Michael Jordan had retired and was playing baseball when Scottie Pippen invited him to his charity game in 1994.
MJ originally declined. Then he showed up, saw Pippen had stacked the teams against him... and responded with 54 points. 😮💨
🚨 LeBron and Bronny James are set to make more history with the first father-son matchup on Christmas Day in NBA history
LeBron James Sr. vs. LeBron James Jr. 🔥
I have a feeling Giannis Antetokounmpo develops a consistent jumpshot in Miami.
Miami Heat turned LeBron James into a 40% 3PT shooter.
If this happens with Giannis, we legitimately might see the scariest version of his entire career.
John Wall says NIL money is exposing who's really hungry and who's not
“If you’re a star player and you know you’re going top five, cool. Get your money. But don’t let that change you.”
“I’ve got my tournament, right? A kid comes in that plays for Overtime Elite. I’m thinking he’s the star player. He comes in with three chains on, ski mask on, walking into my gym.”
“So I’m looking at him like, ‘Oh, he’s the guy.’ How many minutes did the man play in the game? Two. They were down 20 and he played the last two minutes.”
“I’m like, ‘Your mindset is all backwards.’ You’re buying all these chains. You’re walking in with a ski mask. And you’re not going to go nowhere.”
“If you get NIL, you’ve got to have a great foundation, parents or a great management team around you, so you know how to manage it. Because it’s already kind of preparing you for the NBA.”
“These guys are getting $3 million, $4 million in high school. I look at it like this… If I’m getting $3 million in high school… I’ve got the best car on campus. I’m making the most money on campus. Am I waking up at 5 a.m. to work out the same way? I better.”
“I don’t think a lot of these kids are. That’s where it’s like, ‘Oh, I got this early.’ Now what’s my purpose of getting to the league? Now you know if a kid really loves the game. Because I’m already getting what I really want… The money. The cars. The fame. So do you really love the game?”
Derrick Rose says his high school coach refused to let him play varsity as a freshman so he could learn discipline
“They already had a decent team. They were missing a point guard. They probably could have used me.”
“But he stood on me. He was like, ‘Nah, you ain’t bigger than the program.’”
“Then when you start to learn who Hambrick was, how he coached Benji and the principles that he stood on, I totally understood it.”
“Our JV team was thrashing people. But we were cool with each other. We made the varsity team good. We were that good.”
“In practice, we were damn near fighting them because we were pushing them too hard. But Coach Hambrick did exactly what he was supposed to do.”
“Because if I did go somewhere and play varsity, somebody else was just going to let me run wild and not get any discipline.”