Shaquille O’Neal threw major shade at the Nets for their performance in the NBA Finals.
Getty Shaquille O’Neal attends the 2019 NBA Awards presented by Kia on TNT at Barker Hangar on June 24, 2019 in Santa Monica, California. Recency bias has caused the conversation of who the most dominant basketball player of all time to be headlined by names such as LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and Giannis Antetokounmpo. However, one name that often gets left by the wayside is that of Hall of Fame big man Shaquille O’Neal. O’Neal spent eight seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers where he won three championships with the late Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant. Bryant and O’Neal were known as one of the most dominant duos ever as they are the last team to win three straight titles coming in 2000,2001, and 2002. The latest Nets news straight to your inbox! Join the Heavy on Nets newsletter here! Join Heavy on Nets! Kobe and Shaq’s last title together in 2002 was perhaps their easiest as they beat the then-New Jersey Nets in four games for a clean sweep. Shaq says that the series was such a breeze that at times it got ‘boring.’ “It was boring,” said O’Neal of facing the Nets in the 2002 Finals per Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson. “I actually got mad when we were playing in Jersey. You think [then-Nets center] Todd MacCulloch is going to stop me at the crib in Jersey in front of my grandma and grandpa? S***! No.
