Frank Deford Quotes

I always had a dream to someday own an NBA team.

No former player has owned a team in baseball.

Everybody talks about that one when they first meet me. 'Man, I still remember the play you shook Jordan.' Everybody gonna always remember it because it was Jordan.

Having played in the league during the '80s, '90s, and the new millennium (old, I know), I had the chance to see firsthand how the best point guards of our time played the game.

The NBA is my history.

I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.

I got to Arizona in 1980, before the Cardinals, Diamondbacks and Coyotes. The sun rose and set with the Phoenix Suns, and it wasn't very spectacular. But I became a loyal fan and went to a lot of games.

I think I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team.

At one point, I was the youngest owner in major league sports.

Why did I come to Spurs? It just felt right.

I do not think any thinking individual buys a sports franchise, or an English football club, to make money.

In the back of my mind, I always knew I wanted to be in the sports representation business. Being an ex-player, I knew that those were the people I wanted to work with.

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

I lived in Indiana, and Reggie Miller was everywhere.

I've traveled enough around the world with the NBA to see how much it's grown, globally.

I'm the football manager of Newcastle, which is owned by Mike Ashley.

As an NBA executive, I'm always looking for untapped potential. As a proud native of Nigeria, I believe that Africa is one of the world's greatest resources in that area.

For as long as I remember, big men have dominated the NBA.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a living New York team owner the fans like.

I'm obviously very grateful to play for a sports organization like the Boston Celtics.

Being an opponent playing in Boston over the years, you always see guys in the stands who played for the Celtics. It's a mystique. It's cool.

The WNBA changed everything. It started in 1997, and I graduated from high school in 1998.

I don't miss basketball because I've already got in my mind that I did what I had to do for 17 years. I think I'm satisfied with what I did.

Sports entertainment in general, it's a very competitive business.

I'm a huge fan of the game. It's beyond a fringe benefit of obviously getting to work at the league office. I watch a ton of games in person, on television, on all forms of new media I follow the league. And so it's just beyond my wildest imaginations to me to now be the commissioner of the NBA.