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Work Harder Than Your Opponent.

I Told Grant Hill Back There – I Just Got Done Playing Against Him – As A Second Grader I Had A Pistons Grant Hill Jersey. That Was The First Time I Walked Into A Gym. That’s When I Fell In Love With The Game. My Mom, I Think She Just Wanted To Get Me And My Brothers Out Of The House For A Few Hours. When I Walked Into The Gym, I Fell In Love With The Game.

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.

Hopefully Before I'm Done, I Can Be On An Olympic Team.

You Hear All These Stories About, 'there's One In A Million Guys That Make It To The Nba And Stay There.' To See People Cheering For Me And When They Say My Name, It's Just Crazy. It's Still Crazy To Me.