I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

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.

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.

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

The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.

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

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