 restaurant recommendations, the shooting, all of it. Yeah, that's right. Joe Harris, one of the veterans of this Brooklyn Nets experiment is with us now. Joe, it's good to have you back, man. Glad to be back. Good to see you guys, too. So before we get to restaurants, and we know you've been helping Royce out there since his move, how about health? How are you feeling right now? Are you full go? Any limitations where are you at? I'm full go. I've been full go for probably the last month or so. No problems whatsoever with my ankle. It's more of just the rest of my body kind of getting re-accommodated to plane. Sitting out, basically my first full basketball, even individual workout was November of last year. So even incorporating the individual stuff and now finally playing, it's taken a little bit of time for the rest of my body to adjust everything that's going on. Joe, a lot of layers and complicated, I'm sure, even more so than all of us know on your end thinking about last season and what you went through in terms of trying to get yourself back on the court knowing that then you wouldn't. Can you walk us through it a little bit, just the way in which you experienced it and what it was like for you? Yeah, I mean, the initial injury that I had in OKC, there was a lot going on in the ankle. And instead of having a bigger procedure that would have ended my season, it was kind of a collective decision to try and figure out how I could try and come back and play at some point in time. We weren't sure if it was going to be a month, maybe even longer than that. But we were kind of willing to run the risk of just, all right, we'll see what happens. And at some point in time, if you need to do a bigger procedure, we'll do that. But unfortunately, I just couldn't get myself back to a point where I could actually compete. I could go through some different shooting workouts and stuff like that, but I couldn't compete in an actual NBA game. The ankle was just so limiting where I had to have the bigger procedure done. And it was obviously unfortunate, just giving the time, situation, circumstances of everything. But now coming back healthy and being able to play for the last month or so, I mean, I had to have it done because it's night and day of the difference for how I feel now versus how I was feeling last November. Weren't you even, I mean, Joe, it seemed like there was a point where you're like, hey, if I can just even stand out there and catch and shoot. I mean, the things you were trying to get on the floor, it was unbelievable that you weren't giving up and you just kept pressing, trying to get on the floor. Yeah, I mean, I was pretty determined to try and get back, and I really thought it was going to happen, even if it was in a limited capacity. We were rolling up the idea of me just wearing a pretty absurd ankle brace that was more along the lines of a cast. And I could have probably spotted up and shot a little bit, but the problem was turning around and going on the other end, trying to chase people around and guard somebody. It was a little bit out of the cards, and yeah, it's tough. It was definitely a growing and humbling experience, for sure. And I think looking back on it, too, you certainly take for granted just the time that you're able to compete, be out on the court, play, even just do all the little stuff. And so all that was taken away for a little bit of time. And I have this sort of rejuvenated spirit just back, like being able to play the game. I almost feel like a little kid again. We'll look forward to next season in just a second. We've taken you back to last season, but this offseason. You've been a part of this organization, the longest tenured to this point, and many iterations of what this group, but the slider roster, has looked like. What was it like for you experiencing this summer when Kevin asked for the trade and just wondering what this group, what this team may look like as you get sets to come back? Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of question marks in. That's kind of the NBA, though, now. I feel like a little bit where there is a lot of uncertainty every offseason, and it's not necessarily with guys even requesting trades or anything like that. You know, there's just a lot of moving parts. I mean, you look at Utah blowing it up, other organizations making moves. Everybody's trying to put themselves in the best position to compete for a championship. And, you know, our situation might have been a little bit abnormal, but at the same time, you know, we are here now. Everybody's together. And I think there is this collective spirit, like this is what we got, and this is how we're gonna push forward. How hard was turning that page, Joe? Probably harder for some other guys. You know, I don't know. I think that's definitely a question for Kevin and front office coaching staff, but for the guys that are here, you know, I've been here all summer. And, you know, I've been really focused on my rehab, coming in, doing the work that I need to do every day. And that's been the same for, you know, 10, 11 guys on this roster, coming in and being in the facility on a daily basis this offseason. So, you know, this is, you know, that's more, I think, for those guys to kind of, you know, worry about hash out amongst themselves. But again, this is not an uncommon thing in the NBA. I think ours is just, you know, a little bit more public than everyone else's. What about for your coach, Joe, Steve Nash, who's, you know, whether the report was true or not, there was a report at one point that Kevin asked for him not to be here. Well, he is still here. So is Kevin. How difficult or not difficult do you think it will be for Steve to be the guy leading this group, getting through what he went through as well this summer? Well, I think, you know, anytime that, you know, you don't meet expectations, you're not playing as well as you thought, you know, it can get a little tumultuous. You know, we're all super competitive here and everybody really wants to win. So things didn't end, obviously, how we all expected them to last season. I mean, we had high expectations, even given all of the injuries, the trades, COVID stuff, whatever it might have been. There's still high expectations and we don't meet them. You know, there's a little angst there. You know, you're kind of just sitting on it all off season. But again, I think it was definitely one of these things where it's just something that was made a little bit more public than it needed to be. Cause I'm sure that a lot of this is not foreign territory for a lot of NBA organizations or, you know, professional organizations for that matter. You know, this is a competitive group where you're just, you're trying to get the most out of one another. You're challenging each other and ours is a