It's the summer and he's got to go into training camp and play and learn the system. He's confident his play will take care of everything else. |
It's unprecedented. The ramifications could go well beyond this particular case. |
Michael wants to have an adequate amount of time to listen to what all the teams have to offer, and then have some time to reflect. I don't anticipate it dragging on very long. |
Our players have a lot of confidence right now. We've been behind a lot, so they know that if they just play together, we can come back. |
She was just talking him down, talking him down. |
The contract will make him the highest-paid athlete in the history of Converse. One of the things attractive about the Converse offer was, in addition to the financial aspect, he is going to be the face of this brand. |
The money was one of the factors he looked at but in the end the most important thing was the opportunity to win a championship and to have a significant role in that. When it came down to those factors, the Spurs were the best fit. |
The only conclusion one can draw while money was a factor, it wasn't the deciding factor for him. It didn't come down to the team that could pay him the most money. |
The substitutions weren't there. I didn't go back to them, and that was a bad call on my part. In the fourth quarter, our players just didn't have the legs because they had been out there for so long. |
There were points in time throughout these negotiations that neither one of us was necessarily confident a deal could get done. I knew the trend. Certainly we've seen some of the shoe companies go to the rap industry to endorse their products. |
This is such a tough district. We let two (district) games slip by us, but our guys never quit. I'm proud of them for never giving up, and we're still hanging in there. |
We came back on them twice this year. We had them in a hole, but we knew they'd come back. We'd make a run, then they'd make a run. We just couldn't make that final push. |
We couldn't get anything going against their zone defense. It's been giving us trouble all year. Coach Bass did a good job keeping them in it. They handled our press well. They rebounded well. |
We couldn't make anything. I'm surprised we were still in it the way we shot the ball. |
We didn't have to in-bound the ball, but we did and got a turnover. Those three's late in the game really hurt us. |