Shaq talks on his difficult final season in Boston, saying…
Shaq became so accustomed to dominating on the court that he felt lost once his abilities finally started to fade.
The big fella played well beyond his prime, and in his final season in 2010-11, he averaged just 9.2 points per game for the Boston Celtics.
“Not being ‘him’,” he said. “‘Him’ is 28/10. F****n’ averaged nine points in Boston. I felt like I was robbing the people. I felt so bad that when they called me back and said, ‘Hey man, we owe you $1.5 [million].’ I said f*****g keep it. Keep it. I’m not coming up there to average six points… I was dominant for so long, I never even thought about, ‘Hey one day, it’s going to be gone.’
” … It first hit me when I didn’t make the All Star team. I had that like ‘oh I don’t want to play,’ but I’m like bro, I dominated the All Star game for 12-13 years in a row. Now I don’t even get no f*****g votes. So that part kind of kind of messed me up.”
Shaq added that his past achievements were of little comfort for him at the time, because in his words, he was “programmed to do more.”
At the height of his powers, Shaq was unbelievably dominant.
In his best-ever season, he put up 29.7 points and 13.6 rebounds per game, winning league MVP, Finals MVP and the championship.
It was the first of three consecutive titles that he won alongside Kobe Bryant at the Lakers.
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NBA World Reacts to Pat Bev’s Atrocious Behavior in Two Separate Incidents
Bucks guard Pat Beverley is having himself a day.
First, he throws a ball really hard at Pacers fan in the dying minutes of the Bucks’ 120-98 Game 6 loss, that saw them eliminated from the postseason.
Beverley himself responded to the incident on social media.
But that wasn’t all. During his postgame interview he told veteran ESPN reporter Michele Roberts that she couldn’t ask him questions because she doesn’t subscribe to his podcast.
This was how the exchange went down:
Patrick Bev: “You subscribed to my pod?”
Reporter: “I do not.”
Pat Bev: “You can’t interview me then. No disrespect.”
Pat Bev: “Can you move that mic please or just get out the circle please?”
Fellow journalists and NBA fans have leap to the defense of Roberts on X.
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