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Baseball is the biggest sport in Japan, then soccer, and basketball is... People don't really care about basketball.
I'm a basketball player first and foremost. So I want to put basketball above everything else.
I don't see myself not playing basketball. I don't see myself not around basketball.
I was the head girl in school and also a national level basketball player.
LeBron is like a coach. He is a coach on the floor. He has a great basketball IQ.
All I know is basketball, and I'm sure a lot of guys in the locker room, all they know is basketball. So, they have to enjoy it.
I grew up drumming but had to put it on the back burner because of basketball.
My focus is on comfort, so I tend to keep it simple and casual - both during and after the basketball season.
I became a poet in Pittsburgh. When I lived in the South, I was a basketball player and primarily a jock. An English teacher essentially suggested that I send the poems that I'd been writing - really just for him - to a few programs, so that when I wound up in Pittsburgh, it's where I figured out that I could actually be a poet.
I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
A young basketball player has people to look up to an emulate. We are a pro league, and we're on television. It makes a difference. It's shows what's possible.
I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track.
My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.
Playing basketball at MSG is a lot of fun when you are winning, but when you are not, it's not fun.
When I get on the basketball court, there's not too many things I can't do.
The biggest thing is just routine. I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players.
Growing up, I was always into sports - basketball and volleyball - but I wasn't really a runner.
There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.
There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.
I have a certain taste, and I might be like, 'I like this,' when other people are like, 'I can't wear that.' And in basketball, I might be able to do things other guys might not.
This is basketball. It's All-Star and all that stuff. That's not what it's really about. It's about making a difference and impacting the kids and helping people in need. That's what it's about.
In 2013, the 76ers hired Sam Hinkie as general manager and president of basketball operations.
I like basketball, but please don't ask me basketball questions because I've got a lot to learn.
Where I'm from, Bastrop, Louisiana, you played football, basketball, and baseball; you ran track - and that was about it.
I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night.
Anytime you're playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you've got to be very disciplined.
It's the playoffs, man. If you don't get excited about the playoffs, you don't even deserve to be playing basketball.
He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.
Basketball has consumed me since the age of 7 or 8. I don't know what I would do without it.
I know how hard it is to shoot the basketball, so I've got great appreciation for it.
Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.
I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy, actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.
Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.
I grew up playing basketball in the inner city of Seattle, and by the time I was a senior, I earned a full scholarship to the University of Denver.
My mother's sobriety - that's when I found the theater, that's when I moved from being a basketball player to being a musician, to being an actor, to then being a writer.
Guys like Alvin Adams, Sweet D Walter Davis, Larry Nance, and Kyle Macy became my basketball heroes.
People think I'm soft and bailed out on basketball. But it was five knee surgeries.
When I first started playing golf, I was heavily into softball and basketball.
You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.
I was captain of the soccer and basketball teams in high school, and I was the equivalent of class president.
I was 'Little Ty,' 'Little Tyrone.' I always got this negative feedback from the game of basketball.
Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.
My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it.
I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.
I'm going to watch basketball regardless of whether I coach or watch it on TV.
My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.
I'm not getting caught in a club at 2 o'clock in the morning. I'm going to basketball games and hockey games and going to events and dinners.
I've been yelled at by coaches since I was 12 years old playing AAU basketball.
I've always wanted to have some sort of academy or program that links education and basketball.
I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.
Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.
If you like playing basketball, you play basketball. If you like playing golf, you play golf.
I'm a trainer. That's my passion. It ain't basketball. My boys, their passion is balling.
I don't want no distractions on Melo. So therefore I'm going to home-school him and make him the best basketball player ever.
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