Brian Cook
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"Brian Joshua Cook" is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut/Al-Riyadi of the Lebanese Basketball League. He was drafted out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/University of Illinois with the 24th overall pick in the 2003 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Lakers.

In 2004, Cook was named to the Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball#All-Century Team/University of Illinois All-Century Team.

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I'm happy Phil is back. I'm very happy about it. He really doesn't play rookies but I'm not a rookie anymore. I'm very excited about coming back and they're very excited about me in the triangle offense.

He's probably our only player who is good enough to handle that position. He's a bull.

He was supposed to wear my (college) jersey during warmups. I couldn't find one. I made him wear a bright orange Illinois T-shirt.

It wasn't our regular on-side kick, ... I don't know if Brady (Trujillo) just hit it wrong or what.

The next year is a big year for me. I'll just work hard, play my hardest and see what happens.

I hope they do, but if they don't it's not going to be the end of the world because I'll be able to opt out and be a free agent and go somewhere where I'm a good fit.

They're excited about me coming back this year.

It was a pretty emotional shot, ... It looked like we kind of celebrated a little too early.

We'd prefer to have a seven-day break, but there's not much you can do about it.