The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.
The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.
If these are the last 34 games of my NBA career, I want them played as tough as I can.
I never had a doubt that I would make it to the NBA, even when I wasn't playing.
Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.
I've followed the NBA religiously since I was a kid, and now because of my boy Tony Parker, I'm a huge Spurs fan.
I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.
An NBA game in L.A., the Lakers - I'm a Clipper fan - it's to be seen as much as seeing the game.
I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.
I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.
I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.
I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.
I'm a huge NBA fan and watch many games each year. Following any sport is kind of bringing us back to our tribal roots.
The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.
I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.
I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.
I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.
I'm impressed with how the NBA, as a whole, is dressing so well. Guys are being very creative and having fun with it.
So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.
The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.
