Goodbye to Shaq
September 11, 2008 by James Edwards
Filed under Los Angeles Lakers, NBA Basketball
NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Shaq – the big guy smiles and says he is leaving
Well, you knew it had to happen sometime. The Shaq has announced when he will retire.
“My basketball career will be over in 735 days,” O’Neal told News 13 television in Orlando, Fla. “And being an educated man, I’ve always had things to fall back on. So one of my options is law enforcement.”
In modern times there have been 3 dominating players, in terms of them having no equal in what they could do. The obvious one is Michael Jordan. All he did was win, win, and win again.
The next one is a bit further back. Wilt Chamberlain. Look up some of his statistics and they will boggle your mind. Wilt was a 7′ 350 pound man in the day of 6′ 9″ centers. He scored at will. Wilt did not always win, but scoring and rebounding put him in a class all by himself. By some accounts, scoring with the ladies also puts him in a class all by himself.
The third one has to be Shaq. No, not the Shaq of the last couple of years. That is an older less motivated often injured Shaq. No, you have to back up to when he played with the Lakers.
Try year after year of 27+ points per game and double digit rebounds. Even more dominating was to watch him play. He would get the ball and just start backing you down. There was nothing you could do and then he would wheel around and slam home a dunk. Thunderous. Coach, pull me now please, before they give Shaq the ball again.
The Shaq also displayed a personality that just draws people in. Shaq will be missed, bigtime.
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Shaq displayed an ego-driven personality where pablum and spazzing out like a 12 year old was eaten up by the Romper Room media. He is a child in a giant man’s body. The racist jokes, restraining orders and the whole “Superman” persona didn’t and don’t draw me in.
Q:Seriously, who calls themselves “Superman”? A: Your most ****sh friend.
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