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.

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?

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.

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

I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.

The only thing I care about is winning. That's all. If you don't want to win, you don't want to be around me.