“Going to Golden State, I really fine-tuned everything on defense, which is important because the NBA is moving away from standard bigs and going toward bigs that can switch and things like that.”

American professional basketball player

JaVale McGee is an American professional basketball player, born in 1988. He has played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association and is known for a long NBA career that included championship seasons. McGee played college basketball for the Nevada Wolf Pack before the Washington Wizards selected him 18th overall in the 2008 NBA draft. He won back-to-back NBA titles with the Golden State Warriors in 2017 and 2018, then added another with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020. He is also the son of Olympic gold medalist Pamela McGee and won gold with the 2020 U.S. Olympic team.