<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>"I'm one of the few guys that can honestly say that I was a part of something and kind of starting a franchise and getting it going and being there with Jason Kidd and Kenyon Martin and all those guys. It wasn't about the city.</div>
I'm glad he said something like that. As a fan, it is very exciting to see your team go from absolutely nowhere - no history, no success, no anything - to a perennial contender. I think only the Kings and Mavs had similar franchise image make-overs this decade. It's good to see a player (finally) acknowledge that they felt the same way.