You can never take your foot off the gas pedal. You have to play the right way at both ends.
The most important thing with me is consistency.
I want to help kids and I've been blessed with this talent from God, and I feel like I'm supposed to be giving back helping kids, teaching them everything I know.
I'm trying to lead by example. But I'm definitely challenging myself to be a better player, the player I want to be.
I'm just excited to be here in Miami and have an opportunity to be part of a great culture like this.
You go through a lot throughout a season. You're going to face a lot of adversity. And the best teams overcome any type of adversity.
Because I am so quiet, you don't really know what I'm thinking. You don't know if I'm working hard on my game, you really don't know.
Regardless of how much media coverage will be received, talking and raising awareness about social injustice isn't enough.
Are we that self-centered to believe no one in the world is aware of racism right now? That, as athletes, we solve the real issues by using our platforms to speak? We don't need to say more. We need to find a way to achieve more. Protesting during an anthem, wearing T-shirts is great, but we need to see real actions being put in to the works.
The actual act of sitting out doesn't directly fight systemic racism. But it does highlight the reality that without black athletes, the NBA wouldn't be what it is today. The league has a responsibility to our communities in helping to empower us - just as we have made the NBA brand strong.
I played with Tristan Thompson and Cory Joseph. They were my high school teammates.
There's a lot of guys that I obviously admire. The Gary Paytons, me growing up in Seattle being able to watch him play. Even my peers now, the Patrick Beverleys and the Kawhi Leonards, I admire those guys.
I'm so excited to play with Udonis Haslem.
I've always been a player who played with a chip on my shoulder.
There's no bigger stage than this, so each and every night, every opportunity I get, I'm gonna try to prove and show the world that I'm the best perimeter defender in the NBA.
I wanted to challenge myself to reach my full potential as a player.
From playing with the guys that I played with, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, I learned a lot about the game. I learned how to finish games.
I really don't talk much.
When I see one of my teammates make a good play, to keep that energy going, I feel like that's what I do on the defensive end, and then make a good offensive play.
It's the best feeling in the world. I'm pretty sure if you don't have kids, you hear everybody say that. It's the most amazing feeling in the world seeing somebody that's just like you.
I'm just ready to do whatever my team needs me to do. I'm just going to be prepared and ready to go out there and do my role, and do whatever my team needs me to do to win games.
If you ask somebody who played basketball against me in the first grade and you watch a tape, it's been with me since I was a kid. I've always had this mentality to go out there and defend.
In the NBA, we're a brotherhood and we should all want to see one another succeed.
I think anything's possible for me with my attitude and my desire to want to get better every single day as a person and as a basketball player, I think anything's possible for me.
I feel like a lot of people know and understand that I have to be top-two, top-three best perimeter defenders in the NBA.
As committed to my Lakers teammates and the organization as I am, I ultimately play basketball for my family.
Everyone around me, my family and my friends, always said that, 'You have to play for Miami Heat.'
I was familiar with the Heat and their culture because I played with Dexter Pittman and he was here early in his career.
It's different, but I prefer my people on the East Coast. Some people might be offended by that, but I mean, especially knowing I'm from the West Coast. I don't know if it's because it's home for me or what, but I just feel like people are real good friends. That's all it is.
People are honest, that's the culture. East Coast, but specifically Boston. People are just good people.
I am 10 years in this league. The physical possession of a ring doesn't make me feel like more or less of a person.
I play basketball strictly for enjoyment and to add to the support of my family.
Obviously people have guarded me a lot different because of me being able to make shots.
I'm trying to add and show more every single year, you know, as much as our system allows me.
All I can control is how hard I play and put the rest in God's hands.
I feel like I'm one of the rare cases in this league of a two-way player. I feel like it's hard for certain people to be able to coach me because of that.
Sometimes I feel like my defense is so elite that sometimes my offense gets put on the backburner.
Boston was a good situation for me, but I think it was over time they were able to understand what they had.
I'm pretty sure every team in the NBA would love to have Paul Pierce on their team.
No matter who I'm playing against, they're going to say that I'm one of the toughest guys they play, for sure.
This is the NBA; you can't stop everybody from scoring 30. But that 30? They're going to work for every point they get. And that's my mindset.
Once you're able to win, you're able to be more established as a player as well. It's hand in hand. And then you can show more parts of your game.
But I love to fish - that's a hobby of mine.
Defense not only wins games; it's what gets you on the floor at every level you play at. Once you get to high school and get to college, if you don't play defense, you won't play.
It makes me happy knowing my teammates are always going to have my back defensively, and I'm always going to have theirs.
I would hope no one would be satisfied with a loss.
My best friend used to make fun of me about the camps I wasn't invited to, and I used to get mad. He was just always better, always the favorite. I was always the one in the shadow that everybody was like, 'He's not good enough. Might not even make it to college.'
Growing up I was a different person than I am now. Now I'm the quiet, laid-back one, but I used to be the wild one in the group. I was like the bully.
I got in a lot of fights growing up, and not just basketball fights.
People would really hate playing against me if I could touch them.