It's easy to be just a basketball player, get paid and come here to do that. But to be professional about it is different.

There is a lot of extra energy with being in a Lakers uniform.

I consider myself a trendsetter.

Everyone in the league has a journey or a legacy, whether you're in the league for five years or you're in the league for one year.

If I miss 20 in a row and coach tells me to keep shooting, that's what I'm going to do.

I want to learn how to stick around this league. I don't think there's a cheat code to it. But the sooner you find it out, the better you'll be.

There's a lot of spoiled Lakers fans.

I can't be funny, goofy, happy go lucky all the time.

It's hard to come off the bench and be ready all the time.

I wasn't really a fashionable guy in high school.

It's always good to be a trendsetter.

I always had the confidence. The platform, guys getting injured and giving me multiple opportunities, that has allowed me to showcase it.

I want to be me - and people know it's me. I don't want: 'He's trying to act like Kobe' or 'His answers are like something Kobe would've said.' Nah. If it's me, I'm going to say it.

You look good. You play good. That's a true statement.

Yeah, I consider myself an unpredictable player. A player that's flashy here and there and then is maybe conservative here and there and I think when it comes to dressing, it's me figuring out that balance of when to be flashy or when to be super simple with maybe flashy shoes.

If you have your own taste, you know what looks right and what looks good on you versus someone kind of telling you what looks good on you.

I wing my style. I think it's definitely something on how you feel, the weather, that plays a part.

I'm part-time vegan. I try to be vegan when I can. But I dip and dive in everywhere.

I hired a full-time chef, so I wasn't taking that time to order pizzas or eat Wild Wings or stuff like that. I travel somewhere, I'm gone for a long period, I have a chef. I think that elevated my game.

It can be easy to just be a professional half the time, and you may see half the results, but when you're consistent, you can see your full results and you can pan out to be who you want to be year by year.

I'm a dog lover - I've had them since I was younger.

It's hard to be so mentally competitive and when you're not competing you try to turn it off but it doesn't work like that. I don't think you can just turn it off, I think you still find ways to be competitive - if it's playing a video game, if it's playing cards.

As far as coming out on top with the right mentality and it molding you into the best human being you can be, I think that's what Brooklyn did for me. I became an All-Star, I got to touch the playoffs. To get a piece of that, I'm forever thankful.

Like, if you get close enough to me you'll see how I really am.