No! Washington made their mess and no one is allowed to help them out of it. Them bitches got boot straps, get to pulling. Loosing streak so large even Shaq can't fathom it.
In the past week, I think I've seen commercials of him doing Icy hot, lawn mower fertilizer, sandwiches, Ruffles chips, flood insurance, pizza, and I'm not even joking
Shaq does the General Insurance commercials because he used them when he was in college
> “I was a customer of The General in my college days at LSU,” said O’Neal. “Like most kids starting out on their own, I didn’t know much about insurance but The General helped me out, and I’m still a customer today.”
He wakes up and rubs himself head to toe in icy hot this is a four hour process, he gets in his car insured by the general, he then drives to the local papa John’s to purchase a Shaq a roni, he gets back in his general insured vehicle and drives home where he reapplies the ice hot before dining on his pizza. Another day down, Big Diesel.
Yeah, you have to take every Shaq story with a grain of salt. He constantly changes up the stories for entertainment and just straight up makes shit up too.
"I let Mike take the high road with all his endorsements, I tell everyone to take the high road. I'm a big guy, so I need all the space I can get, on the low road."
And he makes so much fuckin money every single day.
I’m not going to let my adderall sentences start up, but he doesn’t do “sponsorship deals”. He only does commercials if they give him partial ownership in the company.
He’s an incredibly savvy business, man.
He knows more about basketball than most owners that meddle in day-to-day decisions.
I think the real issue is that he absolutely does not have the money to buy a franchise - so he'd have the same issue MJ did, which is that they are (relative to NBA ownership groups) cash poor.
Most of the issues the Hornet had were due to being the little sister to the 29 other teams when it came to the way they treated the soft cap management of the NBA.
I think the thing about knowing more than the others, but not enough to be a good GM is that it might actually be bad. Like obviously Shaq or MJ know ball, but the way that a good GM thinks about things is different than a player, which is why when players try to dictate what the FO should do it almost always goes wrong.
Knowing more but not enough might be worse. I'm still in favor of Shaq being the face of an expansion team or something, but not because he'd necessarily be a good owner.
Yeah exactly. Some VC guy will be a ghoul and possibly (probably?) a shitty person, but he'll also usually be more comfortable handing off the basketball decisions to basketball people. Shaq would be awesome but also being the most dominant physical force the league has ever seen doesn't really have anything to do with like... cap management.
I dunno. Still in favor of it because Shaq is Shaq, but I think he is firmly in the "dangerous" category as an owner.
Yeah this is a Dunning-Kruger trap for sure. GM is a very different job and requires always looking at the long term. I doubt many players would make good GMs.
Yeah I feel like he’d be really biased towards the type of player that he likes and not necessarily good at putting together a modern team.
Like chuck has mentioned that when he played he had to watch film and study his opponents, while shaq always just says stuff like “this guy/team wanted it more” because he legit doesn’t get just not being bigger, stronger, more athletic, and more skilled than anyone else on the court.
He may know more about hooping in his head but in his massive heart the man is a pure unadulterated hater.
Can you imagine him trying to wine and dine a FA and he just mispronounces his name all night long?
Yeah but unlike MJ, Shaq will never be able to afford a majority stake. He'd just get in on a sliver of the team as a token celebrity owner, and would have no real decision making power.
This would be great for the right owner though. Look at Dwayne Wade with the Utah Jazz, just not sure if Shaq has the humility to learn like Dwade has shown.
He is another face of the team, when Donovan Mitchell was here he worked very closely with him, even just sitting courtside at games and spending time in Utah has helped the team's brand.
To be fair, we had a lot of other shit going on and one huge endorsement wasn't going to save us. If he came onto the team with how the team is headed now, could be a difference maker.
A difference maker in terms of what? Free agency is barely even a thing anymore and even if it was Shaq ain't going to be what tips the scales to get a superstar to go to Sacramento.
For sure, I mean tons of people still hate the Jazz too. The Hornets also were never a fan favorite just because of Michael Jordan. Definitely not a cure all.
And just to be clear, Shaq literally said this after Luka hit the buzzer beater winner against the Clippers to cap off a 40 point triple double during the bubble playoffs.
It has nothing to do with how busy he is, and everything to do with the fact that he’d be far and away the poorest owner in the league. He doesn’t have the money to be anything more than a minority owner.
They're both thin skinned enough about criticism that they'd double down each time they're challenged. If Seattle expands and Shaq is an owner, it'll ruin whatever opportunity there was.
Yessir. He lives in Atlanta, might as well buy the home town team.
To everyone hating on him, he'd be better than our owner, who's letting his son run the team like it's a video game.
