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 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.

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

You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.

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

Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.

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.