It will be my fourth Olympics. I don't know if I'll have a chance to play more. I think four is a good number. After 16 years on the national team, I'm not going to get to 2020. It's a little bit too far for me.
I wasn't drafted. I was just playing really good basketball, enjoying playing basketball with my national team and never really thought: 'I have to get to the NBA.'
I feel like a coach when I'm on the court. I just see basketball as a team sport.
Be on time, work hard every day, try to help your teammate, look for the team first. If you do that, everybody's gonna respect you.
You can't compare my numbers to the other point guards. I'm a different kind of player - if you like it or not.
I didn't expect to be in the NBA.
I left my home when I was 13 years old, I was a professional at 17, and I've been playing basketball since.
I know my weaknesses, and I'm always honest with myself.
I have never worked in an office.
I always said I wasn't the one putting me in the starting role or playing me 35 minutes.
I've been in the league 12 years and I know what I do best or not do as well.
I play a certain way and played like that for a while. Maybe you want a point guard to shoot 20 times, I like more to pass the ball and do my job running the team.
I just want to be myself, just be healthy and play basketball.
In the NBA you are pretty confident but you are one phone call away from being somewhere else; you've just got to be ready for everything.
I think being healthy can change everything.
I have got pictures of me sleeping on the bench when I was four years old while my dad was practicing. I used to go to practice with him all of the time and they would play until it was late. I sometimes got tired and I would be sleeping there, but it was inside so not too bad.
My dad never really taught me anything about the game, he was never on me in the basketball aspect of life.
I always say that, I never talked about the NBA, I never talked about anything because I was just playing basketball for fun. I didn't think about being a professional and I didn't even know you could be signed.
I watched zero NBA basketball growing up. It was available but it was too late and I had school.
There are so many people who helped me during all those years in Toronto for everything. Not just about basketball, it's everything. Like life, with my family. Everything.
