Carter-Williams Addresses Tanking Accusations

Nobody took the losses harder than we did. We deserved plenty of criticism, but we all put in too much work to be treated like a joke.

I seriously live basketball and I don’t take it for granted that I made it to this level. This entire summer, I spent hours face down on the trainers’ table getting my shoulder stretched to regain full range of motion. Some of the stretches are excruciating even without an injury. When physical therapy was over, I’d sprint up and down hills with an altitude mask strapped to my face looking like Bane fromBatman. Try doing 10 sets of hills with hardly any air. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. All that hill work was just so I could get back to the court as soon as humanly possible.

via The Player’s Tribune