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Gillis felt as though the seas would part whenever he walked past fans. Former Spurs player Sean Elliott shook his hand. And at halftime, tennis great Roger Federer even approached Gillis as he walked into the tunnel alongside Warriors owner Joe Lacob. "Roger looks at me and says, 'Let's take a picture,'' Gillis said. "He takes three selfies with me. And then he pats me on the shoulder and says, 'Thanks.' ...The fact that he was so gracious and nice about it, I'm thinking, 'I wonder if he knew I wasn't Steve Kerr?'"

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Vivek Jacob: Roger Federer, Steve Nash, and Dirk Nowitzki had a nice tennis session in Vancouver pic.twitter.com/bdV5caCxQN

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The difference at the time, McAdoo said, was the notion then that by their mid-30s athletes were aging out of their prime. Indeed, no less than Pele, at 35, went from the heights of his career with Santos in Brazil to the nascent North American Soccer League in 1975 and New York Cosmos. “We’re 30 years later, and the thinking has changed,” McAdoo said. “No one is looking at Messi as being too old. You look at LeBron [James, at 37], and he’s showing you can be productive at that age. Tennis players, [Roger] Federer and Serena [Williams] are 41 and they still can play. That wasn’t the attitude 30 years ago.”

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Tennis icon Roger Federer was in New York on Sunday as he watched the Brooklyn Nets and Boston Celtics game from Barclays Center. Federer, who recently retired from pro tennis, had a chance to see some of the best basketball players in the world in live action as the Nets and Celtics are one of the best teams in the NBA.

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When Federer was introduced on the jumbotron, the Brooklyn crowd gave him a standing ovation and a very warm welcome.

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Clutch Points: LeBron James on IG reacts to this Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal moment 🥹 pic.twitter.com/GaGtTxyHHC

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Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr says he sees many similarities in the day-to-day routines of Steph Curry & Roger Federer. (Via House of Highlights): “Just the consistency of his routine, it’s like a metronome. Every day, it’s the exact same thing. He’s in the training room, he’s in the weight room, he’s on the court. It’s clockwork. But there’s also a sense of joy and energy within that work. He enjoys it so much. He loves the process. I think that’s one of the things that ties all great athletes together, like talking about the superstar athletes, the Roger Federers of the world, the Steph Currys of the world. There’s a routine that not only is super-disciplined but it’s really enjoyed each day. There’s a passion that comes with it, and that’s what sustains it over time. When you love something like those guys do, you work at it, you get better and you just keep going.

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“I might have told you this before, but we actually met Federer a few years ago in China when we played in Shanghai. He came and spoke to our locker room, and Draymond asked him, he said, ‘How have you been doing this for 20 years?’ And his answer was just simple, yet profound. He said, ‘I love my daily ritual.’ He said, ‘I get up, make my kids breakfast, drop them off at school, go train and I’ve figured out the right training methods to keep me in the best position at my age. I love competing.’ He said, “But every single day, I put my head on the pillow at the end of the day and think, man, what a great day.’ So I think of Steph a lot when I think of that story from Roger Federer. Very, very similar, just sort of zest for life and just joy for the process.”

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His closest comps among active players are Kevin Durant ($580 million in career earnings) and Stephen Curry ($430 million). The only other athletes to earn $1 billion while still active are Tiger Woods, Floyd Mayweather, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Roger Federer.

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Ask the Raptors, though, and they won't tell you that they are surprised about their success, despite the loss of Leonard or the amount of games they've been forced to play without their full complement of talent. Instead, they chalk it up to the symbiotic nature of their group. "The strength of the team, the beauty of basketball, [is that] this is not tennis," Gasol said. "We're not talking about Rafa Nadal or [Novak] Djokovic or Roger Federer -- or [Canadian Milos] Raonic. We're talking about basketball. It's a team sport. It's how well you work as a team. It's a team effort. It always will be. Doesn't matter how much we try to singularize the game."

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Roger Federer topped the 2020 Forbes magazine list of highest-paid global athletes announced Friday, leading the lineup for the first time with pre-tax earnings of $106.3 million (95.5 million euros).

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Around noon on Thursday, Parker, who grew up in France, confirmed that playing basketball isn’t a regular part of his current physical fitness regimen. Instead, he plays tennis at least three times a week. “I can definitely play. I can hit the ball and stuff like that, because I’ve been playing every vacation,” said Parker, who cited Roger Federer as his favorite tennis player because he plays the game “so smooth,” a phrase he suggested describes how he played hoops. He added: “Every summer, I don’t play basketball. I’ll play different sports, especially tennis and volleyball.”

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ESPN: "Who he reminds me of actually is Steph Curry ... He's just cool. Just like Steph." —Steve Kerr on Roger Federer at the US Open

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Marc Stein: Sources say Warriors coach Steve Kerr scored tickets to see his buddy Roger Federer in person tonight at the @usopen … Federer and the Warriors crossed paths in China last October

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