Emeka Okafor
Emeka Okafor
Chukwuemeka Ndubuisi "Emeka" Okaforis an American professional basketball player who is currently a free agent. Prior to the National Basketball Association, Okafor attended Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas and the University of Connecticut...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth28 September 1982
CityHouston, TX
eating final miss time
It was eating me up inside. My first time in the Final Four, I didn't want to miss a minute. I was going to miss 16.
biggest everybody games looked missed played players
I looked and Vince Carter, he played like 20-something games one year. I looked at everybody and a lot of high-profile players have missed a lot of games. A lot of them bounced back. So I can think to myself, 'OK, they did it, so I can do it,? and I don?t feel like the biggest loser.
game good last record start winning year
We've got a winning record -- hooray! We're getting off to a good start this year. Last year we would have come back in the game and then lost.
april carry game good great job keeping talent
I think he understands what great talent we have, but he's doing a good job keeping us grounded. The ranking is not going to carry us to the championship game on April 5. We have to live up to it.
crazy point
To be at the point I am right now is just crazy to me,
basketball questioned whether
After that first day I questioned whether or not basketball was for me.
challenges fact mobile pump
I like challenges. The fact that he's 7-feet, a completely mobile guy, it's going to pump me up.
ball hard playing run
At times they were playing so long out there. Ostertag (7-foot and 280 pounds) is just hard to move. Once you run around him, he's already got the ball in his hands.
athletic guards men steals
You think of guards getting steals and big men getting blocks. But Gerald is such an athletic creature, you see how he does both.
almost envisioned million position seemed
It seemed almost surreal. I'd envisioned myself in this position a million times, and yet it didn't feel like it was really happening.
focus lose seem
We just lose focus or whatever. We play with emotion, but sometimes we seem to get into lulls.
apart defensive early fell found game losses played positives taking
We had some defensive lapses early in the game and then we found a way to get back into the game. Then we fell apart at the end. We played hard, but I'm not big on taking positives from losses like this.
everybody good happy
This place is incredible. I'm just happy we have a place that everybody likes. The other place was not good at all.
warm
It made me feel real special, all warm inside,