Damian Lillard: "I heard when you were saying all these youngins, you didn't name me."
LeBron James: "I sure didn't. No I did not."
Dame: "I ain't old."
LeBron: "You ain't no youngin no more." 🤣
Chris Haynes: "You wouldn't believe who just asked about you, Shaq?"
Shaq: "Who?"
Haynes: "Nobody."
Shaq: "Have fun because you about to be working for ESPN Deportes tomorrow. Better learn Spanish." 😭
Shaq: "Teach me how to say 'great job' in your language please."
Luka Doncic: "Zelo dobro."
Shaq: "Zelo Dobro, brother. Zelo dobro."
Luka: "I'll teach you the bad words later." 🤣
Mike Malone: "I think it's crazy that Nikola [Jokic] got a technical foul… He's going to get the ball and some fan is holding onto the ball like he wants to be apart of the game."
Reporter: "The fan was the owner of the Suns."
MM: "I don't give a sh*t."
Bam Adebayo: "The whole lip ring is annoying."
Jimmy Butler: "Look, I gotta stay in character."
Bam: "Sh*t. You get a haircut for Media Day."
Jimmy: "This is my halloween." 😂
(via jimmybutler/IG)
*Jordan Poole pulls up from 28 feet*
Channing Frye: "WHAT?!"
Taylor Rooks: "Oh my g— He can't be serious!"
Tyrese Haliburton: "What's wrong with that shot? I’m not mad at that shot… I would've shot that too."
Frye: "That’s why you’re here with us." 🤣
"You keep joining superteams to win an NBA title. How about we workout together sometime so I can teach you how to carry your own team."
Giannis to Kevin Durant 💀🤣
Kyrie Irving: "I knew greatness would be out here early!"
Russell Westbrook: "Somebody gotta do it."
KI: "Some people show up right on time. Does it go unnoticed? Do people appreciate it?"
Russ: "No."
KI: "But we understand."
Russ: "For sure. Yessir."
Richard Jefferson: “Do you think it’s a better chance of LeBron retiring or Perk going on a diet?”
Malika Andrews: “It’s right up there with you growing a full head of hair.”
Richard Jefferson stays catching strays on live TV 🤣
LeBron James: “I love y’all boys, man.”
Shedeur Sanders: “You gotta send us a jersey, you got to get us right!”
*LeBron walks away*
Travis Hunter: “AHHHHHHHH!” 🤣
(via
@BleacherReport
)
LeBron James has won everything there is to win in NBA history.
🔸4x NBA Championships
🔸4x NBA Finals MVP
🔸4x NBA MVP
🔸19x NBA All-Star
🔸3x NBA All-Star MVP
🔸2x Olympic Gold Winner
🔸NBA Rookie of the Year
🔸NBA Scoring Champion
🔸All-NBA First, Second and Third Teams…
"All the guys sitting, resting. That's the only thing I probably don't like. Just play, man. If you 80%, you gotta play. I don't like all the sitting, missing games stuff. These people might have enough money to come to one game. And that might be the game …
"These people going to heaven. Ain't nothing to do in this boring ass city. It's a great city, but ain't nothing to do here. Can't smoke, can't drink. These people going to heaven."
Charles Barkley on Salt Lake City 😂
Ernie Johnson: "You passed Wilt Chamberlain tonight for most triple-doubles by a Center. Congrats on that!”
Nikola Jokic: "Nice, thank you. Is Shaq on that list?"
Shaq: "No, because I never passed Big Honey." 😂
Kevin Durant on Westbrook:
"When he retires, people are gonna tell the truth about how they feel about his game. Right now, [they] make a joke out of Russ."
Chris Paul:
"I feel like the only people to do that is the people who don't know basketball."
Tyrese Maxey: "What's up with the traffic in Indy? You said there was no traffic."
Tyrese Haliburton: "It's All-Star weekend. What do you want me to do?"
