- Is that a million?
- [Interviewer] Yeah.
- Oh, this is a million right here?
- [Interviewer] Yeah.
- Oh damn.
[chuckling]
We've got a lot of money to spend.
[groovy music]
I'm originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Greenfield Wisconsin suburb,
right outside of Milwaukee.
My first-like-job was I worked with my dad,
doing the snow plowing, stuff like that.
I would probably say like ten dollars an hour.
I probably worked for like five hours a night.
Quick 50.
[groovy music] I went to the University of Kentucky.
In college,
you know we used to
go to the mall a lot,
I would say.
We weren't able to,
obviously buy as much.
But going to the mall,
buying clothes,
going to the movies,
things like that.
We were in a small college town.
[groovy music]
Conversations definitely come up,
in high school and college,
talking to my friends.
If I ever make it to the NBA,
I would probably get a car.
That's the dream:
to be able to make a lot of money,
doing something you love.
- [Interviewer] Getting drafted by Miami,
how did that feel going from Milwaukee to Miami?
- It was obviously a big adjustment.
Obviously, the weather being one thing,
And then the lifestyle.
Being able to play basketball
in a beautiful city,
there's really nothing better.
No state income tax in Florida,
so that was another perk to coming to Miami.
[dance music]
I figured there was going to be a lot of money,
and then once I seen like 3.6 million was a lot.
It was amazing to be able to see that.
'Cause you know that's a lot of money for a young kid,
but I felt like I worked for all of it.
Coming from no money,
to having a lot of money,
I knew I was going to have to get
a financial advisor and everything like that.
He kind of came to me,
with a long-term plan with the money I have now.
So say that I'll never make another NBA contract
for four years or five years that my contract is
in now will set me up for the rest of my life.
I have a physically demanding job,
you know,
so I have to really set aside the certain amount
of money for my post career,
what I'm going to do after basketball.
All right.
So let's talk about my first million.
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The very first thing I bought..
I think was a Gucci purse for my mom.
I was in New York by myself with some friends.
And, I just see it at the Gucci store
and bought it for her.
Five-thousand dollars.
[pump music]
Gucci purse for mom.
[winding down]
[pump music]
I bought two cars.
I bought a Jeep and then a Mercedes.
I got a S Class S 63 AMG 2020 Mercedes.
I bought it in Kentucky,
a dealership in Kentucky,
and then,
they sent it down here.
It was two-hundred thousand.
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That was nineteen.
[sliding] [chuckling]
Twenty.
I like it just white, black, simple.
Tinted windows for the sun and then all black rims.
I had to pay for the tinted windows.
- [Interviewer] How much were they?
- Like three hundred dollars.
[muffling]
[sliding money]
Both tinted windows,
three hundred dollars
for the Mercedes Benz.
Boom.
[winding down]
[electronic music]
I bought the Jeep from my dealership down here in Miami.
The Jeep Wrangler's customized.
I would take off the top sometimes,
and sometimes it's too hot down here,
so they had to take it off.
Sixty thousand.
Sixty thousand four-door Jeep Wrangler.
[ding]
Jeep was already tinted windows when we bought it.
- [Interviewer] All right cool,
so no extra three hundred bucks.
- No extra three hundred for the Jeep.
Saved me couple of dollars.
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[chill music]
The weekends in Miami, I love going to South Beach,
and just looking for clothes, shopping.
There was a place called Webster's.
That's really nice.
And then the design district has a lot
of Dior and different types of stores like that.
Clothing,
eighty-five thousand.
[calm music]
- [Interviewer] What was your favorite brand
before you got drafted?
- I shopped at PacSun a lot.
I liked basic stuff,
where it's cheap
and you can really wear it
- [Interviewer] What's your favorite brand
after you got drafted?
- Dior.
Christian Dior.
- [Interviewer] Left PacSun behind.
- Yeah.
I mean I still shop at PacSun
sometimes for sure.
- [Interviewer] Who has the best style
on the team including yourself?
If you could do a top three.
- Top three?
Me, Kendrick Nunn, and
I'ma just say KZ Okpala.
All three can wear the best clothing.
- [Interviewer] If Jimmy were to watch this video,
do you think he'd agree with that?
