“What did I learn playing in Toronto? I learned you don’t believe a lot of what people say, because this is a business,” Ford said. “I learned not every relationship you have is a friendship in this league . . . And I learned to believe in yourself, no matter what. You’ve got to believe in yourself—organizations stop (believing) in a heartbeat.”
“Me and Jose, think about it—give me a better NBA tandem in the last 10 years,” said Ford, who had four points and six assists off the bench on Monday. “The only thing they could have done different, they probably had an opportunity to play us together more.”
“You can’t take things personally. And I took a lot of stuff personally in Toronto,” Ford said. “I mean, I think I was the fall guy for everything in Toronto. But it was hard and it was frustrating because I gave Toronto my all, every night, whether it was good or bad.”
“I guess you could say we, uh, grew apart,” Ford said of Bosh. “No bad blood. We never got into any argument. Sometimes that’s how relationships end up. There’s really no answer about what happened. It just happened . . . That’s part of the NBA. It’s a business.”
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