I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.

Practices were tough.

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.