Dwane Casey Quotes

Basketball in Latin America is growing a lot and it's being seen with the quantity of players in the NBA.

It's good for basketball to grow.

You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game.

My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it.

I never really officially retired from the WNBA, I just left the doors open.

I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

The NBA is becoming a global game.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

If they're trying to get high school kids to go to the D-League, I will be shouting from mountaintops saying, 'What is this going to do to a generation of kids who say, 'All right, I'm going to do this,' you get one or two years to make it, and now you're out without any opportunities. Who's taking care of those kids now?'

I love women's college basketball, but I don't want it in the NBA.

Strong college basketball is great for the NBA.

Everybody is really committed to making the women's game as good as it can be.

Day 1, when I was drafted to the Toronto Raptors, they had this stigma on them: Every guy leaves. Nobody wants to be here. Superstars, nobody wants to play in Canada. From Day 1, my whole mindset and approach to the game, being in Toronto, was I wanted to change that whole narrative to that whole organization.

It's a great thing that the NBA has done in Africa to develop the game.

I think it would've been a little easier if I grew up in America; they've got better conditions for basketball players. At the same time, many people have said to me that having to start playing so late helped me not pick up bad habits.

Portland doesn't read like a basketball town, unless you remember what the NBA was like before it exploded into the mainstream in the Eighties: back when cities like Seattle, Baltimore, and Philadelphia moved the needle.

In my mind, women's basketball players are an untapped resource.

The D-League has helped me to get better and develop as a basketball player.

Just having the support from the male players is important as the women's game moves forward.

I've proved I'm in love with the women's game, and I think the quality is unbelievable.

The women's game has come on leaps and bounds.

We don't really compare ourselves to the men's game or what they do. For us, it's about trying to get more people involved in the women's games.

I have to give credit to the NBA, because they've done an unbelievable job of taking our game global and putting us in a position to be able to come here and other places in the world and see how big the game of basketball is. If you have never been here, you might not really understand how amazing and how big basketball is. These fans in China love the sport, and they have more players playing than we have people living in the US.

Sometimes you don't go straight from high school or college and get to the NBA from there. Sometimes you have to go when you're a little bit older and try that other route like Jeremy Lin. And he made it.