"I might play in shorts, but I wear the pants."
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"Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won't let me be selfish."
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"I love sharing the ball with my teammates. I see a lot of things before my teammates see them."
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"I'm not promising a championship. I know how hard that is to deliver. We're not ready right now."
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"I will have no problem coming to practice on time. The locker room is great, but we have to prove ourselves on the court."
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"I've been watching basketball for a long time, I'm a historian of the game. I don't know any other team that's gotten to the Finals without two All-Stars... I cannot remember thinking of it. I don't even know if it's ever happened, for a team to lose two All-Stars and still be able to make it to the Finals."
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"We want to win it all. The only reason we play this game is to win championships."
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"I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey."
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"I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level."
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"That's all our team is about. If we stop people, we're the most athletic team in this whole tournament and we can get out and get easy buckets."
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"I don't let individual statistics make me a focus or more of a focus. I just tried to come out and attack early and get a big lead. We were able to take it in overtime and win."
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"I've always been a leader. I've always kind of been the tallest person on the team when I was younger but always kind of the smartest. I was ahead of my time. I wasn't always the oldest, I kind of was the youngest on the team, but, I kind of knew what to do at times."
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"I'm very, very confident in my ability to see the game - even before it's played."
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"It's hard for me to congratulate somebody after you just lose to them. I'm a winner. It's not being a poor sport or anything like that. If somebody beats you up, you're not going to congratulate them. That doesn't make sense to me. I'm a competitor."
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"A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me."
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"I hope I can help guys coming out of high school, if they need advice. I know the ins and outs of everything."
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"A team can't work when a guy puts himself in front of a team. I have yet to be on a team like that."
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"If I didn't believe in this team and this organization and the direction that we're headed, I wouldn't have signed the extension."
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"There's no reason to play in the NBA if you don't believe you can win it all."
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"I love seeing my teammates succeed. That's what I get more excited about than anything"
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