This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network Search seventy Sixers podcast wherever you get your pods. When it comes to Shake Milton, the promise has always been there in college. He improved each year at SMU and seemed destined for the first round before a broken hand cut his junior season. Short tough shot, left hand, count it, Shake Milton goes in the line. Then, as a rookie with the seventy Sixers, Milton continued to make things happen,
whether in the NBA or the Gelie. Milton put it on the floor, got all the way to recoupment. He'll go to the line looking for one more more moves like that in Shake, Milton isn't going anywhere. For the gifted Milton, the main challenge has been staying on the court, and right before the NBA's hiatus, he was certainly doing just that. Built steals it up. Beverley lay left at Jim Shake, built up the ball. He meets business here
in LA. Now, with the restart of the season on the horizon, Milton's mission will be to regain his form, just to smell the gimp, being the gym whom he after on the really work for what you want. This is Posted Up with Shake Milton. Welcome to the latest installment of Posted Up, presented by Caesar's Online, a mini cast series here on the broadcast checking in on the seventy six ers during the hiatus, with new episode's debuting
each week. I'm Brian Seltzer. It was a paradox of circumstances brought on by a global pandemic that Shake Milton was playing so good was the precise reason why the timing of the NBA's is spending its season was so cruel, at least in his personal case. In the immediate days leading up to the league being put on pause, Milton was playing the most significant, important, impactful basketball of his life.
With injuries forcing seventy six or starters Ben Simmons and Josh Richardson to the sideline, it was Milton's turn to step up, and to put it simply, he crushed it. Milton three Shake Milton from Downtown. But a brilliant performance here from Milton. In the span of eight games, the twenty three year old average eighteen points and four and a half assists in thirty one minutes. His numbers beyond
the arc were even more ridiculous. He nailed twenty four to three pointers on fifty eight and a half percent shooting and said an NBA record for thirteen consecutive made three Milton from way beyond for three. That's God. Shake, Milt puts it in a triple right over for us or should I say brightest face. Milton got lots of love during his breakout surge, which earned him an appearance on ESPN's The Jump. Oh Yes, we now welcome in the sixers guard Shake Milton Jump. I got my opportunity,
and I'll just try to make the most of it, honestly. Um, you know, just just try to stay locked in and um, you know, kept getting encouragement from other guys and Shake. He just took everything in stride, man, and kept things in perspective despite the NBA suspension, bringing his personal momentum to an abrupt Tall is definitely tough, a little shock
to your normal routine and everything like that. But you know, you're trying to just take a little seeds of goodness and blessings man, and you know, just enjoy it for what it is man, with a family and stuff like that. So it's been cool. Milton's vibe is almost always mellow. But there's more to that even killed exterior than meets the eye. Go orient it smart, carrying someone who loves
his family. That's the voice of Lisa Milton. She shakes mom and she would know from as far back as she can remember, her oldest son has always been that way. He's always been about his family. He's always taking care of his schoolwork, and he's always gone hard on the basketball court. Those are some of the things that I
think about. Shortly after the coronavirus erupted across the United States back in the middle of March, Milton returned to Owasso, Oklahoma, his hometown of about twenty nine thousand people just north of Tulsa. Lisa was a loving having all three of her kids back under one room. This has been like this he left for colleges, things like because he's always busy during the summer's during college. And it has been great.
It has been loud, it has been a lot of music playing, a lot of dance thing, a lot of food eating and cooking. But I have loved every minute. It's gonna be hard when they have to leave. Milton sounds like he's been a good sport, going with the flow, and welcome to the chance to broaden this horizons. My little sister, my mom latherin'. They've been trying to get me to do that, so I said that I'll dive into that and trying to see what that's about. I
could say myself creative, artistic is necessarily my thing. I've never really tried to draw or paint or anything like that. So we'll see. Even with all the good times lately, from dance offs to drawing, they're still avoid the Milton household, and there has been for a while now. Shake's father, Myron, passed away during Milton's freshman year in high school, just as Milton was really starting to round and the form on the basketball floor. I think it caused all of
us to change a little bit. Yeah, I think everybody had had to adjust. Rather, I always felt like because of their father's death, everyone had to grow up so much faster because I had three kids at the house and all of them were doing things like when Shake started to plan for his summer team, which was in Kansas with just three and a half hours away. I remember thinking there was one time where I couldn't take him. You know, you gotta drive yourself. He was, you know,
he had his license and stuff. But if his father was around, you know, we wouldn't have done that. We wouldn't. You know. It's just little things. So but you know, I think it's also helped him mature and growing to the person he is. You know, you just deal with it as it comes. Byron was more than dad to Shake. He was coach too. Myron played hoops at Texas A and m and Ransom of Shake's AU teams. To Shake's credit, he found a productive outlet for the pain. I think
he poured everything into basketball, you know. Honestly, he stayed in the Gems because that was his connection with his father. According to Milton's mom, the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree. Honestly. They can set a goal and they will stick with it. I'm more like set a goal with his suggestions. But you know, his father was a very hard worker. He provided I can say that, and in turn provided Shake with a key tool to carve
out a career playing the game he loves. During his two year stint with the Sixers, Milton is dealt with a handful of injuries, nothing major, just a couple of things here and there that have prevented him from staying on the court on a consistent basis, But he's always stayed ready, which brings us back to this notion of hard work being a defining trait of Milton's personality. So after getting a tantalizing taste of what Milton can do right before the NBA's break, what should we expect from
the Cabo Guard upon his return? Will no doubt be in the mix for a legit spot in the playoff rotation, along with guys like Furkin, corkmis Batist, Thyble, Collen Robinson the Third and Alec Burks. Just to smell the gym, be in the gym became he get after it. It's like when people walk outside it and you know, take a deep breath and get some fresh airs. It's like
the same thing walking in the gym. As Milton has already proven, when opportunity knocks, he's right there waiting to rip the door open, and with the hiatus almost over, he's as eager as ever. It definitely puts things in perspective. You know, you miss being out there, miss being with
the fans, miss milk competing for sure. I know for a fact when we get back, you know, people are going to realize that, you know, you can't really take the little things for granted, every little thing that comes with this lesson of being able to play professional basketball. But you got to really enjoy it and cherish it and make the most about of it. So that's what we're looking forward to. This has been posted up with
Shake Milton, presented by Caesar's Online. Be sure to check out Lauren Rosen's article about Shake that's also part our Posted Up High Its Content series. Thanks to Lauren and Kristen Crosby for the help producing this episode. Our music is courtesy of Universal Production Music and the YouTube Audio Library. Next time we'll post up with Mariol Sham. Definitely successfully year for me, learn a lot, guy, a lot better
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