Shaquille O’Neal and Charles Barkley Waste No Time Demolishing Ben Simmons: ‘Just ‘Cause We Pay Certain Guys a Lot of Money, That Doesn’t Mean You’re a Great Player’ Tim van Straten
Shaquille O’Neal Christened a Lakers Media Day by Dropping His Pants and Showing Reporters the Full Moon During a Rick Fox Interview Martin Fenn
Shaquille O’Neal Gives Strong Arguments for Why TNT’s ‘Inside the NBA’ Has Edge Over Other Similar Shows: ‘People Know That We Know What We’re Talking About’ David Wysong
Kobe Bryant Refused to Pass to Shaquille O’Neal Despite His Persistent Demand for the Ball: ‘Get It Off the Rebound If I Miss’ Bob Garcia IV
Charles Barkley Once Gave Shaquille O’Neal Some Blunt Advice Before the Diesel Left Orlando for LA: ‘Get out as Soon as You Can. F*** These People’ Andrew Hanlon
Shaquille O’Neal Compared His Rivalry With Alonzo Mourning to Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell But Appropriately Buried the Hatchet: ‘When It Comes to a Life-and-Death Situation, It Doesn’t Matter’ Martin Fenn
Shaquille O’Neal Made His Own Jingle to Poke Fun at Vlade Divac and the Kings in the 2002 Western Conference Finals: ‘Guess What? Kobe Dunked it in Your Face!’ Martin Fenn
Wilt Chamberlain Lambasted Shaquille O’Neal With How He Played: ‘Gets Away With What I Believe Is Murder’ Bob Garcia IV
LeBron James Has 4 Championships, but Shaquille O’Neal Strongly Believes He Should Have Another: ‘We Were No. 1’ David Wysong
Shaquille O’Neal’s Legendary Rookie Hazing Was Spared on Only 1 Player: ‘I Didn’t Want to Crush Him’ Tim van Straten
Shaquille O’Neal Dominated in the NBA but Sometimes Relied on 2 Massive Celebrities for Extra Motivation: ‘We’re Really Good Friends’ David Wysong
Shaquille O’Neal’s Best Game Ever Was Fueled by Revenge Against an Unaccommodating Front Office: ‘Don’t Ever Make Me Pay for Tickets’ Tim van Straten
Shaquille O’Neal Used a Violent Sleeper Hold to Shut Up an Irritating Suns Teammate and Knock Him Unconscious Right Before a Game Jack Dougherty
Shaquille O’Neal Has a Gigantic Platform but Is Using It to Become More Than Just a Hilarious NBA Legend: ‘I’m All About What’s Right and What’s Wrong’ David Wysong
Shaquille O’Neal Got the Ultimate Revenge on a Lakers Rookie Who Wasn’t Following His Orders: ‘Do What I Say’ Tim van Straten
Shaquille O’Neal Charged at a Longtime Teammate After Being Criticized For Not Boxing Out: ‘He Twisted Me Up Kind of Like a Pretzel’ Martin Fenn
Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal’s Former NBA Finals Foe Thinks They Would’ve Only Won 2 Championships Together Instead of 3 Had It Not Been for Some ‘Unstoppable’ Performances: ‘We Shoulda Won’ David Wysong
Shaquille O’Neal Once Suffered an Embarrassing Fate and Then Proclaimed He Would ‘Rip the Damn Backboard Off’ the Next Time He Played a Former NBA All-Star Martin Fenn
Shaquille O’Neal Recalls the Moment He Knew the Los Angeles Lakers Were Choosing Kobe Bryant Over Him: ‘It Was a Clear Signal That We Were Done’ Tim van Straten
Giannis Antetokounmpo Is Shaquille O’Neal Evolved: ‘The Domination That He Plays With, the Determination, and Just the Sheer Force’ Andrew Hanlon
Shaquille O’Neal Said Ben Simmons Is ‘Not That Good’ Even Though He Previously Compared Simmons to Jason Kidd and Magic Johnson Martin Fenn
Shaquille O’Neal Is a $400 Million Superstar but Says He’s ‘Done’ Being a Celebrity: ‘These Celebrities Are Going Freaking Crazy’ David Wysong
Shaquille O’Neal Got Retribution for a Playoff Loss to the Jazz by Slapping Greg Ostertag in the Face Martin Fenn
