How Amar'e Stoudemire & LeBron BROKE Records as NBA Rookies

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2:07or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey it's Nor Jones, and my podcast playing along is back with more of my favorite musicians. Check out my newest episode with Josh Groban. You really did the phantom at that point. Yeah, I was definitely the phantom in that. That's so funny. Listen to Nora Jones playing along on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So Marry, you've had a lot of moments in your career. We're celebrating. Talk about when I worked here in 2003. What did that mean to you? I meant the lot, man. I mean, I was I was straight out of high school, right? And I was literally out of high school. I was really a high school kid who didn't have a lot of training in high school because I was always good. So coach like just got to in play. And then once I got to the NBA, I started learning certain concepts and strategies in these things. And so my game improved a lot in a short period of time.

3:10And my rookie, I was battling against Yameen who was a phenom out of China in the first picking the draft. He was an all-star. And for me, a high school kid to win rookie out of the year that year was was incredible for me. It was a great accomplishment. So it was a challenge, but we made it happen. So, 03, you were that was the year before the the the bronze Chris Paul Carmelo class. That was 04, right? Yeah, they came. That was 03. I was wrapping the old two. Oh, you're okay. 0203. Yeah. And 02, I was the first player in history to get rookie out of the year from high school. And then 03, LeBron got it the following year. So him and not only two guys to get rookie out of the year from high school to the NBA. 03 class is a good class man. I was that was LeBron, Mellow, Chris Bosh, D-Way. Yeah, I was a great class man. Do you think players should come out of high school now? Because I think this whole I saw Mellow talking about this. I feel like NALs mess up a lot of stuff in college sports. So where are you on people leaving from the Jeff in the high school now? Or if they should

4:13now, I'm saying if you could, if you could, I think I think you should, right? I mean, you have to make sure you do your proper examinations on the players, right? Because you want the players to be mature enough to really take on that that responsibility of being the NBA player and what that means on and off the court. But nowadays, you don't really have to. I mean, if you're a top player in high school, you can get paid in college. And you may get paid more in college than you will in the NBA depend on, you know, to play the bar and agreement for rookies, right? So, you know, back when I came out, you couldn't get a milkshake in college. You know, you get, you know, you were coming eligible with something like that. You know what I'm saying? And so the game has changed a lot. But I feel like if players are good enough to go to the NBA at a high school, they probably should. Do you think if they had NIO when you were coming out of high school, do you think you would have still went to the pros or would you have been like, you know what, let's, you know, let's feel these offers and let's see what we can get.

5:14Honestly, it would depend on the bank, right? On how much I could have made in college or a post at NBA, right? Because when I came out as a rookie skill, I think at the time, you know, the highest paid rook at that time, first picking the draft can make I think for me in the year. And then it broke down from each draft from there. And I was drafted ninth. So, I was able to make, you know, one, five or so to me in my first year. Nowadays, you can make that in NIO deals and certain colleges, universities, you can go to and make that much money. So it depends on how much you can get paid. But for me, I always want to go to college. So when I first got drafted to Phoenix, I went to Arizona State. My free time, where I rode the arrows on the state, my free time, took some classes there, my rookie year, and I always wanted to go to college. But I never, I went straight to the NBA. So, I ended up accomplishing both by going to Arizona State and plan for the sons. So you basically manufactured your own NIO situation? Yeah, yeah. Technically, I mean, I couldn't really enroll for the full semester. I took a few classes for

6:17for about three or four weeks. Then I had to somewhat exit that plan and get focus on basketball. Talk about your process of declaring for the NBA. Like, at what point were you like, hey, this is what I'm going to do? Were you considering the college route at all? Or were you just like, hey, this is, and then who even told you in your corner that this was, you know, something that you could do? Well, when I was a freshman in high school, at Lake was high school, I was starting to hang around the wrong crowd. And I told my coaches, the coach, I got to get out of here. I can't stick around. And he said, all right, well, there's two options. Oak Hill Academy, our boy school, our boy school, right? Then he said, my guy and we're transmigrated went. I was like, didn't team back quite a high school to the NBA? He's like, yeah, all right, well, that's what I'm trying to do. I'm going there. I want to go there. So from my freshman year, my mindset was to go out of high school to the NBA. And so I went to my Zion. And then from that point on, my whole my entire thought process was like NBA, NBA, NBA as a freshman until it happened.

7:24Do you think mentally it helped you because I feel like you had a clean slate going into the pros? Because I mean, you know, Jada was at the school for two years, three years. I was there for so you come in with already kind of like a sense of like schemes and all that. Now you have to start fresh and kind of like rebuild. Do you think that helped you mentally kind of get over that hurdle? Yeah, from a basketball standpoint, you know, when I was doing my pre-draft workouts, and I remember I was working out for Houston for the Rockets and the coach was like, all right, let's do a behind the back between the legs. One, two, a pull up. Like, what? I got the ball and took off outside the pain, shook the rim. I didn't know what a lot of the terminology was, man, I was fresh. I was literally spread out of high school. And I think what helped me a lot was that I was just I want to be a student of the game. I just learned so much, even doing the pre-draft

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12:38Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the on-purpose podcast. My latest episode is with Noah Khan, the singer-songwriter behind the multi-platinum global hit, Stick Season, on one of the biggest voices in music today. Talking about the mental illness stuff, it used to be the thing that I was ashamed of. Getting to talk about this is not common for me. Right now, I need it more than ever. Listen to on-purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, it's Nora Jones, and my podcast playing along is back with more of my favorite musicians. Check out my newest episode with Josh Groban. You really did the phantom at that point. Yeah, I would definitely like the phantom in that. That's so funny. Listen to Nora Jones playing along on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.