Center is a very tough position to play.

Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.

Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can’t be. Deciding which is which is part of maturing.

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.

What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.

I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.