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.

The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.

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.

Just fundamental things - I played guard and I played forward, so you get into a position where you are pivoting out on the court.

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.

You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.

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