Zach Randolph: “I want to ask you, do you feel players value winning anymore, G?” Nick Van Exel: “When I first started coaching around 2010, 2011, I always asked the coaching staff a question: how many guys really care about winning a championship? I always felt like I could put up these ten fingers and I’m probably going to get to about eight or nine. I always felt that guys were more in it for the perks. If you were lucky to be on a championship team, then you adapt to it, you start to feel that vibe. But I don’t see that many guys out there hooping. Unless you are a legacy guy that wants your legacy, how many guys really feel about their legacy right now that you can think about in the league that say, ‘I want to win a championship’? I don’t see that many.”
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