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Bam Adebayo & Giannis Antetokounmpo In-Studio! | Bam and Giannis sit down together! They talk about becoming teammates after years of battles, Klay Thompson’s boat, Bobby Portis joining the Heat, and Giannis encountering South Florida iguanas for the first time.
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00:00It looks like a captain may be joining us here real soon, Leroy.
00:03You know, this guy, he scored 83 points in a game, Leroy.
00:08That's a lot.
00:09He couldn't score 100 in dominoes.
00:11Oh, dude, you lost to him last year.
00:13Like, what are we doing here?
00:14No, different rules.
00:14Leroy, let it go.
00:15It's just like, it's unbelievable with you.
00:17I'm telling you.
00:17It's unbelievable with you.
00:18All I'm telling you is this.
00:19Every year with the—
00:20There will be a sheet with the rules on it because some people don't know how to follow rules.
00:25When I was—
00:25Like, if you play two different sets of rules.
00:27When I was in the fraternity, beer pong rules were whose house is it?
00:32It's his house.
00:33Like, so it was on his—it was his rules.
00:35That's how it all went.
00:36It was my dominoes.
00:37Well, I don't know what to tell you, dude.
00:39You know, you guys should have established this stuff from the jump.
00:42I know.
00:43You should have established this stuff from the jump.
00:45I know.
00:46I know.
00:47So, I'm sorry.
00:48I know.
00:48I'm trying to make it work for you.
00:50I am.
00:50I know.
00:51But, unfortunately, you never scored 83 points in a game, so I believe him.
00:55This was before that, though.
00:57So, yeah, but now he's got that on the resume, too.
01:00Now he's got that on the resume, too.
01:02Oh, hello, Bam.
01:03Yeah, where I'm at.
01:04Right here, man.
01:05You know the mic.
01:05Yeah, you know the routine.
01:07He's already still talking about last year.
01:10Still—
01:11Wasn't that like two years ago already?
01:12No, it was last year.
01:13Yeah, I beat his ass.
01:14Yeah.
01:15Okay.
01:17Hey, I'm going to just say this.
01:20There's a lot of excitement in the air, which y'all got going on.
01:25Yeah.
01:25I just seen you and Spode lit up like Christmas trees all summer.
01:29Mm-hmm.
01:30Right?
01:31But I'm going to say this.
01:32I don't want to take that away from you.
01:34I want you to enter the season with all this hope and joy.
01:39That's big of you.
01:40And you got basketball in your heart with no drama.
01:43Like, let's go.
01:44I don't want to take that away from you.
01:46So, go ahead.
01:46Okay.
01:47Concentrate on your work.
01:48That's big of you.
01:49Do you, then?
01:50Yeah, no, no, no.
01:50Look.
01:51So, I can't tell if you're being the biggest person in the world or the smallest one by
01:56trying to, like, deflect.
01:58You know what I mean?
01:59He does that all the time.
02:00Yeah, sometimes I can tell him that either with him.
02:02I don't really know.
02:04But, Bam out of the bar, welcome back to the show, man.
02:06It's great to have you here.
02:08Giannis is your teammate now.
02:10That's pretty cool.
02:10What's he like?
02:13He's actually pretty cool.
02:14This is the most I've heard him talk, obviously.
02:17You know, usually when we meet each other, she was like, when the jump ball happens and
02:22then there's no words from that point.
02:26So, getting to know him, like I was telling him earlier, I was like, I got to get used
02:31to you being around because, like, now I got to change my energy towards you.
02:36Yeah.
02:37Because he said, what does he say?
02:39He said he needed 12 hours of sleep to face you.
02:41How many did you need to face him?
02:42Because that was, I mean, those are some pretty epic matches.
02:46You know, I needed a good night's rest because I knew what was going to happen.
02:52In the game, I knew it was going to be a dogfight.
02:55But, yeah, now I just got to get used to, I get used to seeing him on day-to-day
02:59occasions now.
03:00Like, usually I get amped up because we're about to play each other.
