It's cool to make the playoffs. It's not cool to lose in the first round anymore. The goal is to make the Finals.Collection: Cool
My rookie year, we used to play all the time, literally play 'Call of Duty' all the time, because it was like all of the younger guys on the team would get into the communication with the headsets and talking trash.Collection: Communication
Our fan base in Toronto is crazy. Every single night we sell out. The fans come there and support us and they do a great job of coming out cheering loud and showing their passion and electrifying the building.
Canadians are all over the world. When they get a chance to support their team and show up, they've been doing it.
We understand it's a 48 -minute game and for us it's always win or go home and that's what we do.
We just play, man. We go out there and we fight no matter the situation.
I expect a lot. And, I hold my teammates accountable and they've got to hold me accountable.
I'm going to represent my country the best I can.
Our brotherhood in the NBA is really tiny, and we really all appreciate and support and want each other happy.
We'll do anything it takes to win a basketball game.
To be able to know kids one day will want to be like me, I hold myself to a super high standard.
Gregg Popovich is one of the best coaches in the history of the NBA.
Being able to provide for me and my brother and my family, that's pressure.
I believe I had an unfair reputation. If people think I was a bad kid, I was a bad kid to them. But people close to me know I'm not.
I had to grow up, but I think I've grown up a lot. I think I'm handling myself well.
I grew up in a horrible neighborhood.
I have never been a recruiter. It won't ever happen.
You have to be able to wake up every day and be happy with what your decision in life is, and that's why I never recruit.
You have to make yourself happy.
Free agency is free agency. I love when NBA players get paid.
I've always been second fiddle, man, to everything. Everything. But I never believed that I was lesser than this person, that person, anybody. I always thought I was on the same level.
I probably gave up on my dad when I was born.
If you from Philly, you ain't a Villanova guy. Villanova is the suburbs. That's all you know about Villanova.
From Rick Adelman to Kevin McHale, it was a big difference. Things are a lot stricter with McHale, and with Rick, things are a lot different, offensively, defensively. You go from being successful as hell with one coach and being comfortable with the coach to, yes, I was really successful with Kevin McHale, but I just didn't do it the right way.
That's a big thing for me, being a guy that upholds himself to a high standard.
My job is to get my shots up, to come to work, to watch film and get out of there. I don't get into the management and coaching side, that's their job - that's what they get paid for.
I love my teammates and I'll go out there and play for them, and that's who I play for every night.
Nah, never relaxing, I'm always working.
It was probably 'Contra' - 'Contra' was the game that really got me into video games.
In the playoffs, all eyes are on you.
If you start worrying about your shooting percentages, you start not taking the shots you know you can make. You start worry about taking shots because you don't want to mess up your percentage.
For me, I'm still going to shoot the halfcourt shot if I can. I don't worry about my percentages too much. It's about winning games.
I know what I wanna be and what I don't wanna be, which is an absent parent. I wanna be hands-on.
Going through rough times will only make me and my team stronger.
You grow up rough, you think differently. You think you've got to protect yourself at all times. I didn't want any help. I thought I could do everything by myself, which you can't.
It's like 'Pay It Forward.' Everyone has seen that movie. If someone teaches you something that helps you in your life, why not pass it along and help the next person?
I want to make sure my family is happy.
I want a ring. That's all that drives me. I want to just get better, I want to have fun, I want to win a ring.
I think my family is one of the most important things in my life because they are the people I provide for and the people that believe in me the most.
My family, my wife, my kids - they love me no matter what is going on.
My kids know who I am on the basketball court, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter about the basketball. I am their dad, and that is all that matters.
As long as my team wins games, who cares what people say?
My mother and brother made me strive to get good grades and get through school.
To have a high basketball IQ, I think you have to be unselfish, but also selfish at the same time. To be able to say, okay, I know this is going to work, so let's do it.
We have to stay focused on every possession.
There is a sense of frustration because we are losing games that we know we are capable of winning.
You've got to be able to go out there and do the small things. I went to Villanova, and I didn't start my freshman year until the last two games of the season. And I think that continuously not being 'The Man' helped me as an individual be able to say, 'Listen, what else do you need me to do?'
We gotta play hard and leave it all out there. Dive for lose balls, take charges, just do whatever it takes to win the game.
I would be a very demanding coach. I wouldn't yell and scream, but I want players that want what I want. And that's why I couldn't coach, 'cause I know how hard it is and I know how hard I want you to play. But everyone's not going to do what I want.
I don't want to be a guy that's just out there to be out there; I want to play and contribute.