Well..I’m too bummed top really comment after the Suns turtled in the 2nd half of Game 6 to lose the series 4-2 to the Mavs…but you have to respect the Suns fans who stayed and stood and cheered during the final minutes even though their season was coming to an end….that would never happen in LA or New York or even Toronto where most fans would be out the door trying to beat the post game traffic with about 3 minutes left in regulation….

Oh, and looking forward to the Finals, the Mavs swept the season series against the Heat, including a 112-76 drilling on Feb. 9 and have won 10 of the last 12 meetings…

1) Bill Shouler of ESPN.com with a terrific

Bill Russell was Mr. Game 7

When it comes to dominant Game 7s, one player's record reigned above the rest. Bill Russell played in ten Game 7s and was on the winning team ten times. A spidery defender, Russell impacted games even when he wasn't scoring. But could score, too: It was not unsual for Russell to score 25 and snatch 30 to 40 rebounds in these back-to-the-wall contests. A key block, a rebound or a 30-point game on offense, Russell had an uncanny sense of what Boston needed to win. But his calling card was defense. Because of the tenacious way he guarded the nest against penetration, one Celtic mate called him "The eagle with a beard." Here is my ordering of Russell's ten game sevens, ranked by his impact on the outcomes.

1. Los Angeles at Boston, April 18, 1962 - Aiming for his fifth title in six seasons, Bill Russell, the MVP in 1962, was never better when it counted. Playing all 53 minutes (including overtime), he logged 30 points and grabbed 44 rebounds. Even a combined 76 points from Elgin Baylor and Jerry West fell short of eclipsing Boston's lead three of Russell, Sam Jones (27 points) and Frank Ramsay (23). As regulation play ended, the game was tied at 100, but Sam Jones -- it's interesting how he seemed to be in the middle of every Celtic win -- scored five in the extra session and Russell had four. Lakers' coach Fred Schaus used 6-8 Jim Krebs and 6-11 Ray Felix, thinking he would combine two mediocre centers and get one good one. It didn't work. The two combined for 10 points and 14 rebounds.

2. St. Louis at Boston, April 13 1957 - It's hard to say which of Russell's Game 7 wins was hardest. Boston didn't skate through too many laughers. Was the last one the toughest, when a 35-year-old Russell left the floor exhausted with a two-point margin of victory? Or was it the first? His first was against the St. Louis Hawks, a West powerhouse that competed in four finals in five years. The Hawks were ahead by a point in regulation with under a minute left. Jack Coleman drove in for a layup that would have upped the lead to three. But Russell chased him down from behind and blocked his shot. Years later Tommy Heinsohn said it was "the greatest play I never saw in basketball. That sumbitch went by me like I was standing still, and I was near midcourt. He was the fastest man on the team." The score was tied at 103 after regulation. Sixth man Frank Ramsay led the scoring in the second overtime and Boston owned a 125-123 lead with a second left. Hawks' player-coach Alex Hannum wanted to inbound by heaving the ball the length of the court and off the backboard; he hoped Bob Pettit would grab it and score. The pass found the backboard. "I caught the ball in midair and shot it before I came down," Pettit said. "The ball rolled around the rim and came out. I should have made it; Alex's pass was perfect." Russell contributed 19 points and 32 rebounds. But on this night coach Red Auerbach's one-time appraisal came to mind: "Russell introduced a new sound to the game -- the sound of his footsteps."
3. St. Louis at Boston, April 9, 1960 - Three years later, Boston and St. Louis met for the third of four times. This Game 7 was anticlimactic, with Boston romping 122-103. Cousy was brilliant, giving Boston its fast-break elixir, a 41-23 second-quarter romp that wiped out a two-point deficit. Russell, twice dazed during the game from elbows to the head, had 22 points and 35 rebounds.

