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Grant Hill reflects upon his basketball career:
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/9126119/nba-grant-hill-own-words
This excerpt brings back wonderful memories of a few seasons past:
The payoff
Surviving enabled him to play in Phoenix, where he joined the up-tempo Suns and, in 2010, finally won a playoff series. Two of them, actually, before the Suns fell to the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference finals.
"Playing in Phoenix and the 2010 season, that was by far -- even more so than the Duke teams -- I don't know if I've ever been on a team that close. Our locker room, was together. I'm sure there are other teams that have that. But with egos and the money and the whole NBA, it's hard to create that environment.
"I don't know if it was by design or if it just happened. We might not have been the most talented group or whatever. But in terms of working together, supporting each other and enjoying one another on and off the court by hanging out, going to dinner, families involved. We were all together.
"One of the memories I have is we were playing San Antonio. They were always our nemesis. We couldn't get past them in the playoffs. And here we are, Game 3 and Goran Dragic goes off in the fourth quarter and the main guy cheering for him is Steve [Nash]. And here's a guy, it's his position, and I remember Alvin [Gentry, the Suns coach] asking Steve, 'Do you want to go in?' And 'No. Let him go.' Here was our quarterback basically saying, 'Let the backup go. He's on fire.' That was a special group."
Hard to believe that it's only been three years. That Ron Artest put-back still hurts.
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/9126119/nba-grant-hill-own-words
This excerpt brings back wonderful memories of a few seasons past:
The payoff
Surviving enabled him to play in Phoenix, where he joined the up-tempo Suns and, in 2010, finally won a playoff series. Two of them, actually, before the Suns fell to the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference finals.
"Playing in Phoenix and the 2010 season, that was by far -- even more so than the Duke teams -- I don't know if I've ever been on a team that close. Our locker room, was together. I'm sure there are other teams that have that. But with egos and the money and the whole NBA, it's hard to create that environment.
"I don't know if it was by design or if it just happened. We might not have been the most talented group or whatever. But in terms of working together, supporting each other and enjoying one another on and off the court by hanging out, going to dinner, families involved. We were all together.
"One of the memories I have is we were playing San Antonio. They were always our nemesis. We couldn't get past them in the playoffs. And here we are, Game 3 and Goran Dragic goes off in the fourth quarter and the main guy cheering for him is Steve [Nash]. And here's a guy, it's his position, and I remember Alvin [Gentry, the Suns coach] asking Steve, 'Do you want to go in?' And 'No. Let him go.' Here was our quarterback basically saying, 'Let the backup go. He's on fire.' That was a special group."
Hard to believe that it's only been three years. That Ron Artest put-back still hurts.
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