(The playoffs are) a road you have to follow if you want to be considered among the great ones, because it demonstrates that you're either making the players around you better or management is putting better players around you in order to showcase your talent longer into the playoffs. |
a cool cat. I think he's from the 'hood. |
a merger between the basketball capital of the world and the entertainment capital of the world. |
A substantial amount has been done for the baseball and football teams. I'm here personally to find out whether the same is being considered fairly for the NBA. |
A two-year suspension for a first offense would, as a practical matter, end the player's career in the vast majority of circumstances. |
All corporations have a social responsibility to contribute to the health, welfare and advancement of the communities in which they operate, but professional sports leagues carry a special obligation, |
All options are on the table. I think he worked hard to improve the team in Portland. He built the Rose Garden. At some point, he's entitled to say he's not going to subsidize it any further. |
Allen proves as well as anyone else has ever proven that if you've got game and you leave it all out there, you pick up the admiration of people around the world. And we love to see that happening. Because that's what shows our game at its best, sort of the teamwork, what it takes to play at the level and what he's willing to put up with in terms of injuries to continue to excel at this level. |
Although networks will continue to garner important groupings of fans, ... the inexorable march to cable is underway. |
Always with respect to who plays where, [intentionally losing] was always an issue. It's something we're going to live with. |
As good a job as [CNN's] Anderson Cooper does, you have to see the devastation to understand its scope and its impact. |
As it's properly understood, it will be embraced, ... The union's fine with it. It's quite liberal and easygoing. |
Basketball without Borders is truly a global program that transcends all boundaries. It unites young people from diverse cultural, national and economic backgrounds on four continents. |
Because a lot of people will be copying my look, |
Being neatly attired in a certain way, that's going to be our norm, |