Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.

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.

I'm a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!

I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.

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.