No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.

I had this fantastic collection of Grateful Dead T-shirts and live concert music the band had give me over all these years, decades of material, and when our boys became teenagers they started going through everything and wearing the shirts and listening to the music and that's what the Grateful Dead is all about.

I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.

Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.

Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.

Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He's already one of the greatest players to have played the game.

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics