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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.

Joe Harris

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You get a lot of accommodations for being on scholarship, but there is too much money floating around in the NCAA to not be giving it to the people earning it.

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Steph is the greatest shooter of all time. Shooting off the rack is not indicative of being a better shooter than Steph Curry.

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I kind of look like I work in a Brooklyn coffee shop.

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Shooting's contagious: Guys start seeing the ball go in and everybody starts to feel good.

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There's teams that have a lot of success in the back-to-back, and I think those teams just have a strong mental fortitude.

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My hometown, first and foremost, it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. A beautiful lake town. It's one of those communities where, winter rolls around, it's exactly the same as any other small town in America. Sort of a lower socio-economic area. There isn't anything high-end necessarily anywhere around there.

Home Winter Win

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Kyrie, he's got a big personality. He's one of these guys that's misunderstood. The way that he's construed in the media is probably going to paint him in a light that is not necessarily true. I'd say you could ask a lot of people that played with him and they'd all say that he's a great teammate and a good guy to be around.

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I come from a town in Washington state that might not be too familiar to Clevelanders called Chelan. It's really beautiful. It's about two-and-a-half hours east of Seattle and two-and-a-half hours west of Spokane. It's right in the middle of the state.

West Washington State Washington

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Kyrie is a good guy. Spent a lot of time with him over the years because we were the same class in high school and ACC when he was at Duke. Then I was with him my rookie year in Cleveland.

Time Good Years

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Every time you play against somebody like Giannis, you have to be really locked into the game plan.

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I think you go across this league and you talk to every coach and every player, and dealing with a young, up-and-coming team is much different than coaching superstar players, and everybody kind of realizes that it's a much different dynamic.

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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.

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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.

Men Worst Thing Worst

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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.

Easter You World

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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.

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

Life Great Good

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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.

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

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

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I know I have a lot of areas and room to improve.

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

I think Brooklyn is easily one of the best NBA cities out there.

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.

You don't look through the NBA schedule and say, 'this is going to be an easy night.'

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.

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.

If someone has my number that I don't know and texts me a considerable amount I would just block the number.

It's hard to compete with everything that Brooklyn has to offer as a city.

I was fortunate in college to play as a freshman, but in the NBA, not a lot of rookies are coming in and making a significant impact right off the bat.

Everybody has a different path to making it in this league. I was fortunate to get an opportunity here in Brooklyn.

None of us are perfect all the time.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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'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.

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 grew up in the Northwest, so I was always a really big Sonics fan. I loved Gary Payton, Shawn Kemp, a lot of those players who were really good through the '90s.

I was lucky in my rookie year to play in the NBA Finals, to have that experience, to see what it was like to get to that stage.

Some rookies build bad habits and it's not until year three, four, five that they get to be part of a winning-type organization and culture.

Everybody's always asking me: 'What's it like playing with LeBron?' It's really hard to describe. I'm pretty fortunate that I got him my first year. He's an awesome guy, a great leader. You're witnessing such greatness all the time and you try not to take it for granted because you see it so often, in practice or wherever.

I played football growing up so I used to lift quite a bit when I was in high school. And then I got to Virginia I was lucky, good strength and conditioning program and coach there.

Obviously my role is shooter, trying to take my numbers to another level from that perspective.

The shots, all that stuff, kind of comes and goes. You're not going to be hitting every single game. You wish that you could. But there's a lot of other areas to impact the game where I focus more on.

When you're going through a game and you miss your first couple, you definitely put a little bit of added pressure on yourself. And there is that sense of frustration. You got to block it out and realize that the whole goal of what I'm trying to do is just get open shots.