I just trust my teammates to be able to make the right play - I don't have to score every time I have the ball, or shoot the ball every time I have it.Collection: Trust
There is power in unity. There is power in strength.Collection: Strength
You need to have a short-term memory. That's a big thing that I learned a lot. Moving on from games, even good games that I have. Move on from them and be prepared for the next night.Collection: Moving
For me, coming up, the first I had ever heard of basketball? It was from my mom. She was a really good player back in her day, and even played college ball at Kentucky State. And then she went on to become a coach and an AD after that - so she always stayed real close to the game, and kept it a part of her life.Collection: Mom
I just want to go out there and play basketball, do it at a high level, put us in a position to win.
I was someone who thought my vote didn't count.
I was kind of ignorant. Being naive - 'who cares, how many people in the world, okay, my vote won't count' - that's kind of ignorant thinking, and I totally migrated from that. I clearly took that for granted for eight to 10 years.
I don't necessarily see myself or consider myself an activist, but I feel like I have a platform, and I'm going to utilize it to the best of my ability.
Nobody can stop me. Plain and simple.
It would be great to play in one place forever. But at the same time, you want to win and make sure you're in a position to do so.
I trust my teammates and everybody to step up and carry the load.
I'm not the type of guy who tries to do everything by myself.
I feel like the impact that you leave on others and your teammates and everybody around you is what's most important.
I get to play basketball for a living.
Just been getting my faith life together, and I feel like that's honestly putting me at a place of peace to where I can play my game, have fun with it.
I've always had to grow up faster than what I am.
I'm humble, and guys always say I act older than what I am so I always keep that mentality and make sure everything is focused and serious.
I'm not best friends with Giannis, and I'm not best friends with LeBron. I know them both, and I'm cordial with both.
I don't want anything given to me.
I can always get better.
We have to call out the lawmakers and law officials, the state and city reps, DAs, judges, politicians, police unions - everybody who deems themselves and enforcer of the law has to be held accountable. Justice is demanded. Sustainable change is necessary. But we know that we all have to continue to do our part in the community.
I've been pulled over with four hoopers in the car before and we've all been taken out and searched because we were black riding in a white neighborhood.
I went to an all-white school in high school.
I didn't want to leave school early, honestly. I had just established relationships with my teammates and I knew people there and I didn't want to give that up and start something new.
Football was probably my favorite sport growing up. But I didn't have the body.
That's what it's all about: being a team and being a family. I would love to go into a situation like that and just be a part of it.
There's times I've played the 4. If that happens in the league, I'm used to it.
I'm easy to adapt to. I'm not going to come in and say I need this shot, I need the ball here or there. Doesn't matter.
As long as we are all incorporated within offense and everybody's eating, we're good.
Hopefully, I'll be top-five, top-10 in my position to ever play.
I just want to continue to be better and better and better.
When the season is on the line, it forces you to play your best basketball.
Guys really do get better as the playoffs go along.
It just kind of puts you in awe a lot of times. To see fans, and especially kids, really want a bobblehead or really want your jersey, that's something you only dream of. Sometimes we take it for granted, don't understand the importance of it, how a little bobblehead can make somebody's day.
You never grow up thinking you'll have your own personal bobblehead. And then when you make it, it's like, 'Damn, here's a little mini statue.'
We have to utilize our platforms as athletes to speak out.
I never get into the game of playing GM.
I can't sit here and try to do it all on my own because there's no way I'll be able to. It's a matter of trusting my teammates no matter what it looks like.
I'm honored and humbled to be named the Seasonlong NBA Community Assist Award winner.
I adjust to who is with me, who I'm playing, the new guys we add.
I'm very adaptable.
Ultimately goal is to win, man. Whatever that looks like.
I don't care about stats.
I don't care about points.
I would say a guy I always respect and admire is Dame. I always liked Dame's game. I watch him, just his work ethic.
My family has always been my circle. I know it might sound kind of weird, but if you know a little bit about me, you'd understand.
Tattoos are addictive.
I'm kind of undersized for a two-guard, but I have a strong body. Not a lot of guys know that until I start moving them a bit, and they realize they actually can't post me up that easily.
I don't even know how tall I am. I'm hoping 6-4. I'm 6-4, 6-5 on a good day.
I always tell myself, 'Nothing's perfect.'