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  • I wanna welcome in our next guest former MBA champ nine year vet Harrison Barnes.

  • Welcome back to the jump.

  • Thanks for having me always so good to see you.

  • And I want to get right to your kings because you guys are heating up.

  • You've won four out of five.

  • Only loss coming to the Sixers.

  • They have the best record in the Eastern Conference.

  • How has the team been able to achieve better results recently?

  • What's clicking for you guys?

  • Overall, man, I really think it just comes down to our chemistry.

  • You know, at the beginning this season, you know, we had a we had a rough start.

  • Um, you know, we're losing a lot of games there and never really kind of came together as a group.

  • We started playing better defense, which allowed us to be in a lot more of these games, and we've been ableto have little street going nice.

  • And part of that, of course, is due to your own play.

  • And your teammate Darren Fox, playing some of his best basketball in his young career, averaging 31 a game over his last six games.

  • What do you feel has changed and clicked for him recently thing for him and boils down to his confidence.

  • You know, this summer he put in a lot of work only on his body but on his game.

  • And as you know, we've seen not only in these last few games, but really this season.

  • You know, he's just playing a really high level, um, consistency, late games, being able to close for us and, you know, just playing.

  • I really had all star level nice.

  • Well, look, it's on the court that we're seeing developments from all of you guys, but off the court as well.

  • I want to get to this.

  • Harrison.

  • I'm so impressed by it.

  • We already know your community minded.

  • Last season, you were one of five players to receive the N B A Cares Community assist reward award, but this season you have been opening savings account.

  • 500 kids total so far have gotten them in both Sacramento and Dallas.

  • The last two cities you've played in.

  • And for you it was important to, as you say, build black in Sacramento.

  • T ell Marsalis Elementary in Dallas, receiving their first savings account.

  • What?

  • It went into this decision And why is it so important to you?

  • E think it's It's so important to give back.

  • And, you know, when I look at my own life and the conversations that I had about financial literacy, you know, those weren't conversations I had until I was getting ready to become a pro.

  • Really?

  • So, you know, when I saw what gold said it was doing, um, when I had, you know, a conversation with Tania and just about you know what it what they're all about and what their vision is.

  • You know, it made sense for me to want to try to partner with them and give these kids the opportunity, wanted to have that savings account, but to to start learning and having these conversations about you know what financial freedom really means.

  • Yes, because their statistics right on kids.

  • If they have a savings account early, it changes how they look at really all of their financial decisions going forward and even has a correlation to education, right?

  • Absolutely.

  • You know, with the goal set a rap.

  • You know, there's, um, learning tools that these kids can do and use, Um, as they continue toe watch their money grows.

  • So for them to be able to have these kind of conversations to be able to look at their account, get these lessons at such a young age, it's just going to set them up for success moving forward.

  • And, you know, these air tools they're gonna have to have for the rest of their lives.

  • And for them to get started this ages is really important.

  • I love seeing you give back to the community this way.

  • You're targeting black and brown kids under served kids with this initiative, and I think that it's so, so impressive and of course, important.

  • Do you want to get back to the court, though?

  • Because you have been making such a splash.

  • Harrison, your name has started to surface in trade rumors.

  • You've been around the block.

  • You know how this goes.

  • Teams looking at wing depth prior to the March 25th deadline.

  • What is it like to once again have this starting up and hearing your name in these discussions?

  • You know, coming to the N B A.

  • You know, those are conversations that you know you're gonna have every deadline every off season.

  • You know, regardless of how good your team is doing.

  • And, you know, it's always nice to be appreciated, you know, for your play.

  • But, you know, right now, my focus is, you know, in Sacramento you know where I'm at.

  • That's all I can control at this point and trying to be the best that I can for this organization.

  • My teammates, well, I know that the goal is a playoff push.

  • Their the team's last playoff appearance was back in 2006.

  • That is the longest active play out playoff drought in the entire league.

  • So it would mean a lot to break that fill in the blank for me here, Harrison.

  • The king's make the playoffs.

  • If what?

  • Yes, E.

  • I mean, if we continue to do what we're doing right now, you know our goal is to make the playoffs, among other things.

  • But you know, our process has to start with how we approach, you know, our everyday processes.

  • And, you know, at the beginning of the season, you know, we were taking some shortcuts, were having a little bit of a learning curve with how we wanted to play, and now that we kind of, you know, drilled that and got what we need to be.

  • It's a matter of just continue Thio to find that consistency on a day to day basis.

  • And if we do that, I think will be in a good shape in this season.

  • We'll we'll be looking forward and watching and tracking at all.

  • I think you guys have had such a fun ride the last couple weeks.

  • Good luck to you.

  • I hope it continues.

  • Thank you so much.

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I wanna welcome in our next guest former MBA champ nine year vet Harrison Barnes.

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