People will think there are no other great ballplayers. Look at Garnett. Look at Duncan, Shaq, Kobe. Look at the players with Sacramento. The have a really good basketball team.

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

I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.

Look, I think you should promote the game, but I think you should make it what it ought to be. Not some kind of a side-show.

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

You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.

You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore.