I seen Shaq shade a group of 6-10 year olds in the late 90s at Veterans Park Carson, CA.
Dude parted the small sea of kids by extending his arm and shoving them side a couple times like an Olympic swimmer. Then Shaq hopped in his candy green Eddie bauer expedition with the grills over the lights.
My homie yell out, "You wrong for that Shaq" it was pretty cold blooded. So I believe that Robinson story he tells was really himself shading the babies at Veterans park.
In a way that’s why Shaq does this type of stuff. In his book he talks about how the big men he looked up to as a kid hated him and disrespected him and how it still eats at him. I feel like that’s why he does it now to young players.
At first I read the title and thought Jokic said it. Then I watched the video and right when Shaq said it I just had to pause. Can’t watch the rest. Shit is mad awkward
Honestly Jokic is probably the only MVP who won't be too bothered about this. He doesn't seem to care much about accolades. Can you imagine if this happened to Durant when he won MVP though?
I'll bet Shaq's thinking is "I'm in serious danger of moving down the best big men of all time list if this dude keeps winning MVPs, better start disparaging him."
This is 1000% it. Shaqs seems like a great guy on just about everything except when the subject of his legacy is brought up. Whether it’s him being lazy, other players being compared to him, etc etc. That’s Shaqs touchy subject and he spirals fast at the hint of anything even close to a conversation that isn’t “Shaq is the goat”.
Shaq can't take a joke about anything. It's annoying watching Inside the NBA cause all he does is dish shit out to everyone and can't take anything when it comes back to him. I know people like that and they're annoying as fuck.
Charles is great because he can dish it out but also takes it and laughs.
them old heads weren't making the type of money this current crop of players are making partially adds to the bitterness but then that could be said for ALL athletes in all sports. them retired basketball players, that bitterness hits different
It’s ironic. Other sports don’t have the old players hating the new players like this. And other sports don’t have the modern fans hating on the old players or history of the game, at least not to the extent of basketball fans.
For the first time, I think Jokic was actually kind of offended. I think he would always agree other players deserve it but I just don’t think he was expecting to be told someone deserved over him in the night he was awarded it. Kind of fucked up. Now i wish someone would tell Gobert that Wemby deserves DPOY over him and see the reaction
Yeah, it's less about whether or not he wins the award versus just pure disrespect. You can disagree about the winner but still congratulate him. To tell that directly to him at that moment is intentionally disrespecting him as a person and even if Jokic doesn't care about MVP itself that's just offensive to do.
Notice how he tries to reassert himself on top by saying he's president and Jokic is vice. He's a 52 year old toddler throwing a fit that a big man is slowly getting more accolades than him and is scared Jokic will be viewed as better by the time he retires.
listen to him try to reassert himself as the best by making himself "president" and jokic as vp. he's always been whiny about losing MVPs to nash, he's upset that Jokic has a chance at eclipsing him all time
Shaq does this and tells himself it's helpful. He thinks this is the way to "inspire" the future generations. He believes that disrespect is others' main motivator because it's what he experienced from his father and it motivated him. However, when you're really a leader, you learn what motivates people and use that instead of just doing what worked for you. Shaq is not a leader.
he's not doing this to inspire anyone. He is just petty and jealous. On the show he instantly takes contrarian position as soon as chuck says anything just to be mean
One of the saltiest egos in all of basketball. You know for a fact this dude is irked by the fact that Jokic now has 3 and he has 1, considering how long he has held onto Nash winning MVP over him.
Exactly. For all his “big man” representative talks this dude hates on great big men like no other because he feels threatened. Which is asinine in itself considering he’s a certified Top 10 guy and quite easily Top 3 Center at worst.
Dudes been out of the game for more than 10 years and stays beefing with Centers.
This is the type of shit that keeps me from liking Shaq. He seems like a good person in ways, but man, he’s gotta be one of the most insecure mfs I’ve ever seen lol. Like dude, if you disagree w it, cool, but don’t try and ruin a persons moment. What a dick.
He told a story of how he used to be a bully as a kid. Don't remember the details but i know that it wasn't a story of how he changed as a person and is now ashamed of his past. I think very highly of him as a player, not so much of his character
DJ Khaled wasn't really disrespectful though, he was just a pussy. And at the very least he also went on when celebrities didn't really fully understand what the show was about, whereas by the time Shaq went on everyone knew the deal.
LMFAO god that episode was hilarious. Esp with hot ones budget and how dark / shady everything looked but honestly props to him he put hot ones on the map. He needs to come back for a redemption episode haha
There was a post here a few weeks ago where Shaq was talking about when he went to the Cavs and things he looked up to LeBron for.
He mentioned how much control he had on the team, how he would be allowed to bring his family on the plane for games etc. It just felt really telling to me what Shaq values and is jealous of. There is good in him of course, he's very charitable, extremely hard working... but he's just a terrible liar and bad ad hiding his emotions. He's not intelligent enough to not show his bad side, although he does very much like to think he's a genius.
