Know that I’m better solo. I invented solo.
Teams make it tough on us, we make it tough on them. When you have two well coached teams that wanna win, it’s going to be a competitive game.
To be honest, the play that was drawn up, I scratched it. I just told coach, ‘Give me the ball.’ We’re either going to go to overtime or I’m going to win it for us. It was that simple.
I’ve sort of gotten into the habit of looking for the vulnerable guy, the guy who makes mistakes, the guy who can’t figure things out all the time but keeps at it.
I spoil a lot of people with my play. If you have three bad games in a seven-year career, people are going to point that out.
It’s a lot of talent sitting in suits.
You lose in the Finals, they’re all disappointing. Doesn’t matter if I’m playing in Miami, Cleveland or on Mars. You lose the Finals, it’s disappointing.
These fans here are unbelievable. They showed up and showed out tonight. We needed every little bit of it.
I’ve given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they’re ready.
I’ve put our guys in position. I gave them the blueprint. I think they’re ready.
It all depends on how you want to define what an MVP is. I’ve been fortunate to win the trophy four times, but I’ve been the MVP of my team for a long time – just because of the way I lead and the way I approach us being professionals off the floor.
I might play in shorts, but I wear the pants.
I was supposed to take the ball out. I told coach there’s no way I’m taking the ball out, unless I can shoot it over the backboard and it goes in. I told him, ‘Have somebody else take the ball out, give me the ball, and everybody get out of the way.’
If they are the league ain’t doing a good job of it.
It would be easier if I didn’t even make the playoffs, it would hurt less. But then I start thinking about how much fun it is.
We ran out of talent tonight. The guys played as hard as they could, as long as we could.
If I could have gave more, I would have done it. I gave everything I had.
The best teacher in life is experience.
I can’t play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn’t make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.
We lost one, we won two and we lost another one. We’ll take 50 percent in four years in championships any day. Obviously, we want to win all of them, but that’s just the nature of the game. Not proud of the way we played in this series.