You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.
I might go my whole life stealing money. I got paid to play basketball, which is a scam. I get paid to watch basketball, which is a scam.
I'm just here to play basketball and have fun and try to win another championship.
I want to play basketball so bad.
As a kid, my favorite subject was recess. Why? Because I could go play basketball.
I never thought I'd play basketball in China.
I never thought that I would ever go over to China for any reason - then to be able to go over there and play basketball, embracing the culture.
I just love playoff basketball.
I'm not out there to win a popularity contest. I'm out there to win basketball games.
And the question about if I ever dreamed of making the putt on the last hole of a U.S. Open when I was a kid, no, I didn't. But I hit a lot of game-winning shots on the basketball court when I was a kid.
Look, I have no qualms about having played basketball. The game has done so much for me. Look at the places I've been, for one thing.
Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.
I am ambidextrous. I write with my right hand but played basketball in high school with my left.
I'm 6-foot-4. If my life depended on it, I could still dunk a basketball. Then I would need assistance from a first responder to get down from the rim.
My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.
I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'
Balancing schoolwork and basketball was very, very hard, but a lot of benefits came along with it.
And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.
I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.
No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.