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Originally Posted by sTiMa34 Finally I dont have to hate the most unstopable player in the NBA anymore because he is off the Lakers.

I've been a fan of Shaq's since the finals. When Kobe fell apart and acted like he didn't care, Shaq kept trying to keep his team going. And he was rewarded with backstabbing within the organization, and amongst the fans.

Almost every Laker fan disowned Shaq during and after the finals, because they knew they had to choose between Shaq and Kobe. Even though Kobe was worthless in the finals, and is a big rapist, all Lakers fans prefer him to Shaq. Why? Because Shaq isn't flashy. Because Shaq is "old." He's in LA. Should he date a 16 year old and get botox to make the fans like him better? But anyway, I felt safe to root for Shaq the minute some fag at Rajah's started arguing how Kobe is far more important than Shaq. It's laughable, and so I laughed... and am now officially a Shaq fan once again.







As for Heyman's "KG is overrated" comment. :foc:

I can see where his stats might be misleading. Despite having the best states consistently of anyone ever since Larry Bird and Charles Barkley, KG also makes players around him better, like Jordan, Shaq, Kidd and Duncan. He's most obviously top-5 talent in the league, and arguably #1. And overrated? The contract was not a "rating," it was a shady deal pulled by KG's agents, and I believe he fired them since that incident. They refused a reasonable offer without talking to KG about it. The Wolves were forced to give KG a record contract because of his agents, but McHale knew he was worth it. And to prove how non-overrated KG is, he took a pay cut despite deserving more, and entering the prime of his career. This is the time when you should be making the absolute maximum, but Shaq is going to be making more than KG. Shaq deserved 30 million a season 5 years ago, but to give him something like that for 6 years at his age now is a gamble. Plus you have to realize... while Shaq makes any team better... he's not very marketable. I mean, look how quickly the Lakers fans turned on him.

Anyway, KG's stats are misleading because he's the heart of a zone defense, which means he guards the post and allows deep-shooting PFs to score at will. It's not him, it's the system. If we had a better defensive team, then KG could play man coverage on his guy, and he would always shut his player down, and average 5 bpg.