Athletes have the same rights everybody else does. If there is a strength in our democracy, it's that we are encouraged to exercise those rights and speak out and hold people in power in check.
Our country was founded on protest. If it was just shut up and honor your country no matter what, we'd still be flying the Union Jack. That's not what our founding fathers did. They didn't like what was going on, and they broke away and formed their own country.
As NBA coach, people get on you. But politics, maybe even more so at the local level, is nasty on a very personal level. I have a thick skin, but I don't want to deal with it.
I don't think anyone could be the next Dick Vitale. I mean that in a good way. More than an announcer, Dick is an ambassador for the game. Dick is in class by himself. Like what he does or not, what he has done to expand the popularity of college basketball is phenomenal.
I think, look, you have to be aware of the language, and you have to be aware a little bit of your own biases if you're going to overcome them.
The hardest thing to do in this league is to get a proven star. It's just very hard to do. It's hard to do in free agency; it's hard to do in trades. You get very few opportunities to do it.
The best people make mistakes.
I think it inhibits a guy's development when he's simply handed minutes and doesn't have to do anything to earn them, and thus, there's no reason to work harder or change the way you play.
When 'Sports Illustrated' came out with their 50 most fashionable people in sport, that fact that I wasn't on that list is a travesty.
I don't think I'm any different than most coaches, honestly. Maybe Steve Kerr. The guy never loses.
My dad was a basketball coach, and so I went to his games. But baseball was the sport I could enjoy with him, whereas with basketball, I wasn't with him.
I couldn't throw, run, hit, or hit for power.
The biggest thing I learned at Wisconsin was, it's all who you work for, not where you work or what level.
I enjoy the challenge of being a head coach.
I've been very, very fortunate. I don't need to work another day in my life. I have all the security I need.
Sometimes standing up for things that are right makes things tougher.
I'd get rid of it, just get rid of the draft altogether. We'd just deal with the salary cap.
There's no such thing as a longtime Magic coach.
Everybody tries to take a tragedy and turn it to their own political purposes, and it's both sides.
Tom Gores has been involved in the City of Detroit, not just the surrounding area.
