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

People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

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

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

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

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.