I just look around and see the younger kids that look up to me from where I'm from and people I play with that that just , I know they pray every day to be in this situation . So that really inspires me and seeing my mom , my mom's grind her working in a cubicle for 20 years to provide and , and seeing my brother who played basketball first and didn't get to make it to this level and him supporting me . And so I just feel like me being that first college athlete in my family to play basketball has just been great and they all inspired me just by the support that they've given me .
And as I looked around , I mean , I had a lot of friends that play basketball with me And as I look here and sit here today , my main motivation is them , not , a lot of them got to be able to play at this level , whether there's something that happened or just not being had the opportunities that I had . And so that's something that really inspires me in the days that I don't , maybe don't feel like working out or something . I just look around and see the younger kids that look up to me from where I'm from and people I play with that that just , I know they pray every day to be in this situation .
Ethan's bigger than that or he wants me to play against older kids . And so he really inspired me to , you know , give my all to the game and introducing God into my life early . And as I looked around , I mean , I had a lot of friends that play basketball with me And as I look here and sit here today , my main motivation is them , not , a lot of them got to be able to play at this level , whether there's something that happened or just not being had the opportunities that I had .
Um , you've experienced pretty much every type of situation and I can see you love basketball , you love . Um What it brings so like what inspired your basketball journey ? What made you be like , man , I wanna , I wanna play basketball .
So he's usually , he's used to , you could tell he's used to like being guarded by 6869 guys . But yeah , Kyrie , he was , he's one of those guys that left the gym inspired at the gym , you know , just thinking that , oh wow , man . I mean , it's , this game is the time the game you gotta put time into , like you can't expect to be like an NBA pro in a couple of years .
