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We have told the NBA we are happy to help in any way.

We have up to 38 million viewers who watch at least one NBA game in China per week (on free television).

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more?

When I first got here I wasn?t in the best of shape. I thought I was in high school shape, but now I?m getting there. We?re working out at the place The Summit. They had us on an incline treadmill and everything. I feel like I?m NBA ready now. Obviously, it?ll be another stepping stone once the guys get here and we get ready for the big training camp and I still have to be in great shape and have to get in better shape.

Unlike other major sporting events, such as the World Series or the NBA Finals or the Masters, it's a one-day event. You crown the champion that day.

We are where other leagues, the NFL and NBA and NHL, were in the 1950s and 1960s.

We haven't played well of late. It's obvious for anybody to see. In order for us to win an NBA game, we have to play a lot better than we've been playing.

To have an NBA team come here is unprecedented. And not just any team, but the best in the league. Whether or not they win a championship this season, it all started here in the Virgin Islands.

We are really fortunate to be able to work with the NBA on events like these. They've enabled us to get the word out through clinics and All-Star events to young people with disabilities. They're helping us show them that there's an opportunity waiting for them.

The pent-up demand for the return of the NBA to Charlotte wasn't as strong as many of us anticipated it could be,

The peak of an NBA player is 29, 30? So we're still young. We can go as far as we want to go.

We're leading in several categories but one thing is sure, we want to be the leading sports brand and if we want to lead in basketball then we need the NBA. With the NBA we have a new dimension.

Yao has a dream of winning the NBA finals at least once, and he believed to stay at Houston he would have a better chance than moving to another team after the next season. He also believed the Rockets can help him develop his full potential in the sport and make him a really good basketball player.

We were able to handle our business and get it over. It definitely goes to show you that the NBA is fantastic. The series that are going on are the best basketball I've seen in years.

We definitely look at this as a new season. We knew Montana State had beaten us twice, and our goal was not to let a team beat us three times. We're in that situation again with Northern Arizona. We're looking at this like an NBA series. We're just trying to win a game at a time.

We want to look as ridiculous to our fans as the NBA players are going to look to their fans,

I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.

Not a game, not a game... practice.

I'm going to always be a Sixer til I die.

I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost it.

In 2001 we didn't have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ass dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown.

I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.

I want to return to the NBA this season, and help any team that wants me, in any capacity that they feel that I can help. I'm disappointed.

I dont want to be a point guard, or a two-guard, I want people to think of me as "creative", I just want to create on the court.

I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.

I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way.

When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA.

I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game.

Believe me, I am not even that brave enough to miss that many practices.

People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me.

My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.

I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from.

I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.

I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.

What we've done in this process is been very thorough. We talked to NBA coaches, Division I coaches and my contacts across the country. The theme was that that we have a good guy right down the hall.

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.

Of all the things in sports, getting a sack is one of the hardest things to do. It's like a last-second, game-winning shot in the NBA. A guy hits the last-second shot, and the fans scream. For us (defensive ends), the sack is everything. It's hard to get there. But once you do, there's nothing like it.

I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team. When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

Every year I will stock my locker up with body wash, different lotions, different oils, and different creams.

We scored a season-high, yeah - albeit against a team that is somewhat tanking.

I'm not into jewelry. I've got some earrings but they're not too expensive. There are guys who drop a hundred grand for a chain. The public's got it right - a lot of NBA stars are arrogant and like to spend lots of money and have lots of girlfriends and all that.

Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.

I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

I got hooked up with the NBA Nation and the next thing I knew I was judging the Sprite Slam Dunk Showdown. They needed somebody who can travel on the weekends and go up to eight different cities.

I think I got hooked up because I try to do good things with the NBA, and they always want somebody who's notable and who's personable with people.

My purpose in life, my goal for the NBA is to preach God's word - not just try to beat everybody over the head with a Bible but just being a good example and always conducting myself in a Christian-like manner.

I was supposed to be in the NBA. I was supposed to travel the world and make the world a better place.

Nobody thought that I was going to make it to the NBA. I only had a couple of believers growing up.

I've always played 'NBA Live' since I was a kid, so to be on the cover is a blessing.

You go from high school, to the NBA, and you're thrown in the fire.

The NBA is not for everybody. And looking from the outside in like I did last year, it seems so easy from just watching, but on the court it is a whole different level.

I love football. I'll watch the NFL before I watch any NBA.

Our goal is to be the best team in the NBA at the end of the year.

My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience things that have contributed to my maturity and personal growth.

We're just changing the definition of the uniform that you wear when you are on NBA business,

We're trying to get Shaq here for an NBA game.

While our drivers are probably not nearly in the physical condition of the NBA's All-Stars, the Daytona 500 is going to have 43 of the top drivers in the country, trained to drive at speeds in excess of 180 mph. Now that's intense! The NBA only has like 20 or 25 basketball players playing.

We as an organization will do just about anything to supply comfort, compassion, money and anything else we can to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Spurs and the Heat getting together to put on this exhibition to raise as much money as we can for the victims is an indication of what both organizations and the NBA is all about.

We have been able to secure one of the most dominant men to ever play the game of basketball as a member of the Heat, ... At the same time, we have gained the flexibility to achieve our ultimate goal of winning an NBA championship.

We would play songs live on stage, and then we'd watch their reaction we were receiving immediately, if people were dancing and singing along. If they weren't, then we'd go into the dressing rooms of the different NBA teams that we were playing in their arenas, and we'd change the songs right there.

Were you at any time worried that Frank Brickowski was going to kick your butt in the '96 NBA Finals?

We didn't give up, which is nice. These kids want to win; they are just young in a lot of ways. I told them that when you watch an NBA game, you don't see guys running around confused about what they're doing.

