DeShawn Stevenson
DeShawn Stevenson
DeShawn Stevensonis an American former professional basketball player who last played for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association. Before his NBA career, he originally committed to play at the University of Kansas, but decided to enter the NBA directly from Washington Union High School in his hometown of Fresno, California and was picked by the Utah Jazz with the 23rd selection of the 2000 NBA draft. He is well known for his defense and his athleticism...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth3 April 1981
CityFresno, CA
Everybody out there is playing hard and playing like a game. When you do that, sometimes you can get hurt.
Everybody is happy with each other, everybody is passing the ball, there's a lot of good vibes and it shows on the court.
I don't agree with it, but there is something wrong with that. I'm all for wearing suits, even though I don't wear suits. I think jewelry-wise, that's a decision on how we want to spend our money. I feel like people want that. People like the watches, the chains. Even when I go out, when I don't wear it, people ask me, 'Where's the chain at?' It's going to be pretty tough to get everybody to stop wearing their $30,000, $40,000 -- maybe more than that -- chains. It's a waste of money if we can't wear it where we want to wear it.
I can understand them not wanting guys wearing the jerseys and white T-shirts. These days you see people wearing nice jeans with a blazer. That's respectful, I think.
Everybody's happy, we're passing the ball to each other and there are a lot of good vibes right now. It's sad because we could have done this at the beginning of the season.
It's hard to read A.I.. He has a lot of moves and can dribble the ball and shoot the ball from behind the (3-point) arc. But I think we did a good job tonight. He had 36, but we did a good job.
You can see on the court that everybody's happy with each other. Everybody's passing the ball to each other. There's good vibes.
Steve Francis wasn't playing like the Steve Francis we all know. I think he'll show the real Steve in New York.
So we've got to go out there and play every game like it's a playoff game and play together like we're doing. We're doing a good job.
Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.
Other teams have started to feel like they're at home when they play in Orlando. We've got to start being more physical and let these guys know that this is our place.
I don't know if it was the trade, but we were more focused. Everybody went out there and played together as a team.
We're way more talented than our record. After the trades we made, you can see that in the long term we're going to be a good team down the line. We've got a lot of young guys who are 23, 24 and even 20 years old, and we're eventually going to be a playoff team even though we're struggling now.
We got a couple of wins going. We're playing good, passing the ball. If we keep playing like that we'll be on a good roll.