Day Quote by Ivica Zubac

We had a hoop in our backyard. My dad, my mother, my brother played, just playing around. I picked up a basketball and stayed…

— Lauri Markkanen

My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have…

— Tyson Chandler

I started playing ball when I was 4 years old.

— J. D. Martinez

I'm the youngest of eight kids in my family. All tall, we all played basketball, so at my earliest memory, I was bouncing a…

— Anne Donovan

I played ball growing up.

— Sable

I was always around basketball, from when I was four or five years old.

— Brandon Ingram

I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept…

— Moses Malone

I started playing basketball at such a late age.

— Tristan Thompson

My mom used to be a basketball player so I was really into it. Plus of course my height made it easier for me…

— Zaza Pachulia

We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was…

— Bobby Doerr

I've been playing basketball since I was five.

— C. J. McCollum

I started playing on a tiny table when I was 3 and then started playing properly when I was 10 or 11.

— Judd Trump