New York Knicks center DeAndre Jordan is in the midst of his 11th NBA season, so you wouldn't be blamed for feeling like he has been around for a while. But ask the Knicks center what it feels like to still be producing at his “advanced” age of 30, and he'll have a response ready for you, per Marc Berman of the New York Post:

“People think you’re 30 and think you’re old. I hate that. When I do something athletic, they’re like, ‘Oh my god, he’s so athletic and especially because he’s so old.’ I’ll take that.”

Jordan, who has logged over 800 NBA contests, is old only in the sense of experience. Then again, comping him to his younger protege, the 20-year-old Mitchell Robinson, whom the Knicks selected in the second round of the 2018 NBA Draft, Jordan could be deemed prehistoric.

Despite that, it's his 11th year in the league and he's still atop the leaderboard in field goal percentage despite a midseason trade. After 10 seasons with the Los Angeles Clippers, Jordan hit the free-agent market this past summer and inked a one-year deal with a rebuilding Dallas Mavericks club, who then moved him to New York. After three All-NBA selections, leading the league in rebounding twice and leading the league in field goal percentage in six of the last seven seasons, Jordan has suddenly gotten “old.”

How the league perceives Jordan will be on full display this summer during contract negotiations. He's likely to finish out the final weeks of the season with New York, missing the playoffs for the second straight year. Maybe that lack of additional strain on his body during the summer will keep teams from thinking of him as old.