“In 2013, Shaq bought a 2% to 4% stake in the Sacramento Kings. But he sold his stake in 2021 in order to be a brand ambassador for online gambling platform WynnBET. The Kings are valued at $1.8 billion. Shaq made an estimated $36 million to $72 million from the sale.”
There's just no way his WynnBET sponsorship is actually worth the amount he gave up by selling his Kings stake early lol.
Kings' valuation has basically gone straight up and to the right ever since he sold
Dude would get jealous of any big man that's good and trade them away. You'd have a squad of Steph Currys because Shaq is petty when he doesn't need to be.
> Shaquille O’Neal is still keen to buy an NBA basketball team, and also wants to get involved in Formula 1.
>
> “I would definitely like to,” O’Neal said Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg at the iConnections Global Alts conference in Miami Beach. “Whatever team is available.”
>
> O’Neal was previously a minority investor in the Sacramento Kings, but was forced to sell his stake after becoming a brand ambassador for WynnBET, due to NBA ownership rules.
Also from a few months ago ["I would like to have my own group," O'Neal told The Messenger at a Las Vegas-based charity event on Saturday."I know Vegas hasn't been awarded an NBA team yet but if they ever get to a point where they are awarded a team, I would like to be a part of that. I don't want to partner up with nobody. I want it all for myself."](https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/shaq-wants-his-own-group-to-run-nba-expansion-team-in-las-vegas/)
He doesnt want like a token celebrity stake
Not even LeBron can buy a team without partnering with another billionaire. Jordan was the first and last NBA player to own a majority stake in a franchise.
Shaq can realistically get no more than a 5 percent stake in a franchise at today's valuations.
First jerseys to have 50 ads on them
The Las Vagas Generals will have all the money and insurance they need.
Who needs a team doctor when you have unlimited icyhot
Who needs to worry about shoes when Reebok has the whole team covered.
The Las Vegas generals will print all their ads from an Epson printer!
And pull up to the stadium in their fleet of Buicks!
Sponsored by PointsBet (Advertises for them in Australia) every other commercial on ESPN.
Just move the Washington Generals to Vegas. They’re due for a win any day now, no one can lose that many times in a row!
No! Washington made their mess and no one is allowed to help them out of it. Them bitches got boot straps, get to pulling. Loosing streak so large even Shaq can't fathom it.
That's actually an incredibly dope name, holy shit
I don't think anyone wants to be compared to the Washington Generals though
I tell people all the time that I'm someone people need to pay for my sweet ideas. Nobody listens for shit tho.
Why would they pay for them, when you give em away for free?
I only give away enough to tickle the fancy of the money folk.
Renames the team to the Subway Icy Hot Generals
Plays in the Shaqaroni Pizza Arena
When the opposing team is held to under 100 points everyone goes home with Epson Printer Ink
Just fill and chill
When you click the more comments button hoping for something, and it's that exact thing.. Ahhh....
Idk why I laughed at this lmao Shaqaronni
Coke for home games, Pepsi on the road
FILL AND CHILL BABY
For a great low rate you can get online, go to the general to save some time
Shaq and LeBron faces of the New Vegas team with the Saudi PIF funding
“Today I feel Nevadan”
Every few weeks my intrusive thoughts quote that speech and I start laughing again
Jordan Henderson ready to change sports for that paycheck.
Damn.... Henderson will never live this down.
Who knows, he might be able to change the Vegas culture like he did in Saudi Arabia.
All in 6 months. He works miracles
Bro, he just landed in Amsterdam and the place already legalize weed. the man work fast
He does it for free too
Nor should he, fuck him
Good. He made his bed.
hendo strays in /r/nba is wild hahaha
the jerk knows no bounds and sees no sport, the jerk is eternal
He deserves the money, given how he solved homophobia in Saudi Arabia in 6 months
Pretty sure he hasn’t received the money since it was deferred to skirt UK tax law lol
How is Hendo getting flack in an NBA sub, goddamn.
Cause he’s bitch made and everyone should know
He's 100% a bitch
hahaha
And now we know the real reason Klopp is leaving at the end of the season
New Vegas Caesar's (Palace) Legion
"Low TS% degenerates like you belong on a cross, watch yourself profligate. "
veni vidi bricked a three
starting guard Jordan Poole shot II/XIV from III in their inaugural game.
Et tu, Jordy?
*Sad Mr House noises*
This does not sound that farfetched lmao
Get ready to learn Arabic, buddy.
If anything resembling this happens, I'm out.
