- What's up y'all?
It's Cade Cunningham.
I'm here with GQ, and these are my 10 essentials.
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First up, we got basketball.
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Anytime I'm outta town, wherever, I gotta find a basketball.
I gotta get in the gym.
This ball has taken me a lot of places.
I met a lot of people because of this ball.
You know, we have a relationship.
I have to love the ball, and if I do that,
the higher basketball powers will treat me right.
Once I got to high school,
I knew basketball was gonna be my thing.
So I gave up football, gave up everything else,
put my head down and got to work.
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Clippers are definitely an essential of mine.
I bring 'em everywhere I go.
I cut my hair a lot.
I learned when I was super young watching YouTube videos
and stuff like that.
What else I got in here.
I got some cologne.
I put this on a lot, you see I'm missing the top to it.
Tom Ford got a bunch of nice colognes.
This is my daytime smell, like fire.
And then Louis Vuitton, Meteore.
What else I got?
I got my deodorants, clippers, cologne.
Definitely essential.
Next up, speaker, and my air pod.
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Everywhere I go I'm trying to listen to some music,
and just get a good vibe going.
Good noise cancellation, good for FaceTime, everything.
And then I keep a speaker with me.
This one's the Beats Pill.
- [Interviewer] What's on your playlist right now?
- I listen to a lot of rap right now.
Lot of Drake, Young Boy, Gunna, Mo3.
I been on to Afro lately.
I feel like Afro is always a vibe.
You can play the Afro anywhere.
Marvin Bagley, my teammate, he got a lot of heat.
I bump him some times.
- [Interviewer] Has anyone used you in a lyric?
- It's a song called 'Cade Cunningham' by Baby Tron.
Sometimes I feel a little cocky or something
if I'm just listening to that out loud with people.
So I don't really play that too much.
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My next essential is fruit.
This is where it's at for me.
Anytime I need to get going for my day,
or just get some energy.
Chopped watermelon in my fridge at all times.
These are my top two for sure.
Grapes and watermelon.
Apples is also one of my top ones.
My least favorite fruit.
Is pomegranate a fruit?
I mean it's good for you, for sure.
Once I went vegan, it really solidified
my connection with fruit, my relationship with fruit.
Breakfast time, I feel like there's no better food to eat
than fruit to get the day started.
Big essential for me, steamer.
I mean, on the road I'm not the best packer.
So sometimes my stuff's bundled up in my suitcase,
whatever the case may be.
I'm still good.
I still have faith in the fact
that I can put that t-shirt on and be crisp
at the end of the day, because I make sure
I have my steamer with me. [audience clapping]
Just turn this on, [imitates steamer sizzling]
touch it up, and you good to go.
I'm out the door.
It's gonna be with me everywhere I go.
Yeah, next, I got my journal.
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Given to me by Detroit Pistons.
I've been saying that I want to start writing more.
I finally started, and I love it now.
It's something that really, it helps clear the mind.
Watching film, or after a game or whatever,
I just go and just start writing.
And it's something that I can always go back to
and see why I was thinking a certain way,
or whatever the case may be.
And so the next time I play a team,
I can go back to the first time we played 'em.
You can't make the same mistake twice.
I definitely advise anybody watching this, get a journal.
Start writing down what you're thinking.
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Got my laptop, huge for me.
Gotta be prepared for the next game.
Whoever I'm playing, got no personnel.
My laptop is my portable film session.
It's good for a ton of things, not just film.
I can watch movies on the plane.
My go-to movies of all time,
'Sandlot' is definitely up there.
'The Incredibles'.
This laptop puts it all right there in front of me.
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It's a long season, like I said.
Gotta stay hydrated.
Mountain Valley is definitely my top.
I usually don't like just marketing stuff.
Mountain Valley, get at me.
You know what I'm saying?
Ouachita Mountains.
They say they bottled it up straight from there.
They also have some Mountain Valley in the fridges here
when I first got to Detroit.
I had already did a little bit of prior research to it,
but this was my first time having it in abundance.
Everybody knows if you handing me a water bottle,
I want the green bottle.
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Sometimes going into games, on a back to back, whatever,
didn't get a lot of sleep.
The fruit didn't fully do the job.
UPTIME will finish it off.
It's a smooth energy, you know what I'm saying?
It's not like you go way up and then you crash,
and you're sleepy, you're drowsy, whatever.
You don't even really feel the energy come on or leave you.
You know what I'm saying?
And that's something that I love about it.
And it tastes amazing.
This one's raspberry lemon.
All natural, caffeine, sugar free.
Good for you.
It's the real deal, I like it.
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Next up, I got my PS Vita.
This was a gift from my sister.
You know, I'm not really a big gamer, honestly.
Sometimes on a flight,
on a long car ride, bus ride, whatever.
She got all the bells and whistles on this one.
This one's got everything you need.
So, real deal, great gift.
Right now I play a lot of Mario, stuff like that.
Really I scroll looking at all the games I could play
more than playing the games.
I never had one as a kid, so I got one now.
My last essential, definitely not least,
this is Twin.
This is my Frenchie.
Biggest thing in the world to me is family.
My daughter is my world.
This right here is the newest member to the fam.
He's a youngin' right now, he's still learning everything.
We're still getting him fully potty trained and all that.
But, wanna say hey, Twin?
And he is a little shy right now.
Teething right now too, so he wants to bite everything.
He listens though, he learns quick.
He knows his name, he knows how to sit.
He knows all that, so.
This is my man's right here though.
This is my road dog.
Ain't you, boy?
Ain't you?
Appreciate everybody for watching.
Me and Twin had a lot of fun.
We'll see y'all later.