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“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.”

“When I was young, I was sold on winning. I was always serious on the court. As I got older, I realized that it was just a basketball game. Just go out there and have fun.”

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Author:Carmelo Anthony

“It`s not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let`s put it on display and have some fun.”

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Author:David Stern

“In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.”

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Author:Kevin Durant

“Stay out of the gentlemen's clubs. Get a lot of rest. Just have fun and relax and stay focused.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“The problem with kids these days is they don't have enough fun stuff to do. When I was stationed with my family in Germany, youth basketball programs gave me something to strive to do my best at.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Somebody out there was trying to use my language and trying to speak for me. Rather than have that happen, I thought I'd do it myself. It's a fun thing. It's a way for fans to connect.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Basketball has always and will always come first to me but it's also given me the chance to do really fun things and work with really fun people and its something I'm lucky to have.”

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Author:Blake Griffin

“I play because I have fun. The vets of this team, I just wanted to say thanks to them. You guys mean so much to me. I can have a terrible day and walk in the gym and have Hasheem smile at me. That will change my day.”

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Author:Kevin Durant

“The clothes do not match my personality. I'm more of a very conservative, blue-blazer kind of guy. But as far as my personality, it's a lot of hot-dog mustard - have a lot of a fun and a lot of excitement. I feel like I'm 68; I act like I'm 12, talking about a game of basketball.”

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Author:Dick Vitale

“You know what's fun about basketball? It keeps evolving, and it keeps changing a little bit. And the older guys want to try to hold it back to how they grew up, and it's not the same. You've got to change with the times, and some of the guys you've got to drag across the finish line.”

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Author:Mike D'Antoni

“I've always thought basketball was the best sport, although it wasn't the sport I was best at. It was just the most fun to watch.”

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Author:Jack Nicholson

“When I'm smiling and having fun, that's when you should have a problem. If I'm out there frowning and looking mean, that's when you know you've beat me - because I'm not having fun. I've been playing basketball since I was three. Everybody since I was three tried to tell me to stop smiling. Even my dad. My dad apologized to me when I was ten.”

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Author:Dwight Howard

“I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece.”

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Author:Saoirse Ronan

“Basketball is a business. Pure and simple. If you want to have fun, go to the YMCA.”

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Author:Pat Riley

“He was a terrific guy. It is a great loss to the sports world. Wilt Chamberlain had a special place in basketball history and he will be missed. We had many battles with Wilt. He was a fun guy to be around; he was a 'Gentle Giant.'”

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Author:Tom Heinsohn

“You obviously have your routines that you rely on, then you go out and play and have fun. For us in basketball, we have a seven-game series, so you have time to adjust if you need to. It's a fun experience to go through, and one that I'll remember for a long time.”

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Author:Stephen Curry

“Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.”

“At a really young age you just play ball and you have fun and you don't see basketball as something as a career, it just drives you crazy. But as the years went by and the goals got bigger for myself you realize that without almost being obsessed you won't reach those goals. So the older I get I think the more I realize that it's almost necessary to get to that level.”

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Author:Kristaps Porzingis

“Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.”

“Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.”

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Author:Norm Sloan

“The party's just getting started. This is where the fun starts.”

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Author:Kobe Bryant

“You just try to take it one day at a time, ... You step on the basketball floor and just play. It's fun. I'm comfortable with it.”

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Author:Kobe Bryant

“This is a job and we want to have fun. But it's a job and we should look like we're going to work.”

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Author:LeBron James

“To go out there and play and have fun and hopefully win a championship. That's my goal.”

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Author:Carmelo Anthony

“You've got to have fun on the court. If you ain't having fun, then basketball ain't fun.”

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Author:Carmelo Anthony

“It's kinda great to see the Celtics doin well again cuz that was so much fun in my day to go to the Boston Garden and they spit at you and throw things at you and talk about your mom. It sounds like dinner at Kenny Smith's house.”

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Author:Charles Barkley