We can say potential all we want, but at the end of the day, sports is about winning.

Our job is to find out what's the next thing that is going to be advantageous to us and contribute to winning.

There were great European players that were great basketball players that did not make it in the NBA... This is the best league in the world.

I was one of those athletic African players.

I couldn't shoot. When I went to play in Europe, I learned to shoot better. I could jump, so people would just back off of me.

I was honestly more talented in soccer than in basketball. I don't think I'd have gone anywhere in soccer. But I think I was more talented in soccer.

I grew up in northern Nigeria.

Boy or girl, the youth of the world deserve opportunity and we as leaders have to be the ones that at least create a path for them.

You want to win in the NBA you want to build a culture and teams will always do that and try to win. It's cutthroat. All 30 teams want to be that way whether they are rebuilding, have young players, have a style of play. It doesn't matter, everybody wants to win.

Players want to go where the team wins and where the team has a great culture, ownership and all of that. It doesn't matter where you are. It really doesn't matter, you have to perform and you have to win.

One of Giants of Africa's fundamental mottos is - Dream Big. We believe that basketball can be used as a tool to educate and develop youth around the world to accomplish their dreams.

Whether it's drafting or player development, the ultimate is putting a team together.

The more you give, the more you grow.

I have to give back. For me, it would be a failure if I could not give back.

It doesn't all have to be about giving money. Sometimes it's a smile that changes the life of one little kid.

I understand my job and what the job is and what has to be done basketball wise. I do that 24/7 and it's a huge priority for me, but I cannot be in this job and not try to affect the youth of Africa, or the youth around the world, even. Help other people in some kind of way.

You don't have to be a leader of a big organization. You can be a leader of your brother, of a young kid, of your community. That way you affect life, someway, somehow.

My dad always taught me that you have to be good to the next person all the time because one person is going to help another person.

I love the work that I do.

When you get a chance to get a top five player, which doesn't come very often, you have to jump on it.

I have a mandate to win and that's what I want to do.

Two of the most difficult parts of our business is trades and when a player leaves.

I value my staff and I believe in hiring people who are smarter than myself.

Every day is different. There's always, as we call it in the NBA, a 'drama,' a team's drama, there's always something.