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My goal is to be the best. That's my thing I want to achieve - the best that I can be - and hopefully, that's the best player in the NBA.
Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper
What is the NCAA going to do a program if a kid leaves before two years. You can't control it. The NBA is the one that has to control it.
I'm actually a fan of all of the EA Sports titles like 'Tiger Woods,' 'Madden,' and I'm really looking forward to buying 'NBA Street V3.'
In the NBA, you win, and you think you're going to win tomorrow. But as soon as you lose, you don't think you're ever going to win again.
I know you want me to let you in on some big secret to success in the NBA. The secret is there is no secret. It's just boring old habits.
My game really complements what the NBA wants - a long guy who can really handle the ball and shoot the ball and make multiple decisions.
You have to know your role. But you need everybody to win games. You can't win by yourself - not in the NBA, not in Europe, not in Spain.
I want to have a long career in the NBA. First, I want to be an All-Star, and hopefully one day I can win a ring with the New York Knicks.
I was always good at penetrating in Europe, but in Europe, you don't have so many shot-blockers as there are in the NBA, so it was easier.
I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.
Money-wise, I was probably the best player in Europe. It was safe where I was in Italy. But I wanted to play in the NBA to see if I could.
I'm pretty sure everybody in the NBA wants to make the playoffs. Every player, every coach, every organization wants to make the playoffs.
Ultimately, it was always my dream to be here in the NBA. I just took it serious. I knew if I put in the work I could eventually get here.
In the NBA you are pretty confident but you are one phone call away from being somewhere else; you've just got to be ready for everything.
I always wanted to be a Sixer. My dad was a Sixers' fan. I never wanted to leave. I wanted to start my career in Philly and finish it here.
I'm like LeBron, man. I'm like a smaller LeBron. That's why I'm not in the NBA. If I had about five, six more inches, I'd be in the league.
No player in NBA history has driven me crazier, night after night after NIGHT, than the Thunder storm that can be Russell Westbrook, No. 0.
I was 5'3' when I was 15, but suddenly shot up to over 6 feet by the time I turned 18 and it was clear that an NBA career was up for grabs.
The one thing that young coaches should do is if there is an NBA team in your area, get to training camp and see the coaching that goes on.
College, our job is to get guys to get better. Work hard, get better and be in position so when your time comes you get to play in the NBA.
I came here with the perfect chemist's perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.
When I came into the NBA, coaches wanted you to shoot a midrange shot or two before you shot your 3 - you know, to get an 'easy one' first.
The idea of playing the point and leading a team to the NBA championship is what drove me to get up every day and work on my game as a kid.
I want to return to the NBA this season, and help any team that wants me, in any capacity that they feel that I can help. I'm disappointed.
As a kid growing up in Canton, Ohio, you never see yourself in a position to play in the NBA, much less have somebody pay you to wear shoes.
I grew up playing basketball on the streets of New York City, and it was very, very rough, and I started playing in the NBA in the same way.
That's what people don't understand, that in the NBA these are the best 450 players in the world, in the game of basketball, are in the NBA.
NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
To me, it doesn't matter who's out there: NBA basketball is great - if teams are putting out their best players and they're competing to win.
It's one thing to watch the NBA, but when you have to be there for every film session, every practice, it's a grind. It's a lot of hard work.
If you put everything together as far as my mind, my body, my game. If you put everything in one bottle, this is probably the best I've been.
There were great European players that were great basketball players that did not make it in the NBA... This is the best league in the world.
Some people are born and train their whole life to be an NBA player. But some people, if it doesn't work out, then they have no other option.
This is the NBA; you can't stop everybody from scoring 30. But that 30? They're going to work for every point they get. And that's my mindset.
Sometimes in the NBA, the schedule gets to be a lot with all these events, busses, planes and games. But once that's gone, you miss it so bad.
I definitely like to stay active. Im a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live.
I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.
I think the only thing to consider is do you want to try to coach in the NBA and for me it never was an issue. I never really had that desire.
NBA players, we're directly involved in the tech world whether we know it or not. Media content and wearables directly influence us every day.
It was a cheap shot. They won the game, move on. My thing is, I don't ask for a lot, but I demand my respect, especially from a guy like that.
The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.
I definitely like to stay active. I'm a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live.
We have to have adversity in order for us to really reap the benefits and really just have an appreciation of how hard it is to win in the NBA.
There are so many good players in the NBA, and I just want to be at the top of the talent pool. I want opposing coaches and players to fear me.
In the NBA you better come to play every night, where in the NBDL the talent level just isn't there and maybe you have guys taking a night off.
I've done a lot of the NBA programs in the Philippines and other places in South Florida. But I've always wanted to be a part of BWB in Africa.
I think the best thing about my game that translates into the NBA is being able to create for others. Using open space and using pick and rolls.
The NBA is a beautiful job in a lot of ways. But for living stability, thinking you're going to be somewhere for a long time, it's not for that.
I know what I would do if I were coach. I'd determine our strengths and weaknesses and utilize them. And it's pretty clear what our strength is.