Quotes About NBA

I didn't want to end my coaching career as an assistant in the NBA.

I didn't realize the difference between coaching college and coaching the NBA. It's a totally different animal.

You need talent and good coaching to be successful in the NBA.

I need a coaching job in the NBA. I'm restless and I need money.

I think it makes the game much easier to play once you have a good cohesion off the court. I think that's big because you come into a locker room at the NBA level, there's so much emotion, so much pride in the locker room.

I love the Hornets' colors.

My favorite commentator, NBA-wise, is probably Doris Burke.

If you look at the NBA compared to the WNBA we make half of one per cent of what the men are allowed to make.

The NFL, as compared to the NBA, it's so physical and so emotional almost every play.

I've been a bit surprised, and encouraged, by the NBA's support for athletes that speak out. Compared to the NFL, it's night and day.

That's important when you're on this NBA journey, in different cities, playing, competing - to really enjoy the whole thing.

I'd read about NBA players in magazines when I was growing up in Congo, but I had never actually seen what NBA basketball looked like because we didn't have access to a satellite for TV.

Making it to the NBA is a big goal in my life, and one day I hope to conquer it.

I couldn't be more proud to be in the NBA, to be with the Celtics and be surrounded by the people I get to go to work with every day.

At Carolina, I was surrounded by great players, and we felt like we were one of the more talented teams in the country. My job was to score. In the NBA, it's different.

I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.

This chip on my shoulder, this swagger and confidence, it helps me. If I didn't have it, I would not be in the NBA.

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

Going to Golden State, I really fine-tuned everything on defense, which is important because the NBA is moving away from standard bigs and going toward bigs that can switch and things like that.

When the NBA first resorted to it in 1979, I must admit I thought it was a circus rule, the equivalent of asking players to be shot out of cannons or swallow swords, something borrowed from the stepchild ABA with its red, white and blue basketballs. A 3-point line? The beautiful game of basketball didn't need a clown shot.

The actual act of sitting out doesn't directly fight systemic racism. But it does highlight the reality that without black athletes, the NBA wouldn't be what it is today. The league has a responsibility to our communities in helping to empower us - just as we have made the NBA brand strong.

It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.

College? Who needed college. Kobe Bryant had decided to take his talents to the NBA.

The thing about the NBA, if you have a weakness, they are going to expose it on the first day of practice. You have to get rid of your weaknesses, and your strengths have to be as sharp as anything.