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

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

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really.

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

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.