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how eloquently put:

Nick Van Exel (LAL) on defending the Stockton-Malone pick-and-roll: "Yeah, I got a way to defend it. Bring a bat to the game and kill one of them."

Charles Barkley on his thoughts about retiring before the season: "I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'"

"Thats a cheap shot by a low class player, you don't do that. That's gay on his part. I told him that he was gay too, for touching me in my private part." - francisco elson

Alonzo Mourning on winning the Defensive Player of the Year award: "I thank my teammates for letting their men blow by them."

"I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate them more than that" - tim hardaway

"The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy." ~Jerry Tarkanian

"When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams." ~John Edgar Wideman

"If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball." ~Phil Jackson

"I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA." - shaquille o'neal