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
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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.
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My '99 squad, that was one of the best teams we had in a while over there. We could definitely take this year's team. We'd get after those guys.
deal focus team
That's something they have to deal with. My focus is on our team right now.
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It was a great win. I tried to set a tone early and my teammates put me in a great position to score.
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The referees blew the whistle a lot. Anthony got to the line a lot. Our guys on our team got to the line a few times.
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We want to be one of the top teams in the West, and we think we are.
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They really hurt us in that second quarter. We kind of played their tempo a little bit. You've got to make shots against this team so they have to take the ball out of bounds so they can't outrun us.
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This is absolutely satisfying. It's like vindication because we worked so hard and this organization didn't give up. We definitely have the confidence to go out there, advance again and keep going. We feel we can beat every team out there.
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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.
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That might have been for the past, for teams that weren't winning. I guess Chauncey and I might have to eliminate ourselves from that poll.
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Granted, they're playing without Shaq, but they beat some quality teams without Shaq. It's a big win for us.
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I definitely didn't want to let the team down. I was a little rusty early on, but after that I felt good.
tried
We tried to take them out early. This was a must-win for us.
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We tried to speed up the game and do some things that would benefit us. There was a lot of energy spent coming back from the first-quarter run they had.