Run With Us Season 2 - Episode 2: "Home"

May 30, 2021

the king was in zach lavine two gigantic offers her and then the Bulls had a decision for me what are they thinking in Chicago? They made the decision quickly. They're going to match that offer sheet. They have until Sunday. A lot of pressure on Can. he was and he was the guy that you went to for these surveys and this young core that the surveys that I had never been through before my age were, really, they walked me through them and I want to stop thinking about that so many times I was here I was just working out, you know, it comes to a point: okay, well, Chicago is here and the sacraments are here, like you know you don't have to sign this offer sheet with Sacramento and Chicago, you know we thought .

It's pretty much doesn't matter, regardless, I have to because you know we're going to keep you in, it didn't take us long to agree with that, you know exactly that you never went, don't go anywhere, so that made me feel really good. I know he was very happy. I wanted to be in Chicago all this time. You know it's hard to come back from an ACL injury. I feel like coming back I knew I was going to have some good games and some bad games. There are many things I still have. I have to keep working, but I definitely showed that I am still the same person towards the ACL.

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He had no

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or training camp. He played 24 games and everyone expected it. He wants to call him. be good no matter what happened people don't care now that he had the whole

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now he's going to have training camp he's back you know I'm still the same player and I'm still hungry everything's not going to be perfect and I I am the harshest critic of myself. He was a great kid as a father. I was tough about it, but everything I told him to do, he did. There's nothing any coach or anyone can tell me that I haven't already heard.

He cheats on you, that would be crying and he was yelling at her and it was like he crushed me. Oh my God, you can't talk to him like that. You know he's just a little kid over the years and with him explaining, I tell him. I got it, this is a process, we have to do this. You know, I said that the higher up he goes, the trainer will talk to you in a different way, so we need him to be immune to this when he gets older. There was a point where I thought he's not you, you have to let him be him, but I knew I had to keep doing it just because it was special every night he went to bed.

He used to say I love you and make sure you know it. I want to do this and yes, dad, he had a vision, he's the reason I'm here, he gives me that mental strength, it's a miracle he's here listening to all the stories he has, that he was a former NFL player, that they really get to be a part of San Bernardino California look well, he and I have a bond now that it's like you know you can't break it. I heard him say that my dad is my best friend and he's like, oh my god, after all the things I put my mom through.

She's the glue of the family, you know, she worked two jobs for seven years to be able to, you know, afford me to go to camps and play basketball. I gave you this here. It's a big thank you, you know, for everything they've done. name them basketball players this here is Kobe this is LeBron and that is Maya these are actually my dad these are my dogs my dad these three here my dad's dogs this doll just a white English lab Cosmo and then my dog comes here cane, come here buddy, come here, yeah, Zach's a great adult, that's what we wanted, yeah, he's a sensitive side, he's just thoughtful, he cares about people, yeah, oh my gosh, always he had a baseball bat in his hand, so at first it all started with baseball. and here he and his sister his sister always wanted to be close to him all the time you know Nina Forge's plans I have a closed circle I have about three four friends and my parents and my girlfriend that's all he wants me to go to all the clubs with him he wants his mom to be in the club with that he is very familiar I communicate with some all the time during the week the order you get the closer the bond becomes the time I can dedicate to this I appreciate it we' We're still kids but we're just growing up together.

It's definitely been difficult over the years. It's hard. It's a very distant isid thing, but I think it shows that you know that if you really love and care about someone, you can really make it work. different anyway and I've always been at 100 since I was 18 and, you know, the same way I thought the burner back then is growing now I have a lot to prove, the bar has a lot to prove Lowrey, do you all we do and we? "We're all pushing each other to become really good players and I feel like that's the main thing that competition brings out the best in everyone.

This is an exciting day for the Bulls organization. We think this signing fits perfectly into the direction we choose." We are adding another talented young player to our roster, as John said. I want to welcome you to the family. We're excited to have them back and to have Jabari back in Chicago and we want to welcome him

home

first and foremost. I want to thank God, you know, for giving me this opportunity, especially coming back

home

, there's no better way to live my dream when I was a kid playing on the street where I grew up.

Thank you to the children's organization for giving me the opportunity and I want to do my best to fulfill your goal. Desire, how would you describe the pressure that this player is under right now is how you feel? Do not walk. You manage your career well, just ACL surgeries and coming back so as not to change you as a person. How are you different from last time? People gathered in a room to listen to you talk about your future in basketball. I had a couple of obstacles in my career that took up a lot of my time.

I don't want to forget all the hard work I had because forgetting hurts me. Myself and I came back is to discredit a lot of my success because that in itself is something out of the ordinary since no one does that, so I want to always remember the setbacks and failures that I've had in my career so far and just use them. As a sense of motivation, I just want to be a trailblazer for a lot of people who are going through hardships because they obviously don't have hardships in their lives. It is unrealistic to be part of this team and it is something that I admire simply because We are the same age, we are going to build friendships on and off the field and that is what it is about once we get closer, we improve as a team.

I am going to learn as much as they learn from me and as I learned from them, this is unofficially, I would have come across measurements in which Laura appears, you can tell that it is a fact when they say that it is written, today we are running on the steps of the stadium, we're looking for power, power, power output, coming off the steps, it's 10 to 12. second rep and then they have basically 45 seconds to recover, go down and then do it again, so basically it's repeat conditioning of power specific to the sport of basketball, there are guys pushing each other here and holding each other accountable and that's where it gets real.

The value is that I knew we were going to hell, yeah, you know it's important for everyone to be here in the summer when you're here competing, trying as hard as you can, that makes everyone Kristin sell and ultimately that creates a trust factor or your teammate, will you come? to the gym every day and give it my all, all the teammates trust you a lot, my team has my back because I teach every day, I come with the same mentality, you know, trying as hard as I can, just leave it all on the floor . When you're running for something bad, something you know grunting because I started, you have to push yourself as hard as you can.

Okay, hitting a good 3-pointer or attacking that basket attacker in the efforts you put into defense is the first thing it measures. period and I think the main thing will be to make that effort to make sure it is there every night, we all have to take the initiative as a team to work out together what we are going to do to get stops, there will be moments. this year we'll move up the needle I just like being a dog you know that's who I am as a person that's how I play let me bring that intensity to the game and Holl's words that place our coaches do a good job of putting a plan game here for us each and every game, well they take their time doing it, no, we follow their individual game plan, okay, this is an offensive drill, these guys just stand around them and you start to realize how good an NBA player is.

Each guy we've been able to bond a little bit and I just want to do everything I can to help his team potentially be at its best 24/7. I mean being a rookie in this league just to have a support team behind me, I guess. "That's important. I'm a team player and I'll do whatever I have to do to win. When you play against great players every day, in practice they'll push you to be even better and we'll push each other. You're aware of the capabilities of our team and how far we can go. I hope I can add, it's just another point that I'm going to give to everyone, especially me, because I love it here and I'm looking forward to a new chapter in my life Especially. being home to approve the season goals, you know, individually and as a team, for the fans.

I love supporting them last year, that means a lot, we're ready this year, whether the world comes together in this one No. let's push each other or not be competitive and now we're here, we're hungry and you know we're ready to do it together because it's going to be a great year we just decided, what's up everyone, this is cooking up for even more