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Speaker 4: Always a pleasure to love doing in you guys, especially
here in the studio.
Speaker 2: Great to be here. Happy New Year, Happy new to
you too as well.
Speaker 3: Always for our producer to tell us that we have
our guest on the line as well, and I'll welcome
him in momentarily as well. But just tell me how
was the Christmas with the family and everything. I know
this is the first one without your son. That's probably
a little different. I remember my first time spending Christmas away.
It was a little bit weird when I went on my.
Speaker 2: Mission, I'll tell you.
Speaker 4: And I've gained some empathy from many of the families
that send missionaries out. My oldest son, he just arrived
in cord Okay. We got a message from him. He
made it to Argentina and he left from the Mexico MTC.
And it's a.
Speaker 2: Full of emotions. I missed my guy.
Speaker 4: He's our oldest but I know he's in a good
spot doing some awesome work and I'm excited for this
in the next chapter of his life.
Speaker 3: A missions are a powerful, powerful thing, powerful to be
around family, family time, the people that you have. Speaking
of being around people as well, our guest is on
the line as well, also.
Speaker 2: Joining us today.
Speaker 3: We're very grateful we have the starting center for b
Yu mens basketball. We got Keba Cata on the line
as well.
Speaker 2: Kiba. Thanks for joining us today and happy belated Mayor
Christmas to you.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3: I need to ask you to I ask everybody, Uh,
what's the thing you like most about Christmas?
Speaker 2: Cable?
Speaker 6: Just the family time, you know, the quality of time
you get to stand with the family. You know, I
have my whole family here. I get to spend time
with them, you know, just the joy that come with it,
like you know, the games that you play, the food,
everything about it.
Speaker 5: Really, Yeah, Kevin.
Speaker 7: Do you do you have any fun or weird or
new traditions that you've gotten to see from your host family,
from your friends on the team and and and your
time experiencing Christmas so far?
Speaker 6: Uh No, not really, nah, I mean everything to me
a bit normal. But yeah, no, I don't really noticed
anything that's I mean, I just know that, you know, Christmas.
What I'm from, you know, we don't really celebrate Christmas
like that. It's not Yeah, it's not a big deal
where I'm from. So New Year's are big deal. It's
like Christmas back home. But that's the only thing I
can say. It's really the difference. But or and everything's
been normal.
Speaker 3: Remind us Kaba for the listeners that might not have
had opportunity, where are you from? And what do you
guys do over where you're from for New Year's Eve?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm from Bamacomali.
Speaker 5: Uh that's in West Africa.
Speaker 6: And so what we do in New Year's Eve, it's
you know, everybody gets ready. You know, you buy suit,
if you guy, you buy suit. Little kids you're like,
you know, trying get money from your parents or family
relative and just you know, you have that friend group
and everybody already put money together, organize this big party
with chicken and you know, you know, have like drinks
like soda and you know this, so I drinks. You
know as a kid, I did. I did do that
until I was you know, sixteenth. So that's what they do.
And the grown ups just you know, go to dinner,
go to a nice dinner. She have a wife, You
take your wife out and you.
Speaker 5: Know, you go to dinner and he watched, so it works.
And yeah, so that's that's that's really what it is.
Speaker 2: That's a great celebration. Honestly, I love time of the family.
Speaker 3: Like you said, but you mentioned something powerful a few
moments ago.
Speaker 2: You said food. It sounds like Cavakida likes food. What
does cabac I like to eat?
Speaker 5: Man yeah, I do. I do. I do like food.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, so I mean back home, I have my
favorite food. It's called the peanut butter sauce.
Speaker 2: But here.
Speaker 6: I eat pretty much, you know, everything except I can't
really eat pork. But other than that, I eat pretty
much everything. But I like steak, you know, I like chicken.
You know, I like burgers times times, you know, the
Jesse w Actually it's one of my favorite. And you
know Rent trios. I like all the stuff. So yeah,
I eat a lot of food and then different type food.
So yeah, but my favorite food really it's you know,
nothing will come closer to its the peanut butter sauce
from back home.
Speaker 5: Yeah, peanut butter.
Speaker 2: Sauce is so good. I haven't had it. Cam. Can
you describe to me what peanut butter sauce is?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so it's it's really it's it's really peanut butter,
but like you put it. I can't really tell you
how you make it exactly because I don't really my
mom do all that stuff. But I know you just
it's really peanut butter. You just like I think you put.
You cooked it with water and oil and you put
like you're gonna put fish in there. You're gonna put
chicken in there or you know, if you have some
me you can put that in there as well with
some veggies, you know, and you put it when it
comes when it's red, it's like really like a like
a sauce and you put on too rice, you know,
and you just eat it and it's it's my favorite.
Speaker 2: It's so good.
Speaker 3: I've been able to try it because obviously my sister
as well, two of them I have married, you know,
people from Africa, so I've been able to try uh
this and Manhi had me sweating.
