As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

[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 would never, ever intentionally hurt a player contractually.

I was disappointed if I didn't have a chance to win a game, and if I had the chance and didn't do it.

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

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

The trick in writing children's books is to set up danger, mystery and excitement on page one. Force the kid to turn the page . . . Then in the middle of each chapter there's a dramatic point of excitement, and at chapter's end, a cliffhanger.