“As a superstar, the best decision I ever made in my life was to let my
young dogs play,” O’Neal said on Tuesday. “When I first came in, it was
all about me. I wanted to do it by myself. There was a kid named Penny
Hardaway [in Orlando]. I let him play. We both went to work. Then when I got
to L.A., I left Orlando and I wanted to do the same thing … as soon as I
said, ‘You know what? Kobe [Bryant], play with me,’ best decision I made.
有鑑於近日賽爾提克陷入的困境，不少前輩都給出自己的建議或批評，
Shaquille O'Neal今日在節目上也談到了這一話題，並以自身當作例子給出看法
Shaq表示：
「做為超級明星，我人生中做得最正確的決定就是讓我身旁的年輕球員打出身手。
當我在奧蘭多打球時，我只想著自己應該怎樣怎樣，
之後來了個叫Penny Hardaway的小夥子，我倆互相合作，最終兩人都打出名堂。
後來我去了洛杉磯湖人，
我又做了和當時在魔術隊一樣的事