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2:26His story and her story. As Tyler Myers made his debut for the Dallas stars against the Chicago Black Hacks and he became the first native Texan to appear in a Dallas stars regular season or postseason game. They've had Texans skate in preseason games when it's like spares a boy. But this is the first legit NHLer to be a native Texan and wear a star sweater because he's born Houston. Do you think he has a native Texan sticker on his truck? He might. He might. So he was born in Texas. He moved to Calgary with his dad when he was 10 and later got his Canadian citizenship. I don't know if he's dual citizen or if he renounced the US of a probably dual citizenship. I think you can be a dual. I don't know if he renounced the US of a I held by. So yeah, he says that the after the game or after the trade, he says I was born in Texas.

3:28I still have family ties in Texas. So it's very exciting. One of the reasons that Dallas was a preference. And then we've also talked about in the last week that his half brother is former Maverick Quentin Grimes, who is currently with the Sixers, spent a part of the 24 25 season with the Mavs. And they are the first set of brothers to play in the NHL and the NBA. Indeed. And so another mother. So I mean, we've covered it. All the shows have talked about it. But I wanted to do a little first said, huh? Yeah. Yeah. But I wanted to do a little bit of a deeper dive. What? Popeye Jones and a son Seth Jones. Well, they're not. They're not brothers. My father's son is, well, that's not the same thing. I realize it's not the same thing. But his incredulous view that it's impossible to have a hockey basketball family is proven wrong. Well, no, it's not. I'm just saying it's really tough. If you live up in the most professional hockey players come from the North, Northeast,

4:31and Canada. Gagory? Sure. Okay. And small players come from up there too. I realize that. Let's let Dave go. Okay. I, uh, is he, is he trying to bait you into a racist bear trap? He is. Well, he doesn't have to be baited. He basically just, I'm not going to let him do it. Plantation Corby. Yeah. He said it and then sat in it. It was a weirdest thing. He just squatted down in the bear trap. I'm going. All right. So. And obviously, if they are the first brothers to play in the NHL and NBA, then that means that there is a mommy who is the first to have her sons play in the NHL and the NBA. And her name is Tonya Stelly. And so I wanted to get into their family a little bit more and figure out like their story. And it's pretty fascinating. So she gave birth to her sons in Houston. They were both born in Houston 10 years apart. So Tyler was born on February 1st, 1990.

5:34Quentin was born on May 8th, 2000. That's a long gap. And these kids are young these days. They obviously have different dads as Corby will point out. But as a result, they grew up in one has more of an NBA flair. Geez, dude. You've already made it bad enough. You've just got to stop. So they grew up in separate households. They would only see each other a few times a year. Yeah. And so and three months after Quentin was born, Tyler moved to Calgary with his dad, Paul, who was in the oil and gas business because Tyler had gotten the hockey bug very early on. He went to Houston Aeros games and he was playing like Pee Wee hockey in Houston. And he had an aptitude for it. And he was like, I want to follow dad to Canada because obviously there's way more opportunities to play and to get good if you're playing against top prospects in Canada.

6:36And there's no oil and gas down here. So you had to go to Canada to get that. Yeah. They're building a pipeline through like stolen land or whatever. Yep. Tell me about it. So this is, I found a cut of Tonya Stelly. This is maybe a year or so ago. He's on this podcast called The Sports Resort with Derek Jenkins. It's a very sparsely followed podcast, but he is a star, but he is a Houston guy. And I guess he's been friends with the Stelly's slash Grimes for a long time. And so this is about this is about the move to Canada. And I also, I left in the end as your host Derek Jenkins starts surmising what they eat in Canada. He was 10 years old. Yep. Quentin had just been born and for a month later, Tyler was moving to Canada.

7:37And it was a, he loved hockey and gosh, you know, if you want to know if how good you are in hockey, where's the best place to go? Canada. The competition here in Houston, was it not, well, I mean, yeah, we played at the Aero Dome and at the Aero Dome. And so we spent many early mornings 6am getting that gear on and getting on the ice. And his dad had an opportunity to take a job up in in Canada and they went to a camp up there. And he loved it. And so in my mind, it was, okay, you can go for one year, like let's see how one year goes. And as I tell people, it obviously worked out, but I mean, it was incredibly difficult. I just given birth to Quentin and now my oldest is leaving to go to another country to play. But he loved, he, they played hockey 24-7 up there. He loved it. Love it. Man, that is good there. And that's so cool. You know, you, like you said, you, you look at it as, okay, I'm going to send him that

8:38for a year. He can probably miss six and his barbecue. And you know, I don't know what Canada people eat. I don't have no clue. Elk or something. I'm not sure. But they eat up their wild buffaloes or something. They don't want to come back. You know, eat some Mexican food in Texas, but he didn't eat that there, right? Canada people. Yeah. So Elk or wild buffalo. By the way, I, I, I much like you, whenever this story started to circulate, I did a deep dive on her, but mine was focused on how tall is she? Because the chaos giraffe is like six. I'll get there. Okay. I'll get there. Okay. So when they were, when they were young kids, as I mentioned, they were in separate households and then Tyler moves to Canada. So they would only get together a couple times a year in the summers and, and maybe spring break. And they had a 10 year age gap so they don't have Christmas and Canada. No. No, yeah. They don't have any of the holidays. Right. Great. And so Tyler would travel back to Texas to spend time with his mom and his little brother.

