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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

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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.

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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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Basketball is basketball.

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I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.

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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: November 24th, 1938

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