To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.
To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes.
At age 31, in 1981, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.
As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.
And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.
Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them.