DC: You only get praise for success, and that’s just how sports work. It doesn’t make me feel any type of way for nothing. Like I said earlier, De’Aaron Fox did something that hadn’t been done in a long time with that franchise. He deserves his flowers, he deserves all the credit in the world.
So I don’t look at it like that at all. I had my opportunity. Obviously, I wish things could have been done differently. I definitely was passionate about winning. I was passionate about trying to be that player to help Sacramento get back to that standard that they were used to, which was being a playoff team. But it just didn’t work out that way for me. And that’s how life works sometimes – things don’t always align for you.
But it’s no ill will from me, and I don’t frown upon the next team or the next guy that reaches success. I feel like when you carry that type of energy, it blocks your next blessing. So that’s not how I carry myself, but it just is what it is. I can’t harp on it, it’s the past. I do wish things could have been better because I was really passionate about winning. I do think I received a narrative that wasn’t me, and that can be easily confused between being a passionate guy and being in a losing situation. So I get it and I understand, but it just sucks that I ended up with a narrative that I don’t think I necessarily deserved.
I’ve always carried myself as a winning player. I’ve won my entire basketball career. Everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve won – aside from Sacramento. And that’s just what it is. But I’m also disappointed in the narrative compared to my intention and how I truly felt about the city. But it is what it is. Maybe one day that narrative will straighten itself out.
