You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

People will think there are no other great ballplayers. Look at Garnett. Look at Duncan, Shaq, Kobe. Look at the players with Sacramento. The have a really good basketball team.

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

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.

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