You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.

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

The players have no real self-esteem when it comes to putting the best image out there in a real competitive fashion.

When I came into the league, once a team drafted you, they owned you forever. If they didn't like the clothes you wore, or the car you drove, they could blackball you.

Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.

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

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.