Karl-Anthony Towns Quotes

The NBA and college are two totally different games.

It's a different animal when you're in the NBA. You come in this league and you've got 7-footers who play 7 foot who are going to protect that rim come hell or high water.

The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.

You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.

I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.

You've got to understand, every kid in college basketball, if you ask them where they want to play a game, in the NBA or college, they will tell you Madison Square Garden, a huge percentage.

I have a casual interest in the NBA.

If you know people around me, even in college, I was confident, but the possible thought of making it to the NBA was crazy.

If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.

Of course, in college, you're traveling, especially when you're with Duke basketball, but in the NBA, it's on a whole entire level.

It's the NBA summer league and everyone's out there fighting. It's been a great experience for me.

I was a good shooter in college, but it's a different level here in the NBA and I'm working on getting better.

That's the thing about the NBA; there's another game.

I always was intrigued by the N.B.A.

He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.

As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

Switch if you have to! It's not the mismatch that beats you, it's the open shot!

The NBA is fairy tale and real life mixed together.

The first day's always the hardest, because it moves so much faster than a film does and once you get into that rhythm, though, you feel like you've accomplished so much in such a short period of time, so there a bit of comfort in that. You just have to find your rhythm.

You can never advance the ball on defense.

One-and-done is the most damaging thing in college basketball. It brings money into the college game, because it kickstarts the bidding war. When you know a kid can't turn pro and is going to go to school for one year and then go pro, that's when you see everyone going to games and courting players.

It was a lot of fun playing against one of the best players to ever play this game in Michael Jordan. For me it was a dream to play against him night in and night out in the NBA with the New York Knicks.

It [would have] been very difficult. As I said, the rules ... but if the rules were put in place back when Michael Jordan was in his prime - no hand-checking, the game was more geared toward offense, wanting to promote scoring in the game - he could have probably got close. He did score 69.

Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.

I'm the best player in the NBA.