Day Quote by Vlade Divac

Everybody knows the NBA is the top of basketball in the world. The game here is more hard, more physical, faster than in Europe.

— Toni Kukoc

You have so many players all around the world in the NBA, a lot of different generations. If you don't take basketball as a…

— Vlade Divac

The NBA game is a different game, and that's one of the things that intrigued me is it's learning and growing in a different…

— Billy Donovan

As NBA players, so much of the game is mental, as far as confidence and playing against the best players in the world.

— Pat Connaughton

And when you study the NBA, you realize and know that the NBA is never staying the same. It's always evolving, it's always changing.

— Tom Thibodeau

In the early '80s there was a big gap between the NBA and the international game and when we started making our careers here…

— Vlade Divac

I'm no dummy. So much of the NBA is just fit and situation, and I always say this, for 85 to 90 percent of…

— J. J. Redick

The NBA is changing so much. It's not like when I came up, with that old-school mentality that practice really mattered.

— Paul Pierce

You can't get discouraged when you lose games because basketball is such a process and so much happens during each practice and game.

— Jared Dudley

You're all over the place usually with young players. You're trying to manage their emotions and teach them NBA situations. It usually takes months,…

— Erik Spoelstra

In college or high school, you play bad and you think about it for two or three days and you let it eat you…

— Kevin Huerter

The NBA actually encourages balanced living. Realistically, basketball only takes up about six hours of your day before it becomes counterproductive.

— Iman Shumpert