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Part of the reason why Kobe Bryant is such a big inspiration to me is because he was shipped off to the Lakers right out of high school. He went from English class to the Great Western Forum.

Strong college basketball is great for the NBA.

Everyone around me, my family and my friends, always said that, 'You have to play for Miami Heat.'

I know I can play in the NBA, and I can be a very good player in the NBA.

I like Josh Hart. I've liked him since 'Nova.

The NBA is kind of where I've grown up, coming out of high school at 18.

In 1989-90 I became one of the group known as the Jordanaires, a.k.a. the Bulls. From the day I arrived in Chicago, I knew what everyone else on the team did: Michael Jordan was a phenomenal talent.

I was one of the best players in the NBA.

Kevin Gamble was one of the first NBA players from my city.

If you're out there, and you can't do it, that makes you a bust. Well, I was never really out there. I was never Greg Oden in the NBA.

I was playing division three basketball and I wanted to find a way to work in basketball full-time. The way to do that was not in division three right away; you'd have to be a part-time assistant or whatever. So, I made the decision to transfer to Kentucky. Just so I could get my feet wet and maybe get a job in D-1.

I like Zach Lowe.

I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history, and I know it will only get worse as Kevin Durant continues doing big things.

I'm just trying to establish myself, play the game the right way with my teammates, have fun, make the right plays, and get adjusted to the pro game. It's different from college. It's a little bit faster, so I'm just trying to get as comfortable as I can on the court.

Everyone knows my career was catapulted to another level when I got traded to the Boston Celtics.

Since I've been in the NBA, I've showed what I can do on the court.

My guess is everybody loved Draymond Green. How do you not like a guy like that? A pretty well rounded player in college.

I've always found myself watching the NBA game more, even when I was coaching college. So I'll probably gravitate toward doing something in the NBA.

I still have my back to the basket because there's going to be times where I'm going to really have to score down low, but I'm really working on my face-up game because in the league, there's more space, and there's not double-teams and triple-teams coming at you like how it was in college.

I grew up watching LeBron.

Here I am, playing with Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Jason Kidd is my coach, I'm in Brooklyn, New York, they lobbied for me to be here... Regardless of my circumstances, I'm here.

I think when I moved to the United States and saw how serious basketball was and how good I was compared to everyone else. You just came from Canada and you're top five in the country; you're young and everyone says you can be a pro. That's when I started thinking: if I work hard, the dream can come true.

When I was really rolling in Portland, I was top five in minutes.

Yep, I jumped from college to the ABL, just in time for the league to go under.

When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.