4. Los Angeles at Boston, April 28 1966 - This was Red Auerbach's last game as head coach. The Celtics' players had a ritual. If it was Bill Sharman's last game (1961) or Cousy's finale (1963), they wanted to send that player off as a winner. It's amusing really, because when the chips were down they didn't seem to need extra incentives. Boston led 76-60 entering the fourth quarter, but the Lakers stormed back with a 33-19 final stanza. It fell short. After a Sam Jones jumper with 25 seconds left, Red lit his last victory cigar. Boston won 95-93 and Russell added 25 points and 32 rebounds to secure Red's eighth straight title.

5. Syracuse at Boston, April 1, 1959 - The 1959 East final threw a scare into the Celtics. They trailed by 16 in the first half, and Syracuse still led 68-60 at the half. Syracuse was led by Dolph Schayes, who had a 21-point scoring average, but also had capable scorers in Larry Costello (16), Red Kerr (18) and George Yardley (20), who had led the league in scoring the year before. But Boston matched the Syracuse foursome with a quintet. Cousy (20) and Heinsohn (25) led the comeback. Frank Ramsey scored 28 before fouling out and Jones chipped in 19. Russell played every minute until fouling out with less than two minutes left. He scored 18 points and had 32 rebounds, enough to help his mates to a 130-125 victory.

6. Boston at Los Angeles, May 5, 1969 - The 1969 Celtics were an exhausted bunch. They won just 48 games, finishing nine games behind Baltimore in the East. But come playoff time they ran through Philadelphia and the upstart Knicks before meeting the Lakers with their three 20-plus scorers (Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West and Elgin Baylor). What this Celtics unit lacked in talent compared to the earlier teams they made up for in team play. "None of our teams played together as a unit any better than this one," John Havlicek said. The Lakers tied the game at 60-60 in the third quarter, but Boston ran out to a 91-74 lead. With less than 10 minutes left, the Celtics still led 100-83. West, playing with a hamstring pull, rallied the Lakers to within a point at 103-102. Wilt left with 5:10 remaining when he injured his right knee, and Boston withstood the Lakers' rally, led by West with 42 points, to win 108-106. Russell had six points and 21 rebounds against Wilt's 18 points and 27 rebounds. But Russell's last act was a proud one. He averaged 46 minutes per game over the Celtics' 18 playoff games in 1969. Only John Havlicek, who was six years younger, averaged more with 47. A controversy grew over Wilt's sitting out the final five minutes. Wilt asked back in a minute after his injury, but the Lakers rallied due to a running game and coach Butch Van Bread Kolff told Wilt, "We're playing better without you." After the game, Russell told reporters, "In a game like that, they would have to carry me out to get me off the floor." Russell's teammate Don Nelson recalled, "He was talking about Wilt, and I wondered why he'd say something like that about the big guy."

7. Philadelphia at Boston (East finals), April 15, 1965 - It was a night when two teams botched up inbound passes with five seconds left. Boston led 110-107 when Chamberlain made a layup. Now Russell inbounded the ball high over Wilt's outstretched hands. But his pass hit the guide wire supporting the backboard and the 76ers were awarded the ball. Hal Greer would attempt a difficult pass to Chet Walker some 30 feet away. But Havlicek intercepted it, giving rise to Johnny Most's famous holler, "Havlicek stole the ball!" Sam Jones led the way with 37 points for Boston. Wilt led the Sixers with 30 points and 32 rebounds, compared to Russell's 15 and 29. Games like this one might make us amend the statement that "Russ always got the better of Wilt" to "Russ' team got the better of Wilt's teams." In the 49 playoff games in which they both played, Chamberlain scored 1,260 points (25.7 per game) and grabbed 1,393 rebounds (28.4). Russell had 703 points (14.9) and 1,243 rebounds (25.4). In 142 regular-season games against each other, Wilt averaged 28.7 points and 28.7 rebounds; Russell averaged 14.5 points and 23.7 rebounds. The Celtics won 88 of those regular-season games, while Wilt's teams (the Philadelphia and San Francisco Warriors, the 76ers, and the Lakers) won 74.

