Jamal Crawford Quotes

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

There have been few players that haven't been traded over the years in the NBA.

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.

Two of the most difficult parts of our business is trades and when a player leaves.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

You get traded. It happens. It's part of the business.

One of the things about the NBA is anybody could be traded.

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

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

There's very few guys that play for one team their whole careers, nowadays, especially in the cap era it's a lot tougher.

I'm loyal to Portland. I want to play my whole career here, but at any moment, they can decide we want somebody else.

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.

Guys move around in free agency.