Speaker 2: It really had me sweat in my eyes. And it's good.
And I love the rice.
Speaker 3: I like the spicy food, but it's so good the
chicken everything. So I've been fortunate to try it, so
I do love the food as well. I'm a big
food guy like Kiba. But kay, but you also eat
on the basketball court. You just don't eat off the court.
You eat on the court as well. Can you talk
about your off season with Chris Burgess. You had a
career high on blocks against Miami, like, and it's funny
that you did it down in Orlando and Kessumi, because
there's another Orlando magic player that played in the NBA
who was also very good at blocking shots.
Speaker 2: And Dwight Howard.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I mean the off season was it was
it was good, you know, kind of work with coach
Burgess and you know, it's been it's been good. Uh,
work on my you know, my free throws, my ball
hand ling, my postop moves and you know, all that stuff,
and you know, my just my decision making, just all
that stuff. It's been fun. You know, those are some
eras that I need to an improvement, and you know,
I'm still working on it and that's really been the focus.
The real focus was really my free throws this off
season and that's really what I really been work on.
But overall it's been pretty good.
Speaker 5: Kay.
Speaker 7: But I remember listening to an interview with A. J. Debontson.
He was talking about a conversation you guys had about
throwing lobs, about how you were kind of saying, hey,
you you could put it up higher, and AG is like,
I just want to get it in the right spot
for you, and You're like, hey, no, we can get
it higher. What's it like playing with the guy, like
AJ DEBATSA.
Speaker 6: Man, Yeah, A is just you know, one of one
of those guys.
Speaker 5: Man, it's fun.
Speaker 6: Play guy. Guy is super smart.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we we did talk about that, and you know,
I just it was really coach young, Yeah, telling telling
him to just throw it up, you know, because I
kind of I kind of tell him, but like you know,
he was kind of like, you know, not.
Speaker 5: Really sure how.
Speaker 6: He just I just want to, you know, make a
good plass. Just just throw it up. And I just
throw it up, and you know, I just I'll do
my job. You just got to throw it up. So
that's really uh, that's really well what we talked about.
I just throw it up and yeah, I'll go get it.
Speaker 2: You mentioned throw it up.
Speaker 3: AJ said that you had the highest vertical on the team,
So you get up.
Speaker 2: How high is your vertical? Came?
Speaker 3: I have to ask if if you're allowed allowed to say,
I don't want to get you in trouble. If you
have to keep that a secret for the opposition, you
might want to you might need to maybe keep that
and tucked away.
Speaker 6: I don't know, actually I don't know how to measure
the vertico and stuff. But yeah, that told me. I
did it because we were doing last year. I didn't
I couldn't do it this year because you know, obviously
I was kind of injury at some point. But I
didn't really do it this year. But last year, the
stuff that we were doing, I think I cleared the
whole thing and I think it was like forty something
and then I think they just decided to give them
forty one.
Speaker 5: But they share.
Speaker 6: I wish that, you know, do it did it again
because I really wanted to see how how jump. But yeah,
best was forty one. But I mean that's all. I
maybe a little higher this year. I feel it's a
little a little good this year than you know, a
year ago.
Speaker 5: For sure.
Speaker 3: Well you definitely you feel good on the basketball court.
I watched you in the Clemson game, and look, it's
our job as media to hype you guys up. You
caught a couple of bodies in that game. Carson Welling,
you know who has Utah ties. Feel bad for him.
He madeor highlight tape as well as the backboard and
Madison Square Garden as well the rim man. I think you, Ben,
and I have said that you are probably the best
jumper in me what you basketball history and bou athletic.
You you're extremely athletic. You're extremely talented on the court,
and you've added so much to this bou basketball team.
It's great to watch you game in and game out,
and I know Kevin Young staff has been a part
of that. But I want you to speak a little
bit more on Chris Burness. What is your relationship like
with Chris? Obviously you're with him in Utah. He comes
to b y U and with him, I know you
guys have a special bond.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, just just.
Speaker 5: A great guy.
Speaker 6: You know, I really love Chris Richards and are Utah.
I mean our relationship is really you know, it's spressure
on me. I'm super grateful that I get to work
with him. You know, I'm super grateful that he get
to coach me, and you know, I get to be
a player. So that's for sure, that's been a good,
you know, power of my development, even you know, Utah
just been great working with him because you know, there's
he understands me in ways that a lot of people
always say asn't really because you know, I just the
way that I understand me is well really, uh, it's
our relationship, you know, it's just trying to make his
job easy trying to listen, you know, because the things
that he tells me, and you know, tease me and
trying to tell me things.
Speaker 5: They always work.
Speaker 6: And you know, I'm just I'm just grateful. And then
he helped you see the game, and you know so
many ways, like when I first started, when I was
at Utah, even my my freshman year, it was like
everything was fast to me, like it was everything was fast.
