If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.

The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.

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.

I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.