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.

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

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

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

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

I don't know hardly any of the players who have the in-between game like me, who can go to any position on the court.

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.