 James welcome to Brooklyn Ryan good to be here. Thank you. Yeah James I gotta say I think one of the things that has always stood out to us is your physicality your toughness how would you describe the importance of that you bringing that to a team that has championship aspirations. It just allows me to be who I am you know I don't have to no pressure of being the guy or the score or just going there feeling my role and do what I'm supposed to do. Yeah well what is it like for you coming to a new team and of course every player that has sat down talked about championship and chat championship aspirations for you to integrate yourself and acclimate yourself what is that process like. It's different you know everybody always says when you're going at the end of the year is that to be in a championship or to win a championship or win it when it's really realistic and you have guys a group of guys who really sacrifice everything to win this year you know you can just feel it in your heart that you do whatever it takes to get that done. James when you look at you know the stars that are on this team with Kyrie Irving and James Harden and Kevin Durant what are the things that excite you most about their games and getting to be on the floor with them. The floor is gonna be spaced you know it allows everybody to operate that easier rhythm level everything. What about your presence defensively some other guys Sean Mark sat down with us it was talking about areas that he has tried to short up the gaps in the roster looking at it the way the team played last year and defense was a major part of that you being one of those guys how much whether it's your voice by example the way you're playing how much can you help bring the level of play on that end of the floor whether guys are in the lineup out of the lineup whatever the road rotation looks like just to have that be in added mainstay for this group to keep improving on. I was fortunate to be coached by some really great coaches and you know the defense aspects always been the reason why I got on the floor you know to even show my offensive presence or whatever so you know I think the knowledge of knowing where to be makes the game a lot easier I feel all of us are veteran players we know the game pretty well you know we know when Steph is coming down he's gonna come out one of the wings or one of the corners you know just things that you have to play to know a little bit how about James when you have you know a lot of veterans and we talked about this earlier with I think we talked about with Paul Milsep it was one of the or maybe Lamarcus one of the veterans here who's accomplished like yourself and you go in and you look at the roster you know okay like I'm not gonna play 30 minutes a night I know that how much of an adjustment is it meant to lead to know my role what I may need to do on this team is to give them seven good minutes or or I may not play for a week or maybe some nights I'm playing 25 how difficult is it to accept that or or how do you kind of you know process that I mean eight years seven years AJ would have been a little bit more disappointed but thirteen years James is good spirits happy blessed to be here and like I said fill any role that needs to be filled in for any game what does that mean to a team I mean you've been on so many different iterations of teams and groups and I'm sure some had different levels of chemistry and connectivity but to have so many guys and you're not the first to sit down and just say whatever the team needs to win when when that is real in a genuine feeling what impact does that have on the ultimate group or through the season when when you are going through some of the highs and lows I think I think that kind of attitude just contagious you know when we're not playing or that we don't get the miss we want you know I feel we're older mature enough to know we have to work get that extra conditioning in it's something that no one's gonna have to tell us you know it's gonna be an easy piece of mine I feel you talk about playing for some great coaches in this league Eric spulster obviously is a coach who has a wonderful reputation has been at the helm for a long time in Miami if you were gonna think to your time there and say what's one thing that stays with you that you learn from coach Spoe what would it be you taught me how to act like a champion before I was a champion interesting and what about that specifically when you drive home I mean off court on court the way I work the way I eat now everything is about becoming or being a champion before I'm a champion the cuisine has changed a lot the dietary choices I've been I've been paleo for about two years but it gets harder in New York man you just said the buzzword are you still paleo no no no I it's hard like James I know it's hard in New York maybe you know what you just you get that stretch of three or four days off and you go not paleo for a day yeah you just got to pick your spot right well James we are we're so excited to have you here congratulations on joining the Nets looking forward to the start of this season thanks for joining us for sure thank you