The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.
Basketball is basketball.
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.
I can't palm a basketball.
Basketball is big stuff in New York. If you're good in it, everybody respects you. Nobody would want to ruin your shooting eye or your shooting arm.
Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.
I played basketball, and I loved it. But I never thought of it seriously as being a professional.
The business always gets in the way of basketball.
A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.