Bob McNair Quotes

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

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

Every player looks forward to free agency.

I think it's hard to compare the NBA and the WNBA, but the thing about the NBA is they just have a ton of movement every year, but the WNBA doesn't. Free agency is not set up that way; the money is obviously not set up that way, so when one player moves, it could set the stage for, literally, like, six or seven years.

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

The franchise tag is worth something to the team, and you can't be afraid to use it.

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

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

Some people said, 'Why didn't you sign Peyton Manning?' Well, we just couldn't do it. We would have had to let go of two or three of our outstanding players to create enough room in the salary cap to do something with him.

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.

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.

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

I've seen players in the past who wanted to stay with their team, and it didn't work out.

I don't want to spend money the club doesn't have; I don't want to hold a player that doesn't want to stay.

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.

It's not very wise to keep a player who has just one year left on his contract and really wants to leave.

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.

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.

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.

Nobody wants to give up good players.

With the intention of signing Lin back, I saw that I can help.