POST ALL-STAR GAME SOUND: PAOLO BANCHERO

POST ALL-STAR GAME SOUND: PAOLO BANCHERO

Man it was great man I’m just I’ve been smiling the whole night for real this is all I was waiting for Sunday uh yeah it was great just being around the fans all these players um special did you have a favorite moment of the night or the entire weekend uh getting my first

Basket in the game took me a minute uh they was trying to let me score man it’s like no I’m playing but it was fun and uh yeah I look forward to being back now that allar weekend is wrapped up you can obviously look forward to the rest of

The season just how excited are you for the stretch run the playoff mates try to yeah man it was fun you know in the locker room we was talking about the standards and stuff and how intense it’s going to be after the break so just

Ready to get back on the court and uh like you said Chase Chase this playoff spot and uh excited to see everybody you feel like you can take something away from this going forward as far as extra motivation extra confidence being around yeah I think the motivation just

Trying to get here every year you know um this is something you want to be a part of you know something that you know your friends and family can all come and experience it with you and they’ll never forget it as well so uh it was just

Great having all my family and friends here and you know hopefully I can do it again and again for you guys uh we felt good you know we wanted to shoot either dunks layups or threes that was our plan and uh we we we looked at the score at the Midway through the

Third and you know we thought we could get 200 so we were shooting for it what did you make of back the one he missed uh I thought it was hilarious man Luka you know he’s just out there having having a good time I don’t blame him man he puts in a lot

Of work during the season you know so All-Star Game get to relax why not yeah I mean I I wasn’t always as tall so you know I had to play guard growing up uh you know it was it was perfect because growing up I was playing

Guard but my mom was teaching me um you know all all the post moves so I was able to get the best of both worlds and then once I hit my gr spurt um the guard skills were already there so it just came natural and you know I’ve just

Built on it since who signed the show I got everybody on my team except Dame Lillard so you got to get D anybody knows where Dame Lillard’s at I need sign my whole team whole East what about the West I mean I’m not on the west so

You want to get guys in the West too if I could I would but not in their locker room where’s that shoe going uh definitely in my memorabilia trophy case got a lot of signed jerseys this my first signed shoe first Allstar this is going to uh this ain’t going to ever

Leave so stay in the Personal Collection forever for sure love that you changed shoes at halftime tell us the story behind that yeah that was the plan uh you know debut some my new pees coming got the making rains shouts to my mom playing for Seattle rain got the rain

Color Sonics colors whatever you want to call it and then I changed to the other Seattle Rotary shoe and uh wanted to play in the second half with those but you know Jordan they do a great job you know putting these flavors together really today LeBron was talking about he

Doesn’t know how many years he has left but he know it’s not many um do that make you kind of cherish these opportunities more where uh you can be around so many great and relx opportunities defense like that yeah for sure I mean LeBron uh you know he’s put

In so much work you know that my favorite player Growing Up So to be able to share the court with him uh for an All-Star game is surreal and uh you know hopefully get to play a couple more years against him but if he you know

Whenever he decides to hang it up he deserves it did you feel like you belong I mean you’re the young guy among some of these alltime great oh yeah for sure I definitely felt like the young guy though um but as I should right um but

Just was good to get out here and uh you know like you said it was a lot of lot of alltime great a lot of Hall of Famers you know on that court today so I’m definitely going to try and get as many pictures as I can from today and uh you

Know definitely remember it forever oh no no no rooky duties man come on like n but you know everybody knows it’s my first time so a lot of congratulations from from everybody so it was special who do you really enjoy being out on the quarter playing against who really gave you a thrill

To uh I think just the whole thing as a as a whole you know the whole game The Experience the introductions everything leading up um all of this stuff after just being in the locker room with all these guys is has really been that’s what’s been the thrill I think um you

Know the game was fun uh guys you know put on a show and you know scored a lot of points but I think just everything else whether it’s you know the practices the uh time in the locker room whatever it is I think that’s what you remember

The most magic are a young team surpassing a lot of expectations and he’s full of young leaders what does it mean for to you to be the one representing it means a lot you know just to be able to represent the magic here uh just at such a prestigious event

You know this is the best of the best in the All-Star game so you know definitely um want to continue to represent Orlando here and um hopefully a couple others join what were you thinking when you saw your teammate Dame yeah he made that look effortless I

Don’t know I don’t know how he does that uh shoots a halfcourt shot like a like a free throw um him and Curry man they’re like it’s surreal to see them shoot the basketball it come so easy so uh I don’t know if I’ll ever get to that level but

shoot sorry I’m going try is this the greatest accomplishment of your young career so far being a part of this event uh if I yeah it might be you know thinking about it it might be just like you said uh just accomplish this and and

Be on the court with all these guys you know uh I’ve looked up to all these guys growing up watched them uh non-stop so you know it was a crazy moment and you know I’m glad I got to experience it okay great thank you all we got to get going

Listen to Paolo Banchero after his first ever All-Star appearence!

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