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In the NBA, it's about patience.
Everybody has their own desires.
If it ain't rough, it ain't right
I play harder when my family is watching.
There is a good and a bad way to handle everything.
I love my life. I love this ESPN thing; it's been fun.
When I signed back with Detroit, I signed to retire a Piston.
That's kind of been my entire career, the stress and pressure.
This is a tough, tough life when things aren't going your way.
I've accomplished everything I tried to accomplish in basketball.
I'm thinking about being the best I can be at ESPN in the studio.
Nobody loses gracefully and easily, but there is a way to go about it.
I think the most important position in the league now is the point guard.
I drive a Range Rover almost every day, but my favorite is my '69 SS Camaro.
I'm never nervous. Not in high school, not in college. That's just the way I am.
I'm fully aware that every time I do anything, good or bad, somebody's watching.
It's all about guts. I've had so many ups and downs, I'm not scared of being down.
In any rebuilding process, I feel like there's probably going to be two or three coaches.
I can remember me and my cousin always fighting. He was a big Bulls and Michael Jordan guy.
I get a lot more confidence winning games playing defense than winning the run-and-gun game.
I don't want to be fired after two seasons and risk never getting another opportunity to coach.
I'm obviously not a politician, nor do I have the desire to be one, but I'm a conscious citizen.
Even when it's midnight, people are watching you. It's difficult to be in the spotlight all the time.
I can do a lot more by shooting from outside, score inside, penetrate, and make opportunities for others.
Magic was always my favorite. I think Jordan was the best player ever, but Magic was my personal favorite.
Anytime you can grace the cover of any videogame, that means that you're on that level. That you're one of the best.
A lot of time, you play well and you do good work, but you are not on a good team, so it really doesn't mean anything.
It wasn't that I knew Kyrie wanted to be traded or not, or him and LeBron had a beef. I don't know any of those things.
I got 'Smooth' when I was growing up. I got 'Bigshot' playing in Detroit. People who know me from Denver call me 'Smooth.'
Not that I shouldn't have been traded - everyone gets traded at some point. But the way that it went down wasn't justifiable.
As I have conveyed before, ultimately I would like to lead a team's basketball operation and be a part of a successful franchise.
My wife cooks, I clean. Then I go to practice, come home, and take a two hour nap. I wake up, shave my head, then it's time to ball.
I'm the kind of guy who has to be two feet in if I am going to give my best effort, so broadcasting is something I'm looking at long-term.
I have great respect for Dan Gilbert and the Cleveland Cavaliers, and I greatly appreciate the discussions we had regarding their organization.
Quite frankly, Minnesota was where my career kind of turned around, and it all had to do with Flip Saunders and his coaching prowess and his system.
I always wanted to retire a Piston anyway. That's where I stayed the longest and had most of my success. I always wanted to be remembered as a Piston.
I wanted to be one of the best players of my era at my position. And I did that, and I earned that. No one gave that to me. I earned every single thing.
We don't just hop out of bed, scratch our eyes, and become an NBA baller. It's a process. It's a tough grind that you have to go through that people don't understand.
The game was very, very good to me. I felt like I was equally as good to the game the way I played it and the way I respected it and the way I carried myself through the process.
My game is - and I'm not saying I'm slow or anything like that, but my game is mental. My game is shooting; my game is efficiency. If I'm healthy, I feel like I can be effective for a long time.
The kind of leader and teammate that I was, at every stop I made, I was always honest with guys and honest with myself. I think that was the reason I grew to have the reputation I had in the league.
If you give him a 3-point shot, you might as well count it. I'd rather have Steph Curry beat me 14 points and 14 assists than let him get 40. Because his 40 is just so loud. And it's because of those 3s.
I got into a lot of fights, but it wasn't because of my name. Being from the neighborhood with a name like Chauncey, people think I got picked on. But a lot of strange names come out of the neighborhood.
What bothered me more than if LeBron left or not was that I didn't think they had great assets if you have to do a rebuild. It was more that than Bron. Bron and I have always had an amazing relationship.
I've always believed in my abilities. Nobody ever gave me anything in life. I had to work for everything I got. It may have gotten really rocky for a while, but I persevered, because I'm not afraid of failing.
I'm a point guard, I've always been a point guard, I've played point guard all my life. Personally, I feel the best point guards make other players look better and create their own shot. I fit in that category.
For me, I think Andre Drummond is going to be a superstar. We didn't have that. We had a lot of very good players. I think Drummond will be a superstar if he continues to work. The media, everyone is behind him.
My guys look for me to step up in that magnitude and I take the challenge every time. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, but you've got to have a guy that will take those shots and deal with the consequences.
I'm a lot more serious on the court. I'm probably a lot more intense than some of these guys thought I would be. Off the court, I'm a totally different dude. But my passion's to win, and I'm a perfectionist out there.
I played football first. I love football. I'm a die-hard Broncos fan. I loved football, but in the offseason, I started playing basketball, and I just fell in love with the game. I've been playing basketball ever since 5th grade.