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I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'

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Charles Barkley
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 20
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