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The Mystics are a great team. We’re a great team. This is going to be a great, great WNBA Finals.

Sue Bird

I feel like I'm the Kevin Bacon of basketball. I played on some amazing NBA teams in my career, like it was a series of guest appearances.

Jason Kidd
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Tamika Catchings on her work with the Catch the Stars Foundation, an organization created to promote fitness, literacy and development for underprivileged youth

Tamika Catchings

To put it really simple: If you don’t respect women’s basketball, you’re a joke.

Isaiah Thomas

Imagine it. I’m out there shooting bricks, yelling out Kobe, on a busted hoop in Cameroon. Seven years later, I was playing Kobe.

Joel Embiid

I hoped that Harvard would prepare me for the rest of my life. What it couldn't prepare me for was how a kid from Ferguson, Missouri would change me.

Christopher Egi

I want our girls to grow up knowing that there are no boundaries that can be placed on their futures, period.

Stephen Curry

I'm back home, Chicago. But I never really left. I’m just excited to be with y'all again.

Jabari Parker

I had thought about my dad dying, but I had never thought about his death. There’s a difference.

Tamera (Ty) Young

We know that, when we’re on our game, we’ll beat any team in the league. Doesn’t matter what they do, what happens next is about us — it’s about H-Town.

Clint Capela

I won’t try to define who I’ve become, over these last 17 years, in a single letter ... I can say this for sure: I have the Spurs and I have San Antonio to than

Tony Parker

I know that I have a platform — why not use that influence for good? Rather than just kind of sitting on the sidelines.

Harrison Barnes

What’s up, Memphis? I wanted to introduce myself to y’all, but I didn’t really know how to start this letter. Anybody who knows me knows that talking about myse

Jevon Carter

With a 108–85 victory over the Cavaliers on Friday night, the Warriors swept the Finals and cemented their place in NBA history.

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One broken hand. One postseason ban. Two torn ACLs. Two years in the G-League ... and it still only takes one phone call.

Damion Lee