Brandon Roy
Brandon Roy
Brandon Dawayne Roy is an American retired professional basketball player who played for the Portland Trail Blazers and Minnesota Timberwolves in the National Basketball Association. He was selected sixth in the 2006 NBA draft, having completed four years playing for the Washington Huskies. His nickname was "B-Roy", but he was also referred to as "The Natural" by Trail Blazers announcer Brian Wheeler. On December 10, 2011, Roy announced his retirement from basketball due to a degenerative knee condition, though he...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth23 July 1984
CitySeattle, WA
The consistency of fans now is so much better. I think it has a lot to do with our play, and we're doing it together. The better we get, the better they get.
I think we just want to keep playing good basketball. We don't want to go the Pac-10 tournament and have a terrible game and have that be the last thought on our minds heading into the NCAA tournament.
I think this is the year it can happen.
We wanted to have fun and enjoy the moment. We got the win and now it is time to enjoy the moment.
I think he made up for the Stanford game.
I think Jamaal plays better with a chip on his shoulder.
I was like, 'Does he just randomly walk around? They were like, 'Yeah, but not today, it's past his bedtime.
Jon is a bruiser, and Arizona has some bruisers. But, Arizona, I don't feel like they're that tough inside. We think Jon is going to have a great game.
Jon, he is just a bruiser. Arizona, we don't think they're that tough on the inside. Jon's going to have a big game inside, we think.
Some guys who go through big emotional swings like that want to transfer or drop out. But he's doing a good job of adjusting and trying to help his team win, so I think that's great.
That was a gut check. That's what we were looking for after the last two weeks.
That was just incredible. For that year, that season, we will always be a number one seed. That's something they can never take from us.
I think every coach in the league would agree he's one of the better players. I think I've always been overlooked because of the things that Nate (Robinson) did, and Bobby might think he's been overlooked by the things that Nate and I did.
We had a chance to do something special. We feel we had a good chance to go to the Final Four. But I look at it, if it didn't happen, it wasn't meant to be.