Transcript of The bigs in basketball are more skilled than ever

When you came into the league, you were one of the first people to be viewed as what we now know as a unicorn, someone who has an excellent size, but also a very unique skillset. But now it's such a more prevalent thing where guys are 6'9, 6'10, 6'11, and have the full, complete skillset of maybe a guard. How is the player development different then compared to the player development now as far as how they treated big men who had a little bit more of a guard skillset?

It was unique back then because the game was played inside out. And now you see guys who just have all skills, guys that's 6'10, 7'0, shooting threes that can dribble, that can go to mid post. It's just amazing to see it now. I'll probably be playing center or forward if I was playing right now. Yeah. And plus, one of the big difference, too, Ron, is when we was coming up, we really just hooped. It.