One-on-One with Danuel House Jr.

vibes to this year's Sixers group. In particular about this interview, I really liked his answer to the dream dinner table because he went on and on and on, and he has an interest in well not an interest part of He's a rapper, so a handful of his picks were fellow rappers. But it was more of like a dinner party than a dinner table, which I feel like for the house for the team that like that matches the brand to throw a whole dinner party instead of most

players have picked like two people at the table. Maybefore PJ Tucker episode coming later this week, also had a really good table with a one specific guest that really warmed my heart. So teaser for pj's episode, but looking forward to hearing wode House wanted to have at the table, and Matt you said it multi talented, life of the party, life of the bus, life of the plane. He's really just been a joy to get to know and be around.

We talk about the Tyrese Maxi's of the world who appear to have never had a bad day, and ideologically, I actually have a problem with the idea of someone who's never had a bad day. I don't think that exists. But in terms of bringing the same energy into the locker room every day and bringing consistency and holding yourself accountable to being a certain type of person the way that Tyrese Maxie does, d House does the same way in a totally different way. But you know what you're

getting from him every day. His teammates know that he's going to be a source of light, a source of joy, a source of fun, and it's been so cool to observe that. In his first year as a sixer, he said the dinner table would be a big round table, both for the house for the team. Let's hear it. Daniel House Junior starting that combo guard fort sixty seven from the Legendary University of Texas, Daniel or technically Texas a and M University number twenty five, DANU host Junior.

Let Carl go crazy before we jump into the U, said Texas A and M. What about that NCUBAA tournament come back that you guys had. Alex Caruso was on your team. You were down twelve, I think with a minute and change left, and you guys beat Northern Iowa twelve forty four twelve points forty fourth seconds. Wow, Yeah, what was that? Like? It's weird. It's it's it's weird because it's a game that don't get respected acknowledged that much. I feel like I felt like I should have wanted

to ask me or something. We should have want to ask me or something because it's like it's still technically the greatest comeback in years. It was that we was supposed to win that game, like a one in a million chance to win that game because catch back up and win that game, and we did it. So we used the first one in the million to to conquer the odds. You had a big role in it too.

You had a few of those down twelve. You had a couple of buckets, right yeah, man, I mean they did shouts out to you and I. They did the best they could. They they was switching up defensive seed. Were you guys and what seed it was? It would have been an upset if they beat you, Yeah, it would have been an upset. I think it was like a three got We know you're a great basketball player. What else are you great at? Rapping down the mic and and and energy and it? Well? To be honest

with you, I'm good with a lot of things. Uh. I got my own little doll business, I got my own label business. Uh. I'm really talented with with with people. I feel like I can captivate the room and get people to be outside themselves, to to really see themselves as more than what they usually see themselves as a special talent. What makes you a great rapper? I would say, because it's I'm I'm giving the truth. I'm giving you

real life pain. I'm telling you just stuff that that has happened that I didn't grew up and saw personally. You know what I'm saying. So it's it's straight facts that ain't no cap So I feel like that's the beauty and that, you know what I mean to get to express the pain and stuff that I saw and share with other people, to let them know that they can make it out too, you know, and that that

happiness that you elicit from other people. Did you know that your coach, Doc Rivers recently said on the road trip that you're one of the funniest human beings out there. Ain't man, This theme is funny, Pee, I ain't the only one. This team is funny. Pee. It seems like you might be the straw that stirs the funny drink, though, I think you might be the captain Captain funny something like that. Um, what was your childhood like? Oh, it was tough. It was tough, wasn't really accepted by too

many family debacle, was kind of missy. So mom and pops did the best that they possibly could try to teach me as much as they could. Uh, once I met God man basketball never look back. When was that man God that got baptized at seven? Started really hooping like thirteen fourteen? With this idea that you guys kind of have an idea of what people are saying about you, Like the public is saying. What's something that you think they get right about you and something that the public

