"If I can't play, there's no reason to go," he said. "One of the funniest things, not funny, but one of the most interesting parts of my experiences, you know, I'm a huge believer in mental preparation and all these things, and I kind of wanted to have certain things in my season last year. I wanted to help Dwyane [Wade] lead the team as far as possible, maybe to get back to the Finals with that team. Cleveland was very good. And I said, 'Hey, it would be real good if we just played my old buddy LeBron [James] up there. If we just had a classic battle of a series and we played. But before that we've got to get past Toronto and be able to go back where it all started and play a playoff series.'