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Special Thanks

First I would like to thank God for blessing me with the skill and opportunity to do what I love; my mom, dad, and sis for supporting me and putting up with me, I love you all; to all my relatives, I can’t name all of you but you know who you are, thank you! The one and only CHEECH for being there through the good and bad, I love you; Matt Tolentino for being my road dogg and telling me the truth when I need to hear it; and the rest of my TOKYO, BELLOBLOCK, and MPK fam; EAST LOS!

To my basketball family; Schurr High School; Paul Chavez, Seto, Coach Thompson; everybody at East Los Angeles College, Rob Rivera, Calienes; my peeps from Cal State Dominguez Hills; NAU; Showtime fam; Joe “Jellybean” Bryant; Luis Turcios; Yoshida-san; Tokyo Apache staff, Zuko and Shinji Inoue; Yamauchi-san; Apache boosters; UNK; Lee; Henry; Yamada-san; And to all my teammates past, present, and future.

I also want to thank Ray Yoshimoto, Steve “Shigaboo” Toyama, Calvin Hokama and family, Oscar Chen, Rintaro Akimoto, Ryoji Nouchi, Fatty and little Fatty; the Sakados; Big Booty, Far East Ballers, Jiro, Matt Hidaka; Sunny Tanaka, Jack, the Fukunagas; Jay at Resurrection Tattoo; Moriguchi-san, Michiko and CB;Toon Nakamura; the Wakazukis; Dai Asai; Players; and everybody who has ever cheered for me, THANK YOU!

To everybody I missed, you are not forgotten and I truly thank you for your love and support!