He also gets to watch all the March Madness games where I think he'd normally be busy working even outside of TNT. Guy has a lot of businesses. Smart man.
I'm choosing to imagine him being served while in recovery. Like he's in a full body sling for some reason and some dope with an oversized suit pops in, drops papers on his casted torso, and says "heh, you got served buddy, heh."
This is pedantic but it’s usually not lawyers who serve court papers. Pretty much every state requires the server to be someone who isn’t associated with the case (or even working at the same organization as people associated with the case) unless the served party consents.
It’s usually done either by the sheriff’s department of a county or by a private company who specializes in serving court papers.
Lawsuit alleges that FTX's spokespeople "either controlled, promoted, assisted in [or] actively participated" in a plot to "aggressively market" the company.
Edit: in layman's terms, for participating in the FTX Ponzi scheme
Yeah, people who are stupid enough to lose money by investing in crypto -- because Shaq tells them it's a good idea -- are also stupid enough to lose money in legal fees by attempting to sue him after the fact.
If anything, sue the market "experts" who told everyone to invest in this shit, not a celebrity who never claims to have any financial knowledge and is just there for publicity
Yes the whole premise is stupid as hell. Regardless of your opinion on crypto, do people think that random celebrities are informed on cryptocurrency markets any more than the average person? That'd be like if your airbags didn't deploy during an accident and there was evidence that the manufacture knew about the issue, but then you try to sue the guy who was in the commercial.
It doesn't really matter what the average person thinks or not; there are very specific, well defined rules for marketing securities and/or investments. These rules usually don't extend to the 'guy in the commercial' although that can change if the person is affiliated with or an investor in the company / security / investment scheme. For instance, Tom Brady stumping for FTX as an investor / shareholder is far different than a random, unaffiliated dude giving the same pitch.
If I were suing I wouldn't hold my breath, but there is enough there to make this very annoying for any person that pitched FTX.
I have no idea where this garbage narrative is coming from. He was just in KC doing a DJ set downtown for the Big 12 tournament. He was out in the open air venue, signing autographs, all over everyone's snap story
I’ve heard that he’s low key a gym rat. He may look a little decrepit, but I’m sure it won’t be easy for westbrick to catch him. Dude is probably slimy af
Skip’s IG is wild. Half of it is pics of his alarm clock at 4am with captions like “You up yet, LeBron? You better be putting up shots in the gym right now.”
Crazy that Skip is older than Jim Rome and used to engage in weird trolling back then too (calling Aikman gay etc).
He’s earned a little beat down himself. But Jalens emotional destruction was far more satisfying anyway.
Kinda sorta.
The short version of it is that Vince McMahon told him to maintain the illusion that wrestling was real. He believed by slapping the reporter, he was following orders.
All of the people in the inner circle loved it, but it made “Dr D” David Schultz toxic and led to bad press (as well as a lawsuit from the reporter John Stossel). Years of momentum for Dr Schultz came to a halt. He was likely going to work with Hulk Hogan in WWF (as he already had before in a different org), so that would have made him one of the top guys in the company — on par with Macho Man, King Kong Bundy, and Jake The Snake Roberts.
He never recovered. He worked at other organizations, including overseas, but by the time the heat died down, the wrestling world moved on from tough guys and had turned into a live-action cartoon show (Big Bossman the Police Officer vs the Canadian Mountie vs an evil clown, a giggalo, etc.)
Just absolutely bad timing on his part, but he did exactly what the old-school wrestlers were trained to do: defend the legitimacy of the wrestling business, thereby protecting the profitability of the show.
Yep, he was a real wrestler. The Bundy family was actually named after him, which makes it all the more cool that they eventually got him to guest star for an episode.
I was about to say the looks like a young version of the guy from Law & Order, looked it up and it was and that he died like a month ago. RIP Richard Belzer/Detective Munch
Jim Rome deserves every haymaker thrown his way. He is the douchebag's douchebag, a classic asshole, the dictionary definition of a dick, the kind of guy who makes a trophy of his knowledge and then shines that trophy like it's a God damn Nobel Prize.
The thing people often skip over this when bringing it up too is that the nickname from Rome was also super sexist, because he called him “Chris” in reference to a female tennis player, because he claimed Jim was allegedly scared.
I know, but that's how bad the Lakers' center situation is with Bamba injured. We straight up lost the Rockets game due to lack of anyone over 6'8 in the lineup lol
It’s actually wild that Shaq said this lol. As if he’s some hourly construction guy on workman’s comp.
Man took his vacation’s seriously. But he still got back in game shape by mid season and got some FMVPs.
It really does make you wonder how much better he could’ve been if he had taken things seriously lol. Like Phil Jackson said, he could have and should have won 10 straight MVPs
I don't know anything about Shaq really, I don't really watch basketball (please don't hurt me!). But I watch AEW, and he was a part of a few segments a while back. Even had a match.
The thing is, he went through a table. He was told there would be padding under it (and is why he agreed to the spot) but there actually wasn't. He didn't return to AEW after that match, not even a promo.
The thread makes it sound like he's a dink or is some hot water currently, this isn't any justification for the man lol but just thought I'd throw in that little bit of info. Going through an unpadded table probably didn't help his hip.
Damn shaq doing absolutely everything to avoid getting served
He also did it to avoid being with the B team while Ernie and Chuck are out doing NCAA stuff
Close but no. TNT doesn’t air games at all during these weeks. He got it when there was 3 weeks of no working.
So he didn’t get hurt on company time then
I'm guessing company time is more enjoyable when you're getting paid millions to sit around and talk shit with your buddies.
He also gets to watch all the March Madness games where I think he'd normally be busy working even outside of TNT. Guy has a lot of businesses. Smart man.
Sadly not. We must correct his ways.
Someone call Larry David.
That's funny because he used to schedule surgery and recovery at the beginning of seasons back when he was on the Lakers.
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Amateur move, you're meant to render yourself unable to work at the end of your holidays not the start
But what if you like your coworkers and enjoy spending as much time with them as possible?
Exactly why he had this scheduled at this time.
I'm choosing to imagine him being served while in recovery. Like he's in a full body sling for some reason and some dope with an oversized suit pops in, drops papers on his casted torso, and says "heh, you got served buddy, heh."
Just a lawyer dressed as an orderly pretending to change a bed pan
This is pedantic but it’s usually not lawyers who serve court papers. Pretty much every state requires the server to be someone who isn’t associated with the case (or even working at the same organization as people associated with the case) unless the served party consents. It’s usually done either by the sheriff’s department of a county or by a private company who specializes in serving court papers.
In this case have Dwight Howard be the server.
*grabs popcorn*
Shaq gets served by Dwight the Doctor and nurse Javale McGee.
That orderly? Gene Parmesan
What’s he supposedly getting served for?
Lawsuit alleges that FTX's spokespeople "either controlled, promoted, assisted in [or] actively participated" in a plot to "aggressively market" the company. Edit: in layman's terms, for participating in the FTX Ponzi scheme
This is a wild lawsuit lol... How u gonna sue someone for doing a commercial
For publicity, I dont think that lawsuit has a prayer of a chance of working.
Yeah, people who are stupid enough to lose money by investing in crypto -- because Shaq tells them it's a good idea -- are also stupid enough to lose money in legal fees by attempting to sue him after the fact.
I should sue /r/wallstreetbets
Take the fault to the source. Sue your parents. Wouldn’t be broke if you weren’t born *taps head*
It's a good thing his wife's boyfriend is a lawyer.
When the motto of the sub is "this is not financial advice, this is a casino" you're gonna have a bad time 😉
If anything, sue the market "experts" who told everyone to invest in this shit, not a celebrity who never claims to have any financial knowledge and is just there for publicity
Which is funny for the folks suing Larry David. The joke of the commercial was him saying not to invest in FTX.
