The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

There's a through line that connects all of us.

I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and as a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American, we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well, if we’ve progressed as a society, then you don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself.

I played T-Mac. I cooked him. Roasted him. Wasn't even close.

When you have empathy toward your opponents, it helps you destroy them quicker. Because you understand exactly who they are. You understand what buttons to push. You understand if they're insecure, if they fear embarrassment. And you can really hit those buttons to strike a nerve.

I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it into Chris Mihm & Kwame Brown?