00:00Australian NBA draft hopeful Andrew Bogut has taken a swipe at Luke Longley in a fiery pre-draft interview earlier today.
00:09Bogut touted the three-time NBA champion as slow, unathletic and unfit to lace up his size 18s.
00:16I watched Luke win three rings with the Bulls.
00:19You cannot come in and say, you're better than Luke Longley at this stage of your career.
00:25My start with Andrew was rocky 20 years ago. I didn't know him, he didn't know me.
00:29We were effectively generation-apart rivals.
00:32There's only two seven-footers that have gone to America and kicked ass. We're two of two.
00:40Andrew was right. He was no Luke Longley. Way better.
00:44With the first pick in the 2005 NBA draft, the Milwaukee Bucks select Andrew Bogut from Australia and the University of Utah.
00:54I was told, you don't want him in your team. He brings a bad attitude. He's not coachable.
00:59That's probably the beginning of being misunderstood.
01:02Coach said to me, Andrew has two strikes. If he does one more thing in practice, he's out. Off the team. Gonna throw him out of school.
01:11Our journey was as rollercoaster as it can get.
01:17Bogut was incredibly gifted. I mean, there's a reason a guy's the number one pick.
01:22Bouncy, athletic. This was a guy who had the potential to dominate games.
01:28Three games, how about that pass?
01:30He's been thrown a lot from the world and from life.
01:34He's come up standing up strong and proud and that's who Andrew Bogut is.
01:43There's lots of people knocking right on the door, but if you took what he's done across the board as a basketball, I think he's the best we've ever had.
01:50First of all, I'm thrilled that Bogut is going to coach. He's one of the most brilliant basketball minds I've ever been around.
01:58I think for me to help Andrew in a new phase, he's got to trust me and feel like he knows me.
02:03He really values that. He really values knowing people and trust.
02:06Do you have problems trusting people?
02:09Yeah, definitely have problems trusting people.
02:13And what do you think about that time before you got drafted where decided it was a good idea to say you were way better than me?