03:04And now it's like, I got to re, I don't know, I got to re-do my, the way I
03:11think now because he's my teammate.
03:13He's not, he's not, he doesn't have on a bucket jersey anymore.
03:16He's like, friends?
03:18Friends now?
03:18This works?
03:19Yeah, I'm still trying to figure that out.
03:22How was the, how was the mini camp you guys did?
03:24That seemed like a really cool experience.
03:26You guys got to know each other.
03:27We talked to the Rook a little bit about it, Ryan Conwell.
03:29He said it was an awesome experience.
03:30But how did that all come together?
03:32And what do you think the benefit of that was going into actual training camp?
03:35I think, you know, it started me and Davion wanted to do something different from last year.
03:42And this was an easy way for the guys that were coming into the culture.
03:47You know, Giannis, Klay, Timmy, all the new guys.
03:51It was kind of like the break ice.
03:53And then it was, what the hell is happening?
04:00Oh.
04:02You guys are never apart now.
04:03Look at this, dude.
04:04That's hilarious.
04:04Look at this.
04:05That's hilarious.
04:06Giannis is also here.
04:07Hello, Giannis.
04:10Hello, hello.
04:11How you guys doing?
04:12It's good, buddy.
04:13It's good.
04:13He said he's going to teach me Greek throughout the season.
04:17Really?
04:17Yeah.
04:18He's got that all going on?
04:19Yeah, yeah.
04:20You know, Greek is an easy language.
04:23You know, it's not going to take too much time.
04:26I got it.
04:28Down here, English be kicking people's ass.
04:30So another language might be a little tough.
04:34Yeah, that's true.
04:35That's true.
04:36Before we get into the rest of the basketball, Giannis, I do have to say.
04:41Apologize to him.
04:41Why am I apologizing to him?
04:42I warned him.
04:43I told him those dinosaurs were going to be a part of his life, dude.
04:47Do you officially get it now?
04:48Like, do you understand what's going on with the iguanas down here?
04:50I mean, it's, um.
04:53Nah, he ain't got the full effect yet until they start falling out of his trees.
04:57Yeah.
04:59Yeah, when they get around 65.
05:02Yeah, they freeze.
05:03They freeze.
05:04They're not dead, though.
05:05They're just taking a nap.
05:06The thing about it is that you guys lied to me, though.
05:09You said that if I approach the iguanas, they're going to run away.
05:13He swore up on you?
05:14Bro, he squared up.
05:18Bro, I'm not even lying.
05:21But, yeah, I get used to it.
05:23I did think on the video it looked like you approached him.
05:25It kind of looked like you threw a ball at him, and he was like, are you serious?
05:29Like, you have to encounter this.
05:32That's how it's going to go.
05:33You're going to have to do that, dude.
05:35Otherwise, they're going to poop in your pool.
05:37I'm just going to tell you.
05:37That is 100%.
05:38They will shit in your pool, bro.
05:41The crazy thing is that I wasn't the one that threw the ball.
05:44It was my wife.
05:45My wife was more brave than me.
05:48Good for her.
05:49Yeah, yeah.
05:50We were just talking to Bam about the idea of he's still getting used to you,
05:54just the idea of you as a teammate because you guys had so many great battles.
05:58Do you have some of that?
06:00Are you like, oh, my God, Bam is my teammate.
06:01This is a little bit weird.
06:03Yeah, yeah, no, no.
06:04Even when I walk down this hallways, I'm like, man, this is weird.
06:07Like, you know, whenever, like, I walk down this hallways, I'm like, getting ready.
06:12Like, my mindset is like getting ready for war, you know,
06:15because I've played against him for so many, many years.
06:17And I'm like, I kind of have to switch off that mindset.
06:22Like, you know, it's my teammate now.
06:25You know, this is actually our home.
06:27This is our arena.
06:28This is where your fans are going to come and watch us play.
06:31So it's fun.
06:32It's going to be exciting, man.
06:33And it's a very, very easy, easygoing guy, positive guy, easy to talk to.
06:39But when he goes out there, he's locked in.
