When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

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But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

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It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

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