AJ Stewart

D. Mills, baby.

I like that.

I like that.

So, D. Mills, I actually got a question for you from one of the fans here I wanted to ask.

Playing for Kentucky means a lot.

It means you're surrounded by five-star talent, and everyone has to sacrifice a part of their individual game for the team to work.

Looking back, what is one of the sacrifices to your natural basketball identity that you had to suppress, give up at UK, and do you think that that ultimately helped or hurt your transition going to the next level?

I think –

Something that everybody had to sacrifice coming to Kentucky is, well, except for a handful, a select few, you know, that's extremely gifted.

But when you make it to Kentucky, normally at high school, you're the guy on the team.

You know what I mean?

And coming to Kentucky, like you said, you play with so many great talents.

It's like you have to sacrifice trying to be the guy at all times.

And that's something that I had to do, definitely.

Coming from Mason County, I was the guy on the team.

I was expected to do a ton, score a lot, you know.

And then I got on a team with a ton of Jody, John Wall, you know what I mean, Eric Bledsoe, Big Cuz, Anthony.

It's like you have to learn how to adapt and fit certain roles, you know what I mean, and try to star in those roles.

in order to push the team forward.

And that ultimately helped me a ton, being able to adapt and adjust in my professional career and fill different gaps and play different roles on different teams in Germany.