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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
Being from New York, everybody's a point guard. Even when you play in the park, you've got to know how to handle the ball. If you can't handle the ball, you can't really play.
You need to possess more than a little nastiness to play basketball at the highest level.
If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.
I want to play basketball so bad.
I had been a basketball fan growing up, and I felt that if we brought in the proper coach, and we played basketball the old fashioned way - where defense is paramount and offense involved movement off the ball and movement of the ball - we could build a winning team, and Chicago would respond to that.
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
It's hard to play basketball when nothing is inside of you.
I like basketball, but please don't ask me basketball questions because I've got a lot to learn.
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