I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.

It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.

You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.

For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association with your family's wealth.

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.

I have a hoarding problem because my mom is from a third-world country. And she taught me that you can never throw away anything because you never know when a dictator is going to overtake the country and snatch all of your wealth.

I understand; I can see it from two ways: people trying to get that money and leave the game early and people trying to set history or whatever.