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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's five o five ESPN fifteen thirty, Good afternoon at
ball Lager broadcasting today from Oakley Greens. In fifteen minutes,
our guy Sean sayat the Stats and Scheme podcast is
going to join us. I am stoked for this because
this is the second time this offseason we've had a
chance to talk to with him.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Just McBride.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You know, I'm a huge New York Knicks fan, and
I'm a big fan of Deuces because he plays with
the Knicks. He's a Cincinnati guy Moler High School. The
Knicks are set to begin training camp here in a
few weeks. Are actually headed to Abu Dhabi to start
the preseason in a few weeks against the Philadelphia seventy
six ers. Duce a huge part of an Eastern Conference
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finalist New York knixt team this past season, had a
great year. He's a new father. He's also authored a
children's book, Deuce The Champion of Friendship, and he is
going to be at Joseph Beth just a few minutes
from where we are right now, this coming Friday at
five o'clock discussing his new book. A chance to meet
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a guy who I'm gonna go ahead and say it
next year at this time will be fitted for an
NBA Championship ring friend of the show, Miles Deuce McBride.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
It's awesome to have you.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
How are you, Man, appreciate you having me back on.
Always great to talk with you. Nothing like those intros.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I mean every word of it. What is we talked it?
Got It might have been three weeks after the season ended.
Now here we are just a few weeks before a
training camp. You've got the children's book, got a baby.
What's the off season been like.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Man, Just that I've been, you know, pushing my children's book,
getting out there to the public and been received really well.
But most importantly, been spending a lot of time with
my daughter. Just watching her grow these last three months now,
it's been truly amazing. I mean, just to see the
difference in how fast she's changed, it's it's it's awesome
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and I'm only excited for the rest of the growth.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
How much sleep are you again?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Not a live She's she's lucky. She goes to sleep early,
but she's rising early too, which is making it tough.
But I'm loving every second.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
That's that's pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
In terms of basketball, look, man, you guys had a
great year last year. There's tons of excitement for the
team that you're going to be on this coming season.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Training camp is going to begin. You've you've been.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Through this now for a while, right, You're like a
fully invested NBA veterans. So so what's what's kind of
the metal process going into training camp this year as
opposed to other years of your NBA career?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Man, I think this year, I'm just so much more
hungry and motivated from last year the year before, just
being so close and losing to the same team twice. Like,
I really want us to just hit the ground and run, honestly,
you know, not walk. You know, I know everybody says
regular seasons marathon, but I really want us to skip
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from the from the jump, just really get going.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
What's NBA training camp like?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
It's uh, I mean it's pretty intense, just because it's
not a lot of times. I mean I think it's
you know, it depends where you are, but for for us,
it's been really intense, just you know, having such high
expectations to come into the season, and obviously, you know
New York teams are put under a lot, they're put
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under a different you know scope.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
So I feel like the intensity levels just through the
roof right now, which is which is good. You know,
I love it.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I wouldn't want it any other way.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You have a new coach, and Mike Brown.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I would imagine that every coach in the league is
different from Tom Thibodeau. Not that's not to say that
Timms wasn't a marvelous coach for the Knicks and for
yourself personally. But what have your conversations with your new coachmen, Like.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I mean, they've been all really positive so far, not
even just about the game of basketball, but you know life,
you know, my family, you know, having that I have
now and you know, just the life part of New York.
You know how you maneuver living in different areas because
we practiced pretty far from the gardens, so you know,
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things like that. But even on the basketball side, just
really excited to get to know me as a player
and you know, even more as a person.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
So it's all been really good.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Are you excited to to start the preseason half a
world away?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I am. I've never been, you know, to the Middle East.
I've made my ways around this world, but the Middle
East is not a place I've been yet. So I'm
excited to get out there, and you know, get to
start a week early before everybody else, so you know,
everybody's gonna going to really be excited to see a
whole different part of this world and get to do
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what we love.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, the season ends early June, late May. How much
time do you take off before you start doing basketball
stuff again?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I mean, I think for everybody it's different.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
I hear you know, some guys they don't like to
get out of shape, so they almost start doing some
type of exercises like within that same week with other
guys that are like, you know, I do a whole reset.
I think it all depends how you're feeling from that
last season. Like the season before I ended, I had
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I had to have a surgery, So I was out
the whole summer the previous summer going into this last season.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
So this year I took about you know, two weeks
off and try to let my.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Body recover as much as I could, and then you know,
started up with pilate, started up with other ways to
get my body back active before I got it back
on the court.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
H Deuce McBride is with us.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
He is going to be at Joseph Beth this Friday
five o'clock discussing his children's book, Deuce The Champion of Friendship.
