They won't choose Joakim Noah as the MVP, but I think it's great that he's in the conversation and he should be. But it's just not the way it works, from my experience. It's got to go in the basket for you guys to pay attention to somebody. But he's pretty damn valuable in my opinion.

I asked them if it wasn't too much trouble, if I wasn't being too pushy, if they could execute what we were trying to do. And if it didn't make them too angry, if they also wanted to play some defense on the other end, that would be great.

We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually

The older you get the more you try to appreciate what you've accomplished.

No one is bigger than the team. If you can't do things our way, you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are

Basketball's a game of mistakes.

The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.