If you put your effort in 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 of achievements.

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.

So that which gets praised, gets repeated.

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Today, players, we're going to be talking about what a special opportunity you have to be playing basketball wherever you happen to be playing this got brought up between

some conversations tj and i were having as we are in the midst of the world cup season and soccer

is on tv and you're watching these players and one of the themes that we drew from what we were watching is there's a level of

appreciation, a level of enthusiasm, a level of just admiration, like, wow, I get to play

on this stage in this environment with these people competing, playing the game I love.

You can see that there's a passion with

these players and they recognize what a special opportunity I have to play this game.

And, you know, I can't help but to think, and TJ, I'll let you elaborate on it.

But, you know, yes, the stage isn't as big, right?

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