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• ‟ I've talked to a bunch of big men who told me they didn't really start playing basketball until seventh or eighth grade. That wasn't the situation with me.

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• ‟ When you're friends with somebody, it's really easy to tell them 'Help me do this; help me do that.' It's not an uncomfortable conversation.

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• ‟ My dad is the opposite of me. He's so outgoing and so loud.

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• ‟ Chicago is home for me.

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• ‟ In eighth grade, I pretty much didn't want to pass. I was 6'8'.' I was always bigger and stronger. I was getting triple-teamed, and the results weren't good. I wasn't helping my team. I was forcing shots. Then I started passing it out to my team, and they started hitting shots and slashing, and that's when things opened up for me.

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• ‟ I've been playing basketball my entire life, so I feel comfortable doing what is asked of me.

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• ‟ I've always been the tallest guy in my age group, which always made me go right down in the post.

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• ‟ Around sixth or seventh grade, I fell in love with Tim Duncan and his all-around game. That's when I started watching him. Then my father introduced me to Hakeem Olajuwon. Those were the two guys I modeled my game after.

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• ‟ First time we played together was when I was in seventh grade, he was in eighth. There was a lot of buzz in the city about Jabari Parker, rightfully so. He's obviously a major player. I was just blessed to have him one year ahead of me, so everything I did, he already finished. I've been really blessed to have him by my side.

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• ‟ Being the No. 1 pick isn't that important to me.

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• ‟ Ever since third grade - I never even noticed it until after the game - people were telling me how crazy my dad is. I think I'm so locked in when I'm playing on the floor, I only hear him maybe during timeouts or when we're up 20 or 30 and I'm on the bench. But when I'm in the game, I don't hear him.

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• ‟ I have videos of me playing basketball in diapers.

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• ‟ When I pictured myself in the NBA, I always imagined myself with an older guy taking me under his wing.

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• ‟ I'm definitely not the caliber player that LeBron is, but I find it funny how people can criticize him and the way he plays the game. So it's pretty easy to criticize me if they are still able to criticize LeBron.

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