" This feels like a post-championship press conference."

Alonzo Mourning is used to a workout, but he didn’t think his latest victory would take nine years.

“I believed in this and I knew this community needed it more than ever,” said Mourning, as Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and other government, civic and business leaders came together Friday to celebrate the grand opening of Courtside Apartments.

It’s a $22.8 million affordable housing complex in Overtown developed by Miami’s Housing Trust Group and the former Miami Heat star’s nonprofit, AM Affordable Housing.

Read more at the Miami Herald.