My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.

I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after Auerbach brought out the cigar so he could go up to Arnold and stuff the cigar in his face.

Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.

Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

I dribbled by the hour with my left hand when I was young. I didn't have full control, but I got so I could move the ball back and forth from one hand to the other without breaking the cadence of my dribble. I wasn't dribbling behind my back or setting up any trick stuff, but I was laying the groundwork for it.

We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination.