The racing team is the most important thing in the world to me. It’s where all my eggs are fully in that basket. I go dance and do TV to try to make that world more important.
When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
It doesn’t matter who’s under the basket, I’m going to try to slam or block the shot.
I try everything in moderation, but listen, if I’m at some great Italian restaurant and they bring out the wonderful bread and butter, I’m the first one to dive in the basket.
Whether it’s some last-second move within a move that he’s adding, or switching up his timing the smallest amount, or using the rim as a shield in all of these creative ways… it’s hard to explain, but what Kemba is able to do around the basket is unique.
I first started playing when we moved from my first house to a house that had a hoop out in front. Every day, I was in front of the basket shooting balls. The basket was regular height, and I was about 5 years old.
A 401(k) is essentially a basket of mutual funds intended to help people save for retirement.
Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies.
Man, anytime the ball goes through the basket. It doesn’t matter if it’s a jumper or a drive. Any time the ball goes through the basket, and it’s going through consistently, it’s demoralizing for any opponent.
If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
My teammates trust me to put the ball in the basket when it counts.
The fear is that if the dollar falls below 50% of the currency basket held by commercial and central banks and insurance companies, there may be a democratization of the way currencies are priced.
When I came to the league, back in Europe I was so much faster than the other guys, I was always penetrating. I didn’t use my jump shot. When I came to the league it was tough to get to the basket. All those guys, they went under the pick-and-roll. It was long threes, especially for me coming from Europe.
A golden rule? Do not come food shopping when you’re starving hungry and craving stuff. You’ll fill your basket with all the naughty things you probably wouldn’t eat.
You can’t play Around the World in the NBA, you’ve gotta go to the basket.
If I don’t write down a thought – or an image or a line of poetry – the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
You give me enough shots, I’ll average 20. You give me a particular system where I stick close to the basket, I’ll average 10 rebounds.
Swish: A made basket. Swoosh: The Nike logo. Swish-swoosh, swish-swoosh, swish-swoosh: A thousand coaches in nylon tracksuits, walking through hotel lobbies at the Final Four.
I like putting all my eggs in one basket and then watching the basket very carefully.
You’ve gotta be able to score around the basket.
I know what it’s like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it’s full again. I know what it’s like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone.
I never wanted to go to drama school. I thought that was too many eggs in one basket.
I think, when I was younger, I might have scored on the wrong basket. That wasn’t too smart.
I know as a player, if I can get a good look at the basket and get the ball up, it’s going to be a high-percentage shot.
As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
This game is not only about putting the ball in the basket. It’s the behavior, discipline, approach, preparation. Play with purpose and lead with purpose.
Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.
If I’ve ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would’ve been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn’t, and that was because of fanaticism.
I have to be able to shoot the ball, I have to be able to dangerous not only going to the basket but on the perimeter.
The triangle offense is more for slashers and people who like to take the ball to the basket.
When you put all your eggs in one basket, you’ve got a problem.
I wasn’t that academic, but I always made sure I was earning money. I never wanted to put all my eggs in one basket. Even when I started doing music, my parents were like, ‘You need to work; you can’t just live off music.’ I always knew that. So I worked until I knew I was going to be financially okay.
Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.
It could be the best defender or the worst defender. I have to have the attitude that I don’t think anyone is going to deter me from getting to the basket. Maybe help defense can come over and affect it, but not the first guy.
Footwork is the foundation to my offensive game. Being able to move, pivot around and dribble better were the big things I wanted to add to my game, as well as stretching out my game so I can shoot away from the basket better.
I was an emotional basket case.
Depending on the point in the game and what’s necessary, if you can deliver the play, whatever that is – heck, if it’s a screen – and you get a guy open, and he scores a big basket for you, that gives me as much of a charge as anything.
I just turned 27 years old, and there are mornings where my knees and ankles really hurt. I hurt all over. I would hate to be me when I’m 35 years old. I’ll be a basket case, but I will have a lot of memories.
About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped – and finding that you don’t have the ball in them – is a great little old leveler.
I still have my back to the basket because there’s going to be times where I’m going to really have to score down low, but I’m really working on my face-up game because in the league, there’s more space, and there’s not double-teams and triple-teams coming at you like how it was in college.
My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort – and it was cute.
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