My job is to pay attention to the feel of the game and always add a positive energy to it on my team through the ups and downs of the game. Iman Shumpert More Quotes by Iman Shumpert More Quotes From Iman Shumpert I don't want the attention. I want the respect. Iman Shumpert wantattention I like when people do cool stuff that might be a little off-the-wall to anybody else, but they found a way to make it work for that day. I wouldn't recommend that people wear it every day like that, but if you every once in a while just spice it up, I like that. I dare to be different. Iman Shumpert daredifferentpeople When we were growing up we only got two pairs of shoes every year. With me, I was lucky because I got three pairs of shoes, the third were basketball shoes: Black Air Force Ones, White Air Force Ones, and boots for the winter. Iman Shumpert growing-upbasketballwinter By the time I got to the league I knew the cameras were going to be there and to turn it on. Iman Shumpert turnscamerasleague I would have people send me shoes and I had 40 pairs and none would fit in the dorm room. People would come by and be like, "Yo, I've been looking for these shoes." I was like, "I'll sell them to you for $300 right now." I'd sell them, save up $4,000 to $5,000, go to the mall and just buy a bunch of new stuff. Iman Shumpert dormsshoespeople I can do whatever I want. Iman Shumpert i-cancan-dowant You're not going to find me in something someone else is wearing. Unless, of course, he's a very swaggy individual. Iman Shumpert find-meindividualcourses [Tyson Chandler] doesn't listen to people either. He does whatever he feels like and people will be like, "Who dressed you?" Iman Shumpert tysondoepeople When I started in the league, I went to a tailor and told him I wanted long t-shirts. But they were like, "You know, you don't know what the trend is." I was like, "Look dog, I don't care about trends or your fashion sense. If I'm going to pay you money, this is where the shirt is going to end." Iman Shumpert fashiondoglong There's a lot of guys in the NBA that would hire stylists because they know they don't have their own sense of style and they need a little guidance. Iman Shumpert nbastyleguy [ Stylists] are putting you in a style that most people are in because it's the trend. So you might have on the same outfit as everyone else. Iman Shumpert styliststylepeople I always wanted to dress up like Darth Maul.So I designed my own kilt. Iman Shumpert kiltsdresseswanted I always knew what I wanted to dress like but that's when I became really passionate about it. We'd be in class and Google outfits or I'd doodle what I wanted. Iman Shumpert googledressesclass Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players. Iman Shumpert nbastyleplayer My mother worked in fashion design and she used to show me all of these looks. She tried to get me to wear fitted jeans in high school. This is when big jeans were popping. Iman Shumpert fashionmotherschool I designed it, the tailors wanted the kilt as a high joint but I wanted mine low like a Jedi. Iman Shumpert kiltsjointstailors If you grew up watching 'Star Wars' you're like, wow, look at Darth Maul, he has that outfit. And that lightsaber. And he's jumping. When I see stuff, rarely do I forget. And that's what I always wanted to wear. Iman Shumpert jumpingstarswar I was growing, so I had to scrunch my feet up. Now people are like: "Why do you have so many shoes." I jump at the fact that I can wear something new everyday. Iman Shumpert shoesfeetpeople It doesn't matter because I want to be that guy who you never know what I'm going to wear. Iman Shumpert guymatterwant I don't want to be predictable at all. Iman Shumpert predictablewant
