Remember, Team, surrender the me for the we.

I won't coach this team next year if he is still here. He won't listen to anyone. I've had it with this kid.

Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.

He practiced against Kobe all of last year, so obviously it was sweet revenge for him. We deserved that. We didn't know who he was, we gave him up to Charlotte, we had no idea how good a player he was.

There's a term, agape, you hear used a lot with charismatic religious groups, that it's this more pure love of caring, of sharing of concern and understanding. I think players and teams have to come to that at some point in the season to become successful. Maybe not "personal friends," but they become teammates at the highest level of that term.

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.