Morning Express with Robin Meade

Good news: Manti Te'o's girlfriend made Maxim Magazine's Hot 100 List.

Bad news: It's the fake girlfriend who only existed on the internet that caused Te'o so many headaches over the past few months.

When you’re a big guy like Harlem Globetrotter Nate “Big Easy” Lofton, you need room to stretch out when you’re on the road. “I am 6-foot, 9 inches, 260 pounds on a good day -- 270 on a good day, too!” Lofton laughs. “My favorite way to travel is our team bus,” he explains, “I’ve got a lot of leg room.”

Being on tour with the team for four months or more poses additional challenges when it comes to his size 16 shoes! “I've been told I pack more shoes than a girl would pack,” jokes Lofton. “We might be in California today. We could be in New York tomorrow. They might call and say I have to go to Russia the next week, so I need to be prepared.”   

He's the NBA's all-time leading scorer, six-time NBA MVP, a best selling author, co-pilot of the ill-fated jet in the slapstick movie smash "Airplane," and the only player in the 75-year history of the NCAA to be named Most Valuable Player of the tournament for three consecutive years. And he's really, really tall.

Kareem Abdul Jabbar sat down with Robin Meade and Carlos Diaz on Friday to offer his special insight into what the athletes competing in the Final Four this weekend in Atlanta are going through, and to offer some advice. Specifically: Don't "go off on some tangent."