Throughout my journey in basketball, I always have someone to talk to in my father. I know how hard he had to work as an athlete.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My dad has always been my coach. And I've spent so much time with him. So he's one of my best friends. And I can talk to him about everything.
Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.
I learned a lot from my father. I'm very lucky to have a father who was a professional athlete.
I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.
I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.
Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats.
My dad was the one who really loved basketball, and he was the one that put the basketball in my hands, and my mom was 'Team Mom' of all my teams. I used to play for three or four teams at once and she would just spend her entire afternoon driving me from practice to practice to practice.
My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'
My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.