So if you’re going to treat me like I don’t exist, and …
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Fred VanVleet: “But I ain’t gonna lie, though—that’s the other thing too. I didn’t always play, and when you don’t play, you’re in the locker room all day, right? My first preseason game, I was in the locker room for four and a half hours. We had 20 guys trying to make the team—20 guys total. So, the game was at 7:30, and I was at the gym at 3:00, 3:30, getting my shooting time in. So when the media come in and I don’t exist, okay, cool. Because I’m a human—I’ma speak to somebody. If it’s, ‘Hey, what’s up? What’s going on?’ even if I don’t know you, whatever—‘Hey, how you doing?’ I’m going to speak to you. So if you’re going to treat me like I don’t exist, and then you want to spin back around when you need something, I’m going to remember that.”
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