Malcolm David Kelley Quotes

I grew up a Lakers and a Clippers fan.

The Lakers are my life.

I love Kobe Bryant, was a Lakers fan for sure.

I loved the Lakers in '09 and 2010. I used to get up early with my brother Janis, and we watched them win the titles.

The Lakers are really the biggest team in the world. Everybody knows the Lakers.

I have season tickets to the Lakers and the Clippers.

I used to work for the Clippers - I sold tickets - so I was in the Staples Center all the time. I'm a big Clippers fan.

I am an avid NBA fan.

I'm a huge NBA fan and have been for a really long time.

My favorite player is Carmelo; that's just a guy I've been rocking with since he was at Syracuse. I've always been a big fan of Melo.

I'm a big fan of Marcus Smart.

If you mention the Lakers, you think about Kobe.

I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.

I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

I've followed the NBA religiously since I was a kid, and now because of my boy Tony Parker, I'm a huge Spurs fan.

I grew up watching Kobe Bryant.

I love the fact that I get to play against the Los Angeles Lakers in a Game 7 on the road.

I really like to play to squash, because it's competitive, and I like basketball. I'm friends with a guy in L.A. called Andrew Bynum, who used to play for the L.A. Lakers NBA team. We play together sometimes.

Kobe Bryant, to me, is still the best basketball player in my mind. He played with me and he was in my era. I still love him to death. He's a little brother to me.

I grew up in L.A. in the '80s, and the Lakers were the biggest thing to ever hit the world at that time.

I had the Kobe jersey. I would do the Kobe walk. I would walk around the house doing the Kobe stare-down face. Anything you can name, I was idolizing him, trying to be like him.

If I had an opportunity to hand-pick a team that I wanted to play in the NBA Finals, it would probably be the Lakers.

I was huge on basketball and baseball. I love sports. I'm an L.A. guy. I love the Lakers and Dodgers.

I grew up - obviously I'm from Philly, where Kobe is from, so we grew up idolizing Kobe. He meant everything to us.

I've always been a huge Oladipo fan.