The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

French was my first language.

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

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.

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.

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.