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.

D'Angelo Russell

Work Pet Men

When you find your niche, you just gotta continue to be confident and thrive in it.

D'Angelo Russell

Your You Us

I can control how much work I put in for me to be consistent.

D'Angelo Russell

Work Tent Ten

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

D'Angelo Russell

Tin Tells Tell

I knew I wasn't going back to Brooklyn... I never knew exactly. I just kinda - you work with these guys every day. You see the same players, you see the same coaching staff, you see the same trainers every day. So when they start to act a little different, you recognize it... I could feel it.

D'Angelo Russell

Work Art You

My dad is one of the smartest guys I know.

D'Angelo Russell

Art Test T

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

D'Angelo Russell

Men Good You

I am tired of talking about what I do or what I am going to do.

D'Angelo Russell

Tired Tire Talking

It's almost like going to high school before you got to go to college. You felt a little bit better before you got to college. That's how I feel about Brooklyn.

D'Angelo Russell

You T School

I'm happy that I got an All-Star under my belt.

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UN T Star

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.

D'Angelo Russell

Travel Time Wings

I have nothing but great things to say about Brooklyn.

D'Angelo Russell

Great Things Thing

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.

D'Angelo Russell

Work Pet Men

The Lakers fanbase is enormous. Getting the fans on our side is a huge advantage for us.

D'Angelo Russell

Age Van Us

Going around the league, people know, 'Oh, he got in some trouble' or 'He didn't play well his rookie year' or 'He's a bust.' That's the headline. I'm going to have a million more opportunities to create new headlines, and I can't wait. Can't wait.

D'Angelo Russell

Year Well Wait

Some players thrive in the open-style, AAU games - the all-star games. But when it comes to playing in an actual system and having to 'think' the game, you see where some guys separated themselves.

D'Angelo Russell

You Yin Where

I'll let my game speak for itself.

D'Angelo Russell

T Speak Self

Kobe was a legend.

D'Angelo Russell

Legend Leg Kobe

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.

D'Angelo Russell

Good Your You

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

D'Angelo Russell

Art You Wing

Yeah, once you get a taste of the playoffs - I couldn't imagine not making it back to the playoffs. Give credit to LeBron and those guys who do it so many consecutive years.

D'Angelo Russell

You Years Year

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.

D'Angelo Russell

I liked Cleveland, they got so much heart in that arena.

D'Angelo Russell

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.

D'Angelo Russell

Every year you want to keep elevating you. And that's what I want to do.

D'Angelo Russell

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.

D'Angelo Russell

I got ice in my veins!

D'Angelo Russell

The older you get, the more you start to understand your body, so I try to just focus on my body every summer.

D'Angelo Russell

I'd be a race car driver. I love fast cars.

D'Angelo Russell

I appreciate the city of New York just embracing me, and Brooklyn in general.

D'Angelo Russell

I know my work ethic and know what I've put in to get where I'm at.

D'Angelo Russell

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.

D'Angelo Russell

It's hard to keep a positive attitude coming to work every day, feeling like you're getting better when the same result is losing.

D'Angelo Russell

The coaches that I've had, my teammates that I've met throughout this journey, it's something that you can't take away. It almost feels like a degree. You can't take that away from somebody.

D'Angelo Russell

The league has changed in so many ways. There are no point guards anymore, there are no centers anymore; it's all positionless basketball.

D'Angelo Russell

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

D'Angelo Russell

Not a lot of teams take you into consideration, like a lot of teams can easily decide to if you're hurt or anything, make you go play.

D'Angelo Russell

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

D'Angelo Russell

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.

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