Zaza Pachulia Quotes

Every player looks forward to free agency.

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.

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.

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

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

I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time.

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

When I entered free agency, I said whatever team I end up on, I'm going to work.

I don't think it's right to think ahead to free agency.

I'm very happy to have been a one-club man, but I wouldn't shoot down guys who have gone off and played in multiple clubs either because, essentially, it is an earning that people are after.

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 learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

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.

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

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.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

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

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

When you go into free agency and have options, any team is up for you to be on - and the Raiders, obviously with me having been there for so long, have a great shot at it.

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.

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

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.

I haven't been in a position to be a free agent or know what that is like and then to have the chance to go where you want to go. That's always been - I feel, with players, they want that option.