Gameday Delivered: NBA Security Team All-Access | Travel, Practice, Hotel, Autographs & Game Night

hi my name is greg jones i'm the

director of team security for the

milwaukee bucks

hi my name is danny carter i'm the

assistant director of team security with

milwaukee bucks

and today is game day

so here at game day today we're playing

the houston rockets

we just transported over from the hotel

because of health and safety protocols

we're now using

four buses so we'll put the players on

two buses our coaches on the bus and the

rest of our support staff on another bus

we have our connections with local law

enforcement with team security

with the uh director of arena security

we we're also locked in with nba

security in new york

on any incidents that may be happening

throughout the whole country

these things kind of help us along the

way to make sure that we can move this

team

in a safe manner at all times

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we are over at the rockets practice

facility we'll probably be here for the

next hour hour and 15 minutes

and then we'll roll back to the hotel

where we'll have lunch

uh the guys will get some rest and we'll

get ready for game day

later on tonight so about danny and greg

the best uh security team in the entire

nba

probably all professional sports oh man

they're just

what can i say about them that already

has been said they

make sure you feel safe obviously you

know as nba guys

you'd want to go grab a bite to eat in a

different city or something well i would

have something to eat and come back home

not be

you know kind of surrounded by others

and i think danny and gregor done a

great job of that

you know when we come out to get ready

to leave for a game a lot of times we

have autographed secrets because of the

covet rules that we're dealing with

right now

uh we've currently tried to push the

fans back and away

as the rules have started to kind of go

down and relax a little bit

some of our players really enjoy coming

over and signing autographs

especially for the young kids and

everything else we try to keep a safe

distance

uh we usually try to use our own pin so

the player is not moving around

using different people's pins we have

hand sanitizer so the player can use

hand sanitizer afterwards

when they do pictures we always enforce

to try to have the player stand a little

bit of a distance away to take the

picture if that's going to be the case

honestly you know i just i feel safe

whenever they're around

you know they just give you that aura of

protection you know

because they're so fearless and

courageous you can be that way too

you know honestly i'd walk down we're in

houston right now

i'd walk down the darkest alleyway in

houston

30 minutes after midnight and if i'm

with them

i'm good i'm safe i know whatever is

going to go on whatever's going to go

down i'm going to be okay

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pregame what we're looking for is uh any

unauthorized uh

court intrusions so once we're out on

the court

players out on the court our main

concern is their safety

our top priority during the course of

the game is just to make sure that the

guys while they're

out there playing it they don't get

involved into an altercation

that's that can become physical violent

uh

cause a lead to maybe come in and pose

penalties or fines against the guys

what we do is uh we're listening for uh

critical conversations

and critical conversations by me is that

some of the guys may you know be arguing

or some may

uh jibber jab back and forth to each

other by saying

you know uh certain comments so that may

move to something you know more

aggressive like maybe an altercation or

fight

of course we don't want to see anybody

get hurt we assist the referees

right away if there we see any type of

altercation they give us car blinds to

come on to the court

in that event that's the only time that

we come on the court inside the square

that's that belongs to the guys outside

the square we're just trying to protect

the line and make sure that they're

taken care of

on the outside of the line we utilize uh

arena director

uh and his security staff to maintain

the crowd

from any issues that may occur and and

his whole staff also post up at various

points throughout the whole floor

just to make sure that we're there that

the guys are playing in a safe position

you know they make sure things are

secure

in road locker rooms you know valuables

that you have your wallet you know

jewelry whatever it might be um you know

they lock it up while we're out on the

court

uh if anything happens on the court they

got our back

even with even with you know microscopic

enemies like you know like covet in the

coronavirus

they're always there handing out masks

protecting us i got disinfected and

everything

we want to make sure that the

interactions between the players are

minimal

you know due to the covet uh protocols

and whatnot we want to make sure that

each player has a

mask and properly mask and uh keeping

that distance

but obviously you know the players have

friends

from the opposing team they want to

interact with we just want to kind of

give them a friendly nudge or a reminder

to say hey just remember about the

protocols for coping

they just do a really good job of kind

of incorporating the things that you

need in life

from a security standpoint to

how it incorporates into our lives and i

think they play a big part in why we're

able to perform people don't see it but

the off-the-court stuff kind of allows

us to

be free and work to focus on working on

things that will translate on the course

one-on-one you always feel safe with

them but two they're they're more so

like friends to us

um anywhere we go we just call them up

they roll with us anything we need they

take care of the forest they're always

looking out for us

honestly they make everyday life for us

around here like extremely easy

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we're using four buses to move the team

from the arena back to the airport

uh on our arrival at the airport we'll

check in

with gsc who is a ground security

coordinator with delta

they will check everybody on board to

the plane off of their manifest

danny or i will board the plane first uh

we will talk to the flight crew

which consists of the captain and

co-captain uh and the flight attendants

to advise them

how many people of course they would

always already know but we let them know

how many people are coming on board what

kind of time schedule we're running

if there's any special requirements that

we need or anything like that for

security wise

uh like i said we'd love to go up and

talk to the captain uh to let them know

exactly what kind of

time frame we're looking at so that

they're all on for what we're going to

try to do

whatever is possibly against us or

trying

could be trying to harm us take

advantage of us they're there for us

i appreciate that thank you danny the

most

underappreciated part is honestly how

how well they connect to us people think

all right there's security

and they're just there to protect us we

wish they are but

at the end of the day we can go to them

and talk to them about anything we have

going on in life

good or bad and those guys are always

the ones that

are with us like anywhere you look

anywhere you see our players you always

see them with us so

um i think that's the most unappreciated

things how well they can connect to us

and how well they relate to us

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