“The NBA and Kim Kardashian’s Skims brand have struck a multiyear deal that will make Skims the official underwear partner of the NBA, WNBA and USA Basketball.”— Randall Williams, bloomberg.com
“The sports boycott that happened last night across the NBA, WNBA, Major League Soccer and Major League Baseball was the most fearless act I've ever seen in pro sports. Period.”— Roxanne Jones, CNN, cnn.com
“It's just about the love of the game, not just competing. It's a game that we all enjoy and we all love playing.”— Kobe Bryant, espn.com
“There’s a certain point with pop culture where I’m like: Enough, I don’t want to read about these people.”— Cat Marnell, vanityfair.com
“She's the first African-American woman to lead an NBA team and says she better not be the last. More than a year after being tapped as CEO of the embattled Dallas Mavericks, Cynthia Marshall says she has turned around the organization's culture and has greatly diversified its top ranks.”— Haley Draznin, CNN Business, cnn.com
“Ya gotta be a back-door man, baby, at least while we get to know each other. NBA stars gotta be careful.”— Brett Johnson, Ann Biderman, Deonte Frasier, Mo McRae, imdb.com
“My ideal—probably every coach’s ideal—is when your best player is also your leader. But since Carmelo only played hard on one side of the ball, he made it plain he couldn’t lead the Nuggets, even though he said he wanted to. Coaching him meant working around his defense and compensating for his atti…”— George Karl, si.com
“Needless to say, being alone on an island with Curry is not an ideal vacation for most NBA players.”— Maximo Gonzales, clutchpoints.com
“Our league now is at a point where you have to teach more than anything. AAU has killed our league.”— Kevin Garnett, bleacherreport.com
“I saw an article about a guy who plays blues—a black guy who hangs out with the Ku Klux Klan. So I watched him, like, what is this guy doing? He made sense. He said, "Listen. If you just sit down and talk to a person and just listen to him, I guarantee you that you have something in common." And at…”— Shaquille O'Neal, esquire.com
“I saw somebody compared him to Muhammad Ali, which is ludicrous. Muhammad Ali was fighting for a bigger cause since he was Cassius Clay. Every day. So I've never seen Kaepernick do anything in the community—I don't really know him, but to each his own. Everybody has their voice, especially now with…”— Shaquille O'Neal, esquire.com