John Starks Quotes

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

You have a lot of great teams in the NBA. I watched San Antonio against Dallas, and they're two great teams, and there are great teams in the east, as well. So it takes time to gel, as we've all seen.

The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.

They are that same group, but I've got my own rivalristic problems. Is that a word, rivalristic? I've got my own rivalristic problems in the Eastern Conference.

My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

The Raptors have to aspire to be the Heat and the Lakers.

Everybody knows how much I disliked the Knicks when I was with the Celtics, but I think it's grown to another level.

I was a Knicks fan until the day I bought the Bulls.

Kevin Durant's kind of been my favorite player my whole life, so it's going to be fun going against him in the Garden.

I grew up a Lakers and a Clippers fan.

As a Spurs fan I've watched the games and the rivalries throughout the years, so to play against Arsenal you have the bit between your teeth.

I always say all the time that's what the NBA is all about - getting to play against the best guys and opportunities to redeem yourself against teams that beat you.

The Lakers and the Clippers teams play against each other; friends shouldn't.

I still want to see the Lin-Lee rivalry; those games always bring great fun for the fans.

This is the Boston Celtics. This isn't the Phoenix Suns. No disrespect to any other organization, but you don't hang conference titles. Do we hang going to the conference finals?

Playoffs are fun.

It's the playoffs, man. If you don't get excited about the playoffs, you don't even deserve to be playing basketball.

I know we're going to be connected for a long time, Kevin Durant and Greg Oden. He's a really, really good player. I'm a pretty decent player. So I hope things work out.

This is the NBA; you can't stop everybody from scoring 30. But that 30? They're going to work for every point they get. And that's my mindset.

All games are huge, especially division games, and the ones at the end of the year matter the most.

There was a time period where I was obsessed with the rivalry between the Lakers and the Celtics in the 1980s.

It doesn't matter if it's Spencer Dinwiddie, Taurean Prince, DeAndre Jordan, I'm trying to win that matchup every time.

One of the things my dad and I got to bond over was going to the San Antonio Spurs games when Gervin was there, James Silas... I can't remember the rest of the guys' names, but it was a fun time.

I play basketball hard-nosed and if you're not on my team, during that 48 minutes we're enemies.