The debate never stops for Shaquille O’Neal. The legendary center who had an extraordinary career as a player and is now an analyst for the T.N.T., never stops causing a sensation among the masses with its constant historical comparisons. Claiming his era, criticizing the current one or talking tirelessly about everything that surrounds the NBA is the daily bread of a former player who makes an unparalleled comic pairing with Charles Barkley, but who also gets into too much trouble. Something that has always accompanied his charismatic and generous character, who has always boasted of not leaving anyone indifferent and filling Twitter and some of the main media that cover the best League in the world with headlines.
Shaq’s latest has been to propose a new hypothesis, those things that will never happen, that do not have any kind of empirical demonstration but that generate a huge number of hours of discussion in the impoverished world of social networks. The ancient star has now said that a big three made up of himself, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James would surpass one made up of Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Hakeem Olajuwon. Some statements that have been collected, among other media, Lakers Daily and that he talks about a hypothetical 7-game series in which both would be involved big threeson different teams.
Beyond the absurd comparison, Twitter users have not stopped expressing their opinion in this regard, thus giving rise to a debate that is the ultimate objective of this type of statement, so abstract but with a single purpose that they always end up fulfilling. Many have shown their opinion of him, but have favored the trio that Shaq is not in, also recalling the display that his direct pairing in theory, Hakeem, gave in the 1995 Finals, when the Rockets beat the Magic in the 1995 Finalswith an indisputable 4-0 that gave the victory and the second consecutive ring to the Houston franchise.
The debate does not give for more. The defensive capacity of the Michael Jordan trio is superior on paper, but nobody is talking about the companions that both teams would have. Nor is the debate of who is superior between LeBron and Bird (the current Lakers player has a better career) insignificant; and almost everyone finds Jordan superior over Kobe, although His Airness He assured a long time ago that the Black Mamba would be the only one to beat him in a direct duel. One way or another, what difference does it make? One more debate, one more discussion. And all originated by that man who in his day was an extraordinary player who today is simply dedicated to talking about the NBA… from his biased point of view, of course.
