Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad's tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots ... I fell in love with you.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

My brain cannot process failure... It WILL not process failure

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.

There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.