The difference between me and other athletes is that I'm speaking on things that I go through that I know other people go through. I think a lot of times the mistake in music if you're broke, rap about being broke, if you're sensitive, rap about being sensitive, 'cause there are other sensitive people. If you're sensitive but you talk about being a tough person that doesn't care about anything, people will call your bluff.
I like when people do cool stuff that might be a little off-the-wall to anybody else, but they found a way to make it work for that day. I wouldn't recommend that people wear it every day like that, but if you every once in a while just spice it up, I like that. I dare to be different.
Sometimes you give a person everything. You give them all of you. You give them everything you got, and they just don't want it, or that ain't your match. So now the next person, maybe that's really something special, but you not even acting like yourself.
I want a woman to walk past and say, "I would love to be in a picture with him."
But the judge would have to be people in the fashion world and a bunch of random girls. Because guys in the league aren't trying to impress guys in the league. They're trying to impress people who have clout in the fashion world and women.
I respect them [Amar Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony or Dwyane Wade], but would I dress like them? No.
It's hard to want to let somebody into your house.
I'm super reserved in letting people in my house. A lot of guys don't trust anybody in their homes but they would trust somebody like me because I've been there.
There's a lot of guys in the NBA that would hire stylists because they know they don't have their own sense of style and they need a little guidance.
Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.
I would love [to learn more about fashion] - anything that's going to help me put certain looks together.
I would like to walk in a room and people know who I am and be like, "Oh, I respect his opinion."
I'll show up at Fashion Week with a mink on with a lion head biting my shoulder. I would love that. Oh my God, with a jaguar tail on my shoes. Something crazy.
I don't want the attention. I want the respect.
I don't feel like you should promote personally that you dress nicely.
I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my own mind.
That's kind of the mystique If you [post your outfit] on Instagram all of the time, I'm going to see a bunch of people walking around looking like Shump.
A lot of times I just feel like this is not a special day, these are just clothes that I bought.
I mean, shout out to the people that get dressed everyday and want to take that picture everyday. I would much rather post pictures of [my girlfriend] than of myself.
I live a real life so I forget to take pictures.
I have an Instagram [account] but I don't feel a lot of love with it.
You're not going to find me in something someone else is wearing. Unless, of course, he's a very swaggy individual.
You expect a basketball player to come with a white button-down, Balmain jeans, and Balenciagas. You expect that. But when I come with an extended button-down, camos, no socks, Louboutins that have spikes on them, and a bow tie with diamonds, you'll be like, "What? Who dressed him?"
[ Stylists] are putting you in a style that most people are in because it's the trend. So you might have on the same outfit as everyone else.
Tyson [Chandler] encouraged me and was like, if that's what you want to wear, wear that.
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