NBA star Chet Holmgren joins GQ to reveal his 10 Essentials. The Oklahoma City Thunder’s forward breaks down his daily essentials: from his hoop essentials (“basketball is my life”) to his watch collection (“I’m a big Rolex Daytona guy”). Watch the full episode of GQ Sports’ 10 Essentials, as American basketball star Chet Holmgren reveals 10 things he can’t live without.
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00:00What's up GQ, I'm Chet Holmgren and these are my 10 essentials.
00:11The tastiest thing on my GQ essentials list is definitely my sister's bacon. I don't want to
00:16narrow it down from just bacon because it is anything I ask for. I gotta definitely kind of
00:22hold myself back sometimes because whatever I say I want, she will make. Everybody knows my sister
00:28bakes cookies all the time. She like brings them to the family room at games sometimes.
00:32Anytime we go out to dinner and we don't order dessert she'll like
00:35bake dessert. We got some snickerdoodles, some milk dough cookies, some chocolate chip cookies,
00:41and then we got some macaroons because you know anybody can make some cookies but
00:45macaroons are pretty tough. Milk and ice cream for sure.
00:54This is my speaker right here. I kind of listen to music everywhere I'm going especially when
00:58I'm working out at the gym, lifting or on court, when I'm sitting in the pool at a hot tub,
01:03also listening to music. So this thing kind of rolls with me everywhere
01:07and I've actually had it for a while. It's a little dinged up. It's missing a couple
01:10knobs on the back but I got this in college because I did a Bose deal
01:13in college and I've had it ever since. It's never failed me. It hasn't fallen apart yet.
01:20In the locker room I don't know who's on aux but it's the same like 10 songs all season long.
01:24Like 2010's Drake, Lil Wayne and stuff. I don't know who's putting it on but it's kind of like
01:29it sounds like a Pandora playlist. It's not a bad playlist but we can switch it up sometimes.
01:35No matter what I'm doing shades are good whether I'm getting in the car and it's sunny,
01:38whether I'm just walking around outside taking my dog on a walk, whatever I'm doing.
01:41They're also good when you know there's going to be cameras somewhere and you know they're
01:45going to be flashbanging you. They don't tell you when they're taking pictures. You know lots of
01:48bright lights can be tough on the eyes so you got to bring the sunnies. I got a different one for
01:52every occasion, different one for every outfit and I got some cool ones. I count them as sunglasses
01:57but they're not really sunglasses. It's kind of like ski goggles and you might ask why does somebody
02:03who is not allowed to ski because of their NBA contract have ski goggles? I'm a big believer
02:07in manifestants so I bought these probably a year ago planning on someday winning a chip so
02:12these will protect me from the champagne showers hopefully one day. I feel like anything you wear
02:17kind of expresses how you're feeling at the time. Like if I went out to dinner wearing these you
02:22probably wouldn't take me serious. Same with these ones. These ones are kind of crazy. They're like
02:26like some bug eyes. Something like these like I just wear these when I'm driving the car
02:32and then like walking down the street. I've got some more serious ones right here
02:36so but like you can also wear these with an outfit in the tunnel too so
02:41just having different ones for different occasions. Something for any time that you need them.
02:46All right my next essential is my gym bag. So there's a few different things in the bag but
02:54the bag as a whole kind of travels with me everywhere I'm going. Basketball is my life and I
02:58like to keep the main thing the main thing so no matter what else I have to do in my schedule I
03:02always gotta you know get my workouts in and get in the gym so that's why this bag is always with
03:06me either in the trunk of my car or I'm carrying it out of the airport. Everything I kind of need
03:11to go get my work in you know I got my kicks but I got like some recovery stuff in here. Some people
03:17are like do you carry a ball with you everywhere you go and it's hard to do that. It's hard to
03:22bring a ball everywhere but I feel like there isn't a day that goes by where I don't pick up
03:27a basketball you know what I mean. Even on my off days like I'm at the crib just messing around
03:31dribbling the ball around or you know just shooting it in the air. It's not who I am but
03:34it's a big part of what I do so I like to have my stuff with me. I need it that's why it's one of my
03:39essentials. Can you twirl a basketball? Yeah. I'm a sneakerhead and I'm a big believer in like
03:50look good, feel good, play good so I got some some joints that you can't find anymore from the Kyrie's
03:56that I hoop in. These are some KD's that just came out this year and I'm a big Nike shoes guy.
04:01I think they're the best best kicks to hoop in so.
04:07The next thing on my list of essentials are my signature Ethica pairs. You can wear them whether
04:13you're lounging around, going to hoop, getting in the pool, no matter what. These are literally
04:17daily essentials because I wear them every day so I'll take I'll take one out the bag too. The
04:22process of putting them together they made it easy for me. I talked to the creative director about
04:26different ideas and then once we settle on an idea they kind of take them back to the designers and
04:30they kind of you know put something together. You know I got some pairs inspired by my hometown. I
04:35got a pair kind of inspired by OKC and getting drafted there. It's got my like chain from draft
04:40night on it so yeah these are definitely an essential for me. Another one of my GQ 10 essentials
04:47is all of my like I call them coffee table books because they don't really belong on a bookshelf.