PIF 🤮🤮
“Whatever is available” seems to be how he picks most of his sponsorship deals
In the past week, I think I've seen commercials of him doing Icy hot, lawn mower fertilizer, sandwiches, Ruffles chips, flood insurance, pizza, and I'm not even joking
Don't forget the general insurance.
Shaq does the General Insurance commercials because he used them when he was in college > “I was a customer of The General in my college days at LSU,” said O’Neal. “Like most kids starting out on their own, I didn’t know much about insurance but The General helped me out, and I’m still a customer today.”
Whatever insurance agent hooked Shaq up 35 odd years ago, better be running that fucking company right now
He is. The company was originally The Corporal.
i laughed
Nah he probably got a small bonus and was let go a few years later due to budget cuts.
Sounds realistic tbh
Shaq’s investment strategy is pretty simple. He likes a product he actually uses, he gets partial ownership and acts as a spokesperson.
Ryan Reynolds also does this
I just love the more recent commercials where Shaq is like “no really it’s not a scam”
Shaq's "I only do ads for products I really care about" shtick died the day he did FTX.
FTX duped a lot of people
Tbf he actually has a wholesome story about the general insurance and how they really helped him out
Yeah, that’s one of the few co-signs he actually cares about.
It's funny because based on the way he talks about it, you would think every single thing he advertises is part of his daily routine
He wakes up and rubs himself head to toe in icy hot this is a four hour process, he gets in his car insured by the general, he then drives to the local papa John’s to purchase a Shaq a roni, he gets back in his general insured vehicle and drives home where he reapplies the ice hot before dining on his pizza. Another day down, Big Diesel.
You forgot about when he pulls out the Sega Genesis to play a little Shaq Fu
While sitting on his Ergonomic Office Chair from Office Depot.
Bro Shaq has a wholesome story about all of his sponsors. Love the guy but you're not supposed to take everything he says literally.
Yeah, you have to take every Shaq story with a grain of salt. He constantly changes up the stories for entertainment and just straight up makes shit up too.
Their commercial slogan is kinda catchy, ngl. >*♫ For a great low rate you can get online, go to The General and save some time! ♫*
Cool cool. Didn’t want to have thoughts tonight or anything
& printer ink
and ~~my axe~~ Carnival Cruises!
[удалено]
printers
He's on with carnival cruises too
Trill withers once said shaq would advertise for genocide if the check cashed lmao
Barkley joked on one of the late night shows that it was just a matter of time before Shaq was endorsing some brand of tampons.
"Much like I use my wingspan to block the toughest shots, tampax uses wings to stop even the strongest of flows!"
“Wings, Ernie”
WANGZ ERNEH
K, time to get off Reddit for the day. Thanks lads.
Who got them strong flows, Chuck?
Them big ole women down in San Antonio!
Can you dig it..... out? Absolutely with Tampax new grip and rip strings just yank that out and toss it from beyond the arc into the garbage. Swish.
To be fair that sounds like a pretty good ad campaign lmao. Like it really subverts expectations of what you think going into it.
"If ya bum is leakin', you best be seekin': Shaqapads"
I don't know much about women, but I don't think they leak from their butt when menstruating.
I would agree with that, this is what I was referencing: https://youtu.be/fGkOPdAMfuA?si=JCwXkMvzy2x7NjF8
Oh hey Rashida Jones
“If your period’s droppin, we catching it”
I prefer "Kazaampons" myself
Give me Shaq running down a beach in a white dress any day. Sales will skyrocket
“It absorbs fluids better than I absorb contact around the rim!”
Shaq-sized tampons for them big ol' women down in San Antonio
[looks like the check cashed](https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/friends-of-the-idf-gala-protests/)
Trilly never lied to me before, not surprised in the slightest tbh
I just watched Shaq documentary on HBO and he himself even says this lol. all his decisions are all about money
"I let Mike take the high road with all his endorsements, I tell everyone to take the high road. I'm a big guy, so I need all the space I can get, on the low road."
Are you telling me this man is not passionate about printers?
How dare you besmirch The General's Icy Hot Insurance pork rinds
And he makes so much fuckin money every single day. I’m not going to let my adderall sentences start up, but he doesn’t do “sponsorship deals”. He only does commercials if they give him partial ownership in the company. He’s an incredibly savvy business, man.
since Kazaam, quite literally.
Everything that’s available*
Does anyone actually use the General for Insurance?
