Topics: Start to the 2010-11 Season | The teams need to focus more on the smaller things | Effort on the defensive end | Realistic goals for the team | 1 day at a time | Last years playoff series against the LA Lakers | Energy in Oklahoma City was amazing during the playoffs | Best player in the league? | Says he’s not quite on the best players level | He’s trying to be a better student of the game | Playing President Obama was nerve racking | Tricking up his van | Weight room | Strength concerns; he’s getting a little bigger now | His conditions for being on the front of SI.com | Says hi to Toby in Houston; Larry Brown’s guy |

TOPICS: Wearing special colored Nike shoes | Wearing his shoes whether they are good or bad | 12-12 season; could be going better for them | Looking to dominate every single night | Cultivating | The “mean-streak” | Not looking to be K.G. | Coming out of College into the NBA | The business of the NBA; family, bills and mortgage | One year at Texas; carrying himself | Longhorns not getting respect and credit against Alabama | Vince Young’s bounce-back | Chemistry of the team | Russell Westbrook’s impact on the team | Developing other aspects of his game; defensive dominance.