That video started the moment i hit the site. Luckily I had my sound off, but Bill Walton in class would be a bad thing

Just like Randy Moss, once he played well in New England, it was an indictment on how he played in Oakland.

Yeah if anyone knows how to make that stop i'd like to know....Bill Walton is driving me crazy.

AA,

I think if you look at the embed thread, it says Play="true". Change that to false and it should be good

Walton is a hypocrite because he too suffered through injuries?

Sure thing, Shaq.

Shaq is one of two things:

1. a bum who wasn't playing hard in Miami despite his monstrous contract, which is what he has been implying since this trade went down.

-or-

2. thin-skinned about being broken down.

Walton's not wrong...Shaq's been unmotivated to play well since Miami's a terrible team. How is Wade supposed to feel to hear Shaq saying he's going to bring energy and a title to Phoenix? Where was that energy in Miami, Shaq?

Shaq needs to shut up, grow a pair, and quit worrying about what the media says about him.

For someone who only played maybe 2-3 good seasons in his entire career and piggybacked a ring with the celtics [just like Shaq did with the Heat], Walton has a lot of nerve to call someone out for not playing hurt.

Shaq isn't the same Shaq we all marveled at in 'Blue Chips.' He can't completely take over a game at the drop of a hat. He needs significant help to make him look adequate. Old Riles built the team of hungry vets willing to stab a hobo for that ring and gutted it when those guys lost the fire to compete. Now what is left? A lot of mediocrity and a snow balls chance in hell of even making it out of the cellar of the East.

Shaq is just moving on from a situation that was declining fast. No need to harp on that.

all you need to know about Walton is he smokes/smoked dope.

That should be all the insight you need.

Steve, the only way Walton's dope smoking disadvantages him in this argument is if Shaq has never smoked dope either. I don't think anybody's ready to make that argument.

Regardless, I think "he's smoked dope, therefore he's necessarily wrong" is logic most people would find ridiculous even while high.

Your response is ad hominem just as much as Shaq's is and does nothing to address the substance of what Walton said. Shaq neither alleges nor proves that anything Walton said was wrong. He just personally attacks him. It comes off as insecure and as tacitly acknowledging the truth of Walton's allegations.

I'm not the biggest Shaq fan, but that said, just stfu Bill. All of those Dead concerts finally had an effect on Walton.

Let me just add that the analogy Shaq draws between himself and Walton is bunk.

Both coped with injuries over their careers. But, to my knowledge, only Shaq turned around and then promised a new team that he would "get them over the hump" to win a championship.

Walton was broken down too. I understand that. But I am not aware that he ever had the arrogance (which is what he indicts in Shaq) to say, in spite of his physical state, that he was just what a team needed to win a championship and point at his ring finger and make all those representations.

Walton may have piggybacked a title in Boston, but he also was THE reason Portland won one, so for Shaq to talk as though Walton was a worthless stiff is ludicrous.

Walton also never insinuated he was dogging it for the Clippers when Boston acquired him, and he didn't talk like he was the centerpiece that was going to lead Boston back to glory. He just did his job as Sixth Man.

I can see why Shaq feels the need to defend himself: for a decade he was the most dominant big man in the league. He's also probably quite aware that he was traded for a 20 point, 12 rebound per game guy and he's nowhere near that any more. But seriously, he until he puts up for Phoenix he needs to shut up.

Okay fixed it. Sorry about that.

Aren't we all wondering if Shaq was pulling a Vince Carter in Miami? I have no problem with Walton calling bullshit on this.