Steven Adams Quotes

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

They don't work with you to get better in the NBA. Either you're ready or you're out and you go to the G-League or Europe.

That's one of things I've heard about Brooklyn - how good they are at developing players.

College, our job is to get guys to get better. Work hard, get better and be in position so when your time comes you get to play in the NBA.

You've got to work your way into the NBA. Guys like Seth Curry, it took him a couple years in the G-League.

Arsenal have a history of bringing through youngsters, giving them opportunities, and turning them into world-class players.

Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA.

Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

Strong college basketball is great for the NBA.

I'm just playing basketball. I just want to be a great player. That's it. That's all I'm thinking about. If the other stuff comes, it comes, but I'm just fortunate to play in the NBA Finals and just to play basketball, period.

I feel like I've had 20 years of experience at a very high level, if you throw in college, playing overseas, I've played in hundreds and hundreds of games.

The quality of our academy system is very high, as good as anything in the world. Around the country, lots of people in youth development are keen to get together and find a solution to that 17-to-21 age bracket and how we get those players playing.

I want to have a long career in the NBA. First, I want to be an All-Star, and hopefully one day I can win a ring with the New York Knicks.

Liverpool give young players a good opportunity.

I played baseball too, and flag football, but basketball was the easiest for me. Then when I was 12, my dad asked me what I wanted to do, and I said 'Be an NBA player.' Since then, he started training me.

I've had a number of kids in the NBA that I've coached and a number of other great players that I've coached.

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.

In Germany, young players are given more time, more patience. In England, they prefer to buy already-high-level players rather than spending some time building up a really talented young guy.

I love playing basketball. And to be able to continue to play as a job, that's the best to me.

We have to let them grow, because young players can always improve. That goes for Jack Wilshere, too.

After my second year in the NBA, my prep years, my college, I hadn't really found myself.

Every basketball thing I do now through my academy is always in a muskie state so I can work both those passions at the same time.

Everybody in the NBA works on their game. I just tried to follow that lead when I was in high school, college - and now.

Ultimately, good players need to play and they don't always at a young age in England.

Until you're a rookie, you don't know what NBA game shape is.