JaVale McGee
If you can't breathe, you can't do nothing.
I don't feel like I'm influenced by anybody, but I feel I'm definitely becoming more a leader.
You bring a car out, you're going to win any dunk contest.
I feel like there was a belief that I couldn't play more than 10 minutes in the league because of asthma or because of anything.
I think about all the time how I'll be able to say that during my career, I played with the greatest players of my era. Hopefully, I'll be able to say I won championships with those players.
As a kid, you always wanna play for either the Lakers or Boston just for the rivalry alone.
I was in Dallas and I had gained weight and knew becoming a vegetarian was the quickest way to lose it. I just wasn't sure if I could do it.
Sometimes I think some things just happen and are meant to be.
Personally I'm just trying to take advantage of every moment that I get.
My career was dwindling down and I got to be in Golden State for two years and show I still have it.
I've always been a high-percentage shooter, obviously because I'm dunking and laying the ball up.
I've always loved blocking shots.
Being on a team with four All-Stars is unheard of.
Whatever happens, however fast it's supposed to happen, it'll happen.
I don't even believe in hope. I just let it happen.
I'm not boring.
I have extreme ADD.
Some people think I'm dumb, but I feel like things I say, especially on Twitter, are done purposely, because I'm bored.
I don't see the point of Twitter, so I write a lot of stuff to mess with people. But because I used to do dumb things on the court, people think I'm dumb in regular life. But once people meet me, they feel dumb themselves.
I've always been in love with film and music.
When I do things, I just fully commit to it.
For breakfast, I'll have some oatmeal, avocado toast, and a shake.
For lunch, it's usually a salad with sunflower seeds, cucumbers, celery, and a lot of vegetables.
Dinner is usually just pasta with mushrooms.
I'm just a big kid, basically. I love to have fun.
People around the NBA really think that I'm dumb or stupid. But people that know me know that I'm actually very intelligent.
I always look at Akon as inspiration, and the fact that at one point Lady Gaga was signed to Konvict Muzik.
I don't think people realize that I produce like 90 percent of all my music, except for the songs that I co-produce with people.
I'm actually good friends with Diplo, and we've talked about collab'ing.
My favorite artists would be Drake, Future.
Personally, I've always been a philanthropist. I've always given away turkeys and did gift giveaways.
My main goal is to help the team as much as possible anyway I can. If they need me to shoot the three, I'll shoot the three. If they need me to run the floor and block shots, I'll do that also.
I guess I'm a utility player where I can do it all.
I wish I could do more in Flint but they estimated the amount that it would cost to fix Flint and it would be a little over $1 billion and I'm definitely not a billionaire. It's extremely heartbreaking the way the city is being treated in my opinion.
I'm not really a vengeful person.
I stay in my lane and do what I want to do. I don't worry about the outside world.
The fact that rich people get free stuff and poor people have to pay, it's backwards.
I grew up in Flint, Michigan so I'm used to broken promises so I don't look forward to anything. I look forward to the now. I don't even like planning trips more than a week ahead because you don't know how you're going to feel a week from now.
Yeah I definitely rep the city of Flint.
During the season, the main focus is always basketball.
I'm on Instagram, and all my fans on my Instagram are basketball fans - like 90 percent.
Sometimes I go in and try to write beats, but I just trash 'em, and then the next time I go in, I'll make like six beats - six legit, nice beats. I'm really particular with how it needs to sound.
I don't think people understand how good LeBron is.
I love L.A., L.A. was beautiful for me.
I just do whatever I want to do.
When I got to the NBA, I got a Macbook, and the first thing I did was buy Logic.
I'm JaVale McGee, the basketball player, funny guy, whatever, whatever. But I'm just really passionate about music and I don't want people to look at it like 'Oh he's just doing it to get famous.' I'm already pretty famous as is, so I'm not really trying to do it for the money.
I'll stay in the studio for 12 hours at a time, just producing music and making records. It doesn't feel like 'Oh man I've got a job to do.' It's more like 'Oh man I didn't even realize I've been there this long.'
I literally have never lived anywhere longer than two years in my life. I never just stuck anywhere.