I am very proud to be featured, especially when you consider the outstanding champions who have had this honor. It is great company to be in.

As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.

Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them.

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.