A Quote by Kenny Smith
I've played more park games than NBA games, and I had a 10-year NBA career.
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I think that a lot of people are like, 'Oh, he only - he got hurt in the college season, where they only played 40 games. How is he gonna play 82 games in the NBA season?' They don't really look at the fact that in college, you practice way harder than in the NBA.
If these are the last 34 games of my NBA career, I want them played as tough as I can.
NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
Honestly, the Carolina games I played in every year were more intense than the national championship games I played in - they had a better environment.
I was always into sports games. Never really played anything else. I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam.
I have done a lot of NFL games, a season-opening home games, playoff games, championship games, and of course Stanley Cup games, World Series, NBA championship games. But I have never done a Superbowl. It's probably the only major sporting event I've never done and I would like to.
I was in a unique position to predict the outcome of NBA games. Some of my picks included games I had been assigned to referee.
I didn't have cable growing up. The only games I saw were the NBA on Sundays and the NBA Finals.
Now that my responsibilities are exclusively NBA, I watch two NBA games a night, usually fall asleep in the third quarter of the west coast game.
It wasn't until I moved to Spain that I actually got my first glimpse of the NBA. I'd watch this program called 'NBA Action,' which came on every week and showed clips from different games.
The FBI and the NBA did a thorough investigation, and they both concluded that I did not fix games in the NBA.
It was really tough back then in Croatia to watch the NBA games because we were not that powerful of a country. They didn't even show the games on TV. So we were always trying to find someway to watch the games, especially the Finals.
When I played in the NBA for 12 years, Seattle had some of the best fans in the NBA.
Obviously I bet on games I officiated. I passed on information based on the meetings that the referees were having, and based on what the league office wanted us to call in playoff games. With that being said, I was able to win at a high percentage when we were betting on NBA games.
My first 10-day contract in Dallas. It was long because we had five games in 10 days. Players get called up on a 10-day and their team might only have a schedule of three games. So I got to play in five games and I was fortunate for that.
These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.
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