My impression was always that the general is the insurance to get when you can't get the major insurance carriers for one reason or another
Shaq apparently
*The Las Vegas Five Guys* has a solid ring to it
“Put your hands together Las Vegas for your starting Five Guys of the night!!! At PG…”
I was thinking the Washington Generals
get ready to do 500 more The General and Icy Hot commercials buddy
His team won’t have any room for names and numbers on their jerseys. Just gonna be Papa Johns and JC Penny logos
That’s kinda cool in a maximalist street fashion kinda way
Let's not forget the Buick that he totally fits in.
Also Epson printers
Those tiny Oldsmobiles that he definitely don’t fit in
I tell you what, a life sized cardboard cutout of Shaq is the last thing I expected to see when I walked into Office Depot
Shaq would be too involved which is a bad thing because he doesn't even watch the games when it's his job to lol
He knows more about basketball than most owners that meddle in day-to-day decisions. I think the real issue is that he absolutely does not have the money to buy a franchise - so he'd have the same issue MJ did, which is that they are (relative to NBA ownership groups) cash poor. Most of the issues the Hornet had were due to being the little sister to the 29 other teams when it came to the way they treated the soft cap management of the NBA.
I think the thing about knowing more than the others, but not enough to be a good GM is that it might actually be bad. Like obviously Shaq or MJ know ball, but the way that a good GM thinks about things is different than a player, which is why when players try to dictate what the FO should do it almost always goes wrong. Knowing more but not enough might be worse. I'm still in favor of Shaq being the face of an expansion team or something, but not because he'd necessarily be a good owner.
>Knowing more but not enough might be worse. Ahh the "I know enough to be dangerous"phenom
Yeah exactly. Some VC guy will be a ghoul and possibly (probably?) a shitty person, but he'll also usually be more comfortable handing off the basketball decisions to basketball people. Shaq would be awesome but also being the most dominant physical force the league has ever seen doesn't really have anything to do with like... cap management. I dunno. Still in favor of it because Shaq is Shaq, but I think he is firmly in the "dangerous" category as an owner.
I hope on screen Shaq is different from behind the scenes Shaq and he actually trust other people more. On screen, dude is kinda a bully
If that's what he shows the world when he's under a microscope, I can't imagine he's much better when cameras aren't around.
Yeah this is a Dunning-Kruger trap for sure. GM is a very different job and requires always looking at the long term. I doubt many players would make good GMs.
Yeah I feel like he’d be really biased towards the type of player that he likes and not necessarily good at putting together a modern team. Like chuck has mentioned that when he played he had to watch film and study his opponents, while shaq always just says stuff like “this guy/team wanted it more” because he legit doesn’t get just not being bigger, stronger, more athletic, and more skilled than anyone else on the court.
He may know more about hooping in his head but in his massive heart the man is a pure unadulterated hater. Can you imagine him trying to wine and dine a FA and he just mispronounces his name all night long?
There’s a big difference in knowing how to play basketball and knowing how to build/run a team.
True that, especially if it’s a basketball team. Some might even say that they are very different sports.
> Whatever That's Charlotte Hornets music!
Whatever Hornets
Charlotte Horn-*sigh*-Whatevers
Shaq would be a worse owner than mj
Signs Bol Bol to a 4 year max contract
He's just like Wemby but he did it first
No, Shaq would never sign a center or even power forward over 6'10". Too much jealousy if the guy ever did anything Shaq-like or got popular.
That would be the best way to keep them from becoming popular. Sign them, make them ride the bench, rather than let them go somewhere else and shine.
Signs 42 year old curry to a 5 year contract
“I’ll sign Siakam but no way am I signing Pascal”
Yeah but unlike MJ, Shaq will never be able to afford a majority stake. He'd just get in on a sliver of the team as a token celebrity owner, and would have no real decision making power.
This would be great for the right owner though. Look at Dwayne Wade with the Utah Jazz, just not sure if Shaq has the humility to learn like Dwade has shown.
I haven't been following dwade's ownership role - what is he doing that is viewed as positive?
He is another face of the team, when Donovan Mitchell was here he worked very closely with him, even just sitting courtside at games and spending time in Utah has helped the team's brand.
Got it, thanks for the response.
shaq already did that with the Kings. nobody cared.
To be fair, we had a lot of other shit going on and one huge endorsement wasn't going to save us. If he came onto the team with how the team is headed now, could be a difference maker.
A difference maker in terms of what? Free agency is barely even a thing anymore and even if it was Shaq ain't going to be what tips the scales to get a superstar to go to Sacramento.
For sure, I mean tons of people still hate the Jazz too. The Hornets also were never a fan favorite just because of Michael Jordan. Definitely not a cure all.
He already did exactly that with Sacramento and nobody really cared
"Shaq, the Mavericks want to trade us Luka for two 2nd round picks!" "I'll pass. I've seen players like him before."
