I want to be there for my daughter - when she falls, to pick her up. When she needs help with homework.
A lot of people don't know this: when I was young, I wanted to be a garbage man. I asked my mom, and she said they made good money, and it was steady work.
I've been talking basketball pretty much my whole life.
I am a confident player, and a lot of people might look at it like, 'Oh, another cocky attitude,' but I don't look at it that way.
I have an opinion. I have a right to have one, and that's the way I feel.
I don't have to use anything to motivate me, a trade or anything like that, for me to say I want to win a championship.
I want to be that guy that says I was one of the first guys to put a banner in Brooklyn.
When you go against the best... a lot of series are won on fear factor or the non-belief. When you have that non-belief, then you have no chance.
The whole business of basketball with China, it's just a huge business that enables us to come over and connect with them and continue that fan affair.
I'm the classic case of a great player on a bad team, and it stinks.
I give my honest opinion, whether it's right or wrong, but it's an opinion that I'll make.
Everybody is entitled to an honest opinion.
When you've been around the game so much for so many years, it's just like it's a part of you.