9:41And they would play tennis or basketball or go swimming or go take bike rides, whatever. And, but as Tyler got into serious junior hockey, he would stay away longer. And so Tanya and Quentin would go to British Columbia to watch Tyler play. And then when he broke into the NHL. So when the Sabers selected Tyler 12th in the 2008 NHL draft, Quentin was eight. Then when. Oh, wild. Then when Tyler made his NHL debut with the Sabers and won the Calder trophy trophy for the best rookie, Quentin was 10. So Quentin's 10 years old and his older brother is the rookie of the NHL. So then when Quentin is nine, you know, right before that, he starts playing AAU basketball. You know, Tyler was a multi sport athlete, but then ended up focusing on hockey. Quentin was very focused on basketball from the very beginning of a natural player. And so Quentin was following in the footsteps of his parents.

10:47So Tyler's dad played junior hockey. So he was following in his dad's footsteps, but Quentin was following in the footsteps of his mom and his dad. So Tanya, she was five 10 or is five 10. And she played guard on the 1985 86 Fort Hayes team. Fort Hayes College. I don't know. Fort Hay State. I don't know. Okay. Fort Hay State. Okay. And then her, uh, his dad, Marshall Grimes, he played guard for Santa Clara and you law law Louisiana Lafayette in the late 70s, early 80s. Okay. So Quentin becomes a five star recruit and he goes to Kansas, then transfers to Houston after his freshman year. And then he was on the Cougars 2021 final four team and then ended up going to the Knicks in the first round of the NBA draft at pick 25. But, uh, so as Quentin and the Cougars are making their, their March madness run.

11:49So this is Tyler Myers at the time he's with the conucks and he's commenting on his little brother, making a run deep into March madness. Oh, yeah, I mean, we didn't, we just didn't get to spend a lot of time together, uh, growing up with the, with the big age difference in him being down in Texas. Um, but, uh, you know, always, always hope for the best for him and, you know, you take a look at what he's been able to do throughout his university career here. He went through some adversity early on and, you know, the work he's put in to, uh, you know, get where he is today is, um, you know, shows, shows what he's made of and I'm really happy for him. And so Tyler has talked about how he's like, I don't want to bombard him with too much advice, but, you know, I'll send him a text every now and then he's like, and I forwarded him a book, you know, that I thought would be helpful to him. And so this actually is from Quentin Grimes's introductory press conference when he was

12:51first acquired by the Mavs and he was talking about the benefits of having an older sibling playing professional sports, even though it's a different sport. So, my brother, me and my first year, I was actually going to see him in the playoffs because just in high school at AAU, um, for a couple of years, um, season to league, he was knocked out the first round and stuff like that. So I'm being able to go watch him, um, in the playoffs, you kind of showed that what he's like for him because he's going on his, he's just on other contracts, so he'd be going on a year 18 when he's done. So just seeing a guy like that, just being able when I was in high school, be able to pick his brain, like what it's like to be a pro, uh, how to take care of my body, being able to see like what he does on a day-to-day basis and how to just level up his game, um, on the, on the ice, as you can say. So it was definitely a big help for me just having somebody like that, another pro athlete in my, in my household, I can just pick up the phone and call and just talk about how to take care of my body, how to just try to take that next step in high school, but he's been a huge, um, help for me during this process, just in the, in the league all the time,

13:54highs, lows, somebody I can call and just talk to all the time about and just a little thing is about being professional athlete, really. So cool that they, you know, even though they grew up so far apart, they've come together as adults, right? And they really support each other, no doubt. And by the way, it's a little more than a year ago that Quentin Grimes was traded to the Sixers in exchange for Caleb Martin in the second worst trade ever made by Nico Harrison. The worst trade in over a month though that he made. Yeah. Or it wasn't like two weeks, but, but the, uh, the cool thing is is that now that they are, you know, Tyler is, his career is coming to an end. Quentin, I think, is still in the, the height of his career, but they, they do make an effort to see each other. And as a matter of fact, when Quentin was playing in New York, and the conucks would do like the Rangers Islanders devil swing, that Tyler would always try to, if, if schedules allowed, go see Quentin at MSG and Quentin is alluded to watching his brother in the Stanley

14:59Cup playoffs. And if the stars make a deep run, I'm sure we'll see Quentin over here at the AC. And, and for mom's point of view, she says, as you see them, mature into adults and find their way, especially since Tyler was gone at such a young age to see that circle back as adults is pretty special. No, it's, it's, by the way, the guy that, uh, my buddy Drew who lives in Houston said that that guy that does the pot, did the podcast, Derek Jenkins, uh, he's a trainer down in Houston. And he trained Quentin grinds. Okay. Yeah. I mean, he, he definitely seemed like he knew Quentin from when he was very small. Yeah. They don't sound alike either. I don't get it. It's a very good report. I was, I enjoyed that very much. And that's Dave Land.