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.

When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.

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

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

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

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.

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.