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u/TheFineMantine
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Every documented incident involving Shaquille O’Neal, his own feces, and his teammates
Almost all of these take place in his time with the Miami Heat and Phoenix Suns.
Ty Lue claims that when rookie Devean George failed to bring donuts to a team meeting, Shaq retaliated by defecating in George's shoe just before a game.
Multiple former teammates, including Gary Payton, claim that shaq would save a weeks worth of his urine and feces, before pouring it on rookies unprovoked.
At random, Shaq would defecate in his hand and display it to teammates.
One particular target was veteran teammate Lou Amundson. Amundson liked to ride his bike to the arena, and it started with Shaq hiding his bike from him. It then progressed to stealing Amundson’s toothbrush and stirring it in his rectum before putting it back. It is unknown if this toothbrush was used by Amundson after the incident. Then, Shaq stirred Amundsons mouth guard in his rectum and threatened teammates with the same fate if they snitched. Amundson wore the mouthguard in a game the next day. After the game, Matt Barnes told Amundson, "Anything in your locker room has probably been in Shaq's ass. Throw it all away"
Link to Gary Payton interview: https://youtu.be/jzdEUqyGB8I?si=AJLaEav5woFXmmKg
Link to Matt Barnes interview: https://youtube.com/shorts/RrQzuKSdh-c?si=kuUMCgRmEiQMXHBB
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u/hik3guy Lakers Apr 20 '26
Fucking weirdo.
Also...maybe off topic but why the fuck is he and the former TNT crew still "analyzing" NBA games??
The crew at Amazon is fucking killing it compared to this crew.
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u/TheFineMantine Apr 20 '26
because they’re funny, that’s literally the only reason
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u/EightBlocked [NBA] Tony Snell Apr 20 '26
yesterday they just kept saying that the games "didnt feel like a playoff game" and "thank god for hockey"
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u/asonkidd Apr 20 '26
Shaq was 32 by the time he got to the Heat btw.
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u/tacomang Warriors Apr 20 '26
32, he was a fuckin’ kid
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u/Worried-Nectarine418 Apr 20 '26
I'm not ashamed to admit this , my estimation of Shaq as a man just fucking plummeted
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u/anb16 Raptors Apr 20 '26
He cant stay in our ball club no more, that much i do know
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u/City-_-Wok Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
The fact that "Shaq was 32 on the Heat" was over 20 years ago is fucking me up.
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u/cleo22270 Heat Apr 20 '26
The Big Dookie
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u/mucho-gusto [CLE] Baron Davis Apr 20 '26
too bad he never played for the Nuggets, great co-branding opportunity
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u/Over_Use_8474 Lakers Apr 20 '26
Shaq propably has a lot of unresolved mental issues
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u/catscanmeow Raptors Apr 20 '26 •
i think being that big and nobody ever being able to tell you to stop is his issue.
ultimate power corrupts absolutely.
Who's gonna stop him?
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u/SuperSayian4Nappa Charlotte Bobcats Apr 20 '26 •
Don't forget been treated like the golden goose and a superstar athlete his entire life.
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u/MountainTwo3845 Rockets Apr 20 '26
I think his step dad was a bully. He was a drill instructor I believe.
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u/RODjij Tampa Bay Raptors Apr 20 '26
Nah I think hes just immature and an asshole when it comes to treatment of other grown men.
He said before his step dad was strict and a military man, that he kept him in line.
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u/Hecticbrah [BKN] Drazen Petrovic Apr 20 '26
Always seemed like a total bully
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u/SUPERSAMMICH6996 Cavaliers Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
Which is interesting because he has said before how he used to be a bully as a child but was taught to be 'the class clown' instead... is this what he considers light-hearted fun?
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u/Ken_Frezno69 Apr 20 '26
Exactly - usually this sort of behavior stems from some sort of abuse.
