Michael Carter-Williams on his time with the Orlando Magic and adjusting to post basketball life

Michael Carter-Williams on his time with the Orlando Magic and adjusting to post basketball life

and L and C played in Orlando right how was that for you like playing was like Orlando for me was like a a breath of fresh air bro like when I came to Orlando it was like a whole new start for me like I had things going on in you know in my life that were that were tough um you know I got released from Houston first my first my my fiance left me with with our baby caught me doing some dumb some dumb [ __ ] but yeah I know it’s a lot of info to unpack whoa hold up hold up hold up a lot of info a lot of information unpack I went through a tough tough tough thing bro like I my my girl left me my fiance left me with the baby to California and a week later I get released from Houston so now I’m like the worst at the worst stage of my life like deep deep depression like ain’t don’t want to talk to nobody no nothing so I um you feeling like how do you how bro it was it was bro it was like bro it was it was like rock bottom for me you know when life changes for you like you hit that moment in your life for you’re like man like I’m either going to go this way or I’m going to go this way and like I got to make a choice and I got to stick with that choice and so you know I was reaching out to people that were close to me like I was going through some stuff bro like I was I I wouldn’t leave my bed for days bro like I was going through some rough rough times and um you know I think just the way for me like I just put my head down just started really just working out working out seeing my daughter like things were starting to be clear to me on you know what mattered to me and what didn’t all right cuz I got felt like I got everything stripped from me at at one point in my life and then I was like okay I need to take simple steps back to regain you know everything in my life so when I went to Orlando that was huge for me like that was like man like I’m back in the league I’m back on a team I’m back around guys like I still didn’t have my family with me at the time but like it was a good step for me to see some like positivity and some light so when I went there like I just was so grateful like just to be on a team you know what I mean and then ended up playing for them for the next four years you know got my fiance back my family like okay okay yeah yeah we back we back baby no no but it was uh but it was a good it was it was a good learning learning experience for me bro like that’s how you become you become a man you know learn from your mistakes 100% you you you take him to heart you know you acknowledge Him and you go like and you move forward fact 100% bro that’s what that’s what it’s about yeah yeah for real for real so you got your priority straight you like okay this is what I want to do M and then okay are you a fan of like Disney you know we got Robin Brooke that you would you go to Disney like how yeah I mean I take I take my kids to Disney it’s just hard bro going to Disney is tough like I love you know they have so much fun it’s so crowded there though like it there’s a lot of people like and living here too it’s tough living here it’s like we see it all the time so like but the kids love it bro they love the the Disney characters they have fun like we we go there we go there often so it’s it’s cool did you did you already had a house in Florida or you got a house when you play in Orlando so when I my first my first like six months here I stayed downtown closer to downtown I stayed in a condo and then I got my house here like two and a half years ago okay okay the do you feel like uh did you have it because of like business or you was like no I want a house this my this my house yeah once I had the F like once was you know I wanted to have my my kids have a house you know it was good you know it’s good for you know tax purposes to live out here like I want my residents to be out here you know what I mean just a place to call home and just really build my kids is in school now they got friends they play sports here like so it’s been it’s been cool bro Orlando’s been love love right there love okay and we know I know we talked a little bit about business and stuff like that you you do but uh before I get into that a little bit Yeah I want you to help me you know i’ I’ve literally I’ve been doing this thing like that I ask people like okay what is what is the top three movies like American movies I got to watch to understand the American culture and everybody answer is different man I think one I think one easy is coming to America coming to America okay I watch I watched that one that that that to me is is uh is is good American culture though depends what you trying to get like it depends what like American culture is is so is great CU it’s so diverse yes you know what I mean so you can get you know you can get Black Culture you can get Indian culture you can get white culture you know what I mean so it depends all depends but I think Coming to America gives a good depiction of like you know American culture and somebody being formed from it you know what I’m saying um let me think yeah I had I had George Hill tell me shout out George Hill man get him in a Hills has sent me a you got to watch life with uh Eddie Murphy Eddie Murphy yeah yeah yeah I like okay that’s a good one that’s a good one and then um somebody said you know I’ve had the I don’t want to say gu because I don’t know if the episode is going to be released by now but I had another guess who told me I said I got to watch like uh Pursuit of Happiness Will Smith yeah like that’s a good one Pursuit of Happiness yeah they kind of the American dream for sure okay and uh I had one more question that I forgot ah who are the top five like like top five like guards or people you had to Def like hardest you had to defend bro Kyrie Steph Westbrook Dame so you said Kyrie Kyrie Dame Steph Russ probably D Rose D D Rose early D Rose was crazy I remember one time I scored layup like you know how when you get a layup and you follow through out of bounds a little bit yeah yeah you know so I did that uh talking to the ref like yeah yeah come on so I did that give a little like my little Trot outside out of bounds I turn around D Rose is at half court zooming with the ball I’m like I was like yo he was tough D Rose was tough he was tough to stay in front of okay do know Kyrie why Kyrie I mean I know why but I want to see I want to hear you [ __ ] yeah I think I think what’s special about Kyrie is bro it’s like I I’ve cut Kyrie off like three or four times in one possession and he’s still the fifth time he’s still changing direction bro so like he’s got unlimited counters so like when you got you got somebody like that who knows how to create space and it’s weird like he’s not a big dude but like he’s deceptively strong like and so when he’s able to change direction and use his body to create space can’t stop it bro just stop yeah you can’t do nothing he stops on a dime like his pull-up is is clean he stops on a dime so it’s like want to keep him in front so you give him a little extra room he’s so Shifty but then he’s he’s got the pullup so he he kills you however which way he want oh okay what’s what about Dame got him in the team Dame Dame’s another one he’s I mean you can’t leave him open and like he he’s super strong himself so like you try to close out and he can you know he can get by you he’s athletic and you know you can’t go underneath a screen like he just makes you pay you should dve you should Kye what about Russ Russ is the same way like he’s he’s somebody that’s always in attack mode so like you could stop Russ four times in a row and he’s at he’s at you the fifth time too so like he’s somebody that consistently is is like making you you know be on your heels and like for a while he had the the mid-range going like when he got the mid-range going he’s using the glass he’s getting to the hoop and he can also affect the game in so many ways bro like he’ll get you assists and 12 rebounds yes nothing that’s what I want to ask because you were kind of the guy who do everything right and and you said Russ like bro you see sty line like couple days ago like 15 15 something like it was insane he had the the 202020 like yeah and that’s one thing I I always tried to do when I guarded Russ was like I know he loved to go after even like defensive rebounds yes so like I would try to like make somebody else on his team get the rebound even on the defensive end so like he would go crash and like I’ll be right with him trying to even even if it’s wide open like make somebody else like at the time stepen Adams whoever you know make somebody else get the rebound and then you know make him make him then give it to him because as soon as he get the rebound if he starts getting rebounds and he’s pushing the ball up finding people getting layups he’s too hard to stop so you got to go find him quick yeah you got to find him quick like not let him just get like Rhythm rebounds and bring up the court and fine dude so I mean he’s a he’s a he’s tough bro Russ is Russ can hoop he gets a lot of [ __ ] but like I don’t know why though it’s just he can hoop he can ho

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