[Not since the Class of '92 -- led by Shaq , Alonzo Mourning and Christian Laettner -- has the NBA welcomed a more-anticipated trio than this. Some even go back further, to a day when this year's group wasn't even born.] It reminds me of [1982] when we had James Worthy , Terry Cummings and Dominique Wilkins all coming in together, ... I think that bodes very well. |
After we successfully concluded our last collective bargaining agreement in June, and with six years remaining on that agreement and three years left on our television contracts, I felt the time was right for me to get off the treadmill for a while, |
David and I have had quite a run at the NBA. |
Even if the arena is operable, it still may be impossible to play games in New Orleans for some time, |
Even if the arena is operable, it still may be impossible to play games in New Orleans for some time. |
Even if the Arena is operable, it still may be impossible to play games in New Orleans for some time. The team and the league are exploring alternate sites for holding training camp and home exhibition games, if necessary. |
I decided I wanted to take it a bit easier for a while and then see what I want to do. There are a couple of things in sports that would be of great interest to me. Announcing it this way gives me the time to think about what might make sense. |
I don't have any reason to be optimistic here. |
I don't plan to do a tour of arenas and get rocking chairs, |
I felt the time was right for me to get off the treadmill for a while, |
I felt the time was right for me to get off the treadmill for a while. I greatly appreciate all the opportunities David and the NBA owners have afforded me for personal accomplishment in this job. |
I know that both of them are ultimately worthy. |
I think our view has always been we expect teams to try and win games, and if a player is not injured, you are supposed to play him. And from everything I have heard, these players are legitimately hurt. I think we ought to look at whether and how we allow trades to be made in the future. That is really the issue. But I don't think we have any particular problem with Minnesota right now. But it may be the same reason we have a lottery now is to give teams that don't win games a better percentage in the lottery. |
I think that one problem is ? and we really haven't looked at this seriously ? is where you draw the line. I think lottery protection ? I don't think it's one that's too serious because I think teams want to be in the playoffs, not the lottery. When you draw the line in other places, that's where a fan or a journalist could say what's the difference whether they're between 10th or 11th or 20th or 21st? And I think we just have to look at how that works, but I don't think we'd be limiting lottery protection entirely, we may just be limiting some type of protection. |
I think the league has never been on a more firm foundation. |