We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.

Every jock gets up and tells the world how lucky he is. But I feel that I may be the luckiest one of all in terms of timing and being at the right place at the right moment-even though, for the last 30 years, I was told I was born 20 years too soon, for obvious reasons.

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.

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

Do your best when no one is looking.

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

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