I tell them the same things I told them before, bring a championship to Miami.

I told the guys that something good would come of this. We worked our butts off.

I told them, 'Shaq wants to win the championship. He wants to prove he can do it without Kobe. Detroit wants to get it back again,'

It feels like we just won the Pac-10 championship.

When I was at Florida, I had told him I really liked him. And when he decided to leave Miami, he remembered that, and he called us.

Nobody has changed their stories from what they told The Times.