Believe me, I am not even that brave enough to miss that many practices.

Being an All-Star is everything.

People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me.

It's unfair because the people booing, I believe, wouldn't want to have their child booed. Fans don't understand our lives and what we go through. They don't look at us as humans. We love the fans because they support and love the game, but at the same time it hurts when they turn their back on us.

My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.

My whole thing is, if you love me, then love me. If you don't, then believe what you hear and run with that.

I'm not pointing fingers at anybody, but as a group we're not playing hard enough to win basketball games. We don't seem hungry. We don't seem like we want to make it to the playoffs.

I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from.

I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.