(The trade) gives us the ability to remain under the luxury tax and to sign a player ? whoever that player may be, if there is a player that would fit our needs. |
After consulting with several noted specialists, we felt that rescinding the trade is our best course of action. |
All things being equal, you want people that want to play for you. The determination is, what does he have left in his game? |
And if you talk to our three best players, they all think we have a good team,' ... If you talk to Jason, his attitude is as positive as I've heard since then. When your better players think you have a good team, that's a very positive thing.' |
As far as we were concerned, we had a good season, with a real nice run at the end. But now, things start over. |
As he pointed out, there's a history of things with him - not just the fight. But I think there will be a lot of teams that will have an interest in him at some level. |
Barring injury, barring something crazy happening, I definitely think we're a playoff team. I think we're a team that certainly has a good chance to get home-court advantage in the first round. |
Before, teams would load up on (Carter). Now it is much harder to do that. |
Campbell's the best big [man] available, so I feel he can come in, play minutes for us and help us. We're not going to punt the season and give up. We still have a very good opportunity in our division, We've got a couple of top-flight players here and we feel he can be an asset to us. |
Don't have any plans to trade him. I'd never say we wouldn't trade anybody but I don't have any plans to trade him. We have indicated (to other teams) that we probably are not going to trade him. |
From an offensive standpoint, it's probably the deepest team we've had since [2001-02]. |
From where I'm sitting, I don't see him getting traded. |
He had a knee operation when he was in high school. He's never missed a game with the knee problem in the N.B.A.; never missed a practice or game. The only thing he's ever missed any games for in the N.B.A. was for an elbow operation. |
He probably won't play until after Christmas. We want him to be 100 percent. |
He sat out his five games but there is still a little inflammation. We only have the two games this week, and then we're off [for awhile] so it makes sense to give him some rest now. We want to make sure it's not chronic. |