Ball Quote by Marv Albert

Street basketball is all about shakes and fakes, crossing your defender up. The NBA is more strategic.

— Baron Davis

The NBA is a different level, a lot of physicality in the league.

— Christian Wood

To me, the thing is, through good or bad, if you're a Knicks fan, you're down with the Knicks, and that's the bottom line.

— Jesse Itzler

Basketball has turned into an offensive-minded situation. They don't play on both ends. They don't play defense.

— Gary Payton

The NBA was once a league full of guys who topped out at 5-foot-9, wore belts in their shorts, and reeked of pomade. When…

— Sean Evans

Know niggas that never made it everybody would sweat him he jumped out the whole park, NBA never met him what good is being…

— Joe Budden

With the pervasive popularity of rap music and a black man sitting in the White House, there's no reason to pretend the NBA has…

— Jason Whitlock

Hip-hop culture itself has completely consumed everything involved in entertainment. When you think about basketball like the way those guys dress; I don't know…

— Ryan Montgomery

To be a two-way player on both sides of the ball is hard, especially in the NBA.

— Jaren Jackson, Jr

I am a big NBA fan, where a lot of players play on physicality.

— Kevin De Bruyne

I know everybody in the NBA watches each other's styles. They might not admit it, but they do.

— Nick Young

Knicks fans are the smartest in the world and they know you can't just play one end of the court.

— Charles Oakley