Shaq criticizes LeBron for how he left Cleveland

[Samurai Swoosh]

Yup, that's why I'm pulling for the Mavs. If there is any player that dosen't have a ring yet that deserves one I think it's Dirk. For sure he definitely deserves one over LeBron and his title would actually be hard earned, well deserved and he can say that he won with honour. If LeBron wins though not many people will respect their title and will think of it as fabricated.

Good points.

[Ne 1]

thats the chosen one....

Funny how he has always called himself "King James", "The chosen one" and whatever other stupid nicknames before he ever won anything.

[Mr. Jabbar]

Yup, that's why I'm pulling for the Mavs. If there is any player that dosen't have a ring yet that deserves one I think it's Dirk. For sure he definitely deserves one over LeBron and his title would actually be hard earned, well deserved and he can say that he won with honour. If LeBron wins though not many people will respect their title and will think of it as fabricated.

people loves putting "*" on rings because of stacked teams, ref help etc, so a potential lebron ring should look like this:[FONT=Arial Black] " *[COLOR=red]*[COLOR=black]*[/COLOR]*[/COLOR] "[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial Black][FONT=Arial]1st asterisk represents Wade (carried by)[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial]2nd one Bosh (carried by)[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial]3rd one Chalmers (carried by)[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial]4th one Stern (gifted by)[/FONT]
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[monkeypox]

Shaq: You see the key to burning your bridges is wait till you're safely on the other side.

[niko]

I like when how LEbron leaves is mentioned, inevitably People say "we need to get over it". getting over it does not mean when the topic comes up you change your opinion on what happened. It doesn't mean saying "yeah, Lebron left in a classy way".

[Shepseskaf]

Actually, I can't think of anyone more qualified. He was completely straight-forward with Orlando prior to his leaving for LA.

Where did you come up with that lie? I was living in Orlando when the whole Shaq-to-LA went down. He ended up blaming his leaving the city on a newspaper poll run by the Orlando Sentinel which found that the majority of persons asked thought that Shaq wasn't worth the money that he was asking for.

The real truth was that he had undoubtedly been in contact with people from LA for a long time prior to signing there, and just used the newspaper poll as an excuse.

So, no, he was not "straight-forward" with the Magic.

I also notice that you didn't comment on on the other teams that he left.

[Shepseskaf]

Shooting the messenger doesn't make the message less true.

If the messenger is compromised himself, then maybe the messenger should shut his mouth.

[LBJ 23]

Funny how he has always called himself "King James", "The chosen one" and whatever other stupid nicknames before he ever won anything.

What has winning to do with nickname?

[knickscity]

Essentially true, but is Shaq the one who should be dispensing knowledge on the proper way to leave a team?

Shaq told Orlando he was leaving.

So yeah, he is the perfect person to shed light on this.

[Bigsmoke]

Shaq told Orlando he was leaving.

So yeah, he is the perfect person to shed light on this.

lol he still shitted on that organization.

The Magic just won 61 or 62 game whatever and they had an All NBA sidekick for him and what he did?

and he did the same with the Lakers and with the Heat.

[Shepseskaf]

Shaq told Orlando he was leaving.

So yeah, he is the perfect person to shed light on this.

Read the comment I just posted on this subject.

[knickscity]

lol he still shitted on that organization.

The Magic just won 61 or 62 game whatever and they had an All NBA sidekick for him and what he did?

and he did the same with the Lakers and with the Heat.

Orlando shitted on him as well then.

Even though it was more than just money, Orlando low balled him in a money offer first, only to find out that the Lakers offered more.

And being traded has no relevance whatsoever.

He didn't demand to leave those teams.

LeBron never said anything remote to indicate he was leaving Cleveland.

They are not at all the same.

[B4llin]

I've never been a cleveland fan aside from an admirer of lebrons skills, but it would have been alot better if lebron had worked to bring the big 3 to Cleveland, I mean he was/is the best player in the league, reigning 2 time MVP playing in his home town where he had promised to bring a ring, WTF does Wade owe to Miami, WTF does bosh owe to Miami or Toronto. Had the big 3 been formed in clevelad it would have been alot better for all sides. And I wish it had have happened, either way I hope all three win a ring, and bosh has a monster series of course, shutting everyone the *** up for forgetting the fact that he has been a dominant player since he started in the league. Abit off topic I know but I can't start a thread, I would also like to add the disgust I have for the fact that reaching the finals has no respect, I personally think that reaching the finals should be regarde extremely higher than it is, yeah you don't win a championship, bit there is not a whole lot of difference beetwen being there amd winning it, because a whole lot of effort goes into each feats/ end rant

[ballerz]

When shaq was retireing heard him say he told Danny Ainge early so they could find replacements for him which was the right thing to do. As its been said Lebron never told anyone that he was leaving

[kaiiu]

Without Cleveland and the backstory. Lebron would never have been "the chosen 1" or any of that other hype bullshit. His whole career would be different otherwise whether Stans admit it or not.