1. "Unless I play extremely badly, they will not have this idea. No matter where I go, I will make people sad... This is a question I have never thought about, My agent might think so."

2."I'm not walking into this scenario thinking I'm failing. I'm walking in thinking I'm confident and pretty sure that I. can make it work. If I sit here and listened to everyone else tell me that I can't do it, then obviously I wouldn't be here." I don't go into the game feeling like I'm going to lose. I came back full of confidence that I could still make a difference. If I was just sitting here and being told I couldn't come back, I definitely wouldn't be here.

3."Physically, I know that I'm not 25 years old. I'm not stepping up and saying I will be 25 years old when I step on that court, but I feel like I can play the game of basketball at the highest level, and that's what I aim to do." "Physically, I know I'm not the 25-year-old guy I am anymore, and when I step on the court, I don't say I am. As strong as I was at 25, but I believe I can reach the highest level and that's my goal."

4."I come from where you're expected to dominate and you are the target - everybody's shooting at you. Well, here, no one's expecting anything, so I'm kind of coming from the underdog aspect of things, which is kind of different, but yet it's fresh, it's new. We're not expected to win 50 games. From what I hear from most of you guys, we're not expected to win 30 games. And that's a challenge. I'm not coming in with these preconceived ideas that we're going to be 50-32. I' ll be totally surprised if we're 50-32, but I think we can be far better than 19-63." When I retired, I could control the court, I was everyone's target, but now , no one expected anything from me, I appeared in a low-key manner, the contrast was too big, but it was also very fresh. No one expected us to get to 50 wins, a lot of people said we weren't going to get to 30 wins. It's a challenge... I'm not coming back with confidence that we're going to win 50 games. I would be surprised if we were 50-32, but I think we'd definitely be better than 19-63.

5."I am going to have to be patient and let things fall into place and not expect myself to come out and score 40 or 50 points the first night. I'm just going to try to work my way back into the intensity of the game." I will have enough patience, I don't dare to expect to score 40 or 50 points in the first game.

I will gradually adapt to the fierce competition in my own way.

6."If that was my concern, I wouldn't do this. I'm not afraid to take on a challenge. I'm not afraid to take a step. If I fall, I fall, pick myself up and move on." If I cared about this, I wouldn't come back... I'm never afraid of a challenge... I'm never afraid of taking a new step, if I If I fail, I will get up and start again.