Although you just signed with the Boston Celtics, your most daunting competition this month comes from Rachael Ray, whom you’re facing in a cook-off on your reality television show “Shaq Vs.” Who are your other opponents this season?

Justin Bieber, Dale Earnhardt Jr., golf against Charles Barkley, monologue against Jimmy Kimmel.

In one episode, you compete against the winner of the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee. Are you good at spelling?

Yes.

How do you spell the name of Wally Szczerbiak, your former teammate on the Cleveland Cavaliers?

S-C-Z-E-R-B-I-A-K.

Very close.

I knew it was close.

Are you concerned about the declining fortunes of Cleveland now that you and LeBron James have left?

We would have liked to have given them a better ending.