My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.

Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.

There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You're talking about men vs. boys.

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.

That's what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I'm selling hope and life and success and that's why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead.

Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?