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DR: When I said that it’s all about just setting standards. It’s a lot of people that I’m around or that’s just in Chicago. And they tell me like you’re the first to help me with this. You’re the first to help me with that. Or you’re the first to open my eyes to like certain things. And with me, when I do and I try to attack some of my dreams, it’s never like I’m searching for it. Like, man, we have to be the first to do this. It’s like, no, we are passionate about something, and I want to attack it a certain way.
So that’s how we attack it. but I don’t like talking about it because I don’t like talking about Hall of Fame. I feel like I’m already in the Hall of Fame when you think about when you ask kids from my city or you go around my city and you ask them about who I was… or my family members with me setting goals and standards for my family. What I’m achieving now, even after basketball, I feel like that’s Hall of Fame sh*t. But I want to let the record speak for itself without me actually telling you, “Man, this is going to be…” No. And the stuff that we did prior to me retiring, like the retirement video, like the Rose video, like the Sox pitch video, like that’s something that no other Hooper didn’t do yet. So I feel like that’s creating a lane, and that’s a Hall of Fame word.
