Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT.

To me, doing the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona for NBC, just seeing the Dream Team take the floor, was a thrill for me. I dont think there was another team in any sport with that high level of athletes playing together.

I would never scream at my kids, never raise my voice. But as they often tell me, they were so well behaved that screaming was not necessary.

I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager.

In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers.

I feel very fortunate that I'm doing what I wanted to do from the third grade on. I became very interested in the sports broadcasting aspect even at that early age. I'd turn down the sound on the TV and do games in my house - and probably get everybody looking for me to go into a room and lock the door so they didn't have to hear it.

Game calls cant be just, Oh, by the way, as part of a larger discussion.

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.