Trae Young at 2024 NBA All Star Media Day

Trae Young at 2024 NBA All Star Media Day

What’s up y’all yeah oh uh no my my routine ain’t really changed um I mean it’s uh it’s not as busy as it was my first year uh or my second um still busy but doing a lot of things but just a little bit little bit less for

Sure for sure yeah I like that better I think the players are going to like it better I mean I mean it’s cool playing uh picking teams and all but I mean it’s different whenever you’re picking in front of a national National fan base rather than just it being in the back

Room and you pick it out um so I think it’s better this way anyways uh East versus West can probably be a little bit more competitive too so oh I mean when I come off a screen the first thing I look at is obviously the big man Defender who’s guarding him

If he’s in a drop or if he’s up and then uh after that I have to read the tag man who’s ever rolling uh tagging the roller uh if he doesn’t tag the roller I can throw a lot or if he tags the roller usually the guy

Who’s tagging it is the corner man and his man he’s wide open and that’s a shooter so that’s really my my progression and then if the big is in a drop I can get downhill and shoot floaters all day so that’s pretty much my progression best basketball movies of all

Time I can get four right uh he got games one uh loving basketball um man hooers and um Above the Rim any NBA legend ah dang that’s a great question there’s a lot I could play with and we could we could be special uh I don’t know I probably pick

Shaq I don’t need no pick and roll man and if I said his pick he says his pick I’m getting open oh um I don’t know um I don’t know if there is anybody I don’t like to look at myself like that uh I I think there’s

A lot of really talented players I like watching Sabrina um Caitlin Clark’s about to be in the W here soon and um I mean there’s a lot of really good players and young I mean guards that can shoot it and get everybody involved too so it’s it’s a lot of talent

where would I be I’m going to Orlando regardless so I’m going to Disney World regardless at from my family after so um dream three-point matchup no I mean I I get to I’ve Been Around the best who ever shot the ball so I I don’t

Have a really dream dream match up for Real uh I mean I’m I’m I’m I’m more than I’ve been before for sure uh I think my first year I got knocked out first round last year was championship and cap I think broke a record that year to beat

Me I’m like uh it was tough but now I’m here hopefully I can get one more step forward and and win it all so we’ll see oh yeah that says a lot about him and I mean his game and his competitive level I mean he’s a I mean he’s a a

Different different breed I mean being able to be that tall and do a lot of different things is is is kind of crazy so yeah what do I think he can be successful and that yes he can do everything man he has long legs it don’t matter how quick guys’s feet feet are

Like he can he can run he can he can stretch his arm out like it doesn’t matter like he’s going to catch up with time with his length and his and his his size so he’s he’s really good U anybody I mean the kind of player

That can help him win a championship I mean make it make his job easier for him I mean somebody who can just help him so that’s that’s the type of player he needs around him not right now not not that I can think of favorite player besides myself

Um uh cuz I really started 11 just for myself uh I mean I’m a big fan of Isaiah Thomas like just being yeah you know what I’m saying so one championships one of the best point guards of all time so one of the best 11s ever for sure o one TV

Show um I’m a big Mar fan I probably watched everyone so I’ll probably still do Martin One V one uh I don’t know I’d probably go I’ll probably go with a guard to probably like Allan Iverson probably a legend guy I mean possibly with the time if it

Gets a double triple overtime you never know um I mean just a talent level a lot of people say it’s because of bad defense and who knows but I think I think it’s more about like guys being talented and how talented guys are like I mean the slow two-step guys do like

It’s I mean it’s a lot of stuff is new nowadays so it’s um I mean it can it can happen I don’t know if it’s going to happen here soon but it would happen because of something crazy like that well I mean if you want to if you want

To watch defense all game add defense to three seconds I mean that’s you watch college basketball games be 80 to 80 or 80 to 70 so if you really want to watch defense then add the defense of three seconds back and people stop complaining about

It I mean what is the fans the majority want to watch it’s not about what what Trey young wants to watch it’s the majority and the majority seems like they I mean as bad as much as they want to talk about the the defense we play I

Don’t even think it’s the defense to be honest with you I think it’s the talent of the offense and the the rules that they allow the offense to have over the defense and uh when you put two and two together the offense is obviously gonna be better than the defense yeah okay say

Nutmeg all right yeah Kanita perfect man one what hit wonder Marco uh I would change it to three cuz I grew I grew up playing with number three no it’s not cuz I think I’m better than I no bro I mean I like to think anybody who I see is that but uh

I don’t know I’ll probably go red Doritos yes sir oh Sabrina got the record I got to go with step though I’m going take the easy way and cop out but I’m a little bit me as for sure pulling for Sabrina come on now to

21 who get ball first make it take it okay you get ball first you may I may get let you have a point let you have one okay I’ll give you two and then 21 but nah B no appreciate you Sophie um I uh message back to hwks fans I mean

For me I just hope they they enjoy the weekend hope they I put on a show for him and represent them the way that they they want me to and I go out and and put on the show for him yeah I mean uh right now I’m just

Focused on my team I mean it’s been brought up and things about that but I a I ain’t really look too far ahead I’m just focused on right now and uh getting through this weekend and then trying to figure out finish the rest of the season out

Um I have no I have no idea I mean who knows who knows what it why it is that way but um I don’t really get caught up in it I just I’m going to continue to go out and play the way I do and try to win

And I know that’ll continue to take care of itself but I don’t get caught up in why why not this or that I just I know it all it’ll all turn uh eventually so Ru to the if I could add one rule to the NBA

Um man um there’s a lot of rules I would like to add uh I don’t know I don’t know I don’t think there’s one I think it’d be something with the to deal with I don’t know I’m not about to get fined up here I’m sorry too much

Offense I mean what do you think my to ask well it’s not my job to change the answer I don’t know what it is I don’t I don’t really know I think the talent is really high like offensive players are really smart I think the the

Defense isn’t allowed to do as much as they’ve used to used to and if the fans want want it changed and all that stuff then just add a defense of three seconds I mean that’s what college basketball is so I mean scores will be 80 to 70 or it

Would be a lot shorter and a lot smaller but just because the defense is allowed to do more so it’s not necessarily about not necessarily about the offense being better or anything like that or no defense being played just about the the defense not being allowed to do what

They really really can or like that uh I got I got Steph I’m going the easy way out uh but part of me definitely wants Serena to to shock the world tonight for sure favorite saying um I mean it’s another day another opportunity that’s yeah oh that’s yours C huh

Trae Young answers a variety of basketball and other fun questions from media members after All-Star Practice on Saturday afternoon.

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