- Okay, so this is the Magruder Euro, right?
You're coming down.
- Hold on, okay.
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- Just like that.
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What's up, guys? Hope we're doing well.
I'm Scooter Magruder and this
is the first episode of "One-On-One,"
a show where I interview athletes
and then play them one-on-one.
Today, my first guest on this show,
it is one of my friends,
Mo Bamba, welcome Mo.
(Mo laughs)
Welcome, how are you doing?
- I'm doing well man, good to see you.
- I want to know, what did they tell you to get you here?
- They just told me that Scooter
was gonna be here and I was like, "You know what?
It doesn't sound like a bad idea."
- I appreciate that. - I was cool with it.
- We're just gonna start rapid reaction.
Where are we at? Rapid reaction.
We just got a new coach, what are your thoughts?
- I think he's gonna do very well here.
I connected with him probably
the first hour of the announcement.
- The hour? - Yeah.
I knew that it was very important that I established
that player-coach relationship that I wanted and I just
wanted to connect with him and just talk direction.
- All right, so we're gonna do a one-V-one
and we're gonna do Pig.
Now Mo, you're up first.
- What you want?
- Oh. - Okay.
- Look at that, that's easy.
That's easy. - Oh that's easy, huh?
Easy?
You gotta lace up your shoes to shoot a three?
P.
- It's far, like it's far.
- Can we get that ball? - It's far.
- Can we get that ball over there
because he just bricked it. - Way further than you think.
That's all I'm saying, I'm not used to it.
- It rode all the way to Clermont.
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All right.
And he's back from Tampa.
- When you're drafted by the Magic, where are you?
What's going through your head draft night?
"Mo Bamba, the Orlando Magic select Mo Bamba."
- That's not how it went. - How did it go?
- Adam Silver walked up to the podium.
Adam Silver walked up to the podium
and it went (humming electronic jingle)
and he said "With the sixth pick in the 2018 draft,
the Orlando Magic select Mohamed Bamba
from the University of Texas."
Funny story. - Please let me hear it.
- So the whole entire week of that, we were
in New York doing a bunch of different things, right?
And I'm thinking the whole time,
I'm looking at guys when they get drafted,
I'm thinking do they give him like a dap or a handshake?
What's the difference between a dap?
A dap is like.
- Dap it up, dap it up.
- Or handshake.
- Official. - Yeah.
- It's official.
- No wrong answers, no wrong answers.
- So that's what you were thinking?
- And then I was also thinking
about when you walk onto the stage,
you walk up those like four little steps.
- Don't trip.
Don't trip.
Hey, don't be the story on draft night.
- You don't want to be on "Not Top 10"
before you even play a minute.
- You could be a meme before-
- That's bad. - That would be bad.
- That's bad, so Adam Silver goes up,
you know, sixth pick, da da da.
So I'm like all right, I literally go like this.
You can play the video back too.
I go like this and I look up and I'm happy
and I get up and like the back,
something got caught on the chair and I
fell back into the chair but I played it off so smooth,
so smooth that no one really noticed.
But every time I think draft or think about it,
I'm like I fell.
- Okay, let's switch over to the teammates.
- Yeah.
- Who are you closest with on the team?
- It's kind of hard to say 'cause we're pretty close.
- It's a tight group all around?
- We're a tight group because we're all young.
We're all around the same age.
- Is Terrence the outcast 'cause he's a grown man?
- He's actually not. - He's not?
- He is the most childish person on the team.
- He's in the cool? - He's a cool kid.
- Tell us about Cole. - Lame.
- Okay.
- You can tell by his tattoos.
- Let's just go one word, I'll name some teammates,
you throw out what you think.
- Cool.
- Who's the goofiest player on the team?
- Probably Chuma, Chuma if I'm being honest
but you'll never know because he is really quiet around
people he doesn't know yet but that kid is goofy.
Midrange, all right?
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I called bank.
- Okay, so you said turn around.
- Bank, midrange.
- Boom, that's what we doing?
- You didn't get it? Yes. - Okay.
I'm just making sure. - Okay.
- Because this is in my bag.
- All right.
- That's in the bag.
- Okay.
- Okay, let's change things up a bit.
- Okay.
- I saw a tweet, Terrence Ross said he was playing
Okeke in "Madden."