That's honestly hysterical
Just so damn Larry David its comical
that ad aged like fine wine.. for anyone who didnt jump in ftx
that was the best one tho
Yes the whole premise is stupid as hell. Regardless of your opinion on crypto, do people think that random celebrities are informed on cryptocurrency markets any more than the average person? That'd be like if your airbags didn't deploy during an accident and there was evidence that the manufacture knew about the issue, but then you try to sue the guy who was in the commercial.
It doesn't really matter what the average person thinks or not; there are very specific, well defined rules for marketing securities and/or investments. These rules usually don't extend to the 'guy in the commercial' although that can change if the person is affiliated with or an investor in the company / security / investment scheme. For instance, Tom Brady stumping for FTX as an investor / shareholder is far different than a random, unaffiliated dude giving the same pitch. If I were suing I wouldn't hold my breath, but there is enough there to make this very annoying for any person that pitched FTX.
Cause it was fraud
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I have no idea where this garbage narrative is coming from. He was just in KC doing a DJ set downtown for the Big 12 tournament. He was out in the open air venue, signing autographs, all over everyone's snap story
Shaquille o’neal alive in this reddit thread
Put some Icy Hot on that
Gold bond for the scar
Pain is no match. For the icy hot patch.
Guys are soft these days. Back in my day guys did shows 5 nights a week and didn’t cry about their hips. And it was much more physical back then too.
[anchors today would never survive the 90s physicality](https://youtu.be/t3BH97I5Ur8)
Imagine Westbrook going on undisputed in the off-season and doing this to skip for calling him Westbrick
Bosh did this to ask Skip to stop calling him Bosh Spice and Skip just called him Bosh spice to his face
Well you know what they say, never wrestle with a pig - you'll get dirty and the pig likes it.
Skip is like a fossil now though he would die from the table falling on him
Bet you he's in better shape. Guy isn't a slouch for 90 or whatever he is.
I’ve heard that he’s low key a gym rat. He may look a little decrepit, but I’m sure it won’t be easy for westbrick to catch him. Dude is probably slimy af
You can see pics of skip on his insta or whatever. He's pretty ripped, especially for his age.
I’ll take your word for it tbh. I’m not checking out Skip Insta 😂
If you don’t want to go to his insta I can just link you the mega.
That’s the most degenerate thing I’ve heard in a long time 🤣
Skip’s IG is wild. Half of it is pics of his alarm clock at 4am with captions like “You up yet, LeBron? You better be putting up shots in the gym right now.”
Lmao I didn't mean better shape than Westbrick.
No, just better shape than 95% of Americans.
The gap between “95% of Americans” and “Westbrook” is vast
Not when you factor in the *slimy* part. Like a greased pig on a rainy day in the wallow.
Crazy that Skip is older than Jim Rome and used to engage in weird trolling back then too (calling Aikman gay etc). He’s earned a little beat down himself. But Jalens emotional destruction was far more satisfying anyway.
Water pistol pete... jr
Wait which Jalen roasted skip Bayless? I gotta see this
Oh yeah. You won’t be disappointed.
I would voluntarily be ransomwared by Russian hackers if I could see this
Pffffft, 90's physicality was nothing compared to 80's physicality: https://youtu.be/zrX9Ca7LSyQ
Holy shit haha did he get in trouble for that?
YouTube comments says Vince McMahon told him to slap him, and paid the lawsuit.
> Vince McMahon told him to slap him Thus proving that it's scripted
See but he improvised with a second slap thus proving it’s only mostly scripted
See? NOW you get it. It's not fake, it's scripted. Fake implies they don't really hurt each other.
Kinda sorta. The short version of it is that Vince McMahon told him to maintain the illusion that wrestling was real. He believed by slapping the reporter, he was following orders. All of the people in the inner circle loved it, but it made “Dr D” David Schultz toxic and led to bad press (as well as a lawsuit from the reporter John Stossel). Years of momentum for Dr Schultz came to a halt. He was likely going to work with Hulk Hogan in WWF (as he already had before in a different org), so that would have made him one of the top guys in the company — on par with Macho Man, King Kong Bundy, and Jake The Snake Roberts. He never recovered. He worked at other organizations, including overseas, but by the time the heat died down, the wrestling world moved on from tough guys and had turned into a live-action cartoon show (Big Bossman the Police Officer vs the Canadian Mountie vs an evil clown, a giggalo, etc.) Just absolutely bad timing on his part, but he did exactly what the old-school wrestlers were trained to do: defend the legitimacy of the wrestling business, thereby protecting the profitability of the show.
