To answer that question honestly, I’d have to lie to you.

It was important to me to believe, because if I don’t believe, how can I expect them to believe?

Basketball is not played simply with X’s and O’s. It’s played with both trust and confidence.

Basketball is not played simply with X's and O's. It's played with both trust and confidence.

To answer that question honestly, I'd have to lie to you.

I do envision championship basketball and when you talk about championship basketball, you talk about a good defensive team, you talk about a good offensive team and you talk about a team that really has its act together once they step on the floor. Our goal is to dominate the east and we must continue to dominate the east so that we can have another return to the NBA Finals. And I think mentally we have to become a tougher basketball team. I think mental toughness is going to be the thing that makes us champions.

He's meant so much to all of us, even the people who didn't play for him. But the people who lived in Chicago, who walked the communities, looked for food or looked for a warm place to say, he was always there for you.

I don't think there's another player who would have done that. We've all been blessed to have known him as a player, and we're all extremely fortunate to know him as a man.

I don't think that we will be actively out shopping, trying to make a deal or anything like that. I think it's pretty safe to say we're happy and comfortable with where we are, but if there's an opportunity to improve our team, I definitely will look at it. Coach and I will talk about it and if it makes sense, we'll do it.

He's really working hard. He believes one day that he'll get back to his original form, and we want to give him every opportunity to do that.