Charles Barkley on load management:
“Wait a minute, you gonna make $70M and you can’t play basketball 3 or 4 days a week?’… They fly private. They got the best medical stuff ever created… People working in the steel mill every day, I’m pretty sure they tired too, but they go…
HBO Max is streaming NBA games this upcoming season at no additional cost 👀
- 65 regular season NBA games
- In-Season Tournament
- NBA All-Star Weekend
- 2024 NBA Playoffs
- Inside the NBA
Vanessa Bryant on what Kobe used to say about playing through so many injuries:
“‘What about the fans who saved up to see me play just once?’”
(via
@Hoophall
, )
BREAKING: The NBA and NBPA to agree on rule that a “player must play in a minimum number of games to be eligible for major awards” such as MVP… 😳
(via
@ShamsCharania
)
REPORT: The Grizzlies held a players-only meeting to discuss off the court road discipline with Steven Adams leading the charge, per
@ShamsCharania
.
After the meeting, Ja Morant still went out to party at the club which led to the gun incident.
Charles Barkley reveals he’s got 2 years left on his TNT contract, and then he’ll probably retire. (via
@townbrad
)
“I don’t want to die on TV… I don’t want to be sitting inside over by fat ass SHAQ waiting to drop dead.”
Stephen A. Smith: “The Clippers should force Kawhi Leonard to retire.”
JJ Redick: “It’s very obvious that you have played zero high-level basketball.”
(via
@FirstTake
)
Charles Barkley:
“I ain’t worried about getting canceled because let me tell you something, if y’all fire me and give me all that money, I’m going to be playing golf every f****** day. So listen, as I said last night, if you’re gay, God bless you. If you’re trans, God bless you.…
Paul George:
“Late in the game. We out of timeouts, I look at Steven Adams and he’s scratching his face hard as f***. I’m like what are you doing? ‘Oh mate, we don’t have a timeout, I’m trying to bleed.’”
(via
@PodcastPShow
, )
Gregg Popovich in 2010:
“It doesn’t make sense for an NBA team to call themselves world champions. I don’t remember anybody playing anybody outside our borders to get that tag.”
(via
@SLAMonline
)
Shaquille O’Neal and Luka Doncic recently met up in Croatia…
Shaq: “When I arrived at Luka’s town, some people picked me up. They drove me to a mansion that Luka had set up for me...”
Luka: “Nothing's gonna happen to you in my town, Mr. O'Nealovich.”
(via The Big Podcast)
BREAKING: Mikey Williams has been ordered to stand trial in California for 6 felony gun charges.
Williams is currently facing a maximum of 28 years in prison for this charge 😳
Larry Bird, when working for Pacers, refused to trade for any of LeBron’s teammates on the Cavs:
“I said ‘you don’t understand son. Them guys playing with LeBron James look a whole lot better than what they really are.'”
😂😂😂
Derrick White has played in 155 of 157 games since joining the Celtics.
The two games he missed? The birth of his child in 2022, and the birth of his child today.
Respect. 💯
(via Reddit/Brady331)
Austin Reaves on Russell Westbrook:
“I got Covid in December of my rookie year. I was stuck in Minnesota for like seven days. Westbrook reached out like three or four times, asked if I need anything, offered to send me stuff… As a person, you couldn't get better. Same as a…
Russell Westbrook’s wife, Nina:
"I have school aged children who have to listen to their peers repeat the nasty things that you guys say on television about their father. I guess I will prepare myself to explain to my 5 year old that his dad is not actually a vampire."
Jeff Teague:
“I was on the Hawks & we were playing the Pacers, my momma & my aunt were sitting courtside & cheering everytime I came in the game, then Tony Brothers pulled me to the side & he was like: Who them h*es?”
(via
@club520podcast
)
Max Kellerman claims Luka Doncic doesn't make his teammates better like Magic or Bird.
JJ Redick: “Magic & Bird played with Hall of Famers. Luka is playing with 2nd round picks,
undrafted guys like DFS. His shot quality
created for his teammates -
#1
in the last 2
seasons."
Jonathan Kuminga on Kawhi:
"He don't really talk... The first time I ever heard him talk was yesterday. I dapped him and he was like, 'keep working and stay healthy.'"
(via
@957thegame
)
It’s official: Mikal Bridges, Spencer Dinwiddie, and Cam Johnson have played more minutes together on the Brooklyn Nets than Kyrie, KD, and James Harden did, per NBATV.
CRAZY 🤯
LeBron James will play tonight against the Knicks in Madison Square Garden.
He only needs 117 points to pass Kareem for 1st all-time.
Will he get it tonight?
RUMOR: The NBA is expected to announce two new expansion teams, in Seattle and Las Vegas, after their media rights deal expires in 2024.
(via
@johncanzanobft
)
Darius Garland on Rajon Rondo:
“The second day I met Do [Rondo], he called me to the back of the bus and we sat down and watched a full game of film on me…nobody ever did that. That meant a lot to me.”
OG. 😤
Kareem on LeBron James:
"I've been carrying the torch as record holder for 38 years. I'm excited and relieved to pass it along to the next worthy recipient. LeBron earned it and I hope he carries it even longer than I did."
(via
@NBAonTNT
)
Carmelo Anthony’s son, Kiyan was asked if he could’ve beat his dad at 16 years old.
His response: “I’m frying him. He wasn’t nice until he was 17.”
Melo: “F*** is wrong with this generation?”
(via
@7PMinBrooklyn
)
Tyrese Haliburton was born on February 29th… seriously.
That means he’s only 5 years old… don’t care what anyone says.
Youngest NBA player of all time. 💯
(h/t AntoninScalia4/Reddit)
Nikola Jokic says he lost his Finals MVP trophy:
"I really don't know. I left in the equipment manager’s room and it's not there anymore. So I don't know."
(via
@malika_andrews
)
Insane: Since 2017, Dirk Nowitzki has played in more NBA games than John Wall, via Reddit/rahulraja.
Dirk retired in 2019, and John Wall signed a supermax contract in 2019. 🤯
DeMar DeRozan on Kobe: “I told myself I’m not wearing Kobe’s when I played that night, so I wore Jordans.”
Kobe responded with: “The f*** you got those on for?”… and proceeded to hit the game winner against the Raptors.
DeRozan: “I never put another pair of Jordans on.”