06:42So I'm excited to, like, let's hop and play with him.
06:45You'll know when you go into the big locker room.
06:48Instead of that raggedy locker room, they normally put you in.
06:50That's hilarious.
06:51Yeah.
06:53Every sport is like that.
06:55The visiting locker room, they don't do you no favors.
06:58No.
06:58Do you know in the visiting locker room, bro, it's hot.
07:01There's no AC.
07:02I ain't never been in there.
07:04Bro, there's no AC.
07:06Towels are old.
07:07The showers don't work.
07:09Yeah.
07:10They get you out of towels that peel.
07:12Like when it got all the white stuff on it.
07:14After you get down.
07:15It's not even about that, bro.
07:16They give us, like, white towels with, like, brown stains.
07:21That sounds like a Pat Riley special.
07:24That does sound like Pat.
07:25Pat's like, give him the dirty towels.
07:27Literally.
07:27Like, you know, Ben, what have you felt?
07:31Because Spoh was talking to us a little bit earlier about just the idea with Giannis here.
07:34Like, there is a different spotlight on the team.
07:36There's going to be a lot of expectation on you guys.
07:37How have you, I guess, felt that buzz around the team?
07:42Man, I feel like everybody, you know, not the outside noise.
07:47Because they're going to have their expectations.
07:49But from jump, everybody, you know, who we got came into the season with a training camp that me and
07:57Davion hosted with good energy.
07:59I feel like that's step number one.
08:01Everybody bought into the things that we were trying to do.
08:04Boat day, dinner, you know, competing on the court.
08:08You know, I feel like everybody had a great energy around everything that we did.
08:12And, you know, I feel like that can catapult us off to start the season.
08:16What is, you enjoy that Klay Thompson boat, Giannis?
08:19Captain Klay.
08:21Yeah, I did.
08:22You know, just be able to get to know one another and, like, you know, have conversation, play cards, spend
08:28time and drink a little bit.
08:30You know, it was fun.
08:34Like, I haven't been a part of something like that before in my career.
08:39I had the opportunity, I think, a couple of years ago to go to a training camp that we have
08:44for, like, two, three days.
08:45But it was just, like, strictly basketball.
08:47But I feel like that, like, creates the chemistry.
08:51It creates bond within the team.
08:52And it was really, really good.
08:54You know, everybody, everybody was there.
08:57Everybody was having fun.
08:58We were able to create an iconic picture that I feel like in years from now we're going to even
09:02appreciate more, you know.
09:05And just seeing, like, guys like Klay that we grew up watching, just seeing him at this element and he
09:11was relaxed and telling us about the boats and telling us about the areas and all that.
09:16And that was fun.
09:18For me, I had a lot of fun.
09:19I'm curious if I could get both of your perspectives on this because people wonder about you guys fitting together
09:23on the court.
09:25Giannis, you can go first on this.
09:26Just how do you guys think this is going to fit?
09:28We saw Bam definitely put the three-pointer into his game last year.
09:31But do you see this as going to be an easy transition?
09:35Do you think it's going to be a work in progress?
09:36How has, I guess, maybe the early feeling been on it?
09:38I think it's going to be easy, but it's going to take time for sure.
09:41Like, it's not going to look pretty from the beginning.
09:45And obviously, a lot of people have expectations about us.
09:50But at the end of the day, like, I think we both understand, you know, this is year 10.
09:54It's been in the NBA for a decade.
09:55This is year 14 for me.
09:56Like, we both understand, like, slowly, slowly.
09:59It doesn't have to look good in the first night.
10:01But eventually, when you have two hardworking guys and two guys about the right things, eventually it's going to look
10:07good.
10:08You know, I know that he's going to be honest with me.
10:10He's going to tell me the truth.
10:10He's going to keep me accountable.
10:12And it goes both ways.
10:15I'm going to do the same.
10:17Again, defense will be incredible.
10:19Offense is able to space the floor.
10:21He can knock down shots.
10:23I'm going to try to do the same.
10:25But again, when you have guys that approach the game the same way, it's not going to be hard.
