Joakim Noah
FameRank: 6

"Joakim Simon Noah" is a professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Born in New York City to a Swedish mother and a French father, he holds American, Swedish and French citizenship. He played college basketball for the University of Florida where he won back-to-back NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament/NCAA championships in 2006 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament/2006 and 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament/2007. The Chicago Bulls selected Noah in the first round (ninth pick overall) in the 2007 NBA Draft. Joakim is a two-time NBA All-Star and won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award in 2014.

More Joakim Noah on Wikipedia.

In games like this, it's all about having fun.

We allowed way too many offensive rebounds. We're a young team and sometimes you have to learn through experience.

There were little things addressed a while ago that we needed to work on, and we didn't do that to the best of our ability. Sometimes when you lose, you learn the hard way.

Corey means everything to this team, but at the same time, we need him to be 100 percent and if that means sitting out a game, then that's what it takes.

That's the thing about this team. Everybody scores pretty equally, and everybody gets after it defensively. We have so many weapons on this team. That makes it hard on the opponent. Who are you going to stop?

It's a different animal. You just have to play with focus and we'll be fine.

It's safe... it's fine. We're the No. 2 team. It was an upset to them; the fans felt like they needed to get on the floor.

When you are on the court sometimes, you just have to pay attention to detail. It is harder, but at the same time, you don't want to learn through a loss. You don't want to, but sometimes you do.

We're in a situation where we lost our best game and we're not sure if we're going to have our best player. We just have to stay hungry and listen to what coach has to say and just seize the moment.