Quotes About NBA

Seattle deserves a team. They got robbed of their basketball team.

We never give Al Horford the credit he deserves as a modern big.

There's been a thing with Detroit and the Bulls ever since I've been in the league.

Michael Carter-Williams

That's one of things I've heard about Brooklyn - how good they are at developing players.

I'm no dummy. So much of the NBA is just fit and situation, and I always say this, for 85 to 90 percent of the league, your performance is often dictated by your situation and your coaches.

Playing in the Target Center where there's more than 15,000 people every night, it's just crazy.

It takes locking in on the task at hand and honing in on what you need to do in order to be successful in the NBA postseason.

Coming into the league, if I would've had money, then obviously I would've had more tattoos.

If the NBA teaches us anything, you have to have talent to win.

Just going through a full year of the NBA teaches you a lot of different things.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.

I don't think I was a good enough coach to help an NBA team win a game when I first got to that league.

My favorite memory of Kevin Garnett is not a memory - it's more of the experience I had with him for a year, just enjoying that moment of being his teammate, conversing with him every single day, learning from him every single day.

When I came into the NBA from Stanford, I had already decided what type of player I would be. I wanted to be the best player and teammate I could be, but not attract too much attention or make too much noise. I didn't want people to start asking questions about my personal life.

Some of the guys in the Eastern Conference, I had never been on their teams - like Larry Bird: even though you make the All Star team, you're going to be in the West; he's on the East. So you're never going to be teammates.

A lot of my teammates in the NBA call me Little Patty anyway as they are about two feet taller than me.

I think my ability coming into the NBA is going to make it that much easier for me with the space and the different type of players here. I think just by the spacing alone is going to make my game that much easier and that much better for my teammates.

I've been lucky to have great coaching, great teammates, and a desire to keep getting better. That, slowly over time, helped me grow from an average high school player to the NBA.

If you stay around in the NBA long enough, you're going to bounce around, your teammates are going to bounce around, but those friendships, they remain constant.

There's nothing about my NBA journey that I would change - the teams, the cities, the teammates, the fans have all helped me grow into the player and person that I've become. Every time I moved, I saw the bright side. Always, I saw opportunity.

For me, I grew up watching really good Detroit Pistons teams.

Several NBA teams got their best gates every season when they scheduled a doubleheader and booked the Globetrotters and their stooges for the opening game.