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You must have respect, which is a part of love, for those under your supervision. Then they will do what you ask and more.
The bench is really important in the NBA because if you have a good bench, then you can make that playoff push even harder.
There were times I didn't know if I even belonged in the NBA. Everyone at this level is so good - bigger, stronger, faster.
Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.
I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.
I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life.
Why complain to the NBA and to the officials all the time, just like Tyrone Hill, always complaining about me on the court?
If you know people around me, even in college, I was confident, but the possible thought of making it to the NBA was crazy.
I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball.
Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.
Kobe is one of the best scorers in NBA history, but I don't have as much trouble with him in the post as I do with Carmelo.
The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession
A lot of people think you go to a top college, you come into the NBA and it'll be all a breeze and easy. It's not like that.
There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem
The intensity and importance of each possession. That's the thing about the NBA that doesn't always translate to television.
People around the NBA really think that I'm dumb or stupid. But people that know me know that I'm actually very intelligent.
Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.
I love video games. I had a Sega Genesis and a Nintendo 64 growing up, and I've had every 'NBA Live' that has ever come out.
I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.
If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll? Or get a rebound?
Whether I start or come off the bench makes no difference to me. My game has always been go as hard as I can as long as I can
I give everybody respect. There's nobody in the NBA who I disrespect because on any given night, you're liable to get lit up.
I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost it.
It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying
It takes locking in on the task at hand and honing in on what you need to do in order to be successful in the NBA postseason.
I've always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I've been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.
It's tough to get any win in the NBA, but when you're at home it gives you a push to get that win with your crowd behind you.
I told my boys that one of them wasn't going to make it. Because if you've got three, only one, maybe two make it to the NBA.
I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
I did 21 years of hard labor in the NBA, invested my money right, so I'm set. I earned the right to relax and enjoy, you know?
At some point, somebody will get the coronavirus, I think. If somebody will get it, I think MLB will do the same thing as NBA.
It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself
Chris Paul, president of the NBA Players Association, can lead an entire league but can't lead his team when it really counts.
Once I got 13 or 14 years old, I started watching a lot of videos on YouTube and NBA.com and I started following the NBA ball.
What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine.
I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.
Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.
This means the world to me that you guys are here with me celebrating with me. Thank you. Thank you. I can’t express it enough.
[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.
Everybody would love to be able to be great and make it to the NBA All-Star Game as a rookie. I mean, that is everybody's goal.
When you watch the old NBA, one thing is for sure, you will see more fights, a little more talking, bigger guys, bigger bodies.
I was lucky in my rookie year to play in the NBA Finals, to have that experience, to see what it was like to get to that stage.
I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first job was the NBA.
I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.
As soon as I got in the NBA, I was thinking about it - wanting to use my influence and resources to help different communities.
America is the NBA of culture. So to have Asian people in the biggest entertainment market in the world, in Hollywood, is cool.
I was in a unique position to predict the outcome of NBA games. Some of my picks included games I had been assigned to referee.
My dream, play in NBA. When I come here, very difficult for me. It's new country, new language. But is still basketball for me.
It's a league where guys are trying to play to the best of their ability, whether you're a superstar or trying to make the NBA.