To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

I would never, ever intentionally hurt a player contractually.

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

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

When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?

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

You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have to rely on your instincts to find people who hate losing and know how to win.