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.

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 played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.

There's so many young peoople who start to play basketball and never learn the fundamentals.

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.

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