My favorite thing from my childhood is video games.
A large part of my career is due to perception, what people think what I am or should be.
One time I had an awkward moment on purpose, you know, just to see what it feels like. I slipped getting out of my car at a big event. I got out of the car and fell face first into the street. A lot of cameras were on me. I was pretty embarrassed. I did it on purpose, though.
My name don't ever come up unless it's light, a joke, laughs behind it. I'm not saying it's all the way a bad thing, but it's not great.
Growing up, I ate a lot of candy. If you were my dentist, you would know that, you know, but I eat a lot of candy, so from eight to probably, like, 15, you wouldn't see me without a pack of Skittles.
My favorite restaurant in the Twin Cities is McDonalds. I order two cheeseburgers, two snack wraps with no sauce, two fish fillets with cheese and light tartar sauce, two large fries, two apple pies, and one large milkshake.
I don't think there's a man on the earth that can stop me from scoring a basketball.
I don't watch TV. I don't watch anybody else's saga but my own.
I take care of my kids every day. I drop them off at school and pick them up whenever my wife is too tired.
I can be a friend from a million miles away. I can play basketball in China. The only thing I can't do is be a father. I missed my kids' first basketball game. I missed birthdays. I can talk to you from a million miles away, but I was missing the dad part of life.
The older you get, the more your body starts to reject certain things.
One weird thing about me: I come home from practice or a game or whatever, and somehow my left sock always seems to get off my foot, and I end up walking around with one sock on.
I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant.
I feel like I was counted out, you know, my first two seasons in the NBA. They might not have been perfect, but I'm proud of them.
I tell people all the time like, man, when you a kid, you don't know you're in the hood, or you don't know you poor. You just accepting your environment when you a child, and that's when your friends are really your friends, wholeheartedly and nothing malicious.
I've come to realize I'm a professional, no matter if I'm 38, no matter if I'm 19 or 20. I'm a professional.
I've never wanted to be anybody else, and I never thought anybody else could be me more than me.
By the time my brother was 8, he was cooking breakfast and dinner for us. And I was 5.
At the end of the day, everything I've been through on and off the court, I'm the only common denominator.
I match up with the best guys in the world. I'm not being cocky; it's just always how I felt. But I got into trouble as soon as I got into the NBA, and it left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths.
