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Bonn1997
Posts: 58654 Alba Posts: 2 Joined: 2/2/2004 Member: #581 USA |
6/1/2011 5:05 PM
Well he deserves congratulations for a great career! It's hard to believe his body held up decently as long as it did.
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JesseDark
Posts: 22777 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 9/9/2003 Member: #467 |
6/1/2011 6:19 PM
Shaq certainly deserves props for his career. He is differnt from other big men in that he is media friendly and doesn't have reputation as being unapproachable. This will certainly help him in his post basktetball life.
Bring back dee-fense
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OasisBU
Posts: 24138 Alba Posts: 4 Joined: 6/18/2002 Member: #257 USA |
6/1/2011 6:31 PM
Shaq is one of the all time greats, a class act, funny as hell - I hope he gets on TV, he would be great at it.
Thanks for the memories Diesel - you are the man. "If at first you don't succeed, then maybe you just SUCK." Kenny Powers
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nyshakespeare
Posts: 20527 Alba Posts: 13 Joined: 6/23/2003 Member: #420 USA |
6/1/2011 8:29 PM
Hated him in Orlando when he always seemed to one-up Ewing in their head to heads.
Overall, one of the best to ever play the game. Great personality. He will be missed. Especially with all the milquetoast young bucks headlining the league today. TV gig in his future?...or will he be Sheriff Shaq? It Is Solved By Walking
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DrAlphaeus
Posts: 23751 Alba Posts: 10 Joined: 12/19/2007 Member: #1781 |
6/1/2011 8:37 PM
Does that now leave the title of the League's Best Rapper to Ron Artest?
I wonder if this guy is going to go into law enforcement like he's been saying these past few years. A real lovable character and a hell of a center in his prime. Big up the Big Aristole. Baba Booey 2016 — "It's Silly Season"
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AnubisADL
Posts: 27382 Alba Posts: 13 Joined: 6/29/2009 Member: #2771 USA |
6/1/2011 8:40 PM
Shaq on TNT
NY Knicks - Retirement home for players and GMs
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y2zipper
Posts: 20946 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 10/30/2010 Member: #3287 |
6/1/2011 8:42 PM
If Shaq replaces Barkley on TNT I'm all for it.
Anyway, yeah, Shaq's basically borderline Mount Rushmore as far as centers go. |
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Bonn1997
Posts: 58654 Alba Posts: 2 Joined: 2/2/2004 Member: #581 USA |
6/1/2011 9:09 PM
y2zipper wrote:If Shaq replaces Barkley on TNT I'm all for it. No way. Barkley's hilarious. |
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JesseDark
Posts: 22777 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 9/9/2003 Member: #467 |
6/1/2011 9:59 PM
nyshakespeare wrote:Hated him in Orlando when he always seemed to one-up Ewing in their head to heads. Couldn't agree more. The play that sticks out in my mind is one time Ewing was running up court and Shaq just pushed him in the back to throw him off stride. Shaq then zipped past him to get in position for an easy layup. Ewing just howled at the ref over the blown call. Bring back dee-fense
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Allanfan20
Posts: 35947 Alba Posts: 50 Joined: 1/16/2004 Member: #542 USA |
6/1/2011 10:04 PM
JesseDark wrote:nyshakespeare wrote:Hated him in Orlando when he always seemed to one-up Ewing in their head to heads. Not necessarily. He made a lot of ignorant comments such as the Yao Ming comment or the "Don't let white boys dunk on you comments." I'm pretty sure that was when he was in LA too. It took him awhile to grow above saying stuff like that. “Whenever I’m about to do something, I think ‘Would an idiot do that?’ and if they would, I do NOT do that thing.”- Dwight Schrute
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Mray20
Posts: 20785 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 6/2/2010 Member: #3138 |
6/1/2011 10:21 PM
One of the most dominant big men of all time but this dude should have retired years ago, he's been stealing money from NBA teams for the past 3-4 years IMO.
No layups!
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K22
Posts: 25143 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 10/18/2006 Member: #1182 USA |
6/1/2011 10:53 PM
-- the preceding post was brought to you by the letter K and the number 22.
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NYKBocker
Posts: 38411 Alba Posts: 474 Joined: 1/14/2003 Member: #377 USA |
6/2/2011 8:34 AM
This is my favorite commercial of Shaq. Melo has a new version.
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Vmart
Posts: 31800 Alba Posts: 1 Joined: 5/23/2002 Member: #247 USA |
6/2/2011 9:40 AM LAST EDITED: 6/2/2011 9:43 AM
Shaq destroyed the center position. How many Shaq wannabes came and went. He was responsible for the production of no talent center who wanted to get by on size alone.
Although Shaq won some championships he should have left the game with a lot more rings. He was a great center that could have been the greatest of all time but never invested the time needed to be better than he was sort of an underachiever. |
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K22
Posts: 25143 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 10/18/2006 Member: #1182 USA |
6/2/2011 10:13 AM LAST EDITED: 6/2/2011 10:18 AM
Vmart wrote:Shaq destroyed the center position. How many Shaq wannabes came and went. He was responsible for the production of no talent center who wanted to get by on size alone.
Then again, that was more Phil Jackson's managing of his and Kobe's out-of-control egos long enough to win. -- the preceding post was brought to you by the letter K and the number 22.
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Killa4luv
Posts: 27769 Alba Posts: 51 Joined: 6/23/2002 Member: #261 USA |
6/2/2011 10:25 AM
Great Career. Shaq was the last to know that he retired. glad he finally figured it out. He actually retired during that season in Phoenix.
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Moonangie
Posts: 24765 Alba Posts: 5 Joined: 7/9/2009 Member: #2788 |
6/2/2011 10:27 AM
I ran into him at a shop on W. 8th street a few years back. I said "hi" and expressed my admiration for his game. He actually responded politely and was an overall nice guy about it (considering he had an entourage with him, he could easily have brushed me off). I respected that and always thought he was a solid center, top-ten all-time without question.
Great career (19 years? whoa). He should retire as he has nothing left in the tank and his body is done. |
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K22
Posts: 25143 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 10/18/2006 Member: #1182 USA |
6/2/2011 11:14 AM LAST EDITED: 6/2/2011 11:14 AM
Moonangie wrote:I ran into him at a shop on W. 8th street a few years back. I said "hi" and expressed my admiration for his game. He actually responded politely and was an overall nice guy about it (considering he had an entourage with him, he could easily have brushed me off). I respected that and always thought he was a solid center, top-ten all-time without question. I'm sure you can agree that you never really understand how big this guy is until you see him in person. -- the preceding post was brought to you by the letter K and the number 22.
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nyshakespeare
Posts: 20527 Alba Posts: 13 Joined: 6/23/2003 Member: #420 USA |
6/2/2011 1:00 PM
Looks like Sheriff Shaq it is then...
Dime: When your contract expires, assuming that you’ll retire, where will you be? What will you be doing? Still could do some Barkley-esque job for one of the networks on the side...hopefully. http://dimemag.com/2011/06/shaq-a-sit-down-with-the-last-don/ It Is Solved By Walking
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