So, you go to Golden State…

and this narrative comes out "Oh, he’s too impressionable.

He had people in his life who pushed him there"

And I’m thinking like… I met Durant

like he’s a pretty proud dude. Why do people think

you got manipulated?

I mean, that must have driven you crazy?

It did, ‘cos...

I can’t go in a studio and express myself through words

and it be a normal day.

BILL: Right!

So if I were to come out and tweet something, or…

instagram, or whatever…

a video of me disagreeing with something

of what a writer said is career suicide.

Right! Then it’s like “Oh he’s thin skinned.”

-Exactly! So-- -He can take the heat.

And once I’ve made the decision,

You know, I know how to take a lot

of stuff on the chin.

I know how to keep rolling with the punches.

It upset me, it upset me coming from,

you know, people that I spent time with.

Then obviously they were upset, and…

Did you expect that part of it?

That people would say like, it was almost

like they were trying to portray you as a weak person.

Yeah…

BILL: …to go to Golden State, and I was like

maybe you just wanted a bigger city

and different offers, and a different experience.

Yeah, I mean when they call me weak,

I mean, like I think I’m the total opposite.

You know, there’s plenty times

I could have quit in this whole life…

BILL: Yeah!

…lifestyle I’m in, there’s plenty of times

where I could have… when I lost,

I could have just said, you know what is it for me?

Let me move on.

There’s plenty of times where my neighborhood

could have kept me down,

but I just kept going.

So, how am I weak,

if I'm at the top elite level of my profession.

I just chose to play for a different team.

So, people try to take you down when you hake a decision

that makes then uncomfortable.

Or makes them upset, you know,

so I can't control everybody.

BILL: I remember, I went to college

in Worcester Massachusetts

and by year four, I was ready to get out.

I was like, I'm ready for a new city.

And that was the one narrative I never heard with you.

Yeah, nobody cares about what I want as a person.

(LAUGHTER)

It's all about what I could do on a basketball court.

BILL: Yeah!

They don't care if I like going fishing

on Tuesdays, or... like taking pictures

on the street.

Like nobody cares

as long as I can shoot that ball into that hoop.

Yeah, why should I care what they think

if they don't really care about me as whole?