I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

I never rushed the fact that I wanted to be in the NBA or rushed the fact, you know, they asked me about the NBA. I always (unintelligible) back to the fact that I just love playing with my teammates.

Teams make it tough on us, we make it tough on them. When you have two well coached teams that wanna win, it's going to be a competitive game.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

My favorite thing about being a father is just seeing my kids grow and do some of the same things that I did when I was a kid, man.