Shaquille O’Neal Thought He Died and Went to Heaven the First Time He Laid Eyes on Julius Erving: ‘God? God Is a Black Man?’ Jack Dougherty
Shaquille O’Neal Attempted 22 3-Pointers in His Career, but Gave Advice to a Player With Over 3,600 Attempts: ‘Just Leave It up There’ Tim van Straten
Shaquille O’Neal’s Famous Lob From Kobe Bryant In the 2000 Western Conference Finals Meant More to Him Than Just a Win: ‘That was the defining moment of our dominant run’ Andrew Hanlon
Shaquille O’Neal Once Called a Timeout at the Free-Throw Line Just Because He Saw Halle Berry: ‘My Heart Started Fluttering’ David Wysong
Shaquille O’Neal Refuses to Accept Losing Out on MVPs Because of Steve Nash: ‘It Was This Little, Good-Looking, David Beckham Little Guy Running Around Like a Gnat’ Martin Fenn
Jerry West Changed the Course of NBA History and Created the Shaquille O’Neal-Kobe Bryant Lakers With a Single Move Andrew Hanlon
Shaquille O’Neal’s Former NBA Finals Foe Says Shaq’s Dominance Could Only Be Stopped by a Specific Opponent That Never Played Basketball David Wysong
Shaquille O’Neal Admitted He Felt He Was a ‘Big Fish in a Small, Dried-Up Pond’ When He Bolted the Orlando Magic for the Los Angeles Lakers Bob Garcia IV
Shaquille O’Neal Said a Man Nicknamed ‘Big Country’ Proved to Be His Most Frustrating Matchup: ‘At Halftime I’m Looking at the Stats, Shaq 15 and Big Country 26’ Martin Fenn
Shaquille O’Neal Once Purchased a House He Didn’t Even Like Because His Celebrity Crush Lived Across the Street: ‘I’ll Take It!’ Jack Dougherty
Shaquille O’Neal Failed Miserably to Trash Talk Tim Duncan: ‘A Guy I Could Never Break’ Bob Garcia IV
Pat Riley Recruited a Secret Weapon to Convince Shaquille O’Neal to Take a Pay Cut With the Heat Bob Garcia IV
Shaquille O’Neal Picked a Team With No Rings as the Biggest Threat to the Los Angeles Lakers in the West: ‘Coming With a Vengeance’ Tim van Straten
Gary Payton Played With Shaquille O’Neal but Said Hakeem Olajuwon was a ‘Way Better’ Center: ‘Dream Would Give Him 30 or 40 Any Time He Felt Like It’ Martin Fenn
Shaquille O’Neal Ripped 5 Urinals Off a Bathroom Wall in a Fit of Rage Before Jerry West Calmed Him Down With Some Wise Advice Jack Dougherty
Shaquille O’Neal Knew He Had to Dominate Old Foe Rik Smits Before the 2000 NBA Finals: ‘I Got to Kill Him Immediately so He Understands This is a Different Shaq.’ Martin Fenn
Mark Cuban Claimed Shaquille O’Neal Used to Call Him ‘All the Time’ About Forming the Best Frontcourt in NBA History: ‘Come and Get Me’ Martin Fenn
Shaquille O’Neal Left the Orlando Magic in Part Because of a Newspaper Poll Question: ‘I Don’t Like Being Underappreciated’ Tim van Straten
Shaquille O’Neal Purposely Wrecked His Endorsement Deal Meeting With Nike in the Pettiest Way Possible Bob Garcia IV
Chris Webber Claimed ‘Dirty Refs’ Helped Shaquille O’Neal and the Lakers Win the 2001-02 NBA Championship Martin Fenn
Shaquille O’Neal Delivers a Dose of Reality to Ben Simmons: ‘The People in Philly Have Given Him Enough Chances’ Bob Garcia IV
Shaquille O’Neal Tells Damian Lillard to Leave the Portland Trail Blazers if He Wants to Win: ‘I Don’t Really Like Guys Teaming up, but It’s Just the Way It Is These Days’ Andrew Hanlon
Shaquille O’Neal Dishes Out Crucial Financial Advice to Help NBA Players Avoid Money Problems: ‘Think About What Has to Happen in the Future’ Bob Garcia IV
Shaquille O’Neal Pridefully Rejected Shooting Free Throws Underhanded: ‘I’m Not Looking Like a Sissy Like That’ Bob Garcia IV
Shaquille O’Neal Apologized to Yao Ming After Being Called out By His Dad: ‘You Need to Show This Young Man More Respect’ Martin Fenn
