Shaq, beating Kings is like beating an old man

by Seth Pollack on Feb 3, 2009 4:09 PM MST

You've got to love Shaq. Or hate him. There's not a lot of middle ground there. I was definitely in the hate column until I started paying close attention.

Shaq is going to say some crazy stuff and just like Charles Barkley will piss some people off when he does. A lot of what he says is purely for his own ammusement. When throws something nutty out there about going back to LA or playing for 4 more years just to stir the pot and see all of us scramble around like chickens.

Here's this guy who's every word is analyzed and picked apart and instead of going to cliche mode he's decided to turn that around on us and just have fun.

That leaves pretty much anything he says suspect and not necessarily aligned with reality. It's not that he's lying or misleading as much as teasing. Shaq loves to have fun and sending the masses into a tizzy is one way he gets his joke on.

Shame on us if we can't take the joke.

Today, Shaq was not in a joking mood.

The Suns held a light practice in which the vets shot 50 free throws and the young'uns (Lou Amundson, Goran Dragic, Jared Dudley, Robin Lopez, and Alando Tucker) got in some extra work.

After practice Shaq expressed little pleasure in beating the "old men" Kings and showed again just how serious he is about winning.

Here's the audio as provided by Sports 620 KTAR.

Matt Barnes said some stuff too but I think at this point it missed the rim entirely.

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Very True

Who wasn’t thinking the same thing?

What does Amare have to say? I was watching the game on TV and noticed the post-game “celebration” in which Amare was hugging and hanging onto Ced Ceballos as if they were at a drunken party sponsored by Boris and his Dirty, underage, chubby, white girlfriends having their pictures taken with camera phones.

Did Ced do the post-game interview of Amare at the arena? Amare looked way too happy. Anyone at the game have any insight? Any sound from Amare?

Mmmmm ... Guinness

by JSun on Feb 3, 2009 5:14 PM MST reply actions

Not from me

I was stumbling down the stairs by that point and not paying a lick of attention to Ced or Amare

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by Seth Pollack on Feb 3, 2009 5:24 PM MST up reply actions

Sounds like they were at your party

Mmmmm ... Guinness

by JSun on Feb 3, 2009 5:51 PM MST up reply actions

Ced talked about how Amare was the starting PF for the all-star game, and Amare pretended to appreciate it while the 10 fans left in the stadium hoped he got traded to Toronto for Chris Bosh.

by ArizonaCactus on Feb 3, 2009 8:13 PM MST up reply actions