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

With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

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

If I had a day to myself I would just play video games with my brothers.

My identity is in Christ, not in basketball.