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Quote from: Now_I_Know on June 08, 2006, 11:16:29 AMQuote from: mrceo on June 08, 2006, 11:10:56 AMQuote from: Inglewood Ave Iz Active on June 07, 2006, 07:16:05 PMShaq didn't want to take a pay-cut.....THE ENDActually he DID take a paycut this year (although he still makes mega millions) and look where it's taken him...to the NBA Finals, Kobe and Shaq just didn't get along, there's nothing anyone can do about thatYes...That's why he's a bitch. He only took a pay cut when he realized that NO ONE was gunna sign him for that ludicrous amount he wanted. When he was with the Lakers, he wouldn't settle for less than being the highest paid player ever, he thought he was worth more than he was in 1999-2000...What a joke. I'm glad he's not ruining our team, because if the Heat don't win the championship this year, he definitely ruined theirs...PeACeyeah ill admit, even i thought shaq was worth more. i remember the lakers tried to trade him to dallas for nowitzki but dallas said NO!
Quote from: mrceo on June 08, 2006, 11:10:56 AMQuote from: Inglewood Ave Iz Active on June 07, 2006, 07:16:05 PMShaq didn't want to take a pay-cut.....THE ENDActually he DID take a paycut this year (although he still makes mega millions) and look where it's taken him...to the NBA Finals, Kobe and Shaq just didn't get along, there's nothing anyone can do about thatYes...That's why he's a bitch. He only took a pay cut when he realized that NO ONE was gunna sign him for that ludicrous amount he wanted. When he was with the Lakers, he wouldn't settle for less than being the highest paid player ever, he thought he was worth more than he was in 1999-2000...What a joke. I'm glad he's not ruining our team, because if the Heat don't win the championship this year, he definitely ruined theirs...PeACe
Quote from: Inglewood Ave Iz Active on June 07, 2006, 07:16:05 PMShaq didn't want to take a pay-cut.....THE ENDActually he DID take a paycut this year (although he still makes mega millions) and look where it's taken him...to the NBA Finals, Kobe and Shaq just didn't get along, there's nothing anyone can do about that
Shaq didn't want to take a pay-cut.....THE END
Wade is the regular season MVP.....But Shaq is the playoff and finals MVP....shows how much you know
all you do is bitch and complain about how you think Kobe is the man.....you just bitch abou Nash taking out your boy in the playoffs and how Nash beat your boy in the MVP....and now that Shaq is leading his team into another finals, you have somethin more to whine and complain about....
Shaq is averaging 20 and 10 with a whopping .613 field goal %....thats huge. Plus I still think Shaq carries the team, everything goes thru Shaq and hes the most important player on the team. If Shaq plays well, the heat NEVER lose. Wade can still put up 30 and they heat will lose. All of the open jumpers that Walker, Williams, Posey and Payton are getting are becuase the ball is going inside to your daddy and the defense puts so much attention on Shaq. And Shaq just dominated and owned the NBA defensive player of the year (Ben Wallace)
either way tho we could be here and dispute it all day...this is howit went down since the trade.Lakers - out the playoffs and a first round lossHeat - third round and finals ( maybe even a championship)And this we cant dispute .Isint this a Steve Nash thread? lmao
Quote from: mrceo on June 08, 2006, 11:10:56 AMQuote from: Inglewood Ave Iz Active on June 07, 2006, 07:16:05 PMShaq didn't want to take a pay-cut.....THE ENDActually he DID take a paycut this year (although he still makes mega millions) and look where it's taken him...to the NBA Finals, Kobe and Shaq just didn't get along, there's nothing anyone can do about thatno, shaq couldn't get along with kobe..he's always been jealous of kobe...that's how much bitch shaq has in him______________________________________________________________________The other players on the team wanted to make sure he (kobe) earned everything he got, that the coach didn't just give him something just because the fans wanted to see this young phenom play," recalled Del Harris, Bryant's first coach with the Lakers. That was especially true of Shaquille O'Neal, the game's dominant young center who felt immense pressure to win championships. Each season his dislike of Bryant had grown."What suprised me about Shaquille during our early days in Los Angeles was how frustrated he got," said former Lakers GM Jerry West."He was not fun to be around. The shortcomings of our team and his teammates made him angry because he knew he was going to be judged on how much we won."How angry?Just months before Jackson arrived, O'Neal slapped Bryant during a pickup game at the Laker practice facility."It would not be forgotten," former Laker guard Derek Fisher said of the incident.When Jackson and his coaching staff began work in Los Angeles, they were caught off guard by O'Neal's animosity toward Bryant."There was a lot of hatred in his heart," Tex Winter said of O'Neal. "He would speak his mind in our team meetings. He was saying really hateful. Kobe just took it and kept going."Jackson astutely read that he faced a more severe choice in Los Angeles. The situation dictated that he could not be close to both Laker stars. So he made a logical choice, according to Winter. "Very early in our time in LA, Phil made the decision to go with Shaq. And he made it clear to Kobe and the press and everyone else that it was Shaq's team. He made it clear that he was far more interested in accommodating Shaq than Kobe. And Kobe seemed to accept this."Winter, however, began to have concerns immediately. He said that he told Jackson that he (Jackson) seemed intent on making Bryant his "whipping boy," the player on which the coach traditionally takes out all of his frustration. Winter told Jackson that making a budding young superstar a whipping boy wasn't a good idea. His (Kobe's) relationship with Jackson only worsened over their five years together in LA. Winter said it was made worse by Jackson's refusal to have any sort of in-depth meeting or relationship with the young guard.At the same time, Jackson leveled a variety of public attacks at Bryant during those years. At one point, Jackson told reporters that Bryant had sabotaged his own high school games to make himself look like a star.(<--crazy how people dickryde shaq...even phil)And the owner had no desire to meet O'Neal's demands for a lengthy extension on his $30 million plus a year contract. So the Lakers traded him to Miami (where O'Neal would later meekly agree to play for $20 million a season). "In the final analysis, it's the coach's responsiblity to manage the team in the proper manner and not have those things happen," Winter said.It was simply a huge mistake to not keep Bryant in the loop, said Winter. "I think Phil realises that now."- Excerpted from the forthcoming book, The Show - The Inside Story of The Spectacular Los Angeles Lakers in the Words of Those Who Lived It. Scheduled for December release by McGraw-Hill.
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