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During summer or charity games I'll wear my bright orange or green or turquoise ones and guys are always like, 'Why are your shoes so bright?'
Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.
My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night.
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.
Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.
Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.
I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.
You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.
People think about, when you sell a million records, "Oh. You must be buying Ferrari's and living in mansions." It was never really like that.
I'm a leader. I'm the leader of this team, and they look for me at any point in the game, and that's not just scoring-wise, I do other things.
Teams make it tough on us, we make it tough on them. When you have two well coached teams that wanna win, it's going to be a competitive game.
What I try to do is to look ahead of me and not look back. Whether that's a good thing or bad thing, I'm just focused on trying to get better.
As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
There were a lot of people I really admired and that I liked watching, but not that I tried to compare myself or emulate or nothing like that.
You could come out and play a flawless game and still lose to a quality team; you could do things right, but they hit shots and things happen.
There are different ways to lead throughout a practice or a year. Whatever that moment needs is something I've always tried to be ready to do.
I'm just going to continue to make good plays. Making the right decisions, good decisions with the ball so my team can play with a great flow.
No matter where you go, no matter where you live, a Kansas fan is a Kansas fan: implacable, insufferable and perfectly happy to stay that way.
The fans treated me with a lot of respect, and I played as hard as possible every night. I wanted to win. I'm going to always be a competitor.
When you retire, you don't get fat and old. C'mon: it's like a shark. Sharks never stop swimming; that's when they die. You gotta keep moving.
When you endure an 82-game season, you have a great opportunity to build a lot of confidence and cohesiveness with your teammates and coaches.
It was a cheap shot. They won the game, move on. My thing is, I don't ask for a lot, but I demand my respect, especially from a guy like that.
Being a superstar means you've reached your potential, and I don't think I've reached my potential as a basketball player and as a leader yet.
I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.
I think when you go through any surgery, your body changes. And with that, it can be probably the toughest mental challenge you're gonna face.
We have to have adversity in order for us to really reap the benefits and really just have an appreciation of how hard it is to win in the NBA.
The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.
You can't be a great player without playing both ends of the floor. And that's what I do - I really focus in, and my athletic ability helps me.
In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.
What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.
I have great respect for Dan Gilbert and the Cleveland Cavaliers, and I greatly appreciate the discussions we had regarding their organization.
I see these college kids taking these crazy shots, and it's like, taking that shot is going to leave you without a job. You're not Steph Curry.
I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.
It's frustrating that my body can't do what my mind wants it to do sometimes. But worrying or complaining about it isn't going to fix anything.
I don't want to see anyone else looking like me.That'd be my nightmare. Though if I saw someone wearing what I did, I would know he was swaggy.
I think when I started playing against some of the best guys on the AAU circuit, I started to look at myself and say, 'I am one of these guys.'
With Cleveland, I think they did a great job in knowing what their team needed, and when I came, I just did my job, and they fully embraced me.
Don't get in arguments with your coaches. If you have a certain opinion, express it to the best of your ability. But don't get on his bad side.
Being a child of the 1970s, I remember cleaning up on the weekends. we would listen to everything from Marvin Gaye to Frankie Beverly and Maze.
I've been captivated by the idea of being on a basketball court and being surrounded by people who made me look a little bit less like a freak.
The pilot channel is doing what was expected. It is abating dust and giving us an inkling of what the area will look like when it is restored .
I think I lead by example. I don't talk much. I talk when it's needed, but I just go out there and play hard every day and do it the right way.
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
My first car was an '86 Honda Prelude. It was redone, so it had a new motor, new paint, rims... but it wasn't nearly as much as my Range Rover.
I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.
That's all our team is about. If we stop people, we're the most athletic team in this whole tournament and we can get out and get easy buckets.
There are so many - namely black and brown bodies - who have experienced a different America than what the mainstream American flag symbolizes.
I wanted to make it clear I wouldn't play in the 2020 season and the Olympics, but don't think it's the right time to put retirement out there.