"Why do you play basketball?"
"Actually, my goal is to become a coach, but I don't seem to have the talent to be a coach, so I can only choose to play in the NBA."
"Some people say that you are a soft inside guy who can only float and shoot from the outside."
"Which guy who lost to me said this? He sounds like a fat guy. Tell him that he will never win the championship without me."
"Why did you skip college and go directly to the NBA?"
"As long as there is a university in the United States that is willing to give me a full basketball scholarship, I will not become the best shooter in history so quickly."
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The introduction is weak, just leave it like that, a basketball story starting in the mid-1990s.