"I'd like my wife and kids to be able to see me coach, you know? How's the whole thing working, anyway?" – Lakers coach Mike Brown, on not being sure if his family can watch Lakers games at their home after the team's switch to Time Warner Cable SportsNet (ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 10/16).
"I've had a lot of people say to me, 'I have no reason to blow smoke at you ... I've never had an experience that equaled my first Timbers game'" – MLS Timbers Owner Merritt Paulson, on the atmosphere at Jeld-Wen Field (STATESMANJOURNAL.com, 10/15).
"It was absolutely fantastic. I couldn't help but smile a lot of the time. The fans brought so much energy, the arena was alive the whole time and they made it fun for us to be out there playing” – Nets C Brook Lopez, on Barclays Center during last night's preseason game against the Wizards, the first NBA game at the Brooklyn arena (BLOOMBERG NEWS, 10/16).
“They’re just going to be excited to have a team. I don’t think that there’s this great expectation of an NBA championship” – Sportsnet N.Y.’s Peter Schrager, on whether the Nets fans are expecting big things from the team their first year in Brooklyn (“The WheelHouse,” SportsNet N.Y., 10/15).