Maxey: "You the mayor. Tell 'em to move!" 😂
(via
@NBA
)
Anthony Edwards: “I get a couple buckets, dunk on a couple people, that’s it.”
Kid: “You’re never gonna dunk on me!”
Edwards: “Come on and get your stuff man before you get dunked on.” 😂
(via
@Timberwolves
)
Klay: “I’d do it all over again, injuries and all.”
PG: “I had 6 surgeries, I don’t got sh*t to show for it… You got rings to show for it.”
Klay: “I never had to carry a franchise like you.”
Paul George and Klay Thompson on injuries
(via
@PodcastPShow
)
Russell Westbrook noticed this loyal young fan who wore 4 of his jerseys to the Clippers game.
He decided to give him a signed, game-worn 5th jersey in his first NBA game ever ❤️
(via
@TomerAzarly
)
JJ Redick: "Perk, is that you moaning in my ear over & over again?"
Stephen A. Smith: "Yeah, I know. I was getting ready to ask that. You sound like you got sleep apnea, Perk."
JJ & SAS couldn't stand Kendrick Perkins' heavy breathing on First Take 😂
"When I retire from this game I want to disappear. I want to go somewhere where they're not going to know me... I want to be like Tim Duncan. Where the hell is Tim Duncan?!" 😅
Giannis Antetokounmpo on his plans post-basketball career
Jen Hale: "What's your favorite dish? What are you looking forward to eating the most?"
Zion Williamson: "You're trying to set me up. No matter what answer I give, social media going to clown me. So no comment."
“I ain’t never been in no photo like this, man.”
Damian Lillard poses with Giannis, Khris Middleton, and Brook Lopez for Bucks Media Day 🔥
(via
@LilySZhao
)
Haliburton: “How does it feel to be the second Tyrese in the NBA?”
Maxey: “Why am I the second? We got drafted the same year.”
Haliburton: “I got drafted first!” 😂
(via
@NBA
)
There is no loyalty in the NBA anymore. But there is Damian Lillard...
11 seasons.
769 games.
27,942 minutes.
2,387 threes.
19,376 points.
1 All-Star teammate.
0 MVP teammates.
0 6MOY teammates.
0 DPOY teammates.
0 complaints.
1 team.
Dame gave the Portland Trail Blazers…
Chris Haynes: "I asked Pat Bev what's his favorite LeBron highlight, this fool he going to say, 'The block I had on LeBron!'"
LeBron James: "What's wrong with Pat, man? He got issues."
🤣🤣🤣
Nikola Jokic on if this was the most fun he’s ever had in a summer:
“Nah, I think it’s actually opposite… We played 2 and 1/2 extra months." 😂
(via
@9NEWSSports
)
Reporter: "What does it say about this team that you are sitting here now having defeated the No. 1 seed, getting ready for National TV at MSG on Saturday?"
Jimmy Butler: "Don't we play on Sunday?"
R: "Sunday, sorry."
JB: "Look at you. Do your job." 😳
This is the best story in sports right now.
Last summer, Dennis Schroder didn’t have an NBA contract. In September ’22, he went into EuroBasket and took down Giannis and Greece in the quarterfinals. After leading Germany to a 3rd place finish, Schroder signed a 1-year, $2.6…
Patrick Mahomes: “I wanna know, if y’all have a 3-point shooting contest who’s winning?”
Klay Thompson: “I’m taking myself”
Steph Curry: “And I’m taking myself”
Draymond Green: “I could beat both of them”
Klay: “This man almost lost to Kevin Hart” 🤣💀
“I thought about committing suicide. Tearing my Achilles, my mom passing, my grandma dying a year later, in the midst of COVID. Me going to chemotherapy, sitting by my mom taking her last breaths wearing the same clothes for 3 days straight.”
John Wall on his last 2-3 years 🙏🏽
“I just told him I’m not here to babysit you. I’m not here to follow you around. I’m not here to cheerlead… I’m here to push you.”
Derrick Rose on what he told Ja Morant after signing with the Grizzlies 🗣️
Joel Embiid: "My bad. I landed on your head?"
