Shaquille O'Neal's Career Highlights! 

terrible reaction how old are these dudes?

lul

There were guys bigger than Shaq but he was quicker and stronger. Bradley, Muresan, Arvydas, Yao, ...

As if human evolution underwent some dramatic change in the last 50 years. 😁😁😁

Go look at the avg height of an NBA player in the 60s vs 80's vs 00 vs 20' Theres a diffetence, Yall need to vo to school

Rodman was a different beast!

Rodman is the man

Rodman one of the best defensive players of all time pound for pound.

Woulda never happened to Kareem

There was also several times when shaq gave Rodman 30+

Exactly….. acting like there are no 7 footers back then

As a Matter of fact… They need To Do Hakeem Highlights and see what’s up… Damn the dunks… That man footwork made people look like fools… He gave Shaq the blues

@Faraji Council Kareem played untill what? 88-89 right? Ewing was drafted in 85, Hakeem in 84. Both as #1 picks, and they both started off the rip as different. Not only that there's ... Joe Barry Carroll 7'1" Bill Cartwright 7'1" Tree Rollins 7'1" Marvin Webster 7'1" Elmore Smith 7' Kevin Kunnert 7' Jack Sikma, Darrell Dawkins, Jim Chone, Sven Nater & Bob Lanier all at 6'11". And these guys were all drafted in 1981 or sooner. Right in the mix of Kareem's career.

@@johnneymason1721 That's all I'm saying too bro. No one can take Shaq's dominance away from him. He might be one of the, if not THE most unstoppable players in history when he gets in his spots. But players like Kareem, Hakeem, even David Robinson...their games were just so much more complete. I mean teams had a strategy to get Shaq on the FT line because he shot like.... what....50% from the line?

exactly this dude is def a gen z

It's tragic that the young fella doesn't know how unreal Abdul Jabbar was. It seems he overvalues athleticism, I mean are we going to forget how a shorter, smaller Olajuwon absolutely dismantled Shaquille with skill, to win his second championship? But hey, what do we know right....

@@mikehammer1777 i think they listen to JJ Redick and think it was all plumbers and mailmen

@@adamframpton2573: It’s such a dumb comparison. Like nowadays 3rd graders know more about the world than Plato and Socrates ever did. But that doesn’t mean Plato and Socrates were dumb 😂 Just a different era. They’re still GOATs But I think it feels extra dumb for this situation bc Kareem is actually LEGENDARY.

That’s the thing, hard to compare players from different eras by simply inserting shaq from the 90s into the 70s. Imagine if Kareem had the same training and nutrition that shaq had? Kareem was dominant in his era and shaq in his.

@@mikehammer1777 "Dismantled" is a huge stretch. 5 more points, 3 less turnovers, and 2 more steals per game is not a "dismantling". Olajuwon took 10 more shots per game and had a worse fg%, and Shaq made more FT's a game than Olajuwon even took. That wasn't individual difference, it was a team difference. Sam Cassell randomly having 30 pts off the bench in game 2. Robert Horry avg'd 18/10, Clyde Drexler 21/10/7. 3rd year Shaq and 2nd yr Hardaway did what they could; but that was like Howard vs the Lakers.

Exactly hes a know it all and don't know nothing

Facts 7ft is 7ft and there actually really aren't that many TRULY GREAT 7ft players: Shaq, Wilt, David, Dirk, Kareem... idk if we can name more than 10 but regardless in any era of course thr 7ft dude is the biggest guy LOL he's just young he doesn't realize how different it actually was. Nowadays the centers can be 6'9 hell how tall was Ben Wallace? Was he 6'8? Rodman was like 6'8. Russell was only 6'9 and would hold Wilt while still jumping over other equally tall opponents.

The average player in wilts era were unathletic compared to mjs era or today's Era, every era has greats but the average player back then was a plumber

@@putitinreverseterry False narrative. I like how you added MJs era but we can say the same about the 90s. Less athletic compared to todays game and was also when the league expanded. We can paint the narrative that the 90s were full of "plumbers" as well

@@greg2797 Every decade they gonna say is a plumber… SMDH. Catch young people 50 years from now saying Bron and Shaq was playing against plumbers.

@@letitswissarmy sad, but at the same time when I hear someone start talking about another era was full of plumbers it’s an easy sign that they don’t watch games or tape. They are getting their opinions from others who don’t watch games lol shows their ignorance

His annoying asf

Every video he’s in he says something so wrong

@@bodyserviceshop5627 its the confidence he says it with that gets to me

I actually try and find vids he’s not in. Dude is so annoying with his overly confident but wrong bs he says.

What's funny is the average height in the NBA was taller back then, than now 💀

Hack a Shaq, they called it.

Nope. He made them when they really counted. Go back and watch the tape.

@@grantdowling8550 then explain the 2010-2011 playoffs. Or why his clutch FT% was 50% (20/40)

@@bravetitangrizzly 2011? You're cherry picking his last season when he was way over the hill anyway? lol aight man

@@grantdowling8550 teams actually drew up a strategy of intentionally fouling him in clutch moments. That's a sign of horrible free throw shooting. That strategy can backfire once or twice, but it doesn't change the fact.

Right, moral of the story? They both brought chips to the purple and gold!!!!

Yep!

gotta say thharden step back and mj fade away too but sky hook number one

Did you really say hardens step back. If your move isn’t dominate in the playoffs it doesn’t count.

@@thatsright9473 I know you aren’t talking about big beards illegal step-back

Uh, fella named Wilt....

Team game. Rockets had the much better team. Robert Horry is a winner.

Facts he schooled shaq

Absolutely The Dream was Unstoppable !!

🤣🤣 ignore this comment Shaq was 22, the best player on his team & averaged 28 13 6 & 2.5 Blks on 60% Hakeem averaged 32.8 12 6 & 2 Blks On 48%

Na bra they both balled

Was on board until you said Hakeem schooled Shaq, that’s just complete BS lol. 22 year old Shaq put up identical numbers to Hakeem while being doubled constantly, Shaq was the best player on the floor but Hakeem had a better team.

Exactly. I've researched it plenty because I hate that argument and the avg height for those PF/C was actually slightly taller in Bill/Wilt days. Of course Wilt was the biggest because there just aren't many 7ft people period it doesn't matter what era we're talking about but they were consistently at 6'10 at those positions that's nowhere near the case today. Look at Rodman and Ben Wallace like they weren't much taller than Magic Johnson(granted yes he was a hybrid because not many pg were that tall LOL) But y'all get my point Ben was 6'9 and became 1 of the greatest defenders of all time and rebounders and he did it in Shaq era dude avg 15rbs at SIX FOOT NINE and Shaq never did at 7ft 1 and we've seen Ben play good D on Shaq. But besides the Rudy Goberts aren't many 7ft let alone really good one's now dudes are playing C/PF at 6'7-6'8 every night. Draymond is the dedicated 4/5 at 6'6.... Kobe and MJ height 😳 that was not the case in Kareem, Oscar, Wilt, Russell days. There weren't 5'10 players either the pg's were taller than a lot nowadays, I won't argue that it doesn't necessarily mean 1 is automatically better than another because of size but the whole argument casual fans have about that is so misconstrued.

@@vinnypaolini9116 So you can disagree with me saying schooled (although Shaq says so all the time) but saying "22 year old Shaq" means nothing. He was in his 3rd year avg 29/11 on 58% shooting. That's not your average 22 year old. Shaq was also runner up for MVP that year. Shaq was not the only one doubled. Shaq was never known for great defense, they absolutely were doubling Hakeem as well. But they defended each other most of the time and Hakeem came out on top with a sweep avg 33ppg. That's getting schooled to me. Shaq was not the best player on the floor. That much was shown. Shaq says he couldn't figure out Hakeem and was the only big he faced he couldn't get the best of. Lastly, Orlando was a #1 seed in the East and went 57-25, Rockets were a #6 seed and went 47-35. Orlando were favorites to winning not the Rockets so no Hakeem did not have the better team. Penny Hardaway made all nba 1st team and Shaq made all nba 2nd team. Orlando had the better team and were favorites to win with the better seed, MVP runner up on their team. Penny btw avg. 25/8 on 50% shooting. Now of course Orlando ended up getting swept and Rockets obviously ended up playing better as a team in the finals but we not going to act like they were favorited and had the most talent

@@alexanderthegreat5649 yea dude in the glasses clearly don't watch ball that much or at least didn't back then. They even said they don't remember watching LA Shaq. Dude on the right said that he only remember Suns Shaq lol So they were going based on who's highlights looked more exciting because of dunks which is as casual as it gets. Yea that height argument is weak and so is the talent argument. I bet they couldn't even name most the people Shaq was booming on in this vid.

@@vinnypaolini9116 damn you’re a fanboy lol

Kind of ruins some videos

Rodman shut him down

Shut down is a stretch. He has been SLOWED DOWN. And he has been momentarily stumped by guys like Rodman. But completely stopped? Never happened.

Hack a Shaq caused the league to change the rules about fouling players off the ball.

You’ve never, never, seen Shaq shut down

Yep: see Shaq Vs Hakeem in the 1995 finals. Pure and utter dominance by Hakeem. Hakeem showed Shaq he wasn’t quite ready yet.

@@ATrainInfinite Wtf type of nonsense are you spitting? Shaq put up identical numbers to Hakeem at 22 years old while being doubled constantly, Shaq was the best player in that series and that’s just a fact. Houston had the better TEAM.

Word, cause Tim Duncan gave him that work on many occasions.

@@enlightenmenttv2287 Wrong. Look at the film and numbers.

@@vinnypaolini9116 I did. 2003 1999, 2005. Looks lien domination to new. Hell if fisher doesnt bail then out in 02, Duncan would’ve outplayed shaq yet again with that game winner.

He towered over Shaq and he was like 60.

didn't zion break one? if they are nearly impossible zion is a scary dude.

Darrell Dawkins.......

Nah, Darrell Dawkins bro, not Shaq.

It was Darryl Dawkins who destroyed rims not shaq

That last dunk could have caused serious injury to Shaq or one of the other players.

Bill Russell

Kareem was the best player on only 3 championship teams. In 2 of those rings he was the 3rd best player. Career wise Kareem had a way better career because he actually only focused on basketball and stayed in shape. At their absolute highest level of basketball I'm taking shaq any day. The 3peat shaq was insane.

Don't listen to Adam. Many people say Prime Shaq was as good as anyone. Nobody argues Kareem is the Goat over Jordan & Lebron

Shaq says it himself

@@865style Kareem was finals MVP when he was 38.

Wilt couldn't shoot free throws. Tim Duncan couldn't shoot free throws. It happens.

@@dillivered he seemed pretty fine rebounding against wilt, Thurmond, and artis Gilmore who were all comparable in strength to shaq.

Watch the video of Wilt shaking Shaq's hand ;).

Shaq played against plenty of great centers too. Hakeem, Robinson, Ewing, Mourning, Duncan (technically not a center but he and Shaq definitely went head to head), Mutumbo, Yao

@@Saul.2910 At his peak most of those guys were washed or not in the league/too young (Yao, Dwight) though

Kobe is very close to Mike quit playing lebron isn't close to either!

@@toddbriones5679 Explain yourself

Kareem had to bend down to shake Shaq's hand. Shaq looked up like , daaamn.

Why do y’all talk like Kareem played in the 40s? They definitely were dunking in the 70. Lmfao

They’ve not done the research. Had they done so, they won’t be so dismissive of Wilt.

@@anthonychurch726 WIlt did everything.....60 % of his career field goals are fade away off the glass shots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was the 1st notable player at least to do the SKY HOOK....not Kareem, @ watch the vids...AMAZING..

@@danreed5171 They didn't start keeping track of blocked shots till 73-74 after Wilt retired it would be interesting to see how many he averaged?

@@skincarver1797 WILT had CRAZY arcade stats!!!!!!! 1962 he led the league with 50.4 PTS and 25.0 Rebounda per game..............

Thank you. If you watch, The bank shot that Duncan is known for, that was Wilt, Hakeem’s fadeaway that was Wilt, Ewing’s turnaround jumper, that was Wilt, Dirk’s one legged fadeaway, that was Wilt, and as you say the sky hook that was Wilt. George Gervin’s finger roll, that was Wilt, and then of course he was called the Big Dipper because he would often dip the ball into the basket versus dunk it. These guys don’t know what they’re talking about. Not to mention his incredible conditioning and strength. Shaq would be lucky to average 20 points on Wilt.

That’s dumb logic. Don’t disrespect the diesels game like that. For one, u can’t say someone with his size and athleticism can do what he did because there ISNT ANYONE with that combo of traits. He’s one of one. That’s why he is who he is. Secondly, shaq was extremely skilled. A lot more than given credit for. His ability to gain position, his footwork at that size, his agility, his post game, jump hooks, back spins into lobs, black tornado spin, drop steps, pivot game , passing, etc. he had game. It wasn’t just his size that made shin great. U need to go watch shaqs thinking basketball episode and get that ignorance out of your head.

@@TheIcemanthomas facts...terrible free throw shooter,...one of the worst in the league...its like playing on 8 ft goal for him...easy. It would be like you playing on 8 ft goal against 6 grader and if say you would not dominate you are dumb. gain position bc he used his 100 lbs difference over his opponents.

No He started his career in the golden era of bigs but his prime was after all of those guys were gone. Kareem played against a wider selection of bigmen talent from the later 60s through the late 80s.

@@TheIcemanthomas Stop lying Shaq played against Hakeem, Robinson, Ewing, Mutombo, Mourning, Yao, Divac, for about a decade if you think his L.A. years was his only dominating years, you're sad or misinformed the centers Kareem played against can't hold a candle to the 90s early 00s centers

@@anthonys___n8022 Kareem played against every center except for Shaq

@@chase9841 Kareem domination stopped in the early 90's because he was old so in the 90s he wasn't dominating the best era of Centers of all-times Shaq did though straight outta college