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

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

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 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.

I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

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