Kenyon Martin
Kenyon Martin
Kenyon Lee Martinis an American retired professional basketball player who played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association. He played for the New Jersey Nets, Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Clippers, New York Knicks and Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA, and the Xinjiang Flying Tigers of China. The 6'9" power forward played college basketball for Cincinnati before being drafted with the first overall pick in the 2000 NBA draft by the New Jersey Nets...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth30 December 1977
CitySaginaw, MI
CountryUnited States of America
It's not my choice where we play the game. I don't make the schedule. I just show up and play.
Everybody around here knows what it is; everybody in the organization knows what happened. My teammates know what it is. Coach knows what it is. So ... believe half of what you see and none of what you hear. That's what I live my life on.
We'll see. I'm getting better. I just don't want to push anything.
(I remember) losing in the second round every year, and me not playing my senior year. Our upside was so great, everyone talking about us as the favorite. And then with me going down, that kind of took the energy out of everybody. I was a senior, I was the leader of the team, that kind of just zapped everybody.
First and foremost, I want to apologize to my teammates and coaching staff for my actions on Monday night. There is nothing more important to me than being a good teammate and giving 110% effort each and every day. Nothing will ever change that.
We've been playing well, coming out and running and being aggressive as unit and getting it done. Hopefully we can keep it going for the rest of the season.
He was the only one. You can't win games that way.
I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.
Of course there's some things that I would have liked to have... none of my friends growing up had their father in the house. None of 'em. We had uncles and stuff like that, but nobody had a father in the house, none of my friends.
I don't back down. Like, I don't know how to flop. That's never been a part of my game. For me to know if a guy likes to turn left shoulder or right shoulder in the post, I have an advantage. Or if he likes to go left all the time, I have an advantage. Or if he can't make open jump shots, I have an advantage.
I think I'm pretty coachable. I do what coaches ask of me.
I have feelings, but not when it comes to basketball. I'm here to win. I'm not here to make friends.
Basketball is what got me out of the projects. It got my momma the house she never had, the car she never had. Nobody is going to get the best of me. You might score more points than me, but you're going to know you were in a dogfight.
I know the game well. I'm a student of basketball; I know what it takes to win.