He wanted a rematch, who do you think won that rematch?
- I mean if he wanted the rematch,
then I think Chuma probably.
- Who's the best "Madden" player on the team?
- I think Chuma might be.
I hate to give him that but I think Chuma might be.
- I was on TikTok. - Okay.
- There was a TikTok the Magic put out.
- [Mo] Okay.
- Who's the best "2K" player? Everyone said Markelle.
- I knew where you were going with this.
- Everyone said Markelle.
- [Mo] I knew where you were going with this.
- Defend yourself. - I played Markelle
with the Magic.
He picked a different team, which was kinda weird.
- Wow. - I know, right?
- Wow, I think offrip by default.
You lose by default. - Yeah.
- What the heck?
- But he ended up beating me but it was like,
I forget how it went.
It was like a last second shot or something like that.
- Here we go.
No rim, cannot touch the rim.
Go ahead and get that P, go ahead and get that P.
- Wait, but a shot's a shot though.
If it goes in, it goes in.
All right, nevermind, you got it.
- What is it, P-P? - P-P.
Two P's.
- Corner, corner or side three from the corner right here.
It's so far though.
A lot of people just don't realize,
like being an athlete is dope
but there's so much more than just playing an NBA game.
There's so much more that you guys do.
So like in the offseason. - Yeah?
- What's a typical day like in the offseason for you?
- On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I do either boxing or yoga.
- Did you do boxing or yoga today?
- I'm doing boxing later on today, Tuesday.
(bell dings) - Okay, yeah.
- Monday, Wednesday or Friday,
I'll probably get in like around 10:00.
Do like some sort of treatment or prep work,
lift around 11:00.
From 11:00 'til about 12:00, 12:30
and then I'm on the court from 12:30 to-
- This is all like in the off season, on your off time?
- Yeah.
- Where you could just be doing nothing?
- Yeah for sure, you gotta stay on top of your game.
You don't want to come back into training camp,
training camp is not used for getting into shape anymore.
Training camp is all right,
we're hitting the ground running.
- You've been putting in the work.
We know that, you've just said it.
What have you been working on?
- I've just been working on my motor,
been working on my finishing around the rim
and just getting in elite, elite shape.
- So have you been like maybe working on sky hooks?
Have you been working on any specific post moves?
Any "2K" moves, lay up packages?
- Well, not any "2K moves" but I try to work on
my back to the basket game as much as possible
and just having a simple jump hook to go to is big.
- Let me show you how it's done, look.
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That went in, that went in, that went in.
- Let me try the corner again.
All net, can't hit the rim. - What?
I've never seen anyone say "all net."
- My range is not this far.
- All right. - Sike.
- Spoke too soon. - I got P-I.
- Are you sweating?
Where are you sweating from? Why are you sweating?
- All right, break it down for the camera.
- He's sweating, we're breaking down
that he's sweating and we're playing Pig.
- Listen, I sweat very easily.
I got a P-I right now.
What do you have?
- Nothing. - He has P, he has P.
I think I can come back.
Let's see how it plays out.
We know LeBron, "Space Jam" is coming out.
You going to see it?
- Yes, I will be seeing that.
- He scores and he has the move.
Have you considered the Bamba?
- I've thought of a couple, no, not that.
I've thought of a couple of things but I'm gonna
let it come to me naturally.
But RJ. - Okay.
- He recently got a tattoo of a dagger
right on his shin, boom and he said
now every time he hits a three,
he's gonna point to the dagger and I told him
that was the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life.
- Chat, you let us know in the comments down below,
is the dagger a good idea-
- So dumb. - Or a bad idea?
We want to hear from you.
Any pets?
- Yes, I have a dog.
His name is Lennox, he is turning two in October.
- Can we get Lennox on screen?
Editors, can we get Lennox on the screen?
- I was about to bring him here but decided not to.
- Can we get "L's" in the comments for not bringing Lennox?
Always bring Lennox, always bring Lennox.
- I will think about it. - Okay.
- But Lennox, that's my boy. - Tell us about Lennox.
- He's growing fast, he's big, he's a big dog.
- What type of dog? - He's a Goldendoodle.
- They say dogs mimic their owners.
- You calling me goofy? - Huh?
