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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated
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Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.
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I believe that good defense embodies seven cardinal principle: reduce the number of your opponent's shots; force your opponent into low percentage shots; control everything within 18 feet; eliminate second shots; no easy baskets; point the ball on all long shots; and prevent the ball from going into the pivot man.
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He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.
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I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.
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One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
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A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes
