Basketball Style Quotes

I guess, if it wasn't for Jordan, there would be no LeBron or Kobe who plays like that.

I feel like my game is more like LeBron's than Kobe's, so that's why I think I gravitated toward his game more.

I think my assist numbers dropped off in Toronto with the way we were built. We played a lot of isolation basketball. I know we were in the bottom half in the NBA as far as assists go.

I'm kind of a dirty guy, a little Bill Laimbeer-ish. Those are the guys I used to watch growing up. I used to watch Karl Malone; now I watch Boozer and Elton Brand and try to emulate those guys as much as possible because those guys are about the same size as me.

I used to be a wait-at-the-rim big, more of a Rudy Gobert-type of player.

There was a TV show that came on every week called the 'Bowery Boys,' and there was a character named Muggsy. The way I played basketball and the nickname stuck with me. No one calls me Tyrone except one person: Mom!

I loved that outrageous, creative style of city ball. 'Logic is the death of art,' they taught me at Yale. Maybe in basketball, too.

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

A lot of people celebrate the '80s. I was a '90s guy. The best music, and basketball, was at its high in the '90s, with all of the best players, playing the best style of basketball in that era, and Michael Jordan winning six rings in the city I grew up in.

Balling is balling; it is all just basketball for me and I'm used to playing both games, so it really does not matter if it is international style, American style; it does not matter at all for me.

We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College - very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold.

I was a big fan of Shaq when I was little, but I don't think I'm going to play too much like him, though.

There's a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.

You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.

Shooting is a lost art, but nobody wants to see nobody shoot all day. You want to see somebody break somebody off the dribble. That's today game, and that's what I try to do.

My explosiveness, I really couldn't show it at UCLA. It's still there. It's always been there. It was not a lot of running. It was a half-court game. Coach Howland came from the Big East, and so you know that's a grind out game.

That's the style of basketball I love, playing on the open court.