My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.
Basketball was my whole life until I was 20 years old. All I knew was basketball. Then came golf, and I thought that's all I wanted to do then.
I had never dreamed about the NBA like some guys did. I was a non-scholarship player at an NAIA college. I played on the Boys and Girls Club team in my freshman and sophomore years of high school before I made the high school team. I was our backup center in college.
I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.
I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then I'd go baseball, and then I'd go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.
My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.
My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I've been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I've been in the NBA.
I always had a dream to someday own an NBA team.
When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.
My dream was to play for Alabama - football, basketball.