Yeah, you can know. Yeah,
for sure. You see it every single day.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Everyone on the highway when you drive by, you might
be able to see.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Them fanners hanging up there. The empty one is the
most important one, Dalen always says.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Right, that's the one you're trying to the next one.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, there you go. All right.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
So I said, you've been here a few months. Let's
rewind to when it all started, the trade day.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
When you learn the news first time you've been traded
in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So, I mean, obviously you probably had some understanding from
teammates and stuff like what the process is like.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
But what was it like for you to go through
it for the first time?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, I mean luckily, I think luckily you could say
it was in the all season.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Yeah, so you got trying to, you know, adjusts. Yeah. Yeah,
so like.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
You know, did you know what was coming?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
No, no, no, not really No, not really, no, not really, Okay,
I wouldn't really, not at all, to be honest, I
didn't know the day. I was just at home back
in Florida, you know, just finishing out My day was
late at night. It was late at night, I was
washing TV. My phone was on silent, you know what
I mean, I do nothing the next day, so you know,
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I put my phone on side and I was just
my phone was blowing up. I didn't know. Now, I
looked at my phone. I got a whole bunch of calls,
and I'm like, something happened.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
How long was it before you realized that your phone
was blowing up?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
It might have been like ten minutes, ten to fifteen minutes.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
It's not terrible, it's not like.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
But luckily my trainer was in town and I think
my parents called my training was like, and then he
knocked on my door.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
And that's how that seems.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Like you got an actual in person delivery, right.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
He was like check. He's like, check your phone.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
You're getting calls, you know what I mean, from your agent, head,
coach and stuff like that. So I'm like, all right,
and I laid on my phone blowing up, and I
was like, something had to happen.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
So that's that's when I found out.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
What was the first thing that went through your mind?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Before they told me where I was going?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I'm like where, I'm just like, where am I going? Like,
I hope it's not, you know, somewhere that.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Don't say don't say any right that everyone out there
is going to be like, oh he didn't want to
go there.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I hope it was a good fit, you know what
I mean. And then when they told me Boston. I'm like,
this is this is what I've been you know looking for.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
You're like Joe Mizzoula loves threes.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I love threes, right, And I just knew that, like,
you know, this environment was going to bring the best
out of me, you know, having a lot of you know,
offensive responsibilities over the past couple of years. You see,
like you know, you're watching Boston how they play and
how then they got good players, but they all play
together well, and you know, they moved the ball. They
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shoot a lot of threes, like I said, and so
that was something that you know, I liked watching you know,
Boston play because it's the way they played. And so
my k new coming here was going to be like,
all right, it's going to bring a different It's going
to ask something different of me, and I want to
be able to you know, stresh myself in that way
of you know, playing that type of basketball.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
You've you've mentioned that like multiple times since you came here,
since Media Day, which was the last time you and
I were able to have a conversation, but since Media
Day and now we fast forward to this time, like
what have you actually how has it brought more out
of you this environment, Like where do you think that
you're improving that Maybe it wasn't a strength in prior year.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah, just you know, obviously the physicality on the defensive end,
just to the awareness you know, like before I would
you know, kind of coast an end because you know
a little bit had to do with you know, my
big responsibility to offense. And so it was never asking
me to just like pick up fool and and be
on top of somebody as soon as the ball go
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through the basket.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So and that's what you always asking of you.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Have you ever had to do that, like did school?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
High school? No?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I was always I was always like just the score. Yeah,
I mean like just give me the ball. But you know,
obviously coming here, it's like he's asking me to do this,
and he is on me each and every time, and
I don't do it. So it puts in that mindset
of just becoming natural. And so it's it's been fun
each and every day of him pushing me, you know,
to get after it on that end.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Jalen talks about it all the time, just how much
energy it takes to do that at this level. How
different is that to play both ways? And go one
hundred every.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Possession for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
That's that's I would say that's been the adjustment for me,
especially through this preseason, is being able to pick up
full and go on to offensive end and still be
myself and play fast and do what the team needs
me to do. Just having the energy and the conditioning
to be able to do that, you know, constantly over
and over again. And so that's been the I would
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say the adjustment for you know, a lot of us
is just you know, getting in conditions to play like
that every night.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
You should never possession.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
That's why Joe Missoula gave you guys Like Sam Cansel
said it was the hardest training camp that he's ever
been involved in. For sure. He's not He's not wrong
about that.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
He's not even close. It's been. It's been a grind
for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Show's like, we're gonna play this way, and I'm gonna
make you guys be in shape to play this way.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Also said he hates preseason games and just wants you
guys going at each other in the gym every day,
which I feel like, I mean, I.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Guess some games yeah, color yeah, yeah, just you know
what I mean.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Just hit somebody else.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Yeah, right, and also just getting a rhythm.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
You know what I mean, practice is is different from
the game, and so just getting a rhythm and just
being back out on the court, you know what I mean,
just in the arena and feeling the game feel is always.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Is always helpful.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Did you find some in the preseason rhythm.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Rhythm a little bit?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, a little bit, just figuring I was kind of
the first time us playing with like p and Derek
Jayalen for standing period of time because we've been like
split up in training camp. So just playing with those
guys and just trying to figure out, you know, the
rhythm and how we want to play. I figured a
little bit of a rhythm. But obviously, I mean I'm
you know, I'm new. I'm trying to figure out my way,
(07:12):
So it might it might take a little bit just
to figure out, you know, in different scenarios how it's
going to work.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Peyton mentioned he was in Oregon when you got drafted,
and you guys used to do some run in Portland.
