Happy belated birthday! How did you celebrate?
I went to a meeting of the planning committee with the board of governors to discuss enhanced revenue sharing.

Exciting. Did they have a cake for you at least?
I’m embarrassed to say that a cake was presented and we immediately terminated the two employees that presented it [laughs].

Do players, coaches or owners send you birthday cards?
I get e-mails from around the country from different people in the NBA family and my response is always “bah humbug.”

My favorite part is where is says "[laughs]." Look at the question he was asked! It was about a birthday cake -- what could be sweeter and more innocent? But he turned it into a good ol' double termination, bad-economy knee-slapper.