Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?
BILL WALTONWhen I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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No matter how good you get, there’s always something further out there.
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[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time.
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Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
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We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
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In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
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I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I’ve had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
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If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.
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I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn’t speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.
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I believe in science and evolution. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon.
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I’m a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.
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I’ve got my iPod and I’ve got it on shuffle. If I’m not ready for one, I’ll click to the next one. My wife, Lori, and our children, Adam, Nate, Chris, and Luke, will all tell you that when I find one I like it can stay on repeat for weeks on end.
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