00:00The things that are very important to me that I've kind of learned throughout my career,
00:15this idea of constantly challenging yourself to be better.
00:19We all go through adversity, we all have obstacles, things that we must overcome.
00:22I think it's important to try to inspire the youth, inspire each other to be better.
00:27It crosses over industries.
00:28I can't sit here and say there's one particular industry that I'm more interested in than
00:32others.
00:33Sports is obviously a natural fit for me.
00:35I think the most important thing is this aspect and this idea of being better and inspiring
00:40others to be better.
00:41It was very easy for me to just eat whatever I wanted.
00:44Metabolism was so quick, I didn't feel it affected my performance at all.
00:47The hardest part about getting older when you're playing the NBA is not the training
00:53because you're so used to training for so many years.
00:56The hardest part is being able to change your diet.
00:58You've been accustomed to eating crap food your entire life.
01:02Now you have to have a determination and a struggle with yourself to put that stuff to
01:07the side and actually start eating healthier for the first time.
01:10I made the change probably about three years ago, three and a half years ago, where I started
01:14becoming insanely competitive with what I'm eating and eating for performance and eating
01:19for recovery, eating with a purpose.
01:21I always try to carry a message of inspiration.
01:23I always try to challenge the youth to challenge themselves, demand more for themselves, to
01:28want more for themselves in terms of being able to accomplish whatever it is that they
01:32want to accomplish.
01:33Us really just kind of being a vehicle through which some of those dreams can come true.
01:38From a health standpoint, be active.
01:40Hopefully I can help kind of show them how to be active and how fun it is to be active,
01:46whether it's playing a sport by yourself or playing with your friends.
01:50I mean, there's just so many things that can be done, but it can't feel like it's a chore.
01:54You want to go out there and you want to have a good time.
01:55You want to play.
01:56You want to have fun with your friends, and by the process of doing that, you're being
02:00active and being more healthy.
02:02What I'm looking forward to is just being around the game and just having fun.
02:05That's always the best part, right?
02:06You get around the game.
02:07You get up and down.
02:09You enjoy it.
02:10You're being active.
02:11You're being competitive.
02:12It's a sport that I love, and we all have that kind of common bond.
02:19The sport itself is such a great sport that hopefully it'll transition over, but it's
02:23a process, though.
02:24So you want to talk about getting better, it takes time.
02:26It takes camps, clinics, just teaching the basics and the fundamentals of the sport.
02:32I don't think we'll ever be able to take down football, and I don't think that's a realistic
02:36goal at all, but you want to be able to increase the popularity of the sport of basketball,
02:42and hopefully we can do that.
02:44One of the biggest gifts that I can give is try to pass on some of the knowledge and some
02:48of the things that I've learned through the game of basketball, and try to teach them
02:52the things that I've learned, basically, by doing camps and clinics and talks and things
02:58of that nature.
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