 what has the bonding process been like for you since signing here just in these last couple of months connecting in your teammates in whatever ways you have I think it's been I think it's been great I think that I come in a lot of these guys every guy for non-manitory workouts it's up that we set up and it was in LA across the country and every everyone showed up and like I was saying earlier the teams that have an advantage over us right now is because they've had minutes together in games and battles so we wanted to kind of get a head start and and just kind of build our start our camaraderie and gelling process early you've been around the league for a long time but we heard Kevin say at Kyrie just the understanding of what Brooklyn was building here and the culture and the idea of how they played it how did you see that just being an opponent looking at it and watching some of these young core guys that are still here as they developed it and being at the point where they're at right now that's the thing they developed and they have developed each year you kind of see in the culture and the things that Sean and Kenny have have incorporated here and a lot of the guys have they drafted have have paying out to be great and Karris and and Jared those guys have built and you see those guys and how competitive they are how competitive Kenny is and we wanted to be a part of the organization like that and kind of just build off of it they had a great team last year and we just wanted to to add to that and try to reach that pinnacle so take us through that I mean when you guys make that decision like hey we're going to do this what I mean what is the moment the beat after that once you guys all decide yeah we're doing this you know what was that moment like how did you guys all either celebrate it react to it once you guys decided we're going to Brooklyn well we decided and it was like four five in the morning east coast time so and it wasn't even a crazy conversation we had been talking about it for years because we were 10 teammates in 16 we won a gold medal and that was super fun and we kind of wanted to do that again and it just kind of worked itself out that we were free agents all at the same time and we just decided to come and it wasn't as exciting or as crazy a conversation as as people thought it was we just were like hey are we doing this okay we're doing it and I was super excited and I was like I gotta go to Brooklyn tomorrow you know I was ready to go and like I said you don't get opportunities like this so we wanted to take advantage of it have you spent much time in Brooklyn prior to living here and now being here I'm a Texas guy I was in California for ten years so I've never been on the east coast I never lived on the east coast like that so I'm super excited about it I'm I've embraced it and you know this being Kyrie's home he he's welcomed us in and that was one of the main things and I think one of the biggest things for us with him saying you know I'm gonna whatever you guys need you know and when when you're welcomed in like that it's kind of a family aspect and I was excited about it you know DeAndre you're you obviously have accomplished a lot in your career and we're a staple in LA with the Clippers for a long time at this point when you look at yourself and how you fit into the pieces here how do you see your impact with this team and and the piece that you can be for potentially a championship caliber squad moving forward that's exactly what I want to be as a piece and I can't be my best self without the rest of these guys and I think that we all know that about each other we have to all you know have each other's back and support but whatever the team needs me to do that's what I'm gonna do I'm obviously gonna come out there and defend and rebound and set screens and be an enforcer and paint protector but any any other little thing that we need from for me on my side vocal leader whatever it is I'm gonna do that I'm excited about it