Robin Lopez

“The Lakers have always had nice jerseys.”

“Obviously I'm an NBA player, I want to play basketball.”

“I've had a lot of coaches at my high school and at Stanford and in the NBA who helped me. Bill Cartwright comes to mind.”

“I'm trying to capitalize on taking high percentage shots and hopefully making them at a high clip.”

“There are a lot of facets of the triangle I can take advantage of. It does a great job of spacing the floor, getting people in the right spots. It plays to my strengths. I stay around the elbow and blocks.”

“You never know what is going to happen in the league.”

“L. Frank Baum is a genius.”

“I go after the back of the basket pretty fiercely. It's padded so I know it's safe.”

“I've always thought I'm a lot more versatile than I've shown the floor.”

“Everybody sacrifices when you're in a team setting. It's kind of par for the course.”

“I'm just out there trying to have fun not letting anything bother me out there on the floor, which may appear sometimes why I'm just completely goofing out there.”

“Brook isn't just my brother, he's one of my closest friends. That won't change.”

“I like to travel a lot in the offseason.”

“I just know as a rookie, a young guy, you see the game totally differently and it could take awhile for it to slow down the right way.”

“I've always prided myself on being a defensive big man.”

“I think the only mascot that truly defeated me was Grizz of the Memphis Grizzlies. He threw a 'Kick Me' sign on my back. I thought he was extending an olive branch... he blindsided me.”

“If I'm not playing basketball, I'm reading or thinking of stories I can create.”

“I loved playing in the triangle. That was a fun experience for me.”

“Obviously, anybody in the NBA would love to be on a competitive squad.”

“The influences I had were all people with versatile interests who had a large world view.”