Mike Comrie Quotes

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

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.

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.

Once you've been around this business long enough, anything is a possibility. It's a business first and foremost. Guys play it because they love it, but it is a business, and if you don't understand that it's a business, you're lying to yourself.

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

There's always a possibility that players can come and go when the market opens.

I'm pretty sure every team in the NBA would love to have Paul Pierce on their team.

I came into the league traded. So I'm not the only person that goes through trade rumors each year.

Every player looks forward to free agency.

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

Guys move around in 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.

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

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.

My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.

When you play professionally, you get accustomed to turnover. Players come and go - they get injured, they get transferred, they get cut from the team. Coaches are hired, and coaches are fired. It's just part of the world you live in.

The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money.

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

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

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

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

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

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.