What do you remember about him at that time and
relative he was to come down.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Probably now he was kind of chilling and pick up he.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Plays, Yeah, he played hard, but you know he was
He's always been like I always saw him as like,
you know, somebody that I knew from everybody telling me
about him, like how hard he worked and you know,
going to play against him, how good he was, and
how he was able to, you know, shoot the ball,
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get to the rim, make plays, and just be like
a tough individual player. And so I've always, you know,
enjoyed watching Peop play and especially obviously going against him
and playing with him and Pigo was always fun to
play with a player like that.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Talking about him, you Houser, I actually don't know, and
this is just donner on me. I don't know if
there's another team in the league that has like three
shooters on that level, all in the back courd.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But I've actually, I've actually yes, but JT's not shooting
it at forty plus percent on catching shoes, right, Like,
he's a lot of pull ups in his game, and
obviously they've been in your game too. But I've been
telling people to try it because people in Boston haven't
really seen you play a ton, right, They've seen you
play against the Celtics, that's probably for the most part. Yeah,
but they don't understand like how great of a shooter
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you are. You're forty two percent, I believe catching shooter
forty one percent catching shoot.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
In your career, not just like last year, Like that's career.
That is elite elite. Howser's around forty one, forty two.
Pritchard's up there. So I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
If there's an the team in the league that has
like three backcourt shooters on that level, that's pretty impressive.
It's You're gonna put a little bit of pressure on
the opponents this year.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, for sure, just you know, being on that opposite
wing and making that defensive choose if he wants to overhelp,
wise overhelp and give me a wat of get a
wat a three for me, Peyton or you know Sam
or you know, he's gonna stay there and we get
a free free lane. So that's it's gonna be, you know,
pretty fun playing that way and making them kind of
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choose and who to who to help off of.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Hey, you mentioned at the start Orlando, right, that's where
you were born and raised Ultimount Springs. To be exact,
I spent some time down there. I was in Maitland
for a year. I was waiting for the Magic back
in the day. You have a smile on your face.
What do you think of Maitland.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, I used to right next door, right to Ultimate. Yeah,
I used to work out at at the r DVV.
There you go, Yeah you was there. It's called RDV.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Yeah, yep, it's back in the day.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's been a while.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
So our DV complex is where the Magic used to
have their practice facility and their front office was located
there as well. But there was like a huge gym,
like a workout facility attached to it. There were a
few times when I was out there playing playing ball
with some some of the guys and like Dwight Howard
would just like pop out from the other side of
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the wall and like actually played basketball with us.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Like it was like the media game is dominating.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well he took it easy a little bit more than
Joe did the other media members, But yeah, it was
a lot of fun. But growing up in Orlando, you
probably well you had access to the RDV complex, but
you probably met some players growing up, like went to
camps and what was it like growing up in an
environment where you had an NBA team right down the road?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, I mean like when you growing up in that
type of environment, it's like you don't really think about
it in that way, but like you know, obviously you.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Like you yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
So like when we when I go workout RDV, I
think it was on like Mondays and Mondays and Wedday Wednesdays.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Were like the public side or were you in the
practice facility work.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
I was in the public side.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
So they gotta they gotta they had, Like you and
I played against each other.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
I played a couple of times on that little double court,
but they.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Had I would have read I would have walked away
like sobbing if I played against it.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
I feel like rembered that they had.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
They had like another gym that's like on the back side.
So that was the gym where like a lot of
us worked out at. And so you would see like
all the players walking through there to get to the
other gym where the you know, the Magic players might
have came in and worked out at. So you was
always constantly seeing those players walk through the gym, and
so you kind of took it for granted for sure,
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you know what I mean, you seeing guys man I
played for the Magic, but it's from Orlando. Area coming
there and work out like Austin Rivers or somebody like that.
