An alternative would be to have a longer teacher work day once a week to accommodate training and communications needs, ... The difference is that teachers would adjust schedules once a week, not students and families. As a result, far fewer are impacted.

The first thing we have to realize is, they're a perimeter team. We have to understand their guards are going to do the majority of the work. We have to take those options away.

The doctors didn't put any limitations on me.

I definitely want to win so I talk a little smack to those guys. I was one of the oldest guys on that team and they kind of looked up to me.

Cleveland, I felt, had an opportunity to take it to the next level. I feel like coming to Cleveland from Washington, Cleveland's basically in the same place Washington is. That really was the deciding factor. I didn't want to go to an organization that was trying to hold things together to just win basketball games. Here, we're putting pieces together so we can advance to the playoffs.

I play defense. That's what I do, and I like doing it. That's tough when you don't get the opportunity to do what you like to do: that's anticipate, beat guys to the spot, get your hands in there, play clean basketball, play good defense.

I realize that the writers and broadcasters are just trying to do their job with the questions they ask. They are just doing their job. I just try to cooperate at all times because that's part of my job also.

If you don't tell your students, they will tell you.

I'm happy that she's going to be included in this activity. She's a high school student, and athletics is part of her education. They were denying her the opportunity.

Their generosity has provided this program with the momentum that it might not otherwise have gotten.