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"I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson."
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"It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race."
"This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money."
"I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school."
"You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os."
"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."
"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 taking advantage of the situation."
"The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches."
"It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!"
"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."
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