“I’m a little obsessed with being competitive."

"Some things you do—or you’re about to do—you can just be like, ‘Hey, don’t do that because it means trouble.’ So I’ve got to back off."

"You know, you’ve got fans and 99.9 percent of them are great—and .1 percent are jerks."

"There’s a lot of negativity in the world. I’m trying to be positive."

"I’m not afraid to take a fadeaway, take a three in transition, take it coast to coast."

"Jermaine reached out to me and made me feel comfortable. It took a while, but he was always trying to do stuff for me, for the whole team, to make us closer."

"You can’t judge a book by its cover."

"Until my legs break off or I get paralyzed, I can play this way. It helps me be me."

"Basketball was always something I felt I could dominate, something I could control."

"Whatever Adelman needs me to do, whether that’s come off the bench, sixth, seventh man, start, I don’t even care. Whatever he needs me to do, I’m 100 percent sure it’s going to workout."

"This [playing in Houston] is definitely the high point of my career. It's the biggest opportunity I've ever had playing basketball."

 

 

 

 


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