Russell Westbrook and the Oklahoma City Thunder barely missed the playoffs in the loaded Western Conference, but the former UCLA star had the best year of his career and won the NBA’s scoring title.

During an interview with CBS Sunday Morning‘s Vladimir Duthiers, Westbrook revealed that the biggest inspiration in his life comes from his parents.

Westbrook is incredibly close with his family, and revealed that he makes it a point to call his parents before every single game.

“I talk to them every day. We’ve been so close as a family, I talk to them everyday regardless of whether its two minutes, one minute, 30 seconds. I talk to them every day. Just on… about life and different things that may go on… All the time. Before every game I call my parents, my brother, my fiancée as well. Sometimes it may not be about basketball, sometimes it just may be about random things. It’s just something that I’ve done and something that works for me. Is there any step in your ritual that if you feel you didn’t get to it might have an adverse effect on the game? That’s the only part, the part of me not talking to my parents or the people that I talk to before the game is probably the only part that I worry about. I’m so used to doing it. If they don’t answer the phone I’ll call and call and keep calling, or call my brother and tell him to call them. If my mom doesn’t answer I tell my dad to call my mom, or vice versa.”

(Thanks to Eye on Basketball for sharing this video.)