"I told him, 'Listen, I understand you want Webber, but this cat Penny Hardaway is the answer. If you put us together, we could be like Magic [Johnson] and Kareem [Abdul-Jabbar],'" recounted Shaq.

How Kill Bill inspired Kobe's Black Mamba persona during personal challenges, plus his legendary revenge games against Del ...

Between Tool Shaq (Home Depot), Shaq-A-Licious (Hershey’s), Shaqtin’ A Fool (TNT) and Shaquille O’Deal (Klarna) — and that’s just the tip of the Shaq-berg — the most visible brand in the NBA is 7-foot ...

Dwight: A One-Sided Rivalry? To be fair, Shaq has a habit of holding grudges. His feuds with Kobe Bryant, Charles Barkley, and Penny Hardaway are well-documented. But the difference with Dwight?

The goal: come up with a starting lineup + sixth man that would beat any other collection of six players in NBA history.

Penny Hardaway was still electrifying, a 6’7” point guard with Magic Johnson’s vision and a scorer’s mentality. And then there was young Shaq—a physical freak of nature, already ...