As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

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.

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

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

If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.

When I was at UCLA, the Harlem Globetrotters offered me a million dollars to come play for them. I turned it down because my education was just as important as playing ball.

My English teacher, Dr. John Lindstrom, taught me an appreciation for the written word. Until his class, I'd dabbled in journalism and essay writing. But when he selected one of my essays as the best in the class, it gave me the confidence to see myself as a writer.