Most ferocious was Kobe. Fiercest, most competitive, it was Kobe. D Wade is second after that.

I painted my toenails before Dennis Rodman. One time at training camp, I stubbed my toe and the nail came loose. My mom gave me some toenail hardener, and I painted over it. I scored 40-something points that night, so it became a ritual. Paint my toenails, score 40 points.

I'm probably going to have to go with Kobester. He's an assassin with LeBron coming right after.

When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

As a man, you got to know how to take it, so I just took it.

We had more great times than bad times together, but they've moved on, I've moved on. I have a new team now and I have a new focus.

But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.

Before I became the 'Great Test of the West," I was the 'Beast of the East.'

It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family.