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

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

People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.

You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.

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.

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

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