He's obviously been dealing with some issues and his way of handling it was to remove himself from the scene.

It's much better to be open and transparent about it. These are obviously issues that all agencies are dealing with and it's much better that we are open about them and confront them head on, that we spot them early on and take action early on, rather than try and do any kind of cover up.

It's tiresome after a while. The issues have been addressed. ... The league's handling it. The investigation is ongoing. I don't know what happened. ... I trust that what Wayne said is absolutely correct: that he wasn't involved.

You're dealing with Eddie, who is a little quicker than Diesel. Obviously, we know he's not as powerful. We just told Eddie to play him as best he could and contest (shots). We were just helping when we could. Shaq took advantage of it at times, but for the most part we kept him in front, made him miss shots, and then drove the ball to the basket to try to get some fouls on him.

He was just wound as tight as a clock. He was under tremendous pressure, but obviously handling it, and not just handling it, doing well.

You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.