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If someone were to ask me before I made the NBA, you going to have to go through all this, you're going to have to sign your soul away to play in the league, I still would have done it.

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.

That's a dream of mine, to be able to coach at the NBA level.

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.

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.

It was a dream come true to be drafted by a pro team and have the opportunity to play.

The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.