“Basketball did not save my life. God saved my life. It's not basketbal...” — Serge Ibaka Quote

Basketball did not save my life. God saved my life. It's not basketball. But God saved my life because he blessed me through basketball. He opened the door from basketball.

There was a complete rupture in my left calf.

That's where I get my toughness in mind. From my background when I was young, everything I've been through, everything I was going through in my life. It helped me a lot, it helped me to be strong.

I've been learning when to block shots against who I'm playing. I'm not just going to leave a shooter to go block shots.

I am Mafuzzy Man, original man, 100 percent pure, man.

I got a dollhouse when I was six, and my sister would always say, 'You realize you're just talking to yourself. What are you doing?' That kind of opened up this creative need to tell stories.

It is said an artist spends their whole life trying to get to the place where their heart was first opened up. 'Rent' was that place for me.

President Obama is an inspiration of mine, and interning with his administration in the White House opened my eyes to the possibilities of making change at the local level.

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.