But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

There's so many young peoople who start to play basketball and never learn the fundamentals.

It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!

You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.

They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really.

Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.