“Everybody else is saying, 'Oh, he's a different player.' He's not. He wants to be the best in the League every year, and he can be. He's a dynamic player and he's proud. When people write stuff about him that us people who know him closely read, it hurts. People think it doesn't bother him. It does. It hurts, and it hurts us to read about it because we know that's not who he is. He's an elite player.”