8. Philadelphia at Boston (East finals), April 5, 1962 - In this game Russell (who scored 19) gets great credit for holding Wilt to 22 points, 28 below his 50-point average. Boston trailed by a point entering the fourth period, but Frank Ramsey scored four quick points to put Boston ahead for good, and Sam Jones won it on a jumper with two ticks remaining to give Boston a 109-107 win. About Russell's defense, Chamberlain said, "Russell is more effective against me than any other defender in the NBA because he catches me off guard with his moves. Sometimes, he's playing in front of me. Other times he's in back of me. He keeps me guessing. He plays me tight this time, loose the next time. I've got to look around to find out where he is. It means I'm concentrating on him as much as my shot. And, of course, nobody has quite the timing he does in blocking shots."

9. Boston at Philadelphia (East finals), April 19, 1968 - "At this point, this is the most satisfying victory of my career," Russell said after the game, no doubt recalling how Philadelphia had ended Boston's run of eight straight titles in 1967. "But we haven't won anything yet. We've got to beat Los Angeles to be champions again." (Just 13 days later that mission was accomplished). With Philadelphia fans carrying around bedsheet banners calling the Celtics "old men," Wilt snatched 34 rebounds but scored just 14 points (on 4-of-9 shooting) and attempted only two field goals in the second half. Dr. Jack Ramsay, then Philadelphia GM, could hardly believe Wilt's performance. "He once averaged 50 for a season and now he took only two shots. Two shots?" While Wilt was in a Hamlet-like state over whether to pass or not to pass, his mates were just plain awful. Hal Greer (8-of-25) Matt Guokas (2-of-10), Wally Jones (8-of-22) Chet Walker (8-of-22) and Luke Jackson (7-of-17) couldn't have hit water from a boat. Their combined 33-of-96 (34 percent) and 20-of-36 from the foul line all but assured that the 76ers would cough up the series after building a commanding 3-1 lead. Russell grabbed 26 rebounds and scored 12 points. With Boston leading 97-95 with 34 seconds left, Russell hit a free throw, rejected Chet Walker's driving shot and rebounded a Greer miss on the follow. In a rare display of emotion, he then pumped his fist in triumph at the buzzer. Boston prevailed 100-96.

10. Cincinnati at Boston (East finals), April 10, 1963 - This 142-131 victory over Cincinnati was Boston at its best. Cousy's piloting caused Boston's 68-64 halftime lead to grow to an 86-72 margin. That 18-8 run revealed each Celtic at his best: Cousy directing, Russell boarding, Jones draining jumpers, Heinsohn hitting shots from the side and Tom "Satch" Sanders playing helping defense. When the Royals came back to within 96-89 with two minutes left in the third period, Cousy, who was called "The Master" by the New England faithful, ran a hellacious fast break until the lead was 123-98 early in the fourth period. Oscar Robertson scored 43 points, including 21 of 22 from the free-throw line, but couldn't stop Jones with a net on the opposite end. Jones scored a personal best 47 points. Cousy's 20 points and 16 assists thwarted Robertson's best chance to lead his team past Boston. Russell scored 20 and, according to the New York Times, got the "key rebounds." The victory postponed Cousy's retirement for two weeks. On April 24, his mates gave him a send-off with a fifth straight title, as they beat Los Angeles in six games. Surprise, surprise.