04:53When I'm just kind of kicking it at the crib or I need some inspiration I always open one of these
04:57up and kind of look through them. This one's on like all the different jewelry that's been in
05:02hip-hop in the last like 20 years. Another reason I also love these books is I dropped out of college
05:07so too many words on the page kind of hurts my brain so it's always good when there's a lot of
05:12pictures in there which I think is pretty cool and you know I got all different variations of
05:15these. That one's jewelry right there. I got this one right here. This one's more like fashion and
05:23kind of design inspiration. This one's one of Virgil's books. Rest in peace to him. He's a
05:29fashion legend. You know I got some pretty fashionable teammates so you know I'm playing
05:32catch up so I gotta look through these books a little bit and up my fashion game. The next one
05:37I got is I got this Avengers book. This is like all of the Avengers comics stuffed into one big
05:43book and like if you feel the paper it feels like a comic book too so it's pretty cool. The last book
05:49in the collection that I have out here is this one. This is a big Rolex one and it's got some
05:54of the craziest Rolexes in it and I like to look through this one because it kind of shows me some
05:59of the ones I've never seen. It's got like all the classic ones, the super old ones, the discontinued
06:04ones. Some of these are like so old like you'll never find one on the market. It's just really
06:09inconvenient to try and open up and carry around because it's huge. All right another one of my
06:17essentials is my watch case. This isn't all my watches. It's a good portion of my collection. I
06:22got a couple back home still in Oklahoma. You know I'm a huge Rolex guy. I don't like watches with a
06:28bunch of diamonds on them but this is some of my collection. I'll go through them a little bit. I'm
06:31a big Daytona guy and I love my rose gold watches so that's one of my newer pickups. I got a rose
06:38gold Daytona. This is another one of my Daytonas. My only other Daytona actually. It's a white gold
06:42one. One of my teammates last year actually got me into Daytonas. Shout out Vasa. He was a Euroleague
06:47MVP and one of his gifts for winning Euroleague MVP was a Daytona with MVP engraved on the back
06:53of it which I thought was pretty cool. He has a crazy Daytona collection and Daytonas aren't easy
06:57to get so that kind of inspired me to start my Daytona collection. I just got a couple other
07:01pieces you know Prezi, GMT, Datejust and then also shout out Jacob & Co here too. This is my latest
07:08pickup right here. You know I got a white Epic X. Also another classy look too. Yeah that's my
07:14my watch collection. These are very essential because of how much I have to travel with my
07:22lifestyle and I always have to bring something with me no matter where I'm going whether it's
07:25to the gym or I got to go somewhere for a couple day trip or we got a game day trip so I got to
07:31have kind of different bags for every occasion I guess. I got to have like a computer bag,
07:34tablet bag. I got to just go to the gym and I need something to throw my shoes in. I'll pick
07:38this one if it's an overnight trip and I just need you know a couple couple clothes and toiletries
07:43I'll pick this one and then you know if I want the prettiest bag with me I'll take this one so
07:47at least kind of roll with me in one way or the other everywhere I go.
07:54The next thing on my GQ essentials is my dog Draco. Good game, bad game whether I made every
08:01shot or miss every shot you know he's gonna be excited to see me so I appreciate this little guy.
08:06He's definitely a lot of work though. He always gets into something like yeah
08:12ate an apricot had to have surgery or his allergies will act up and he needs some special
08:18mousse or something or he eats special food too because that's just the type of dog he is but
08:26I love him anyways. We got a lot of dog dads on our team almost seems like almost everybody has a
08:31dog especially in Oklahoma like you have to everybody has a yard and it's like super slow
08:37pace which is like great for a dog but well we tried to like set up like a doggy play date last
08:45year so like you know we'd have our dogs run in the yard and we'd eat and watch the game but it
08:51was at my house and he's like territorial so he wasn't wasn't having it with the other dogs so I
08:57had to put him up but yeah it's okay he was trying to protect his house it's all good.
09:06The next thing in my GQ essentials going down the list is my colognes and fragrances you know I
09:14think there's like a different scent for every occasion different scent for every season some
09:18are more like you know fresh some are more like masculine but you know definitely got to have a
09:25different scent for each occasion. One of my favorite ones I've just got is however you say
09:29is Fleur de Peau. My French people don't hate me please. I got some more common ones like YSL and
09:37Revlon and Dior. I also have some pretty not common ones that I'm not even gonna try to pronounce
09:44because I know I'm gonna butcher them but this is some of my collection this is what I have out
09:48here with me right now you know but I got more back home. Advertising is a crazy thing but the
09:54Old Spice commercials got me I'm a I'm an Old Spice guy and Axe like burns your nostrils like
09:59don't hate me Axe cut that part out I might want that Axe sponsorship one day.
10:07Thanks for watching everybody I'll catch y'all in season.