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

Basketball is basketball.

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.

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

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.

I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.