But it was always fun, like you know, seeing those
top players there and working on the same gym just
you know, kind of made you want to, you know,
work harder.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
For sure, kids out there who live in the Boston area,
listen to Anthony right now, do not take it for
granted that you have the Celtics right down the road
if they come to your school for like an event
or something like, soak it in. Because me, I grew
up in upstate New York, none of that.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
None of that.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Like the Syracuse basketball players were the closest we had
to like professional basketball, so like it really is something
that kids out there like t take a seat and
like enjoy when you have that opportunity.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
How did that prepare you for the journey that is
the NBA, because I feel like everyone's obviously journey is
different and no progression is linear. But you had an
interesting route not going to college, going as a IMG
academy and then getting drafted in the first round, but
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largely sitting for two or three years learning from the best,
but really not getting the opportunity that most first round
draft picks get What did you take from your experience
growing ups being around those NBA players and then able to.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Take that into your first job in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, just I think growing up early on, I never
first of all, I never really liked was, you know,
a person that got starstrucked over, you know, players other
than maybe like Tam Mac was my favorite player. So
I was always like, I always saw them as you know,
a normal person. Obviously you did a great things and
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played basketball in the NBA, which I wanted to do,
but I always saw them as you know, just.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
A normal person.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
So when I came into the NBA, I kind of
took that same mindset for myself as that you know,
obviously I have a long road ahead of me. I knew,
you know, coming in that I wasn't gonna you know,
play that much, and so I kind of just dove
into making progressions every single day and learning, you know,
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whether it was you know, losing a hundred times in
one on one or two on two and.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Three on three just getting beat up.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
And so I just you know, took the one thing
from that day that I got better, even though I didn't.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Come out overall as the winner.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
And so I kind of try to stay patient and
dive into that while I wasn't playing, just to help
me like when I do get a chance, you know,
I'll be fully prepared for it, or you know, just
being the right mindset to go out there and play
my best basketball. So the first couple of years were
they were hard, but I you know, I felt like
I had the right mindset. I had the right support
system to help me through everything. I would say, had
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good veterans that were constantly keeping me involved in everything
that was going on.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
And good guys to learn from too.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
In the back for sure, Colin.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
But mentally, yeah, how did you get through that? Especially
being a teenager and you come in and you think
you're invincible and you're ready for your shot, and to
not take the journey for granted.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Right, I mean that was the for me. I think honestly,
I didn't at all. I didn't. I didn't feel like
I was invincible.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
No, Yeah, I knew like coming in, Yeah yeah, yeah,
I knew coming in. I'm like, I'm like, you know,
I know, I know, I feel like I'm talented enough
to play with these guys, but I knew I wasn't
physically ready for them, you know what I mean, Like
I wasn't physically and like mentally, I didn't understand the
game enough as much as they did because I didn't
go to college. So I'm coming from playing you know,
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kind of high school basketball. You know, the way that
philosophy is is not the same as college and another
step off the NBA. So you know, I think Mikonell
just like I needed to learn as much as possible
from all these guys.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
You know that play my position and played at a
high level.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
So go ahead, just real quick.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
That rookie, your rookie season was the year that Damian
Lillard hit the shot right in the Western Conference Finals
in Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
The look in the camera, Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
And so you have experience going to that level of
the playoffs as well, but what was that moment.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Like, oh, that was one of the like crazy ex
experience just the whole playoffs, just being sitting there front
row and be able to watch it.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Just the intensity.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, there's just the intensity behind each and every series
and how you know how gritty it got, you know
what I mean, that was one of the things that
like really opened my eyes to how NBA basketball especially
the playoffs has played and also make gave me some
more humility, like you know, as to myself, am I
ready for this right now? And I will tell myself
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like yeah, you need you need it, You need to
need to work a little bit more.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
So that just constantly gave me, you know, the that kind.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Of the the want to to go out there and
work hard as I can to be able to contribute
as fast as I can.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
It's interesting to hear you say that that, like you
kind of recognized and again to the humility comment that
you you kind of understood early on, like maybe I'm
not ready for that.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Yeah, now it.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Seems like you are ready for that. And you've had
the last couple of years to really be like the
lead dog for the Portland trail Blaze since Dame went
out the ding was traded in Milwaukee. How have the
last two years helped to prepare you for this role
here with the Celtics where you know, this is what
they're aiming for every single year.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yeah, I think you know, taking on that role was
was definitely you know a difficult thing because you were experiencing,
you know, a lot of different things just on the
defensive end.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
You know, seeing a.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Whole bunch of coverages and you're trying to work through
it whether they go good or don't go good, you know,
so you just learning each and every game. And so,
you know, coming in this situation, I knew that I
wouldn't have the same obviously the same role, but I
think I could take those things and apply it to
any situation that I get put in. In this situation,
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and I knew, you know, coming in, I knew I
was gonna be able to have to do some things
in Portland that I never did. So I was, you know,
pretty excited about the opportunity to grow as a as
a player. And I think, you know, that's why I
was most excited for. I knew Joe was gonna push
me to be the best version of myself, and so
that's something that I was, you know, I'm always excited for.
