You don't have to be a professional athlete to be heard - the most powerful tool you have is your voice.
Early in my career I had to be a goon to survive. I did everything I had to do and probably some things I shouldn't have.
I grew up in the '80s in an era that was tough. The Pistons, Celtics, Knicks, Charles Oakley, Anthony Mason. It wasn't dirty. It was just men playing basketball.
I love to be physical.
To win a championship, you need to win on the road.
Until you get that championship, nobody's good enough.
When you're in one of the biggest media markets and you have a good team and you're predicted to do well, if you struggle at any point, they're going to come after you. Even when you're playing well, you're not winning by enough.
My kids' happiness kind of outweighs everything. Just seeing the smiles on their faces and the anticipation leading up to Christmas is what I love now, having kids of my own.
It's obviously a blessing to be able to play on Christmas Night, the one big night everyone watches.
In the NBA you better come to play every night, where in the NBDL the talent level just isn't there and maybe you have guys taking a night off.
You can't take a night off in the NBA.
I was a good shooter in college, but it's a different level here in the NBA and I'm working on getting better.
I'll knock down the open jumper when it's there, but I want to get after it on the defensive end.
Running hard I can get some easy points, and I'm definitely going to keep doing that.
Running in transition and scoring in transition, prevents you from setting your defense up on the other side.
Some guys have one good year and fade away. I've worked too hard to get here and it's took me too long to just fade away.
If I don't start, I'd like to try to win Sixth Man of the Year. And whenever I'm on the court, I'm just going to give it my all.
I've had to fight every year. That's kept me hungry.
We call media out that hasn't played and have crazy opinions.
I play basketball hard-nosed and if you're not on my team, during that 48 minutes we're enemies.
