Regardless of all the things that occurred after Dillon Brooks trash talked LeBron James within the playoffs final season, he doesn’t remorse a factor.
“No, I nonetheless really feel the identical method,” Brooks informed FOX Sports activities forward of the Lakers and Rockets matchup on Sunday.
Of their final matchup earlier this month, the Rockets embarrassed the Lakers 128-94, a recreation which many counted as an enormous W for Brooks over LeBron.
When Brooks is guarding somebody like LeBron with a massively spectacular resume, he explains how he adapts the mentality that he can guard anybody.
“Yeah, that’s precisely how I really feel,” The Rockets ahead mentioned. “I wouldn’t be on this place if I wasn’t like that. Individuals wouldn’t need me on their group if I wasn’t like that. It’s higher for me. It will get me going each single day to play the perfect of the perfect.”
Since all of the drama and trash speak from the Lakers-Grizzlies playoffs collection, which included Brooks being traded to Houston, being fined and in the end getting schooled by LeBron, he has change into the villain of the NBA.
Which begs the query, was the villain position one thing that Brooks was striving for all alongside?
“It was given to me,” Brooks mentioned. “However I embraced it. It strikes worry into individuals. Once I begin getting consecutive stops, they begin placing their head down and pouting. It’s only a mantra. Whoever appears into it on social media, they’re already shedding. I simply play together with it and maintain enjoying basketball.”
LeBron not too long ago took the excessive highway and gave Brooks a praise, explaining how he’s “put within the work since he got here out of Oregon” and was deserving of the contract he bought with the Rockets.
However the two undoubtedly aren’t pals.
“No, I don’t speak to him,” Brooks mentioned of James. “I don’t speak to anyone, aside from my individuals.”
