Reporter: Serge, thanks
for taking the time.
We talked all week
or we talked about
talking to you guys all week
about how difficult
a week this must have been
for you guys,
how emotional, how--
how kind of--
how deeply this team
in particular felt this?
Any of that-- is there--
is there any way
to tell whether any of that
influenced today in a game,
where the margins are so close
or the emotions are so strong?
I mean, both team
was at the same situation.
We-- we are not the only team
was in that situation.
We was the same situation too,
you know,
so I don't and they played
better than us tonight.
So I think that's really
the reason, you know,
the we need to find, you know,
you have to give them a credit,
they just played better than us,
you know,
and we have to learn from,
so it will be better next game.
Reporter: One thing Kyle said
is that the concrete initiatives
announced by the NBA
this week in terms of
using arenas as polling places
and other-- other initiatives,
that's why you guys are
still here to use your platform
and about issues that
really matter to you
and to the world.
How seriously did that
this team consider
leaving the bubble
at any point this week?
Oh, we was close, you know,
we was really close, you know,
but, you know, us as a group,
we figure other things out
and here we go.
Here we’re here
and we stay here.
So like you say, you know,
we are here for a reason
why nobody to play basketball,
you know,
but to use our platform,
you know, to try
to change things out there.
Reporter: Thank you.
Announcer: Next question goes
to Dough Smith
from the Toronto Star.
Reporter: Hello, Serge.
On the basketball side of it,
you said
they may just played better
than you today.
Did they do anything
that sort of took you
out of what you guys generally
usually you want to do?
No, they just played hard,
they make shots on,
you know, they played great
as a team
at both ends of the floor.
You know, they just play the way
they play.
And we know that, you know,
we know coming here
is not going to be easier,
you know, so and it's a seven--
seven game series.
You know, they go on now.
We have to learn from
what happened tonight
and try to-- to be better
on the next game.
Reporter: Your team's
basketball IQ is very high.
Having that said, is it easier
to make these quick adjustments
with just one day
to turn it around?
First of all, we don't--
we don't really have trace.
You know, we have to.
We know, we gotta trace,
you know,
we’re here we are up two.
So if we don't,
they're going to kick us.
I mean, I don't want to say
that everyone,
they’re gonna beat us again.
So we are not ready,
I know we need to stay
as a team.
And again, we have to learn
from last two game
and we have to learn
from tonight and try to--
to be better and for next game.
I think the most important thing
is we need to start
and get better, you know,
our next game,
we just start to get better
as a team.
Reporter: Thank you, Serge.
Appreciate your time.
Announcer: Next, we got
Josh Leuenberger from TSM.
Reporter: Hey, Serge,
thanks for doing this.
I want to ask you about
the three initiatives,
the commitments that the NBA,
and NBA PA
announced the other day,
the voting centers,
the Social Justice Coalition,
as well as the TV ads.
Why were those things
important to the players
and why are they important
to you?
Because as a player, we--
we feel like it's very important
for our people,
for our community.
You know, in this one of
those things we feel like
if we get hurt,
that's the way to start.
You know, it is to start.
You know, we can’t--
we can’t change everything
at the same time.
That's a good start, you know,
to do things, you know,
and I personally like you know,
I've been living here.
I’m been with my daughter,
she go to school here.
I got my brother
and sister here.
You know, anything's
happening out there.
It can happen to anybody,
you know, so that's one reason,
we take that personal
and I take that personal too.
And also, need to remember,
like I say again,
I want to keep saying,
the change we try to make here
is not only for America is
for all the rest of the world.
You know, where I come from
is a lot of people are dying
and our women are getting raped.
All the systems come
from the same people.
Is the same people,
who’s killing,
is the same system
is killing people
here in the United States.
The same system is out there,
you know,
killing my people in Africa,
back in Africa,
raping our women,
our children out there.
And I think that's why
one of the reason,
I'm already into this fight,
you know,
and people may think like,
okay, Serge is not from here.
But why is so interesting
about this, is for a reason.
That's why.
Reporter: Thank you, Serge,
I appreciate that.
Announcer: Next question goes
to Vivek Jacob
from Complex Canada.
Reporter: Hey, Serge,
I'm actually just wondering
what Chadwick Boseman
meant to you and as a black man,
what Black Panther and the idea
of Wakanda meant to you?
I mean, can going repeat
your question again, please.
Sorry.
Reporter: What did
Chadwick Boseman
and you know,
the idea of Black Panther
and Wakanda mean to you?
Man, I think we all know,
after the Wakanda movie,
it change,
a lot of people mindset,
you know, it changed
a lot people the way,
the way you think about
and especially Africa, you know,
and that's why--
that's why is history,
you know, it’s history
and as a black man from Africa,
you know,
even he made us proud.
He made me proud.
And also,
it's very sad to see him,
you know, leave us so early,
you know,
about all the prayer go up.
And all the glory up and I hope,
he go
and rest in peace out there.
Reporter: Thank you, Serge.
Announcer: Got time
for two more questions.
First one goes to Aaron Rose
from SI.com.
Reporter: Hey, Serge, you played
a lot of minutes tonight
with Marc Gasol.
It was something we talked
about a while ago.
But what is it like playing with
Gasol on the court together?
I mean, I'm going to be
honest with you.
We don't-- we don't
really practice a lot
like that together.
So I think this coach, you know,
and, you know,
when the game
when we are kind of like
specially like we had tonight,
we always try to, you know,
to try different things,
you know,
like you need to see
what is going to happen
or what is going on.
So playing with him, you know,
sometimes, you know,
it's going to be little tough,
because we have to try to,
you know, to figure out things,
you know, on both sides.
As both player we’ve been
in the league for so long,
we've always found a way
to figure it out.
Reporter: Thank you.
Announcer: And final question
is going to Mike
from L'Express in Toronto.
Reporter: [Foreign Language]
[Speaking in Foreign Language]
-Announcer: Thank you everybody.
-Reporter: Thank you, Serge.