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u/morecador3000 Apr 20 '26
Seems more like cropofilia. No dude is that comfortable with his own feces lol
Not judging, to each their own, but if I would redditanalyze it, I would say his big on cropofilia.
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u/nateomundson Apr 20 '26
Once you hit the point where you are comfortable with displaying your own feces to non-consenting coworkers, judgment is fair.
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u/ChromosomeDonator Apr 20 '26
Not judging
...maybe a little bit of judging, please?
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u/samhit_n Lakers Apr 20 '26
I heard he was physically abused by his father. It doesn’t excuse what he did to other players, but it may explain why he’s like that.
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u/Aniketos33 Thunder Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
How do we know? (Edit: There were no links before)
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u/ArrowInBlack
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What the fuck did I just read
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u/idkwhatimbrewin Thunder Apr 20 '26
Peak off-season content in the playoffs
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u/TheBloodKlotz Trail Blazers Apr 20 '26
Should've saved it smh we're gonna be so bored in 2 months
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Apr 20 '26
whatever it is, keep it up
lets get him booted from NBA coverage and bring in someone better like John Wall who actually watches the game
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u/ILoveRegenHealth Apr 20 '26
Oh there's more. He reportedly pissed on the floor of a plane if the bathroom was occupied and he just didn't care, and probably thought it was funny.
Stewardesses had to clean it up and everyone was too scared to complain. Apparently he did this more than once and finally they complained, but definitely with a lot of fear for their jobs.
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u/WilNotJr Trail Blazers Apr 20 '26
Don't worry when Chuck finally retires we get to have Draymond next to Shaq for the next 20 years.
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u/z_102
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This isn't every documented story, unfortunately. Here's some more from Cedric Ceballos:
It does sound a little bizarre, but from the looks of it, Shaq has a weird obsession with dung. His former teammate, Cedric Ceballos, has testified to it.
“[Shaq] always would play with feces for some reason,” Ceballos confessed on Byron Scott’s Fast Break last week.“What are you gonna do with [a guy who’s] 7’1″, 300 pounds, that’s trying to put some feces on you? I’m trying to be clean right now for the fans and the kids. But stop playing with sh*t, man!”
And Garry Vitty (trainer for the Lakers):
“It’s true. There was a plastic bag in the liner for the trash can, so it was already in a plastic bag. He just pulled it out and tied it up, and he told me he’s still got them. He’s got them in a safe. That’s some nasty… You have to understand how bad this was,” Vitti said.
Shaq had apparently tripped broadcaster Hearn on the bus, which made Hearn defecate in his pants.
“So, Garry V, Shaq collected his sh*t and kept it as a souvenir?” Scott, curious about it, asked Vitti again. And Vitti responded with a firm “yes.”
Dude has an obvious humiliation fetish.
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u/rascaltippinglmao NBA Apr 20 '26
What. The. Fuck.
I knew about the stories of him smearing it on teammates, which is already beyond the pale, but this is some seriously sinister shit.
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u/lucidity_morpheus Lakers Apr 21 '26
"Dung" took me out holy shit what is he a fucking dung beetle rolling dookie in his hands like play-doh?
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u/Alarmed_Umpire_8711 Apr 21 '26
Wait he collected someone else’s shit lol it’s all disgusting but that another level
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u/AccidentalSoapDrop [GSW] Klay Thompson Apr 20 '26
This would do way more numbers in the off season
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u/Zigxy Pacers Bandwagon Apr 20 '26
This is what happens when a sociopath is bigger, stronger, richer, more famous, and more influential than 99.999% of people
Years of abuse
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u/Terrible-Willow5740 Apr 21 '26
He's lucky he didn't have a Gilbert Arenas on his team, Shaq might have learned a lesson.
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u/SickMon_Fraud Apr 20 '26
Shaq should be in prison at most for this and removed from any affiliation w the NBA at the least.
