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

You can't imagine how much good luck is involved in winning, but all of a sudden, you get in a situation where every break goes your way, every call goes your way, every ball that rolls around drops in instead of out. It feels magical.

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.

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.

Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.

The passion to win games, the incredible, focused energy and also the camaraderie of the team were all things that I really loved.