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"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 so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason."
"Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won't let me be selfish."
"I love sharing the ball with my teammates. I see a lot of things before my teammates see them."
"I'm not promising a championship. I know how hard that is to deliver. We're not ready right now."
"My game is really played above time. I don't say that like I'm saying I'm ahead of my time. I'm saying, like, if I'm on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I've thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that's the right place to go to."
"Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't."
"There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much."
"I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game."
"I will have no problem coming to practice on time. The locker room is great, but we have to prove ourselves on the court."
"I'm a winner...I'm a competitor. That's what I do. It doesn't make sense for me to go over and shake somebody's hand."
"Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason."
"The letter from Dan Gilbert, the booing of the Cleveland fans, the jerseys being burned -- seeing all that was hard for them. My emotions were more mixed. It was easy to say, 'OK, I don't want to deal with these people ever again.' But then you think about the other side. What if I were a kid who looked up to an athlete, and that athlete made me want to do better in my own life, and then he left? How would I react? I've met with Dan, face-to-face, man-to-man. We've talked it out. Everybody makes mistakes. I've made mistakes as well. Who am I to hold a grudge?"
"Tonight we had our chances but we ran out of talent."
"That team across the way, you tip your hat to them. They did a great job. It showed in these Finals."
"It's a lot of talent sitting in suits."
"I've been watching basketball for a long time, I'm a historian of the game. I don't know any other team that's gotten to the Finals without two All-Stars... I cannot remember thinking of it. I don't even know if it's ever happened, for a team to lose two All-Stars and still be able to make it to the Finals."
"Well, of course you question it, especially when you get to this point. I always look at it would I rather not make the playoffs or lose in The Finals? I don't know. I don't know. I've missed the playoffs twice. I lost in The Finals four times. I'm almost starting to be like I'd rather not even make the playoffs than to lose in The Finals. It would hurt a lot easier if I just didn't make the playoffs and I didn't have a shot at it."
"But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man."