But after that you don't see a lot of real good fundamental play. You see a showboat-type basketball which is almost parallel to street basketball.

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

The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

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.

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

When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.

You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.