Obviously playing on a team like the Cavs in 2014, they were championship contenders, not allowing a ton of young guys to come in and play through mistakes. If you weren't helping the team have success you weren't really afforded a lot of different opportunities.

I've been No. 12 my entire career. My cousin Nikki Haerling was a good basketball player, she wore No. 12 in high school and college, and my dad, he was No. 12 as well. I actually just started wearing it when I got to high school my freshman year.

My grandparents owned an apple orchard when I was growing up - a lot of apples, cherries... now, actually, a lot of grapes, too, to be honest.

I like this book by Angela Duckworth called 'Grit.'

I've kind of given up trying to evaluate college guys, especially guys from Virginia, just because of my bias.

There's not a lot of guys in the NBA who stick with one team for very long.

Yeah, I had a good relationship with Coach Blatt. I enjoyed playing for him. But the NBA is, first and foremost, a business, and as much as you may have liked the situation you were at, sometimes it just doesn't work out your way.

Sometimes you've got to be able to finish at the rim.

Some nights, depending on who you're going up against, some guys are just capable of hitting tough shots.

I think going to Virginia and playing in that program, you definitely take a lot of ownership in the fact of possessions and understanding the value of each possession. And that goes on both ends. Trying to be as efficient as possible on the offensive end, and not turn the ball over. But then defensively, making everything tough.

We're all going to have ups and downs throughout the course of the season.

None of us are perfect all the time.

There's a tendency, guys get really excited and go through practice, and they want to stay for an extra hour after and do these workouts. What you should be doing is getting in the cold tub or getting your corrective exercises in with your strength coach, little things like that which can help you in the long run.

To actually play a game, where you are in the World Cup, there is significance to it, the point differential matters, all these things kind of add up.

When you look across the board at the count of NBA quality players that are on various international teams in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia, there are good players all over the world now. It's just not in the NBA where America has the most talent.

I have off days all the time too, but nobody really cares when I have an off day. People care when Kyrie does.

I don't think too highly of myself, but at the same time, I don't think too lowly of myself.

There aren't a lot of second chances for second-round picks.

They have great restaurants, good nightlife. Everything is here in Brooklyn that you can possibly want.

I keep in touch with all the guys that I was training with in Chicago during the pre-draft process; Nik Stauskas, Mitch McGary, Adrien Payne, and Dougie McDermott. We all got pretty close training together and we just keep tabs every now and then.

Some games you're going to be able to get rolling, you're going to get in a good rhythm, you're going to be able to get open looks. Other games, sometimes the rhythm's not there and you've got to get off it a little bit.

A lot of Washington state is beautiful. You have just tons of mountains, beautiful bodies of water, you have a lot of rolling hills in eastern Washington. I'm biased, obviously, but there's not a lot of places in the world that are like where I grew up.

If I ever got into trouble with my sisters or was slacking off, it was always my punishment that I couldn't go to a practice or a game. That was the worst thing in the world.

I feel like I play with good poise and I know when to take my shot - and when I do, I have a lot of confidence.