We had a better-than-average NBA effort. But that's not normally good enough for us to win.

Trying to judge a big guy too early is a mistake. If he wants to be an NBA player, he has to stick with it. You never know ? he may get an opportunity here.

This was a great opportunity for us to build some confidence. Obviously, Tracy wasn't out there and he's a big part of their team. But this is the NBA and they still had a lot of good players out there.

The only thing I could say to myself is 'wow. I don't think there's another NBA player who would have done that.

When you get in this place, there are 22,000 people and we've got the best atmosphere that you could have in an NBA arena. They get fired up and it's fun to play.

There are lot of people in the media out here not focused on team play. We get more praise from high school coaches or small-college coaches about our team's play than a lot of media. I think the NBA is still more one-on-one, got to score, got to dunk and all that. That's not us.

When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, when you go to watch movies, the offering that those arenas are doing foodwise is 'all the hot dogs you can eat'; all the French fries you can eat; for $20 you can eat 20 hot dogs.

When you go to college, your NBA valueÊseems to go down. You can't get better when you go to college? That's absurd, ... The longer you stay in college, the more you grow and become a better player. Each year, I've improved, and I want to continue to get better.

When you go to college, your NBA value seems to go down. You can't get better when you go to college? That's absurd, ... The longer you stay in college, the more you grow and become a better player. Each year, I've improved, and I want to continue to get better.

When I watch NBA games now on TV, what I see the most are opportunities for the big men that they are not taking advantage of. That's what I told Tim Duncan when I saw him this year at the Finals in San Antonio. When you go into the lane and they take away the jump hook, just reverse pivot. The baseline is there.

We've played in pro arenas before, and the NBA line messes us up. We've already called, and they said they're not going to have it (NBA arc) down, so that's good.

When somebody comes down the lane, you've got to hit him. You can't let them come down the lane and just finger roll and get easy baskets. ... That's just basic NBA basketball.

Fifteen years ago, it was a lot more difficult to market the NBA overseas. If (the NBA) wants to survive into this next century, they have to capture the international market's attention.

We sell to kids and people who are into the NBA hip-hop world. They may be marketing to the wrong people with this.

We're three games down with 17 to go and two tough ones this weekend. That's why it's the NBA ? it's a tough business. We got to respond now.

We're talking about women's professional basketball here. We're still new at this. A lot of times people forget the NBA was once where we are now. We've got to go beyond the true diehard women's professional-sports fan.

Yes, there will be an NBA team here.

Yes, there are some teams struggling, but the league will be OK as long as David Stern still believes in it, ... The play is much better than it was earlier. We're like the NBA was 20, 25 years ago. There is a foundation, and we need to build on it.

Well, he's coming along. He's letting his play do his talking now. He's just matured as a young man and matured to the NBA game. His approach and his work habits are far, far ahead of where he was at the beginning of the year.

We also feel that in moving Wayne into the role of general manager on an interim basis we will be better able to develop (coach) Sam Mitchell's growth toward being a very good NBA coach during the second half of the season. Wayne has the leadership qualities and league-wide credibility that we need to get to the next level. He has the full powers of a general manager.

We have a bunch of guys who basically have to decide if they want to be sort of the typical NBA player, which nowadays is more of an excuse-maker and a blamer and has his agent telling him how great he is. There's not a lot of realism in that. Or, do you want to fight and scrap and claw for wins? I'm confident that our guys will eventually get that message.

This was the first time the U.S. had to qualify for the World Championships without NBA players. I kind of feel like we won the gold medal.

This was a tough decision, but one that we feel is in our best long-term interests. We recognize Rob's efforts to clear cap space and bring in young talent, but it's time to bring in someone with proven experience as an NBA general manager to take us to the next level.

We knew it. If I was a betting man, 99.9 percent of the odds would be against two Louisville schools in the final. I don't care if we had NBA Today out there playing for us.

We knew how good Wendell was. And we knew they would make a run. The question was how good would we handle their run. We handled their pressure but the turnovers hurt us. They came out and rebounded the second half and got our guys in foul trouble. Davis hit some NBA threes in the second half that he missed in the first half.

You hope these guys understand that they're coming down because the coaches want them to get playing time and want them to develop. I hope they're receptive to it, but we may run into some problems with guys feeling, 'Hey, man, I was in the NBA on the charter flights. Now, I'm flying commercial.' That's the one side that we can be concerned about, but I'm excited about it as a coach.

With Rudy, we'll evaluate things at the end of the season. We'll sit down and talk things over with his family. We'll talk to the NBA people and see what they're saying about him. But to say he's leaving or staying, at this point in this season, it doesn't make sense.

We're going to work hard to decrease the ratio of NBA teams to D-League teams.

You gotta play every possession, ... Every possession counts. It's like the NBA playoffs.

Both of these guys we're bringing in have NBA experience,

Bobby Jones looks to me like a guy who can make a living in the NBA just playing defense. He's an absolutely magical player defensively.

Every single night in this league you are going to run up against a great player who is capable of taking a game over and helping their team win, ... Now we're going to New Jersey and they have great players. Being in the NBA is not easy.

At that point, you call an automatic timeout. All you have to do is watch a couple of NBA games to know it's a timeout. We had guys out there with enough experience out there to know that. It's inexcusable.

At some point, this becomes simple math. If guys like Michael, Charles and Patrick are getting 35 over here, against this competition, then they can get 50 points in the Olympics. I know it's not simply a matter of scoring, but I think the top five NBA teams would beat the top European teams. It'll be no contest.

Ersan is a young, skilled player who we felt fortunate to select in the second round of the draft. He has all the tools to be a productive NBA player, and he has been working hard this summer to get stronger physically.

Even if it's not NBA players, the United States still has great players.