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I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I'm back home.

I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

My days shouldn't be hard because I'm doing what I'm doing and that's playing basketball.

With me and basketball, it became part of me.

I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

I never looked at basketball as work. I always enjoyed it as my hobby. I loved it. Once that love is gone, and I'm tired of working out every day and doing all the stuff to get me ready for games, and I'm tired of lifting and conditioning and doing all that other stuff around it, and I'd rather stay in bed, then it's time to go.

I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high.