2) Jack McCallum of Si.com with a report on star-time:

Star time - There's no time like the playoffs to become a legend

Anyone with a pair of eyes and half a functioning brain knew that Miami's Dwyane Wade and Cleveland's LeBron James were going to be great players -- probably Hall of Fame players -- early in their respective rookie seasons. But even phenoms need that moment, or moments, of postseason consecration, that time when greatness is once and for all officially bestowed upon them. That has happened in this postseason to both James, who hit two game-winning shots in leading his Cavaliers to within one win of a berth in the Eastern Conference finals, and Wade, who has been the Heat's leader throughout the playoffs and particularly in forging a 3-2 series lead over the Pistons. And if Dirk Nowitzki's 50-point masterpiece in Game 5 of the West finals hasn't opened plenty of eyes, nothing will. For this week's five-pack, let's take a quick walk through NBA playoff history to highlight some of those moments when a young player truly became a player. The parameters, remember, are for a young player who went on to become a great player. Please note that this is by no means a comprehensive list.

Game 5, 1949 BAA (Basketball Association of America, precursor to the NBA) Finals - George Mikan wasn't born old -- it only seems that way from those black-and-white photos showing a kindly-looking bespectacled giant. Mikan was only 24 years old and in his third season with the Minneapolis Lakers (players usually attended college for four years in those ancient days) when he broke his wrist in Game 4 of the five-game championship series. But he put a cast on his wrist and scored 22 points as the Lakers won and captured the first of their five titles with him as the leader and first dominant player in the game. Those points gave him a total of 303 for a 10-game postseason, then a record.

Game 7, 1957 NBA Finals - In a way, this was the moment when the entire Boston Celtics dynasty was born. But we'll limit it to rookies Bill Russell and Tommy Heinsohn, because Bob Cousy and Bill Sharman were already established players in the league. While Cousy and Sharman went ice-cold in this thrilling game against Bob Pettit and the St. Louis Hawks, Russell had 19 points, 32 rebounds and a game-winning block, while the hook-shooting Heinsohn, known as Tommy Gun, had 37 points and 23 rebounds in a 125-124 double overtime win in Boston Garden. The entire series was one of the greatest in NBA history -- each of the Hawks' three victories were by two points.

Game 6, 1980 NBA Finals - Magic Johnson was either the best or second-best rookie in the NBA that season, depending on which way you fell on the Magic-Larry Bird debate. But there were always questions about Magic. Was he too flashy? Could a rookie lead a Lakers team with the inscrutable Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in the post? Was his perimeter shot too undependable? Bird, keep in mind, easily beat out Magic for rookie-of-the-year honors. But Johnson had the last laugh that season. With Abdul-Jabbar out with a severely sprained ankle for Game 6 in Philadelphia, Johnson moved to center -- point-center, really -- and scored 42 points, grabbed 15 rebounds and had seven assists to lead the Lakers to the title over the favored 76ers. From that moment on, no one doubted the Magic Man's greatness.

Game 2, 1986 Eastern Conference first round - I could do a five-pack of five-packs on Michael Jordan's great playoff moments, of course, but if there ever was a moment that clearly established him among the immortals, this was it. His Chicago Bulls drew the Bird-led Celtics in the first round and all Jordan did was score a ridiculous 63 points in the Garden, forcing the mighty Celtics (the eventual NBA champions that season) into double overtime before Boston finally won 135-131. "Michael Jordan," said Bird after that game, "is God." And that's pretty much what he was over the next decade, though he didn't win his first championship until five years later.

Game 4, 2000 NBA Finals - Kobe Bryant was somewhat shy and retiring when he became a Los Angeles Laker at the tender age of 18. Well, maybe that's putting it a bit too strongly. But for the first few years of his career in L.A. he did defer -- on and off the court -- to Shaquille O'Neal.

It was in this game against the Indiana Pacers, though, that Bryant truly forged his own identity. After O'Neal fouled out with 2:33 left in overtime, Bryant carried the Lakers, scoring six of the their final eight points and converting a tip-in that proved to be the winning basket. "This was the game I've been dreaming about," said Bryant when it was over. Who knows? Maybe that was not only the genesis of Bryant's rep as a big-time player but also the start of the whose-team-is-it debate that colored Lakers basketball over the next four years.

