I’m always talking about Ryan and how we haven’t been able to give him time. Well, this is our chance to get a good look at him.

I think we can be more efficient in some ways, especially offensively. Wally is such an efficient player, he scores with fewer shots.

Not right away. But we could be looking at the possibility of a 10-day contract guy.

Things like that don’t bother me. Just one week ago, Paul said he wanted to play his whole career in one uniform. It’s important for us to keep all our players in the right frame...

I think we have guys who can do the job.

I think that Doc is a guy that can be with the same group for a long time because I feel that the young players today need a tough-minded coach. They need to practice. They...

We don’t care what number we’re at. We may be at 18 when it’s all said and done. Somebody’s going to make the team and somebody’s not. Obviously, you can only have 15 contracts Opening...

Marcus Banks had three years here, to play, and he had three coaches (Jim O’Brien, John Carroll, Doc Rivers) that weren’t real excited about him. I think Marcus is a good player, but I don’t...

I think the blame is on everybody. But if you can’t improve defensively, if you can’t improve in limiting turnovers, then you need a change in personnel.

I have no plans to trade Paul Pierce.

He’s still coming. But we haven’t gotten it finalized. They understandably have a lot of more important things on their minds.

I think 2 1/2 years of evaluating and watching practice every day and watching Ricky’s performance on and off the court and in the locker room and everything else, we felt it was better to...

In Wally we are receiving an All-Star player who is playoff-tested and who has been a winner at all levels.

Gerald is still a major, major priority for us on the developmental side. We plan on bringing him back this season.

I felt that the other way was not working, and I felt this was a logical direction for us to go. Even though it’s not a finished product, and this isn’t the trade where we’re...

With the NBA scheduling, a lot of times it puts the onus on teams traveling. You play Utah one night and a team like Phoenix is resting and waiting for you the next night. That’s...

He’ll be with us when training camp opens.

I can make a trade every day if I want to, but that’s not going to help us. A trade that would get us better rarely comes along. They’re very difficult to find. Good trades...

We’re going to wait [to decide on team discipline]. And that’s an internal matter we’ll never discuss.

They’re all competing. That’s what I love about this situation that’s a little bit different than what we’ve had. There’s no politics. The best players are going to play.

He can play defense at that position, and he can score. He is a playground legend in Chicago.