00:00One of the newest Dallas Mavericks, it is indeed Najee Marshall, I'm off to a terrible
00:23start.
00:24Good afternoon, sir.
00:25How you doing?
00:26How you doing?
00:27I would be doing better if I wouldn't have messed up that intro, but you know how it
00:30goes, right?
00:31All right.
00:32So I'm curious.
00:33We're just, the NBA season starts tonight.
00:35We're just about 48 hours away from the Mavericks starting every year when it's almost time
00:40for the season to start.
00:41Are you like, finally?
00:43Are you nervous?
00:44Is it just excitement?
00:45Like what goes through your mind for that?
00:47I think a little bit of excitement and like you said, just finally, it's been a long training
00:53camp.
00:54Just putting in a lot of work.
00:55Getting accustomed to the guys.
00:56I feel like it's been a long two to three months and the season's finally around the
01:01corner and I'm just ready to unleash the beast, man.
01:04Najee, I do want to tell you, my co-host Kevin really is excited to have you despite the
01:09mess up on your name.
01:10He's really like, he's one of those people that's very stoked.
01:13I appreciate that.
01:16When you got here, did you see like some of these guys, they're already on that same page
01:20and they're already kind of like back in championship mode trying to get back to that finals?
01:25No, for sure.
01:28Everybody's been working hard.
01:29You know, I come back to the gym late night.
01:31The whole team is here.
01:33So it is amazing to see from the strength coaches to the medical staff, everybody just
01:40locked inside.
01:41So just amazing to see and just get energy to feed off.
01:45I'm going to make this question long so that you can take a drink of water if you need
01:49to, Najee.
01:50Do you agree with the saying, you can't go 82-0 without winning the first one?
01:56Because my co-host thought that the Stars didn't really need to work that hard to win
02:00the first game.
02:01They reeled off four straight to start the season.
02:04Do you agree that you can't go 82-0 without winning the first one?
02:09No, for sure.
02:10I mean, that's really impossible.
02:13So I just think, man, it starts from day one and that's even before the first game training
02:18camp.
02:20So if we want to accomplish the ultimate goal, I just feel like I have to be locked in from
02:24before when it starts.
02:25So by the time it does start, you're already ready to go, man.
02:30I just want to clarify, obviously, I hope you guys beat the Spurs and roll from there.
02:36But we had people on our airwaves, on our stations, saying that if the Stars lost their
02:41season opener, they were done for, which is the most absurd thing I've ever heard in my
02:46life.
02:47That's right.
02:48No, no, no, no.
02:49You win some, you lose some.
02:50It has to come with sports, period, life.
02:52But definitely, if we can put in enough effort to win the game because it's a game and not
02:58just because it's our first, that's definitely, like I said, a good energy to feed off going
03:03into the rest of the season.
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