It takes the total aggressiveness out of the game. It's not my fault that an opposing player isn't as strong as me.

Besides being emotional, he's just that good where as an opposing player competing, you want to step up your game. And to add on the rivalry and all the other things that are involved, it becomes almost too intense.

The Bible says the body is a temple, so I guess it's desecrating the temple. Technically, it's a sin. ... But I've got other sins that I worry about and I'm trying to work on.

The ultimate goal is to stay (in the NBA). I'm quite confident that I would have had I been given a chance.

I'm just trying to do the most I can with the time that I have. Hopefully the minutes will grow with production. ... I'm going to take advantage of this situation.

It would have been better had we won the game but it was not his fault we lost. I am very happy with him,