Nba Team Quotes

#1. I always had a dream to someday own an NBA team.

Stan Kroenke

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. You always have to know what business you are in. Everybody thought we were in the basketball business. It's an NBA-team; we are not in the basketball business. We are in the business of creating experiences and memories.

Mark Cuban

#5. My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

Dante Hall

#6. I've been lucky enough to play on NBA teams I really enjoy, teams where I've liked everybody and had fun, and had that college kind of experience with an NBA team. When you have that, and I don't know that everyone does, but when I've had it, that's what it's all about.

Steve Nash

#7. The Honda Center is a wonderful arena. And it's a great arena, not only for the NHL, but it would be a great arena for an NBA team.

Henry Samueli

#8. I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.

Magic Johnson

#9. I am always amazed at how many guys in the NBA have never met an owner much less ever been to an owner's house. We bought the team so that we would be able to be a positive force, so that they in turn would be a positive force to young people everywhere.

Richard DeVos

#10. 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.

Allen Iverson

#11. I'm very happy and excited to be re-joining the Sixers family as a part of their broadcast team. I spent my best and most enthusiastic years of my NBA career with this organization and its fans and I truly feel honored and blessed to have been given this opportunity to return.

Eric Snow

#12. A lot of teams made a mistake in the NBA draft.

Josh Howard

#13. We've been able to handle any team that you guys put in front of us. We've had confidence since day one ... We feel like any team we play against, we've got what it takes to put ourselves in a position to win.

Tristan Thompson

#14. 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.

Doc Rivers

#15. I'm feeling better after the game than I did when I came off the floor with cramps ... I was going to try to give it a go, and 'Spo said 'No.' You know, after I came out of the game, they kind of took off. And it was frustrating sitting out and not being able to help the team.

LeBron James

#16. My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I've been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I've been in the NBA.

James Harden

#17. It was an unusual environment. We're used to having the jotter arena at this time of year. It's unfortunate that it was that way, but both teams had to deal with it.

Erik Spoelstra

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

Dwyane Wade

#19. There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You're talking about men vs. boys.

Bill Walton

#20. I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.

Carmelo Anthony

#21. 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 senior year of college.

Terry Porter

#22. I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That's what it's all about, is winning. I'm a competitor ... People said a lot about me being selfish and stuff like that. Getting into the league, I can't wait to shut that down. I'm a guy who wants to play and to win and love my teammates.

Shabazz Muhammad

#23. Everybody wants to talk about NBA players being selfish and arrogant and individuals. But what you saw today was a team bonding and facing adversity and coming out with a big win.

Kobe Bryant

#24. I had never dreamed about the NBA like some guys did. I was a non-scholarship player at an NAIA college. I played on the Boys and Girls Club team in my freshman and sophomore years of high school before I made the high school team. I was our backup center in college.

Terry Porter

#25. It just feels good to say we're the best team in the world, with the best player in the world.

Klay Thompson

#26. Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

Mark E. Hyman

#27. The 76ers hold a special place in my heart and I am intrigued by the opportunity to return to Philadelphia, where I was part of a rebuilding program, joining the team the year after it went 9-73 and going to the NBA Finals just four years later.

Doug Collins

#28. When you look at the last 20 years in the NBA, there have been seven teams that have won the NBA championship. Six of those seven teams drafted the number one or number two pick; their foundational people,

Ted Leonsis

#29. During my senior year, there were NBA scouts at my games. At some point, I guess, I started hoping I'd get drafted by a team where there would be a great situation for me. As it turned out, Portland was the best situation for me.

Terry Porter

#30. I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.

LeBron James

#31. All 14 guys on the team have sacrificed something to get to this point.

Stephen Curry

#32. It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and of course, luck. But if a team doesn't have the most essential ingredient - love - none of those other factors matter.

Phil Jackson

#33. They played exquisite basketball in this series and in particular these last three games. They are the better team. There is no other way to say it. They played great basketball, and we couldn't respond to it.

Erik Spoelstra

#34. Our team, because of our depth and our talent, we were able to do that, and it turned into a special season as a result.

Steve Kerr

#35. I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.

Moses Malone

#36. I don't know any other other team that got to the finals without two all stars.

LeBron James

#37. Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there aren't very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.

Tom Heinsohn

#38. I still wanted to get into the NBA. I was still on the team, I was a starting point guard and I was on and off the team because of my grades. That was the thing, discipline, discipline, discipline, and then I was going home to a very strict dad. He ran the house like the military.

Ryan Montgomery

#39. The Spurs are a great WNBA team.

Shaquille O'Neal

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

Andrew Bogut

#41. A team like Golden State, when they get into a rhythm they make shots.

LeBron James

#42. That team across the way, you tip your hat to them. They did a great job. It showed in these Finals.

LeBron James

#43. My favorite Knicks moment was when we beat Indiana in Game 7 to reach the NBA Finals. We worked so hard as a team to reach that moment that it was very satisfying to beat Indiana and reach the Finals.

John Starks

#44. The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

Dennis Rodman

#45. He has become a great leader of his team, a guy that has evolved in terms of his role within the team.

David Blatt

#46. When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.

Doug Collins

#47. Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.

Hubie Brown