44 Quotes by John Paxson

We are working on a way to resolve it. My only issue is I don't want Tim to go to a direct competitor with us -- someone we're chasing, whatever.

We are trying to get better and we are trying to do it the right way without making some crazy mistakes that other teams have made and have really become difficult to recover from.

We're very happy that we have come to terms with Tyson and that he will remain a member of the Chicago Bulls, ... Tyson's play last season was an important factor to our success and we hope to take the next step forward with Tyson being a major contributor to our team.

Everybody tried to make this an ethical employer-employee issue, which we never thought about. We wanted to do everything we possibly could to safely put him back on the floor. We were never allowed to do that.

At some point, I think everybody has to accept the fact we're in this business to get to the playoffs, ... It's important we put expectations on these guys because there hasn't been any real urgency to start the season the last five years.

I've been talking to a lot of teams. But there are a lot of people in the same boat: Is there something they can do that helps but maybe strap them for the future? Hopefully there is something in the next week that we can do that can make us better. But if there's not, there's not.

The bottom line, ... is if Eddy had not had any incident and a doctor hadn't suggested it, we wouldn't be asking for it.

That's when teams try to make over their roster more than any other time.

This is his time. He's four years into the league, and now he has a chance to prove it.