Avery Bradley Quotes

I've seen where teams pay to get a player, like when Los Angeles paid to get Wayne Gretzky.

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

In the NBA, you're never immune to rumors and trade rumors and free agency stuff.

How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.

I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

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.

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.

My last two years at Buffalo, I've had so many trade requests. Rumors every year.

You see great players, Hall of Fame players that didn't stay with their team.

The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.

It's been humbling to have multiple teams interested in me and have people talking about my free agency and what I should do.

Kobe can play in any league.

Our job is to play basketball, not worry about trades.

A lot of teams - they want a point guard and I am bouncing around, why not put me in those talks and try to get me?

If we don't need the players who are available to sign, then why are we going to sign?

Everybody - come on - everybody is going to get traded at some point.

I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.

I think Paul Pierce, the way he manufactures points, is the best player the Celtics have seen thus far.

The Rockets paid a healthy price for Chris Paul.

I want to be the next Paul Pierce.

I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.

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.

I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free agent, I was like, 'What's up, bro? You got a chance to get the pit that you need. You feel me? This is your chance.'