COLIN COWHERD: Would you have been able to leave one and done? Were you mature enough to do that?

- Well, I stayed four years. Graduated from a junior in 1983.

COLIN COWHERD: Four?

- And I was-- I had a chance to come out in high school. And I did not choose to come out, because I was 190 pounds soaking wet. And coming out, you're playing Kareem, Robert Parish, Moses Malone, Darryl Dawkins. So those guys were grown men. So I wasn't quite physically ready to come play.

Then I had Red Auerbach come to my house, my parents' house, and had a million dollars in a briefcase.

COLIN COWHERD: What?

- And said, come out and play for the mighty Boston Celtics. So Kevin McHale would not have gone to the Celtics that year.

- So they literally-- you were a high schooler?

- I was a high schooler.

COLIN COWHERD: And they bought a million dollars in a bag to your house.

- Yep, yep.

COLIN COWHERD: And you said no.

- I said no.

COLIN COWHERD: What did your parents-- I mean, it was a family decision? That's awfully mature a decision, Ralph.

RALPH SAMPSON: Well, I looked at my mom and dad, and I said, are we OK? Are you guys OK? They said, we worked all of our lives. And we're OK. And when you're ready to go, you'll tell us. So it's not the money thing. It's, are you ready to play?

And my mother played basketball in high school. And so she kind of knew some of the ins and outs of it. A very passionate family about the game of sports, and just life itself. So I wasn't ready. I just wasn't ready to leave that setting yet.