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Brian Shaw on Phil Jackson pulling him in Game 7 vs. Blazers in 2000: “You know, there there's a clip I think when I I came out maybe two or three minutes left in the game and I looked over at him when Ron Harper came in the game for me and I looked at him like, "You sending somebody in for me? So at the time I was pissed, but I understood what Phil was doing cuz he liked to finish the game with who he started the game with. So I understood that later, but at the time I didn't. I was pissed.”
Brian Shaw on Shaquille O’Neal pranks: So if you happen to be in a stall next to Shaq in a stall taking a number two, it would not be out of the ordinary for him to grab whatever magazine he was looking at and be like, “B-Shaw, man, look at this car on page 46! I got to get me one of these." Right? And he would slide the magazine under the stall to you. And then you open up the magazine to page 46 and it's a big ass turd.
Lue has missed four of the last six games because of back issues. He last coached Sunday against Charlotte and was in pain during the game. “Daily we get updates, but his back issues intensified again,” Shaw said. “He was getting better. I think last game he was on the bench with a hot pad on his shoulder most of the game. So, we’re all just hoping and praying that whatever it is, they can get to the bottom of it and he’ll be back.” The Clippers also didn’t have assistant Jeff Van Gundy, who is in charge of directing the team’s defense and missed the game because of an unspecified family matter.
Brad Turner: The Clippers say Coach Tyronn Lue went home because of back pain and that assistant Brian Shaw will be the acting head coach for the games against the Kings.
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What is your favorite story that captured Kobe’s competitive intensity? Robert Horry: “The first day I saw him in a shootaround where he’s going 100 miles a minute. I was like, ‘Yo man, this is a walk-through, slow down!’ He said, ‘I got to go at game speed because that’s the only way I’m going to get better!’ At a young age and at an old age, he always had that fire and intensity with trying to get better and to be the best. It was funny. I had just got traded to the team [in 1997]. He was guarding B Shaw [Brian Shaw] and he was just going fast. We were all old vets and had just been to championship games and had been around the league. He’s like not walking through. We’re like, ‘Yo, it’s a walk-through!’ He’s going through screens like it’s a game situation. We would keep saying, ‘Calm down; it’s a walk-through.’ But it was just the fire and intensity that he had."
“Vin Baker. Vin’s like an uncle to me,” Payton shared with Poole and Johnson. “We used to go fishing when my mom was pregnant with my brother. Detlef [Schrempf], Hersey [Hawkins]. Those were all of [Gary Sr.’s] teammates. Nate McMillan, Damon Stoudamire– [Jason] Kidd is like family, too. [Brian] Shaw is family. Big [Shaquille O'Neal]. Rest in peace Kobe [Bryant]. Kobe was around back then. I can literally go on. Bonzie Wells.”
Tyronn Lue on his Lakers days: “When I came into League, we had a lot of veteran players on the team that taught me wrong from right. Having Brian Shaw, Robert Horry, Horace Grant, Shaq, D-FIsh, Glen Rice, Eddie Jones… I had a lot of great veteran guys that taught me the right way. And so now, when you look at our rosters in the NBA, in the way they're constructed, there's a lot of young guys, your oldest guy on the team could be 25 years old. And so they really don't understand, they have a lot of money, but they don't understand those next steps to becoming a man, teaching you how to work hard on the court, and being a good person off the court as well. “
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The Shaws have lived in this hilltop mansion since 2003, three years after Brian and fellow Oakland natives Jason Kidd and Gary Payton each received a key to the city of Oakland. This is the first time the property has been listed on the open market.
“That was the last American amateur team to win a championship,” Kerr said, correctly, insofar as the Team USA men were silver medalists in 1988, and beginning in 1992 has sent only NBA-laden teams to the Olympics and major international tournaments. “We had a really good team, if you look back at that roster,” Kerr said. “Kenny Smith was my roommate. We stayed right on the ocean, nearby. Our pool play was here, and then we went through different cities.” Joining Kerr on that all-college Team USA was Smith, David Robinson, Mugsy Bogues, Sean Elliott, Derrick McKey, Ronny Seikely and Brian Shaw, among others. The final two rounds of the tournament were in Madrid. In the semifinal against Brazil, Kerr suffered a torn ACL that would knock him out of college basketball for a year – which delayed the start of his NBA career, too.
Law Murray: Asked Brian Shaw, a 15-year pro, how he defines traditional point guard in this era of blurred positions. Shaw: "The game is changing. We're still figuring out, you know, how to best take advantage of the way the game is being played now." pic.twitter.com/uVOA8rQVHn
Asked Brian Shaw, a 15-year pro, how he defines traditional point guard in this era of blurred positions.
— Law Murray 🎡 (@LawMurrayTheNU) February 9, 2023
Shaw: "The game is changing. We're still figuring out, you know, how to best take advantage of the way the game is being played now." pic.twitter.com/uVOA8rQVHn
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