Smartest: Grant Hill: very well-spoken Tim Duncan Shane Battier: had a 3.43 college GPA and a 3.96 High School GPA; very articulate Dikembe Mutombo: Diverse background; once interested in being a MD and got an academically-based scholarship; multilingual Mike James: Just listen to all his interviews. Mike James uses lots of metaphors that are innovative (example: "take it off paper and put it on wax")
I agree, there are some players that have IQ on basketball court but outside of it they're douchebags. Also a lot of players are arrogant or ego maniacs, that doesn't make them stupid. I like Ray Allen, guy is intelligent.
What comes out of the microwave hot doesn't always stay hot. I know, because I eat bagels in the morning." -- Shaquille O'Neal "I've won Player of the Month before. They don't ever give me anything for it. A new car, something, a plaque." -- Paul Pierce "It was like my best friend in America." -- Warriors forward Andris Biedrins, talking about his Porsche Cayenne SUV, which was totaled when he was rear-ended last week "Teach math classes in elementary schools throughout the country." -- Ron Artest on his New Year's resolution "Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow." -- Bill Walton "I'm not the best rapper in the NBA. Elton Brand is better than me. Stephen Jackson is better than me. Troy Hudson is nice. Troy Hudson has fire." -- Ron Artest I'm telling you, Darko is a Serbian gangster. Darko's got some bodies back there [in Serbia-Montenegro]. He can go psycho on guys." -- Rasheed Wallace on teammate Darko Milicic "He's not 20 years old. No way. I'm going to have to see a birth certificate or something." -- Antawn Jamison, on LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers Jason Kidd (NJ) on the 177 field goal attempts and 107 field goals missed during Tuesday's NJ-Bos game: "It wasn't a shootout. More like we were building a house. Both teams." Don Nelson on Dirk Nowitzki's new crew cut: "I didn't know he was that ugly. I thought he was a pretty good looking fella when he had hair, but, oh my goodness, did that bring out all his bad features or what. He's going to be single all the rest of his life!" Kevin Garnet (Min) on Miami's defense: "They're really aggressive. They're like roaches on bread - you drop some on the floor and, boom, they're on it." Dikembe Mutombo (Atl) on his technical for wagging his finger after a block: "I can not do the finger wave to the guy after I block a shot, I have to do it to the crowd. I did it to the crowd, but the referee said there was a bench in front of the crowd." What I've achieved now is something that I always figured I would as a kid." - Phoenix Suns' Amare Stoudemire, on his five-year contract extension worth about $73 million "I think the team that wins Game 5 will win the series. Unless we lose Game 5." - Charles Barkley, NBA Basketball Player
Chris Dudley was pretty smart.. He acutally finished college and got degrees from a very good school.. Yale "He attended Yale University, where he played NCAA basketball from 1983 to 1987 and earned degrees in Political Science and Economics."
All time Ivy Leaguers (almost all of them unknown old timers from the 40's - 60's) http://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/colleges.cgi?college=brown http://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/colleges.cgi?college=columbia http://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/colleges.cgi?college=cornell http://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/colleges.cgi?college=dartmouth http://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/colleges.cgi?college=harvard http://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/colleges.cgi?college=princeton http://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/colleges.cgi?college=upenn http://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/colleges.cgi?college=yale Chris Dudley & Matt Maloney are the last ivy leaguers to play in the NBA
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All-Dumb Team C - DeAndre Jordan PF- Stro Swift SF- Gerald Green SG- Kirk Snyder PG- ??? (Someone help me out)