10:30It's hard when you have guys that are about themselves.
10:34And I don't think it's about himself.
10:35I don't think he thinks I'm about myself.
10:38I think we both are here to do a job, which is win basketball games.
10:44Who's the one player that you would say new to this team, right, that you say,
10:52all right, I ain't got to deal with him no more.
10:54I know how you feel about Giannis.
10:56But I was thinking, like, Bobby Portis.
11:00Like, you know, just that guy, like, oh, I ain't got to deal with that no more.
11:06Him and Klay.
11:07Klay the same way?
11:09Man, bro.
11:10Klay just be open sometimes.
11:12Like, I'll be like, why do they leave the second greatest shooter open?
11:16Right.
11:16You know what I mean?
11:18And Klay got those three that are, like, backbreaker threes.
11:21Like, you're making a run, and it gets to, like, eight points,
11:24and it's like Klay's by itself wide open taking his time.
11:26You're like, no.
11:27It's like, yeah.
11:28You just run through.
11:29Yeah, green bean.
11:31And it's like, come on, bro.
11:33Would you hate facing Pella Larson?
11:35Because I'm watching some, like, he's just running in the, like, contact nonstop.
11:39Like, would you guys hate going against a guy?
11:40I mean, you have before.
11:42But, like, would you hate going against and defending a Pella Larson?
11:47I wouldn't because Pell's going to push you to a point where you have no choice
11:53but to respect him.
11:55And I feel like that's vice versa.
11:58But, yeah, just running in the Pell, I don't think that's just a great idea,
12:02you know, at all.
12:04Is he sore after these games?
12:06Because he's, like, he's – it feels like he's got, like, nine contacts a game.
12:10And I feel like those are all to, like, the face, though.
12:13Yes.
12:13You know, he always gets hit in the face.
12:15Yeah, he always gets hit in the face.
12:17It doesn't change.
12:18If it's in pickup, it doesn't matter what – if there's a basketball involved
12:22and Pell's playing, he's bound to get hit in the face.
12:24What about you, Giannis?
12:25Did you see him do what he did in World Cup this year?
12:28Did you see any of what Pella was doing?
12:29Yeah, he's probably one of the players that have surprised me a lot.
12:33Like, I played against him, but being, you know, teamed with him
12:38and seeing him every single day, how he operates, I've been very, very surprised.
12:43He's a very hard worker, and he plays hard.
12:46Like, you know when he's going to be on the floor,
12:47he's going to give everything he has.
12:49And that's a guy that you always want to have by your side.
12:52But one of the guys that I'm, you know, kind of also –
12:56I'm happy that I'm not going against is Damian Mitchell.
12:58Yeah.
12:59Yeah?
12:59Yeah, he's a pest, man.
13:01Like, he bothers me.
13:03Boy, Damian's aggravating.
13:05Yeah.
13:05He's looking slim now.
13:07He's looking lean.
13:07Yeah, he got that fat off him.
13:09Wow.
13:11See?
13:11Yeah.
13:12You don't say nothing to him.
13:13Well, you guys are two peas in a pod in a lot of way, you and Leroy.
13:17Well, this is the thing, though.
13:18I'll tell Damian that to his face.
13:20I would.
13:21Dude, he's –
13:21I don't know if you would say that.
13:23He's fat shaming me and other people on the regular,
13:25like right in front of their face.
13:25He doesn't care.
13:26No, I'm not.
13:27Like, if it –
13:29Sometimes the truth hurts.
13:30I can't – I don't know what to tell you.
13:32I'm like –
13:32I wasn't the one that said it, though.
13:34Bam out of –
13:35You just repeat what somebody else said.
13:36Okay.
13:37Bam out of bio.
13:38Giannis onto the Google Bowe.
13:40Bam and Giannis.
13:41Giannis and Bam.
13:42They're on the heat, Heat Nation.
13:44Now you're not excited for this season.
13:45Guys, we appreciate the time.
13:46Thanks so much for joining us.
13:47Thanks.
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