Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

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

[Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me that I've never forgotten. He used his extensive knowledge of art history to illustrate the development of Western culture and politics.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.