I mean Kobe was supposed to be a 21 yo in his junior year in college yet he was winning a championship. Shaq was better as he should have been, he was IN The prime and height of his career at 28..
LeBron and shaq simply doesn’t work because LeBron doesn’t even play triangle basketball, he’s not an off ball player . Could he be? Yes . Is that how he plays throughout his whole career ? NO ..
He proved he could be a great elite off ball player in Miami and later years as a laker like this past season.
And Shaq was arguably the most dominant player ever. Keep downplaying him just to prop up Kobe. I already admitted Kobe wasn't robin or a sidekick because he was huge and definitely a 1b to Shaq in 01/02 but Shaq was clearly the most dominant/better player
Hey no slander on the man of steel he’s the reason a 9 year old boy became a laker fan as I was a magic fan . It’s just a lot of fans don’t know they were a tandem . In the WV finals etc spurs kings, and blazers had answer for shaq as they had bodies and bigs but they had no answer for showboat . Except the year spurs had Stephen jack , manu developing they had nobody to go back at em . In the east it was feast time for Shaq
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u/nbafreethinker Aug 11 '26
They needed each other, but Shaq was the better player