Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.

Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player. I am a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.

You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him.