The players have no real self-esteem when it comes to putting the best image out there in a real competitive fashion.

Look, I think you should promote the game, but I think you should make it what it ought to be. Not some kind of a side-show.

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

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

The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

I'm sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.

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.