The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.


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ELIZABETH GILBERT
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a m...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experie...
GILBERT HIGHET
If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.
STEVEN GILBERT
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
GILBERT SELDES
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.
JACK GILBERT
The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.
KEN GILBERT
All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.
GILBERT SELDES
We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic...
GILBERT GEORGE
Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murd...
GILBERT MURRAY
When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the...
GILBERT ARLAND
The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way benea...
GILBERT ADAIR
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideolo...
GILBERT ADAIR
If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my vo...
GILBERT HARDING
We need cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however v...
GILBERT ADAIR
I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complic...
MELISSA GILBERT
I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially intera...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, ri...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED
When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept in...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Pe...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field c...
WALTER GILBERT
A good teacher is a determined person.
GILBERT HIGHET
Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. L...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.
GILBERT BAKER
If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a l...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful...
GILBERT BAKER
I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black gu...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
GILBERT PARKER
A rainbow is something in the sky, so a rainbow flag fits.
GILBERT BAKER
And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me fe...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the...
DANIEL GILBERT
Tomorrow is no man's gift.
GILBERT PARKER
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us,...
GILBERT PARKER
I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would exami...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED
I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument a...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But ...
GILBERT MURRAY
Some of the Park City kids said it was the best pipe of the Intermountain series.
ANDREW GILBERT
He had the run of his life. Smooth and big, with landings that were on the money.
ANDREW GILBERT