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.

I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.

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

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

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.

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

We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.