Bill Bellamy on pre-draft Kobe I'd never seen anybody in my life do what he was doing in that park, live. I ran to my car, I called all my boys in NY, and said, "Yo, I just seen the next MJ." Nobody believed me.

Kobe and Lebron share a laugh over Kwame Brown's reaction to Kobe's 81 point game

Doc Rivers on Bill Simmons: "I would like to call him an idiot, but I'm too classy for that."

Allen Iverson: I think the connection with the fans got out of hand and thats what he(Ben) didnt want to have to deal with coming back. My whole thing with our fans is-we with you if you with us. But when we feel like u dont want to be with us then you

KD has now passed MJ for most 25 point games to start the season with 17 overall He's now 4th all-time and 1st on the modern NBA post merger