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Trevor Ariza on Dwight Howard: It surprised me that he wasn't included in the top 75 NBA player list. He won three straight defensive player of the year. He controlled the paint his whole healthy career, offensively and defensively. How many people have done that? Kareem, Shaq, who else controlled the paint like that? His work ethic was out of this world. He'll be in the weight room lifting an hour and a half before practice. Then he'll practice. Then he'll stay two, three, four hours after practice just shooting, working on the things that he wanted to work on to get better at. So he's somebody that always worked on his game and just seeing that mentality and work ethic, you would think it should pay off with the accolades that come with it at the end of it. But yeah, he definitely should have been in the top 75 player list. Yeah, definitely. Tony Allen: Shout out Dwight, man. I feel like Dwight gets a lot of slander, a lot of hate, too, for sure.
Trevor Ariza: "James Harden is for real like he's a bonafide rockstar for real. And I mean that in every sense of the word. Like he got the game, he got the ism, he got the swagger, right? He created a whole like line where kids across everywhere in the world is he changed the game. He changed the rules! So you can't deny that the way he scored a ball or the things that he does or the crowd that he draws is like all the way up there. But when we playing a team sport and the team aspect of the game, what Dwyane Wade has done, you can't argue with who you have to go with. You got to go with the person who is going to give everything at all times. If we are being honest, we basketball players right and we competed at a high level, our ultimate goal is to win a championship. So if you want to win, if that's what we trying to do, you got to go with somebody who wants to win."
Trevor Ariza on Kobe Bryant: "I had just got signed to go to Houston, and it was preseason, so I'm watching the games or whatever. So I take a picture of that clip right there, and I send it to him. And he laughed. He said that means if I miss, somebody should have an easy put back. He was always say sh*t like that. Like always say like little things that would kind of make you like, what are you talking about? But he was serious. And like he ended up being all of those things that he said he was going to be."
Former NBA star Trevor Ariza told the court about his financial situation as part of his legal battle with his ex-wife, Bree Anderson Ariza ... and it's a far cry from what he was making as a player. TMZ obtained an income and expense declaration filed by Trevor, which states he earns an average of $6,000 per month as a trainer for the disabled … but says he only made around $2,316 last month.
He also claims he earns around $667 per month from investments in Buffalo Wild Wings. He said he has around $50K in cash and bank accounts … and $2.5 million in real property. Trevor said he lives with his girlfriend, Kristy, and her two kids ... along with his 14-year-old son and his aunt.
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Thanasis Antetokounmpo on getting drafted by the Knicks: I don't know why they drafted me because when I was sitting down they were asking me about players and they kept saying… because it was two sides. I don't know if people remember this, but it was two sides of the Knicks. It was the Knicks, the New York Knicks, Allan Houston, and everybody else that was like in the organization, and then it was the other side of the Lakers when Phil Jackson came. So, it was those two that when they were interviewing me, there was I remember vividly, I would sit down at the table and it was like the Lakers’ side and the Knicks’ side. They would ask me, you know, regular questions and it's like, hey, like, you know, where do you live? Do you have a spouse? Do you have kids? Like, no, no, all these other things. And the other people would ask me like, "What do you think about Dennis Rodman?" Like, "Oh, shoot. Okay. Yeah. What do you think about Trevor Ariza?" And then now looking back, I was like, "Oh, they were comparing me. They were trying to get me to say like, hey, because if I had said I don't really see myself like them, they’re not my style. I don't think I get drafted to the Knicks, because I love those players, you know, they would be like, and Shannon Brown and all these kind of like cats that were saying. I was like, "Oh, okay. I get what they're saying." And then, you know, I ended up getting drafted. One of, you know, one of the happiest moments in my life because I was very very worried. You know, when Giannis got drafted, I was like, "Wow, I got to make it. I got to do something for my family. I got to make sure we're good."
Yossi Gozlan: Dennis Schroeder has now been traded 8 times. He is now tied with multiple players for the second-most times traded in NBA history. Trevor Ariza is the leader with 11 trades.
Q. Without injuries, how far you think y'all would have went like with that Wizards team? John Wall: I think we would have gotten to East Conference finals for sure. We would have made that step. And I think like I was getting to where I was, Bradley Beal was getting to where he was, somebody would have wanted to come play with us. We were missing one piece. Like Trevor Ariza was a great three-man. I think we just needed another like superstar because every team at that time was having three stars. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: I would say just like a mid-level superstar. Like somebody out there to get you 15 20 you know every night.
Jorge Sierra: Shai passed all these players in playoff scoring last night: Derrick White, Bill Cartwright, Boris Diaw, Derek Harper, Kiki Vandeweghe, Phil Chenier, Tobias Harris, Jeff Mullins, Dennis Rodman, Alvan Adams, Bob Love, Trevor Ariza, Zelmo Beaty. He's No. 216 all-time now.
How long did it take for all that to come together, like the team chemistry, all that? Trevor Ariza: It took a Pau Gasol trade. Once Pau got there, it seems like the Lakers just hit a stride and they just didn't look back."
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Trevor Ariza on the best scorer he played with: "James Harden, for sure. He figured out how to score the basketball. He got it. He had it. The shithe was doing was just... it was crazy. Just being on the court, sometimes you kind of fall asleep just watching, bro, like damn, yeah, he really did that (...) It’s kind of like Luka right now."
David Hardisty: Trevor Ariza says the best scorer he ever played with was James Harden with the #Rockets. (Note: Ariza also played with Kobe Bryant 2007-2009) "The sh*t he was doing, it was crazy. Just being on the court, sometimes you'd kind of like fall asleep just watching bro. Like damn, he really did that?" Via @TidalLeague
David Hardisty: Trevor Ariza says the #Rockets would have knocked off Steph Curry, Kevin Durant and the Warriors in 2018 and gone on to win it all with a healthy Chris Paul. "For sure. I mean, yeah... I'm confident that we were going to win if CP was healthy." Via @TidalLeague