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So like I, everybody's got stressful lives.

I've got stressful life.

You've got stressful life.

Then you realize that your favorite NBA player probably feels and has that same stress, right?

Only multiplied by 10,000, 2,000.

The pressure of being Janus or being a pro basketball player got so bad that Janice,

Anza Tocumpo, one of the nicest guys in the NBA, recently told

Lori Nicol of the Milwaukee Sentinel Journal, that he nearly gave it all up, that he nearly

retired. Excuse me? What did you say? He retired. Yes, the article explains it like this.

Being Janus means something he never envisioned when he became the best player in the NBA being yonis is a spectacle it's noisy it's an approach

a wave a hello a camera in his face it's someone on the side asking for a moment of his time

when he doesn't have a moment to spare he's always courteous and polite and still wildly approachable.

Janus himself was more succinct.

Everybody, no matter where I am, everybody is watching me.

I don't think I have the time to turn it off and be myself, kind of just be me.

And all of that, the stress of being Janus led him to almost quit the game in 2020 during

the bubble.

Yeah.

Janus almost retired before he got started.

In 2020, I was ready to walk away from the game.

I had that conversation with the front office, he says.

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