When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

The business always gets in the way of basketball.

The 76ers currently play very good basketball, and we don't. However, we are still only one win behind them. If we continue to improve, we should be on the top of our division at the end of the regular season.

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

Good teams beat you with speed. Great teams beat you with spacing and timing.