http://www.columbian.com/weblogs/blazerbanter/2010/mar/13/interview-aldridge-on-positive-fans-the-future-his/

coach (Maurice) Lucas talks about it. He’s like, ‘Man, when you win it, you have no idea what this city does. This city shuts down. Nobody goes to work. Kids don’t go to school. They just celebrate that we won. They love their basketball so much that they live, eat and breathe it. Once you win it, you will see how much this city really loves you.’ I want to see that for myself.

LMA responding to "one area he’d like to improve in his game:"

Going left, probably, and putting the ball on the floor. I think I’ve shown I did work this summer on getting to the basket. And I think going left, too — I think I’ve gotten two or three and-1s going left. I think I will make it where I can go right or left, evenly. Like, not really go left sometimes because they are forcing me to go left. Just being able to read and go either way any time in the game. And I think being able to isolate at the elbow and actually go off the dribble and make my own shot. Right now, I probably do one or two dribbles. But I want to be able to do more to make teams not be able to take me out on the post. Then I can just go out on the elbow and get the ball and then make teams pay from there

I’ve learned with more accolades and contracts comes more criticism. It’s people from looking from the outside and putting judgment and not really knowing the whole situation and knowing what’s going on with the team and everything like that. They’re just guessing from the outside in, and not knowing what’s really going on.

The one piece of info that really surprised me was that somehow I did not know that he had a son. Was this common knowledge here on BlazersEdge, and I somehow just kept missing it when ever it was mentioned? I hope that he will be able to be close to his son and learn how to be a really good father to his son. They both need that – believe me, I know this first hand.