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Strong college basketball is great for the NBA.
ADAM SILVER I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achiev...
TERRELL OWENS We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.
MANU GINOBILI My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.
DANTE HALL I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.
COBY BELL Basketball was my favorite. Probably because I was better at it. It came more naturally for me than ...
EDWINA ASHE He was probably the most popular player in the NBA other than Michael Jordan,
GEOFF PETRIE NBA 2K6 is without a doubt the most innovative and exciting basketball title this year. We focused o...
GREG THOMAS![]()
I love basketball and look forward to competing again at the sport that I hold so dear, ... Interest...
JAYSON WILLIAMS![]()
[Jordan, 42, said he could still make a contribution to an NBA team.] Even though, physically, I can...
MICHAEL JORDAN![]()
It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.
ALLEN IVERSON [Tim] Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind o...
BILL WALTON![]()
After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to comm...
DIKEMBE MUTOMBO I love to cook like a mad man. If I could do it all over again? I would be a NBA basketball player.
HENRY ZEBROWSKI I wanted to show the NBA scouts what I could do. That's my dream, to play in the NBA. That's always ...
BRAD BYERSON These crowds are going to be like college basketball crowds. It's unlike anything else you'll see at...
DESMOND MASON A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down fro...
UDONIS HASLEM I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this ...
RYAN LOCHTE For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playi...
SAM BRADFORD The NBA and NCAA has a window of opportunity for these kids to test the waters, so he figures why no...
BYRON GIBSON I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to ac...
TERRELL OWENS![]()
I think if Yao Ming was on my team, we'd probably have a 100 percent chance of winning an NBA champi...
ALLEN IVERSON We're leading in several categories but one thing is sure, we want to be the leading sports brand an...
ERICH STAMMINGER Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owner...
DAVID STERN No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster f...
BILL WALTON![]()
From my standpoint, I would make it very difficult on the NBA to even have any association with coll...
BOBBY KNIGHT It is time for everyone to sit down - the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraterni...
DICK VITALE![]()
We're talking about women's professional basketball here. We're still new at this. A lot of times pe...
SHERYL SWOOPES I played forward in the NBA, but now I'm a post-up center. I want to help bring a pro basketball cha...
ARMON GILLIAM The main thing is star power, ... If fans recognize a first-round pick, or someone who's done someth...
GAVIN MALOOF It was definitely a good experience, getting a NBA type coach and being able to play 30 minutes a ga...
DWAYNE JONES The vibe and the atmosphere in the Delta Center (during the Olympics) with the crowd cheering, it wa...
TANI MINTZ![]()
I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing ba...
DWYANE WADE We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before.
FELIX SABATES![]()
They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.
CHARLES BARKLEY Most of the brothers don't make the kind of scratch I do.
CEDRIC MAXWELL I just knew I had to knock them down, because they were hitting NBA-type threes . . . it was amazing...
ALEX ZWART![]()
A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... Bu...
KOBE BRYANT What has happened with underclassmen declaring for the NBA draft? It is absolutely wacky, baby!
DICK VITALE![]()
With a new (NBA arena) opening around the corner, I think the Panthers are going to be even more agg...
STEVE HALL If he was still on good terms with Beijing, the argument could be made that an NBA team would take a...
BROOK LARMER That works at Duke. I don't think it works in the NBA. They get that call at Cameron (Indoor Stadium...
GEORGE KARL the one with the relationship with (NBA Commissioner) David Stern.
OSCAR GOODMAN Three or four of those guys are in the NBA now. Illinois was a lot better and they proved it. This i...
STEVE FISHER He represents what the NBA should be all about,
BILLY KING Half that team is NBA. It's tough to compete with a team like that for 40 minutes.
DONNIE MCGRATH [Flanked by teammates and Louisiana natives Ed Reed and Alan Ricard, Sanders called for each team in...
DEION SANDERS He's one of the best players in the NBA. You have to take your hat off to him the way he carries his...
STEPHEN JACKSON He's definitely ready now (for the NBA).
DARREN PRINCE I really think it's dangerous for the NBA this year. A lot of NBA scouts are starting to feel comfor...
DAVE TELEP He's got a nice handle. Some of the point guards in the NBA could take a few notes from him.
