Drafted Season 2

An exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at basketball phenoms Anthony Edwards and Tyrese Maxey as they go from elite NCAA prospects to the 2020 NBA Draft. We go inside the life-changing journey of two top NBA draftees, and step into the closely-guarded world of their agents - Klutch Sports Founder and CEO Rich Paul and Klutch's Head of Basketball Omar Wilkes. Narrated by Keegan-Michael Key.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Drafted is a production of tree Ford Media, Clutch Sports Group,
and I Heart Radio. With the first pick in the
two thousand twenty NBA Draft, the Minnesota Timberwolves select Imagine this.
You've been playing basketball since you were little, dreaming of
going pro. Then it happens. Life as you know it
changes with one phone call. Thankity, it won't be very great.

(00:33):
This is Keegan Michael Key, and welcome to Draft It.
In our first season of the podcast, we followed eight
football players through the NFL Draft. In this second season,
we followed to college basketball phenops, the explosive Anthony Edwards,
who starred at the University of Georgia, and the University

(00:54):
of Kentucky's Tyrese Maxie, arguably the hardest working player in
the draft. The albums the Game upst sing saying, man
working out with four practice, four ways or four class
doing what I had to do on the court, doing
what I'm doing the class room. It's still a hard
Anthony and Tyreeks will make themselves up and tell their
own stories, giving us a raw, honest look at what
it takes to go from childhood dreamer to college star

(01:16):
to being chosen. Is one of only four hundred and
fifty NBA players in the world. But I'm so good now,
Maybe do this. NBA stands for No Boys Allowed. I
feel like any person, any human being, has been through
what I've been through. You can't do nothing to me.
And he's always got a chip on his shoulder. I
think you need those things to be a great player.
I just really do. This is their real life as

(01:41):
it unfolds in real time, and we'll go further behind
the scenes in this season of the podcast with unprecedented
access to their agents, Clutch Sports Group founder and CEO
Rich Paul having Drafted there, what's going on? What you hear?
And their head of basketball Omar Wilkes. This is a
draft unlike any before. It's all a game of chess.

(02:03):
There's always been a mystique to draft day, but in Drafted,
we live every detail from the player's perspective, before, during,
and after one of the biggest days of these athletes lives.
It's draft n I'm not to get drafted, all right,
and we stay on moving couch. Listen and follow Drafted
right now on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

(02:25):
or wherever you get your podcasts.