Morning wood: Shaq, it’s just not that funny anymore
Praise be to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on this fine morning. Finally … FINALLY … someone has had the grapefruits (as well as the credibility to back it up) to call out Shaquille O’Neal and say what some of us have been thinking for awhile now:
Shaquille, you’re a 37-year-old man. It’s time to stop free-styling in clubs about shoving your dirty bits in a former teammate’s face. It’s time to stop conjuring up nicknames for yourself, and talking down to young players who’ve shown nothing but reverence for you.
Scarlett, admiring Scarlett
In short, it’s time to grow up.
Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski echoes this sentiment in an excellent column here, and asked the NBA legend for his thoughts on Shaq’s tired, insecure act of belittiling his peers, both past and present.
“Sometimes I wonder about his maturity,” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told Wojnarowski. “He doesn’t need to do that. He’s achieved so much.
“I don’t know why he stoops to that.”
Sadly, as his game continues to disintegrate and his body continues to break down, we fear we’ve yet to see just how low Shaq can stoop verbally.
- As if ESPN hasn’t given us enough to roll our eyes over the last couple days, we now learn that The World Wide Follower produced a story about recruiting violations involving Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin, then helped him commit one, then aired the story, THEN chided him for it. (Deadspin)
- Another thin-skinned, out-of-touch newspaper columnist discovers “comments section” on this new-fangled Internet thing, and hilarity ensues. (The Big Lead)
- You knew this was coming. David Carradine and mutha-truckin’ NINJAS. (Dlisted.com)
- Stephen Strasburg to be drafted by Nationals today; scheduled to make first start Friday. (CNN/Sports Illustrated)
- Like every other homeowner in Florida, Dan Marino can’t give his house away. (WSJ.com)
- Perhaps we were all a bit presumptuous in this whole “Randy Johnson will be the last pitcher to get 300 wins” thing. (ESPN.com)
- And finally, we have Scarlett admiring, well, Scarlett in the latest issue of Elle.
Related Posts:
One Response to “Morning wood: Shaq, it’s just not that funny anymore”
Leave a Reply
 |
 |
Pooping all over the web …
Communication is the key to any relationship …
Wow, on the “Another thin-skinned, out-of-touch newspaper columnist discovers “comments section” on this new-fangled Internet thing, and hilarity ensues.” posting. Some good comments, and a nice bit of invective from the columnist