You're involved in a lot of different things. Many NBA
players are not. Many are children's book authors. What made
you decide to write a children's book?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I mean I always knew, you know, the people I
looked up to the most obviously my mom, my dad,
my older brother, and my.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
My extended family. And you know, the example they.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Left on me was to impact this world with positivity
in any way you can. And you know, like as
I grew older, I just wanted to be a role
model the kids that were already starting.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
To look up to me.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
When I was back at Molder High School and you know,
kids were already asking me for autographs. So I felt like,
you know, this would be a really cool way to
start to leave a bigger legacy than whatever I do
on the court.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
The book itself is about friendship and courage and standing
up for people.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
That could use an ally.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I think that's a good way of putting it. Give
me an idea of what the inspiration behind the book was.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Yeah, I mean I feel like when it comes to
this game of basketball and in sports in general, it
teaches you so much about life, whether it's the discipline
you have from working hard and seeing a payoff or
from not working hard and cutting corners. You know, things
in life can be tough when you cut corners in life.
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So I feel like from that standpoint, the game of
basketball can just teach you so much and take you
so many places. And on another note, it.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Can just you can have so much fun with it.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
I mean, you can meet people, it can take you
around the world like it's doing for me, and I
think everybody should have a chance to just have fun
with playing the game, have fun playing with friends and
meeting new people, getting out of their comfort Zone.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Again five o'clock at Joseph Beth on Friday. Now, is
this is the plan for this to be the first
of many like in a couple of years. Are we
going to talk to be talking about like Douce McBride's
entire series of children's books.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
That is definitely the plan.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Already already getting to my notepad, coming up with some ideas.
I'm pretty sure we're gonna make this a little serious.
So I'm excited for the future.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Very cool.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
You want to be again Friday at Joseph pet This
is pretty much like you have the event on Friday
and then you have to report, I believe, correct me
if I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Is that Monday you guys start camp.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
We have a media day, then we're practicing the next day.
So I'm excited to come back home for a little bit,
but definitely excited to get this get this season going.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
All right, you're you're kind enough to join us during
the offseason, and look, U, I talked to you and
we'd have you no matter which team you played for,
but the fact that you played for the Knicks means
a lot to me, and so we've joked on the show,
uh that we We're gonna talk to you from the
parade next summer.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Okay, absolutely, no, I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
I'll have to see you up in New York.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
You know what if you if you guys win it,
I will do the show from the parade. It might
just be for me, it might just be for you
and I, but I will do it.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. I'm going to mark
that on the calendar. Would you do it?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Well, we'll trust me.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You won't have any problem getting me to be there Friday,
five o'clock Joseph Beth, the Great, Duce McBride, Deuce, the
Champion of Friendship.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
He is going to be discussing the book. You could
purchase it there Joseph Beth obviously right there the heart
of Hyde Park. Congratulations on the book. Best of luck
on Friday. Best of luck this season. Can't thank you enough.
Good luck and we'll talk to you from the Canyon
of Heroes next summer.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Man, thanks so much, Yes, sir, appreciate you having me.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
That's that's our guy, Duce McBride.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Go see him on Friday five o'clock at Joseph Beth,
Deuce the champion of friendship. How do you not root
for that dude. You might not like the Knicks, that's okay.
You might not be a molar person, that's fine too.
How do you not root for that guy? And I
root for that guy if he played for anybody, but
he plays for the Knicks, the twenty twenty six NBA champions.
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We're at Joseph be No, we're not. We're at to
Oakley Greens. Kind of a Ron Burgundy there moment there
for me, Drew. We're at Oakley Greens, very close to Joe.
You know what you can do on Friday? Go see Deuce,
Go get his book, get your picture, get your autographed,
and then come have dinner here at Oakley Greens and
then post up the entire weekend here.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
At Oakley Greens.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And you give your kid to children's book and then
bring him here to play mini golf or cornhole or
ping pong, or just have dinner, get some ice cream,
and spend the entire weekend here. Full college football Slate,
Bengals watch party on Sunday, and don't forget Bengo on
Thursday night. We love the folks here at Oakley Greens.
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to enjoy. You know what, that conversation there.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
We've all of us.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
We've been in salty moods since Sunday. Right, let me
be honest, we've all been a little bit on edge,
and talking to Duce McBride brought a smile to my
face that I badly needed. Sean Sayat always brings a
smile to my face, Stats and Scheme Newsletter.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
He's going to join us to
Speaker 2 (11:48):
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