CLYDE DREXLER This is an international city, ... and the NBA is an international league.
GAVIN MALOOF Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. What if they decided to improve scoring in the NBA and made the h...
HARRY SINDEN Everybody on the floor had to do something, because Kobe is an incredible player. It's different in ...
FRANCISCO GARCIA He tried to wait as long as he could for an NBA call-up and continued to turn down different offers ...
JAREN JACKSON The NBA almost forces you to put your name in. But he's going to be very careful and do everything b...
JACK RINGEL But, ... if you know any NBA agents, let me know.
IVO KARLOVIC From the head down, I'm an NBA guard. But from the head up, am I going to be ready? That's the big t...
ISAIAH SWANN We still have a lot of election left to go. If this was the NBA, this is still the third quarter. An...
JASON KINNEY Todd was an NBA type of player.
JEFF SANTARSIERO Each one of these rows is a little mini-game. A typical NBA game has about 30 rows.
JEFF SAGARIN The ultimate goal is to stay (in the NBA). I'm quite confident that I would have had I been given a ...
MARCUS FIZER I just know he's called me to use the NBA platform as a way to share about him.
LUKE RIDNOUR The other aspect about Aaron McKie is anyone you talk to around the NBA, he is the consummate profes...
LEON ROSE I think that because guys go to the NBA so early (at bigger programs) it evens the game out. A lot o...
JOAH TUCKER I was in school to play basketball; I wasn't trying to be a doctor. It's hard to talk about ...
BEN SIMMONS I am undecided on my major, but I'm leaning toward psychology, ... I plan on graduating, even if the...
DAVID MANNING![]()
My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just ...
JAMES HARDEN I want to thank the NBA and U.S.A. Basketball. Words can't describe my feeling. I was a small to...
SCOTTIE PIPPEN![]()
My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in...
GORAN IVANISEVIC I don't want to end our season in the MAC tournament. I would like to finish by making the NCAA tour...
HEIDI ROMER![]()
It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commis...
DIKEMBE MUTOMBO What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my c...
ANDREW BOGUT I tell the players, 'I'm sorry that you got hurt, but there's not a thing I can do about it'. You've...
JERRY SLOAN I think if neither one of them makes the NCAA tournament, they'll probably drape the state in black.
LARRY CONLEY It's not college basketball. There's a lot of other elements that go into it. NBA guys have been the...
BECKY HAMMON My mom didn't even pick us to win one game in her NCAA Tournament office pool.
CARTER JORDAN Portland doesn't read like a basketball town, unless you remember what the NBA was like before i...
ROWAN RICARDO PHILLIPS![]()
I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.
KEVIN JOHNSON I feel that it is my best interest to declare for the NBA draft. The draft process will provide a gr...
AARON GRAY Peoria, Connecticut, Atlanta, ... I've got the Big East tournament on Thursday, the ACC on Friday, t...
BERNIE BICKERSTAFF Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six...
MARK E. HYMAN If I had an opportunity to hand-pick a team that I wanted to play in the NBA Finals, it would probab...
SCOTTIE PIPPEN I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.'...
KEVIN DURANT My favorite moment was in Game 6 when Bill Walton tapped a missed Sixers shot toward the backcourt a...
JACK RAMSAY I just try to play every game like it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals.
KAWHI LEONARD The NBA will have to wait.
DAVID HUFFMAN![]()
I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I ...
MAGIC JOHNSON I've had a long career in the NBA and have enjoyed my experience.
JAMAL MASHBURN Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
PAT WILLIAMS![]()
NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch N...
XI JINPING I told him that the NBA will always be there.
KIRK SNYDER I think winning this game definitely puts us in the NCAA Tournament. We're definitely an NCAA Tourna...
MOHAMED ABUKAR I'd rather play here in the NBA.
FRAN VAZQUEZ First of all, the policy is not racist. The intention is to make the league image more corporate rat...
RICHARD LAPCHICK When I first went to Stevens Point, I never thought I'd ever be close to the NBA. I didn't e...
TERRY PORTER I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a spo...
RAMON RODRIGUEZ I realize the select number of people that make it [to the NBA], ... One thing this did do for me wa...
JASON BOONE In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find...
PAT SUMMERALL![]()
When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.
