Athlete

I like Zach Lowe.

I'm a fan of Stance socks.

It's crazy, I almost quit basketball when I was younger.

Growing up I was a Cleveland Browns fan and my mood would change based on how they were playing. If they were losing I wasn't as happy, I wasn't as excited, I was a little sad.

To graduate in four years as a student-athlete with no summer school is quite a feat.

You get better by playing, honestly. That's where you develop as a player is to play through mistakes in game action.

Sometimes recruiters and scouts are missing on players. Going after the guys who are really hyped, five-star players and guys that are playing in grassroots and are seen all the time. Then there are the players that developed internally. They go to small schools and they continue to work on their games and they blow up later.

I think, in moderation, taunting is a part of life.

The intensity and importance of each possession. That's the thing about the NBA that doesn't always translate to television.

Canton has meant a lot to me.

I always say, it's not the shoes; it's the player. If you can hoop, you can hoop.

Lowry is a pitbull. He's a gritty player who scores in a variety of ways, but he's also one of the few guards who also does the things that go unnoticed on the stat sheet.

Being able to go to someone's house and have dinner with them and their family, being able to go see a movie with them, or go shopping, it makes you really care for someone and hope that they succeed. That means a lot in an on-court relationship. It creates trust.

I'm not just a dumb basketball player who got lucky and graduated from college. My ratio for professor to student was nine-to-one so it wasn't like I wasn't going to class. I was going to class every day.

It's important that we take care of our future generations and expose them to some new things.

One of the advantages of going to a small school is that you're expected to be the man. They have to give you the ball, and there's more room for error in a situation where you can play your way through mistakes (and no matter how good you are, this is a valuable coping skill at the NBA level).

Draymond Green is one of the best in the league at grabbing a defensive rebound and starting the break.

When you're in the playoffs, you have to get easy baskets and you have to limit their easy baskets.

Writing and speaking and communicating, it's something important to me, and something I want to get better at.

In order for us to have changes in society, we have to do a better job with listening to each other, listening to stories, listening to experiences and sharing things. That's the way you're able to come to a better understanding of people in general. We have to do a better job in society. It starts at the top.