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

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching

But all was not sunshine and Marvin Gaye songs. [UCLA] also recruited black students as part of a High Potential Program that was meant to bring diversity to the campus. Two of the students that were part of that program were Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr., both members of the Black Panther Party's Southern California Chapter.

I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.