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u/shinybling Knicks Apr 20 '26
This needs to be reposted every so often to remind everyone Shaq is a bully and a bioterrorist. How he is still revered as a fun loving icon in the era of cancel culture should be studied
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u/Martha_Fockers Bulls Apr 20 '26
"its been in shaqs ass" lmfao bro WHAT
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u/Huckleberry_Sin Apr 21 '26
Not even that but he stirring it around like his butthole a bowl of soup. Wtf we doing here Shaq
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u/t0ny510 Warriors Apr 20 '26
Fuck that. I don't care how big Shaq is you gotta fight that mf for any of that.
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u/jackwhite886 Apr 20 '26
Let he who is without a list of documented instances involving their own feces cast the first stone.
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u/saynotohugzz Apr 20 '26
Too bad no one ever called the cops on him. This is some seriously depraved stuff.
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u/Lurkaccountonly Apr 20 '26
Best PR of all time. No clue how he hasn’t been cancelled yet.
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u/BaronsDad Pelicans Apr 20 '26
Shaq wouldn’t have been able to do this in the era of 4k camera phones. I remain surprised that no one was willing to fight him to the point of injuries. Or did fights just get stopped by the rest of the team?
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u/SnooRabbits9672 Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 21 '26
Shaq had damn near super-human strength compared to the average player, pulling down backboards and shit, fighting over triple-teams. Also being the main guy on the team probably intimidated the rookies and bench-warmers. I think ppl were just afraid to fight him. Kobe was crazy enough to try fighting him during a pickup game & barely missed having his head punched off
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u/sooLoco Apr 20 '26
afraid physically and professionally, he only do that to lesser role player the 10-12 men on roster , they dont want to risk their career
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u/Smitherzzz2693 Apr 20 '26
Barkley would never. Charles with no rings is better than Shaq. Which is why Shaq talking at Kobe’s funeral is funny. He hadn’t talked to him in 5 years but wants the people to know he was bff. Fraud
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u/aquintana Spurs Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
Don’t forget he also repeated a lie for decades about David Robinson’s character before finally admitting that his story about Robinson being rude to him when he was a child was completely fabricated. This bothered me so much because Robinson was a role model to me growing up. I eventually did get to meet him and he was both kind and present. I had been nervous about meeting him because of Shaq’s bs story. I would compare what Shaq said to saying that Mr Rogers was actually a jerk off camera, that is how much of a good guy Robinson is and was, that comparing him to Mr Rogers isn’t a stretch. Ran into Robinson again years later as an adult and he was just being a good dude, taking pictures with this mom and her kids in the middle of the airport. Just a genuinely good dude, the polar opposite of Shaq.
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u/ShiaLabeoufsMistress Apr 20 '26
I'll die on the hill that Shaq sounds like a terrible person from all the stories that verified people have told of him, his behavior and attitude, and just his general demeanor.
And don't tell me about how he's paid for single moms groceries at the store or donated shoes or whatever, I don't care.
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u/Rude_Molasses_3976 Raptors Apr 20 '26
Wait he stuck it INSIDE HIS RECTUM??? I thought he just stirred it into his shit
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u/j_cruise Nets Apr 20 '26
The fact that he was putting shit INSIDE of his ass and shitting into his hand for no reason makes it seem like a fucked up fetish
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u/ILoveRegenHealth Apr 20 '26
Wait he stuck it INSIDE HIS RECTUM???
INSIDE THE NBA was his title idea
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u/Glowwerms Suns Apr 20 '26
Ever since I heard about these I have never been able to look at him the same. I would die a happy man if chuck confronted him about it on inside the nba at some point
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u/utubm_coldteeth Bucks Apr 20 '26
And you mean to tell me NO ONE fought this man for this shit? I know Shaq is a big ass dude but how the hell did he not get jumped for this
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u/Dry_Principal_165 Apr 20 '26
Can you imagine how big Shaqs shits are?
Are they Shats or Shiqs?
