Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

It's superb, definitely. Something that is new to me, that is shocking. I got the news last night about 3 in the morning, and I don't think I even went back to bed.

The mailman doesn't deliver on Sundays.

I know sometimes I need to be more like M.J., but M.J. also needs to be more like me. He needs to be the player he is with more my mentality.

Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role

It's going to be great. A lot of the players are coming. I wasn't here when they put (Jackson) up in the rafters. But to have him here as my number goes up, it brings back a lot of great memories.