Jameer Nelson
Jameer Nelson
Jameer Nelsonis an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for Saint Joseph's University before being drafted 20th overall in the 2004 NBA draft by the Denver Nuggets. He was later traded to the Orlando Magic on draft night and went on to play ten seasons with the franchise, earning his only All-Star nod in 2009. In July 2014, he signed with the Dallas Mavericks, who traded him to the...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth9 February 1982
CityChester, PA
Youth Interlock is the A.A.U. program that brought me up. Being as though I made it, I feel its very important to give back to the community. Im have no problem putting my name on such a great event.
Everybody had to step up because we were without great players that we needed. For the most part, guys stepped up. You obviously want to win but we did all we could out there tonight.
It's still a little weird, knowing that he's gone now. Every time I flip on the TV and see him in that (New York) uniform, I just laugh. I understand that this is a business, and I know that we did what we did for a reason. But it still feels weird.
Steve told me to keep shooting and he's the team leader. When he tells you to keep shooting, you keep shooting. I know he's going to keep shooting, so if he tells me to, why not?
The ball got deflected and if it was anybody else, I don't think they would have caught that ball. There's only a few people in this world who would have caught that ball where he did, and there may not be anybody.
It shows you that we have a good team, especially when we're at home. We've got to continue to progress. We've been doing it well as a team and at the end it's going to come. It's going to come, it's going to take time and we've got to stay focused.
What we know now is that every single game during the season counts. If we win this game or win that game or just win the games that we should have won, we wouldn't be in the situation that we are having to depend on other teams.
We beat the best team in basketball, but we're not thinking about signature wins right now. We'll worry about that when we get to the playoffs. We've just got to keep this going.
Coach (Brian Hill) got on us when we were down 11-1. Then we're up by eight (points) and then the second unit came in and we were up 12, and we just kept feeding off of that. You have to outwork the opposing team regardless of who you're playing.
I think we lacked intensity at the beginning of the game. Once we picked up our intensity, things started to turn around for us.
I watched a couple of games and it was just a great, great day for the NBA.
Our record doesn't reflect the kind of team that we have right now. We're playing really well, we're bonding and we're sharing the ball.
If Steve is back at point guard, that's four point guards. I'm not trying to make decisions for anybody, but the mathematics of that just don't add up.
People just want to make excuses, which really is fine with me. I'm always the underdog.