The marketing of players has created untold wealth for many sports stars. You can't blame them or the company that covets the relationship with them, but that doesn't mean the player is good.

The marketing of players has created untold wealth for many sports stars. You can't blame them or the company that covets the relationship with them, but that doesn't mean the player is good.

I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave.

[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.

As a player all you can do is play within yourself, even in the context of a team sport.

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

Personalities seem in many cases to dominate the lucrative endorsement market. But that doesn't upset me. What upsets me is when not enough attention is paid to the product-the game.