3) Andy Katz of ESPN.com reports on the goings on of the lottery pick with the porn moustache:

Morrison's pushing himself on and off the

The door to the apartment complex opened quickly, and there, standing as if he still was ready to go overtime against UCLA in the Sweet 16, is the slightly-hunched-over, 6-foot-8 Adam Morrison, clad in Gonzaga warmups, ready to hit the gym. The apartment is classic Morrison. He is by nature a minimalist and, even though the complex is known to mostly house transitional people -- it has day, weekly and monthly rates -- you would think there would at least be some sign that someone was planning on staying for a spell. Instead, Morrison's newly arrived Nike clothes were spilling out of a few boxes in the living room. There were a few Xbox game cases strewn on the table and a case of bottled water. There was little evidence that anyone even sleeps here, but Morrison is getting his rest during the most important two months of his career, prepping for the possibility of being the NBA's No. 1 overall draft pick. Toronto Raptors general manager Bryan Colangelo said Thursday that he is wide open and is looking forward to watching Morrison in person again, meaning the Zag is definitely in play to become the top pick. Now less than a month away from the draft, Morrison has chosen to prepare in Southern California instead of his cozy but remote hometown of Spokane, Wash. On Wednesday, at the start of another day in his punishing and monotonous workout regimen, Morrison led an ESPN crew, as well as one of his agents, Aaron Mintz, out the door and to the nearby 360 Health Club to embark on a day in the life of the new, professional Morrison. Cue up some Metallica, a Morrison motivational favorite. First up at the club is breakfast -- as important a meal as lunch and dinner for Morrison, who cannot skip his meals due to his Type I diabetes. "Cereal, toast, some fruit and throw in some eggs for protein, nothing special," said Morrison, his hair flopping just above the eyebrow line, his moustache still looking a bit scraggly and not fully filled in above the lip. "I've gone through trial and error to see what settles in my stomach and keeps my sugar levels right." Morrison likes to schedule the meal an hour before he works out, so that means the session led by former UCLA Bruin and NBA forward Don MacLean will start around 11 a.m. Morrison's workout partners are two of his agents' (Mintz and Mark Bartelstein) clients -- seven-year NBA veteran Devean George of the Los Angeles Lakers and Indiana Pacers forward Danny Granger, who just completed his rookie year. Morrison loves high-stakes competition, from hoops to poker to Xbox. He craves it, so getting NBA players to workout with makes the most sense to him. He wants Bartelstein to set up workouts against his competitors at every stop. He'll get Memphis' Rodney Carney at Charlotte on Monday (the Bobcats pick No. 3 overall), and he might get Rudy Gay of Connecticut in Portland (No. 4) on June 15 and Toronto (No. 1) on June 21 -- and wouldn't mind seeing either one of them in Chicago (No. 2) on June 19, either. Morrison lit up both Gay's and Carney's clubs during the regular season, even though the Zags lost both games (versus UConn in Maui and at Memphis). "Having NBA players in here can get him that experience and get him ready to play," George said. Granger came in for one day a few weeks ago just to work out with Morrison and has since returned for a more regular routine. "It's good for him to play against [us] and we're helping each other out," Granger said. Before Morrison gets started, he takes us through his required diabetic equipment that is stashed in a bag along the sideline.
Former NBA player Chris Dudley has given Morrison advice on dealing with diabetes. "I've got my glucose meter and I'll check it once or twice [during the work out]," Morrison said. "You want to be at the 200 level [that's for diabetics, whereas a person without diabetes has a normal range of 70-120 prior to eating, according to various medical Web sites]. "I've got my [orange] juice and stuff," Morrison said. The "stuff" is a PowerBar, in case he needs a quick fix, as well as needles if he needs an insulin hit. "I've never had a problem [serious enough that a shot or some food or drink couldn't regulate it]," Morrison said. During the hour-plus workout, he does go and check himself twice and takes a few swigs of juice, but doesn't need a shot. Morrison doesn't need any extra push on the court, either. He's raring to go for the workout, even though he's been doing this routine for a month already and still has four weeks to go before