I'm the youngest of eight kids in my family. All tall, we all played basketball, so at my earliest memory, I was bouncing a ball in the backyard.
I was always a tomboy. I always wanted to be around the boys, always wanted to play sports - basketball, football, kickball, whatever it was. I was real aggressive. I wanted to be around the bros!
I'm much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think I saw Kobe Bryant at a basketball party, and I just kind of froze. He's monstrous.
The Bucks and John Hammond chose me in the draft, got me in the NBA, kept me in the team with a role from my very first season, and they are my basketball family.
Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball.
I'm playing basketball. It's my dream job. So I'm a pretty happy camper.
Basketball is probably one of the best workouts you can possibly have, because it's cardiovascular and it's plyometrics.
I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket.
My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.
When I'm away from basketball, I hang out with my friends, chill, and that's about it.
Christmas Day is a big day for NBA basketball.
After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.
After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be the last African.
Playing basketball all my life, I've collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It's pretty much all I wear.
I grew up dreaming about being an Olympic basketball player: Doug Collins getting smashed into the stanchion, making two free throws. Phil Ford and Mike O'Koren in 1976.
It drives me crazy when guys making $30 million are complaining about playing basketball two days in a row.
I'm just all around cool guy that played basketball.
The biggest thing is just routine. I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players.
Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love talked trash about the fact that I hooped. I once stopped to say 'Hi' before a show, and as I walked away, Courtney yelled, 'Go play basketball with Dave Grohl!'
I ran track. I ran cross country. But I did not play organized basketball in high school, at least on our team. But I played a lot of sports.