Just about this time a dozen years ago the reigning champion Los Angeles Lakers were in Denver to play the Nuggets in a regular-season game, but reigning MVP Shaquille O'Neal was avoiding the media after his team's morning shootaround at the Pepsi Center .
When the Los Angeles Lakers won three straight NBA titles, from 1999-2000 to 2001-2002, the dynamic duo of Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant led the way and dominated the NBA like not many players have.
Earlier this month, new TNT NBA analyst Shaquille O'Neal went on national television and voiced his opinion that Los Angeles Lakers ' center Andrew Bynum, not Dwight Howard , is the best center in the NBA.
With two more championships in 2009 and 2010, Kobe has tied Magic Johnson with five and sits one away from tying Michael Jordan.
The recent public feud between TNT analysts Shaquille O'Neal and Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard has been highly publicized.A But while most of the public see two very different people, Magic fans are starting to see them as very much the same.
Barkley has spent a lot of time this season proclaiming that Love is the best power forward in the NBA.
It can be argued that a team sport is not a one-man game. In fact, it's very rare that one person can come along and change chemistry, talent and overall bring championships to an organization.
Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant 's recent string of 40-plus-point games have him among some elite company of NBA greats who eclipsed the 40-point mark in a game after the age of 32.
Kendrick Perkins played against his former teammates last night for the first time since the Celtics traded him to Oklahoma City Feb.
Shaquille O'Neal sat all of his 7-foot, 300-plus-pound frame down in a black chair in the green room for TNT 's "Inside the NBA " show at Staples Center when a thought suddenly popped in his head.
Just 39 seconds later - this time with less than a minute left in the game - he did it all over again.
A Santa Barbara bartender who quickly got a unique tattoo after hearing of a $1,000 offer from pro basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal is set to meet the former NBA center in person tonight in Los Angeles.
The Magic swept the west coast portion of their trek with the latest win coming in Oakland last Thursday.
Photo provided by SONYA T. GORDON Belaire High School 11th grader Belaire High School Donikia 'Nikki' Young, who wrote the winning essay for a contest entitled, 'Why I Want to Meet Shaq,' meets retired NBA great Shaquille OA'Neal in December at Barnes and Noble book store at Perkins Rowe.
Jon Miller, chief digital officer for News Corp., predicted that a major trend of 2012 will be what he called the "channelization" of the Web.
