The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
From the outside looking in, I would say the franchise that has had the most stories that are unrelated to basketball are… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I've been an NBA player, and a black man, for a long time, and I know how to take a loss. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The important thing is to be around people who will make you a better player. Otherwise, you can remain average. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
For me to stay in basketball, it would just have to be a veteran team. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Great players, they start becoming immune to what the defense does to them. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
A few years, there are teams that are just dominant over everyone. Those years are few and far. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Guys pay extra attention to detail. They are looking at every little thing on the scouting report. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The one thing in most communities, the staple is the basketball court. And when that looks good, I think the community feels… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
You really don't believe that winning at home or winning on the road makes a difference. The Lakers have that mind-set. They… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The expectation levels aren't as high because a team is expected to win on its home court. That takes a little of… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men’s… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
If LeBron James is playing in Las Vegas, the arena would be sold out, and it would be rocking. If LeBron James… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I think we all have great opportunities individually but collectively our unit is so much bigger. Collectively our unit is something I've… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
When the Sacramento Kings, when I was there, we win 29-30 games - that was a successful season. And it would be… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
In Texas, it's football. In Georgia, football. There's an appreciation from the average person about football more than anywhere else. And we… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Mark Jackson played 19, 20 years in the NBA. Shouldn't even have probably been in the league, and he's the third-ranked assist… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Any guard would love playing with a great big man, one who rebounds, blocks shots, and scores. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Image overshadows reality in our league, and there are people who get to believe they are better than they really are. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I don't know about bullying and all of that stuff. That doesn't work in basketball. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
This league has great players, and it has great images. Sometimes those two things get confused. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
If you look at the NBA, it's the richest and wealthiest group of African-American men in the world. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
One thing about being a great ball handler is not looking at the basketball. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
My high school coach used to tell me there's no correct way to shoot, that the only correct way was to get… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Dunk, and people anywhere will ooh and aah. But you can wow a crowd in New York with ball handling and passing. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
When you're in the slam dunk contest, you try to do the things the average person would have trouble doing on a… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The 18 years on TNT has prepared me for a lot of opportunities, and coaching is one of them. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches. — Kenny Smith Copy Share
If you look at the NBA, it's the richest and wealthiest group of African-American men in the world. — Kenny Smith Copy Share
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
There are a lot more famous fathers out there than me with daughters who wouldn't mind singing careers... but the talent and the work… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
Games like 'Call of Duty' and 'NBA Baller Beats' have so much to them. I was more of the 'Pac-Man' generation where we were… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
There's hasn't been a day in my life since I was 9 years old that I haven't touched a basketball or done something connected… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
You can have your own thought process about things, but you still need to include and co-exist with other people. — Kenny Smith Copy Share
NCAA is looking at how to do a better job enforcing their rules instead of looking at why the predatorial environment is created. There's… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
