 Hello everybody I am Nassau Arrays and I am here at HospiVillain with The Man of the Hour, Jabari Bird, filming our second episode of Behind the Hype. Jabari, thank you for being with us here today. No problem, thanks for having me. Appreciate it. All right, Jabari, there's a lot of things to talk about. I don't know where to start. Five-game winning streak, undefeated at home, and you especially, you've been playing exceptionally exemplified by your Pac-12 player of the week award. What have been the major keys, as DJ Cobb would put it, to you and your team's success? For me, basically, I'm just looking to be aggressive. You know, I went through a stage of the season, I wasn't too sure like when I should shoot or like when I should pass, and you know, this past few weeks, I just looking to be like, just be out there, be aggressive, make plays to my teammates, and I just hit open shots when they come, and just make plays overall in the court. All right, awesome. And I know that for you it's been a little bit interesting during the season because you've been rotating in and out of the starting lineup, and if that was me, I would have been like, yo coach, what's up? But for you, you kept your head down, you worked hard, and now you're playing exceptionally. What has allowed you to come overcome that adversity? Well, for me, Preston, I never started as like a punishment coming off the bench, you know? Like, I'm a team guy, so if coach wants to come up the bench, I'll do that. He wants me to start, I'll do that. So for me, I like, I never took a day off, I stayed in the gym, I worked on my game, and you know, coming off like the Pac-12 player of the week thing a few weeks ago, that was big for my confidence to see my work finally starting to show. And I just looked to keep the momentum going. All right, sounds good. Well, we need that momentum coming up soon, we got some big games coming up, and you know, speaking of off the court, fashion and basketball have been greatly associated recently, and I know fashion is a big part for you. Can you explain to me how you, how you take care of your fashion off the court? I do a lot of online shopping, you know, you know, my girl, she's into fashion, she keeps, she try to keep me fitted every now and then, and I'm really in the shoes. I have a nice shoe collection, you know, from Booge, Jordan's, Nike's, all that. Like, I think I probably wanted the best shoe collection on the team. Okay, that's a bold statement, Jabari, bold statement. I'm definitely top three for sure on the team, you bet shoes. You can quote me on that. All right, well, I will quote you on that. We're talking about shoes. Jordan's are a big part of Calmen's basketball, specifically the shoes that we wear on the court. For you, what are your favorite pair of Jordans? I'm gonna probably go with the Jordan 29s. I played those a lot this year, especially the white pair. And we got some, some mascot Jordan 29s this year. I don't know if you guys have noticed, they're blue with like a big beard, yellow mask on the side. They do look nice. Yeah, we got those for the Virginia game. So I wear those a lot. And we also just got the new Jordan 30s. Okay, was a pretty comfortable. I broke them in today. And you should look forward to seeing us, seeing us wear those against the UCLA. All right, well, I'm excited. It's gonna look very nice. But Jabari, I want to talk about something. I'm gonna throw it back a little bit, you know, a little TBT. Back earlier in the season, there was Haas Hoopa Stereo about here on this court. And I got chosen to shoot a half court shot to win free books for the semester. Obviously, knowing my basketball limitations, I didn't make the shot. And then so they told me surprisingly, I could pick any guy on the team to shoot for me, you know, so I looked over and I saw that beautiful mustache looking right at me. And I was like, Jabari bird, I see you walking over, I see the confidence. I text my mom like, mom, you don't have to pay for books this semester. I give you the ball. I'm confident. I'm ready to go to brick. So Jabari, I have a couple questions for you. How can you let me down? And how can you let my mom down? I felt the pressure, man. I've been playing this basketball thing for a while. And I've never felt pressure like that before. You know, free books on the line. Like, I didn't feel like I didn't feel like I had it in me. I wasn't expecting to go up there and shoot that shot. I was over there chilling on the side, having fun. All of a sudden, I get caught off guard. Take this half court shot for your free books. And later a, you know, find a second opportunity. I'll probably make it. Alright, well, I trust you on that. Jabari, thank you for being on the show. We really appreciate you. Appreciate you being here. And we wish you the best of luck with the season, especially with big games coming up. And if you want to, would you like to sign us off? Of course. This is Jabari bird. You're watching behind the hype and look forward for the next episode coming soon. I believe it was the night after my home run. You know, we went to the mall, just, you know, and college station, and him and my brother, they buy out a bunch of fake mustaches. And then that's definitely one of the best pictures I've seen of my dad.