Jordan Poole

I was able to learn a lot in my first four years in the league at a very high level, and I'm appreciative and thankful of that.

I enjoy playing the game that I love and thankful for that opportunity but, I mean, I'm a competitor. The fun part of this is winning games.

Growing up, whatever team I was on, I was always a leader. It was more so in terms of giving guys confidence, telling them, 'Yo, just be yourself.' You don't have to overthink it. Just positive reinforcement, positive reinforcement.

Being in Milwaukee, being in Wisconsin, it's not a big city, it's cold, right? So we have to work for the stuff that we want. If you want to have money, you have to go do a job. It's not like we have acting gigs or crazy athletics or crazy opportunities for schools and dance and music. It's pretty regular.

The older you get, the more knowledge you gain as an individual, as a human.

I don't do much. I just kind of chill at home, be to myself. I put all of my energy into the hoop stuff, go home, restore my energy so I can come back and do it again.