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I don't want the attention. I want the respect.
Iman Shumpert
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Iman Shumpert
Age: 34
Born: 1990
Born: June 26
Basketball Player
Oak Park
Illinois
Iman Asante Shumpert
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More quotes by Iman Shumpert
If you grew up watching 'Star Wars' you're like, wow, look at Darth Maul, he has that outfit. And that lightsaber. And he's jumping. When I see stuff, rarely do I forget. And that's what I always wanted to wear.
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Everyday has to be different for me. Even if people are like, You dressed up like a character today, it's not Halloween.
Iman Shumpert
I designed it, the tailors wanted the kilt as a high joint but I wanted mine low like a Jedi.
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I remember watching Mike [Michael Jordan]. I remember him having a royal blue blazer and all black t-shirt and he came out of a blue Corvette. That was dope to us. We were like, 'Yo, Michael killed today.' He didn't even talk to the media and walked straight into the arena. Everyday's like Mike.
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I always knew what I wanted to dress like but that's when I became really passionate about it. We'd be in class and Google outfits or I'd doodle what I wanted.
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I'm conscious about what I wear, whether it's a game or an event.
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I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my own mind.
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You expect a basketball player to come with a white button-down, Balmain jeans, and Balenciagas. You expect that. But when I come with an extended button-down, camos, no socks, Louboutins that have spikes on them, and a bow tie with diamonds, you'll be like, What? Who dressed him?
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A lot of times I just feel like this is not a special day, these are just clothes that I bought.
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[ Stylists] are putting you in a style that most people are in because it's the trend. So you might have on the same outfit as everyone else.
Iman Shumpert
I was growing, so I had to scrunch my feet up. Now people are like: Why do you have so many shoes. I jump at the fact that I can wear something new everyday.
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Tyson [Chandler] encouraged me and was like, if that's what you want to wear, wear that.
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I don't want to see anyone else looking like me.That'd be my nightmare. Though if I saw someone wearing what I did, I would know he was swaggy.
Iman Shumpert
I don't have a stylist. That, in a way, is cheating. Put five players in a thrift store and see who has the best style in the end, and then you'll see who has real style.
Iman Shumpert
Sometimes you give a person everything. You give them all of you. You give them everything you got, and they just don't want it, or that ain't your match. So now the next person, maybe that's really something special, but you not even acting like yourself.
Iman Shumpert
[Tyson Chandler] doesn't listen to people either. He does whatever he feels like and people will be like, Who dressed you?
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Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.
Iman Shumpert
I always wanted to dress up like Darth Maul.So I designed my own kilt.
Iman Shumpert
No one else on the team in college was dressing up. They were wearing sweats.
Iman Shumpert
I started dressing and people used to ask, Where do you get all that stuff? I was going to thrift stores with my best friend Bianca Stewart.
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