Quotes About NBA

The NBA is a job. Just like any other job complaining about opportunity doesn't solve anything. The only thing you can do is control what you can control, and when you are at peace with the work you put in then you don't have any regrets and that's truly the main thing about this journey.

I always had a dream to someday own an NBA team.

My dream is to play someday in the NBA.

It was a steppingstone. The NBA, for me, was preparation for me to do something someplace else.

An NBA game in L.A., the Lakers - I'm a Clipper fan - it's to be seen as much as seeing the game.

If I had an opportunity to hand-pick a team that I wanted to play in the NBA Finals, it would probably be the Lakers.

My very first NBA game was against the Los Angeles Lakers; it was a pre-season game against Magic Johnson.

I grew up watching the Lakers.

I love the fact that I get to play against the Los Angeles Lakers in a Game 7 on the road.

I grew up a Lakers and a Clippers fan.

When I told the Pacers I wanted to play for the Lakers, that was true feelings. I wanted to come back home.

The Lakers have always been on the forefront and anywhere LeBron has been, has been on the forefront.

I think if all three of my boys get on the Lakers somehow, they would change the NBA.

It was always my dream to play in the NBA, especially for the Lakers because they're the greatest franchise ever.

I was really mad until the 23rd pick and I wasn't selected and my agent told me, 'If nobody selects you, you're going to the Lakers.' So I was hoping to not go in the first round of the draft.

I remember watching when D-Wade and LeBron were here playing for the Heat. I remember watching them play the Lakers with Kobe. So I just was able to watch those games growing up and really watch my favorite players.

The Lakers have always had nice jerseys.

It's a dream come true to play for the Lakers.

I didn't really want to play for the Lakers, I wanted to play for the Clippers.

I realize the NBA has a brand that is very global. But there aren't many brands that travel as well as the Chicago Bulls. Perhaps only the Los Angeles Lakers.

Playing all of these games, getting to know everything about the NBA, you realize that you are your own business. You have business meetings to go to, signings to go to. Like, I'm only 20, but the stuff I'm doing the average 20-year-old isn't doing.

The NBA is changing so much. It's not like when I came up, with that old-school mentality that practice really mattered.

If you mention the Lakers, you think about Kobe.

I loved LeBron when he was in Cleveland. Loved him in Miami. And loved him when he went back to Cleveland.