Trae Young

I bring a lot to a team. I bring immediate impact. As far as my skillset, I can attack defenders in multiple ways and get my teammates involved.

Who wouldn't want to be compared to a guy like Steph Curry?

I remember me being that kid growing up. Me being the kid that grew up going to games and being a ball boy and wanting a high five from Blake Griffin or the other players.

I know what I need to work on, and I know what I need to prove and to show, and that's all that matters.

The history behind the Garden and all the players that have come through and played on that court in the Garden, I think that the history is the reason why it still is, in my mind, the mecca of basketball. It definitely draws me in. That's the thing about New York; that's a big thing about the history, and the Garden is a big part of that.

I'm excited about getting the opportunity to show people that I can play defense.

Not a lot of people take advantage of that opportunity of being different. A lot of kids that are highly touted coming out of high school, like, doing the traditional thing and going to the blue bloods and all that, but I was always different growing up.

I've played a lot of basketball during my life - and it's not always been good.

I think people get caught up a little bit in the fact of finding things that people can't do instead of looking at the things that the player can do.

Rod Strickland has been influential. He gives me a lot of advice, good and bad games; he is someone I really look up to a lot.

I feel my overall skill set, my ability to make players around me better, and my ability to help my team win is unique.

I would love playing with a guy like Porzingis who can score, stretch the floor, who can do a lot, a lot of different things. But I could see myself doing some pretty good things with other teams, too.

I want to do something different in this league, even as a rookie.

I'm just trying to get better each and every game.

That's the nature of basketball. You gotta go out there and compete.

A lot of my family is from Texas, stuff like that, so I was always in Texas, and when you grow up in Texas, around Texas, you want to go to the biggest Texas school, and UT was that.

My favorite player growing up was Steve Nash, so that's been a guy I look up to and a guy I've gotten to talk to a few times, too.

I think my ability coming into the NBA is going to make it that much easier for me with the space and the different type of players here. I think just by the spacing alone is going to make my game that much easier and that much better for my teammates.

I just try and make the right play. It led to me leading the country in points and assists.

That's what my mindset is, making the right play and doing the right thing each and every possession.

If you ask the guys I played with when I was little, they'll all tell you the same thing. All I did was catch and shoot. I didn't do anything else.

I bring immediate impact off the court as much as I do on the court.

I'm just trying to be the best version of Trey Young.

I'll always have a chip on my shoulder until I hang my shoes up. No matter how long I play this game, the chip on my shoulder will always be there. That won't change.

There's gonna be stretches where I don't play as well. People are gonna be talking bad about me and not always on my side and cheering me on.