DERRICK ROSE
ADAM SILVER I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achiev...
TERRELL OWENS We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.
MANU GINOBILI My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.
DANTE HALL I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.
COBY BELL Basketball was my favorite. Probably because I was better at it. It came more naturally for me than ...
EDWINA ASHE He was probably the most popular player in the NBA other than Michael Jordan,
GEOFF PETRIE NBA 2K6 is without a doubt the most innovative and exciting basketball title this year. We focused o...
GREG THOMAS
I love basketball and look forward to competing again at the sport that I hold so dear, ... Interest... JAYSON WILLIAMS
[Jordan, 42, said he could still make a contribution to an NBA team.] Even though, physically, I can... MICHAEL JORDAN
It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game. ALLEN IVERSON [Tim] Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind o...
BILL WALTON
After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to comm... DIKEMBE MUTOMBO I love to cook like a mad man. If I could do it all over again? I would be a NBA basketball player.
HENRY ZEBROWSKI I wanted to show the NBA scouts what I could do. That's my dream, to play in the NBA. That's always ...
BRAD BYERSON These crowds are going to be like college basketball crowds. It's unlike anything else you'll see at...
DESMOND MASON A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down fro...
UDONIS HASLEM I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this ...
RYAN LOCHTE For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playi...
SAM BRADFORD The NBA and NCAA has a window of opportunity for these kids to test the waters, so he figures why no...
BYRON GIBSON I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to ac...
TERRELL OWENS
I think if Yao Ming was on my team, we'd probably have a 100 percent chance of winning an NBA champi... ALLEN IVERSON We're leading in several categories but one thing is sure, we want to be the leading sports brand an...
ERICH STAMMINGER Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owner...
DAVID STERN No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster f...
BILL WALTON
From my standpoint, I would make it very difficult on the NBA to even have any association with coll... BOBBY KNIGHT It is time for everyone to sit down - the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraterni...
DICK VITALE
We're talking about women's professional basketball here. We're still new at this. A lot of times pe... SHERYL SWOOPES I played forward in the NBA, but now I'm a post-up center. I want to help bring a pro basketball cha...
ARMON GILLIAM The main thing is star power, ... If fans recognize a first-round pick, or someone who's done someth...
GAVIN MALOOF It was definitely a good experience, getting a NBA type coach and being able to play 30 minutes a ga...
DWAYNE JONES The vibe and the atmosphere in the Delta Center (during the Olympics) with the crowd cheering, it wa...
TANI MINTZ
I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing ba... DWYANE WADE We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before.
FELIX SABATES
They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer. CHARLES BARKLEY Most of the brothers don't make the kind of scratch I do.
CEDRIC MAXWELL I just knew I had to knock them down, because they were hitting NBA-type threes . . . it was amazing...
ALEX ZWART
A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... Bu... KOBE BRYANT What has happened with underclassmen declaring for the NBA draft? It is absolutely wacky, baby!
DICK VITALE
With a new (NBA arena) opening around the corner, I think the Panthers are going to be even more agg... STEVE HALL If he was still on good terms with Beijing, the argument could be made that an NBA team would take a...
BROOK LARMER That works at Duke. I don't think it works in the NBA. They get that call at Cameron (Indoor Stadium...
GEORGE KARL the one with the relationship with (NBA Commissioner) David Stern.
OSCAR GOODMAN Three or four of those guys are in the NBA now. Illinois was a lot better and they proved it. This i...
STEVE FISHER He represents what the NBA should be all about,
BILLY KING Half that team is NBA. It's tough to compete with a team like that for 40 minutes.
DONNIE MCGRATH [Flanked by teammates and Louisiana natives Ed Reed and Alan Ricard, Sanders called for each team in...
DEION SANDERS He's one of the best players in the NBA. You have to take your hat off to him the way he carries his...
STEPHEN JACKSON He's definitely ready now (for the NBA).
DARREN PRINCE I really think it's dangerous for the NBA this year. A lot of NBA scouts are starting to feel comfor...
DAVE TELEP He's got a nice handle. Some of the point guards in the NBA could take a few notes from him.
CLYDE DREXLER This is an international city, ... and the NBA is an international league.
GAVIN MALOOF Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. What if they decided to improve scoring in the NBA and made the h...
