We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.

Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?

My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.