- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
- Championship Team
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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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!
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 game.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
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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.
- Nov 07, 2020
This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 to change up the way you go at a player.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020