Cousin Quote by Greg Oden

I've got four brothers, so with them and all our friends we had these sports parties in the basement. We'd play basketball, mini-sticks, baseball…

— Rob Gronkowski

I'll never forget the time my mother showed up with her best friend and two daughters, and all four of us dressed up in…

— Blake Lively

What really pushed me into chasing basketball even more was my cousin making the NBA too, in 2003.

— Ivica Zubac

It was a steppingstone. The NBA, for me, was preparation for me to do something someplace else.

— Stephon Marbury

When I was ten, I had a weird cinema party where I invited everyone from my street to come. I pretended I was an…

— Sophie McShera

Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one…

— Harry Crews

When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was…

— Zoe Kravitz

It was more my uncle - my mom's brother - and my aunt who turned me on to hoops. He was more into basketball…

— Tristan Thompson

Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball…

— Kevin Durant

In New York City, Jordan Brand Classic. It was my first time in America and it was a crazy difference of lifestyle. Basketball, everything…

— Jonas Valanciunas

It was just a normal family. We were playing basketball, we were playing soccer. It was home-cooked meals, just peaceful and happy times.

— Enes Kanter

I was supposed to be in the NBA. I was supposed to travel the world and make the world a better place.

— Dwight Howard