Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes.

I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter.

I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

He loves power. He loves control because others, you know, dad and stuff like that, but he's just a great guy. He's just a great guy.