I'm Not Out Here To Be Beefing

I Play Because I Have Fun. The Vets Of This Team, I Just Wanted To Say Thanks To Them. You Guys Mean So Much To Me. I Can Have A Terrible Day And Walk In The Gym And Have Hasheem Smile At Me. That Will Change My Day.

I Was The Second-best Player In High School. I Was The Second Pick In The Draft. I've Been Second In The Mvp Voting Three Times. I Came In Second In The Finals. I'm Tired Of Being Second. I'm Not Going To Settle For That. I'm Done With It.

And Last, My Mom. I Don’t Think You Know What You Did. You Had My Brother When You Were 18 Years Old. Three Years Later, I Came Out. The Odds Were Stacked Against Us. Single Parent With Two Boys By The Time You Were 21 Years Old. Everybody Told Us We Weren’t Supposed To Be Here. We Went From Apartment To Apartment By Ourselves. One Of The Best Memories I Had Was When We Moved Into Our First Apartment, No Bed, No Furniture And We Just Sat In The Living Room And Just Hugged Each Other. We Thought We Made It.

How I Grew Up, Everybody Was Telling Me, "you Can't Do This, You Can't Get Tattoos, You've Got To Look A Certain Way." Now, I'm Like, "why?"

I Wanted To The Best Player In The State - [the Best] The Area Has Ever Seen. That's Always Been My Goal. Guys Like Elgin Baylor, Adrian Dantley And Dave Bing, It's Tough To Pass Those Guys. So I'm Studying, Working. My Project's Not Over Yet. Hopefully, I Get There.