"THEY REALLY DIDN'T take me seriously that I was going to leave," Tony Parker says in a room full of folding chairs at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, more than 1,200 miles from the place he still calls home.
Still hurt by his departure from San Antonio, Parker nonetheless wants to "focus on the great 17 years we had."
So when Parker does make it back home Monday to San Antonio's AT&T Center, there are a few things he wants you to know.
Parker loves San Antonio -- misses "everything about it," he says -- and plans to live there once his sure-to-be Hall of Fame career comes to a close.