Maxi: At this point in my career, I can no longer have the same laughs and laughter as before.

Reporter Harrison Faigen wrote that Maxi is not a person who gets angry easily, but at the beginning of this season, he really played like he was holding back a lot of energy.

Everyone was hit by the disaster team that only won 24 games last season. Maxi also said many times that he lost the fun of playing at that time. This year, he's doing everything he can to avoid a similar situation happening again, which is why he's off to a winning start.

Maxi: "I'm now at the stage of my career where I want the team to really get better, and I know it starts with me. So sometimes I can't always be laughing and joking."

He is still the optimistic and cheerful person, but this year he is more focused on "getting things done first." Two-way rookie Hunter Sallis got to see both sides of Maxey in his NBA debut. As he prepared to take the court, Maxey yelled on the court to remind him that his jersey was untucked, a habit he learned from Chris Paul because that would result in a "delay of game" call.