If you go 72-11 and don't win (the championship), it doesn't mean anything. Actually it does. It means you've cheated and played an extra regular-season game.

Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality.

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.

How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento... he's on the team. I ain't going.

But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.

I'd heard stuff from out there that I was just another player, that I was too young. I wanted to show I could play with anybody.