If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

Those Grizzlies are more like pandas.

Everybody in the world has an ego. The only difference between us is we have a reason to have an ego.

Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice.

Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we're never going to be successful not because of you white people but because of other black people.

I’d rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can’t play.

You know what's amazing to me? America. There have been so many people who have stepped up, and I'm just proud to be an American. Yeah, there were some mistakes made, but I don't play the blame game. Let's move forward and rebuild New Orleans.