Nba Mvp Quotes

I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. —Michael Jordan, six-time NBA champion with the Chicago Bulls, five-time MVP

You want to be proud for having come that far, but coming far doesn’t get you farther.

Little things were made to be a big deal: at one point center Thon Maker didn’t have an iPhone, messing up the team’s blue-bubble iPhone group chat. Kidd was upset about it and made the team run because Kidd felt that Maker not getting an iPhone was an example of the team not being united.

Sitting on the bench, watching, Giannis grew more upset. Finally, he decided to speak up in the second half of the game. Not in a disrespectful way but in an earnest tone. "Coach," Giannis said, reaching over to McMillan, "what about me?" McMillan was surprised. "I was focused on winning the game," McMillan says. "I had lost track of substitution." Giannis then played a bit more, but not much. After the game, Giannis told McMillan, "I'll be back." Giannis was practically seething when he told Oppenheimer what had happened. "Coach, I will never forget Nate McMillan," Giannis said. "He will pay for this." Oppenheimer laughed. "Pay for what?" "He did it on purpose. He tried to embarrass me.

Is it reasonable for a man to average 50.4 points a game while finishing second in the MVP voting? It is not. But this is Wilt’s legacy (and it always will be).

His physical gifts might have been what initially brought him to the NBA, but what truly got Giannis Antetokounmpo to the dance from a skinny and raw foreign player to a leading MVP contender was his hard work. After all, many different players in the past have had similar physical tools but did not have the desire to be great that Giannis has. This desire and hunger for greatness were born from the fact that he needed to work for the things that he wanted when he was still very young because of how poor he and his family were. The tools were already there but it was his hunger for greatness that ultimately allowed him to have one of the greatest work ethics the game has seen since the time of the late great Kobe Bryant.

Only Sampson and Walton failed to play more than four quality seasons, although Walton did win an MVP and Finals MVP and reinvent himself as the sixth man on an iconic team.