Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.

Yoga is just good for you.

The only reason is that I hadn't seen The Modern Jazz Quartet perform live and a live performance is often where the real experience of jazz takes place. I'm not familiar with the Boswell Sisters.

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.

I don't really care who's doing drugs in the NBA as long as the scene isn't adversely affecting my team and teammates. I've known enough drug users-going as far back as grade school and the streets of New York-not to view them as pariahs or lost souls. I've certainly smoked more than my quota of weed.

The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true.