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.

We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College - very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold.

You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.

It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball.

Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6'-6 and built like a bulldog.

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.