I think Shaq is an incredibly gentle man for someone his size, Shaq is a saint compared to the evil Karla. If Shaq really really wants to, he could easily kill Barkely and Miller by moving his little finger, instead of throwing some weak a@@ punch from behind just to send a signal of "hey I'll get mad if you keep hacking me". Come on, you think a baby hook master like Shaq can miss Brad Miller's head within two feet? But I will jump into Shaq bashing fest in full force if he injures Ming, accidentally or not.
Note to Yao Ming, When you play Shaq, Jump very high, come down hard with heel on big toe of Shaq, smile, call Bateer later.
No one is even mentioning the sign off Shaq gave to Dan Patrick that was, well, rather insensitive and on the off-color side IMHO. As he said he goodbyes after the interview, Shaq imitated a Chinese person talking in a Chinese accent in chinese dialect. He said tell Ming "$%$^$$%%^%@$$^^&^&&$". Though it was not real words and sounded jibberish. I cannot describe it, but it was rude and totally unprofessional for a National Radio show. He was obviously trying to be funny about telling Ming something in Chinese, though he does not speak Chinese, but it was like a cartoon character or comedian imitating someone with an Asian accent. I am not one to jump the gun about telling jokes about each other's ethnicity, sometimes we have to laugh at each other. But, it just was not the place and was typical Shaq. I guarantee that if Ming did the same sterotype about African Americans who use street slang, Rev. Sharpton and others would be asking for a National Apology..... I am not sure it was intended to be heard either???
I think it's great that Shaq is talking all this smack. You don't see him doing to any other players in the league. I would have to conclude that there is a slight level of threat involved there. Maybe not today, but eventually, Yao may be his match or better and that scares the hell out of him. So keep up the trash talk Shaq cause one day, you're gonna get hit by a silent train with the name Yao Ming on the back.
You talk trash when you feel that your "king of the hill" status is being threatened. That's what the big men of Team USA did before the Oakland game. That's what Shaq is doing now.
