Shaquille O'Neal has never been the type of person that allows the opportunity for a sound byte to pass, and in an interview at Madison Square Garden before a recent preseason game against the New York Knicks, Shaq was in rare form.
O'Neal touched on many different subjects during the course of his interview, but his strongest statements came when he was asked if there were any true centers left in the NBA.
O'Neal responded by saying that his style of play had killed the true low-post center, and that most NBA big men play a softer, European type brand of basketball.
I can see where O'Neal is coming from there since the NBA center is an endangered species, but in O'Neal's opinion, they may as well be on the brink of extinction since he only named two.
Dwight Howard, and strangely Yao Ming are the only true centers left in the NBA in O'Neal's estimation, and while he is entitled to his own opinion, his statement does a disservice to the few young talented centers out there.
Few people would argue that Howard is the league's most dominant interior force right now, and if he really did learn from a summer with Hakeem Ola ...
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Shaquille O’Neal: Are There Really Only Two True Centers Left in the NBA?
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