A biography for Billy Donovanhasn’t been written yet.
“I always believe that every player has a right in recruiting to do whatever they feel is best for themselves.”
“I always felt from an NBA perspective, just because of the amount of time coaches spend on the game, they're a lot further along than college coaches in terms of the nuances.”
“Daniel Theis brings a physicality and a toughness.”
“When players leave, you gotta be aligned with the people that are in charge and the people you're working with every single day.”
“I'm curious to learn and grow.”
“I've always been a ball movement, player movement and extra pass team and coach.”
“I'm excited about learning and growing. That's really, really important to me.”
“Obviously Carmelo is a great scorer. He's done it for a really, really long period of time.”
“I think some players are looking at it from a development standpoint that, 'If I go into the G League, I'm playing NBA rules, I can learn the NBA game, I'm going to grow and mature quicker in that kind of environment.' And there's some truth to that. But this idea that college coaches can't develop players, I don't agree with that.”
“At the core, we all want to be loved, we all want to be accepted and we all want to be appreciated for who we are.”
“I think anytime you are in a team setting and there is any kind of acknowledgement, per se, I think it's always a reflection of the coaching staff and the players and the organization, in my opinion.”
“I think it's always emotional when you leave a place that you enjoyed working with the people you were working with.”
“One of the things with me is I'm going to work extremely hard.”
“What you don't want to be is a team that analytically can't win. What I mean by that if you've got teams taking a lot of threes and maybe you're not taking as many.”
“Over 72 games, you are going to have games where, 'Gosh, I wish we could have had that one back. That was one where we let slip away.' Or, 'We just didn't play to the level we needed to.'”
“There's always going to be something about coming back to New York because I'm from New York. It takes me back to my childhood.”
“The expectation is you want to compete at the highest level. You want to be able to make deep runs in the playoffs.”
“For me, there's an incredible power with a group of people that are connected in what they're doing. I feel like my job, my role, my responsibility - whether it be during the season or in the offseason - is to try and create those connections.”
“Every player is not going to have the chance to do everything that they want to do. But how do you mesh all of those guys together to get the whole to be better than the sum of the parts as a team? That would be my philosophy.”
“A guy like Al Horford, I really mean this, if we run a lot of different things, if we do a lot of different things, he could tell me everybody's responsibility from the point guard all the way to the power forward spot. With a young player, that's very, very rare.”