In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.

No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

I couldn't imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.

Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.

I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there. The joy, the optimism, the teamwork, the experimentation, the exploration, the curiosity. No band has inspired more artwork, no band has inspired more books. No band has ever inspired a more loyal following and I'm involved in all of that stuff.

Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.