I'm a fan of Kobe and LeBron. People always try to make me pick one or the other, but I think they're both great. They both deliver.
People don't realize how talented the NBA is.
I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.
If you look at the history of the NBA, guys that came out of high school are the guys that held the NBA together. You look a Kobe Bryant, you look at a LeBron, these are household names.
I think the greatest player I've ever played against was Magic Johnson. Next, was Larry Bird. Then, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
That's what people don't understand, that in the NBA these are the best 450 players in the world, in the game of basketball, are in the NBA.
LeBron and Rondo are arguably two of the best leaders ever.
When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.
Magic was always my favorite. I think Jordan was the best player ever, but Magic was my personal favorite.
I always found it a great challenge playing against Michael Jordan, to play against Magic Johnson, to play against Larry Bird, to play against all those good players because it's something that you can take away from it.
Guys like Alvin Adams, Sweet D Walter Davis, Larry Nance, and Kyle Macy became my basketball heroes.
Kane is one of the best big men of all-time.
I love the fact that, if I don't win multiple championships, that I probably won't be mentioned amongst the other guys in Celtics history who've done it before. That type of stuff motivates me.
We had guys come out of high school, Moses Malone, Kevin Garnett, LeBron James, but all these guys could play.
When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA.
It's the Basketball Hall of Fame, not the NBA Hall of Fame. So, for basketball, I played in Olympics; I played in the Junior Olympics. With what I've done and given to basketball is all Hall of Fame.
Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were the two guys with unstoppable moves.
There are certain people in our business that you don't replace - Bob Knight, Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzyewski, and you don't replace John Wooden, either.
I grew up watching Dr. J, and I was like, 'Oh my God, this guy is the greatest basketball player I ever saw.'
