I'm light-skinned. I'm mixed with black and white.

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.

To me, I'll always be the skinny, 5-foot-6 eighth-grader on the YMCA court, trying to get grown men to choose me for pickup games. It wasn't always easy. And that's what drives me.

I was never the big leaper, the dunker, the long and athletic kid who looked the part of a traditional basketball star. Truth be told, I wasn't even considered a top guard coming out of my recruiting class.

I'll never regret a moment I spent at the University of Oklahoma or my decision to stay home and become a Sooner for life.

I want people to say that I'm something new, something different. Something they've never seen before.