Dereck Lively II on hobbies and Interests Beyond Basketball: “I have a lot of like childhood dreams that I’ve been trying to live out now since I’ve been able to have the ability to. I just gave the money to my people to get a new saltwater aquarium in my office. I currently have six fish tanks. I have a wall full of Legos, anything from 200-piece Legos to 10,000-piece Legos. I just started picking up collecting cards again, no matter if that’s like Yu-Gi-Oh cards, Pokemon cards, or my mom’s old basketball cards. I have six tanks. One’s like 20 gallons, then it goes 30, 55, 60, 63, and a 260-gallon. One tank is like a community tank with angelfish, different rams, and tetras. My discus tank just lost nine fish in two days because they got worms. I have a koi tank and a guppy tank that’s breeding. My 260-gallon tank is my Amazon River tank with a silver Arowana, albino Arowana, red parrots, Roseline sharks, and an albino alligator gar. When I was a kid, I was always watching videos on YouTube about reptiles, fish, snakes, and lizards. I always wanted to do that but never had the space, money, time, or patience to set it all up. Now, besides basketball, I work on my little hobbies and enclosures because I like to sit there and watch them grow.” -via YouTube / December 14, 2024
