You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore..

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 need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os..

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 li….

I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?.

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have t….

Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your ga….

I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals..

The players have no real self-esteem when it comes to putting the best image out there in a real competitive fashion..

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race..

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

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money..

College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymo….

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 sho….

People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson..

Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship..

But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is takin….

When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible..

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, some….

But after that you don't see a lot of real good fundamental play. You see a showboat-type basketball which is almost parallel to street basketball..

Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars..