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They didn't say all wins in the NBA are all pretty.
Gilbert Arenas
Say
Pretty
Wins
NBA
When I leave the NBA, I don't want my legacy to be, 'He won a championship ring.' I want my legacy to say, 'He played for the people. He gave everybody in the world hope that they can be just like him.'
Gilbert Arenas
Hope
People
World
Everybody
Gave
Say
Ring
He
Like
For The People
Him
Leave
Won
Legacy
Just
Want
NBA
Played
Championship
The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA.
Grant Hill
You
Mind
College
TV
Constantly
See
More
Pros
Because
Duke
Accomplishments
Even
NBA
Season
Basketball
I'll be remembered as the biggest bust in NBA history. But I can't do nothing about that.
Greg Oden
History
Nothing
About
Remembered
Biggest
Bust
NBA
Everybody would love to be able to be great and make it to the NBA All-Star Game as a rookie. I mean, that is everybody's goal.
Greg Oden
Love
Great
Game
Everybody
Would
Able
All-Star
All-Star Game
Make
Goal
Mean
Rookie
NBA
If you're out there, and you can't do it, that makes you a bust. Well, I was never really out there. I was never Greg Oden in the NBA.
Greg Oden
You
Out
Never
Well
Makes
Really
Bust
NBA
I just realized that basketball and going to the NBA was a possibility, and that's something that I want to use to better my family and possibly help the world if I can.
Greg Oden
Family
World
Better
Possibility
Possibly
Something
Going
Just
Want
Realized
Use
Help
NBA
Basketball
My cousin got wrapped up in the NBA lifestyle and threw parties at my house all the time. So I got wrapped up in it, too.
Greg Oden
Time
Too
Wrapped
Threw
Lifestyle
House
Parties
Got
Cousin
Up
NBA
I don't want to be one of those guys who is just there. I want to be a guy that's on a team that makes it and be an All-Star and has a chance to always win an NBA championship.
Greg Oden
Win
Those
All-Star
Guy
Guys
Makes
Always
Just
Want
Team
Who
NBA
Championship
Chance
I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.
Hannah Storm
First
Carolina
Charlotte
Guy
Jordan
Town
Michael
Michael Jordan
Roll
Native
Team
NBA
I love to cook like a mad man. If I could do it all over again? I would be a NBA basketball player.
Henry Zebrowski
Love
Man
Mad
Would
Would-Be
Could
Over
Like
Again
If I Could
Cook
NBA
NBA Basketball
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
I wanted to go the NBA and win a championship because I've never seen a grown man cry the way Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan cried when they won a championship.
Iman Shumpert
Man
Win
Seen
Cried
Way
Never
Jordan
Cry
Because
Go
Won
Michael
Michael Jordan
Wanted
NBA
Grown
Grown Man
Championship
I never said to myself, 'Get to the NBA, be an All-Star, make a $100 million contract.'
Iman Shumpert
Myself
All-Star
Never
Make
Said
Contract
Get
NBA
Million
The NBA actually encourages balanced living. Realistically, basketball only takes up about six hours of your day before it becomes counterproductive.
Iman Shumpert
Day
Before
Living
About
Only
Takes
Counterproductive
Hours
Balanced
Becomes
Encourages
Up
Six
Realistically
Your
NBA
Actually
Basketball
I can't think of any NBA team over the last few years that lost three starters. And we replaced them basically with three guys who really haven't played in this league.
Isaiah Thomas
Three
Lost
Few
Think
Guys
Over
League
Years
Replaced
Any
Them
Really
Team
Who
NBA
Played
Last
Basically
Starters
Last Few Years
Nothing is ever perfect in the NBA.
J. B. Bickerstaff
Nothing
Perfect
NBA
Ever
People around the NBA really think that I'm dumb or stupid. But people that know me know that I'm actually very intelligent.
JaVale McGee
Me
People
Stupid
Think
Know
Around
Dumb
Very
Intelligent
Really
NBA
Actually
My favorite moment was in Game 6 when Bill Walton tapped a missed Sixers shot toward the backcourt and Johnny Davis ran it down as the clock expired. We were NBA champions!
Jack Ramsay
Game
Down
Ran
Favorite
Johnny
Davis
Toward
Missed
Were
Clock
Expired
Shot
Bill
Moment
NBA
Champions
I've always gotten credit for being a big man who doesn't want to shoot threes. Throughout my entire basketball career prior to coming to the NBA, I was praised for doing that.
Jahlil Okafor
Man
Big
Entire
Throughout
Prior
Always
Praised
Gotten
Coming
Doing
Shoot
Being
Want
Who
NBA
Credit
Career
Basketball
Being an NBA player, a lot of stress comes with that: realizing there's a lot of pressure on me and accepting that for what it is, realizing that I might need help, I might need somebody to talk to, accepting that there's nothing wrong with that.
Jahlil Okafor
Me
Stress
Pressure
Somebody
Nothing
Wrong
Talk
Accepting
Lot
Being
Might
Realizing
Help
NBA
Player
Need
There's a lot of guys who are drafted and end up not playing in the NBA. They get their money for their first whatever years and end up going overseas or something like that.
Jalen Brunson
Money
First
Whatever
Something
Guys
Like
Years
Overseas
Lot
End
Up
Get
Going
Who
NBA
Drafted
Playing
I know the NBA is my all-time goal. It's what I dreamed of as a little kid.
Jalen Brunson
Kid
Dreamed
All-Time
Know
Goal
Little
Little Kid
NBA
As I grew older, it wasn't just to be in the NBA. The dream was to be successful in the NBA.
Jalen Brunson
Older
Dream
Just
Grew
Successful
NBA
I've been really vocal about my disappointment about how the WNBA athletes get treated like second-class citizens in relations to the NBA when they're a subsidiary.
Jalen Rose
Disappointment
Relations
Citizens
Athletes
About
Vocal
Like
How
Been
Get
Really
NBA
Treated
Second-Class
Second-Class Citizens
There are a lot of guys who play in the NBA. There aren't a lot of guys who have a chance to win a gold medal, too.
James Harden
Win
Too
Guys
Lot
Gold
Gold Medal
Who
Medal
NBA
Play
Chance
A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.
Jason Kidd
You
Nights
Late
Those
Out
Gym
Mornings
Sacrifices
Make
Lot
Friends
Going
Want
Your
NBA
NBA Basketball
Player
Early
Basketball
Basketball Player
Early Mornings
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