Rasheed Wallace contemplates retirement

James Edwards — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:53:37 +0000

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.

Rasheed Wallace joined Ben Wallace on the Pistons to shut down opposing teams, deny everything in the paint and deliver the World Championship in the NBA to the Detroit Pistons. Sure he got a lot of technicals. Rasheed wears his emotions right out on his …wait, they don’t have sleeves.

If you watch the Pistons, you would see that many of Rasheed’s techs were for standing up for a teammate. His teammates love him.

Alas, time has passed Rasheed by. He no longer can consistently post up and hit the turn around J. He no longer even wants to. Without big Ben Wallace at his side, you do not even see his great defense like the times he shut down Jermaine O’Neal to put away the Pacers two years in a row.

Rasheed Wallace with one of his friends

Now he may be gone.

SLAM contributor J. Gamble [making his debut with us next issue] hears from a close personal friend of Rasheed Wallace’s that unless Sheed gets $8 million to play next year, he’s going to retire.
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Goodbye to Shaq

James Edwards — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:08:22 +0000

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.”

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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.