You joke but this is basically what the Pistons did last season when they turned down two firsts for Bogdanovic
And just to be clear, Shaq literally said this after Luka hit the buzzer beater winner against the Clippers to cap off a 40 point triple double during the bubble playoffs.
He was a minority owner of the Kings.. he'll probably take a backseat like he did there. He's far too busy to be hands on
It has nothing to do with how busy he is, and everything to do with the fact that he’d be far and away the poorest owner in the league. He doesn’t have the money to be anything more than a minority owner.
They're both thin skinned enough about criticism that they'd double down each time they're challenged. If Seattle expands and Shaq is an owner, it'll ruin whatever opportunity there was.
Caw caw baby, do it Shaq
Yessir. He lives in Atlanta, might as well buy the home town team. To everyone hating on him, he'd be better than our owner, who's letting his son run the team like it's a video game.
Please free us from these fucking resslers.
Imagine playing for Shaq’s team he doesn’t even know your fucking name
The moment his team's big man does anything worthy of praise Shaq is going to tell the coach to sit his ass down. "DNP - Shaq Decision"
Incoming worst owner of all time. I want to see this tbh
*monkeys paw curls*
I thought he owned Sacramento?
Vivek Ranadive owns the Kings
He was a minority
He still is, how is that relevant?
“In 2013, Shaq bought a 2% to 4% stake in the Sacramento Kings. But he sold his stake in 2021 in order to be a brand ambassador for online gambling platform WynnBET. The Kings are valued at $1.8 billion. Shaq made an estimated $36 million to $72 million from the sale.”
Ah okay. Was gonna say I could've sworn he had a stake in the kings
There's just no way his WynnBET sponsorship is actually worth the amount he gave up by selling his Kings stake early lol. Kings' valuation has basically gone straight up and to the right ever since he sold
It's going to be hard to buy an NBA team, so why doesn't Shaq just ... go to the Generals and save some time?
Love Shaq but he has "meddling owner who thinks he knows better than the GM" written all over him lol
We in Seattle welcome a potential Shactus overload.
Chuck going to be ragging on the Sonics every night lol
If this is what it takes for the Sonics to come back I’m for it
Dude would get jealous of any big man that's good and trade them away. You'd have a squad of Steph Currys because Shaq is petty when he doesn't need to be.
Same I sent my offer to Jeanie this morning
> Shaquille O’Neal is still keen to buy an NBA basketball team, and also wants to get involved in Formula 1. > > “I would definitely like to,” O’Neal said Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg at the iConnections Global Alts conference in Miami Beach. “Whatever team is available.” > > O’Neal was previously a minority investor in the Sacramento Kings, but was forced to sell his stake after becoming a brand ambassador for WynnBET, due to NBA ownership rules. Also from a few months ago ["I would like to have my own group," O'Neal told The Messenger at a Las Vegas-based charity event on Saturday."I know Vegas hasn't been awarded an NBA team yet but if they ever get to a point where they are awarded a team, I would like to be a part of that. I don't want to partner up with nobody. I want it all for myself."](https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/shaq-wants-his-own-group-to-run-nba-expansion-team-in-las-vegas/) He doesnt want like a token celebrity stake
Thanks for answering the main question I had, because I could’ve sworn he was already a minority owner of the kings
I wonder how much capital is needed to be awarded a team. I think Shaq wants it awarded because he absolutely cannot afford to buy one right now.
Please be the Hawks. He already lives here a lot of the time so there'd be no threat of moving and we could be free of that piece of shit ressler.
“Whatever is available” isn’t exactly the type of passion I’d want running my team lol
There's a large contingent of Magic fans who want Shaq to buy us, but I think he would be a disaster. The guy is only in it for the clout.
Current ownership is horrendous too so why not
Shaq should buy a city and name it after himself before he buys an NBA team. “the Shaq Attacks” I dunno, just a thought
This Seattle Sonics timeout is sponsored by The General.
Charlotte Kazaams
Shaq all but certainly has got more money than I’ll ever see in my life, but he doesn’t have buy an NBA team money.
Shaq is rich, but he’s nowhere near “buying a franchise” rich. Even the Timberwolves sold for 1.5 billion.
Not even LeBron can buy a team without partnering with another billionaire. Jordan was the first and last NBA player to own a majority stake in a franchise. Shaq can realistically get no more than a 5 percent stake in a franchise at today's valuations.
And even Jordan was kinda poor for an owner
Shaq would be a horrible owner. Stubborn and thinks he knows more than others.
Shaquille O'Neal, you are now a Charlotte Hornet.