Shaq

Shaquille O’Neal’s 16 year old son, Shareef, has been making basketball mixtape noise the past few years. The fact that his last name is O’Neal certainly helps, but aside from that, the kid can actually hoop. He’s nothing like his dad, in that he’s a lanky wing player, rather than a back-to-the-basket bruiser. He’ll be [...]

The complete list of people to be inducted in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame this September was announced Monday morning and was headlined by NBA superstars Shaquille O’Neal and Allen Iverson. [tweet https://twitter.com/AthleteTwittah/status/717071325710278656] Aside from Shaq and Iverson, the only other NBA players to make the HOF Class of 2016 were Yao Ming, who [...]

The 2016 Basketball Hall of Fame class has some serious names. Later this summer, high-profile names will be inducted and immortalized forever. This has to be one of the most attractive lists in recent memory as Shaquille O’Neal and Allen Iverson lead the way. Shaq is a no-brainer, and while Iverson’s career didn’t end the [...]

Lakers President and Co-Owner Jeanie Buss released a statement Wednesday announcing that the Lakers will be erecting a statue of Shaquille O’Neal outside of the Staples Center to be unveiled sometime during the 2016-17 season: “We look forward to having Shaq join the other legends who have been honored with statues at STAPLES Center,” Buss [...]

This week while discussing his son Shareef’s O’Neal’s impending recruitment with Los Angeles Times writer Mike Bresnahan, Shaquille O’Neal admitted openly that he was paid very handsomely to take his talents to Death Valley out of high school. “Yes they paid very well,” Shaq said. “Hey the statue of limitations is up.” Dawg Sports had [...]

What’s in a number? When it comes to someone like Kobe Bryant, that answer is “a lot.” It’s rare that a great player will ever change his jersey number mid-career. I mean, we’ve seen it a handful of times, and when it happens it quite noticeable. In most cases, they are forced to do so [...]

Welcome to part two or round two of our six-part series of the greatest player in NBA history. In the spirit of March Madness there were a few token upsets seeding wise in part one including your dependable 12 over 5 upsets as 12th seeded Kevin Durant got by 5th seeded Elgin Baylor in the [...]

It looks like Dwight Howard has finally had enough of Shaq getting on him. After all, Both guys played in Orlando, now Los Angeles and embraced the Superman nickname. For those reasons, Shaq isn’t too fond of Dwight. To combat all of this, Dwight would like to change his nickname from Superman to Ironman. But, [...]

May 24, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Shaq makes it pretty well known that he’s not particularly fond of Dwight Howard. He has thought that Dwight was trying too hard to be just like him. So can you image the dynamic if he were Dwight’s GM? It would be an ugly situation to say the [...]

February 28, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors There’s an overwhelming number of NBA fans who feel as if Shaq has hurt TNT’s “Inside the NBA.” Once beloved for his never-hold-my-tongue approach, that seems to be turning people off. And we’re willing to bet talking smack about Nash isn’t going to help his case. For the [...]