When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is

A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.

The great thing about basketball is you work as hard as you can to individually get better so that your team can win

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

We've got to get our fans back. We've got to start winning and get our fans excited about the 76ers again... We're selling hope. This is about hope. We have hope that we have a chance to be good.

I remember when I went to try out for the Olympic team in 1972, Coach Iba told me he didn't care how many points I could score because if I couldn't guard anybody, I wasn't going to make the team. I knew to make the team I had to become a better defender. If you can play offense, you can defend. It just comes down to competitive will.

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win