Quotes from Trae Young

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

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

I just hope I get picked by the right team and the team that really wants me and a team where I can help and take it to the next level.

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 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.

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.

One of my dreams was being called a 'Diaper Dandy' by Dick Vitale. He calls me that all the time now. It's surreal.

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.

My goal is to the best player in the NBA. That's what I'm focusing on each and every day.

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

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

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

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

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

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would become a constant topic for national television and radio shows - never mind mentioned by some of the country's most respected journalists.

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.

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

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.

It's a mystery coming out each and every game to try and figure out how a team is going to guard me and how I'm going to dictate how my team wins.

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

I love when people try to be physical with me. They think that's the way to try to guard me and to get physical with me. I use that to my advantage.