If you put your effort and concentration and to play into your potential to be the best that you can be,

I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book, we're going to be winners.

The talent for so many players today, the talent and the spotlight, it's taking them to heights that their character's not strong enough to support.

I'm one of those set goals to achieve goals.

I talked about faith, passion, obviously the drive with the guys that I've been around,

and the guys that surround me every single day.

If I want to be one of the best, I've got to play with and against the best.

That which gets praised gets with beautiful.

You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle, brought you by PGC Basketball. Thank you for tuning in. You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle broadcasting here in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm your host Adam Bradley, alongside T.J. Roseen today. TJ, we've got a fun two-part shoot-around episode. The first half, we're going to talk about a quote that I absolutely love from Damian Lillard. and the second half we'll talk about the anxiety that Chris Paul admitted to feeling after

going to Houston and causing them to throw up and a lot of other interesting quotes in an

interview he did recently.

But let's talk about Damian Lillard.

We've recorded a while back a shootaround where I commented that I didn't think all

championships were created equal, right,

and that we've just put this onus in the pro ranks to get that ring and get it at all

cost.

But for me, I'm like, you know, like, I'd rather have the joy that a Dirk and a whiskey

felt when he won his ring.

Or LeBron, when he went back to cleveland that time that joy and that

emotion when you compare that to joining on with the warriors where you're expected to win and no one's

surprise you won and yes you're happy but it's a different level of joy it's a different level of

satisfaction and i've been firm on this that not all championships are created equal.

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