If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

Once I get the ball, you're at my mercy. There is nothing you can say or do about it. I own the ball.

Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.

I know what I would do if I were coach. I'd determine our strengths and weaknesses and utilize them. And it's pretty clear what our strength is.

When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.