gets wrong about you. To be honest with you, I can't really say too much that they get right about me, because all the stuff I see about me it's wrong. So it's cool though, I mean, people perception of me is that, But my family and friends and colleagues know me as something else, so I feel like it's cool. I mean, it's one of the ones you can't contest everyone and be like, hey, you're wrong, so you gotta keep moving. The only thing I can do is just try to put up a better effort the next time

to potentially change your view of me. That's it. What do you think like the most regular thing about you is the most normal thing? Perhaps I play the game. I'm I'm lazy too, I'm I'm just like you at home. You're saying video games, video games, sit on the couch, chill every day, knowing every day, no, I gotta sit at the house, gotta gotta watch Netflix. So game days, travel days, off days. What's something you look forward to on a game day? On a game day, I'm playing,

travel day. What do you look forward to get into the destination safely? What do you look forward to on an off day? Kicking my feed up, what's the favorite gift that you've gotten for someone else? Favorite gift I got for us. I mean, I haven't got so many people so many gifts, to be honest, and I do it from the heart, so I can't even honestly remember because I do everything from the heart. So what's the favorite thing you've purchased for yourself? Uh? Well, I'm in

a mist of like restoring my old school wheep somobile. Okay, yeah, with the skirts, that's awesome. How many cars do you have? I got four. That's great for the team, for the house, for the team. So four was your number, right? Yeah? In Houston. Yeah, I couldn't wear it here because it's yeah, noted all respect, all respect. If you could wake up in the morning with a new skill on the court, what would it be? A new skill? New basketball skill? First?

Mm hmm, I say, handle the ball better. If I can wake up with better handles, I'll be who getting to the right duggy? Yeah yeah, yeah, I get that anyway, But you know, so I get there more efficient, more smooth, effortless. New skill off the court? You could add anything, new

skill off the court. H a new skill off the court, I would say, uh, you know what I've been watching lately, um, like people building stuff like fixtures on house, like cutting the wood down of the true you have an old tree and chiseling it down and taking the wood planes from it and building something from it. So that would be a new skill for me to learn how to build, like actually build. What's something about life on the road

that would surprise people? The time flies so like you can get discombobulated and sometimes you can forget your room numb if you want to road for solos. So and you have a pretty big family too, right, Yeah, I got a huge family my pops, my pops, my mother and father had fourteen my mom that my mom was one of eight, and then I think she had a few more other siblings. I think probably Levin Moore. So I got a real big family from my mom and

then my close brothers and sisters. I got two older brothers, a younger brother, and a younger sister. How do you make sure to nurture the closest relationships that you have in your life? Life you gotta give quality time and

it can't be about you. So when I'm trying to nurture my relationships with others, I'm making sure that I'm focusing on them and the issue that they have of him versus myself or talking about myself or anything relying or relating to me, unless the situation happens to deal with me or I've done it, you know from a meal with your dream table. Who is at the table living or Tupac got MJ, Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, Michael Micks. I won't Biggie there too, you know what I'm saying,

so we can chop it up. That'll be pretty much young Dolf. Gotta have Dolf at the table, flip flip, or gotta be at the table too. So when you retire, what do you want people to say about you? That that this guy gave us more than like him? You can ever imagine that whatever you think or say about him don't really matter because I know the real him. Thank you, sir. I appreciate the time i'm him. Thanks again to Daniel House Junior. Really fun conversation with him,

and he keeps it real. So we talk a lot about his energetic personality, but at the same time some of these questions about public perception and how he wants to be remembered. A very thoughtful guy that at the end of the day, he does bring the positive energy and he wants to be remembered in that type of way.

And Lauren, one thing that I've noticed is in our tiktoks throughout the year, and if people aren't following the sixers on TikTok, you should be a great job from our whole team with Julie, Becca and Ali on our social team. He Daniel House Junior is the pick from a lot of his teammates for various questions including recently,

who would you want to be for one day? He was the answer from a lot of the guys, which is just such a good way to describe the type of attitude he brings and the mindset that he has. I think the other players just want to spend some

time in his head. And yeah, he's also a I'd say a one hundred percent rate participant in each of the like goofy content things that we do throughout the year, which for a little bit of context, guys are constantly being asked to participate in different things, whether it's for content, or for community, or for season ticket members or for basketball things Like there's a lot that's asked of these guys every single day. So to say yes to everything

