Hi, I'm Pagasol and you're watching Young Hollywood. What's up guys? Leslie Robbins here for Young Hollywood. It just does not get any better than this. We are at a practice with the Los Angeles Lakers.

It's for us to kind of start new. I mean it's kind of cleanse ourselves of the start of this, you know, first half of the season and uh begin again and uh see if we can't, you know, kick off January a little bit better than we did in, uh you know, October. We know each other a lot better, you know, have fun, know that team function, know what do we got to do to have that team chemistry.

How's the team jelling?

Uh it's good, it's better. Uh we're not I don't think we're out of the woods yet. I don't think we're not top echelon of teams yet. Uh that's our goal and we have the talent to get there and I think if everybody gets a little bit more healthy and uh can learn to play with each other then uh uh we we can get up there.

We just passed the holidays, lots of good food. What can't you stay away from?

Oh uh I'm pretty I'm I don't get I I control myself pretty good. So uh it's not that I have anything that I crave or I would uh die for or anything. I'm not uh, you know, I can eat sweets but it's not like I eat them all the time. But uh you know, but I can eat them because my my my body can take them.

So tell me how do you stay healthy? How do you maintain this amazing physique? How do you eat fresh, maintain this lifestyle?

Well, your your diet is important. Uh you got to eat healthy organic as much as you can and and uh just have a balanced diet. I think don't eat too much of anything. Try to eat uh a little bit of everything. lean lean meats. Um a lot of fish, you know. A lot of vegetables and uh absolutely no junk food.

Which is tough. I mean I'm I'm a big sugar cookie guy. So it's like I'm a sour patch kid girl. What's your what's yours? Don't even get me started. It's it's has been really, really tough for me to go see a movie and not have sour patch kids. I mean it's been

Is that your favorite too?

Ah, it's tough. I get popcorn, sour patch kids, soda, and I I just can't I can't do it. I might have a little bit of popcorn with a bottle of water. I mean that's just

Outside of basketball, what are you doing to stay in shape, eat fresh? I like turkey. You know, I like uh grass-fed food. The beef a little bit, not a lot of beef.

Can I just say being up close to your tattoos, I am thoroughly impressed. Is there one in particular that you are most proud of or actually and tell me which one hurt the most?

Um I'm I'm proud of all of them because they have to do with you know, um my family. Where I'm from. All of them really hurt. No. I don't know. All tattoos really hurt and when people say they don't hurt, I don't believe them. Because you will feel it, you know, it's just some you can tolerate. And some you have to tolerate. So it's it's cool.

So how do you maintain a basketball career and a rapper career?

It's it's it's it's pretty easy. You know, as long as you have your priorities straight. You know, as long as you're enjoying it, you know, it's not it's not really about maintaining a career, it's about doing what you like to do. And that could be anything in life, so you know, uh for me, I always like to pursue what I want to do.

I love the name change. Did it get a lot of heat for it? You've had it for a while now. Are people now calling you Meta or how's it going?

Oh yeah, people call me Meta. My teammates call me Meta. You know, um it's cool. It's working, it's working for me. You know, I don't I try not to um you know, uh think about it too much, but when I first changed my name, it was it was pretty it was pretty pretty tough. But after a while, I'm used to it now. So it's good.