We can learn from mistakes of others, whether they're kings or our parents. When we do learn those lessons, we're better equipped to make our own dreams come true.

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

Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get.

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.

I was especially impressed with Pauley Pavilion [at UCLA campus ]. The floors hadn't been laid down yet, when they gave me the tour, each new room got my heart thumping. They even had a surgical operating room in case an athlete was severely injured.

I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.