A biography for Trae Younghasn’t been written yet.
“I'm excited about getting the opportunity to show people that I can play defense.”
“I think people get caught up a little bit in the fact of finding things that people can't do instead of looking at the things that the player can do.”
“I just try and make the right play. It led to me leading the country in points and assists.”
“I'll always have a chip on my shoulder until I hang my shoes up. No matter how long I play this game, the chip on my shoulder will always be there. That won't change.”
“I just hope I get picked by the right team and the team that really wants me and a team where I can help and take it to the next level.”
“I bring a lot to a team. I bring immediate impact. As far as my skillset, I can attack defenders in multiple ways and get my teammates involved.”
“Rod Strickland has been influential. He gives me a lot of advice, good and bad games; he is someone I really look up to a lot.”
“I'll never regret a moment I spent at the University of Oklahoma or my decision to stay home and become a Sooner for life.”
“That's the nature of basketball. You gotta go out there and compete.”
“I'm light-skinned. I'm mixed with black and white.”
“It's a mystery coming out each and every game to try and figure out how a team is going to guard me and how I'm going to dictate how my team wins.”
“I would love playing with a guy like Porzingis who can score, stretch the floor, who can do a lot, a lot of different things. But I could see myself doing some pretty good things with other teams, too.”
“The history behind the Garden and all the players that have come through and played on that court in the Garden, I think that the history is the reason why it still is, in my mind, the mecca of basketball. It definitely draws me in. That's the thing about New York; that's a big thing about the history, and the Garden is a big part of that.”
“A lot of my family is from Texas, stuff like that, so I was always in Texas, and when you grow up in Texas, around Texas, you want to go to the biggest Texas school, and UT was that.”
“I'm getting guarded like nobody else in the country is being guarded, scouted on like no one else in the country is.”
“To me, I'll always be the skinny, 5-foot-6 eighth-grader on the YMCA court, trying to get grown men to choose me for pickup games. It wasn't always easy. And that's what drives me.”
“My goal is to the best player in the NBA. That's what I'm focusing on each and every day.”
“I know what I need to work on, and I know what I need to prove and to show, and that's all that matters.”
“I've played a lot of basketball during my life - and it's not always been good.”
“Who wouldn't want to be compared to a guy like Steph Curry?”