I'm sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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