We got to lace up our shoes and do the best we can possibly do against four of the greatest players to ever play. If we continue to work hard, play together, come Game 1 we're going to be OK.

Even though we won, our backs are still against the wall, ... Houston has four great players and we know they're not going to quit. We know that.

From beginning to end, they had a lot of energy. They were a lot more hungry than we were. Tonight we needed everybody from our starters to our bench players to give us a lift. I struggled on down to the last person off the bench.

We're a great team, not just one or two players. ... If one goes down, another steps up. We bounce right back. Nothing keeps us down.

It feels great to feel what all the other champions have felt, ... Feeling the pain I felt so many years in Sacramento not being able to get over the hump.

We're always a team that people push aside, but we're the team that finished No. 1 in the West.