Steve is prepared to give them leadership. I truly believe this will make Steve a better player and the Magic a more uniform team.

It's more than likely there will be leadership elections in January. We don't want to go into an election year without a permanent majority leader.

We went as he went last year offensively. We will rely on his leadership and experience in the offensive end to get everybody going.

The magic hadn't happened and we needed to move on.

The conversations that we have with Chris [are] mainly on the preparation of his game. At this stage to start talking about long-term deals and dollars is premature. He needs a season to finish, then we'll see where we're at.

I think he'll (remain) here. I'm pretty confident about that.