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

My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.

As a matter of fact I've been asked to come when I'm free to play at the White House.

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

I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

24,000 people, 18,000 of them children, die every day because of hunger. Each year we bring food to nearly 90 million people in more than 80 countries. Food - there's no greater gift, and no better way to give it than the World Food Programme.

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