When I came into the league, once a team drafted you, they owned you forever. If they didn't like the clothes you wore, or the car you drove, they could blackball you.

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.

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

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymore.

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

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.