This is just a critical time for Atlanta Habitat.

I'm assuming we'd survive [without him], but it would be a lot more difficult.

That brings focus to the fact that there is such a need. If folks that are high-profile in sports lend their name and they care, then you should care, too. It's just a wonderful opportunity for us to partner with the Braves to help keep the spotlight on affordable housing needs.

This is one of our larger houses. It will be built -- all the walls, interior and exterior -- today, and then we will take them apart and take them to our warehouse, and then we will reconstruct it on the site of a Katrina victim who is settled here in Atlanta.

He can only play one way and that's all out. He goes 100 percent all the time. I told him four or five times to back off a bit, but that's not his way of playing.

I would hate to have to prepare to play my team. At any time, and one of the five guys on the court can burn you.