Brandon Roy
Brandon Roy
Brandon Dawayne Roy is an American retired professional basketball player who played for the Portland Trail Blazers and Minnesota Timberwolves in the National Basketball Association. He was selected sixth in the 2006 NBA draft, having completed four years playing for the Washington Huskies. His nickname was "B-Roy", but he was also referred to as "The Natural" by Trail Blazers announcer Brian Wheeler. On December 10, 2011, Roy announced his retirement from basketball due to a degenerative knee condition, though he...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth23 July 1984
CitySeattle, WA
There have been a lot of good teams on that 32-game home winning streak, and another one came in here and took it from us. It is the only way it should end, it shouldn't end with us losing by 15 or us losing to a bad team.
When Justin made that four-point play, that gave us the confidence to believe we could win the game.
When I was dreaming, this is exactly what I dreamed about, but it's tough to accomplish these things.
We're a team that shares the ball and I think we got back to doing that tonight.
He was a star before a lot of those guys were stars. We saw a tape of his eighth-grade team with Tyson Chandler and Josh Childress, and he was the best guy on the team.
He's back to being scrappy-tough, and that's the makeup of our team. When we stop doing that, we're not very good. He understands that. We need him 100 percent going hard, and he knows that.
There are no Americans or Morgan States in the Pac-10.
I think that's a credit to all past Husky teams. I'm happy to be part of it.
I think we just want to keep playing good basketball. We don't want to go the Pac-10 tournament and have a terrible game and have that be the last thought on our minds heading into the NCAA tournament.
I think this is the year it can happen.
Lately a lot of people have been giving me respect. You know when they don't give it to me, I just use it as motivation. Now that they're saying I'm the most complete player, I have to look for other motivation.
I was actually frustrated throughout (non-league). I was like, man, I can wait until I can start putting my print on the team.
I was like, 'Does he just randomly walk around? They were like, 'Yeah, but not today, it's past his bedtime.
Jon is a bruiser, and Arizona has some bruisers. But, Arizona, I don't feel like they're that tough inside. We think Jon is going to have a great game.