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Asia Global. To help keep your account secure, please log-in again. Several top teams face a critical test away from home. Who has the edge in 16 games this weekend? Home NBA. SI Recommends. By AP News. By Justin Barrasso. Peter Wehling. It was the first time I felt no pain in 18 months. While I experienced some soreness after, which can happen after Regenokine, I was finally ready to get to work. I worked out six days a week until training camp. I did not miss one day.

This was my schedule: I would wake up at 7 in the morning and lift from 8 to 10 a. Then I would work out with Joe—I wasn't doing court stuff at the time; just on the bike, elliptical and Arc Trainer—from to noon. After that, I would eat a spinach salad for lunch, rest at home and then work out with Joe again at like 4 p. At night, I was going to bed with my kids at like 11 for the most part.

I had that routine every day until I started playing basketball six weeks later, when I had lost 27 pounds. I knew that was an opportunity for me, but my pride at first held me back.

I'm like, "I shouldn't have to try out for these teams, man. My body of work should speak for itself. He said, "Al, you'll probably get a bigger deal and all that stuff. I want a team that wants to sign me because they know who I am. And if nobody signs me, then that's on me. Around that time, Washington had heard about my recovery—I was back dunking and dominating during scrimmages at Impact. Tommy Sheppard, the Wizards' senior vice president of basketball operations, came to Impact to watch me play.

He said, "Al, we want you around these guys even if you can't even play. We just know how valuable you are as a veteran. Even with the Wizards, I surprised them the way I came into training camp. I was keeping up with everybody. Talking to the trainers here, they were telling me when they signed me that the team's biggest goal was for me to play at least 50 games.

That didn't happen because I still had right knee pain in the first few months of the season. If I had to do last summer all over again, I probably wouldn't have done so much on-court stuff. I was literally on my feet all day, but I just felt like I had something to prove. Now look at me. Even though I'm playing on a bad knee that probably has loose bone fragments right now, I'm contributing. I'm feeling better; I'm now pounds with 7 percent body fat.

Nobody can tell me I can't do anything, man. The only person who can tell me that is God. Nobody else in this world can tell me I can't do something. I think I can play next year if I want to. I haven't even made up my mind if I'm going to play next year because I've got to see where my knee's at. I'm going to try Regenokine first this summer. But my commitment was to the Wizards to make the playoffs and we did that, and now we're going to try to make some noise when we get there.

It's funny because Thomas Knox, the Wizards' director of player performance and rehabilitation, even admitted to me a couple weeks ago, "When you first got back, I ain't even going to lie, in my mind there was no chance in hell you were going to play again this year. If all the rest of these dudes had your commitment, these dudes would be amazing. Looking ahead, I would love to stay in Washington—even working in their front office or joining their coaching staff.

Randy Wittman loves me. I've already had conversations with the team. I ain't going to lie, what would really be ideal for me is if they would sign me at the All-Star break next season. So let me have that time to take care of my body and get my leg strong. I can do 30 games; that's nothing. Obviously I don't have a Hall of Fame legacy or anything like that, but I just want to go out on my own terms and I feel like the opportunity is right here in front of me.