Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

It's hard to think about what I'd be leaving behind at UK. I love my BBN! They are the best you can ask for.

I've loved every moment at Kentucky with my coaches and support staff.

With me being able to guard multiple positions - and a lot of teams are switching things, like the pick-and-roll and off-ball screens - me being able to defend multiple positions would only help an organization.

I'm just trusting my work. Putting it in everyday.

I've always been a scientist in terms of watching basketball. I like to dissect it all.

I want to try to turn myself into an elite player.

The upward climb I'm on, obviously I'm getting better. And if that continues to happen I should end up in a good place.

At the end of the day you have to step in the ring and show what you got, so being overlooked by the media and stuff like that, it doesn't really bother me.

Not a lot of young guys get to play as much as I do. And the times I do it, I'm blessed and fortunate to be in the position. I'm trying to take full advantage of it.

I love to hoop.

I have a couple moves I like to get to on the iso, and then after that it's just read and reaction.

I just think we're all high-level basketball players, best in the world. And no matter the outside circumstance, we still have to play basketball.

I want to be great. But then there's the time you put into it and not everyone's willing to do that. But that's something I'm willing to do.

I'm a hooper.

I have a good enough IQ, not the greatest IQ obviously, to know which plays I can make and which plays I shouldn't. I try to stick to myself and be who I am.

I'm a learner. I just soak things up.

My mom, she calls me every day. She can't get enough of me.

I just want what's best for my teammates at the end of the day and that's giving them the best version of me.

The people around me don't let my head get too big, especially my mom. She tells me I suck every day.

I just know who I am as a person, comfortable in my own skin. And I guess that's just a testament to how I was raised. All credit to my parents. But yeah, I'm a humble guy, confident at the same time - just go about my business.