I took that year off and I didn’t watch any basketball. I played tennis and golf and I was on my own schedule for the first time in ten years. I had knee problems, so I’m not the player I was, and I have a lesser role and I can’t say I don’t miss playing thirty-five, forty minutes per game and scoring twenty, twenty-five points. But I feel totally different about everything after a year away. I realize what a privilege it is to play in the NBA and how really nice it is. I think now I’ll stay around three or four more years.”
