Quotes About NBA

I'm not best friends with Giannis, and I'm not best friends with LeBron. I know them both, and I'm cordial with both.

The NBA actually encourages balanced living. Realistically, basketball only takes up about six hours of your day before it becomes counterproductive.

Demarcus Cousins, he can move. With his size, he can really use his size on the perimeter against anybody. That's what I want to do when I get to the league.

I've always played 'NBA Live' since I was a kid, so to be on the cover is a blessing.

You've got to work your way into the NBA. Guys like Seth Curry, it took him a couple years in the G-League.

Tennis is interesting. I feel, in terms of stats and stuff, maybe we're a little bit behind the curve, especially me just coming to the States and seeing stats used for, obviously, NFL, NBA, et cetera. Especially in baseball, there's stats galore.

Obviously making the adjustment to playing against grown men in the NBA, it's all a learning curve.

Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.

I had to go through the same things that anyone's son went through. And you know, there aren't that many guys whose dads played who got to the league.

My first 10-day contract in Dallas. It was long because we had five games in 10 days. Players get called up on a 10-day and their team might only have a schedule of three games. So I got to play in five games and I was fortunate for that.

I'm damn proud to be a Knick.

I love performing, and I was a dancer and then worked in the NFL and NBA, and I loved being in front of the crowd.

I wanted to take advantage of my platform as an NBA player to bring smiles, and also to raise money for social causes.

In the NBA, you're taking a bunch of different talents, and you're managing them. You have to give them a system; you have to give them a belief. That's why coaches like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich are so great: because they gave the team confidence in the system and in their ability to execute night in and night out.

You talk about demand, and these are big-name NBA players fighting for spots to be in the BIG3. So you gotta bring your game to make a squad, and that's what Ice Cube's envisioned when he started the BIG3.

After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be the last African.

I've talked to a lot of NBA superstars and legends about how I can improve my IQ offensively and defensively.

It's always that time of year around January where trade talks come.

There are a lot of talented guys in the league, short and tall.

If I ever make a lot of money in the NBA, I'm going to have this massive tank, and it's going to have an alligator in it.

The NBA definitely has some trendsetters that stay up on the latest fashion, but I think you're starting to see guys like myself and others get some much-deserved respect in the style department.

I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.

The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.

I want to be an All-Star and never had the opportunity. There's no animosity toward it or anything. I still enjoy everything that the NBA does, genuinely, with the All-Star weekend.