You don't have to be best friends as basketball players but I do believe in chemistry. I think it makes everything different if a team is really together and they're all on that same page. They might not like each other, per se, but if you're on the same page and the chemistry is there, you can play great basketball. You can go back to teams like Detroit, the Bad Boys. Those guys had great chemistry, that's why they won.

My job is to be the best teammate I can be, push these guys to the limit every day, make sure that I'm being the right type of leader.

I was supposed to be in the NBA. I was supposed to travel the world and make the world a better place.

I've been on the side where you have nothing, and now I'm on the side where anything I want is there for me. When I didn't have the means to do whatever I wanted to do, I still had peace.

I just want to show Atalanta who I really am and show my teammates what kind of teammate I am.

Are you gonna be tough, or are you going to be tough?

Growing up, I played about every sport imaginable except soccer and hockey. I've always had a passion for basketball. I remember actually playing basketball when I was two or three years old. The time I knew that I could really take my game to the next level.