We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

When I traveled through Greece in the '90s, everything [Albert Hoxie] taught me came flooding back and I was able to appreciate the art and culture much more because of him.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.

There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.