Elton Brand
Elton Brand
Elton Tyron Brandis an American professional basketball player who last played for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association. After playing college basketball for Duke, he was selected with the first overall pick in the 1999 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls, and later played for the 76ers, the Los Angeles Clippers, Dallas Mavericks and Atlanta Hawks...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth11 March 1979
CityCortlandt Manor, NY
ahead behind catch golden hovering state stay teams
Golden State is hovering right about .500 and they're behind us in the Pacific, so it's very instrumental. We're in there, so we have to stay ahead of the teams that are behind us and catch some of the upper-echelon teams.
coming defense
We were No. 1 in field-goal defense coming in, but I don't know about now.
bandwagon came confident doubt goes jump left level sam somebody soon swagger talking trash
Without a doubt, the swagger level goes up, ... Sam Cassell has been talking trash as soon as he came here. That's what we need. We need somebody that's confident like that, saying, hey, jump on our bandwagon or get left behind. We haven't had that.
game played start urgency
We have to play the way we played at the end of the game. We've got to start the game off with a sense of urgency and intensity.
complete doubling game good guys open road share tone trying win
That was the most complete road win of the year. I was trying to set a tone for this game right from the start. Once they started doubling me, guys were open and I was able to share the rock. This was a good win for us.
goes mean
That would mean a lot. All the hoopla about who's better goes out the window. It's right there on the court.
averaged best davis east expect fourth indiana learned nine rookie second team time whatever
That's the way it should be. I learned that my rookie year. I averaged 20 and 10, while Dale Davis averaged nine and eight. He was on Indiana and they were in second place in the East or whatever and he got the All-Star nod. This time we're the fourth best team in the West, I expect to be there.
beat playing quality teams win
Granted, they're playing without Shaq, but they beat some quality teams without Shaq. It's a big win for us.
definitely early felt rusty team
I definitely didn't want to let the team down. I was a little rusty early on, but after that I felt good.
bummed
All of the other years, OK, we weren't winning. But now I would be really bummed about not going.