The only thing thats tarnished are his four championship trophys.Those things need to be cleaned once in a while, Timmeh !

Thanks for posting this. Even as Lakers fan I don’t hate Duncan & I was glad when the Lakers finally traded Shaq’s lazy ass. He needed a change of scenery.

Duncan & Shaq’s accomplishments are close enough that you could make the case for either one having the better career. Duncan is/was a better power forward, but to me Shaq was the better center of the two.

There’s was one part of the article did make me laugh though:

“…for all four of Shaq’s titles he was playing with a future Hall of Famer. Kobe Bryant helped Shaq win three titles in LA, and Dwayne Wade carried Shaq and the Heat during their title run in ’06.”
“The only Hall of Famer Duncan played with was David Robinson. Robinson played with Duncan on two championship teams, but was well past his prime on both occasions.
”Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker are good players who won championships with Duncan, but neither of them are near the player Kobe Bryant or Dwayne Wade is."

So let me see if I get the implications…

Kobe & Wade “future Hall of Famers”. OK, that’s true.
But it doesn’t sound like he considers Ginobili and Parker “future Hall of Famers”. Really??

Also, he is implying that (Shaq + Kobe) > (Duncan + Ginobili + Parker)
And since he considers Duncan => Shaq,
That would mean Kobe > Ginobili + Parker (combined)… Wow that Kobe is good!