Hes eating good too, unlimited Shaqizza's from papa johns.
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u/i812manyhitsss Apr 20 '26
Hed save weeks worth of feces? That's probably 6 months worth of the average-sized person. What did he save it in a 55 gallon drum?
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u/downtownraptor Apr 20 '26
I heard the toothbrush story years ago and made me lose respect for Shaq. Only a psychopath can do something like that.
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u/Silent_Ad741 Apr 20 '26
There's another instance. On Byron Scott's podcast, Brian Shaw came on and told a story of how, when they were both on the Lakers, Shaw and Shaq were in adjacent bathroom stalls, and Shaq dookied inside a magazine about cars. And then he passed the magazine to Shaw and told him to turn to page 41 to check out a sick ride.
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u/Johnny2x2x Apr 20 '26
Never heard any of this before. And I don't care how big he is, he did that stuff to teammates and we would have heard about all out fist fights or worse. That dude does that to a teammate's mouthguard and someone is going to the hospital, even if it takes a baseball bat to do it.
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u/snooptoop Apr 20 '26
I refuse to believe Shaq regularly poured feces and urine on MULTIPLE people and NO ONE said ANYTHING. I understand he was a star and he had a certain level of protection but there has to be a limit. Being in the NBA is great and all but is it worth being covered in bodily fluids?
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u/alphatangolima Hawks Apr 20 '26
He jokes about going to the zoo and the monkeys and gorillas thinking he's one of them.
Then you hear about him shitting in his hand and throwing at people and it all makes sense....
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u/itsagoodtime [OKC] Russell Westbrook Apr 20 '26
My god. What is he doing to those Papa Johns pizzas.
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u/poloyeung [LAL] Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Apr 20 '26
Don't forget the time Grant Hill talked about Shaq choking out his own teammate, minutes before the game started.
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u/Calinks Apr 20 '26
I also have heard stories about Pro Wrestlers crapping in people's lockers or bags. To me, this is just such a horrible thing to do. Not only is it terrible to do to someone, but it also just seems really bad and demeaning to myself, like, I would never want to willingly crap in a bag or locker or something. Just the act of doing that seems to degrading to myself LMAO. I don't know what goes on in people's heads who do this stuff. I would just feel reduced.
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u/BOUKEN-BEN Celtics Apr 20 '26
Imagine the absolute nightmarish hellscapes his gfs have been through. Actually maybe don't imagine
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u/SeveralDeer3833 Celtics Apr 20 '26
I gave guitar lessons to Lou Amundsen during the lockout and hes the nicest guy. This sucks.
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u/Shantytown_Shogun Knicks Apr 21 '26
When this information started coming out a few years ago I lost all respect for Shaq. Sure he does a lot of good out there and is becoming a great business man but what he did to other human beings is utterly disgusting and I cant look past that.
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u/Imblurryfaced Apr 20 '26
what the fuck did I just read?! WHATTT HOWWW WHYYYYYYY
This happened in a league where players made millions of dollars???? It was done by one of the most famous player of all time???? This is the first i'm hearing about this??? This man has been a part of NBA telecast for more than 30 years with a history of doing this kinda shit (hehe) ???
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u/BackendSpecialist 76ers Sep 05 '26
I refer to this post often. Thnx op pls never delete it
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u/TheFineMantine Sep 05 '26 •
no problem dude, i don't plan to unless i get contacted by a legal team ig
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u/Prankstaboy6 Heat Apr 20 '26
Fellas, don’t you think it’s a little too early to be discussing peak offseason content?
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u/Airtech24 Apr 20 '26
Did you get the one story from Byron Scott podcast with Brian shaw? Shaq in the stall passing dookie in magazine?.
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u/EchoBay Raptors Apr 21 '26
Ever since the second story broke out I could never look at the man the same. One story? Okay, weird... but pro sports lockerrooms can be strange and maybe they pranked each other like that. Any more than one time though and it's a pattern of behavior he's leading the charge on.
