Reports last week that stated Clyde Drexler was considering returning to the NBA, not as a coach or executive, but as a player, shocked basketball insiders.

In a clarifying follow-up Drexler said, "We were kidding around about today?s game in the NBA, why the players don?t have a certain skill of an earlier era.  (The interviewer) said: ?Guys like you need to come back. If you were playing today, what could you do?? And I said if I only had to play 10 minutes a half, I could easily last a season. We were laughing about it. And then it shows up in the papers."