Really?

... like here.

I mean, I know Tibbs, you know, from when I was in Boston, Tibbs was cool.

He signed here.

He signed me here, and he was just like, "Man, you know, we, we, we could use somebody like you to come off the bench and, uh, you know, give guys a, a break and, you know, bring the energy, score." And when I signed here, I didn't know what to expect.

I mean, I had, uh, a couple of my buddies that, that played here before I was here, Jamal Crawford, Eddie Curry.

So I didn't know what to expect, but they were like, "The city gonna love you." So, uh, you know, when I got here it was just all about hard work, you know, grinding and stuff like that.

Right.

Vinoy,

Overton, Peyton Seaver.

They had a squad.

They were supposed to be the team.

Isaiah gave them like 50.

So it was like a buzz going around.

And then back then, it was like Seattle versus the Seattle Tacoma thing.

Like, like we obviously had to go through it, but like, what would your advice be for a kid that, that has dreams of doing that? And what, what, what would you, what would you give that kid to, to just keep going, man?

Mm-hmm

...

since the Knicks won it, and I think that now in, in 2026 with the technology and the way where basketball's going now, I think that this is like the perfect time to win it, and hopefully it's not another 53 years before they win it again.

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He had that big smile.

You know what I'm saying? When he on the court, you see that smile, you know it's game time with him.

You know, so that was, uh, you know, that was my first time I got to see and meet IT, and you know, he's put on ever since.

Did you go to Beach?

Yes, I went to Rainier Beach.

I played with Jamal.

Me and Jamal, I think me and Jamal are the first team I want to say this right.

I think we're the first high school teammates from, I think, public schools.

I won't say like Oak Hill and all that fake high schools, but public high schools.

We are the first players to make it out of public high school and go to the NBA, play on the same team together.

So who's your starting five for Seattle players?

But a lot of people remember what she, like, didn't do.

There's been epic fails.

I mean, Baron Davis put a blindfold on and missed the hoop completely.

But we talk about, like, it's still for YouTube.

You can go on YouTube and see it.

It's hilarious.

But now with social media, they capture everything.

Nate, how did you jumping over Dwight come about?

I've seen, I'm just thinking about you at these games now, and I remember seeing videos of you talking to the refs.

All the time.

For me, bro, you got magic.

All right.

You know, too, a little bit.

They don't like calling calls for us for most of the point because they, you know, we have the ball.

We're smaller, too.

You get angry and you say something, but I feel like a certain percentage of them are strategic where it's like, you got to get

of you? what's your favorite highlight of you watching your daughter? What's your most proudest moment?

My most proudest moment is I think that she picked up playing hard every possession from me, just watching what I've done over the years.

And then me watching her play like myself, her brothers, it's just pure effort all the time.

She's like 5'6", and they just got done losing the state championship by 12 the other day on Saturday.

And my daughter, Tav, she had to guard a 6'3 girl.

And it's like, you know, with me being in the league, everybody was always taller than me.

So she took the challenge, man, and held her to six points at the half.

Did you push her to play basketball or she just, at one point, just picked it up?

I'm saying what's the highlight of you What's your favorite highlight of you watching your daughter? What's your most proudest moment?

My most proudest moment is I think that she picked up playing hard every possession from me, just watching what I've done over the years.

And then me watching her play like myself, her brothers, it's just pure effort all the time.

She's like 5'6", and they just got done losing the state championship by 12 the other day on Saturday.

And my daughter, Tav, she had to guard a 6'3 girl.

And it's like, you know, with me being in the league, everybody was always taller than me.

So she took the challenge, man, and held her to six points at the half.

Nate, how did you jumping over Dwight come about?