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I like this book by Angela Duckworth called 'Grit.'
I kind of look like I work in a Brooklyn coffee shop.
Sometimes you've got to be able to finish at the rim.
There aren't a lot of second chances for second-round picks.
I think Brooklyn is easily one of the best NBA cities out there.
I don't really get recognized a whole lot. I blend in pretty well.
We're all going to have ups and downs throughout the course of the season.
It's hard to compete with everything that Brooklyn has to offer as a city.
There's not a lot of guys in the NBA who stick with one team for very long.
Preparation is such a big thing and you should never take that for granted.
In college you might think you travel a lot, but it is nowhere close to the NBA.
You've got to be able to guard hard and then work yourself offensively to get shots.
The teams that have got good continuity, good chemistry typically have more success.
You don't look through the NBA schedule and say, 'this is going to be an easy night.'
Shooting's contagious: Guys start seeing the ball go in and everybody starts to feel good.
I don't think too highly of myself, but at the same time, I don't think too lowly of myself.
Obviously my role is shooter, trying to take my numbers to another level from that perspective.
Always go onward; returning to a favored place you will only find your old footsteps washed away.
Every time you play against somebody like Giannis, you have to be really locked into the game plan.
Even over the course of the NBA's schedule, you're gonna have games where you're gonna take your lumps.
They have great restaurants, good nightlife. Everything is here in Brooklyn that you can possibly want.
Some nights, depending on who you're going up against, some guys are just capable of hitting tough shots.
When you have guards that are versatile, it just makes it a lot easier in terms of who you put on the court.
If someone has my number that I don't know and texts me a considerable amount I would just block the number.
Obviously any time you play home in front of your own fans, you definitely get a distinct advantage that way.
It was really important for me to get a degree that carried some weight, something that I really wanted to do.
I've kind of given up trying to evaluate college guys, especially guys from Virginia, just because of my bias.
I have off days all the time too, but nobody really cares when I have an off day. People care when Kyrie does.
I feel like I play with good poise and I know when to take my shot - and when I do, I have a lot of confidence.
Some games you're gonna have seven shots, some games you're gonna have 15, it just ebbs and flows with the game.
I liked the idea of being one of the foundations for Coach Bennett's program and trying to revive UVa basketball.
Everybody has a different path to making it in this league. I was fortunate to get an opportunity here in Brooklyn.
You're gonna have pretty bad defeats. But you've gotta be able to respond and come back in and compete the next night.
I think at the end of the day, regardless of who you're playing against, there's talent on every single team in the NBA.
The conditioning aspect of things is really important, obviously in basketball, and then specifically for players like me.
The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.
There's teams that have a lot of success in the back-to-back, and I think those teams just have a strong mental fortitude.
I've grown up with the same people my whole life. I've had the same classmates from elementary all the way through graduating.
Steph is the greatest shooter of all time. Shooting off the rack is not indicative of being a better shooter than Steph Curry.
I was lucky in my rookie year to play in the NBA Finals, to have that experience, to see what it was like to get to that stage.
Whenever you play with better competition or play against better players, it raises your level of play on both ends of the court.
If you've got one guy that can create just a little bit of space for somebody that can get downhill, it opens up everything offensively.
Some rookies build bad habits and it's not until year three, four, five that they get to be part of a winning-type organization and culture.
My grandparents owned an apple orchard when I was growing up - a lot of apples, cherries... now, actually, a lot of grapes, too, to be honest.
Yeah, I think any time you're comfortable playing within a system you're going to play more aggressive. You're going to play with more confidence.
The way I play - I'm the guy moving, coming off screens, getting up and down the floor. I should be one of the better-conditioned athletes out there.
There have been lots of times in my career where you go four or five games and feel like you can't hit anything. And you also have the exact opposite.
To actually play a game, where you are in the World Cup, there is significance to it, the point differential matters, all these things kind of add up.
I was so competitive when I played. I was trying to get every loose ball, trying to get steals. That's what I was kind of infamous for in high school.
I was fortunate in college to play as a freshman, but in the NBA, not a lot of rookies are coming in and making a significant impact right off the bat.