Your team has to understand that coming into the ABA, you have to have your investments right and sponsorships and people ready to give you money so they can back you up.
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If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.
When your team drops out, you make the ABA look bad.
Whatever team you go to, you want to have guys who help you be successful there.
You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.
I want to do well for myself and my sponsors... but I feel no pressure, because I don't play for the money.
If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.
I just want to contribute to my team and earn the trust and do everything they need from me.
The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.
You have to want to put a competitive, Stanley Cup-caliber team on the ice in contrast to wanting to hopefully someday financially break even. So you have to really balance expenses with revenue.
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