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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
My mother is basically an immigrant because she came from Tonga.
I always pray before the game. I have a big-time belief in that. It just gives me that extra boost, the confidence, the faith that I'm going to play and be safe.
Milwaukee, man... it's home.
If I can't defend my opponent and if he scores as much I'm scoring then he won the matchup.
We're professionals, everybody scores. It's just a matter of limiting them as much as you can and trying to contain them.
You don't want to endorse hate; you don't want to endorse racism. You don't want to support controversy.
Kids are cruel.
I wanted to be like Juwan Howard, whose basketball camp I went to as kid for six years. Those camps meant everything to me and my friends. We'd all seen Juwan on TV and then... there he was. In our gym. We could see him. We could give him a high five.
That's what drives me, just to be there for my team.
I think what I wanted mostly to experience in college is playing college basketball and learning.
Everybody knows I hate attention.
Black Lives Matter and police brutality are issues that are important to me.
I really want to be a philanthropist.
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.
I don't care what haters think - I'm proud to not stay in Trump hotels.
Look at everybody in the league. They don't pay players to play defense.
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 really wasn't a guy that idolizes fame and self-glorification.
I know there are a lot of eyes on me.
Yeah, I've had injuries.
I was named after a Muslim.
I'm trying to be a throwback player and only stick with one team.
I know what it was like to grow up in Chicago and see the same problems every day.
Growing up, I admired old cars. In Chicago, on the South Side, people didn't have the newest cars, but one thing I always noticed was that they took good care of their cars. It was a pride thing. Even if you had a funky Oldsmobile, you kept it clean. You changed the oil. You took a toothbrush to the rims.
Going back and getting my degree is something that I promised myself and my mom the day I called her and my dad to tell them that I was entering the draft. Not a lot of people in my family can say they got a college diploma, so I want to do that - for them and for me.
I want to show good sportsmanship.
When it comes to me not supporting Donald Trump, it's pretty much correlated to the things he has said.
We carry home with us, all the good and the bad and the in-between.
I'm lucky to have the support and the platform I have, and I plan on making the most of it.
I want to be treated like everyone else.
I've scored 30s and 20s off of guys who say they try to play defense.
I love spilling my creativity on paper. I just draw.
I think people know about my love for cars - my infatuation for cars.
I try to fulfill my role and my responsibility as much as I can.
I want to always serve other people. It could be the youngest guy in the gym that looks up to me or the oldest fella. I just want to be there for them.
I really fantasize a lot because I'm a dreamer.
Basketball is not who I am; it's what I do.
I want to be just like Michael Jordan. Chicago greats get noticed around the city. People have a lot of respect for them. I look up to those guys a lot. I want to be part of that family.
My mother didn't get her citizenship until much later in life.
I'm always looking toward the next game. You're only as good as your last one. That keeps me going.
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.
On the Sabbath, I'm supposed to focus on Jesus and the resurrection. But if I don't practice, I let the team down. I don't want my teammates to think that I think I'm special.
You can't strip anyone of their dreams of pursuing a job.
I believe that if you love what you do, and you work hard at it, everything falls in place.
You know I'm a Chicago kid, and Chicago will always have a big piece of my heart. But with Milwaukee - for me it was just love at first sight. As soon as I got here, I was like, Wow, this is the place for me.
Really, I've been set up for a good position where Duke is setting me up for a lot of exposure, and it's part of my responsibility to show up for them because the team that we have, I play a really vital role.
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.
I'm just always around my cars. My favorite brand is Cadillac.
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.
Old cars have things to say. With an old car, you have to be extra observant about everything. You have to listen and pay attention - to how the engine sounds, where the oil levels are at, if it's running hot, all of that. You've gotta be tuned in, and I like that. New cars, to me they just feel like plain sheets of metal.
Nobody is different from anyone else, no matter what the situation. We're all equal.
You can't know who you are unless you know where you came from and give praise to those who laid the foundation.
When you really struggle at one thing, you don't take it for granted.
I just want to be a good person, to be a good man for my family, and to my community and just to keep on playing this game that I love.
The NBA is the biggest dream of basketball players, and I'm no different.
We might all come from different places, but home means something - something powerful - to each of us.
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.
That's what I want to do with my life. Be a good person when all the lights are off. When everybody doesn't need to see you, shine and know that you know you did the right thing at the end of the day.
I love sleep. I find sleep to be a hobby.
I don't support someone who endorses hate on other people.
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