JEFF VAN GUNDY

Kobe Bryant is a terrific offensive rebounder.

My one suggestion going forward is, any felony committed against a woman should be a full-season suspension.

People talk about Kobe's 81-point game, the second-highest scoring game in NBA history. I saw the game. I don't care if it was 79, 81 - I just remember the game. I remember the moves. I remember the shots. I remember the beauty of it. The numbers? What he shot from the field? I don't care.

It's hard to change a roster around. You've got to hit your draft picks right, you've gotta hit free agency right, and a team's got to fit together.

To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I didn't have it for history. So I wouldn't have been a good teacher in that area. But I had it for basketball. And that's what coaching is at every level: it's about teaching.

For professional athletes, I always think about it in these terms: the most difficult diva of women's soccer would be the easiest NBA player ever.

Systems are overrated; players are underrated.

I like to watch anyone who has great competitive spirit and will: passionate teams.

I read somewhere that failure is an event, not a person, but I never feel that way. It's who I am.

I think Jeff Hornacek is a very, very good basketball coach and an outstanding person.

I think anybody confusing a system with a reason for success is making a huge mistake. Systems don't win games. Players do.

I always said 'strength in stars.'

You start comparing people, and ultimately, somebody feels diminished.

Everyone wants to focus on what Ben Simmons can't do, which is shoot and try to rush him into being a range shooter. I think Simmons in Philadelphia has done a good job in focusing what he does great versus what he doesn't do as well.

I frankly think the NBA All-Star game has run its course, the whole dunk contest... The game - if those guys actually played hard in that game, it'd be the best watch ever.

Among the hardest-working players I've ever been associated, Yao stands at the very top of the list. Beyond that, though, here's what truly separated him from everyone else: His ability to enjoy other people's successes.

My intensity is my greatest strength. It's also my greatest weakness.

I never lost the desire to coach.

D'Antoni can be successful playing slow or fast because he is a bright guy who has very creative ideas.

I think fans oftentimes get an inferior product on back-to-back games, and I think that has to be the number one thing that gets addressed for the fans and for the players - the elimination or the drastic reduction of back-to-back games.

As great of a player as Yao was, he was kind and patient with everybody. He wasn't trying to feed an image or cultivate a brand or manipulate a public persona.

It is a player's league until you lose.

Christmas Day is a big day for NBA basketball.

It can get good quickly in this league, and it can get bad quickly.

Sometimes you try to change, and you go backwards.