Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

We might make a lot of money but, we also spend a lot of money.

When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do.

Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable.

I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.