The Sneaker Rub

"I know," sighs Larry Bird. "I'm sorry. It's a bad habit."

So why did you do it, Larry?

"It goes way back, long before high school," he explains. "Back home, we wore our tennis shoes everywhere. You wore 'em to school. You wore 'em outside on the playground. Then you wore 'em inside. You wiped your hands on the soles to keep 'em clean. Later on, I was doing it without realizing it."