JaVale McGee Quotes

If I get traded, I get traded. It’s a part of the business.

I’m definitely excited about getting better.

I don’t do anything malicious or anything in a negative manner. I’m all about positivity and making people smile is positive.

It inspires me to see people who don’t have much, but still give so much to others.

During the season, the main focus is always basketball.

Yeah I definitely rep the city of Flint.

I grew up in Flint, Michigan so I’m used to broken promises so I don’t look forward to anything. I look forward to the now. I don’t even like planning trips more than a week ahead because you don’t know how you’re going to feel a week from now.

I tend to do well against big 4s who are real skilled because I’m tall, lanky and athletic.

Some people think I’m dumb, but I feel like things I say, especially on Twitter, are done purposely, because I’m bored.

People try to bring negativity into my life, but it’s crazy how I deflect it.

The fact that rich people get free stuff and poor people have to pay, it’s backwards.

You bring a car out, you’re going to win any dunk contest.

I love L.A., L.A. was beautiful for me.

I’m hoping I’m remembered as one of the most prolific shot-blockers.

For lunch, it’s usually a salad with sunflower seeds, cucumbers, celery, and a lot of vegetables.

Personally, I’ve always been a philanthropist. I’ve always given away turkeys and did gift giveaways.

I’m on Instagram, and all my fans on my Instagram are basketball fans – like 90 percent.

People around the NBA really think that I’m dumb or stupid. But people that know me know that I’m actually very intelligent.

In high school I used to go coast to coast all the time at 6-11.

I block shots and stay out the way.

I always look at Akon as inspiration, and the fact that at one point Lady Gaga was signed to Konvict Muzik.

Whatever happens, however fast it’s supposed to happen, it’ll happen.

Rondo is great with the steals, also on offense with the passing and court vision.

I’m not really a flashy dunker or a show dunker unless somebody’s in front of me. That’s the only time I really get wide-eyed: when I can dunk on somebody. If it’s a wide-open dunk, I’ve never been the type to dunk it real hard wide-open and scream.

I don’t think people realize that I produce like 90 percent of all my music, except for the songs that I co-produce with people.

I used to be a wait-at-the-rim big, more of a Rudy Gobert-type of player.

I don’t even believe in hope. I just let it happen.

Personally I’m just trying to take advantage of every moment that I get.

I feel like people think that I have mental lapses and I’m injury-prone, which isn’t true. You just don’t know me.

I’m just going to try to get as many rebounds as possible.

Going to Golden State, I really fine-tuned everything on defense, which is important because the NBA is moving away from standard bigs and going toward bigs that can switch and things like that.

Blocking a shot can really demoralize a person and defer them from coming to the rim the rest of the game. So being able to do that and change the landscape of the game by one play is pretty amazing.

Sometimes I go in and try to write beats, but I just trash ’em, and then the next time I go in, I’ll make like six beats – six legit, nice beats. I’m really particular with how it needs to sound.

I stay in my lane and do what I want to do. I don’t worry about the outside world.

My favorite artists would be Drake, Future.

I guess I’m a utility player where I can do it all.

I’ve always loved blocking shots.

I’m a producer and not a rapper. So I can make any style of music I want. I can make an EDM beat. I can put an EDM track out one day and I can put a grungy hip-hop track out the next day, like, it doesn’t matter.

I was in Dallas and I had gained weight and knew becoming a vegetarian was the quickest way to lose it. I just wasn’t sure if I could do it.

Dinner is usually just pasta with mushrooms.

You’ve just got to focus on you, yourself, your family, your team… and all the rest is just fluff.

Yeah, I get frustrated. But I try not to let those frustrations get out into the media or get out onto the court in my play.

I’m not afraid to fail – at all.

When I do things, I just fully commit to it.

I feel like big men don’t like it when they’re getting fronted by smaller guys and they just staying real, real aggressive.