I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.

These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

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

Do your best when no one is looking.