Today, we move to the backcourt for one of the most colorful Cavaliers -- the DJ, Damon Jones …

I grew up in ... Galveston, Texas. It’s a great city with a nice beach. A lot of guys hung out on the basketball court there and on Sundays it was like a religious thing – everyone would be there, just hanging out.

I attended ... Galveston Ball High. It was an athletic school and naturally a lot of athletes came out of there. Casey Hampton, the nose tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers was a classmate of mine. It was known for athletics and it was the only high school in the city, so if you were something you were going to be there.

It wasn’t until ... I was a junior in high school that I started looking to go on to higher levels or thought I could be good enough to make something out of basketball.

As a freshman and a sophomore ... I was just playing basketball. Then, I started to get some local attention and state-wide attention. And from there I wanted to turn it into something positive.

I put my focus ... into the game of basketball. That was the only sport I played in school.

I have two brothers and one sister ... who did their thing. They weren’t expected to follow in my footsteps. I wanted them to do whatever they felt they were going to be good at or whatever they thought they would enjoy. They did their own thing.

I’m the oldest ... of the four and I always gave them the liberty to be who they are. I never wanted to push my success or my lifestyle on anyone – either my brothers or sister or my kids. I want them to be who they want to be and go about life the way I did.

I made some mistakes early on ... but it helped me to become the well-rounded guy that I think I am now – someone who’s able to relate to a lot of different situations and someone who knows right from wrong.

I’ve had a lot of good coaches ... in my life. I think my high school coach was more a father figure than a coach because he not only coached me in the game of basketball, but he nurtured me as a man. I was raised by my mom and grandmother and I really didn’t have a father figure at the time. And he stepped in and did a wonderful job. So I thank him for the maturity that I have as a man.

Everybody has their own way ... of growing up. I was proud of my upbringing and the way that I was raised.