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And that's one of the things I thought about with
my trainer is that, you know, this environment is going
to bring It's gonna bring the best out of me,
you know what I mean. It's gonna show me who
show myself, like who I am as a person, as
a player, and you know, really answer those questions about
what I asked before, like, you know, do what I
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really want?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Want it, you know what I mean. So that's that's
the thing I'm excited about.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I appreciate that. I appreciate just hearing you say that.
You don't hear that all the time in the NBA.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
No, But also, I mean, you've experienced hard coaching from
your father talking about it.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
And is Joe on that level?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Is right?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah, which way does it go?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Well, you can say they both on that level, but
I think, you know, from a psychological standpoint, I think
my hearing it from my dad was way worse. And
obviously I was younger, so I was I wasn't mentally,
you know, mature enough to really take that sometimes take
that coaching.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
But yeah, from hearing from my.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Dad was was you can say, it's way worse than
getting it from Joe. But now I'm older, I understand,
you know, the coaching that Joe gives me. I understand
it because it's like I heard it before. I heard
the type of you know, commitment, you know, the coach
has to getting me better, you know, as a player.
So each and every time I you know, get chewed out,
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you know what I mean, I know it's he's trying
to help me, so I'm not I don't take it,
you know, too personal.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Your dad helped you get to hear, and hopefully Joe's
going to help you get sure as we watch you
go the rest of the season.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
We're gonna wrap up here.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
But before we go, I got to ask you one
last question because Abby and I when we were doing
some research for this episode, we read up on your
incredible performance the day after your grandfather away back in
January of twenty twenty two. For those of you who
don't know, and most people probably don't because they weren't
following the Blazers at that time, forty three points was
it the day after his grandfather passed away? Take take
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us back to that moment and what that day meant
for you and kind of what took over your body
during that performance.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Right, you know?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I think, Yeah, just just speaks on some you know,
stories really just right themselves.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Literally coming back from from Florida, I throve from from Orlando,
I mean to Portland, to Orlando, go to the field,
I mean to go see him for the last time.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Then I flew all the way back to Portland.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Had the day before the game and then you know,
obviously finding out then I played the game, and then
you know, obviously feeling some type of way a little bit,
you know, you know, I feel like you've seen them
for the last time, and so, you know, going out
there and just playing my game and just you know, everything.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Was just coming to me like, you know, like it
was meant to be. It meant to be, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I just really couldn't explain how, you know, how the
game went, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
I was just like I was just out there playing,
playing free and ended up you know, going for a
big night.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Pretty incredible story, incredible.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
I reached out to Brooke Oldendam, who does the sidelines
for the Portland Trailblazers, and that was one of the
stories she mentioned, and she said, you made her cry.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
And the postgame interview because no one knew. How did you?
Speaker 6 (21:26):
Are you able to compartmentalize that and be able to
do your job and focus?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah, it's definitely difficult, but I think I always see,
as you know, basketball is an escape from you can
say anything that's going on outside of that, and so
I always used that as an escape, and so you know,
I really didn't really think about it until the game
was over and I was like, yeah, so I was
like emotional, didn't get emotional about it.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Another thing Brooke told me on a lighter note and
people let you get out of here, but that you
became a little bit of a foodie.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
In Portland a little bit.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Yeah, what's your what's your go to? And then have
you found anything here in Boston yet?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I enjoy Italian food, so I'm excited about Yeah, I'm
excited about going to all the.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
You know, Italians.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Yeah, a little a little bit of Asian food.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I touched a little bit in that Caribbean food I love.
I love Caribbean food.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Can be hungry, yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Growing up and growing up in Florida, you get some options. Jamaica,
Florida is top tier. You know.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I've been pretty much opened anything over the past couple
of years. At first, I was real picky about my food.
I was like almost you know, like a little kid
like I did. I always like stuff.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Yeah, I used to be like no vegetables.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Chicken nuggets only.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Baby. Yeah, I'm trying to you know, expand expanding a
little bit. There you go slowly though, this is.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Capitals of the United States, I would say here in Boston,
so you got options. Hey, Anthony, this has been a
lot of fun having this conversation. It's been a lot
of fun watching you work your way into this organization
making an impact on the court. We can't wait to
watch you go the rest of the season. I think
you're gonna be draining quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Of threes this season. That's that's just, that's just a yeah.
Maybe I gotta get the man won a dunk contest.
I gotta get back in twenty one. I love it.
But we appreciate you coming on. Good luck the rest
of the season, and maybe we'll leave this again down
the road for sure. All right, man, thank you, thank you,
Host
Marc D'Amico
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