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The first person I heard from was Bill Walton. He sent me the nicest e-mail. I don't know how he found out so fast. He sent it to me 10 minutes after we told the staff.

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I know that both of them are ultimately worthy.

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Even if the Arena is operable, it still may be impossible to play games in New Orleans for some time. The team and the league are exploring alternate sites for holding training camp and home exhibition games, if necessary.

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It's just time. I'm ready. I'm really happy about it, actually. I guess I'm a little taken aback by the reaction, though. I've known about this for six months, but once you announce it, it really makes it real.

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Not since the Class of '92 --led by Shaq , Alonzo Mourning and Christian Laettner -- has the NBA welcomed a more-anticipated trio than this. Some even go back further, to a day when this year's group wasn't even born. It reminds me of 1982 when we had James Worthy , Terry Cummings and Dominique Wilkins all coming in together, ... I think that bodes very well.

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I think the one thing there may be some interest in ... would be to maybe look at how you seed the top four teams. One thing that we have kicked around is whether you might say, all right, those same four teams are going to get the top four seeds, but maybe you do it in accordance with their records.

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I think that one problem is and we really haven't looked at this seriously is where you draw the line. I think lottery protection I don't think it's one that's too serious because I think teams want to be in the playoffs, not the lottery. When you draw the line in other places, that's where a fan or a journalist could say what's the difference whether they're between 10th or 11th or 20th or 21st And I think we just have to look at how that works, but I don't think we'd be limiting lottery protection entirely, we may just be limiting some type of protection.

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I think there's some substantial reservation at this point, again, just judging from the debate or lack of debate in the room about whether it really is an issue that has to be addressed anytime soon.

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My view is that there are just a lot of anomalies that come into play when you talk about playoff pairings, particularly in the first rounds. I think the concern this year is because we have two teams in the West that seem to be way ahead of everybody else.

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Even if the arena is operable, it still may be impossible to play games in New Orleans for some time.

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I decided I wanted to take it a bit easier for a while and then see what I want to do. There are a couple of things in sports that would be of great interest to me. Announcing it this way gives me the time to think about what might make sense.

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We'll see what's available. We hope to have it done within a week. We'd like them to stay in one place if it were possible.

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I felt the time was right for me to get off the treadmill for a while. I greatly appreciate all the opportunities David and the NBA owners have afforded me for personal accomplishment in this job.

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