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The 18 years on TNT has prepared me for a lot of opportunities, and coaching is one of them.

Coaching is definitely on the aspiration list.

NCAA is looking at how to do a better job enforcing their rules instead of looking at why the predatorial environment is created. There's a predatorial environment that their rules have created, which makes people feel undervalued.

There's no representation. That's why the NBA Players Association was formed, players' unions were formed. That's why those unions were formed - to have representation before you make rules for me that I have to abide by. How can I participate and how can it be fair if there's no representation?

You can have your own thought process about things, but you still need to include and co-exist with other people.

As African Americans, we always have to fight for inclusion, despite your moral background: Christian, Muslim, Jewish - it doesn't matter.

I think, for me, one of the things I've been blessed with is the ability to speak with clarity.

When you play, you get an opportunity to hone your craft.

If you put 100 people on an island with no food, no water, no hope of a ship coming, then some will overcome it and be resourceful, some will live in it, others will panic, and others will show horrific character, which is wrong. But not to understand that all alternatives are possible is wrong as well.

Mike Brown wasn't about race relations, nor Trayvon Martin or even Hurricane Katrina for that matter. It's about trust.

I started playing basketball when I was 6 or 7. I wasn't strong enough to shoot the correct way, so I just used two hands. As I got older, I just kept shooting that way.

My high school coach used to tell me there's no correct way to shoot, that the only correct way was to get the ball into the basket.

If you practice anything enough, you can be consistent.

You don't get the accolades unless you win. It took me a while to understand. No one will remember how Kenny Smith played in Game 1 unless we win the series. The thrill is in winning.

From the outside looking in, I would say the franchise that has had the most stories that are unrelated to basketball are the Knicks.

In Texas, it's football. In Georgia, football. There's an appreciation from the average person about football more than anywhere else. And we have that for basketball in New York. And we'll always have that in New York.

I always thought it's not that the greatest players in the world come from New York. It's just the guys who shouldn't have made it, they came from New York. That's what makes New York special.

Mark Jackson played 19, 20 years in the NBA. Shouldn't even have probably been in the league, and he's the third-ranked assist guy in the NBA. But you describe his game: Can he jump? No, not really. How's his outside shot? Eh, it's inconsistent. Can he defend? Nah, he can't stay in front of guys. And he played 19 years!

We all want to let fans behind the scenes. We just don't want them following us around.

Image overshadows reality in our league, and there are people who get to believe they are better than they really are.

This league has great players, and it has great images. Sometimes those two things get confused.

I'm not a boxer, I'm a basketball player.

I don't know about bullying and all of that stuff. That doesn't work in basketball.

By the time I turned 16, I'd played more than 300 games outside high school.

I've played more park games than NBA games, and I had a 10-year NBA career.

Dunk, and people anywhere will ooh and aah. But you can wow a crowd in New York with ball handling and passing.

You make decisions just crossing the street.

Great players, they start becoming immune to what the defense does to them.

What made it so special was the city of Houston had never won a sports championship. I think the championship changed people's thinking about their own city. It made them feel like their city had some significance that it hadn't had before.

Any guard would love playing with a great big man, one who rebounds, blocks shots, and scores.

My situation in Houston is like night and day compared to Atlanta. This system fits my game, and the team has confidence in me to get the job done.

You do the job you have to do where you have to do it.

Timing is everything in this league, and I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. But I never lost my confidence. Atlanta was changing coaches and systems. I knew they'd make personnel changes.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

It's difficult to see my daughters on television and in music videos, and then I get tweets or comments about crushes and, 'Hey can I date? And hey, I'd be a good son-in-law type.'

I was overwhelmed meeting him. I didn't know what to say, I didn't know whether to call him 'Coach Russell,' 'Bill,' or 'Mr. Russell.'

Something that my teammates always thought was going to be a punishment for me - sitting next to Coach Russell on the team bus - actually turned out to be the best moment of my life.

One thing is a pro is supposed to make certain plays, while a college player is learning to make plays.

One thing about being a great ball handler is not looking at the basketball.

I like to dribble to Queen's 'Another One Bites the Dust.'

You can dribble on carpet. I grew up in Queens, and we had carpet in our living room. And actually, even in some of these gymnasiums where we're playing the game, we're on carpet. If you're 12 or 13 years old, you've dribbled on the carpet in your mom's house.

Games like 'Call of Duty' and 'NBA Baller Beats' have so much to them. I was more of the 'Pac-Man' generation where we were excited to play table tennis on the TV.

We win together as a team, and we lose together as a team.

When someone is in 'the struggle,' which many of our black communities are in, they are living with a lack of educational facilities, high unemployment, and poor recreational facilities.

I'm blessed that I'm able to provide the vehicle for my daughter to follow her dreams.

There are a lot more famous fathers out there than me with daughters who wouldn't mind singing careers... but the talent and the work ethic have to be on point. Kayla's blessed to have all that.

The one thing about college basketball is you don't have to have the best player to win.

A few years, there are teams that are just dominant over everyone. Those years are few and far.

You like to be part of a championship, but you always want to be an integral part.

I shoot too many shots in the summer to worry about my shooting.

I'm not from New Orleans, never knew anything about New Orleans.

I want people to know that it's all right to come back to New Orleans. You can drink the water. The only way that the city can come back is if you come back. Tourism is a big part of it.

You really don't believe that winning at home or winning on the road makes a difference. The Lakers have that mind-set. They don't look at it as 'We're at home, we're on the road.'

What it takes to win on the road, it's all mental focus. You have to believe that you can win.

If I've surprised others, I haven't surprised myself with the way I've played.

The important thing is to be around people who will make you a better player. Otherwise, you can remain average.

That's all my brother and I do, talk basketball, and I'd like to think I bring some of that casual quality with me on the air.

The expectation levels aren't as high because a team is expected to win on its home court. That takes a little of the pressure off us on the road.

In our league, 20 points in the first half isn't anything.

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