Air Quote by John Edgar Wideman

That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.

— John Edgar Wideman

Basketball is the axis that allows me to do the things that I do. I have so much love for the game, and it…

— Russell Westbrook

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

— Larry Bird

Basketball is at its best when you have athletes in space making plays. It's the same for soccer, you have great athletes in space…

— Shane Battier

I couldn't imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.

— Bill Walton

Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly…

— Dan Jenkins

Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as…

— Phil Jackson

Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into…

— Phil Jackson

Basketball can give us a kind of mystical awareness. Everything seems focused and in balance.

— John Edgar Wideman

The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air…

— David Duval

Basketball is a fun sport to be playing.

— Lauri Markkanen

Basketball is a global sport.

— Clyde Drexler