Iman Shumpert
I think I am a good help defender as well as just bringing a lot of communication to the floor.Collection: Communication
My worst day, I'm just going to try and smile.Collection: Smile
Ray Allen's diet was insane. He was trying to break it down to me what he ate and how disciplined he tries to stay. When you're a 21 year-old, you're not used to that. He was doing Paleo and experimenting with all types of things.Collection: Diet
When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.Collection: Communication
Love is one of the most powerful and most dangerous things I've ever encountered and, within the same breath, one of the most beautiful and relevant journeys of my life.
I like Batman, I like basketball, and I like to rap.
Love is one of the only reminders besides pain that things are real. It's one of the only things worth fighting for.
I'm a Kanye fan.
As long as my daughter likes me, I'm good.
I've been doing music for the longest time.
I always enjoyed writing.
I used to be an angry person.
I'm a culture guy. I sort of know all the familiar ingredients to get something going. Once everyone starts to buy in collectively, then that culture can start being built.
It's cool to be on a team where we don't know who's going to score it.
It don't matter who scores; we just got to win.
People sometimes think that if someone plays basketball, they have to do that one thing they're great at. But I like being able to show that you can do more than one thing and do it at a high level.
I think that for my sport, the core is the most important. I mean, really in all sports, but especially in the sport I play, I keep my core right and try and keep that up no matter what I'm doing.
I make sure I do a lot of core work in my training.
I'm a Type A person who doesn't want to get stuck in any one type of workout. I need a variety of things to stay interested, and that way, you make sure you get the most out of yourself.
My job is to pay attention to the feel of the game and always add a positive energy to it on my team through the ups and downs of the game.
When I was growing up, I didn't really have a lot of different things I could wear. As I got older, the more I could look different on an everyday basis, the better.
My brother's been cutting my hair since I was in 7th grade.
I've been doing music since sixth grade.
I wanted to go the NBA and win a championship because I've never seen a grown man cry the way Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan cried when they won a championship.
I never said to myself, 'Get to the NBA, be an All-Star, make a $100 million contract.'
Usually, if I do a good job in the plus/minus category, I know I've had a good game.
You may have to change how you guard somebody because of how they play. But the mindset stays the same - making people uncomfortable, making them do what you want them to do instead them dictating on offense.
I need music all the time - just to get my vibe where I want it.
All the time, I play with a rhythm; if I'm too far out of the rhythm, I feel out of place.
The way I have played throughout my career has been sporadic.
If the offensive player starts losing confidence, that gets the defender's confidence up - and I think the team can feel it.
I joke about it a lot, but I be serious as a heart attack when I say it: I don't wish that on nobody, not being able to play.
Everything was always a pretty up and down for me. It's always been an uphill battle as far as getting respect goes.
If I bring positive energy to the court, most times, I can get that back.
I feel like I can defend three different positions: point guards, shooting guards, and small forwards who don't want to play too much in the post.
When I was growing up, all my cousins had high-top fades. I thought it would be cool to see how long I could grow a high-top.
Some people are going to like me; some people won't.
I'm going to miss shots. I'm going to make plenty of mistakes. It's not going to be perfect.
Keep feeding yourself with positivity.
I'm playing basketball. It's my dream job. So I'm a pretty happy camper.
There are certain guys that are obviously a lot more talented than myself and a lot of the other players in the league, but... once you gotta play against me, all that's out the window.
I have respect for everybody in the league.
Ever since I was little, I wanted to win the NBA championship.
Some guys play so straight, and that may be their thing; like, a lot of guys are good playing like that. I can't play like that. I have to flair out. I have to yell. I gotta scream. I gotta talk trash - that's how I get myself going.
In Chicago, growing up there, that's how we played. You play for something more than just yourself. You play to win, and that's all that really matters.
In high school, I had gym, and with me just being so competitive, I would go too hard in gym class.
Some people read. I like to put words together.
I'm a people person. I'm a hugger.
Back home, if you get scored on, you're the weak link. When I started getting good, they were like, 'If you're going to play on our team when we go play pick-up, and you start getting scored on, we're not going to let you play anymore.' I started learning how to help other people out with my defense.
Off the court, I think people will like me.