Shaquille O’Neal’s first encounter with drama in Orlando was about his jersey number.

Shaquille O'Neal's 1996 free agent defection from the Orlando Magic to the Los Angeles Lakers shifted the balance of power in ...

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In league history, few departures have changed a franchise's trajectory like Shaquille O'Neal's from the Orlando Magic in 1996. After the Magic had struck gold almost immediately as an expansion team ...

Fast forward to 2000, Grant found himself teammates with O’Neal on the Los Angeles Lakers. Those years apart were pivotal years for the big man. Horace observed that while both iterations of Shaquille ...

The way today's centers operate is entirely different from how the great big men of the 1990s and early 2000s played. With the revolution brought on by three-time MVP Nikola Jokić, modern-day centers ...

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