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Jimmy Butler is a winner.
I love seeing the drop coverage.
I can assure you, I'm not no Dwyane Wade yet.
My thing is, I don't want to just be a scorer.
I'm just trying to go out there and just hoop.
I think Kentucky really prepared me for Miami.
I think I'm going to surprise a lot of people.
I feel like I can make plays, finish around the rim.
I like being in the gym and getting better every day.
I think I can just bring shooting to stretch the floor.
Throughout my career, I hope to see the best defenders.
I bring toughness. I'm a leader. I bring defense as well.
Growing up, I didn't really play in a lot of All-Star games.
I definitely can shoot. I definitely like to talk trash, too.
I feel like I'm a complete player, on the offensive end for sure.
At Kentucky that was my biggest improvement, being able to guard.
I think just with repetitions and my confidence, I'll be all right.
I'm just going to bet on myself. I've been doing that my whole life.
Ever since I signed with Nike I definitely got a crazy amount of shoes.
I have one of the purest shots in the whole entire world, in the league.
I love pie. Definitely apple pie, but sweet potato pie - really any pie.
From quarantine to the bubble to the Finals, everything just happened fast.
Some nights, I try to play-make and some nights it's my time to be aggressive.
I'm always excited to play my hometown, but I'm kind of past the Milwaukee thing.
Whether I'm starting or coming off the bench, I just want to be able to help and compete.
I'm just a kid from a small town. Not many people make it from there. Shout out to Whitnall.
Went from Milwaukee, a small town in Milwaukee, to Kentucky. Nobody thought I'd survive there.
Every time I go out there I try to bring my A-game and show people I can do more than just shoot.
All the Kentucky guys are all close. We all wish the best for each other. Kentucky's a brotherhood.
Obviously making the adjustment to playing against grown men in the NBA, it's all a learning curve.
I think once you see a couple shots go down, and when you're getting shots in rhythm, the game flows.
I think that's one thing that teams need to build around their stars: spacing to allow them to operate.
Being able to go to Kentucky, they had the right blueprint for me to be able to go to the NBA after one year.
Really, whatever the Heat need me to do, I think I can come in and do it. I'm happy to do whatever they need.
They've really made it so that we can continue our regular lifestyle here in the bubble that we would do in Miami.
I think I can play in pick-and-rolls, I can create a little bit more than people think... I'm much more than a shooter.
Miami is a place that if you like to work, then it's good for you. Because I feel like they hold you to a higher standard.
We thought I was going to go to Boston at 14, and then Miami took me at 13. So I got blessed to come here, instead of there.
I didn't really know my wingspan was that short until it got measured. Either way, I was good with whatever my arm length is.
If you don't look at my skin color and we just go play basketball, you're not going to say I'm a white kid that can just shoot.
It's just a dream come true. I can't believe I'm standing here with a Miami Heat hat on, walking across the stage. It's a blessing.
Obviously, I need to be more efficient, but as far as my numbers go, I just want to see W's starting to stack up on that win column.
As a competitor, you always want to go against the best, so whoever guards me, I'm hoping it's the best defender from the other team.
For me, when I look at a guy I can model my game after, I want to make it realistic and something I can chase and something that's reality.
At the end of the day, everybody knows you want to play at the Division I level. But my main goal since I was little was to get to the NBA.
When you're preparing for a game, you prepare like you're starting. But if you're not, if you're coming off the bench, everybody has a role.
So I feel like while I'm in Miami, which is I hope for a while, a long time, forever, I'll be able to rep Miami and everything that's going on here.
Klay Thompson, Ray Allen, CJ McCollum, Steve Nash and Bradley Beal are the guys that's I've watched, just picking different things from each player.
It was amazing, really a dream come true, to not only get drafted by the Heat, but then also to be here with Pat Riley and the rest of the coaching staff.
Only a couple of people have like blown their horn and rolled down their window and stuff like that. But no one's been really stopping me when I'm running.