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I'm a competitor. I like compete.
The Miami Heat represent the city of Miami.
I've just never liked giving up on anything.
It took a toll when I couldn't see my mom as much.
I'm thinking bigger picture; I want a championship.
My mentality is I have to be better for my teammates.
My mom is a country lady. She wants to be in the trees.
I'm passionate about schoolwork because I don't like getting bad grades.
I get to represent me and my family, but most importantly the Miami Heat.
When you get into the Finals, I don't think anybody is completely healthy.
When you get in this profession, you want the coaches to put more on your plate.
First year, I was in a real high pace running around and I couldn't pace myself.
To be in the Finals and the medical staff is telling me I can't play... it sucks.
'Last Friday Night'... I just heard a song, and I just liked Katy Perry ever since.
I can't dictate how I play because I'm injured. I've got to go out there and still play.
That's the thing about basketball - you do good things and you start to get recognition.
The playoffs are unpredictable. You never know what can happen and how these playoffs go.
I've always got the thrill of just putting on that uniform and going out there and playing.
I'm an African-American man. I've got to live with that. I've got to be cautious everywhere I go.
Just looking down the bench and when you're on the court, you start to realize, 'I'm an All-Star.'
My whole thing when I got in the NBA was I want to win a championship. The mindset hasn't changed.
That competitive nature comes out when I feel like I'm playing bad and when things aren't going right.
I feel like if a dude wants to get his point across and wants to protest, I feel like he has the right to do that.
I feel like I've built big enough platform and still building my platform for us to get justice for Breonna Taylor.
It doesn't matter if it's Spencer Dinwiddie, Taurean Prince, DeAndre Jordan, I'm trying to win that matchup every time.
I just got to be more aggressive. A lot of time, I just got to make the right reads. It's nothing major, just minor tweaks.
People who have a strong sense of determination about themselves, I feel like the sky is the limit for those types of people.
My mom's never owned anything. I always wanted her to own something that she could say, 'This is mine' and feel good about it.
Like I said, being an African-American man, you can tell there's two Americas we're living in. They don't want us to be equal.
If I have friends in town visiting, we'll go get dinner, but if I'm just by myself, I'm at the house, watching random TV shows.
Hard work pays off. But it doesn't stop now. I know I'm generational wealthy, as you can say, but still got business to handle.
You just gotta hang around people that are really outgoing, and you'll end up, before you know it, you'll be an outgoing person.
Some guys, when they get drafted, they only think about themselves. They go buy cars and houses. I just wanted to take care of my mom.
Me, growing up, I was a Kobe fan, Kobe fanatic, and just getting, just being able to just wear his shoes, it's my favorite shoe to play in.
An organization believes in me to where I'm worth $163 million, possibly $200 million. When you put it in that form, the responsibility hits home.
I sucked. It was my first time picking up a basketball. I watched it on TV, but I never knew what to really do with it. I mean, I needed help with everything.
As I started getting better and I had to go places and meet new people, there were times where you just couldn't keep to yourself. You had to speak to people.
Imagine if a mob of Black people wanted to go in the White House. Imagine what'd happen. It'd be tear gas. It'd be rubber bullets. It'd be the whole nine yards.
I had to stay in the house a lot because my Mom didn't want to see me on the news. I wasn't a bad child. She just didn't want me in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I just listen to my Katy Perry. It's just her mood toward her music. She's always happy and perky. So, I mean, I like to be happy. Might as well listen to happy music.
That's been my challenge. Go out there and guard the best player and get it done on both ends. It's been working out pretty good for me. Just got to keep that thing going.
Different players play you different ways. Some players might be slow-footed so they got to backup. Some players might push you up. You've got to have a go-to that's a mix for both of them.
I didn't want to be looked at as a below-the-poverty-line kid. But now I think, that trailer is where I got the ambition. The anger. If we had a better life, I wouldn't be here. That trailer made me.
You can't just be one of those guys where the whole league knows what you are and categorizes you as that and you accept that. I want to be one of those guys who expands his zone. Kind of like what Kawhi did.
I definitely want to be, long time down the road when my career ends, whenever somebody mentions a top-five center or top-five power forward, they always got to mention my name. That's how I want to be remembered.
I'm a person, and everybody wants to be an all-star. Nobody wants to just be a role-player. I've thought about it. But the number one goal is to keep winning, so I'm more focused on that than being an all-star, honestly.
Growing up in a trailer, you think everything you get is good. I always thought it was a gift from God, because some people are out here struggling and on the street. We had warmth. We had clothes. We had a roof over our head.
I just bring energy, try to put myself in a good mood, because you're not going to get through practice if you're drowsy, don't feel like doing nothing. Then it's going to be a long practice and coach is going to be all over you.
I feel like I'm trying to change basketball; being a center, being able to play both sides of the ball and being able to pass as well as I can, that's a difference-maker on a team, especially at the center spot, so it's respect at all levels.
It was kind of like an agreement, I guess you can say. It was like, 'Hey, bro, you want to be on Team USA?' And I was like, 'Yeah.' Who would say no to that? It was kind of like, 'Dang, I really get to play for my country. I get to represent and just go out there and have fun.'