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I make people pay their debts.
I'm not a boxer, I'm a basketball player.
You make decisions just crossing the street.
Coaching is definitely on the aspiration list.
The older you get, the longer your jump shot becomes.
Kobe Bryant should know how to defend a pick and roll.
If you practice anything enough, you can be consistent.
When you play, you get an opportunity to hone your craft.
We win together as a team, and we lose together as a team.
I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.
I like to dribble to Queen's 'Another One Bites the Dust.'
Mike D'Antoni is a great offensive mind. He's a great coach.
I'm not from New Orleans, never knew anything about New Orleans.
I shoot too many shots in the summer to worry about my shooting.
I've been winning my whole life. I've been blessed to be a winner.
The Warriors are competition, and competition makes the best of us.
I'm always the neutral guy, man. I'm able to bring people together.
For me to stay in basketball, it would just have to be a veteran team.
The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.
I've played more park games than NBA games, and I had a 10-year NBA career.
Great players, they start becoming immune to what the defense does to them.
By the time I turned 16, I'd played more than 300 games outside high school.
You like to be part of a championship, but you always want to be an integral part.
I don't know about bullying and all of that stuff. That doesn't work in basketball.
Phil Jackson is a mastermind, and he knows how to keep his team from being complacent.
I'm blessed that I'm able to provide the vehicle for my daughter to follow her dreams.
The one thing about college basketball is you don't have to have the best player to win.
I've been an NBA player, and a black man, for a long time, and I know how to take a loss.
Any guard would love playing with a great big man, one who rebounds, blocks shots, and scores.
I think, for me, one of the things I've been blessed with is the ability to speak with clarity.
A few years, there are teams that are just dominant over everyone. Those years are few and far.
This league has great players, and it has great images. Sometimes those two things get confused.
Guys pay extra attention to detail. They are looking at every little thing on the scouting report.
If you look at the NBA, it's the richest and wealthiest group of African-American men in the world.
One thing is a pro is supposed to make certain plays, while a college player is learning to make plays.
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.
Dunk, and people anywhere will ooh and aah. But you can wow a crowd in New York with ball handling and passing.
I remember when I was 11 playing against guys who were as old as 22. I just stayed outside and shot from there.
The important thing is to be around people who will make you a better player. Otherwise, you can remain average.
You can have your own thought process about things, but you still need to include and co-exist with other people.
Mike Brown wasn't about race relations, nor Trayvon Martin or even Hurricane Katrina for that matter. It's about trust.
When you're in the slam dunk contest, you try to do the things the average person would have trouble doing on a Nerf basket.
I don't think the Lakers could control Tony Parker's ability to get into the paint, so his health is the key for San Antonio.
That's all my brother and I do, talk basketball, and I'd like to think I bring some of that casual quality with me on the air.
I think it's right not to 'give' but to create opportunities and invest a percentage into those communities that you come from.
I think that for me, as a UNC graduate, I value my education - I think everyone who's gone to that university values education.
My high school coach used to tell me there's no correct way to shoot, that the only correct way was to get the ball into the basket.
From the outside looking in, I would say the franchise that has had the most stories that are unrelated to basketball are the Knicks.
Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.
I was overwhelmed meeting him. I didn't know what to say, I didn't know whether to call him 'Coach Russell,' 'Bill,' or 'Mr. Russell.'