00:00So, Tyler, let me start with you.
00:03When did you, or Anna, when did you guys recognize that Stockton was maybe a little bit different than the
00:10other, you know, six, seven, eight-year-old kids playing basketball?
00:14He's been different ever since he was born, ever since he could hold the basketball.
00:19We've been a big basketball family for, gosh dang it.
00:23I mean, I played college basketball, so it runs in the family.
00:26We started a non-profit in 2004 called Utah Pump and Run, which turned into Utah Basketball Club.
00:31And so I coached for those programs, and that's when Stockton, my boy Hudson, Trace, and the rest of our
00:37family would actually come and come to all those tournaments.
00:40So we knew at a very young age.
00:42Stockton, do you like playing with kids in the fifth grade, or do you prefer playing against kids older than
00:46you?
00:47I like playing with kids older.
00:49That's right.
00:51Said every great player.
00:53Anna, for you as a sports mom, how is it for you watching your son play, knowing that he's now
00:59getting all this extra attention?
01:01Like, you guys already knew that, you know, he was special, not just as a young man or as a
01:05boy, but obviously athletically, he's a little different than the other kids.
01:08What's it like for you watching your son out there, knowing that there's a lot of eyeballs on him?
01:13Dude, I eat it up.
01:14I love it.
01:15I am that crazy mom at the games that's yelling, and I'm the one videoing everything, and it's so cool.
01:22I love it.
01:23My favorite is hearing the comments of the parents from the other team when they see him play for the
01:28first time.
01:28It's the best.
01:30One of the best things for me, I have four kids.
01:32They all played sports.
01:33I coached them until they got to high school, et cetera, is a lot of times you'll play a travel
01:38game, and there'll be a kid on the other team that's like 6'7", and he's like 9 years old.
01:44And all the parents are like, check that kid's birth certificate.
01:47One of the great things about, I think, your guys' story and Stockton's story is that Stockton is, like, size
01:53appropriate for his age.
01:55Like, he's not Manute Bull walking to the gym.
01:59You know, people are like, come on now.
02:00He's got a beard already.
02:01He's not 11 years old.
02:03Right, right, right.
02:03So, I think that's part of the story, which is why Lil Wayne, I think, was so attracted to that
02:08mixtape you guys made.
02:10Stockton, as a basketball fan, who are your idols?
02:14Who are the guys that you try to pattern your game after when you watch them on TV?
02:19Stephen Curry and Michael Jordan.
02:22All right, well, you got to learn how to shoot like Steph Curry.
02:25That'd be a good thing.
02:26And out in Utah, I say this respectfully, is it, like, predetermined that you're going to go to Utah or,
02:35you know, go to BYU?
02:36Or is the sky the limit as his game progresses, Tyler, is it, you know, whatever the best fit for
02:42him is?
02:44I think it's whatever the best fit is, you know, for him.
02:46Wherever he wants to go, we'll help support him.
02:49Yeah, I think he can do whatever he wants to do.
02:51He wants to go to Duke.
02:53Duke would not be bad.
02:55Would not be bad.
02:55And so, Stockton, let me ask you this.
02:57You've become a bit of a celebrity here in the last 48 hours.
03:00Are your buddies busting your chops?
03:03Are the other kids at school looking at you a little bit differently or talking to you differently?
03:08What's it been like for you the last 48 hours?
03:11Yeah, there's been a lot of people coming up to me in a row.
03:16And what was it like yesterday when one of the greatest rappers of all time, Lil Wayne,
03:22made a phone call to you to let you know how much he loves watching your skills on the basketball
03:27court.
03:27That must have been pretty cool.
03:29Yeah, I felt really good.
03:31And how about for you folks?
03:32Tyler, I'm not sure if you guys, you know, obviously you know who Lil Wayne is, obviously,
03:36but when that phone call came in for you guys, what was that like for you guys?
03:41Are you kidding me?
03:42The crazy thing is I think I was probably the most excited out of all of us.
03:45I mean, I've been following Lil Wayne since 1999, and me and my wife even have a story that we
03:50probably can't say on air,
03:51but that involves just how much we followed Lil Wayne back in the past.
03:56But I've been on cloud nine forever.
03:59I've been meeting one of my favorite rappers in the entire world.
04:02That was really cool.
04:04It's one of the great things about Wayne.
04:06Like, he doesn't do it for show.
04:07He doesn't need the attention, obviously.
04:10Look, he's taking an interest in my son, who's a singer.
04:13And it's real.
04:14And he never wavers in that.
04:16And the fact that he reached out to you, he does it all the time without fanfare.
04:20He means it.
04:21And I promise you, he's going to come to one of your games.
04:25He's going to try to be kind of like a guide as your fame grows, because he's lived it.
04:31He was like 13 years old when he became famous, so he knows what that life is like.
04:35And I think you've got a big fan for life, and that's the kind of guy Lil Wayne is.
04:39It's real.
04:39And it's not about him.
04:40It's about your skills, Stockton.
04:42And I saw the video.
04:43He's right.
04:44Now you've got to put more work in, meaning your pops is going to have you in the gym at
04:48like 6 o'clock in the morning tomorrow.
04:50So you've got to be ready to go to work now.
04:51Are you ready for that?
04:54Well, that's the cool thing about Stockton.
04:56The kid's work ethic is unmatched.
04:58He lives in the gym, and he wants to be there, right?
05:02He loves it.
05:04He truly loves it.
05:05And you can't teach that.
05:06You can't teach that.
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