Grant Williams: "Hey, it's the playoffs brother."
Joel: "Y'all fell. I tried to fall."
GW: "I knew you were going for the ball."
Joel: "I tried to jump over."
GW: "It's what we battle for, bro."
“Why can’t we start anything on time in the NBA?”… If it says 8:00, I don’t want it to tip-off at 8:42… It’s driving me crazy!”
JJ Redick can’t take the league’s late starts any longer 😂
(via
@OldManAndThree
)
"U don't need one you one of the greatest and a hall of fame first ballot no questions asked."
Shaq's response to Allen Iverson's IG post on not winning an NBA championship because of him and the Lakers 💯
(via
@alleniverson
/ IG)
Shaq: "Someone’s going to walk away with the title of the best shooter ever. Do you want that?"
Sabrina Ionescu: "Steph Curry is the best ever. I'm not competing for that… If I can give him a run for his money, I’m gonna do that.”🗣️
(via
@NBAonTNT
)
Reporter: "You'll be playing with LeBron James and Anthony Davis."
Patrick Beverley: "They're gonna be playing with me. I made the playoffs last year, they didn't. It's a difference." 💀
(via
@SpectrumSN
)
Reporter: 🫶
Caitlin Clark: "You like that?"
Reporter: "I like that you're here."
Caitlin: "Yeah, I do that at my family after every game.”
Reporter: "Start doing it to me and we'll get along just fine."
Caitlin: 😳
(via
@IndianaFever
/ YT)
Michael Porter Jr. speaks on the emotional time his family is dealing with:
“some bad and sad stuff happening with a couple of my brothers. But I've got, you know 15, 16 more brothers in here. I knew I had to be here for them.”
(via
@TroyRenck
)
Gregg Popovich reacts to Steve Kerr saying he's ‘rejuvenated’ with Victor Wembanyama 😅
"What was I being rejuvenated from? Was I in a mental institution or was I depressed and curled up in my bedroom or something? Steve's an a**hole."
(via
@hoopshype
)
Washington LB Zion Tupuola-Fetui, whose father passed away less than a month ago, was emotional while running out to hug his mom for Senior Night 💜
Today would have been his parents’ 26th anniversary 🙏
“[Steve Kerr] kept stopping me like, ‘That’s all you got?’… I’m like, ‘What do you want me to do?’ I’m sweating crazy and he's like, ‘You got to see Curry, Klay, and KD workout. If we had the 1st pick, we wouldn't take you.’”
—Anthony Edwards
(via
@NBA
)
"It hurts when someone like Charles Barkley says you're not the same player prior to the injuries you had. Tore my ACL and Achilles in consecutive years and still helped a team win a championship.”
- Klay Thompson vented after win over the Heat 🗣️
"I was coaching Anthony Edwards in a HS All-Star game... The tournament director taps me and goes, 'Why ain't
#2
in the game'... I was like, 'He supposed to be?' He said, 'He's the
#1
player in the country!'"
— Jason Williams 😂
(via
@theOGsShow
)
It's crazy how many people want to see LeBron James fail.
Even when 8th graders fail a math test, it's seen as a failure for LeBron. Like he's LeTeacher or something.
"0% of 8th graders in LeBron's 'I Promise' School have passed the state's math exam since 2018."
The most…
"In 2009, when nobody believed in anything I had going on, that same guy showed up to a release party... He came all the way to Toronto to support me... Tonight... it's an honor to be inside his building."
Drake on LeBron's early support in his career
Stephen A. Smith: "Jokic isn't known for having some kind of dominant post game now. That's not his game."
JJ Redick: "We've got 10 years of tracking data. You know what the No. 1 most efficient halfcourt play is? ... A Nikola Jokic post up. Boom." 🎤💀
Victor Wembanyama has become the first player in NBA history to record:
1500+ PTS
250+ BLK
100+ 3PM
In the same season
Is this the best season by a rookie EVER?