NBA: Shaquille O’Neal Continues To Throw Jabs At Scottie Pippen
NBA: After their social media square off last week, Shaquille O’Neal went on his podcast to throw more jabs at Scottie Pippen
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It started a week ago, but Shaquille O’Neal is still going at Scottie Pippen strong.
This time on his podcast, The Big Podcast with Shaq. While he had the opportunity to end the “feud” — if you even want to call it that — he, instead, decided just add more “fuel to the fire.” It all started with both Shaq and Pippen saying how each of their respective teams’ (Lakers and Bulls) all-time hypothetical roster would fare against each other.
It then turned into each of them taking turns on Instagram taking personal digs at one another, because that’s a level that every argument eventually reaches.
Here are the latest excerpts of what Shaq said in the podcast yesterday.
"[transcribed via ESPN]“He made it personal when he put ‘At Shaq, we’ve got six rings,’ like he was the main focus of the six rings. You were not the main focus of the six rings. Don’t make me put out the scouting report. He wasn’t even a factor in the scouting report. It was all about [Michael Jordan]. … You double Mike, Scottie was open, Scottie hit a couple shots.”…“Let’s just talk reality. When you say top 10 players, his name will never be mentioned. When you say top 20 players, his name maybe will be mentioned. So don’t come to me like I’m not a player. … You’re a Benz, you’re a 550. I’m a 600, V-12. OK?”…Now, does O’Neal have a relationship with Pippen?“I don’t. … He was cool, respectful and all that. But he made it personal when he came at me, flashing his six rings like he was the main, main factor of the six rings. Stop it, Scottie. We all know you were second fiddle. You’ll always be second fiddle. … You’re Robin. you’re not Batman. You’re not Puffy, you’re Mase.” …“When Michael left, you didn’t do nothing. All you did was cry and whine when Phil [Jackson] didn’t give you the last shot. He gave it to Toni Kukoc, who was a much better player than you. Toni Kukoc hit the game[-winning] shot. When you left and went to Houston, what did you do? Nothing. When you left and went to Portland, what did you do? Oh yeah, you took us to a Game 7 … up by 17 in the fourth quarter, what happened? You lose.”"
Mind you, this is only a few highlights from the episode, which could be found in its entirety here.
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Not sure if Pippen will even respond to Shaq now, but I really just hopes this ends sooner rather than later. This has to be one of the weirdest and lamest feud in the history of NBA feuds.
Both Shaq and Pippen were great, but they’re not in the same class. Plain and simple. If nothing else, Shaq comes off as petty for even lowering himself to such a lame battle of words.
Put this into perspective: Two 40-year-olds were arguing and taking personal shots at each other on Instagram. WELP.
Then again, it’s not like this is the first time Shaq has picked on a smaller, lesser player. It’s been kind of his MO his entire career.
Eh.