Gordon Hayward

“If you can read the play before it happens, and make the pass before the player's gonna be there, you're gonna be successful.”

“I had obviously a freak injury right when I got there and there's a lot of things that were kind of out of my control when I was in Boston.”

“The 'Halo' series is my favorite. Me and my friends actually played in tournaments and won some money doing that when we were younger.”

“The Salt Lake fans are so passionate.”

“I've had some bad haircuts in the past.”

“Growing up, video games allowed me to feed this competitive drive while still hanging out with my friends and being a kid.”

“I think video games have been instrumental to me as an NBA player.”

“I'm trying to make the right play a lot of times and sometimes that gets me in trouble.”

“Growing up, I played every sport I could play, so I didn't have much time, but when I wasn't playing sports, I was definitely playing video games. But my mom used to tell me that I could only play video games for two hours a day and then they would turn off the Internet so I couldn't play online.”

“My wife has changed my appearance a bit.”

“Certainly, there's nothing like playing basketball.”

“You look at pictures of me when I was in eighth grade, and I look completely different.”

“Personally, I think watching streamers play is the best way to get better, other than practicing yourself. So I watch Ninja, Tfue, Dr. Lupo. It's easy to watch what they do, and try to emulate it.”

“When you're at the house, there's a lot of distractions and a lot of things that can take you away from your workout.”

“Any time somebody goes through a major injury you feel for him and also what I've been through, I know firsthand what it's like.”

“Sometimes it's hard to be aggressive in looking for your shot if shots aren't going in.”

“The one thing I've never been into are the sports games. I don't know, I just don't like playing those as much.”

“That's life in the league for you, though. I mean - that's life for you, period. Things don't always happen in a straight line. There's usually going to be a zig here, a zag there, that catches you by surprise. And then it's on you to adapt.”

“I think playing with no fans would be pretty wild. It would almost be like a scrimmage at training camp. You'd have to bring all of your own energy. Home-court advantage is pretty much thrown out the window at that point in time.”

“You want to take shots you practice thousands and thousands of times. You want to take those same shots in games. The easier you can find those shots, the better.”