 All right now, welcome to Wilmega TV. Today I have a really good interview with you with Philadelphia's own Aaron McKee. He's a NBA retired all-star, drafted number 17 in the 1994 draft. Coming out of Temple University, coached under legendary John Cheney, coming out of Grats High School under legendary coach LRB drafted number 17 in the NBA first round out of Portland Trail Blazers. He's played for the Los Angeles Lakers. He's played for the Philadelphia 76ers. He's been an assistant coach on the Philadelphia 76ers. And currently he's the head men's basketball coach at Temple University. I'm talking about Philly's own blue. And if you're part of the cookout, you know why we call them blue. But nevertheless, I wanted to bring this opportunity to you today. We've been talking about Deion. We've been talking about HBCUs. We've been talking sports. We've been talking about Britney Griner and global politics. And I thought I would bring something to you a little lighter today, but just as uplifting. So stay with me, check it out, create an interview. I think you'll like it. Short piece, but check it out, all right? And if you like what you see, I'm gonna ask you to do this. Listen, click subscribe, click like or dislike, I don't care, but just participate. At least write something in the comments. And if you're really feeling me and you wanna support the show, oh brother, a little something. This stuff is costly. What do I mean? Cash app, that's dollar sign. Cash app, will mega, W-I-L-L-M-E-G-A. Dollar sign, will mega. Thank you for always tuning in and before to share this segment with others, I would greatly appreciate it. Have a great day. So we're here with Aaron McKee, Philadelphia High School basketball legend, Rats High School. Aaron, talk to me about your experience playing at the downtown field class. It was a great experience for me. We actually won it, I played for the Sunny Hills, soft floors, juniors and seniors. We actually won it my junior year and my senior year. My senior year, I won MVP. It's a great tournament. You get a lot of players from the tri-state area, Philadelphia, Delaware, Jersey, New York and the surrounding areas, which is great because you get a chance to see a lot of the local town. What brings you here tonight in 2014? Well, I'm a basketball fan. I get the opportunity to come out and watch some basketball games and also I get the chance to watch my little nephew play in the Van Austin, you know, watch a crowd and watch them come out here and play basketball. So, you know, it's a great opportunity to come out and just enjoy the game of basketball and get to see some of that town around. You're a major part of Philadelphia basketball fiber. On the college level, the high school level, play there as a sixer is not too many people who can have that experience of playing in Philadelphia on all three levels for the hometown. Can you speak to the significance of that and what that was like? Well, it's a child and a dream come true. I mean, as you said, many kids get the opportunity to play high school basketball here, play collegiate basketball here and they get the opportunity to play professional basketball here. And also I had the opportunity to coach here as an assistant coach for the 76ers. So, it's a childhood dream that came true, but it just goes to show that hard work and dedication definitely pays off. So now you're doing some commentating, color commentating with Comcast. Rumor has it you may be looking at doing some more coaching, how true is that? Yeah, that's my thing. I enjoy being involved in the game. I'm one of the grounds guys. I like to be down, I like to teach, I like to try to share some of the lessons that I got in my days of playing basketball with a lot of these young guys and then hopefully I get the opportunity to do it again and be able to help some of these young guys. So, you play under some amazing coaches. Would you like to speak to the, give us the names of the coaches you've been coached by. Well, my high school coach, Phil Ellaby, one of my mentors and my AAU coach. Well, it wasn't AAU at that particular time, but John Harnett, who was a historian in Philadelphia, great as far as coaching and developing players in the city of Philadelphia, John Cheney, Larry Brown, Phil Jackson, you know, go down the list. Those are some legends. So just give us for the road one little tidbit that may have come out of the mouth of any one of them inside of the locker room or something that really stuck with you. Well, I think for all of those guys, they were honest guys. It wasn't the kind of type of guys that shot from the hip. And if you worked hard, you always gave yourself a chance to play. And that was me. I was one of the guys that was willing to really work hard and open those guys' eyes up to things that I could do or maybe help a team. And they gave me an opportunity to play, so I was grateful. Two last questions. One, who was the best high school basketball player and filled up you played against? And two, what are your thoughts on real chamber? Will Chamberlain, basketball is one of basketball's all-time greats, one of Philadelphia's all-time greats. You know, there's the age-old debate with Will Chamberlain, Shaq, Will Blaine and Sarah, Shaq, you can't argue Will's number. If you look at his numbers, one year he led the NBA in the sixth. I mean, one year he averaged the triple double. So you can't argue those numbers, you know, as far as, but you know, I got the opportunity to play against Doug over 10 final semis, you know, a lot of the filled-off is great, you know, basketball, but I think, in my opinion, what Philadelphia was at is apex as far as basketball. You, and I'm sorry, one more last question. This is the final last question. Philadelphia has this unique history about it, because the grittiness of its guard, you're filling up your guard. How did that come about? Like, what is it about to fill it up your guard? I think it's about to fill it up your guard. We enjoy sitting down, playing defense. We enjoy being physical and touching guys. And if you watch the game of basketball now, a lot of guys are really not that interested in being physical. And that's something we took pride in, being physical. And if we saw you flinched in, you know, it's like a shark smelling blood. We was gonna be all over you the rest of the game. So that's a filly guard. All right, thank you. Yep.