First Quote by Evan Fournier

My very first NBA game was against the Los Angeles Lakers; it was a pre-season game against Magic Johnson.

— Muggsy Bogues

My first preseason game, I couldn't even believe I was in the NBA.

— Tyrese Haliburton

My whole first season was surreal. My first game was against Detlef Schrempf. There was German media everywhere. It was probably my worst NBA…

— Dirk Nowitzki

The first game I played. We played against the Dallas Texans.

— Jim Otto

We were in the NBA Finals. Two games away from winning it. I think we did pretty well.

— David Blatt

The last game I played in college was in the NIT against St. Mary's. That was the first time I had come to the…

— Stephen Curry

I grew up playing basketball on the streets of New York City, and it was very, very rough, and I started playing in the…

— Metta World Peace

I played ball at Miami. The Rock was with us.

— Rohan Marley

I love Indiana. That was basically my first real NBA experience.

— Domantas Sabonis

Basketball was always my game.

— Jason Pierre-Paul

I think in Toronto my job was to score just based on the system that we had. We played a lot of iso basketball…

— Lou Williams

It was really tough back then in Croatia to watch the NBA games because we were not that powerful of a country. They didn't…

— Bojan Bogdanovic