But you know, he helped me break the game down
and all that stuff, and you know, the game finally
slowed down. I'm able to understand certain things and I'm
able to make decisions, you know, just just being grateful.
You know, I'm just grateful that you know too, you
know you had to coach me and yeah, so yeah,
just breathful honestly.
Speaker 2: Okay, but this is Blaine here.
Speaker 4: It's neat to hear you talk about your gratitude for BYU,
for coach Burgess and coming down here. I remember my
first introduction, the first time seeing you play. I was
with my son and some friends. We came to see
BYU play at Utah and there was a time there
there were a couple of big centers, I think a
couple seven footers that were getting some attention. But watching
you play against US, I remember thinking, gosh, that guy
is a beast, and then hearing about you coming down
to BYU was sure something to celebrate for us BYU fans.
Speaker 5: What's that been like for.
Speaker 4: You coming down and coming to Provo and having played
at both schools here in Utah, what's it been like
playing at BYU for you?
Speaker 5: It's been amazing, you know so much, you know.
Speaker 6: Good, I mean ever since I can't I mean, I mean,
I have whole family here like an orum, and you know,
I've been to you know, obviously a couple of BOU games,
uh when I was in high school and stuff, you know,
come down.
Speaker 5: You know, I watched a.
Speaker 6: Couple of b A games and I think my first
when I first got to Utah. I think I've watched
b y U and Utah still play in the Delta Center.
I don't remember who won, but that was my first
college game and it was it was a cool experience.
But playing coming down b y U has been really great,
you know, family with being part of that decision obviously
Coach Burgess, you know, I just want to be close
my family, and you know, obviously I knew Ritchie and
who's who's actually man, Who's a great guy? Man? That
guy's that guy is a great guy. I mean, I
remember I jumped in the port room and then you know,
he he was like, you know, you're gonna come play with.
Speaker 5: Me, man, you know, and I was like, man, but.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to play. I'm trying to play more minute.
You know, I don't know how that's gonna go for
you there, you know, And I was like, nah, I
don't really care. I just want to play with you.
I don't care if you start, and you know, I
just want to. I just want to play with you.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 6: So that that really meant a lot to me. And
that that's that says a lot about him. But and
and just people are by U, you know, not just
for everybody. Just it's been amazing, honestly, I mean similar
to Utah. So I mean I had a good time there,
just think things just didn't go the way I wanted to.
So I mean, no, I'm not gonna take any away
from that. And that's I'm also grateful because you know
that that's the path that guide me to be what
you and you know, I'm always I'm always going to
be grateful for that. But it's been amazing, you know,
especially you know, family get to come to the games
and you know, playing with my friends. You know, it's
it's been awesome.
Speaker 2: That's so powerful to hear.
Speaker 3: Okay, but thank you for giving us that inside of
your relationship number one with coach Burgess and why you
came to b YU and how special it's meant to
you and your relationship with Fus. I love that bigger
than basketball. Hey, I don't care if you players started.
I just want to be around you. I just want to,
you know, play with you. I think that's powerful. That's amazing,
especially because uh, Fus just made a big decision for himself,
right Fu's just you got baptized, So Fuss been trending
a lot. So it's a powerful relationship that you share
with foosing your teammate. And and thank you for being
open and vulnerable about that. I really do appreciate it.
I know your time is valuable, So we got to
let you go. So it's the last thing I'll ask
you and get you out of here on this. What
has it been like to to me Blaine though and
get in contact in the day of college sports, there's
a lot of important decisions you guys get to make
now with setting up your future. What has it been
like to to meet Blaine and all the finances that
come with the with the job as well.
Speaker 6: Now, honestly, I mean, it's it's been good, man, It's
it's been good. Uh, that's something that I mean, I
don't really I want to talk a lot. I don't
want to talk a lot about that. But yeah, it's
it's been good, for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely a it's definitely always important to you know,
know what direction that you're you're headed so well, key,
but thanks for your time today. We don't want to
take any more of it. Happy new Year to you
first and foremost, and safe travels as you guys take
on Kansas State on Saturday, you guys open up conference
play Good luck.
Speaker 2: To you guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, thank you for sure.
Speaker 2: Of course we'll let kPa Kata go Blaine. It's the
end of the year.
Speaker 3: One of the questions people have right about now round
as as tax season's coming up as a couple of
weeks and you get really a week away, you could
begin filing.
Speaker 4: That's right, that's right, it's not far off. And the
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excited for the new year. There's still things that people
will be able to do retroactively that count for twenty
twenty five. And so you're right though, tax filing season
is right around the corner. February March is when a
lot of people really do that. But it's been a
great year. We've appreciated getting to talk to and visit
with many of the ESPN the fan listeners and it's
just fun being a part of the community and wishing
everybody a happy new year.
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