I'm better than ever. I really don't know how that kind of [stuff] gets started, those rumors. But I'm good, baby.

I'm not even sweating that stuff. There's no need for that. I know who I am as a player and that I have a job to do for the next 32 games, whether that's in an Atlanta Hawks uniform or some other uniform.

I don't know where you heard the rumors (of annexation), ... I don't know where they got started. In any meeting I've ever been to, we have never mentioned annexation at all. It's never been mentioned.

I started off kind of rusty. But once we got a few runs, it was good. We just made the big plays when we needed to and it helped me out.

There's been rumors going around that we're not as good as everybody thinks. So we were going to come out here and prove it to a ranked team. We definitely gave it heart today.

It was a hard-fought game, but we gave them too much cushion and we couldn't really recover. But our second unit in the third quarter played unbelievable. I wish we could've played them the whole second half.