A biography for Jabari Parkerhasn’t been written yet.
“I can't be complacent and have to be aggressive. Sometimes I can be too nonchalant in a game.”
“I'm a really big fan of hip-hop, and I can listen to it before the game, but I'm not that into a lot of profane music.”
“When it comes to me not supporting Donald Trump, it's pretty much correlated to the things he has said.”
“Black Lives Matter and police brutality are issues that are important to me.”
“It's always good to have people from my school accomplish great things. It doesn't necessarily have to be just basketball. I want to see more people do other things from my school.”
“I don't aspire to be the richest man.”
“Look at everybody in the league. They don't pay players to play defense.”
“Everybody knows I hate attention.”
“The NBA is the biggest dream of basketball players, and I'm no different.”
“I don't look for anything about fame.”
“My role is what I make it to be. That's just playing the right way, being a good teammate and hopefully everything else takes care of itself.”
“Without my church, without my teaching of good morals, I wouldn't be the Jabari that I am today. It's the foundation that my family stands on. If we do things on a consistent basis that are positive, it'll all work out.”
“I don't think a lot of people consider golf a sport. It's kind of a leisure event. I would like to play. And I'd like to learn how to shoot a bow and arrow.”
“I don't support someone who endorses hate on other people.”
“As a basketball player, you dream of being able to play in front of your hometown. And if you're lucky, other guys from your city are right there beside you.”
“I really fantasize a lot because I'm a dreamer.”
“The great players always have that one older player, that one vet they competed against who was older.”
“I'm black, and he's said some controversial stuff about black people. When it comes to me not supporting Donald Trump, it's correlated to the things he has said. I have a gay uncle. All the things he said in his campaign are things I can't associate myself with.”
“I played a lot of 4. Even in high school.”