It was difficult being a neutral broadcaster - in the people's eyes - because of my association with the Celtics.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that's happened to me as a player.
I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.
I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on.
I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
Broadcasting was something, I don't want to say it came easy, but it's something I'm comfortable doing.
I didn't take constructive criticism the way I should have. When I finally caught up to that, that's when I went to being the MVP.
This is a polarizing statement, as I have come to discover, but I am a Pats, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan from birth until death.
I fantasized being a broadcaster.