What I miss the most is the locker room, the dinners after the games. The preparation, the sense of going out there and be a team.
If you take going to the bench as a demotion or something that's terrible, you start with a bad attitude.
Sometimes you play and you think you're doing one thing, and then you don't. The coaches are the ones who see it the best way.
I have a real sense of appreciation of being in the NBA with all that I'd gone through.
It's not like I was a one-of-a-kind talented guy at 18 who made it to the NBA and have been playing in All-Star Games ever since.
Sometimes you play and you think you're doing one thing, and then you don't. The coaches are the ones who see it the best way.
Some people think, 'Who is this guy? Where did he come from? I never heard of him.' But it took me time to become a good NBA player.
My city was very basketball-minded so I was born playing basketball and I didn't like playing soccer that much.
It's not like I was a one-of-a-kind talented guy at 18 who made it to the NBA and have been playing in All-Star Games ever since.
It's a different thing when you play on a team that has to win, that doesn't consider it a good year unless you win the championship.
If you take going to the bench as a demotion or something that's terrible, you start with a bad attitude.