- Nah.
Jimmy would definitely put himself in there.
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[jazz music]
My first apartment,
a realtor down here in Miami helped me find it.
Five thousand a month for rent and utilities.
[sliding]
Sixty thousand in rent.
[ding]
I'm renting an apartment right now
that I live in.
But in the near future,
I do want to do something in real-estate.
That is something that really intrigues me
away from the court.
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[jazz music]
The team has a nutritionist,
but I actually hired my own chef.
My nutritionist works for the team,
so nutritionist and chef,
they all kind of work together.
We'll say about twenty thousand a year on my private chef.
[sliding]
Twenty thousand for my chef.
My favorite meal,
um, I like chicken alfredo
with chicken and shrimp.
- [Interviewer] Your least favorite meal?
- Least favorite...
I don't have a least favorite meal,
like if I don't like it,
I'm not going to eat it.
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[groovy music]
I always wanted to buy my mom a car.
That was like one of the first things I wanted to do.
So once I did get paid,
I bought her a Porsche.
About eighty thousand.
[sliding]
Eighty thousand.
Porsche.
I was actually pretty surprised.
I brought it home one day,
back from Milwaukee.
Someone delivered it to my house,
and then she came outside and kind of just seen
it was in our driveway.
She was just very excited,
and she didn't believe it.
She got the car,
and kind of took it for a ride.
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[calm music]
I eat out a lot.
My favorite restaurant
in Miami is Prime 112.
I probably go
there couple times a month I'd say.
The night after I got drafted,
I did a big celebration dinner,
and I took all of my friends and family.
Agency.
I really just everybody,
took them out to dinner.
So draft day celebration and Prime 112.
For dinners over the year, I'll probably
end up spending about ten-thousand dollars.
[slam]
[ding]
[winding down]
[calm music]
My dad...
I got him a car too.
He likes trucks,
so I got him a GMC truck.
[sliding]
So, I bought my dad a GMC truck for forty thousand.
So, forty thousand GMC truck.
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[groovy music]
I'm into art too.
I bought a four thousand dollar painting.
It's like a portrait of me
from middle school, high school, college, NBA.
That was an artist in Denver that I met.
We kind of collabed together.
I told him that I wanted something
where I kind of grew over the years.
And, I had an idea, and she kind of
came up with the painting.
- [Interviewer] If you could look into the future
and add a panel,
what would you want that panel to be?
- Me holding that NBA championship trophy
with Miami Heat on it,
Miami Heat.
[sliding]
Custom paintings for around my house,
Ten thousand.
[ding]
[slam]
[winding down]
[pop music]
- [Interviewer] What was the best gift you've ever received?
- I would say this is the best gift
I've received so far.
A patek,
two-tone.
My teammate gifted to me for my birthday.
I have bought my own necklace.
I have my brand logo on a cubit,
sort of like this.
I got my chain from Iceman Nick.
I got linked up through a teammate.
We met in Houston,
we played the Rockets,
and we kind of customized a chain for me.
- [Interviewer] Cool, how much was the chain?
- Uh, thirty thousand.
[sliding]
[groovy music]
This type of jewelry,
I have accessories,
a lot of glasses.
These glasses really cost a lot,
I bought when I got paid.
They're Louis Vuitton glasses, so
they cost about a thousand dollars.
Probably about ten pairs of glasses.
Miami is a very sunny place.
I needed these glasses,
and the rest of the glasses I've purchased so far.
So ten thousand on all the glasses.
- [Interviewer} What was your favorite brand of Glasses
before you got Drafted?
- Honestly,
I bought my glasses like in like malls.
Little kiosk things.
Yeah, Sunglass Hut
[Laughs]
- We're only five months into my rookie season.
I've not spent a million dollars yet.
But this is what I've spent so far.
I feel good.
I feel like I can do a little bit more spending.
But it feels good to be able to,
you know,
take care of my family.
That's a dream that I've always wanted to do is
take care of my younger brothers,
you know,
two parents.
I gave my mom a car.
Gave my dad a car,
Just want to continue to do that.
All right, this is how I spent my first million.
Well some of it at least.
You need to be smart with how you spend your money.