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‘Book of Basketball 2.0’: Shaquille O’Neal and the Pyramid (With J.A. Adande)

Chapter 3: Was Shaquille O’Neal the one Pantheon player who could have been top five if he really wanted it?

By Bill Simmons
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Chapter 3: Was Shaquille O’Neal the one Pantheon player who could have been top five if he really wanted it? Would vintage Shaq have been better or worse in 2019? Were Shaq and Kobe always destined to turn on each other? Was Kazaam better than Steel? And where does Shaq rank on Bill’s 100-player Hall of Fame Pyramid? These questions and more are broken down in our second Pyramid Podcast, with Northwestern University’s director of sports journalism, J.A. Adande.

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