the draft on June 28. He's even ready for more MacLean, even though both are argumentative and strongly opinionated, so it's no surprise that they grate on each other a bit. "Don is one of those guys who pisses you off, but he pisses me off the right way," Morrison said. "We argue about everything, and that's fine. He fires me up. I've been around the guy for four straight weeks, so we're sick of each other." MacLean's goal is to get Morrison in top shape, while also working on his quickness at the defensive end. But more than anything, he wants him to react against the better competition and learn the nuances of playing defense in the NBA. Morrison has the look and the personality to go with the game."No one is going to expect Adam to be a lock-down defender," MacLean said. "At the end of the day, he's going to get 25 a night. He's one of the guys who makes more shots in competition in 2-on-2 and full court than he does [in] shooting drills by himself." MacLean has Morrison running off screens and he has relatively no problem getting his shot off against George. Conversely, Morrison isn't locking down George, either, but he is going toe-to-toe with a three-time NBA champion who has to guard Kobe Bryant in practice on a regular basis. Morrison does get his shot blocked once, but on more than a few occasions he gets George up and out of the play with a pump fake and then strokes a mid-range floater. "Adam will be a very, very good scorer, but he won't be a pure isolation guy like [Tracy] McGrady or Bryant," said MacLean, who played for UCLA from 1988-92, was a second-team all-American in '92, and then played in the NBA from 1992-2001 for seven different teams. "They'll run a lot of stuff for him but they won't clear a side for him and say, 'Get a score for us,' " MacLean, who ended his career as a Bartlestein client, said. "They'll run him off screens and he'll find ways to get his shots. The one-legged runner is usually a terrible shot for most people, but for him it's a good shot." George stops a few times to instruct Morrison on angles defensively. He said Morrison has good foot speed but more than anything "needs to know what is legal and illegal [defensively]" "Honestly, I thought I was a great defender in college, but I was lost the first half of the season," Granger said. "Once you learn the tricks, you'll be better." Sweat dripping off him after the workout, Morrison continues to chirp with MacLean and New York Knicks forward David Lee, another Bartlestein client. Lee was nursing an ankle injury, so he didn't go in this session. Still, Morrison is a sponge for information, just like he says he'll be in July when he's one of two rookies (J.J. Redick of Duke is the other) who will be a part of the USA National Team trials in Las Vegas. "This is great to go against an NBA veteran," Morrison said. "Every day, I've got someone pushing me. [In July], I'll be going against LeBron and Kobe and all the greats and I'll learn as much as I can." Over lunch, Lee fills Morrison in on off-the-record stuff about daily life in the NBA. Mintz reminds Morrison that Lee was in a unique situation with the Knicks, arguably the league's most dysfunctional team this season. Lee does tell Morrison not to worry about the travel, since everything is first-class from the plane to the hotel. Morrison said he already had been briefed by former NBA player Chris Dudley, a diabetic, about not needing to fret about staying on his necessary meal schedule. After a break, it's down to the weight room, where the compact, bald Jade Molina is waiting. "He needs to improve his strength and power," said Molina, who is the sports performance director at 360. "We're doing a lot of exercises to develop his core stability. He needs a stable core so he can get up on different athletes that are bigger than him." Morrison currently weighs 205 pounds. Molina wants him at 215 by the start of the season, but he doesn't want to mess with his weight before team workouts. "We're getting him ready for the draft, not game day, yet," Molina said. "This is a good program, and you can see that because obviously I'm tired and sweating right now," said Morrison after an hour in the weight room. "This is my job and I've got to step it up a bit." There's an hour break and then the group meets up at Tower Records, where Morrison is interested in getting the latest Ultimate Fighting Championship DVD. If you're not familiar with UFC bouts, it's essentially two men in shorts with bare feet and pads on their knuckles knocking the crap out of each other in an octagon-shaped cage. Morrison knows all the characters in the sport, having seen some