I don't really get involved in it, the whole thing. I understand how important this city is and what I mean to this city and what our team means to the city... but I don't get caught up into it. I just go out and play my game. I try to lead the best way I can, and if I can put my team and this franchise in a position to win the title, I'm grateful for that.

I'm very, very confident in my ability to see the game - even before it's played.

There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.

When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightaway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.