SGA & Jalen Williams Join NBA TV Crew After Winning the NBA Finals 🏆

SGA & Jalen Williams Join NBA TV Crew After Winning the NBA Finals 🏆

you know see seeing a lot of these guys coming from Canada i remember when we started the Raptors and we wanted to grow you know little babies like this and have them grow up to to be champions and men and everything and and seeing these two guys you know be champions but especially what SGA has done you know as a not only a leader and a champion and a person right growing up in Canada and doing a thing you know I I want to shout out to the Raptors for what we started what we built and you watching it and coming up and having this moment absolutely i got I got to say that and and Jay Will way to get off yeah congratulation congratulations Jd Dub Shay Gilis Alexander almost did it right on the mealobes so SGA right take us through your journey you traded here 2019 and now sitting here as an NBA champion that journey what this means to you this moment as a finals MVP yeah um it’s been a lot of ups and downs uh nights where I was like dreading competing just because like we were losing so much um and I think what’s helped me get through it all is like the front office and coach just like always prioritizing winning habits like no matter what if it was uh me and four GL guys out there like no matter what they held me to a high standard of of behaving like a winner out there on the basketball court and off the basketball court um and now those are my habits and nobody can take those from me because those two guys were hard on me with that and uh now obviously we they did those with the rest of the group and that’s why we got here but those two guys have been very impressive throughout the ups and downs um I’m prioritizing what it takes to win and and they’re a big reason why we got here my biggest question is it’s rare and I’ve had the opportunity to play with two elite alpha male extremely good people extremely competitors like elite competitors and Braun and Kyrie and I see a lot of that in YouTube what is it about each other that you push each other in practice that you push each other listen you champs so you in rare air so listen what I talk about you now right we have to It does sound crazy but you’re a champion nothing this is one of the best teams I’ve ever We have watched all year one of the best teams we’ve ever seen all year and then there are certain games where you don’t play up to standard and then it’s not two games three games the next game you go back better right like in and me and Smitty and I we talked about this the spin move you pulled out today were you watching film on N Smith and Nemo didn’t do that all six games and now all of a sudden today you do that every single time they put that knee on your back yeah I um I definitely was watching film i knew it they were like very physical on my drives when I when they were bumping me and and I like to be physical as well on my drives and they were timing it really well all series um and my coach like my skills coach Daniel Mitchell we talk a lot and he uh just like just like threw a nugget out there and was like “Yo remember like the bump spin we work on?” And I was like “Yeah.” and and it clicked at that moment i was like that’s what what’s been missing and I got free a couple times i was able to turn into space get find my teammates uh shoot my pull-up uh but yeah all those it’s a chess match out there especially when you get to this level and those little things help uh so yeah shout out to coach um putting the tools in my Jaylen the question I had for you guys you know I I’m looking at you guys stop it big dog uh the success you guys had last year obviously first seed and then you come up a little bit short what was you two guys mindset and conversations last summer to get to be champions this summer uh for me it’s just like we always have like good dialogue of like you can never get too high or too low and like nothing’s ever as good or as bad as it seems so like we go into it nobody expects us to be the one seed throughout the whole entire year we get into the playoffs is everybody’s like first playoff experience so instead of hanging our heads we just looked at stuff we could work on and get better and then um basketball has a weird way of showing you the same thing that you get last year to see if you improved and we were able to do that throughout this series so a lot of the stuff I saw my first playoff run I was used to it i was ready for it i worked on in the summer and got to this point and I was ready you know most most teams and most people have the saying of don’t get too high don’t get too low stay even kill and we were here game one when you guys lost game one and we watched all of you walk by and all of you had the same kind of attitude like “Okay we lost game’s over we’ll learn from it and get better.” Is that something that’s discussed in the locker room or that’s just something that all of you just have probably both i think it’s been discussed in the locker room so much like especially throughout my three time my three years here that it’s kind of like ingrained in us and then like I said basketball has a crazy way of like showing you some life skills cuz that same exact thing happened in Denver and we had to adjust to that so Denver hits a game winner on game one we can’t panic there obviously we go to seven here and then we literally had the exact same series up until this point with the same one so we just got to learn the lessons each time it happens and I think we do a good job at it you know Shay one of the things that being around you seeing you when you won the MVP award and your speech and how emotional you were about your family then Isaiah and I we’ve had the privilege of running into your father a few times this past week right and understanding how close you are with all of your family members can you take us behind the curtain and how important that is for you in your journey and being here at the NBA Finals and hoisting this trophy and what all of those people mean to you yeah uh like I sacrificed a lot to get here um but like nobody sacrificed more than my family to help me get here this is like this was my dream and my goal and they all put their I guess dreams goals um aspirations aside so that I could achieve mine uh and there’s no way to pay that back besides love and that’s that’s that’s all that is i know that I’m not here i’m not the man and the basketball player the father the the husband I am without my family and the people in my inner circle uh they helped shape who I am um and this win is like I said up on the podium it’s not a win just for me it’s it’s a win for the whole family and everyone in my corner question I have for you guys Sam Presley I was with him in San Antonio you know you get talent but y’all have talent and character can you talk about what Sam Presley has brought in year after year for you guys to get to this point the most impressive thing Sam does is he doesn’t just like he brings in character he doesn’t just bring in basketball players like everyone that’s come on the team everyone that’s been a part of the team whether it’s trade whether it’s draft whether it’s free agency they all fit in like a glove like seamlessly um and that that is what you guys see out there you guys see us connected no matter who’s on the floor you guys see us going on runs you guys see us coming back from deficits it’s because the characters in the room and who he’s um who he’s built his team around uh and yeah if if if he’s not the best ever to do it I don’t know who is so hell of a GM oh my oh look at what we got here uhoh the final MVP trophy in front of us like he just Uber Eats hold on there’s something that he said no two three yeah what was that what was the other one uh Western Conference oh yeah nice look there’s something you said on the podium that I want you to repeat for our audience and what this means to you but also to him as well um like throughout the history of the NBA like there’s no oneman champion you need you need every every number one needs a number two every Batman needs a Robin and especially after last year the world thought he couldn’t achieve what he’s achieved this this postseason run yes yes and without him we would not be champions i wouldn’t have this award i wouldn’t have the Western Conference Award i probably wouldn’t be MVP um and that’s why I said on the podium that like this award is just just as much his as it is mine um we’re connected now forever for life so don’t ever think of ditching me forever i’m cool with my brother i got a quick question just for you when was that moment that you know sometimes you’re like the superstar am I overstepping my bounds am I being too aggressive was there a moment this season where he was like “Man you got to go we’re not going to win if you’re not your best self.” Was that this year was it last year when was it when did you hear that okay they were like “Hey man we need you to rock.” It was really him i can’t lie like even when we were like It’s hard to like for me it was like hard to like have that much responsibility like going into your first playoffs and for him to like kind of be like “Hey you can do it.” and like push through it i think that was big and I I work out with him in the summer too so like you get to see like why he’s that good and I feel like that that definitely pushed my game and then like during the year he just kind of let me rock we’re like you said we’re Bonnie he let me go and I’m definitely going to let him go so you got no choice we appreciate you guys let’s throw the accolades on their names and what they accomplished this season scoring title MVP finals MVP you said it Channing right there on your screen and hold on JD Dub your year allstar all NBA all defensive team and champion as well certainly a great year oh and he’s 23 years old by the way don’t get greedy and he’s 19 by the way she Butter in the house with that one funny

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