HARRY SINDEN Everybody on the floor had to do something, because Kobe is an incredible player. It's different in ...
FRANCISCO GARCIA He tried to wait as long as he could for an NBA call-up and continued to turn down different offers ...
JAREN JACKSON The NBA almost forces you to put your name in. But he's going to be very careful and do everything b...
JACK RINGEL But, ... if you know any NBA agents, let me know.
IVO KARLOVIC From the head down, I'm an NBA guard. But from the head up, am I going to be ready? That's the big t...
ISAIAH SWANN We still have a lot of election left to go. If this was the NBA, this is still the third quarter. An...
JASON KINNEY Todd was an NBA type of player.
JEFF SANTARSIERO Each one of these rows is a little mini-game. A typical NBA game has about 30 rows.
JEFF SAGARIN The ultimate goal is to stay (in the NBA). I'm quite confident that I would have had I been given a ...
MARCUS FIZER I just know he's called me to use the NBA platform as a way to share about him.
LUKE RIDNOUR The other aspect about Aaron McKie is anyone you talk to around the NBA, he is the consummate profes...
LEON ROSE I think that because guys go to the NBA so early (at bigger programs) it evens the game out. A lot o...
JOAH TUCKER I was in school to play basketball; I wasn't trying to be a doctor. It's hard to talk about ...
BEN SIMMONS I am undecided on my major, but I'm leaning toward psychology, ... I plan on graduating, even if the...
DAVID MANNING
My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just ... JAMES HARDEN I want to thank the NBA and U.S.A. Basketball. Words can't describe my feeling. I was a small to...
SCOTTIE PIPPEN
My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in... GORAN IVANISEVIC I don't want to end our season in the MAC tournament. I would like to finish by making the NCAA tour...
HEIDI ROMER
It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commis... DIKEMBE MUTOMBO What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my c...
ANDREW BOGUT I tell the players, 'I'm sorry that you got hurt, but there's not a thing I can do about it'. You've...
JERRY SLOAN I think if neither one of them makes the NCAA tournament, they'll probably drape the state in black.
LARRY CONLEY It's not college basketball. There's a lot of other elements that go into it. NBA guys have been the...
BECKY HAMMON My mom didn't even pick us to win one game in her NCAA Tournament office pool.
CARTER JORDAN Portland doesn't read like a basketball town, unless you remember what the NBA was like before i...
ROWAN RICARDO PHILLIPS
I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted. KEVIN JOHNSON I feel that it is my best interest to declare for the NBA draft. The draft process will provide a gr...
AARON GRAY Peoria, Connecticut, Atlanta, ... I've got the Big East tournament on Thursday, the ACC on Friday, t...
BERNIE BICKERSTAFF Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six...
MARK E. HYMAN If I had an opportunity to hand-pick a team that I wanted to play in the NBA Finals, it would probab...
SCOTTIE PIPPEN I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.'...
KEVIN DURANT My favorite moment was in Game 6 when Bill Walton tapped a missed Sixers shot toward the backcourt a...
JACK RAMSAY I just try to play every game like it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals.
KAWHI LEONARD The NBA will have to wait.
DAVID HUFFMAN
I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I ... MAGIC JOHNSON I've had a long career in the NBA and have enjoyed my experience.
JAMAL MASHBURN Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
PAT WILLIAMS
NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch N... XI JINPING I told him that the NBA will always be there.
KIRK SNYDER I think winning this game definitely puts us in the NCAA Tournament. We're definitely an NCAA Tourna...
MOHAMED ABUKAR I'd rather play here in the NBA.
FRAN VAZQUEZ First of all, the policy is not racist. The intention is to make the league image more corporate rat...
RICHARD LAPCHICK When I first went to Stevens Point, I never thought I'd ever be close to the NBA. I didn't e...
TERRY PORTER I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a spo...
RAMON RODRIGUEZ I realize the select number of people that make it [to the NBA], ... One thing this did do for me wa...
JASON BOONE In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find...
PAT SUMMERALL
When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA. DERRICK ROSE
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
[It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.] 
Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
bread, and how sad a path it is to c... 
He is not always at ease who laughs.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de rire.] 
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain thei... 
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always 
And I — my head oppressed by horror — said: