Steve Nash on early years with Dirk: A lot of guys with NBA talent... dont quite double down and believe and do the extra work. We had each other and I think with both of our personalities we wouldve been doing it our own anyway, but its only more pow

Old teammates Westbrook and Steven Adams have a heated verbal exchange

Zion Williamson said his mother encouraged him as a child to watch tape on Michael Jordan: When I got to Jordan, she told me to watch full games, not highlights. As a kid, the stuff he was doing was incredible to watch. Via Ben Golliver

From the Athletics August 8th report on Durant asking Tsai to fire NashMarks or trade him Durant has grown close with Boston coach Ime Udoka in recent years after Udoka spent a year with Durant as an assistant in Brooklyn and later with Team USA for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

The Dallas Mavericks with one final tribute video for Dirk after the game