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I couldn’t imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.

Bill Walton

I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.
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Dad Play Sight
When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
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Balls Defense Stomach
Basketball, Sports, Winning, Average
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Conferences Eastern Player
Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody – from any planet!
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Basketball Funny Planets
I mean, I’m 6-foot-11, I’ve got red hair, freckles, I’m a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I’ve got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I’m a Deadhead.
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Basketball Foot Freckles Hair Mean
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
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Basketball Civilization Country
It changes over the course of life, depending on how you’re feeling. There’s this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you’re hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.
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Catalog Dream Feelings Incredible Song
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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Football Future Games Player
There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over.
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Dream Home Starting
I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
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Grateful Love School Summer
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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Basketball Friend Grateful Met Player
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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Boys Collection Fantastic Grateful Teenager
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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Basketball Civilization Mean Nasty
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
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Basketball Change Years
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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Changing Life Pain Running
[Peter] Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-’60s with the Grateful Dead,
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Getting Grateful Ready Song Strong

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