Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
BILL WALTONThe visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
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Right now, you know, it’s not about the refs or anything else, it’s about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.
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Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He’s already one of the greatest players to have played the game.
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Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
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Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.
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Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.
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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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But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it’s the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan’s beard look good.
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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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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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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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My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain.
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I had this fantastic collection of Grateful Dead T-shirts and live concert music the band had give me over all these years, decades of material, and when our boys became teenagers they started going through everything and wearing the shirts and listening to the music and that’s what the Grateful Dead is all about.
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I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
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