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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

Basketball is so unique. It's both a team and an individual sport.

I love basketball.

I like basketball, but please don't ask me basketball questions because I've got a lot to learn.

The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

The business always gets in the way of basketball.

What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz.

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.