of the previous bouts. He lets us know that in the "old days," nothing was off limits -- as in eye gauging, groin punching and the like. These days, it's apparently the cleaned-up version, maybe a bit more PG-13. Regardless, Morrison still loves the intensity. This is coming from a guy who wears his emotions out for everyone to see -- a trait never more apparent then during the Zags' collapse against UCLA in Oakland when Morrison ended up crying with a couple of seconds still remaining. He essentially was spent emotionally on the final possession, a last-gasp 3-pointer by teammate J.P. Batista that missed. "I put my whole heart into that one season and I let my emotions get to me, but I don't regret it," said Morrison, who shared the Oscar Robertson National Player of the Year with Redick after leading the country in scoring at 28 points a game. "Some people make a big deal about it, but I guarantee that every guy that lost in the Tournament cried in the locker room. I couldn't hold it in. I've been told, 'Don't let that emotion leave,' and hopefully it doesn't. I use it to my advantage and play with that emotion every night. I hate losing and I'm competitive every night." On the way back to the apartment, Morrison stops for a Togo's sandwich, his dinner staple. Back in Spokane, Morrison hired a nutritionist and a cook to prepare him meals which were delivered for dinner. During this stay in Woodland Hills, though, Morrison is eating two meals a day at 360 and having Togo's for dinner. He'll take a nutritionist/cook combo with him on the road during the season. The group moves back to Morrison's apartment to watch Game 5 of the Detroit-Miami Eastern Conference finals and await a Topps trading cards rep seeking the hundreds of signatures for his trading card deal. Morrison, according to Mintz, is the only draft hopeful that has an exclusive deal with Topps. He chose that one over multiple deals with other companies. It is said to be a significant deal in the half-million dollar range. A guy named Joe, who essentially is the messenger for Topps, shows up with the packet of signature boxes for Morrison to sign. Joe, who is a race car driver from Indiana but now is an actor/model, with the same mop-style 'do as Morrison, fits right into the conversation. Morrison engages him about his race car driving background and then transitions the conversation into a variety of subjects, as he so often does. "The only thing they ask is that you sign your [full] name," Morrison said. "When I sign a ball, I do it 'AM3,' but with these, I sign it." Morrison admittedly is frugal. He has a plan to live off his endorsements for his first two seasons while saving his guaranteed salary, which will help him take care of his family. One of his older sisters, Brandie or Sara, will be living with him in whichever city he lands. "The biggest thing for me is focusing on basketball and getting ready for the season, but this stuff is an added bonus and it's cool to be a part of it," Morrison said. The humorous side of this signing situation is that each version of his first card will have a unique gift on it -- a piece of his draft-day suit. "I found it kind of weird," Morrison said. "But I always liked getting a little memorabilia growing up. They asked me if I would care if they cut up my suit. I said, 'Go ahead, man.' I've only worn a suit twice in my life and both times, they were forced upon me. A collared shirt is as nice as I get." Morrison's reps also are looking into roles for him as a spokesperson for a pharmaceutical company that makes drugs for diabetics. They are presently in discussions with three companies. "I'd like to be a role model for kids and adults that have diabetes," Morrison said. "I've been put in that role after the past year. I didn't have a role model in athletics. At the end of the day, helping people out is what you want to do." But first, getting to the NBA is the primary focus. He says he doesn't care about being No. 1 overall. But deep inside, he has to know that being the first choice would be the coolest thing on earth. As Morrison continued to sign and sign and sign and tried to fight end-of-the-day fatigue, he offered up this final thought as to why he's ready to play and contribute next season. "I feel like my game is very NBA-oriented and I can create my own shot," he said. "I've done that the last three years in college. I've got the offensive skills. I've got the heart and the desire to play at the next level." Morrison will crash soon and then be up again in the morning for another workout, preparing himself to be a star, on and off the court, in whichever city he lands.