I've always wanted to make it to the NBA and be on a team, so whatever team drafts me I'm going to be happy with.
If I make it in the NBA or wind up playing overseas, I will be at peace.
The NBA is kind of where I've grown up, coming out of high school at 18.
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'm playing basketball. It's my dream job. So I'm a pretty happy camper.
I always said in my mind I wanted to be an All-Star and show four-year guys in the NBA can be good players as opposed to just one-and-done guys. If I left after my freshman year, I wouldn't have gotten drafted, I probably couldn't deal with D-League and travel on the bus.
Just to be able to play one minute in an NBA game, I'm grateful for that.
If you know people around me, even in college, I was confident, but the possible thought of making it to the NBA was crazy.
At first, I was thinking about just getting to the NBA, just watching the NBA, being one of the All-Stars in the NBA.
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.
It's been a dream come true, you know, just making it to the NBA and being drafted by a great franchise like Boston.
You've got to work your way into the NBA. Guys like Seth Curry, it took him a couple years in the G-League.
I still can't believe I'm even in the NBA. Me? Hah.
Every time I'd ever stepped on a basketball court, AAU, middle school, high school, I always thought about the NBA.
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.
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.
It's always been my goal to make it to the NBA.
I remember as a young player I had this dream of playing in the NBA.
I'm living my dream, getting to play in the NBA, getting to play basketball.
I started playing basketball so late, it just means that anything is possible.
I always wanted to be a Sixer... I always wanted to finish my career as a Sixer.
Sometimes you don't go straight from high school or college and get to the NBA from there. Sometimes you have to go when you're a little bit older and try that other route like Jeremy Lin. And he made it.
I'm blessed just making it to the NBA. That was my first goal and dream. Playing with Kobe and Shaq and for a coach like Phil Jackson, and then going to play with guys like Jordan and Jerry Stackhouse, it's just a crazy experience.
I'm what you would term a lifer. Basketball is what I love. It doesn't matter where I'm doing it or in what position I'm doing it. I just love contributing to the game.
I know the NBA is my all-time goal. It's what I dreamed of as a little kid.
