I said 'why are you doing this?'

[Hardaway] sprained it and tried to play through it. The tissue stretched and basically he runs the chance of having a long-term detriment. It's our recommendation because of how unstable the thumb is to have it repaired now before it gets so severe that he ends up having arthritis or career-threatening injuries.

That was it, that was the last straw.

A lot of them don't know what they're doing. You have to explain to them that they can pick the numbers themselves, or they can let the computer do it.

Seeing my wife, for the last time, I was afraid.

The rest of the knee was absolutely normal. It's a best-case scenario when you go in there and there's nothing else wrong with the knee.

If you saw what I did plus the MRI scan, that's not an acute injury from him just getting back.

It's just money, give the guy the money, let him have it, it's not his but the gun says it is.

I was hoping it wasn't this serious but I knew it was pretty bad. I was in such pain. I'm just happy I know what the problem is now and I can get healthy and be back for the playoffs.