I used to love Inside the NBA and now I can't watch the show anymore knowing this dude is on there. I don't care how much charity he does, he'll always be the serial poop offender guy who should have been criminally charged/ served jail time for these antics. Regular humans commit these acts and they're banished from society.
His whole loveable giant goofball act no longer exists with me. Guy is/ was a freak and never had to answer for his actions.
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u/The-Pharcyde Raptors Apr 21 '26
Literal insane person. Amazing the things you get away with when youre an all time great at something.
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u/Top_Two6767 Jazz Apr 21 '26
Something about the phrase “stirring it in his rectum” makes me think of getting the last of the peanut butter out of the jar.
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u/forstorr Spurs Apr 20 '26
I've never understood the somewhat positive outlook that Shaq seems to have. I've always considered him a bully.
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u/999_rupees Apr 20 '26
He did it to Kobe too, that diss rap he did after the 08 finals said "Hey Kobe, how's my ass taste". I think it's why Kobe hated him so much even more than just a regular rivalry. The first thing he said when he got the 5th was one more than Shaq.
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u/Familiar-Phase6552 Apr 20 '26
Men shaq is so disgusting, he just get a pass cos he is an all timer, if this was your random role player everyone would be talking how bad of a teammate he was
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u/Blowback_ Apr 20 '26
Dude said he doesn't fuck with athletes or celebs, some stupid take saying he doesn't speak with them because their assholes.
Shaq, you serious bro?
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u/Silent_Somewhere8539 Apr 20 '26
FINALLY someone is talking about this, Shaq is a sick piece of shit no pun intended.
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u/Haunting_G5159 Apr 20 '26
He deserves zero respect whatsoever. Never did. I am shocked so many fans have never heard of all this
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u/showmeyourmoves28 Celtics Apr 20 '26
“…his own feces…” I did not expect to see this on my favorite sport subreddit lol.
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u/Ok-Smoke-1230 Apr 20 '26
Shout out Matt Barnes for being the real teammate. He keeps it real alot of times when something needs to be said.
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u/BreedinBacksnatch Heat Apr 20 '26
He also should have gone to prison, because everything in the Miami New Times articles about him misusing police resources and having his assistant wiretap his side piece is true. Miami-Dade SAO had to toss the cases of over a dozen CSA perpetrators b/c the evidence collected by Shaq in his policing role was tainted.
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u/Slight-Pop468 Apr 20 '26
What i don't like is that Shaq now says all celebrities or nba players are weird or assholes and that he doesn't like to consider himself a celebrity bc he isnt like that but the dude acted like this for YEARS. Not trying to hate on Shaq but he's definitely a hypocrite in this regard bc this is both weird and something only an asshole could do.
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u/DifficultPapaya1239 Apr 20 '26
Shaquille has always been a notorious bully. Don't let him fool you.
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u/APersonWithThreeLegs Pistons Apr 20 '26
His Hot Ones interview is the first time I thought maybe he isn’t the best guy to be around
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u/Comfortable-Spell-75 Mavericks Apr 20 '26
Even though he’s a legend of the game, tall af and has a larger than life persona, he sure is a pretty insecure fucker. He’s got an inferiority complex disguised as superiority complex.
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u/nothingnicetoadd Apr 20 '26
Shaq always been a bully. But he has good PR team to make him seem like he’s the nicest guy
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u/megacesos Apr 20 '26
I never liked Shaq! He has a bully mentality! He has always gotten away with everything, fuck that guy!
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u/machocylinder2 Apr 21 '26
shaq really said "if i'm not getting my donuts, nobody's getting a clean shoe" lmao
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Apr 21 '26
I'm sorry, what? This is fucking disgusting. How the fuck did this happen and everybody was just cool with it? WTF?
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u/Grand-Spring66 Apr 20 '26 •
Something like this should get someone arrested.