"If Penny Hardaway never got hurt, people would be talking about him in the same breath" - Nick Anderson believes Penny Hardaway would have had a career like Kobe Bryant if not for injuries
"I got the opportunity to play pick up ball with Penny, Shaq, Nick" - 8x NBA All-Star Vince Carter recalls playing with stars while in high school, says amateur athletes gain knowledge while playing with pros
"Charles Barkley, who I’m not saying is a bad citizen, but he did throw somebody through a window" - Chris Broussard rips NBA draft eligibility rules apart for preventing 18-year-old kids from turning pro
"Sometimes you can play like you don’t even deserve to be in the league" - Shaquille O'Neal opens up on his mindset going into a game in a vintage interview from 1992
"I haven’t played against David yet, but Hakeem was real tough and Patrick was real tough" - Shaquille O'Neal names his toughest competition to Ernie Johnson in a candid interview taken back in 1992
“He told me he wasn’t going to give me an autograph until I got a dunk” - Shaquille O'Neal pledges to donate 1000 laptops, shoes to Wichita youth charity
"Leave Dave Chapelle, Corey Holcomb, and Aries Spears alone; that dude is a comedian" - Shaquille O'Neal sides with comedian Aries Spears after his insensitive comments on Lizzo spark controversy
"Before you succeed, you must first learn to fail" - Shaquille O’Neal reveals Michael Jordan's advice to him, recalls ripping urinals and "s**t flying everywhere" before being calmed by Jerry West
"You can't outplay me because if you are, you're taking my mother's house away!" - Shaquille O'Neal on what helped him dominate, would have damn near killed opponents before letting them take his mom's house
"The fact that he didn’t make the NBA’s 75th team is kind of an embarrassment to the NBA 75" - NBA insider calls out the league for excluding Dwight Howard from NBA 75 team
Video: “Good enough to be a first ballot HOF… Not good enough to be Top 75” - 3x DPOY takes a subtle dig at not being mentioned as NBA’s 75th Anniversary team member
“I was embarrassed, I couldn’t do it” - Shaquille O'Neal says he had to call someone to help his son fill out a resume, admits he’s in a lucky position in life
Revisited: "I just wanna show them that I can throw it between my legs like Jordan can do" - Shaquille O'Neal claims he can handle the ball like a guard in the lead-up to '93 All-Star game
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