It seems like everybody's perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it's overpaid, overrated; to another group, it's underpaid, underrated, underdog. It's funny to me because there's no real balance.

I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers.

My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.

Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.

I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.