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DAMN, THOUGHT HE WAS GONNA GIVE IT ANOTHER GO BE4 HANGING IT 4 GOOD:

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b9Jxw

SO LONG!

Before the discussion even begins,
Shaq IS NOT, NEVER WAS, CAN NOT BE the greatest center of all-time.

Yes he is!



























I've got an autographed basketball & picture to make some $ on.

You know, if the guy got serious with his weight and dropped to about 290 instead of playing at a generous 350+, he could play another season or two. This last season with the Celtics was a total abortion.

His early years in Orlando the guy was beyond the man, even his years in LA, but why for some reason do I see him too broke financially in the next 10 years?

ParaDime77 wrote:You know, if the guy got serious with his weight and dropped to about 290 instead of playing at a generous 350+, he could play another season or two. This last season with the Celtics was a total abortion.

His early years in Orlando the guy was beyond the man, even his years in LA, but why for some reason do I see him too broke financially in the next 10 years?

I would cheer for him to be totally broke in about 10 years.
Why not earlier-Let's call it 8 yrs from now

Damn it. Now he can't come back to Orlando and save the franchise.

Machado wrote:

ParaDime77 wrote:You know, if the guy got serious with his weight and dropped to about 290 instead of playing at a generous 350+, he could play another season or two. This last season with the Celtics was a total abortion.

His early years in Orlando the guy was beyond the man, even his years in LA, but why for some reason do I see him too broke financially in the next 10 years?

I would cheer for him to be totally broke in about 10 years.
Why not earlier-Let's call it 8 yrs from now

Maybe he'll be a participant in an Argentinian dancing show like Mike Tyson.


In all seriousness, I don't think he will be broke. He'll have a career in television.

he'll be broke - gimme a fucking break - readin through some stuff, he made approx 250, 000, 000, all through basketball + related stuff (movies, his atrocious rap albums, brands, etcetc). That's more money than machado and his beaner family will ever see in their lifetime.

but i agree in that he couldve been the most dominant player, had he applied his mind to it....

grishnak boss wrote:SHAQ RETIRES

Three years too late.

Shaq and Olajuwan are the two greatest centers of all time.

No one can touch those two.
Wilt? Russell?
Those clowns played against 6 foot white guys.

Machado wrote:Before the discussion even begins,
Shaq IS NOT, NEVER WAS, CAN NOT BE the greatest center of all-time.

He's in the fucking picture. Don't let the last two seasons of fat Shaq cloud your perception of the one man wrecking crew he was for a dozen years.

johnk5150 wrote:

Machado wrote:Before the discussion even begins,
Shaq IS NOT, NEVER WAS, CAN NOT BE the greatest center of all-time.

He's in the fucking picture. Don't let the last two seasons of fat Shaq cloud your perception of the one man wrecking crew he was for a dozen years.

I'll admit Shaq is in the picture. No chance he is "the greatest".
I don't care how much money he mad or that he won titles with multiple teams.

He was great as far as his numbers go, he was great as far as his power game goes. In the modern era of centers that featured Olajuwon, Robinson, Ewing, Chris Washburn (ha!), I'm not sure that he is the greatest. He does have the rings, but he always needed the pure shooting sideman to do the bulk of the work.

ParaDime77 wrote:He was great as far as his numbers go, he was great as far as his power game goes. In the modern era of centers that featured Olajuwon, Robinson, Ewing, Chris Washburn (ha!), I'm not sure that he is the greatest. He does have the rings, but he always needed the pure shooting sideman to do the bulk of the work.

Olajuwon's game away from the basket changed the way a lot of centers play now. Shit, Dirk only averages like 6 boards a game and he's 7'1" with his haircut. Shaq was pure power and no one could stop him. Until Riley invented hack-a-shaq.

he seems to be content with his decision. None of that balling and crying we see from so many superstars in sports when they retire.

ParaDime77 wrote: but he always needed the pure shooting sideman to do the bulk of the work.

Shaq always did the bulk of the work

He averaged 36 points and 13 rebounds in the 3 NBA Finals with the Lakers

he was the guy and it wasnt close...anyone that watched him with the Lakers saw how dominant and unstoppable he was

Out of the entire league, only three players remained that appeared in either NBA Jam or NBA Jam TE when the season began. (Shaq, Jason Kidd and Grant Hill.) Now, there are only two.

Later fucker...



For what you did for LA, thanks... but everything since is really just an increasing pile of puke and continuous excuses...


Hey Shaqo, answer the phone, TNA is calling to make you an offer to make an even bigger off-court fucking fool of yourself.

You'd really never be able handle the WWE travel schedule at your ...age, diminished health and advanced size.


Either way, every few weeks a restart of a quickly tired feud with Abyss or Big Slow & Kain xould certainly be really boring and really stupid... the perfect final act for your mostly stupid legacy & career.

You should seriously consider it, Mumbly the Incoherent Rappin' Genie Jackass!!!

Olajuwan was the only center that could hang with Shaq back in the 90's.
Robinson, Ewing and Mourning were his little bitches.
Fuckin Robinson...
The Fagmiral from the U.S. Gavy. Fuck that guy.
Bryant Gumbel azz nigga.


I hear the Lakers are planning on retiring the 34.
The Magic should also retire the 32 and hire him to be gm/coach/ backup center.

GreazyNutz wrote:
No one can touch those two.
Wilt?

Shut the fuck up bitch! I don't care if you do have a good point!

Shaq, greatest free throw shooter ever.

ETA: "But you are way off in your assessment of who is the greatest player of all time and the greatest scorer of all time. Your comments are off because of your limited perspective. You obviously never saw Wilt Chamberlain play who undoubtedly was the greatest scorer this game has ever known. When did MJ ever average 50.4 points per game plus 25.7 rebounds? (Wilt in the 1962 season when blocked shot statistics were not kept). We will never accurately know how many shots Wilt blocked. Oh, by the way in 1967 and 68, Wilt was a league leader in assists. Did MJ ever score 100 points in a game? How many times did MJ score more than 60 points in a game? MJ led the league in scoring in consecutive seasons for 10 years but he did this in an NBA that eventually expanded into 30 teams vs. when Wilt played and there were only 8 teams."

"MJ has to take a backseat to The Stilt."-Kareem Abdul Jabbar

Shaq never played at Kansas, case fucking closed!

Maybe not.