Just because we are back home, don't get comfortable. Have that same uptight feeling like it's just us against everyone.

I don't want to be Kobe, I want to be LeBron.

I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.

Why should I care? I have all the money in the world.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

I was supposed to take the ball out. I told coach, 'There's no way I'm taking the ball out, unless I can shoot it over the backboard and it goes in. I told him, 'Have somebody else take the ball out, give me the ball, and everybody get out of the way.'

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?