Al Harrington
Al Harrington
Albert "Al" Harringtonis an American professional basketball player who last played for the Sydney Kings of the National Basketball League. Selected with 25th overall pick in the 1998 NBA draft, Harrington played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Associationfor the Indiana Pacers, Atlanta Hawks, Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks, Denver Nuggets, Orlando Magic and Washington Wizards. He also spent a short stint with the Fujian Sturgeons of the Chinese Basketball Association...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth17 February 1980
CityOrange, NJ
We kind of got disoriented by not running our stuff. But we came out and played the way we're supposed to in the second half.
It's almost funny before you realize how sad it is. You want to try and tell somebody how to brace for the impact but you know you can't. How do you tell somebody they're going to get run over by a truck when they see it coming too but can't get out of the way?
(We want to) give the fans something to look forward to next year. We're going to be a much better team, and we are going to be scratching and clawing our way into the playoffs next year.
Believe it or not, when it left my hand, it felt good.
When someone is scoring like that, everybody else isn't involved. When they do shoot, they're ice cold, so that worked in our favor.
We just want our goal to be to double our win total from last year. Over these last five games, we have to find a way to win two or three of them. I think that is our focus right now and to continue to get better as a team going into next year.
I got the call when I was getting into my car. I can't (pretend); I cried like a baby. I cried as soon as I got in the car. Then I called my mom. When you realize you're never going to see somebody again, it hits you. We'll never see him again.
When you're a bad team, you don't get any benefit-of-the-doubt calls. You see it on TV, the media knows it, and we were a casualty of that tonight. We played as hard as they did. We deserved that one as much as they did.
We're a better team than we were last year. We've given away 10 games this year. We have to continue to compete.
That was big because I let my team down (in the last game). I just had to come on -- be more aggressive and produce.
I wish we played them 80 times this year. That's a great team over there, but for some reason we just out played them. We got the sweep but now we have to move on and win this game on Friday (against the Nets).
I don't think you guys realize sometimes how connected we really are in that locker room. We are a family. We lost a brother. The only consolation we have is that he left us making sure no one can ever say a bad thing about him, because Jason was such a good person.
He came in here and kicked our behinds tonight. I know the game meant a lot to him, and he played that way.
We took a couple steps backwards. The last couple of games we were focused in the fourth quarter and pretty much could get the job done. Tonight, we didn't do that.