I'm still here. I'm a force to be reckoned with... you have to come take my spot, and not through Twitter and not through the media, come take my spot. I'm ready to go. As big men in the league, there are two who have done something special during this millennium. I'm one and Tim Duncan is the other. Anyone else has to come upstairs and see the Shogun. I'm still the Shogun.

I am a tropical black man.

I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.

I've been 11, 12 percent body fat my whole career. But when you've got a big, sexy, beautiful man that's up in the 340s, 350s, the way you guys were taught on this planet, you're going to automatically think it's fat.

I came here with the perfect chemist's perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.

I was kind of hoping it was Anna Kournikova.

Me and Penny are going to be the Kareem and Magic of the '90s.