Allan Houston
Allan Houston
Allan Wade Houstonis an American retired professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Associationfrom 1993 to 2005. He is currently the assistant general manager for the New York Knicks and the general manager for Knicks' NBA D-League team, the Westchester Knicks...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth20 April 1971
CityLouisville, KY
CountryUnited States of America
best family franchise interests move
I feel that it is in the best interests of my family and the franchise that I move on.
career finish injuries liked possibly
I did everything I possibly could to get back and finish my career the way I would have liked to. My injuries just wouldn't let me do it.
positive trying
Now we are trying to do something positive for them.
class way habit
What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.
morning school kids
You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show.
integrity real father
The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.
talking band want
We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.
coach good respectful sure whatever
They've been really respectful and cooperative, ... I think the trainers have been good about how we're doing this and everyone's been communicating. At the same time, I don't want to be disruptive, either, to Coach (Larry Brown) and to Isiah and to the team. I want to make sure I'm doing whatever I can and my body's making the right progress.
build coach consistency couple gain hopefully momentum players start
They're young. There hasn't been a lot of consistency with players. Hopefully when the organization can gain some momentum through some consistency with some players and the coach being there a couple of years. That's really how you start to build it back.
body couple days full respond settle
We're going to give it a couple of days to settle down and just keep doing what we've been doing, ... I'm not really overreacting to anything. It's just that you've got to give it time. I haven't really been doing it. Once you're going at full speed, your body has to respond to it. You have to let it do it at its own pace.
beat fans hugging jeff react remember running seeing
When we beat Indiana, I really don't remember anything about the game, ... I just remember running around and hugging my teammates, hugging Jeff and seeing the fans react to us, that we got back to the Finals.
fans garden honor hope madison privilege realize represent square york
I hope that all of our fans realize how much of an honor and privilege it was to represent them and New York at Madison Square Garden for all of these years,
mind
I just don't have it in my mind that I'm not going to be able to come back, honestly.
allow career finish happen injury move possibly time
I pictured this day for a long time but I didn't think it was going to happen so soon. ... I did everything that I possibly could to get back and finish my career the way I would have like to. But the injury wouldn't allow me to do that. This is the right time for me to move on.