My family's always going to be together.

Melo has a chance to be a better player than me, for sure. I feel at the same age, he's better than me. In real time, I don't think he's better than me. But I'm the big brother so I'm always going to have that edge over him.

It gets frustrating when you play basketball for your whole life and then it gets taken from you for a little bit.

I don't like losing.

Obviously if your head coach expects more of you, you bring it to the table.

We're competitors.

If I'm mad or showing my frustration, the whole team's gonna be like that, techs, and people are going to go down. So I just try to keep the even keel. That's why I don't get too high or too low. I've been playing like that my whole life. It's just natural for me.

Getting on fast-breaks, you don't do that when you let a team shoot 20 free throws in one quarter.

That's what happens when you play in L.A. Everybody expects you to do well.

People are kind of used to me shooting.

I don't like to do a lot of talking.

It helps me get rebounds, I can see over the defense pretty easily, and yeah, I thank God he blessed me with height.

Actually, I've always been kind of a leader, and it's kind of just stuck with me throughout my whole career.

My dad had me start lifting weights at 12, and for me it was fun.

Obviously you have LeBron, the best player in the world, all the attention is on him. A lot of the wins and losses are targeted towards him.

I'm from here, so I know how it is playing in L.A. If you're winning, they love you. If not, they'll find someone else to do the job.

Obviously, I want to be an All-Star.

I know who I am. People who know me know who I am. That's all that matters.

If you mention the Lakers, you think about Kobe.

I just go out there and play basketball.

You've never seen anyone shoot it like me. It comes off the left side. I don't know. I don't know. It still spins the right way.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

I can shoot.

I've been shooting all my life.