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Raymond Felton: ‘I’m going with what Patrick Beverley said.’ Charlie Villanueva: ‘As a point guard, if you want to win, and you want to like… for me, I know when that flow, he’s going to find you. I'd rather have Stockton on my team. I'm going Stockton. I'm going Stockton. And it's not even close.'
Raymond Felton: Ja Morant is frying John Stockton's ass. Charlie Villanueva: In one-on-one? Felton: You understand me? Villanueva: John Stockton was a defender. He led the League in steals! What are we talking about?!
Raymond Felton: "Kids are doing it not because of some fucking SGA. Kids are doing it because that's the game now. If you watch AAU, I bet you he ain't going to no goddamn AAU games. I'm coaching in AAU. I see this. These kids are doing that now. That's part of the game."
Deron Williams on LeBron James: My stance is the same on this. We’re talking about last shot. I think Kawhi's better at creating his own shot. Not saying LeBron can't create his own shot. Raymond Felton: When you was in the Olympics, who was taking that last shot for y'all? Williams: Kobe, probably.
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Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson: You’ve been a staple of the Jordan Brand family for a long time. Looking back to your childhood, was there a specific pair of Air Jordans that was your “holy grail”—and did you ever actually get your hands on them? Harrison Barnes: That’s funny, man. I told MJ, man, when I committed to Carolina, the one pair of shoes that I wanted to wear were the 10’s. They used to have a picture when you used to walk in the facility, you used to see Raymond Felton wearing those. And I remember I wanted them and he was like, ‘Yeah, man, you gotta make a Final Four before you get ’em.’ Those were for sure my favorite Jordan’s to this day.
He also became just the fourth rookie since 1977–78 to record consecutive games of at least 15 points and 10 assists while committing one or fewer turnovers, joining Ben Simmons, Raymond Felton, and Mark Jackson. Each of those guards went on to become full-time NBA starters, underscoring the historical weight of Nembhard’s accomplishment.
But former 14-year NBA veteran guard Raymond Felton doesn't buy into the idea that nationality determines a player's professionalism or coachability. "I'm in the AAU space. I'm an AAU coach. Some of these kids are not coachable, but then it's a lot of these kids that are coachable. F**k that overseas shit, overseas is better, this and that. No, overseas ain't better," Felton stated on To The Baha podcast. "I'm sorry, f**k that, they not. As a whole, they're not," the 41-year-old added. "Are they getting better? Yes, of course. They making kids play pros at 14 years old. 14-year-old kids are still playing AAU over here, they ain't playing against grown men, you know what I'm saying."
Raymond Felton to Rashad McCants: “So I tried to be cool for a long time. I never said nothing about you when you did that [expletive] on ESPN. I never even said nothing to you. I canceled interviews because I wasn’t going to address it. But now you’re attacking my brothers. Now you’re attacking a legacy that we built—with your dumb ass—at Carolina. You talking about our coach, who did nothing but be great to us. [Expletive]—you went lottery. He went lottery. He a complainer. So it’s Coach Williams’ fault that you didn’t play long in the league? That’s his fault too, right? I played 14 years. Marv played more. There’s a lot of us who played many years of professional basketball from that team. But you’re the one who [expletive] your career up.
Raymond Felton: Like Theo said—take accountability for your dumb ass. But I’m done with you, bro. I’m done talking about you.” “I tried to give you your flowers, even on top of your [expletive], because you can play basketball—that’s one thing you can do. And you can look stupid, too—that’s another thing you can do. Because you're doing that right now, talking this BS. You think people are liking what you’re saying? ’Cause of course, people like stupid [expletive], man. That’s what sells on TV. That’s what sells on social media. So you think you’re doing something, but you're really looking like a fool, honestly. But you’re getting your money, though. So I ain’t mad at you. Get your money. Do all of that. That’s cool. That’s great. But as far as with us—[expletive]—you dead to me. Been dead to me for real. But dead to me. I would never speak your name again, ’cause you ain’t worth nothing. You ain’t worth my life. You ain’t worth anything, my [expletive]. Straight up.”
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Raymond Felton: "I don’t really want to talk about it because it’s that Carolina guy—but like, my last agent? The day I retired, I ain’t heard from him. Yeah, I saw him at a wedding.I saw him at a wedding—'Oh, what’s up Ray?' 'What’s up?' I ain’t talked to him. That’s it. At all." "I'm talking about—even after the wedding—still ain’t spoke to them. I talked to people in the organization, they sent me emails here and there about different stuff. But as far as him? Never heard from him. I had to call my first agent about something that I was trying to do—as far as coaching—like, with some advice about that. That’s crazy."
Raymond Felton: If you got something you want to do off the court, I promise you—do it while you still hoopin’. Do it now. Because that’s one of the biggest mistakes I made. I'm still, to this day, trying to figure out what I really want to do. Like, yeah, I’m dabbling with different little things, but I’m still trying to figure out, okay—what the hell am I going to do? I get up every morning—I feel like I can’t say I don’t have a purpose, because I’m a husband and I’m a father—but damn, like, what am I doing? Like, what am I going to do today? Nothing. I look forward to this—because this gives me something to do. It’s like a job to me. You feel me? Like, this is like a job. I’m coming here to do this. It’s like a job.
Raymond Felton: But the things I really wanted to do—like, I wanted to do franchising—and I had all the meetings. Like when Charlie said, you can sit down with whoever you want to? I’m talking about, I sat down with the biggest—the dude who ran all of America. Everything in the United States—he ran everything with Papa John’s, with Pizza Hut, Taco Bell—all of that, far as franchising. He was the main guy. Sitting in front of him: 'Whatever you need from me, Ray.' Then my grandma passed away. I went into a dark space for a long time. Cut off all those relationships. Didn’t talk to the guy no more. Ended up signing with OKC after the season with the Clippers. Never spoke to the guy again. And I regret that to this day. Because that’s something that I probably could’ve had a whole bunch of now. And I don’t."
Raymond Felton on his stint in Portland: ’It was a rough year for me man because it was a lot of bad stuff that was said about my weight, coming in out of shape, and I dealt with that, the scrutiny of that, and then man listen, my momma had a real bad situation where she had to have heart surgery. I had to miss like six games and there was a dude, that's why to this day I try not to pay attention to comments on social media, I try not to pay attention to things that people say, but this dude was like ‘man I hope and wish your momma die’. When I saw that I just lost it and I think that was just the last straw in Portland. I just went on a rant on TV, and I was just like ‘any of you motherf*ckers want to come see me, this my address’. I gave my address and everything. Listen, not my momma. Don’t play with my momma. For somebody to say he wish that she die, that just did something to me in my head. I told the dude ‘if I ever see you’, because I had his face and everything, I told him ‘If I ever see you, it's on sight. And I just said a whole bunch of other stuff that I don't need to right now’.