Basketball Talent Quotes

I hope my son becomes the next Steph Curry.

It's part of the reason I went to Duke. Coach K came to me. He saw everything but the dunks. He was like, 'It's a dunk. It's two points. Who cares?' He saw every other part of my game that I wanted the world to see.

You talk about demand, and these are big-name NBA players fighting for spots to be in the BIG3. So you gotta bring your game to make a squad, and that's what Ice Cube's envisioned when he started the BIG3.

Duke recruits the best basketball players. They don't recruit dunkers or highlight makers. They recruit good basketball players.

Jeremy Lamb is a great dancer.

I hate to say it's not a Laker but Michael Jordan. He's been the greatest player I've ever seen. And I'm probably a harsh judge of talent in the sense that I admire players that are really good defensive players and really good offensive players.

You've got to work your way into the NBA. Guys like Seth Curry, it took him a couple years in the G-League.

Really I can do everything on the court: pass, shoot, dribble, score.

Just watching Steve Nash growing up, and what he did with Amare - you can't play with a better point guard than him.

I was one of the best players in the NBA.

When I think about defending Kyrie, I think about respect. His shooting percentages were close to 50/40/90 as a 19-year-old rookie. When you come into this league with numbers like that, defenders have to respect your jumper.

It's so much harder to make the NBA than people think it is.

Some people are born and train their whole life to be an NBA player. But some people, if it doesn't work out, then they have no other option.

You need talent and good coaching to be successful in the NBA.

My thing is, when Barkley played basketball, he didn't practice, he wasn't a leader, he wasn't this or that, he just had natural talent so he got chosen to the Dream Team, All Star team because he had the talent and he was the franchise player on the team.

At first you see a lot of people say 'Oh he's good, but he can't shoot' or 'Oh he's good, but can his shot translate to the NBA?' That just made me go into the gym and work that much harder to show and prove that I can shoot outside shots, and I can make shots.

There's a lot of different ways to be successful in college basketball. Most of it stems from talent and having the ability to recruit.

Inch for inch, the 6-foot-3 Westbrook is the NBA's most sensationally talented player, a relentlessly explosive basket-attacker with a deadly pull-up jumper - a top-10 NBA player by any big-picture statistical measure from Player Efficiency Rating to Win Shares.

I felt like I was chosen to play basketball when I was younger.

It's a league where guys are trying to play to the best of their ability, whether you're a superstar or trying to make the NBA.

There were great European players that were great basketball players that did not make it in the NBA... This is the best league in the world.

Dirk Nowitzki is the best European player, for me, that's ever played the game. He's an unbelievable talent.

That's what people don't understand, that in the NBA these are the best 450 players in the world, in the game of basketball, are in the NBA.

Five guys on my high school team made the NBA.

It's a real advantage in basketball to have great hands.