00:00I just had this strong sense of faith.
00:04When I was 10 years old, I told my dad I was going to the NBA.
00:28Pressure met me.
00:30I met it with a smile.
00:36Life started moving faster than it ever did back home in College Park.
00:42Everything sped up.
00:44Games, cameras, expectations.
00:48The faster life moved, the more I had to slow my mind, breathe, and keep smiling.
00:57Injuries, criticism, I smiled.
01:00Three-time Defensive Player of the Year, I smiled.
01:03On that Olympic podium, I smiled.
01:06Winning that championship, I smiled.
01:09Through all of it, I smiled through the storm.
01:16Him and those freshmen spent the whole summer in that little maroon and gray gym.
01:25By the time when we got to his sophomore year,
01:29folks started flying in just to see what we were building in that tiny church school.
01:36I'm more than a ball player.
01:41I'm a father, a brother, a son.
01:48A man still learning who he is without the jersey.
01:56Standing here at 40 years old, I can look that 10-year-old in the eyes and say,
02:02we didn't waste the gift, we shared it with the world.
02:12The real heart was everywhere this game took me.
02:16And everyone it allowed me to inspire.
02:21Philippians 4.13 says,
02:24I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
02:30From college punk to the Hall of Fame stage.
02:36I'm still that kid who put his mind to a dream.
02:40Held on to his faith.
02:42And smiled through every storm.
02:57The world he stays with me.
02:57Though I'm partially except for all this of us.
02:58Though I'm still trying to imagine if it's a Jonas.
03:00I brass there, I said uh,
03:00which I have made the best of my life.isphere.
03:00But I'm
03:00a young fellow His throne. And I've
03:00made the best of my heart. I have made
03:00the best of my heart. However, I
03:02had someone who has been sitting here and hold. So by the way,
03:02I got to my life. I placed it on the
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