This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

But people don't know if I can teach the game. I know I can. My experience in Oklahoma was positive. It opened my eyes to how the game is played - the interaction among players, fans and media, how all that works. You have to know about the business of the game and how the actions of players and coaches affect the business. I think I have it down now.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

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

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.