“I confronted him and expressed my displeasure in the article,” Walker recalls. “I asked him and basically told him to keep his comments to strictly basketball. [I told him] that I was not appreciative of some of the language that he used, and he’s taking it to a step that it’s going to get bigger than basketball. “So, we had this conversation, and I basically told him, ‘I’m gonna let you slide, but don’t come around me. You can write what you want to write. If I go 0-for-18, obviously, that’s your job; you’re gonna write it. But, keep any personal attacks of my name out of your mouth. You’re not allowed to have personal attacks of me anymore. If I go 0-for-18, you can write that. If I play bad, do what you need to do. I can’t stop you from that. But, you will never have another personal attack on me either.”