- I could have sworn you just called me-
- What had happened was- - You called me goofy.
- So back to Lennox. - Yeah.
- Reverse. - Oh my god.
- Go ahead, hit it, uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
- Oh.
- Free throw, free throw.
- That what you're trying to do?
You just trying to make easy shots?
- I gotta try something.
I gotta try.
- We're gonna go logo three
to end him.
We're gonna send him home with a logo three.
- Let's just go to the song, are you tired of the song yet?
- Yeah, I tried to like preserve it
for as much as I can but people just,
they just don't know when to stop.
Like, come on.
It was pretty cool to have a song named after you.
- Like I said, I think it might be awhile
before that song has dethroned someone's name.
- Yeah.
- I would say "Mo Bamba"
is the "Swag Surfin"
of your generation.
I'm a Millennial, Gen Z.
I would say to Gen Z, "Swag Surfin" is "Mo Bamba."
What are your thoughts?
- Yeah, I could see that
but "Swag Surfin," it comes with a dance.
- It does. - Or like a, you know?
It does.
- There's still an opportunity.
- I don't know what dance you could possibly tag onto that.
- Hit 'em with the Bamba.
- You gotta stop with the Bamba.
- My bad. - What is he doing?
- My bad, that's on me. - What is he doing?
- My bad.
So how do you deal with these people online,
these trolls, these haters?
I know for me as a YouTuber,
I deal with this stuff all the time.
I've been dealing with it.
So for a basketball player,
you have a bad game, people attack you.
- [Mo] Oh yeah, oh yeah.
- What do you do, what do you say to these guys?
Do you say anything? Do you just let it?
- Well, you have a choice to make.
You can either let it affect you
or you can let it motivate you
and one thing I've always done
with that is always let it motivate you.
That outside noise can always be used as motivation.
- Bro, that is well said.
That's easy.
That's in range, it's just the sides, the depth.
The way the air conditioner in here is working out.
- Yep. - You see, the current.
- [Mo] Yep.
- You said right here?
- [Mo] That's the logo.
(Mo laughs)
- This is still technically the logo if you think about it.
- Oh, you need a running start?
- How did you make this, bro?
Oh yeah, oh!
- You want to go to to Horse?
- Break it down, what just happened?
- I just kicked his butt in Pig.
So I'm gonna be nice and we're gonna go to Horse.
- Talk to me about Harlem Heritage.
- Yes sir. - What is it?
Explain it to the people watching.
- Well Harlem Heritage is just, you know,
we the swaggiest people in the city, we set trends
and to break it down to like a microscopic level,
my neighborhood sets the trends for Harlem
and Harlem sets the trends for the city and New York City,
everybody wants to be like New York City, so break it down.
- What I'm hearing is that Harlem Heritage,
basically like you're an influencer.
- [Mo] Absolutely.
- You are a Harlem Heritage influencer
just spreading the dopeness. - He said it, not me.
- The dopeness. - He said it.
We're gonna go other logo three.
- You've never made two in a row.
- Is that right?
- You've never made two in a row.
You won't do it.
Okay.
From where?
- The other logo. - Other logo.
- You good? - Huh?
Yeah I'm good, yeah, I'm fine.
You good? - I'm great.
- Logo? - Logo.
That's the logo.
And that's a miss. - It's far.
LA Fitness rims are different from these rims.
That's all I'm saying, that's all I'm saying.
- All right, how do you want to end this?
- If you just dunk it, I think...
I could do that easily. - Here.
- Hold up, is this regulation or?
- I think it is.
We practice here, so yeah.
- Okay and you just, it's a lay up with touching the rim?
- You just gotta put it in the rim.
You touched the rim.
That's close, that's close enough.
It's good, you did good, you did good.
No really, it's good, that counts, that counts.
- Well there you have it, guys.
The first "One-v-One," Mo Bamba takes it.
Mo, what would you like to say?
- I told him that this
was gonna happen and he didn't believe me.
Now we are where we are, he's sweating, he's embarrassed.
He's making his signature face.
Can you do the signature face please?
Making the signature face and you know,
but it was good to have you here.
- It was fun. - It's good to host you.
- It was absolutely a great time.
Listen, I'm excited for the season.
- I am too.
- Excited for this draft. - I am too.
- Let's go Magic.
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