Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA.
If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on another team, and now he's 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid.
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
I learned at an early stage that the most important thing I could do for my players was to give them the tools necessary to beat their opponent.
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
I don't intend to retire.
When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.
From my mother to people that I've known in my lifetime, they've tried to settle me down a little bit. Now I'm trying to do the same thing to my man Trump.
I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
