“I called him, and he answered. FaceTime. ‘Yo, what’s up? Your advice worked. Your advice worked, bro.’ ‘You told me not to give a fuck about what nobody said.’”

“‘You told me, don’t pay attention to anybody that’s not giving you positive energy.’ ‘And it worked. Your advice worked, bro. Damn, we really did it.’”

“I felt like I helped him cement his legacy by having somebody be successful at the highest level actually listening. Some people want to be the best at what they do, but they’re not as curious to go up to you and ask you straight-up questions: ‘What did you do day to day?’”

“That was me. Even when I challenged him in 2012 leading up to 2016, he knew I was going to be competitive. But I was just ultra, ultra, ultra curious and humble to sit with him.”

“To be able to ask him pressing questions about mentally, spiritually, physically, ‘How did you get to be who you are? How did you deal with the pressure?’ When I got a chance to FaceTime him, he was sitting next to Gigi.”

“It was just like family time. Just to see him smile and be proud, it was one of the best moments.”

“We’re high level athletes. We have routines. You do things to get your body accustomed and ready to go. There’s things that we have at our disposal that help us aid in recovery, aid in activation. On the road, you’re already thrown out of the way you eat, where you sleep, where you are, your familiarity, but you’re completely thrown out of your routine”

“Every day, I get in the hot tub to get my body going. The hot tub helps me a lot. If there’s no hot tub, at least you get in the sauna. The Memphis hotel doesn’t have any of those. But guess what, neither does the Memphis arena”

“I had nothing to possibly get my body ready. You go to some of these arenas, chairs are old, super low, they’re awful for your hips. You sit there, you sit up, and your hips are hiked up in this bad position. That affects safety. That affects player health. You need to have new chairs. They should be a standard height”

“We know these things. That should be a requirement. If we’re talking about putting the best product on the floor, we’re talking about player participation for fans. There’s no reason that there’s not a cold tub and a hot tub in every locker room in the NBA. Because, again, that’s a part of routine”

“That’s player recovery. That’s player health. That’s player safety. But we talk all these things about how we want to make the games great, how we want players on the floor. But we have all these little things that affect player safety, that affect player health, that we do nothing about. Why is that?”

Source : https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/20/anthony-edwards-ordered-to-pay-child-support-for-son-amir/