Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks defeated a Cleveland Cavaliers squad that was missing a few key pieces — namely LeBron James, Mo Williams and Shaquille O’Neal. Nowitzki poured in 19 points as the Mavs beat the Cavs by a final score of 93-82. With the win, Dallas is now 4-1 in the preseason.
Nowitzki scored his 19 points on 8-for-11 shooting and also had five rebounds, three assists, two blocks and one steal. Kris Humphries, Drew Gooden and Rodrigue Beaubois were also in double figures for the Mavs.
The LeBron-less Cavs were led by Jamario Moon’s 18 points, ten rebounds and …read more

Jason Collins, the veteran backup center, has agreed to a contract to join the Atlanta Hawks. Although terms of the contract weren’t immediately released, it is expected that Collins signed for the league minimum.
Earlier in the offseason, the Hawks signed Joe Smith to add more size to their team. Collins is further insurance at the bigman positions.
After playing with the New Jersey Nets for the first six and a half years of his career, Collins has split the last one nd a half years with the Memphis Grizzlies and the Minnesota Timberwolves. Last season with the T’Wolves, the 7-footer out …read more

Shaquille O’Neal has a new TV show called Shaq VS where he takes on top athletes in challenges that are skewed his way. Not just skewed because Shaq is a freaking giant … he also gets head starts, score handicaps, and all sorts of other things. So basically there’s very little point to these competitions past whether these athletes can outperform some random Shaq-related benchmark.
Below you can see Shaq boxing it up with Oscar De La Hoya for an episode that will air on ABC September 8th. The week after, he’ll try to outswim lazy pothead Michael Phelps and then …read more

As if having a pro wrestler as the heavyweight champ and four former NFL players on this season of the Ultimate Fighter wasn’t enough inter-sports mixing already. Now we have none other than NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal harassing UFC president Dana White for a chance to fight in the Octagon.
Here’s what Dana White had to say on the subject during an segment on the Dan Le Batard show: “Shaq’s pretty serious, Shaq text messages me all the time and is twittering me all the time saying … he wants to fight Brock is what he says. And I said go …read more

Shaquille O’Neal is on the move again. This time, Shaq will join LeBron James on the Cleveland Cavaliers. The LeBron and Shaq show will attempt to bring an NBA championship to the city of Cleveland for the first time.
In return for Shaq, the Phoenix Suns received Ben Wallace, Sasha Pavlovic, cash and a second round pick in next year’s draft. The Suns did the deal for financial reasons as Pavlovic has an unguaranteed contract and Wallace is said to be leaning toward retirement.
The 37-year-old O’Neal is coming off of a very good season. He averaged 17.8 points, 8.4 rebounds, 1.4 …read more

The question is raised season after season, and yet no legitimate answer is given.
Does Kobe need to win an NBA Championship in order to get out of the ominous shadow that is Shaquille O’Neal?

Kobe Bryant is sick of answering the question, sick of hearing it. He’s so fed up, in fact, that he got a little spiteful this time around when he was asked about his legacy without Shaq:
“People think Shaq would have won a championship without me on that team? They’re crazy.”
Oh, snap.
Unfortunately for Kobe (and every other major superstar in professional sports) the media likes to jump onto …read more

As many of you know, Shaquille O’Neal is on Twitter. You can find Shaquille O’Neal on Twitter at twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ.
Personally, Twitter I think Twitter is pretty lame. It’s basically blogging for people who don’t like typing a lot. But that said, reading Shaq’s Twitter page is a must.
And as you can see in this story about Shaq meeting Twitter friends, reading his page can lead to hilarity. Thankfully, the Twitterers are also bloggers so we got a recap of the events.
Even though Shaq doesn’t come across as the most likely person in the world to be on the internet, he …read more

We’re going to miss Shaq. Although the 36-year-old Shaquille O’Neal can be hard to watch sometimes on the basketball court, there’s no denying his funny antics. Behind the deep voice, the Big Shaqtus is just the Big Kid at Heart.
In this Shaq video, you get to see Shaq dance with the JabbaWockeeZ. The Shaq and JabbaWockeeZ dance video can be seen below.
If it weren’t for his gargantuan size, it’d be tough to tell the difference between Shaq and a member of the JabbaWockeeZ. He pulled off his dance skit at the 2009 NBA All-Star Game rather well. He gave his …read more

Just when you thought the Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant saga was over, Shaq is spotted on a new video dissing his former teammate in a rap song.
This guy has a lot of side jobs (rapper, jockey, actor, police officer). Maybe he needs to stick to just one. Check out the video below of Shaq’s freestyle rap at a club and new dis of the 2008 NBA MVP.

Check out this video of Shaquille O’Neal of the NBA’s Phoenix Suns dressed as a jockey. Shaq, who was at the Belmont Stakes, was pimping his Vitamin Water drink.
During the Belmont Stakes, all eyes were on Big Brown as he was trying to complete the Triple Crown. However, Big Brown wasn’t so big after all as the horse finished in last place.
There is no truth to the rumor that the reason that Big Brown was so slow was due to Shaq being the replacement jockey. Although I’m don’t think even Shaq as a jockey could have done …read more