Zaza Pachulia Quotes

My decision leaving the Nuggets was based on the organization not saying they had the cap room to sign me.

Obviously, in the NBA, there's a lot of different decisions that people make. The whole thing in the NBA is that people sometimes have an opportunity to go where they want.

You don't want to get to the point where you play out your contract and you get to those complicated situations where they can put the franchise tag on you and things like that.

I can't speak on anybody else's free agencies, how that's going, but for myself, it helps to kind of be patient and let it happen.

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

We protected Andre Johnson, given him long-term contracts. Brian Cushing's got a long-term contract. Arian Foster. So certain key players, core players, we've tried not to tie them up for a long period of time.

The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty.

Free agency is free agency. I love when NBA players get paid.

Just because you go to free agency doesn't mean you don't want to be somewhere. It's just a part of the business.

That's part of free agency. You can go where you want at the end of the day.

Some people want to stay with one team but they get traded.

We need a system where all of our teams have the opportunity to compete and to make a few dollars. That's not a bad desire for collective bargaining for a sports league, and it's great for our fans.

When I look at our roster, I'm sure all of you have printed that I'm coming up on 35, and given my situation and my salary structure and all that, yeah, I have to wonder if this team is going to make moves and they haven't.

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

I can hardly think of any players that have really walked out of their own volition while there were still teams that really wanted them at a fair price.

I'm always hesitant to make any serious moves because you never know how the N.F.L. will treat you, you know?

I think people have to realize that - and basketball fans do, Lakers fans do - that we have to operate under the rules of the collective bargaining agreement, which means you can't just go and grab every player that you want.

The franchise tag, it's a one-year deal. I would like a little bit more stability.

Every player looks forward to free agency.

The new CBA is hurting the league. It's hurting quarterback play.

Contracts are not a holy relic in football. You can like this attitude or not, but it's the truth. Sometimes you have to think about if it is meaningful to try out a new impulse.