Steven Holloway

Did you notice your profile kind of blow up during that series?

Was that kind of a marker where you got a lot of attention?

Yeah.

Yeah, it's really fun.

You captured the nation's imagination.

Because, yeah, like the underdogs, you come in, you go 3-1 up and lose 4-3 in the seventh.

And it just, I don't know, it felt like this huge swelling of interest in basketball sort of around you.

Yeah, it must have been a cool ride to be on.

You've done a lot for the coolness of New Zealand on the world stage, I reckon.

Because, yeah, I didn't think about that.

The way you hold yourself is reflective of New Zealand.

That's, for a lot of Americans, that is what they think of New Zealand with you.

Yeah.

Keen to get into sort of behind the scenes, like, you know, I don't know.

I've got so many questions here.

I don't know where to go.

But like off court, the life of the NBA star and its private jets and hotel rooms and millions of dollars.

Is it just a different world?

Like, is it just all a bit surreal?

You've kind of gone to the other extreme of that because there was a viral photo went around a little while ago of your apartment and it was like a blow up mattress on the floor with a sleeping bag.