I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.

After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up.

Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him

My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.