I can shoot turnarounds from almost halfcourt.

I better make the All-Star team, and I better start.

My personal goal was to get back to my true form, and my true form is an All-Star player.

There's no place like New York. There's nothing like the New York fans.

If I have to score baskets then I have to try to score baskets and stop missing shots, but even if it's not going, I need to be able to have another phase of the game and not let my offense take away from my defense or rebounds.

Offense is one phase of the game. You have to be able to play the other phases of the game and help your team win.

I definitely don't look at myself as a 3-point shooter, but when we're playing three big guys, I find myself on the perimeter a lot, and they leave me alone. I've got to knock it down or do something with it.

What I hate more than sitting out is being on the floor and not being 100 percent. You know you can make this move, or guard this guy better, but something is hampering you from doing it, and in the NBA. finals I hate that more than sitting out.

I'm not that big of a celebrity.

Pippen's best play is to get the ball to No. 23.

Once your back's up against the wall and you've been beat down, you start looking at trying to do the right thing.

I was a bad person. I needed to change. I wasn't bringing anything into my life, but negative. I needed to bring some positive and to do that I've got to start within.

I just don't want my offense to carry over to my defense. I want to help the team win and be a team player.

But when a black player calls a white owner a slave master that's dangerous. It's one thing to say an owner is a good owner or a bad owner, but you have to be careful when you bring race into it.

I think we sometimes think, 'it is just preseason. These games are for the fans mostly.' It's for ourselves to get in shape and play against more competition. Let's face it, this is preseason, but you can develop bad habits during preseason.

Guys don't know it - it is New York. It's different from playing in other states. Playing here in New York is different. No way you get around it.

If I'm hurting the team with my play, then maybe I have to sit out a game. If I think I can be effective knowing what I can and can't do, I'll keep going at it.

If it's a nationally televised game in the past, and I've been scoring 6, 7 and 8 points, I feel like I had a bad game in my mind.

Maybe I'm a little biased, but I thought I could always play defense.

I know that nothing is going to be given to me.

In Vegas we thrived on being the hated team, on being the bad boys. That's definitely not my personality. If that helps my team, helps me play better, then so be it.

You got to take everything negative and turn it into a positive. That's always worked for me.

To become this N.B.A. player was fun; it just got to be work when I got here.

After a basketball game, you're gonna be physically tired, but more mentally. Playoff time comes around, you have it all in your head.