He would want us to keep working and continue to finish his job and he wouldn't want a job that he started to go unfinished.

One thing that someone said was, 'There not but for the Grace of God go I.' And it really hit home with us that if it wasn't him, it could have been any one of us.

We were on the front side of the house. And we were just starting to put shingles down on the roof. And then on the back side of the house, Tom was climbing up the ladder and then we just all of a sudden heard somebody fall.

[Lewis' All-Star bonanza got us wondering if Arenas had a similar clause in his contract. After all, he too was a former second-round pick. But unlike Lewis, Arenas signed a contract with the Wizards in '03 that used up all of Washington's available salary cap space at the time. NBA rules don't allow teams to add incentive clauses that exceed the available cap space.] In Gilbert's case we negotiated a contract where the Wizards used all their available salary cap room to sign [him] to guaranteed salary, ... As a result no bonuses were available.

Chucky hit those four 3s in a row to get us back in the game, ... We would never have been in the game if Chucky didn't step up.

They said, 'Really? And you beat us?' So that was really gratifying.