Nickeil Alexander-Walker on when he realized SGA was special growing up:
“The thing with him that stood out to me, he didn’t get emotional with the game. He was very consistent in like ‘bro I know I’m gonna make it no matter how bad it is right now.’ He just stuck to his work. He would watch film of like Steph or Kyrie and the next day implementing it in our workouts… For me I was frustrated with the game. I used to get so mad… But he never wavered. That’s why now to this day people see the calm and the aura that they talk about. He’s been that way his entire upbringing of basketball. He just had faith in it and whatever happened, did it suck to him? Yeah but he had so much emotional control that it never wavered”
(Via @OldManAndThree)
SGA says you’re doing something right when fans start to hate you.
“Everybody in the history of the NBA has an arc where everyone loves them, and then everyone hates them. LeBron James was hated, and look what he’s done for the game? It’s part of the game. I love it. It’s stuff I dreamed about as a kid.”
(Via https://t.co/LpHI8KwI68)
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