Devin Booker on Why He Talks So Much Trash

Devin Booker on Why He Talks So Much Trash

I’ve called a few of your games and like it’s weird because like there is a different energy some nights for you is that purposeful can you control that no you can’t control it it’s just finding the new motivation for the day you know what I’m saying it’s you

Know it could be the smallest things and you know I’ve had this conversation with a lot of players like you’ll know what it is going to be that day that might have you pissed off a bit or just on a whole different energy like it’s nothing that’s planned but you

Know every game’s not the same as much as people want to say like you treat game 20 the same as a playoff game like I try my best but you know there’s just something with the energy that you know just brings you to that level the the the static energy the static motivation

Mhm you’re now four-time Allstar First Team all NBA Max contract signature shoe which we’ll get to in a second what’s the static sort of motivation the static energy that you bring on game 20 on a Wednesday night in Portland like what what what is like the what is the drive

What is the drive because you’ve kind of you’ve kind of done it right this the reason I’m asking is because I’m really fascinated by great players who are great again and then are great again and then all of a sudden you look up and you’re like oh no that

[ __ ] was great four years ago and now he’s better than he was four years ago and you’re you’re one of those guys you’re one of those guys you’ve consistently got better even though you had greatness early yeah well we’re getting our ass kicked early nobody cares about you when you

Know you score 30 and lose like nobody hated me then or disliked me then like that that comes when you start winning games like I guess when you’re some sort of a threat you know I would word it ass but you know it’s in music it’s in every

Industry I just feel like early on you know when you’re out the way and just doing your thing people are are cool with it but you know when you turn into a threat I start I feel like that’s when you start hearing about yourself there there’s a there’s like a

Narrative around that right um and we were talking earlier and you said to me you were like people think I didn’t talk [ __ ] till we started winning and I just want to let the audience know that Devin Booker as a rookie was talking [ __ ] to me from day one down down 20 down

20 in The Staple Center yeah um I it’s it’s funny because CP when when I his first year here uh when I talk to him he’s like n Devin’s Devon’s a psycho and I’m like yeah no no I I saw that in 2015 2016 I

Saw that right away yeah I say I don’t know where that came from where I just started doing it as of late but I feel like you know trash talking is is a lifestyle it’s something that you know the environments that I grew up in we’ve

Been doing that since we say yay high you know what I’m saying since I was this tall like in everything we did though not just basketball so um I’ve been around some creative witty guys that you know have delivered some of the best lines ever in my dad’s open gym and

You know I’ve heard some great things in the NBA but you know there’s art to it there’s obviously been some back and forth with you and Luca and I had a conversation with RJ and legler um I don’t know if it was the end of last

Season or the beginning of this year but we talked about how there are essentially no more rivalries in the NBA and some of that I think is because there’s more player movement and so the same teams we we’re not getting the Heat versus the next four straight

Years in the playoffs we’re not getting the Bulls Jazz I mean obviously we had the Cavs Warriors but right now we’re just there’s so much parody and so much player movement we’re not seeing that as much do you have any insight as to why you don’t think there are as many player

Rivalries or team rivalries in the NBA today and also by the way do you think it would be good for the NBA if there was more more [ __ ] talking between certain players more [ __ ] talking between certain teams yeah I mean I I like like I said

The environments I grew up in that’s you know that’s how the game was played and you know most of the guys that I idolized you know did did the same and the guys that I still idolize Do It um I say there’s no real rivalries because you I say Grassroots basketball

Like a lot of these guys we’ve we’ve known for a really long time and um I think people just realize that you know it’s it’s not that deep half time like people always say oh they’re not about to fight out on the court they’re not

About to do that yeah that’s a half a million dollar fight like yeah no we should nobody should do that but you know I don’t you know I haven’t heard it too many times where like crazy lines were cross on the court um but it has happened and you know I’ve seen people

Handle it behind the scenes um in the correct way like men should um but it’s usually not that deep Happ to one of your teammates recently oh yeah that was CRA but you never see that happen no and you can even do it in the tunnel now like when

People meet me in the tunel you still get suspended you know what I’m saying so like if somebody still feels that way out and you guys run into each other at dinner and whatever was said on the court was that that deep then it it can be handled them but it’s it’s usually

Not that big of a deal do you think of yourself as an agitator at all agitator agitator competitor competitor 100% yeah yeah so the [ __ ] talking is part of what the [ __ ] talking is part of what makes you get in the mode get in the mindset sure it’s not to agitate it’s

Like essentially it’s aelf it’s a selfish thing it’s for you 100% like I that’s how I grew up though and everything I had a older brother I have a I have a dad that’s the same exact way so it’s always been competition from NBA live before NBA 2K you know we were

Talking [ __ ] on there so um but believe it or not I usually don’t start it but all I need to do is hear like any little thing and well that’s what that’s what sick [ __ ] do yeah that’s what sick Fox do that’s part of what we’re were talking about the mo

Like the motivation of you got to like look for it got to look for it

It’s no secret Devin Booker talks trash (see his interactions with Luka Doncic, Klay Thompson, Nikola Jokic) and in this clip he goes in detail about why he talks trash and why that makes him the competitor we see today.

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