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“I have a competitive edge in me where I get more mad when my guy scores than I do if I were to score 20. I find more joy out of frustrating the other team.”
“You'd like to win every game, but 82-0 is not reasonable. That's just not realistic.”
“There are no coincidences. There's a reason I went back to the G League and I ended up growing and improving myself mentally and physically.”
“Whatever I have to do to help us win is what I'm going to do.”
“Coming from a spot where I was undrafted and teams didn't think I was good enough to be in the league to being, in my eyes, one of the best defenders in the league, we'll see what other people think.”
“I've always been team first trying to win games. If that's me starting basketball games then that's what we'll do. If that's me coming off the bench, that's fine, too.”
“My entire career has revolved around playing hard.”
“At the end of the day, you gotta show up and do your job.”
“It makes my job easier when you're playing with such good players like that - guys that can score the basketball in a variety of ways.”
“That's just who I am. The game's on the line, I'm a competitor.”
“If I wanted to average double figures, I could. I could take a handful of shots a game and percentages would probably drop a little, probably wouldn't win as many games.”
“Any time you win a championship with a team, it's really special coming back and doing it in L.A. with the Lakers, which is historically one of the best franchises in the league. It's really special.”
“At the end of the day, we're all humans, right? We all like to be rewarded for things we do well, specifically doing jobs that are hard to do.”
“Whatever you want to do, do it. That's honestly for hair, for life. So you want to go get a toupee, you want to put some plugs in, go for it. If you want to shave it all, shave it all. At the end of the day, it's your life.”
“Jump rope is more of an aerobic workout than just straight running.”
“On game days I'll shower anywhere from three to four times a day, because that's how many times I workout and sweat. I'll workout three hours before the game, sweat, lift, and then stop sweating, and I'm not gonna sit around for two hours and be nasty and then try to play a game.”
“For me, it's just making sure I'm impacting the game the right way and have a chance to win it when it matters.”
“I've always been competitive. I don't think I understood how competitive I was at a younger age. I just played really hard and wanted to win. In my mind, I just thought that was how you played basketball.”
“Yeah, I never played baseball. I never played soccer. I played flag football and organized football in school through my freshman year before I stopped.”
“I do workouts at home in my garage... it's pretty old school.”