Jase Richardson reveals the injury behind his dunk contest fall and his desire to forge his own legacy beyond his father's shadow.
On how the arm injury happened during the 360 attempt and the outcome:
"Try to go do a little 360 off the side of the glass. My arm got caught on the side of the backboard. So you win some, you lose some."
On steering away from tributes involving his father in the dunk contest:
"Nah, I think for me, I'm trying to steer away from that. I'm just trying to, you know, I just want to do the contest and try to make it my own thing instead of everything have to do with my father. So I just wanted to come out here, have a good time. I did. That's all that matters."
On being shaken after the fall and not attempting the dunk a third time:
"Yeah, I think after taking a fall like that I just had to move on from that dunk. So it is what it is."
On whether the first attempt would have been enough:
"Yeah, probably. I hope it was but I probably should have just got it on the first one."
On the planned dunk for the finals that he didn't get to:
"I had a lot of reverses between the legs underneath both legs off one. So that's what I was kind of going into the finals with."
On the difficulty of selecting dunks in advance and reserving something for the finals:
"It's definitely tough because mainly this isn't really like something I was really expecting to do anyways, but it's hard to choose what dunk you can do, especially given some people already doing one of the dunks you probably had in store. So it's just kind of hard to select."
On the energy and experience of his first All-Star weekend in LA:
"It's been great. This is my first All-Star weekend, so I really enjoyed it. I've really enjoyed my time here. Energy was great. I think LA was really good."
On what his younger self would think about being at All-Star weekend:
"I probably asked what I'd be doing first. But other than that, this something I've always imagined being a part of and I was just blessed to be here."
On his pre-dunk contest playlist:
"It depends. If it's a little bit earlier, like today, a lot of R&B 90s 80s. Later a little bit later is more rap, but that's how it goes."
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