NBA players are the absolute best basketball players in the world. Every single player in the league has sacrificed years of their life in the gym trying to be good enough to make it to the NBA.
When all of their hard work is condensed into arbitrary legacy points, it naturally offends players. Analyst Amin Elhassan revealed he once upset Shaquille O’Neal by making strong comments against an unnamed player, with Shaq telling Amin why he couldn’t criticize a player.
“Shaq told me straight up, ‘You can’t say that.’ I said, ‘Am I wrong?’ He said, ‘You can’t say that’. I said, ‘But am I wrong?’ He said, ‘You’re not wrong but you don’t have the G14 classification to say that. That comes from the Diesel, his thing is that you’re not incorrect in what you’re saying.”
Shaq often brings up his G14 Classification while talking about modern-day players quite often. He uses it to distinguish what he says on TV as an all-time top-10 player from what other talking heads around the league have to say. When Shaq criticizes something, he’s doing it based on his nearly two decades as one of the league’s biggest stars.
Shaquille O’Neal Earned Everyone’s Respect On The Court
O’Neal is arguably a top-three center of all time and is often considered to have had the most dominant peak in league history. What O’Neal did to the NBA with the Lakers in the early 2000s made people think the Kobe-Shaq tandem would never be beaten. Naturally, time took its course as Shaq declined over the mid to late 2000s before retiring as a Boston Celtic in 2010.
O’Neal averaged 23.7 points, 10.9 rebounds, 2.5 assists, and 2.3 blocks over his career and was a four-time champion, three-time Finals MVP, one-time regular season MVP, 14 All-NBA appearances, and 15 All-Star appearances.
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