Rudy on the short 2011-12 season: “It's a tough grind.”

Topics: The good old “Team Bus” interview | Getting older as a player | Best season of his career last year before he got hurt | It was tough to sit and watch last year’s playoffs | Short season this year | Playing so many games in such a short period of time | A lot of injuries this season | Quality of play | Being a camper on a video game | Gamers mad at him |

Rudy on missing the Playoffs because of an injury: “It was terrible.”

Topics: Dislocating his shoulder | Rehab from surgery | Being injured for the 1st time | Labor situation | The effect a Lockout would have on the sport | Was a really good year for basketball | It was terrible not being able to play with the team in the NBA Playoffs | It made me hungrier missing that time in the Playoffs | Caron Butler | UConn guys being the toughest in the NBA | Shane Battier | Memphis was crazy during the playoffs | Trade rumors sucked | Call of Duty grudge match with Jason Terry on Xbox | The grudge match goes down later today |

Rudy on NBA players gambling on airplanes: “Personally, for our team it’s not happening anymore.”

Topics: The team’s inconsistency | Hopefully they can build off their latest wins | Still a very young team | Need to play the same way every night | Beating the Lakers | Outscoring Ron Artest 27-0 | Thinks Ron Artest is still a good player | Phil Jackson’s comments about Kobe Bryant | Alleged altercation between OJ Mayo and Tony Allen on the team plane | Things happen, were all professionals | Gambling on the plane | The team will play Candyland on the plane from now on | Slam Dunk Contest | Facing Blake Griffin | Living and playing in Memphis | Twitter |