Keyon Dooling: “Mike Dunleavy played a critical role in my career because he told me I wasn’t an NBA player. He told me, ‘You can’t shoot, you can’t dribble, you don’t handle the ball well, you’re not a one, you’re not a two.’ I used that as motivation. I worked harder in the summers, worked on my shooting, and became better. A lot of times, the hate, the doubters, and the naysayers fuel you. I told Eddie the other day, Mike came to me in Toronto after we put the Raptors out of the playoffs. He said, ‘Hey man, I had that wrong. You turned yourself into a hell of a player.’ My teammates looked at me like, ‘Damn, okay.’ That validation was cool, but it was almost like, ‘Damn, that was fueling me.’ Sometimes you need those voices to push you, to motivate you to prove people wrong.” -via YouTube / January 24, 2025