little bit more public, but, you know, we're together now. And I think, you know, the adversity that we've sort of experienced, whether it was the last two seasons, now this off season and everything that's happened are hopefully a good starting point for us to kind of just, you know, go into something great. You like to think that because the things when you mentioned sitting on things and just the competitive nature of so many of these players and you could look down this roster and whether you want to say chips on the shoulder are motivated. Everyone individually and collectively has a lot going into this year. What excites you when you do look at this roster and the opportunity? What excites you the most? It's exactly that. You know, you look across the board where there's a lot of guys that got something to prove. This organization has something to prove. You know, and it's not just the guys that are out like myself, Ben, TJ has been out and Edmund Summer has been out. You know, I think you just, you look at guys even though we're playing last year we didn't accomplish what we wanted to accomplish. And then you add new guys to the fold that, you know, they want to, you know, we're all here to win a championship. And, you know, regardless of what has transpired and has happened, that's still the goal at hand here. And that's something that we believe, I think that we can achieve. And I think you could go and ask every single person on this roster and we would all echo the same thing. You know, obviously it's a huge undertaking, a big task, and there's a lot of stuff that's got to come together between now and even through the pre-season for us to even start building this foundation to get there. But this is the challenge that everybody, you know, I feel like when your feet are in the fire a little bit guys have a tendency to go one or two ways. So, you know, it's up to us to decide which way we're going to go. And, you know, hopefully it's the right direction and going towards that championship aspiration. Looking at the roster and Joe and thinking about Ben and how he fits into you guys, especially with all the shooting you have yourself included now back healthy. What do you envision for Ben and the way he's going to influence this team? Ben is an incredible player and just the pace that he plays with, how great of a passer he is. You know, he creates a lot of offense without, you know, really having to score himself. He makes the game so much easier for everybody that he plays with. And you've seen that through his entire career. You know, there's guys that really thrive off of playing with him. And I think our roster is going to be no different. I think he is the perfect piece for, you know, the guys that we have around him. You and Seth ever have shooting contests? No, we haven't. He's, his rehab stuff has been a little bit longer going. We're kind of at different times of when we come in. But, you know, I've seen him over here shooting around a lot this summer. And yeah, he is easily one of the best shooters on the planet. Put yourself in there. We have to adjust our boards often of who all-time career 3.0 percentage between you two right there. We've got a few top five guys on the same roster. It is unbelievable. So, Joe, what was the first restaurant you gave Royce to have to go hit in Brooklyn? Because he said you've been helping him out a lot. Yeah, well, I sent him just a list of stuff to hit in where he's at. So where he lives, the neighborhood he's in. I kind of, I gave him, threw him a few spots over there to stay kind of convenient for the neighborhood. And then once he, you know, hits those and start branching out throughout Brooklyn. You have a whole game plan for him. Oh yeah, I got a game plan for him for sure. It's a long-term, long-term, slowly move north amongst the boroughs. Is the headband coming back this year? The headband, I think, might be on the shelf for a little bit. It depends on the status of the hair. So I got a little shorter hair right now. I don't necessarily need the headband. But if I let it keep going, I'm definitely going to have to incorporate the headband. What about the fist pump? Fist pump, hopefully it'll be back. I got to make some threes for that. Joe, just one end on this. Sarah talked about you being the longest tenured member of this organization. I think for a lot of fans who saw this team come from the ashes of the Celtics trade and build up to the title contender we saw two seasons ago against Milwaukee. You are the face of their hope, right? You were a player who was given up on, came in and made himself an incredible, indispensable part of a championship caliber team. What ownership do you feel right now for the group? Being that you're kind of the guy who's been here and you guys are still striving towards that goal, ultimately? Yeah, I think obviously I'm not going to put too much directly on myself because this is about everybody. And you try to do stuff the right way. And I think everybody across the board, every person on this roster should try to lead by example. And I'm no different in that aspect where I try to embody what the Brooklyn Nets were all about when I first got here. Being a guy that's focused on the smaller details. I'm not a liability in the locker room where you have to worry about me complaining, causing the negative stir around there. I think you look at the rosters that we've had over the years, it's obviously changed a lot. But one thing that has remained pretty consistent has been the characters and the intangible of the guys that really do try to embody those smaller details that help make the big things happen. And I think this roster, more so maybe than the last couple of years, I think collectively kind of fits that mold where we've got a lot of guys that have, I don't know if self-awareness is the right term for it, but a lot of guys that just know their role on a winning basketball team. And I think that that's a really indispensable factor when you think about championship teams and you look at some of the better NBA teams over the last several years, you have to have guys that understand what it takes to win. You obviously need championship level talent, which I think we certainly have and we have top tier talent in the league, but a lot of it is everybody else around you too. And you need to have these indispensable guys that they're bought into their role, they know what they need to do in order to help the team win. And I think we have a lot of those guys right now, which makes me very optimistic about the season. Joe, we always love seeing you, hearing from you. So happy to have you back healthy and can't wait to see that fist bump on the floor, man. Yeah, I appreciate you guys. Thanks, Joe. That's Joe Harris joining us live from Nets Media Day, and we're gonna...