is truly like a hard to do. I certainly couldn't do it, but be such a delight when guys like d House are just always excited to participate. So yeah, if you haven't followed the Sixers on TikTok, make sure you do so a great opportunity to see D House's personality and see the way that his teammates relate to him. We're talking a lot about this, and we can talk

about his on court game here in a second. But one other thing that an inside or insight from the road is that when House gets on the bus, he always has a comment to the coaches, his teammates, staff, trainers, etc. And oftentimes it's something like either for the house, for the team, or one thing I've heard him say a lot is what's the deal? So you'll have your head down and whatever, listening to music, and you always hear him say what's the deal. When he gets on the

bus before a game, he's goofy. He brings the good vibes. But also all season long, not to get lost in the conversation about his vibes, is the way that he's

stayed ready all year. It's something we've heard Doc Rivers talk about a Ton recently, de have someone who's been in and out of the rotation more than a few times this season, but always is ready for the opportunity to come back, as he has lately again as the regular season winding down, the House has had some of his better performances of the year towards the end of the season. I wanted to though, harken back Matt something we talked about when we did the Shake Paul re

Duo episode. Check that one out if you haven't already, But that time when the Sixers were in Orlando without their top three scorers at the time, no Joe l emb no James Harden, no Tyrese Maxie, we remember Shake Milton stepping up in a huge way. We don't as often talk about the way that d House stepped up. I remember, particularly in that second game at Orlando that was his season high nineteen points in that one, five or eight from the field. But he also brought like

a seriousness to the court. He brought an intensity to the court that the team needed to get those wins done absent their best players, and cool to see him show what he can do when given the opportunity, and to see that he maintains that positive attitude regardless of

what his opportunities look like. So it's been really cool to cover him this year, sort of on and off the court, and he does bring it to the court, that energy and the way that he celebrates his teammate success on the floor, the way that he celebrates his own success on the court. The shooting is one thing.

He's a good three point shooter, obviously unlimited volume this year when he's been in and out of the rotation, it's somewhere around league average from three, but over his career a capable shooter that defenses are aware of when he checks in. He's often on the court end of quarter situations for defense a lot of the time, and he's made some good defensive plays as well. He's been

around this league, even though he's not that old. He's got a veteran presence about him, someone who's played with James Harden in his career before. Guys kind of know what to expect from him when they're sharing the court with him. One thing he mentioned in the interview was maybe an on court skill that he wishes he could have overnight or develop to an elite level would be his ball handling, and he said that it would allow him to just get into the lane and dunk more.

And I'm reminded of all the massive dunks he's had this year. Some have been waved off for fouls, some have been misses. But a guy that is very athletic too, and I always say tries to bring the house down with some of these dungs. Love love, love when he does bringing the house down. And and Matt, we're looking ahead to the playoffs. De House has a breadth of

the playoff experience twenty nineteen, twenty twenty twenty two. So he's someone who, if called upon in the playoffs, can draw back on plenty of playoff experience over these last four or five years, some of which were alongside James Harden,

who has play alongside in these playoffs once again. So looking forward to seeing how he a brings the energy and the vibes, but be if he's given the opportunity, how he steps into it in the playoffs and in real time as we speak at the end of the regular season, a lot of matchups for the Sixers against fellow playoff teams, and some minutes during this stretch for House that should give him some confidence heading into actual

postseason contests. My last thing on the way out is you'll see him do that bow and arrow celebration when he makes threes. Way back at the beginning of the season, I asked him about it, and he has a number of children, and he said, for his sons is the reason that he does the bow and arrow celebration because

they really like superheroes. So really, no matter the score, he says, he does it on every three pointer that he makes, at least for the last number of years, and I think it's a really nice gesture for them, a nice little wink to the kiddos. So shout out to the house, Shout out to the house kids, the house brethren, if you will, and Matt, with the drop of the word brethren, I think we can get out of here all right. Brethren, Thanks everybody, thanks for listening. Bye guys,