It warms my heart to know that at the end of his college career, people like Mark Turgeon and txterp98 took time to remember that this fine young man deserves recognition not
only as a basketball player but as a positive person who represented us all with class.
Not as a basketball player, and not because he made me realize my severe limitations as an amateur talent scout (dude was so promising for a while, I swear), but because he was a huge part of an NBA trade in 2013.
The preparation I put into it, the mental and physical sacrifice that goes into what I
do as a basketball player allows me to be ready for those moments and to meet the storm with the ultimate calm, cool and collectivism that I like to have about taking advantage of those opportunities.
It's not so much the descriptions of
Jordan as a basketball player, it's the absolute, pathological obsession Jordan had to be great that fascinates me.
That's what I heard, and I think, as time has gone past so quickly, I've learned so much about myself, about being
here as a basketball player and as a man.
«He's obviously unselfish as a person and
as a basketball player when it comes to understanding how he can impact the game, every single night, and do it his way,» Curry said.
The goal of the California trip, Lillard says, was not so they could know each
other as basketball players, but so they could understand one another as people.
He did, moving on to the University of
Pennsylvania as a basketball player, then transferring to Grand Canyon University to become a 20 - point - per - game scorer and academic All - American.
During his early
days as a basketball player, he used to have a diet that required him to eat three times a day but when he turned his attentions to bodybuilding, this literally doubled to eating six or even seven times a day.
As a basketball player who has achieved a 37» standing vertical leap, I have a wide range of knowledge on how to improve the entire function of your legs.
best not to go and tell the biggest gossip site on the planet, too,
as basketball player Matt Barnes learned after claiming he was dating Rihanna.
Some things, though, don't matter: mass - produced work of the Damien Hirst - model that the artist has never laid hand to; supply — that there are many Warhols still out there doesn't influence price; commercial branding —
just as the basketball player LeBron James lost none of his magic by promoting an Audemars Piguet wristwatch on South Beach, so Jeff Koons was able to launch his Dom Pérignon bottle at ABMB without scratching the shine on the two sculptures that sold there.
While he may be most
famous as a basketball player, Grant Hill has also dedicated a lot of time and energy to building up one of the most impressive collections of African American art in the world.
But
as a basketball player he has been a surprise of a different sort.
Kyle Lowry on DeMar DeRozan: «He still sucks as a friend but
as a basketball player, he's really good.»
It's part of
me as a basketball player, like let's just worry about basketball.
I've grown up with this city both
as a basketball player and a person.
People know
me as a basketball player, but I do need to get away from it and take a little break once in a while.»
«We don't look at
her as a basketball player; we look at her as someone who works hard.»
As a basketball player, what I found myself doing a lot was essentially conducting a game, right?»
«
As basketball players we're really supposed to shut up and dribble.
«
As basketball players we're just supposed to shut up and dribble,» he said, referring to Fox News TV host Laura Ingraham's demand that LeBron James refrain from talking politics.
She explains: «
As a basketball player myself, this project is a tribute to my personal history and love of all things basketball.