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The All-Star Game represents everything we as a nation love about basketball on and off the court – diversity, sportsmanship and, most of all, a commitment to unite fans.
You know I’ve watched the All-Star game as a little boy… and to have the opportunity now to play in it is so overwhelming.
Personally, I wanna be in an All-Star Game. Get All-NBA.
I can’t imagine being in an All-Star Game, knowing that you’re among some of the best of the best.
I don’t want the All-Star Game to be a one-time thing.
I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, ‘We need you here with us in L.A.’
I think, thinking back earlier in my career, if I would have been told that I would be starting an All-Star Game at age 34, I’d be pretty happy about that.
Any opportunity to be at the All-Star Game is a unique experience. It’s an honor and a special time with the other players we don’t ordinarily get to spend time with. It’s a fun couple of days and something that goes by quickly in my experience. I try to enjoy it.
Any player that says they don’t want to go to an All-Star Game is lying to you. It’s something everyone wants to be a part of.
I’m going to the All-Star Game as an Oriole and as a shortstop. It’s just always a blessing. I thank God.
In an All-Star game the players are having more fun than usual and showing their personalities more than usual. And there are guys in this game – I’m not one of them – who are historically good. First-ballot Hall of Famers.
I won an MVP trophy with the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association. I didn’t even start. I was a sub on this team. This was, like, an All-Star game where we had athletes from different teams, different mixtures. We had, like, the only black team in the league, basically. We had four players go to the All-Star game.
When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.
In 1949, I saw a World War II veteran named Lou Brissie, who had nearly lost a lower leg in combat, pitch in the All-Star Game in Brooklyn.
I don’t know if a lot of players can actually say they played in the All-Star Game in their actual city, their team’s city.
The All-Star Game is about going out and having fun, it’s more for the fans. Whatever happens, happens.
Guys like LeBron, Chris Paul, Kobe… They all speak to me. It’s just insane that all these top tier guys who have been in the All-Star game for so many years actually know who I am. I mean not in a million years did I think that Kobe would speak to me.
When you play in the NBA, everybody wants to play in the All-Star Game. I really want to.
Anytime you are named as an all-star is one thing. But to be named a starter in an all-star game that was definitely a great experience for me and is something I will remember for the rest of my life.
To me, the All-Star Game is just another step. I try to take all my experiences and put them together. To make the NBA was something, and then to be recognized as an All-Star – although I don’t consider myself a star. I see myself as just trying to reach my potential as B. J.
I frankly think the NBA All-Star game has run its course, the whole dunk contest… The game – if those guys actually played hard in that game, it’d be the best watch ever.
I think the guys that get to the All-Star Game deserve a lot of credit. They deserve their opportunity to get out there and let the baseball fandom see them.
It was never about trying to make the All-Star Game. It’s about being back at that high level to help a team win.
It’s one thing to make the big leagues, but it’s another thing to make it to an all-star game.
It’s a team game. Not every game is going to be an all-star game.
Of course I feel like any player that plays this game should want to reach the highest level and the highest accolades, which includes the All-Star Game. So, yeah, I would be dumb not to want to be an All-Star.
I just don’t want to go to the All-Star game to be in the dunk contest and go home. I want to be there competing in the game with a couple of my teammates.
Anytime you go to the All-Star Game, you recognize that it’s special. It’s an experience that you don’t want to pass up.
Everybody would love to be able to be great and make it to the NBA All-Star Game as a rookie. I mean, that is everybody’s goal.
As a kid, everyone dreams of being in an All-Star game.
Oh, if I played in the All-Star game, I’m playing defense – hard for the first quarter. And I want to get a couple of dunks, too, like I do in a regular game.
They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.
They’d have to force me to take the All-Star Game. They take over the building, your season-ticket holders have to be in a lottery to see if they get tickets, and then they don’t get a good ticket. Really, no good can come out of it, and all it can do is upset your fans.
I never cared for stuff like the All-Star Game.
I’m really not comfortable doing interviews in a group, in press conferences. One-on-one, I’m all right, but those press conferences at the All-Star Game, I just don’t… I feel better when I’m by myself.
