Quotes About Basketball

I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

Me and Jason Kidd are with the same agency so I talk to him quite a bit.

Quite frankly, Minnesota was where my career kind of turned around, and it all had to do with Flip Saunders and his coaching prowess and his system.

I love Memphis. They've been good to me, the town and everything else. And quite frankly, I love the NBA and love being involved in it.

When I was drafted by the Colts, Indianapolis was a basketball and a car racing town, but it didn't take long for the Colts to convert the city and state of Indiana into football evangelists.

Everybody knows that LeBron James is my favorite basketball player and I love the way he goes to the rack.

In Atlanta, we ran a motion offense, so, obviously, I was on the move a lot.

When I played, I would never, ever try to run Reggie Miller off the line because I knew Reggie. If I ran at him, and I was trying to run him off the line, I was going to get kicked.

I didn't get a chance to shoot any threes at all in the offense we ran at Wake.

I'm JaVale McGee, the basketball player, funny guy, whatever, whatever. But I'm just really passionate about music and I don't want people to look at it like 'Oh he's just doing it to get famous.' I'm already pretty famous as is, so I'm not really trying to do it for the money.

To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.

The history behind the Garden and all the players that have come through and played on that court in the Garden, I think that the history is the reason why it still is, in my mind, the mecca of basketball. It definitely draws me in. That's the thing about New York; that's a big thing about the history, and the Garden is a big part of that.

I love playing in the Garden. My dad used to tell me stories about playing here. So to see that crowd, it's crazy.

The Garden is my favorite arena.

The best player I ever coached was Gary Payton.

I've been interested in basketball since I was a little kid - like, 3. The Bulls were my team. If you grew up in Gary, the Bulls were everybody's team.

I was the kid in basketball camps wanting to see the new gear that comes out or the gear that the camps give.

I've been inspired by many great players in this league, and it's great to re-inspire younger generations and guys coming into this league.

I'm just really just continuing to work on back-to-the-basket stuff and working on getting better from the foul line.

We got to see the world, we're put on some of the best teams in Europe, we made a lot of money, and then the flip side is it was 12 years of our parents getting older.

I've been very lucky to play with so many gifted players.

Playing two bigs out there is always a lot of fun. Banging on the rebounds, crashing the glass. It always feels better when you got another big down there with you.

When you have so much pressure with basketball and the results in the NBA, to just go home and have a dog that loves you regardless of how well you played, it's great.

I had a lot of wonderful accomplishments in the game of basketball. Of course, to win a gold medal for your country - it doesn't get any better than that.