Navarro Bowman Jr. Is An Absolute BEAST Just Like His Dad!

I really believe, you know, he's the best point guard in the country. I definitely see him ending up in the league, being a Hall of Famer, honestly. He has the talent to do it and the work ethic. How many people are going to do what I'm doing? I get up 5, 6 in the morning during the school week before school to get working. I feel like only the top guys that's getting that extra edge are doing it. Don't you turn up. Don't you turn up. What I inherited from my dad was my competitive nature. my competitive nature, well I feel like he's on pace to be a Hall of Famer for the NFL, I feel like that's like a flex for me that's why we in here on a Sunday uh-huh, 2K ain't gonna get you this uh-uh, UConn gets their guy Navarro Bowman Jr. is headed to UConn, son of an NFL player willing to put in the work doesn't cut corners and is a dog on both ends of the floor, he's been watching me since I started, so him knowing everything that I'm doing wrong while he's watching my games, just telling me to fix it while we're training, he knows me in and out, so I just feel like he knows me the best out of any trainer that's training. For the most part, I just enjoy doing it. I try to let him get trained by other people. Just knowing what he needs at that moment, instead of just going through something the trainer wants him to do, I think benefits a little more. This arm needs to be driving. All right, then get to your float. I think it's important just as the older he gets you know you want him to gain confidence but at the same time be willing to get better, all right you gonna slide, all right slide, yeah all right walk, all right maybe low pick up 15 threes, all right all them weights you've been lifting yeah you gotta find it You still shooting them long threes back in your school. Find it. Find it. You ain't got to hug the line. You can shoot. Get relaxed. Get free. You got to lock in in that zone. Not worry about you. Not worry about you. Get in that zone. A typical day for me, now in my senior year, I get first period online, so I get up at 6:45, do my workout 8 to 9, go to school, then we have weightlifting and practice with the team, and then after, I'll train like probably every other day, so I'm not doing five or four workouts a day, overworking myself. He's always preaching me to take care of my body, so whether it's ice baths, I do hot yoga, stretching, I have rice buckets, I do ligament things in, just little detailed things that prevent me from being injured. It's really great to see Navarro on that journey, man, like just knowing him when he came out here and seeing where he's at now, the progress he made in two years, it's been like really inspirational to watch, man, because, you know, just being my brother and all, I always love to see my brother win. Man, we've been doing this for a while. I'm glad he's enjoying it now. I mean, it used to be, why are you yelling? Because it's going to turn into a sport where you're going to have to have some passion. you know it's not always about fun so just him turning to enjoyment and still keeping that competitive edge that's what I like to see. I always told him a long time ago I'm never talking to you as a person I'm talking to the player so long as he can separate those two things and know that I'm just trying to make him you know be successful in the sport that he says he loves. What you mean you hate it? You're a 5'11 paint beast. That's what losers usually say. Bro, you're a 5'11 inside big, bro. You're a back to the basket two guard. After eighth grade is when I was like, I'm not going to do any other sports that'll get me hurt. I'm just going to train and focus on basketball, weight lift, basketball. I feel like he would have supported me in any sport I did, as long as I was going to put my full, like, intention on playing. I've been playing basketball my whole life. And, you know, when he started playing soccer and basketball, I just saw something different. Just the way he was moving, the certain steps he was taking. And I just said, wow, man, maybe soccer is what unlocked the footwork element of basketball. Just seeing him, like, compete on the field always fueled me to compete on the basketball court. I watched his game when he had got that pick six against the Falcons. But I wasn't there, though. But I knew, like, how much it meant to him. So I don't think he would want me just sitting around, like, swoop-dee-doo about losing and stuff. Me having that competitive nature, like yelling. When I do something good, getting a stop on defense is what he wants to see and what I want to do and carry that on. throughout the rest of my life. To play USA basketball, I think that's the highest part of basketball you can do in youth basketball. Yeah, you got that, you know? You appreciate that. I feel like that was probably one of the most exciting times of my life. In the game, Mason got the ball, he passed it to me in the corner, and I just seen, dude was sitting in the paint. So I was like, this is my time. Miss or make, I'm gonna get up, right? One dribble, switch hands, punched on him. And I wanted him to fall though, so I could like step over him, but he didn't fall. But he looked sad though. In the video, he had his head down. He had his head down and then. USA championship game, like for the gold, catching a body, I feel like anybody would like ask for that opportunity. So I feel like that's like one of the craziest basketball moments I've ever had. Oh, I feel like I'm a playmaking shot two-way playmaking shot creator. Yeah, two-way cause of defense, playmaking, and then shot creator. I'll go 95 speed with ball. No, 95 speed and then 90 speed with ball. Shooting, I'll go 90, 87 driving dunk. I'll go like 90 speed. He gets some money, he wanna spend it. Like any other kid. But at the end of the day, like learn how to save. Like if you don't need it, you don't really need to spend your money on it. Like if you want it, cool. There's a lot of things I want, but I ain't go buy it. Right? So just learning how to just make it to the next day without spending some money. Like what shoe do I wear every day? Air Force One. Air Force One, that's right. Like, I'm a simple guy. You have a Rolls Royce. I had a Rolls Royce because I worked my butt off to get the Rolls Royce. And my financial advisor told me a long time ago, because I wanted to buy the Rolls Royce as soon as I got my contract. And he said, if you buy all this stuff now, what you gonna buy when you retire? So when I got to the league, I didn't try to live like a vet. I lived like a rookie. Then I became a vet. And then on my second contract, I bought the Rolls-Royce. Then on my third contract, I bought the Mercedes. And then on my fourth contract, retirement for a while. He has Ferraris and Rolls-Royces. It just fuels me, like I want my own. Like I don't want to just live under my dad and like drive his car. So just me keep working, getting money. He came from nothing, so he wanted to get that. I see my dad with that, so I want to get that kind of thing. At training, I said something to KD, and he said something back to me that I won't forget, so I'm gonna remember it when we play. I was like, yeah, can't guard me, but he showed, like, through all his years that nobody can guard him, so it just showed me that, like, there's levels. There's levels that I gotta keep working to get to. I grew up with KD. You know, we went to middle school together. Seeing this full circle moment, yeah, I think it'd be dope if they got a chance to play with each other, play against each other. Not a lot of people get an opportunity to have a one-on-one conversation, even like a banter, like going back and forth with KD. So, I just feel like that lit a fire in me, like, so I could really compete. Good job. You won in the sports, you don't play. Hey! No, there's lots of means to me. I just put it in work. Like, whether it's something little, you can't get in the gym. Doing push-ups, stretching, taking care of your body every single day. I just think for him to just, you know, leave his mark on, you know, certain levels of his life, you know, so just middle school, high school, college, you know, that's what life is about, man. Just leaving your name, you know, wherever your path has led you through. What scares me the most is not succeeding, not fulfilling all my expectations. I want to make it to the NBA, but there's like so many easy ways I can stop that. So I just want to keep pushing and keep moving forward. he's a he's a big guy yeah we good i just worked out so it's not fair not not excuses back oh yeah oh yeah yep he settled