8 reasons why I chose to be IM8's global ambassador and shareholder

I grew up in a small apartment in Sepolia. My parents had come from Nigeria with almost nothing, and for years we were undocumented in the only country I had ever known. Some days my brothers and I sold watches, bags and sunglasses on the street so we could put food on the table. Some nights there wasn't enough food to go around, and my mother made sure the kids ate first. When you grow up like that, you don't waste anything — not food, not time, not your health. So when something genuinely makes my body better, I don't take it casually. I take it every single morning, the same way I show up to the gym every single morning. Not because someone is watching. Because that boy in Athens never had the luxury of skipping.

I didn't come this far to burn out early. Where I'm from, there was no second career waiting to catch me — your body is the whole thing, the one asset that has to keep working. So I think about longevity now more than I think about any single game: how many good years I have left, and how I protect every one of them. I want to still be moving well long after the basketball stops — strong, present, for the people I love and the life I'm still building. IM8 is part of how I invest in the version of me that's going full speed years from now. The choice I make every morning is really a choice about who I get to be at forty, and at fifty.

I play at the highest level there is, and I get tested. One contaminated supplement can erase everything I have worked my whole life to build — so I am not allowed to guess what goes into my body, and honestly, I would never want to. IM8 is NSF Certified for Sport and WADA-compliant. Every single batch is tested against the strictest standards that exist. I came from a place where you had to be twice as careful, twice as clean,just to be trusted. That instinct never left me. It is the one reason I would ever put my name on something.

I used to travel with a pharmacy. Different pills for energy, for gut health, for immunity, for recovery — half of which I'd forget to take anyway. It was a mess.

IM8 is one sachet. 90+ ingredients, nine organ systems, one glass of water in the morning. It took the most important habit in my day and made it the easiest one.

The first thing I noticed wasn't dramatic — it was steady. No dead legs late in the fourth. No leaning on ca!eine just to get through a back-to-back on the road. Good gut health and real, sustained energy that holds from the opening tip through the fourth quarter and the work I put in after the final buzzer. Once you feel that kind of steady, you don't ever want to give it back.

82 games, a di!erent city every couple of nights, time zones that never let your body settle, hotel rooms that all start to look the same. So much of my life is motion now — a long way from a boy who couldn't leave Greece because he had no passport. Even my home arena is changing now — a new city, a new chapter, a whole new start in Miami. But IM8 is one of the few things that doesn't change. It's the constant in my bag, the thing that keeps my body feeling like mine no matter what arena I wake up next to.

People see the dunks and the trophies. They don't see the recovery that makes the next game possible — the sleep, the bounce-back between back-to-backs. That is where championships are actually won, in the quiet hours nobody films.IM8 became part of how I recover. And recovery, when you've carried as many minutes and as many seasons as I have, is the part of greatness that nobody is allowed to skip.

I know exactly what a dollar is worth, because I remember when we counted them on a kitchen table in Athens. So I do not put my money behind things lightly. I became a shareholder in IM8 because I believe in where it's going — co-founded with David Beckham, built with a world-class scientific team, held to a standard I'd stake my own name on. You don't bet your own money on something you don't actually use. I use it every single day — and now that kid from Sepolia owns a piece of it, too.