This podcast is part of the seventy sixers podcast network Search seventy sixers podcast wherever you get your pods. This is from the Inside with Me Brett Brown, Episode two. Good morning everybody. This morning, you're gonna sort of joining with me on my daily walk. It's a routine. I get up really early, probably five thirty ish and and walked for a ten thousand steps. We've got these incredible sort of rings that these wearable things that were provided
to us by the NBA. And although it's not a big space, it's probably the size of three football fields Houston Rockets kind of home area. Brooklyn's over here. I'll circle back and this is our area. Is one side that's a marina. And then this was an incredible, sort of amazingly quick erection of a building. So you can see the NBA barbershop, which really is outside of my room. It took about eighteen hours and you blink and you know,
the NBA builds a barbershop for the players. The NBA truly like they've they've done something spectacular with the design of this. I really go silent, like I really enjoy just silence, and for me, it is just the way to think about what you want to get done during the Dayly preparation for stuff you know down the road is a part of it. But I like the I
like the piece, and I like the silence. But yeah, this is my morning walk and glad that you could be included at our reason or everybody is in close proximity. I think it's fantastic. It's really the youthful feeling. I mean, it's like you feel like you're back at college. You're bumping into people, coaches, players, you say hello to people you know at the at the restaurant. You feel very
much connected to the fraternity because of the environment. And some of it's because you're so secluded, you're confined to this bubble area. Some of it is just the frequency of unusual sort of visits that you just wouldn't normally get with old time friends. The opportunity is very small. You know, I've been in the league now for twenty years. I've been with a bunch of staffs. I've had a bunch of staffs as a head coach, you know, I coached in many Olympic Games an overseas, and so like
your network is vast. When I go back to sort of my spurs roots to bump into you know, Mike Boo, holes of, Sam Presty, Sean Mark, Jack Vaughn, Monty Williams. Pop. You don't either taught them, have a glass of wine, have a legitimate meal with them. All that stuff has happened. And you know, because we're here for so long, it's not like you here just for a weekend. You know you're here and like you're legitimately here in a living situation.
So the opportunities to bump into these people is frequent. I've tremendously enjoyed seeing players like how Old and Kyle O'Quinn have success. It's too arious to me. You have to be in the moment, you have to stay ready. You've got to do it physically first, and then mentally second. The combination equals when an opportunity presents itself, maybe you can do something. Then the preparation to be able to play like they played was outstanding. And then second, it's
not easy to do that. In the respect that I have for them as people and as great teammates, that's all recognized by their peers, and so it was a great situation and I'm happy for them. As much for personal reasons as I am for reasons being their coach. So we got the OKAC pick. I'd be lying if I said I was following it closely, but I certainly followed it enough to be aware of the irony of
it all. With Mike Muscala, you know, you smile. It's like, there's not much that surprises me lately on just dot connection. You know, how did somebody end up someplace? And it oftentimes, you know, influences paths of franchises. One you know, somebody goes to the right, as somebody goes to the left.
I think we we all, you know, should feel quite proud that in the course of our sort of rebuild, you trip on a ping pong ball with Ben Simmons and you know a guest's right injury with Joel Do we draft somebody like that and you blake And they're very young and their NBA Allstars, they are needle movies, they're franchise builders and they're really young picks. And how people arrived in different spots. I'm always following that. Some of it's a little bit of luck, some of it's
a little bit of faith. But yeah, I followed too, and sometimes reconnecting the dots is also an interesting exercise. When I think of the seventy Sixes and the Celtics in the playoffs my youth, the first thing that comes to my mind is me just as a young person. I grew up in New England. You know, I'm the son of a coach. I've been around the game my entire life, and the Celtics sixes history is storied and it's especially ever present in sort of New England and
especially in the environment that I grew up in. And so to play it out from where I was just a young kid to now where I'm the coach of the team and once again you got a seventy six and Celtic playoff matchup, I think it's great, you know, for historical purposes, for sort of just like regional and memory perspective purposes. I think for all of those things, like the matchup is very exciting. This is from the inside with me Rett Brown. Thank you for listening. I'll talk to you next week.