The NBA is becoming a global game.

After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.

When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball to the best of my abilities. I get to go around the world and not only share the game but also my philanthropic work. Building a hospital in the Congo is one of the proudest achievements of my life.

When an elevator brings u upstairs, you better send it back down in order to bring others up!

The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

My favorite memory is my five years with the Nuggets. From my first day to my last day is a great memory. There wasn't a year that I was a Nugget that I didn't think we succeeded.

When you take the elevator to the top, please remember to send it back down so someone else might use it.