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.

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

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

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

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

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