Injuries are a big factor when you're trying to go on a championship run.
I originally was more into baseball and football, but being in Los Angeles, you just couldn't help but to fall in love with the game of basketball because they had such a winning tradition.
I understand when you have great players on losing teams who are tired of losing, struggling in the playoffs every year. You're the lone star. I've been in that position.
That is one of my greatest strengths. I am not afraid to face challenges or any matchup in the league.
The rim is looking bigger and bigger every game.
I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue.
Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to.
At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp.
Kids get influenced by other kids.
I'm a competitive player, and I love being on the court. If the NBA cancels the season I'm definitely looking at my options and considering going overseas.
Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.
A lot of people that I've had around me have been my closest friends since junior high, back when we were exchanging each other's clothes, staying at each other's houses. That was before I had anything.
I'm a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat.
I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around with big entourages.
When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go away.
The Celtics don't celebrate anything but championships.
When you give a team life, give a team confidence, anything can happen in a Game 7.
You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.
My favorite quarterback is Donovan McNabb. I think he's a complete quarterback. I love the way he can scramble and throw on the run. He can do it all. He can control a game.
I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows.
