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
act ball competitor fighting front fun hard obviously player playing situation teammates wants
I'm obviously disappointed. The player in me, the competitor in me wants to be out there with my teammates fighting hard and out there having fun playing ball in front of our fans. But the situation is what the situation is. You have to act accordingly.
front fun obviously player playing situation
I'm obviously disappointed. As a player you want to be out there playing hard, having fun in front of our fans. But the situation is what the situation is.
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.
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.
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.
warm
It made me feel real special, all warm inside,
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.
energy expecting
The energy was crazy, ... I wasn't expecting that at all.
begin court point stepping
If you don't think you can make the playoffs, then what's the point of even stepping on the court to begin with? Will we make the playoffs? Who knows? But that's our mentality.
fill people team tendency
If you fill your team with people that are used to winning, the tendency is that they will get the team to win, somehow, someway, eventually,
difficult game mobile normally tough trying
It was a very difficult game to play in, ... I was hurting. I was trying to tough it out, but I was really limited. I wasn't as mobile as I normally was.
basketball questioned whether
After that first day I questioned whether or not basketball was for me.
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.