Rizo Velovic
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I'm like, buddy, I'm raising my young brother while my parents were working two jobs to put food on the table.
So while I'm talking to all my friends and everybody has a nickname, right?
Like you got TK, you got JD, you got Skeet's.
I was just Rizzo, right?
I want a cool freaking nickname.
So, you know, this is, you know, actually Kristaps Porzingis kind of gives the lore about this because growing up, a lot of people called Porzingis Porzingis or Porzingod.
oh, Riz God, Riz God.
And I was like, yo, you know what?
Riz God kind of goes with it.
And then I grew up watching How I Met Your Mother.
Neil Patrick Harris was the man, the myth, the legend.
And then I kind of made it my own thing, made it my slogan.
So I was the man, the myth, the legend, R-I-Z-G-O-D, Riz God, baby, way before Survivor.
It was my socials growing up.
All my friends called me Riz God.
It's kind of like the normal saying.
Some people on Survivor, the reason why I'm so polarizing is like, oh my
god why does he call himself Riz God he thinks he's a god like no doofus it's an inside joke that I use to kind of hype myself up so and the Riz God's kind of taken off you whether you love me or hate me you can't deny the passion that I have and it's all thanks to the Riz God incredible you actually you brought up your socials Riz God 34 on Instagram I believe what what is the 34 for
So that's just the number I grew up wearing, whether it's basketball, baseball growing up.