We've got to get our fans back. We've got to start winning and get our fans excited about the 76ers again... We're selling hope. This is about hope. We have hope that we have a chance to be good.

With all my fans I got a family again.

We're talking about being relevant again. I want the Sixers to be on people's tongues again... I want the Sixers to be the basketball team that people want to see.

I'm excited, ... It's a fresh start. I need to make some good impressions and get back to where I once was. I'm not getting caught up in who's (in San Diego) and who's not there. I'm just getting a fresh start and a chance to rebuild.

A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.

I'm also excited about winning my first title here
in my hometown in front of the Charlotte fans, ... I'm
going to win it and go off next year and become the real heavyweight champion
of the world.