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.

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

When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.

When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.

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

But after that you don't see a lot of real good fundamental play. You see a showboat-type basketball which is almost parallel to street basketball.

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