Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a ...
When I first went to Stevens Point, I never thought I'd ever be close to the NBA. I didn't even think about the NBA. The big start for me was making it to the final cut for the Olympic team, and I was the only one who was going to be back for my seni...
My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.
I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.
Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.
I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.
If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on anot...
There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.
I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.
If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.
In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
Basketball was my whole life until I was 20 years old. All I knew was basketball. Then came golf, and I thought that's all I wanted to do then.
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
I played basketball. I went to school and played basketball and was trying to pursue that as a career path and kind of just fell into acting.
I am, first of all, a basketball player. I've done this for so very long... For me, it's been essential to be successful on the court.
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.
