Practices were tough.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.

The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.

Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success and so were the Celtics. So after awhile it became part of people's sports lore...

Initially when I stopped playing, I had accumulated some burnout.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.