He’s been the greatest father for me. Going around the streets of Chicago with my dad, people always tell me they can’t believe how much my dad has matured. Or, ‘You wouldn’t believe how your dad used to be.’ There’s always lots of words about how much he’s changed. Jahlil Okafor Read Quote
My defense is a criticism, but we won a national championship at Duke, so it wasn’t that bad. Jahlil Okafor Read Quote
One time, I palmed some medicine balls, just because people wanted to see if I could do it. Jahlil Okafor Read Quote
I’ve done this a couple times, been to a couple different camps and a couple different AAU practices to talk to kids. I tell them you have to be dedicated, have to decide if you want to be a serious basketball player or not. They always ask, ‘What if you get discouraged?’ You have to remember what your goal was in the first place. Jahlil Okafor Read Quote
I have a lot of eyes on me because of basketball, a lot of young people looking up to me. It’s made me grow up faster. Jahlil Okafor Read Quote
Being an NBA player, a lot of stress comes with that: realizing there’s a lot of pressure on me and accepting that for what it is, realizing that I might need help, I might need somebody to talk to, accepting that there’s nothing wrong with that. Jahlil Okafor Read Quote