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I never needed to like the guy standing across from me. That wasn't part of the job.
I needed to beat him.
People look back at the 1980s now and they remember the championships, the Garden, the Lakers, the Pistons, all the great players. They see old highlights and everybody seems like part of the same history. Well, it didn't feel that way when we were playing. I wasn't thinking about history when somebody knocked me on my ass. I wasn't thinking about friendship when Detroit came into Boston trying to take something from us. If you wore the other uniform, you were in my way.



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