It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

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.

But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

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

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.