Basketball used to be so much fun. Now I don't sleep for a week at a time. There's a reason I never smile out there anymore. This is the coldest, flesh-peddlingest business around. Other people miss practice and you never hear anything. If I did, the front office would be down at the AP office typing the release. Everybody would hear about it, just because I'm Pistol Pete."

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