Great Rashad Interview (SI)

Good stuff:

Who have been your biggest influences over time?

My mom and my dad. Vince Carter. Michael Jordan was my biggest growing up. Not because he was MJ, but because I seen somebody get something he worked so hard for. The fame, the label, the championships. A guy from North Carolina. Wilmington. To get all those things let me know that anything's possible. When I was in sixth grade --�I think everybody in the world does this --�I'd go outside in the backyard and want to be this guy for the day. I was always MJ, Shaq or Larry Bird. Or Magic, depending on if I felt like passing the ball that day. But most of the time I was Jordan.

About Julius Hodge calling him a pussy:

When somebody like Julius Hodge says that, I know for a fact he means no harm. Because he can do no harm. I just took it as somebody trying to get me fired up so we can play a good game.

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