First and foremost, Indiana will always be a basketball state.
You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
Every kid who just played basketball knew about the Boston Celtics. They're one of the few teams who were always on national TV along with the Lakers.
It was larger than life - the 76ers, Dr. J, Moses Malone, Mo Cheeks, Andrew Toney and Bobby Jones - those were the teams that I grew up following.
The Warriors team with Baron Davis, Matt Barnes, Stephen Jackson - that was an incredible team.
I think the greatest player I've ever played against was Magic Johnson. Next, was Larry Bird. Then, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.
It's cool to be a Laker: that's basketball royalty, in a sense. The best franchise in basketball, so to be drafted by them is pretty cool, pretty special.
The Lakers have figured out how to win in every era.
Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of my childhood and it was the peak of my basketball interest as a kid.
I grew up in L.A. in the '80s, and the Lakers were the biggest thing to ever hit the world at that time.
Duke as a program speaks for itself. Coach K is the greatest coach of all time.
Boston is a very proud franchise. The NBA misses them when they are not in the mix. They, along with teams like the Knicks and 76ers are a big part of the heart, soul and history of the league.
The 76ers hold a special place in my heart and I am intrigued by the opportunity to return to Philadelphia, where I was part of a rebuilding program, joining the team the year after it went 9-73 and going to the NBA Finals just four years later.
There's been so many unbelievable players in Los Angeles, maybe the best of the best.
What Chris Webber and the Fab Five - Jalen, Juwan, Ray, Jimmy and those guys - they created a culture, and Michigan was a beneficiary of that. Chris Webber was a big part of it.
The Spurs are a great organization.
Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.
I always say the Boston Celtics of the 1960s were the only true dynasty, because they won nine titles in a 10-year span.
There was a time period where I was obsessed with the rivalry between the Lakers and the Celtics in the 1980s.
