Quotes About NBA

Analytics, math, science has gone into a lot of different areas of the NBA.

Guys are coming into the league a little more mature when they take the three or four years in college.

The Mavericks are a smart organization.

I want to retire as a New York Knick.

If you look at the NBA, it's the richest and wealthiest group of African-American men in the world.

I don't want to be in the NBA just to be here. I want to play and I think the Pacers are the right place to be.

I've been on teams in the NBA where we don't play the right way.

In college, I wasn't losing weight the right way. Sometimes, I would just... not eat in order to get my weight down. You can't do that in the NBA - there are too many games to do it that way.

I was a huge David Robinson fan.

I'd love to be with the Rockets for life.

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.

Until you're a rookie, you don't know what NBA game shape is.

My rookie year was so much easier, and it was so much shorter than most rookies due to the fact that I had KG. That changes everything. I was blessed to have the opportunity to play with KG - not only learn but play with KG. Not many people in the NBA are able to say that.

You come into the NBA, dudes are trying to come after you. You're a rookie. They look at you as fresh meat.

I was fortunate to be in a great situation in Canton, be the leader of the team my rookie year. I got to show a lot of people that I was an NBA player on a nightly basis.

I might be out of the league if I didn't have a guy like K.G. to show me the ropes and a coach like Doc Rivers.

Derrick Rose - he's had his opportunity. He's been an MVP in the league. His efficiency isn't what it used to be.

I remember I came into the NBA in 1999; the game was a little bit more rough. The game now is more for kids. It's not really a man's game anymore.

A lot of people didn't see me play in Sacramento. I think we had one TV game.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you're on your own.

Everybody's schedule is crazy in the NBA, so that can't be an excuse.

You don't look through the NBA schedule and say, 'this is going to be an easy night.'

An NBA star is a role player. Your role is to score a lot of points; your role is to get a lot of rebounds.

Maybe NBA teams won't want me and maybe I'll play in Europe the last one or two seasons.