 That you're ready to walk me in the laser. So fly, but we think it's Dabus Breton's party. Da, da, da, da, da, da, eight year vet place for the Charlie Hornets right now. Here he is, Dabus Breton's rockin' the sweet ass beard. Lou, you wanna solve the mystery before we move on? What's going on here? That's not a library, Lou. Yeah, he's not in a library. Are you an avid reader though? Actually, no, I probably should have gone with a different one. Big book on tape, Kat. I mean, you look like a genius right now. You've got so many books, although they do look like they could be children's books. I don't know. I don't know what's going on, Dabus, but I like this for you. Look, you guys played the best team in the league last night, and yet, here you are. I only bring that up to point out Chandler would have called in sick and played golf all day. Appreciate your professionalism. But we just heard your nickname in that clip, Latvian laser. A, do you love that? And B, who gave it to you? First of all, I definitely love it. You know, it was given to me, I guess, by the Spurs announcers. Bill Land? Yeah. Nice. And my first year already, and it kind of stuck up to that. And I would say, I'm not gonna say it's the best nickname in the league, but I would say one of the top 10 probably if he would go through. Shut up, Bill. There you go. Travis, I'm reading this for the first time here. Is it true you only have four and a half singers on your shooting hand? Whoa! First of all, I need a backstory on that, and how the hell are you still such a great shooter with that situation on your hand? Wow. Well, the very short version is, I was like 12, 13 years old, grandfather needed wood for heating, and we come from a really small town, like 3,000 people. Everybody knows everybody by their first names. And, yeah, needed heating, and it was me, my brother, and my dad were cutting wood, and unfortunately, and the short story is just, I ended up on the wrong end, and it started raining, started crushing, and they kind of got on there. But I still, even though it's a little bit of a lucky situation, I was lucky that I didn't lose also the middle finger because I cut a nail off of that one as well. Wow. Is that the finger for a wedding band? That's smart. Well done. Well. Oh, no, it's the other hand. I wear no, wait. Oh, you, okay, you did it right. You played basketball yet before this happened, and you had to like, so you, did you start your trusty shooting? Me and my brother were basically born in a basketball gym, so. Wow. I was playing the basketball since I remember myself, so, you know, at that point, my dad was the one that was like, since he played and coached and did all of that. Like he was the one, all basketball is over, and I was like, I didn't even think about it. Wow. Dad, calm down. That's crazy. But then at the end, it takes about as much as a broken finger, so it's not that bad. Yeah. Could be worse, I suppose. You started this season with OKC before being traded at the deadline over to Charlotte. What was it like building with those young guys, and did you see the potential of this team possibly being who they are now? Definitely, you know, coming in didn't really know much to expect in a young team. You know, during the season, they didn't really win much before we get traded. We haven't done much of winning since the trade as well, but I think it's improved a little bit. But, yeah, I didn't know what to expect much, but all these young guys, you know, they work their butts off every single day, and a guy like Miles didn't know him before, and I was really, really pleasantly surprised. Great guy, he's really, really working hard. I can't say much else about that. And the same thing with Brandon, you know, he's a rookie, but he can he can hoop. And, you know, if he listens to the older guys, a little bit more, we can help him a little bit with the other stuff. You know, the basketball part is all great. I won't get you in trouble with the fan base down there in Charlotte, but you got to admit you were a little pissed being traded from OKC to Charlotte. What was that adjustment like? You know, that's a stick with both, but with two ends, you know, one thing is going to team from one that's aspiring to win a championship this season and playing really great. But, you know, how far at the end of the bench I was, the other side is coming here to Charlotte and getting to play basketball, you know. I don't know if you'll do it, not so much probably, but Chandler at one point, you know, with all the injuries, like, you know how it is not to play and just be around the team and wanting to be on the court. It's really tough. So I'm just happy to play basketball again. And a longer offseason. I look on the bright side, Davos. No, there it is. Always fine on the bright side, Chandler, Pete. I see that. Light at the end of the tunnel. There's always something there. All right, you recently took the shot to the nose there, so now you've got the face mask, the Batman, all of it all. What is it like playing with that thing on? Do you feel it? Do you ignore it? What is it? You know, for the shooting part, it's not a full problem, you know. You see the hoop easily, but I think the problem is, since I'm not that good of a ball handler, if I got to put it on the floor, if I can't see, like, it just feels like I can't see nothing below. And, you know, that's going to help improve my ball handling, but it's also a little bit tougher for me. I guess, yeah, it's like having blinders on. You can't really see anything. Few nights ago, the Hornets broadcasters were discussing your level of toughness. Here they are. Playing with a mask for the first time in the season, he got hit in the schnoz on Wednesday against Cleveland. He didn't even realize it because he continued to play. That's how tough he is. Suffer than Woodpecker lips, apparently. He is. Okay. Yeah, let's put it. By the way, this announcer's class. Are you tougher than Woodpecker lips, Thomas? What does that mean? Well, I guess Woodpecker lips, well, beak, more likely. Yeah. So, that's pretty tough, right? Can't really get much tougher than that. I've never heard that saying. But actually, I didn't realize during the game that I probably broke it because it cracked, and I felt like a little, like, something on the side, so I just walked over and was like, they asked me if I want to go check it in the back. I was like, well, like, I can breathe, so it's fine. I mean, looking at you doesn't look like anything. Yeah. At all. Like, it's a little bit crooked. Like, usually it's, like, you know, I'm not the best looking guy, but usually I look a little bit better. Yeah, I feel like we look great. Thomas, a few years ago, we've seen a lot of players that got upset with Ronnie over there at 2K about their player rating. Have you ever talked to him about that and has it since changed now that you're on the floor a little bit more? He's still, still hating on you. I really couldn't care less, to be honest. I've played FIFA most of the time, so I'm good. Wait, do you guys really care about that? Absolutely. That's like a fucking thing. So you check it and then complain. Yeah, because somebody's literally telling you you suck sometimes. Someone, by the way, who's never played it. Like, that's never worked and is like, he's never hooped before, never played, and he's like, you're only a blitz. I'll listen to somebody that comes up to me that says that he made 53s in a row and then I'll all maybe listen to him. There you go, not this, there you go. Wow, okay, but shout out. I'm going there for a shout out to Ronnie. Jailor took it to a bad place. Talking about shooting. My ranking was as high as it should have been too. Was it not good? No, I'm kidding, I don't know. I have no idea what it is. The shooting, you got it. But every once in a while you'll throw it down and people seem to still be shocked online when this happens. Even teammates seem to be shocked, which I find to be a little bit insulting. Yeah. Look at what's going on. Look at him, look at him. Why are they still surprised? I mean, is this insulting to you? Because when you're the stiff old white guy on the team that everyone gets out of their chair when you slap glass on a layup, let alone dunk. Like what? Of course he can dunk. Davis, does this bother you that people are shocked? And is this the last time you dunk? Cause I'm in this clip. I don't like that so much. Is this the last time you dunked a basketball? No, that was like four years. I actually got it dunked this year also. All right, there you go. I was in that clip. I think I got two of them. Yeah, and do you feel, I mean, Chandler likes to point out. Oh, I remember towards the end of my career when I dunked in Memphis, that they went nuts. You would think the world, like it's because, you know, I didn't do it often anymore and I've been hurting, you know what I mean? So people get extremely hyped. I think you should do it more. No, no, they get hyped if I dunk on somebody. That's where everybody goes crazy. If I do it by myself, I'm like, I'm sick still, like I should be able to do it even, you know, close to retirement. Yeah. I think people get excited for y'all dunking for a different reason than they were getting excited. It's because we're white. Because it's their white, Lou. Oh, God. I get to pick up race and everything. Kavis, you came into the NBA as an international prospect from Latvia, obviously, and you were drafted in 2011, but you didn't play in the NBA until 2016. Oh, my. How did that time playing overseas prepare you for when you got to the league? Since I had a really, really great, but he was also very crazy. You know, really well known coach, Serbian coach Durko Vyoshevich. And those were two seasons where I had to miss 10 months in the middle with the ACL injury, which I got my first full year there in the last game of the final series. And then it was the ACL rehab. But yeah, with that coach, that was what probably prepared me the most for whatever challenges I might have coming along. And, you know, six hours, seven hours a day of practice, that split into practices usually. And some of those, well, me and Bogdan Bogdanovich, we couldn't leave the gym after the morning shoe rounds until we made 10-year-old coming off screens and then he would just come up with like some stuff, like, you know, wearing gloves, taping the dominant eye shot, like it was ridiculous. You know, having another coach with a broom, just contesting extremely high. And I think going through all that with him being, you know, Serbians that like to cuss and really, really get into like personal insults. And all that is like, at the end of the day, it's like, if a coach now and NBA cussing me out, like, you know, I'll take the message, but it just really does not faze me even for a little bit. That's like the perfect prep. Because then in 2016, you go to the Spurs and pop. So it's like, could you be better prepared? You get there. You've got international stars, Manu, Tony Parker. Did that sort of, I don't know, make the path seem a lot easier as far as having guys from around the world that you could sort of learn from and talk to? Definitely, you know, now there's so many international players on every single team. But back then, you know, having San Antonio as a team that's like a nice transition from European basketball to the NBA, it definitely made it much, much easier. And you know, every single guy that plays an important role, like they come in from kind of internationally. You know, Manu played in Europe. Tony grew up there. Then Patty, who's from Australia, you know, he came to college, you know, just like a mix of every part of the world, it made it so much easier just to adjust and then playing the type of basketball that they played, moving the ball all the time. Everybody gets attached. Nobody cares who's finishing the play at the end. It was a really, really easy transition. Do you have any pop stories that you can share? I mean, I know some of them are not shareable. Oh. Did he like you? I think he did for most part, you know, except for making some bad mistakes with defense events sometimes, you know, and then you get in a dog house in the first few years and then don't step on the court for a little while after that. But like, is just him yelling at every single guy if they mess it up, doesn't matter if it's Tony or it's Manu, if it's me or right now it could be a two-way. Like, he does not care. Like, he wants the team play a certain way. If you don't do it, you're going to keep you responsible regardless if your jersey is going to be in the rafters in like three years after that. I like that. But you probably respect that as a player, not just go out. Oh, definitely. I respect that. And, you know, in a way right now, Cliff is the same way. I kind of love that old-school type of coaching. You know, that's what I grew up with. And I feel comfortable with that kind of environment where a coach is just holding every single guy responsible the same way. Davis, my last question for you is Adam Silver recently has said that he may go to a format where he goes USA versus the world. And looking at the list of these international players, obviously, you're well aware. Yoke, it's Donkage, SGA, Giannis, Joelle, Wimby. Although we got Joelle this on the team. Oh, yeah, we asked. How cool would that be? Who wins that game? Would you be stoked to possibly play in that game? I think there's a little bit better players than me to make that world team. Would love to, of course. But I don't know, if that was the all-star game format, I think everybody would try a little bit harder to win just to be able to talk a lot of smack, you know. And I feel that would make it really competitive. I hate it, by the way. I'm all for that. Anything other than what they're doing now for the all-star game. He just made the argument even more for us to have this happen. Quite possibly. But you also, it's also international players that don't care about the all-star game, as well as the USA players. And I just think it's divisive. Basketball has brought so many people together. Saved it for the Olympics, not inside of the NBA. That's my opinion. He's being soft, Davis. I'm so sorry about that. I'm a soft guy. Everything's divisive. We appreciate the time. Go read a bunch of books behind you. He's like, I'll start from this side. Yeah, yeah, just start over there and go down. Thank you. We'll take a quick break.