Quotes About Basketball

Anthony Davis' lateral movement is one of a kind.

My small circle is really just my family. They're really close and dear to my heart and it's always great to have them watching my games, critiquing my games and making sure I'm alright at all times.

We must take down the carnies. I think we need to start a campaign to defeat their scamming ways. I never win the boardwalk basketball game.

I always try to outsmart my defender.

LeBron is not a good defender.

When you come out of pick-and-roll, it's really tough to step back and shoot because the defender is coming.

I've pretty much adjusted to how teams play. Like when I draw two defenders, I want to make the best play possible.

I don't really focus on the guy that's defending me.

Basketball has turned into an offensive-minded situation. They don't play on both ends. They don't play defense.

You're a pick-and-pop guy sometimes. You can get rolling with what the defense gives you.

I'm a really good shooter, three-point shooter. I'm good at defense. Dribbling, not so much.

My job is just to make the right play, read the defense, shoot if it's there, and make plays for my team.

Coach K was fine with the way I played defense.

Playing defense hard gets me going offensively.

New York basketball is about defense.

My father really put that in my head that defense is one of the key things in basketball.

In my day, defenders played you with two hands and an elbow. You're not getting by a guy, especially if he has an elbow and a hand on you and is a strong defensive player.

We don't got to talk to each other off the court. As long as we talk on the court, on the defensive end, that's all that matters to me.

I'm going to continue to be the defensive player that my team needs me to be and the real basketball people will get that.

I would love to be the best defensive team in the league.

Defensive player of the year is MVP in my book.

The last time I played basketball it was eight weeks after I delivered my second child. You know that expression - the mind believes and the body would not follow? That was me on that particular day.

Those plays are winning plays, getting those blocks. Somebody's trying to dunk the ball and you get a block and that's demoralizing for the guy that tried to dunk the basketball.

I was raised in Denver with the Nuggets.