— What is your goal for your career?
— I wanna be NBA ...
NBA player.
— I used to play the game with the shoes, take them off,
pass them to Thanasis.
He'd put them on, he'd play.
And obviously now, you know, I've got him so many shoes.
He can enjoy all the shoes that I've gotten for him.
— It wasn't that hard, like, I feel like everybody says
"Oh man, it should be hard."
I mean, it wasn't that hard.
We can — O.K. I wore a size bigger than him,
but, I mean, it got the job done.
I'll be honest with you,
I think we could play barefooted, if we could.
— Me and my brothers obviously we were always
close to one another. Thanasis, he's my older brother.
The second — I got two older brothers, and
he signed a deal with the first division in Greece
and he came back with a pair of shoes.
And it was the Kobe Force, white and red,
and when I saw that —
you know, Kobe was my favorite player at the time —
I was like, "Please let me have them, please let me have them,"
and at first he was like,
"No," and all like, "Those are my shoes,"
and, "I haven't even worn them yet.
"Let me, let me enjoy —
enjoy a little bit and then you can have them."
Then, again, my dad came out and he was like,
"No, we don't do this here," like,
"What you have you're gonna share, like, you're gonna share.
Having your own stuff is not an option.
You're always gonna share with your brother. You're the oldest brother."
You gotta show the right example."
— Compared to other stuff we were going through
this was nothing.
Now, you can't make fun of a guy
who switches his shoe with his brother
and then you lose by 40 points. You can't make fun of this guy.
Even if you want to, you gotta — you can't say like,
"Oh man, you don't have shoes, but...."
— Giannis' new signature shoe
may be the best basketball shoe of the year.
— Wow, that is some high praise.
— I think it's gonna be a classic basketball shoe,
a lotta guys will be wearing that shoe all year.
— Never ever thought
I'm gonna have my own signature shoe,
but at the end of the day, if you work hard and you really believe
in yourself and you believe in your dreams,
you know, stuff like this can happen.
You know, they represent just being different.
You know, being unique.
And the way I play.
There's never been a player my size
doing the things I do, freaky stuff I do on the court.
So that's why we tried to do something different, and
you know, do the swoosh big and backwards.
It's all about being freaky and being different.
You know, whatever I do, I represent my, you know, my family
and I think my dad did a great job, you know, raising us
and showing us, you know, how to be disciplined,
how to respect one another, how to love one another.
He did whatever it took, you know, for us, to provide for us.
I want to pay tribute to my dad and keep his legacy going.
So that's why, I put my — I am my father's legacy.
He always loved roses and
obviously he's not here to see the final product,
but always with the rose, you know, I'm gonna represent my dad.
That's why I wanted the rose to basically be there
in every step I take, you know, moving forward.
Every minute I play on the basketball court,
he's always going to be there helping me.
The feeling, even right now, it's surreal.
Definitely back then, I was 16, 15, 16,
I never thought I'm gonna have my own shoe.
Never.
But it's just hard work that paid off.
If you believe in yourself, believe in your dreams,
and work hard, you know, things like this can happen.
— I'm trying to think, I know I wanna say something nice.
I'm trying to think, to say something nice.
Don't cut this!
Keep the camera rolling.
Don't cut this. Say something nice.
Nothing else. We love you, Gigi.
We love you. All right, ciao.
That's it.