With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season.

You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.

Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.

Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.