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Shaq offers to pay for Mikan's Funeral

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O'Neal Offers to Pay for Mikan's Funeral

This is why I love this guy and I'm rooting for him this year to win it all.
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  • KnucklesKnuckles Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭
    Nice story. Thanks for shareing.
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  • Dallas88Dallas88 Posts: 746 ✭
    Is it just me, or has this guy changed, for the better, since leaving the Lakers....????
  • kobykoby Posts: 1,699 ✭✭
    Very nice gesture on the part of Shaq.
  • KnucklesKnuckles Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭
    He's always had a pretty big heart.. Every Christmas he dresses up in a Santa outfit 'Shaq-A-Claus' and does something nice.. One year he rolled around in the poor area's of LA on a flatbed truck covered in gifts giving them out to kids.. When he was in town to play against his former team around Christmas he pulled up to the Challengers Boys & Girls Club in South Los Angeles in a truck filled with bicycles, Sony Playstations, karaoke machines, sneakers and other gifts.

    He's always giving.. Good guy.

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  • KnucklesKnuckles Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭
    Nice story from 1998
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  • SoFLPhillyFanSoFLPhillyFan Posts: 3,931 ✭✭

    A great example of a man who makes it big and refuses to act like it.

    He was raised well and it shows.

    Kobe Bryant can bite me.
  • Mac53Mac53 Posts: 805 ✭
    Shaq is great, and it's a nice story. It's pitiful that more players didn't step forward now or before now. It's sad that more of these men who have more money than God can't take better care of their own.
    "Charlie, here comes the deuce. And when you speak of me, speak well."image
  • Dallas88Dallas88 Posts: 746 ✭
    Thanks everyone, for bringing this to my attention.

    I was unaware of the nicer things he has done.

    I'm glad for boards like this, so we don't have to feed-off negative media hype all the time!
  • KOBEcollectorKOBEcollector Posts: 3,873 ✭✭
    Shaq has done alot of nice things during his career

    I wonder why his % is so low from the " charity " stripe then ?
  • Gemmy10Gemmy10 Posts: 2,990 ✭

    The Lakers are nothing without Shaq. With Shaq on the Lakers they could have replaced Kobe with Mini Me and still won a championship.
  • KOBEcollectorKOBEcollector Posts: 3,873 ✭✭
    Are you implying that Shaq would've won those Championships in L.A without Kobe ?

    I understand most people do not like Kobe but if you believe that you don't know basketball my friend

    P.S how the Yanks making out tonight ?
  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭


    << <i>Are you implying that Shaq would've won those Championships in L.A without Kobe ?

    I understand most people do not like Kobe but if you believe that you don't know basketball my friend

    P.S how the Yanks making out tonight ? >>



    You are absolutely right. How many championships did Shaq win in Orlando again? To say Shaq would have won those championships in LA without Kobe is simply ignorant.
  • Gemmy10Gemmy10 Posts: 2,990 ✭
    <<Are you implying that Shaq would've won those Championships in L.A without Kobe?>>

    I guess you don't know who Mini Me is. image Anyway, since Mini Me has not tried out for an NBA team, just put an unknown rookie guard in Kobe's place during Shaq's time in LA and he would have at least 1 championship. If Shaq had stayed with Orlando he would have most definitely bought the Mickey Mouse crowd a championship.
  • KOBEcollectorKOBEcollector Posts: 3,873 ✭✭
    guess you don't know who Mini Me is. Anyway, since Mini Me has not tried out for an NBA team, just put an unknown rookie guard in Kobe's place during Shaq's time in LA and he would have at least 1 championship. If Shaq had stayed with Orlando he would have most definitely bought the Mickey Mouse crowd a championship.

    I highly doubt without Kobe the Lakers would even had made it to the Finals let alone win them

    The Kings and Spurs would definetly had beaten the Lakers those years
  • IJustLoveCardsIJustLoveCards Posts: 1,345
    Shaq delivered where others wouldnt with regards to the funeral, in fact, the lakers should have picked up the expenses..What the NBA has done to the previous players with regards to pensions, and retirement pay is disgusting..most of the players who paved the way for the salaries players recieve today are barley making it and the medical expenses they incurr is unreal due to the years they put in on the court. Both the players union and NBA front office need to put more of the billions they make into a kitty to take care of them..I mean, so the player today doesnt buy that 6th car...and an older player instead gets some medicine. Whats wrong with this picture.
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  • Mac53Mac53 Posts: 805 ✭
    Shaq: good
    Kobe: pretty good
    Mini Me: no good
    Me: better than Mini Me, less good than Kobe
    Jeannie: Best
    "Charlie, here comes the deuce. And when you speak of me, speak well."image
  • DirtyHarryDirtyHarry Posts: 1,917 ✭✭✭
    That's class for Shaq to do that. To be honest, I thought he passed away a while ago. Most big men don't live to be 80. image
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  • Gemmy10Gemmy10 Posts: 2,990 ✭

    Shaq is a GREAT human being first as well as being one of the all time BB greats. Put a healthy Shaq on any team with average players and that team will be in championship contention.
  • KOBEcollectorKOBEcollector Posts: 3,873 ✭✭
    Shaq + Wade and avg. players = championship contenders

    Shaq + no Wade with avg. players = you saw what happened last night
  • Gemmy10Gemmy10 Posts: 2,990 ✭
    I said a HEALTHY Shaq.
  • KOBEcollectorKOBEcollector Posts: 3,873 ✭✭
    I said a HEALTHY Shaq

    lol Shaq hasn't been " HEALTHY " since his days in Orlando
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