Quotes About NBA

When I played in the NBA for 12 years, Seattle had some of the best fans in the NBA.

If we can't have a great team and a winning team, then I will not be an N.B.A. owner very long.

The NBA requires that one person is the acting owner, the one person they can get on the phone and is accountable for anything that happens. That's why my dad started taking me to NBA board of governors meetings in 1995; you have to be approved as the owner.

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it's a business and things like that. It is a business.

A lot of NBA owners sit at the midcourt. But we love being under the basket and seeing the players.

A lot of NBA GMs have asked me about me why I changed my middle name to Trill. Actually, the reason why I filed the paperwork to change my name was so that I could officially add my mother's last name, Stein, to my own. My mom is my best friend, and I wanted to honor her.

I've played more park games than NBA games, and I had a 10-year NBA career.

I am really irked by healthy NBA players resting. I really don't understand it. Players in the past have played all season for years. I just don't love it. I feel like it hurts the integrity and competitiveness of the game. It's got nothing to do with the TV partners; it's about cheating the fans.

That's what Europe brought to the NBA: the passing skills, the shooting skills.

When you are a young player in the NBA, sometimes you don't pay much attention to some of the cities you visit, especially in cold places like Toronto. But when you spend more time in the league you learn more about the cities you play in, and learn how to appreciate them more.

The NBA is the best league in the world. It's no way you're going to be able to fill the void that the energy of performing before 20,000 people every night gives you. That's just impossible. So, I just try and move on from that and let it be a moment in time and leave it alone.

It took a lot of work to go from the 'Not Top 10' to being selected for the NBA All-Rookie First Team.

Shaq's a very sensitive guy.

Personally, it doesn't matter to me if I had the worst career stats in N.B.A. history as long as I got my 'ships. The 'ships, it shuts everything up.

I'm an NBA player with no shoe deal. No endorsement deal. And I play in New York!

I never expected to be in the NBA, to be here, let alone to have my own shoe in my second year.

I always had an interest in fashion, and when I got to the NBA, I felt like I had to up my shoe game.

I knew, hey, if I can become an elite shooter, I'll be able to play in the NBA for 10-12 years.

With all the pick-and-rolls in the NBA, getting in the lane and shooting floaters or pull-ups will help a lot.

I'm addicted to showing people what they don't get to see, as far as the everyday lifestyle of an NBA player.

The NBA never wanted to use me to market their work even though I have a huge following and lots of fans. I was the bad guy to them.

I was the bad guy, the NBA bad guy.

You can't play Around the World in the NBA, you've gotta go to the basket.

People don't realize that everyone in the NBA is really good. The difference is having a coach that believes in you.