Shaq chat. On the tan DT wants Janel to get in Phoenix: "I look good with the skin color I have."

On becoming an undersized post in the W: "I will do my best." (Why not "I can also play the 4"?)

On music: "A lot of rap... But for games, it's anything fast with a good beat."

On The Pick: "It's not meant to be a dirty play, at all. It's basically an opportunity to free up our point guards.... I had the chance to let her know that someone was there on defense and she can't be up in our point guard's shorts."

On her secret other nickname: "Juan."

More Shaq talk in Friday's Strib.