It's a humbling experience for me to be in this position.

I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.

The best thing that ever happened to me was losing last year in the Finals. I had to change.

We played well all the way until, like, the second quarter.

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'

I don't want to be Kobe, I want to be LeBron.

If I didn't believe in this team and this organization and the direction that we're headed, I wouldn't have signed the extension.