When I came out in the draft, people kept asking me, 'So are you a small forward or a power forward?' and I was like, 'I'm a basketball player.' Period.

If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

I always wanted to be a basketball player.

When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

He's part basketball player, part acrobat.