NBA rookie Elijah Bryant traveled from Israel a month before the playoffs and found himself in the Eastern Conference Finals against his hometown Atlanta Hawks. The vlog captures game moments, behind-the-scenes prep, and his reflections on playing professionally for the first time in front of his family and friends.
Here he goes again. Elijah Bryant dazzling dribble dancing.
Hi, Mr. Bluey.
Hi, Nunu. Hi.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star. All right, I'm about to go. I'm about to go see my family. They came into town for the game.
Game 7. It's crazy.
Like, a month ago I was literally in Israel. A little bit over a month ago. And now I'm in Game 7, looking to go to the Eastern Conference Finals. All I can say is have faith in whatever you're doing. Work hard. Believe in yourself. Trust in the Lord.
It's exciting.
Let it fly. If not, get to the mid-range or to the rim.
All right, the Nets looking to inbound. Jeff Green gets it into Durant. Here is Durant moving on Tucker. He turns, he shoots. Yes! With 1 second remaining, 1 second left, Durant hits a 3, and Milwaukee has 1 timeout. They call for the timeout. What an incredible Shot by Kevin Durant.
Instant replay has confirmed the on-call decision. It's a 2-point field goal. Gathers his feet. The question is, was his toe on the line? And it looks like from that angle it was on the line. Still a beautiful Shot by Durant, off balance, fading away, Tucker in his face, and able to concentrate and step up and knock down that shot. But from that angle, Marv, it looked like definitely toe on the line. And depending upon what happens, what they call in this last second, we might be in for overtime.
I don't know where we are in this vlog, but it is June 22nd And tomorrow we are in the Eastern Conference Finals, which is ridiculous. And we're playing Atlanta. Like, what are the actual chances that I leave Israel within a month of the season ending and then I get to play my home team that I grew up watching? It's ridiculous. I'm about to go get a haircut because Lord knows I need a haircut. And my charger to my clippers is from Europe, so I haven't got another pair of clippers because I didn't want to go buy some, so let's go get a haircut. So this is how it looks after I kind of wash it, condition it, and put some product in it. Decent.
Dece, dece, boy.
Look who made it back to Milwaukee.
Drop it like it's hot. Boxing 4. Hey Elijah, you missed layups. You didn't score against him because you're not focused and you're playing around. Well, let me tell you, your inability to lock in and get shit done is the problem. 3 times you had 3 opportunities, so that's why he went ahead of you. Okay, but he did it and you didn't because he can walk in and you can't. You take moments off when you're playing. You take moments off. You'll shoot a shot and watch it instead of going get the rebound. When you're playing 2-on-2, who the fuck do you think's gonna rebound? 2 times when I said, that's your mistake, Lukai got the rebound because you failed to box it out. That's your player. So whose fault is it now? Yours. What are you doing? He has the best snack, Chris, don't he? Rise and shine, buttercup! Rise and shine, my butt cheeks! Ma, I gave him out outfit for the game. Mama's game outfit. You got to be a little bit more energetic. This guy right here was the most SR2 searching man in college. Elijah knows him? Elijah knows him. I would always be like in college, I'd be like, Nate Knight, my teammate's better than Yoli. He's like, no, Yoli's better, Yoli's better. I'm like, no, Nate Knight's better. Does he play middle? He plays regular. So does he play— what is his position for?
Where you putting it?
Right here, babe. Where do we think I should put it?
Open it up so I can see it. Now stick it in hard. He grabbed him by his tail.
Oh, this is 65 inches.
Wow, what's that one? 65 Carry it, lift it up. I don't know, but maybe easier if you get on that.
You might be right, it might be easy if you did that.
But wait, before you do that, do it again.
Okay, right here, because I have to hook all that stuff in the back off. That thing's heavy. It's plasma.
Why is it so heavy? The new one, that one's lightest.
I took it out of the box myself. That's plasma. Yeah.
Go. What's going on? I have mixed growing pains now.
Go! What's going on? I have a men's growing pains now. I'm hurt. Why your legs way out? Try to keep them together. Let's see. What is that, Bluey? What is that? What is that? I got a good shot already. You just used these body guns.
Your old step. Okay, okay.
What is that? What is that?
Told you, dude loves the coconut. It's like crack. As you guys obviously know, we made it to Atlanta. If you guys have been following me on TikTok, I've been focusing more on TikTok. Instead of this because this takes a lot more work than the TikToks. But we won last night's game, great game. But after the game, the next day, this is for hydration, so I gotta pee in this and then they'll tell me how hydrated I am. So got some weights. I went to the house this morning because obviously if you guys don't know, I'm from Atlanta, so I live— my parents still live here. So it's nice to kind of get a recharge, you know? So, okay, it's super interesting because the air wasn't shutting— air kept shutting off. It's super hot in Atlanta, so the air kept shutting off, right? So I called down there and I'm like, hey, can they fix the air where it doesn't shut off? Engineer calls back and he's like, Hey, mister. I'm not gonna say my name because you guys might try to come and find me, but we all have different names, so you'll never know who's who in the building. So when he said the name, I'm like, wait, that's not me. Wait, oh, that's my— anyways, the air is cold now.
What up, little binga? Hey, baby. Hey, baby. What's that? You can't have your lovey. Her daughter? Yeah, everybody knows now. Goodbye. I'll say, I don't know. Watch. Yeah. No, Mom, from now on, anytime somebody says, when is Elijah gonna play in the Olympics? What? Ask Siri. She knows. Mom, let's practice. When is Elijah Bryant gonna play in the Olympics? I don't know. Ask Siri. No, you tell them, ask Siri. No, not you. Not you ask Siri. Ask Siri. Sydney, anytime somebody asks you, when does Elijah play next, say, tell them to say, ask Siri. Siri tells you. Stand up here. Stand up here. Ready? Everybody say, go Bluey. Ready, ready? Go Bluey. Wait, everybody.
He's like, wait, what's going on?
Ready, set, go.
Go Bluey. I almost got ran over from your mom.
Oh, my gosh. We drove a Pablo drove an hour to try to go and find the shirt, and we ended up at Kroger down the street. I almost got ran over from your mom. Oh my gosh.
We drove— we drove how long?
An hour.
Drove an hour to try to go and find dessert and we ended up at Kroger down the street.
