Vic Shares A Wild Heat Story…

Now you get traded to Indiana. They trade you for Paul George. Yeah. He's here. Go to keys to the comma. Yeah, they go to keys. This is what you wanted. So now even though you didn't hear about it through your agent, even though you had to read by on your phone, are you excited about this movie? You know, when I first got traded there, I was excuse me. I didn't know what to expect. Honestly. I was like, I didn't know what to feel because it was like I got traded again. I'm like ain't like because you know back then especially when you would get traded early on especially because you know, the league hadn't evolved. It wasn't like everybody was just going anywhere and you don't need you can keep me out of this conversation. You never got traded. So, you know, I don't know nothing. I don't know about that. You know, he played 20 years in one place. You different different. My different. No, I've been I seen the chair. I see that. I see. Yeah, you know, that was just retaliation for that draft comment. I appreciate that. All right. So yeah, I got traded to India. I know how to feel really honestly, you know, I was going back to where I went to school at and you know, I didn't know how to feel because honestly, I felt so disrespected like it's like man. I thought I was the number two pick. I thought people actually wanted me places, you know, and then, you know, as a young kid, you know, especially me, you know, I ain't got no big brother. I don't got somebody who used to play in the league. I don't have those things in my in my camp. My camp is a little set up a little different. So I was taking those blows really by myself and you know, trying to figure out. Okay, what do I do next? Like how do how am I supposed to approach this next and you know, I was just like, okay, y'all finna wake me up. That's fine. That's cool. I'm going back to Indy and when I got there, it was like, it's your team. They're giving me the keys. You know, I seen all the headlines when it first happened like, oh, they got a still this could they only traded him there because he went to Indy and it's going to be they're trying to be average and it was just like it was I was already on I'm about to turn up period like and then you know, when I heard everything after it transpired, it was it just added fuel to the fire and then when I got there, I just I ain't see nothing but food every day every day. They'll tell you every day every day every day. I was coming every single day. I was coming in. It was great because we had a great team environment to I felt like the guys enjoy playing with me. I felt like we enjoy playing with each other and it just it just worked really well. So yeah, it turned out pretty good for me. I was thankful for sure. Listen, I tell people this all the time, bro. Decide to have a little hate in your heart. It's a healthy hate. It's a healthy hate, bro. No, for real dog. I mean, yeah, and all the time bro. Like I wouldn't be here if I didn't have that healthy hate. You know, the healthy hate of not being drafted. I'm calling you from overseas to send me some ankle braces. No doubt what I'm taking my own ankles in the bathroom before the game. What's taking my scotch tape before the game? No, I said killer. You got to see me some ankle braces dog. I can't play like this. I'll be serious. Yeah. It's also you know, I'm saying it was not scotch tape. No, I'm serious. No, but I got to know what I got. Can you imagine that? No, listen Vic. When I got the friends dog, I gave myself one night to have a pity party. I had a box of black and browns and some innocence. I don't have that bottle Hennessy and when I got up the morning, it was time to get to it and our mother revenge to a start revenge to a start. You'll be surprised at home. I know Vickman dropping a lot of Jews. You'll be surprised at home. How far hater driving? It was a list of that. I hate it. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? And once again, it was healthy, you know, it drew a drove me abroad inside of me. It brought out of me that I didn't know I had. Gosh tape. No, listen, you had to send me ankle braces. I know that's killer. This guy's tape is crazy. Could you imagine? Every day Europe. I was I was just checking off the list bro. Like, you know, I'm saying every day. I go to the piano. There's a hole in the floor. What is that? That's the toilet. No, that's not the toilet. That can't be the toilet. Check on the list. I can't wait to get back home. Kill everybody. Listen dog. So I understand that I try to tell because I think for me. And I was just trying to understand this generation is that, you know, I think everybody wants to be liked. Oh, yeah. I think everybody wants to everybody wants to be liked. I think everybody wants to be accepted. But but understanding if you fall into the category of it liked and accepted by other people. Then I probably does nothing for you as a person individual. I can tell you firsthand. I don't do nothing for you. Oh, I love it. He's such a great guy that I don't know. What is that doing for you? That's day going to call you for the business deal is he got like so just trying to be liked and accepted that that never worked for me because I had to be I had to set a standard for myself. Yeah, I seen something the other day that said you could be nice. Don't be nice. Be kind. Yeah, because nice guys get thrown around the damn show. They getting tossed and turned and laughing. They were sitting there wondering like I know I used to be one of those guys. That ain't just business. I don't know women too. Yeah, mom said we all know the saying nice. Nice finish line. Yeah, because you could be a comfort. No, you ain't first. You're last. Authenticity. Just I got the first and only so talk to us about some of the epic Heat Indiana Pacer battles. Were you part of when I was an indie? Yeah. Were you part of those? Yeah. Yeah, he was because he inherited that rivalry. Okay, because well, I'm telling you right now. I didn't I didn't get to see Indiana, but we inherited that rival. We were some every time we walked in that we felt. Oh, yeah. He inherited that. You know what I'm saying? I have a vivid memory of Jimmy blowing a kiss at TJ Warren one game. That was great. We had some real battles when I was ending up real like it felt like heavyweight fights when we play off for some reason and I and I enjoyed it too because it was like, okay, we playing the Heat D used to play there, you know, it's like, oh, okay. Yeah, I'm up like I'm ready to go and it just be war the whole entire time. Old school Eastern Conference basketball. We used to you weren't there. We used to we used to hate each other Indiana Miami days were the old boy. We had some dudes like like when you Eastern Conference finals day. We saw that. I came through a few games. Actually. I was at any night. Listen, let me tell you something. I'm probably just not getting to the point where I can speak to somebody from the pace. I'm probably just not getting to that point where I can speak to people from it. Listen dog. It's just a difference dog. You know what I'm saying? I just I didn't know how to do both you like you who you who you hate worse them or Boston. Oh, that's not even close coach. That's not even close coach for sure. But I just I was I was just never that I needed every edge. I can get like, you know, people talk about how MJ create scenarios in his mind. I used to create in my mind. I if it's in my mind when I look at you before the tip-off literally, we're not even on the court. We just locked in this little ass room and we got to fight to the death to come out. That's the best I'm thinking about before the game. That's the kind of mindset. I'll put myself in before the game. I got to be the one come out, you know saying so it's just things like that bro. That you know saying I look back now, you know, I'm saying and it's funny to me because I got liked and accepted when I was in the OG role when I wasn't playing as much and I was more of an OG and I was more open to having a conversation and dialect with guys, but when I was playing it wasn't very like and I didn't have very many friends outside of my teammate that was okay though. I'm sure it was very okay. Yeah, I think it was when he was winning. That's what it was about bro. Like once again, I didn't have a listen. I ain't have an option. I was undrafted. Yeah, I don't have the option to come in here and try to be like, you know, they try to take your practice. Slow down. Y'all fella. You're going too fast. You slow down the floor. So I can go back and take my with Scott. That's what you want me to do. Slow down. So I go back and be like nah, I can't slow down. I don't have that luxury to slow down. So it was never it was never. It was never even an option for me to be like, I think my only way was to come in the way I came in. I was like lay it all on the line and just see where the cars fall. Yeah, that's something I'm saying.