He starts by saying "LeBron was probably the best leader I ever played with", then continues on and mentions things that he thinks makes a good leader, but in reality he just liked the power LeBron was able to control.
That’s kind of crazy even more so because as much as LeBron gets shit on by people and the Media, he has an actual bucket of things to admire.
To be the face of the league for THAT long and not have any scandals and your biggest flaw is that your a loving father and “arguably” the 2nd best player of all time is insane lmao.
But yeah “he can bring his family on the plane.” Is what wins him over.
Dude should’ve went full Dr Evil and mentioned how LeBron leaving the Cavs set Cleveland literally on fire. Lmfao.
Shaq brags about not watching games he even admitted last night he hasn’t seen the Thunder play all season and had never heard of Wiggins. He shouldn’t have an opinion on this at all tbh he doesn’t watch
But towards the end: he chickened out of the last sauce; turned it instead into a shooting contest; and then made Sean eat a wing with all of sauces combined w/o allowing him to drink milk. He was a dick to Sean for reasons I can only guess are related to his well-known insecurities.
Of course, Sean soldiered through it because he's a generous host. Which makes Shaq's tomfoolery look even more stupid. He didn't need to do that. He could have just backed out of the last sauce. But he needed to step on Sean one last time to 'assert his dominance'.
What I find funny about Shaq is that he doesn't give a fuck about people calling him dumb, fat, ugly etc but if someone dares criticize anything about his career he gets super defensive all of a sudden. I remember watching a video where Jeff Ross was calling Shaq a knuckle-dragging Gorilla and he was just laughing about it.
Worse. He carried a guy's mouthpiece in his underwear for hourse, then placed it back in his locker. The guy (as you would) put it in his mouth and did the practice with it.
I agree with you man, cause for Shaq it's not about who actually was better, it's about his worry that people might think Jokic is better. Nobody's more insecure than Shaq, and him seeing Jokic win a 3rd MVP while Shaq only won one, that's probably got him worried about the conversations that could be had in barbershops across the country.
Him talking about “GOAT” conversations and what not on JJ’s show was very revealing, the man seems to not be okay with the exact way his career played out. And there’s no real need to feel that way!
Honestly I fall more on the side of JJ, thinking dude you are no doubt a top ten guy in the history of the sport when most people could only ever dream of making money to play basketball
You’d think Shaq was a role player with how weird he is about other people’s success. There are only like 5 living people that can say they’re better than Shaq but he still hates to see other people succeed
Dude shoulda showed up to the season in shape or worked on his free throws. Maybe we'd be at 19 chips with Kobe + Shaq and Shaq would be cemented all time no 1. Nobody to blame but himself.
What made this worse is that in the other clips he was talking about how he got screwed out of multiple MVPs so he feels bad for Shai. To be able to make this about yourself in that moment just takes away all credibility lol.
That was petty af coming from Shaq, even Ernie got heated and left him without any rebuttal after Shaq tried to argue the “stats” but when you look at those is clearly Jokic
He already feels disrespected that he never got a second one (it’s why he’s so vehement about deserving one of Nash’s). So Jokic having two was already something Shaq was salty over. But a third MVP puts Jokic in a truly special class of player. Only the best of the best have done that historically (even 2 time is super rare).
Shaq is scared he’s being pushed further back in the GOAT center conversation. Just typical old head hating.
I wonder who in this generation is gonna take up the hating mantle. LeBron/KD/Steph seem like they'll uplift the next gen but we need a hater like Shaq. I nominate James Harden
Shaq just really can't help himself. Every single time a big man wins something, Shaq has to do something to take away from their accomplishment. At this point I think a center could average 50/20/20 and Shaq would still say something like this.
Pretty rude and unnecessary to do that geez. I think any of the top 3 guys could’ve gotten it and it would’ve been okay, but I don’t really see the need to do this.
Bro I thought this season there was a clear MVP across all platforms, i.e., fans media social media etc. The more focal point was about who'd come second, Luka or Shai.
Not that it should matter cause what Shaq did was stupid stuff anyways but if his supposed reason was he thought Shai was better than Jokic this season and the MVP race between them was close, then where was he last season when the MVP race between Jokic and Embiid was certainly closer than this year's.
He screams insecurity even when he was making that statement. Idk why would you do that, still well handled by Jok tho.
Shaq is the most insecure big man and is constantly talking down current players. He is throwing rocks from the mountain top as today’s players keep ascending to his level of dominance.
Shaq is insecure as hell and just hates seeing another center put together a great resume. Being a hater constantly can be funny, but this is just a cunt move.
man before I started watching basketball, I was under the impression Shaq was this fun loving, cool guy (on a personal level at least, seeing as I knew nothing about him on the court then lol), but now that I do watch basketball and see him regularly on Inside the NBA, I legit cannot stand him and his “too cool for school,” sour ass attitude
this show has some incredible low moments because of shit like this. we just look at highlights with inside the nba but there has been a lot of bad moments, especially lately.
Guy would hold a grudge for the rest of his life if the roles were reversed