Man, I love you too, wow! First I just I just want to thank God for loving me, Anna and blessing me. I think I own I thank him for blessing me to be the man that I am and have no regrets on being a guy that I am and the person that my family love my friends, love my teammates, love a fan's love. All day. Mr Kell, Angelo on in the hall of fame for honor me and it's such a great way is truly a blessed and humbled by arm. I wanna thank a. Coach Thompson. Goes something was safe in my life. For giving me the opportunity, I was recruited by every school in the country for football, am basketball Anna. The incident happened in high school and all that was taken away no other teams, no other schools or recruit me anymore, mom went to Georgetown in bed again, give me a chance and he did. An s crazy too, think that you were the best football player in the world, which I did and be sitting up here as a hall of Famer in basketball. You tell me God ain't good. After I left. Georgetown on I was a high basketball player I had sound. But. Once I started to listen to Larry brown and take. And take constructive criticism on. I learned that a. How much of a great coach that he is um. Once I started listening to him, the way I supposed to and and was coached by, that's when I became an MVP, that's when I became all stuff, that's when I made first team all NBA once I got the message from him and I followed his lead all the way R. Doctor J. Those shoes, the big shoes, literally. But I got to Philadelphia a man. Those were some big shoes to fill with attend assad's 10 foot. Um. Anna, you know he was always supportive of me throughout my career always gave me words wisdom, just a great man. As most schools do too. Oh! I remember. Coming home from school one day and. My beautiful mom. Stage you go on to basketball practice like that's why I go on to basketball practice, brass ball is soft, you don't know me, I play football, I'm a football player, say what you gon and I even mark that cried and screamed and kicked and clawed and had to be dragged Breck, I got to practice and I saw all the guys they played on a football team there, so from that point I play basketball, so I have my mom to thank for that. Mom, my dad may. This is why. This would you create a daddy the switch may I am so proud of you. Being that person that I looked up to and. Being a dad to take care of his key is showing me the way show me about taking care of family, and when you pass that torch to me I was gracious to take it and run with and I appreciate you and I love you, man the media on treating me like they did throughout my career, I always came home and forgot about all of that once I saw you, so thanks for being my crutch and I love you so much. I have to I have. I have to, I have to think this man because without his vision, I promise you there wouldn't be no all the fame Allen Iverson standing at this podium if it wasn't for this guy, he gave me the vision man and on. You know you want to be fast like Isaiah, you wanna shoot like bird, no rebound like Barkley passed like magic, be dominant like shack. But man, I wanted to be like Mike C, I mean on I remember the first time I played against and I walked out on the court. And I looked at him. And for the first time in my life, a human being didn't look real to me. No me like I don't know if your watch to fail show would eat, he talked about a certain incident where he seeing somebody seeing Rick James, and like i've literally seen his aura like. Like he didn't look like he was, it looked like he was going and I am and I'm sitting there and I'm saying to myself like that's my I'm looking at him, I can't stop looking at him like I am looking at his shoes and I'm like me, he got only joins you like. I mean it was Mike, it was my idol with my hero and I remember just hating and next so much and bad boys were beating them up the way they did I used to watch him and sit on my mom's dress as she zoomy boy if you don't get back from that TV before you go blind you better like I wanted to be that close to him, just watching him. Man. My sister brandy, I love you the greatest! I love you for all the times daddy gave you 100 dollars and you will give me 95 of. I love you and I thank you for everything you did for your big brother. LeBron and his family rich math Randy, Chris Paul and his family monti Williams and his family snagging Wang Ke out there, the rare man J to kiss to block. And Michael Jackson. For being my theme music throughout my career. not too much long aberdeen rate isThe fans worldwide in China, I love my fans in China, they love me so much and. I love them for respecting my grind, n on I go to China. Every year and I will continue to for the rest of my life. The Philly fans. What I love about the only relationship that I feel a player has with a group of fans, it is probably Michael Jordan and his bands in Chicago. But my relationship with the fans in Philadelphia is like no other. Thank you. Thank you all for your support over the years, let me grow your let me make my mistakes, never jumped off the bandwagon, continue to support me like true fans are supposed to Jack. I love them so much as a person, obviously the most dominant big man we've ever seen ever. Man of Kobe. She combat it, um I know this is retired now he is going to go on and do even greater things is a great man, and I love him and I respect him, but he bought everything out of me on the basketball court, and I appreciate him for that I love your I love the fact that now your can walk around and stick your chest out and say, your hall of fame, us all, a barbershop to get my family and all the arguments my friends have with people in the barber shop and a hair salon, you know, now you can say, look, my man is solidified on this note just one of those last but not least, thing. My number one person. In the world. He has them. Um it's one, I percent.