"We talk every offseason. I'm sure we'll talk again when the season is over, but I don't have any intentions on reaching out to him and I think he respects the space that I'm in as well. … It's just tough to wrap my mind around anything other than playing basketball. I've been doing this for a very long time, and to think about (how) every week or two there's a chance it could be my last week. That part in itself is tough enough."