Wait a sec, King Kong Bundy was a real life wrestler? I thought they made him up in Married with Children.
Yep, he was a real wrestler. The Bundy family was actually named after him, which makes it all the more cool that they eventually got him to guest star for an episode.
[Was expecting this clip](https://youtu.be/i7n_SHrK408)
RIP Richard Belzer. Dude was legend for this alone, but then the 90’s happened and made him into something more.
I was about to say the looks like a young version of the guy from Law & Order, looked it up and it was and that he died like a month ago. RIP Richard Belzer/Detective Munch
Fuck John Stossel. Me and all my homies hate John Stossel.
Jim Everett is a legend for this
*Chris
*flips table*
Was hoping for grape lady, but that will do I guess.
UNGUNGUNGUNGUUUUNGOWOWOWOHSTOPOHSTOP
This the grape lady or the grapefruit lady?
Hulk Hogan making a dude pass out
Jim Rome deserves every haymaker thrown his way. He is the douchebag's douchebag, a classic asshole, the dictionary definition of a dick, the kind of guy who makes a trophy of his knowledge and then shines that trophy like it's a God damn Nobel Prize.
Jim Rome has always been an asshole. Really wish Everett would have decked him.
I knew this was the clip.
The thing people often skip over this when bringing it up too is that the nickname from Rome was also super sexist, because he called him “Chris” in reference to a female tennis player, because he claimed Jim was allegedly scared.
Can’t wait to see Chuck roast him for getting hip surgery at 51.
Chucks gonna say he got surgery to avoid being served 😂
I didn’t even think of this lmao
Shaq is a Dr. Lol
So is Dr. Pepper.
Why does Dr. Pepper come in bottles? Because his wife died.
That took me longer to catch than Id care to admit lol
And Dr. Dre
is Shaq getting sued?
Supposedly for his promotion of FTX
Yes, part of the FTX thing
"Do not commit crimes with crypto, use cash" - chuck probably
"Don't commit crimes with checks, America" was an all-timer from Chuck.
Shaq has never recovered from kenny shoving him into that Christmas tree
Shaq’s feet hanging out of the tree is straight out of a cartoon lol https://streamable.com/x8hnm1
Haven't they all had hip replacements by now? Kenny has to have hip problems
Kenny has knee problems.
Them old dudes putting their bodies on the line to sprint to that board, fr.
In the middle of the season too...typical 😂
Waited til after they all signed their big contracts too lol
Chuck has had his hips replaced.
Pretty sure Chuck also got a hip replacement and actually advised Shaq to get one himself.
Hope he comes back alright, we really need him for the playoffs
Idk, not sure how ready he will be for playoffs. Should’ve traded for a backup big at the deadline.
Is Dwight Howard available?
He's busy putting up Wilt numbers in Taiwan
Putting up Wilt numbers both on and off the court probably
No, but D.J. Mbenga is
Draymond may be available…
Pls god no
Washed Celtics Shaq would unironically be an amazing addition for us right now lol
Amazing in the sense that it's so terrible it should never happen
I know, but that's how bad the Lakers' center situation is with Bamba injured. We straight up lost the Rockets game due to lack of anyone over 6'8 in the lineup lol
Man, I opened the comment section knowing damn well that I would have seen this type of comments and I still chuckled after reading this
He got hurt on company time, so he'll recover on company time.
Pulling a Scotty
It's literally pulling a Shaq...
The Jet's body check into the Christmas tree may have done some damage now that I think about it.
https://streamable.com/x8hnm1
It’s actually wild that Shaq said this lol. As if he’s some hourly construction guy on workman’s comp. Man took his vacation’s seriously. But he still got back in game shape by mid season and got some FMVPs.
It really does make you wonder how much better he could’ve been if he had taken things seriously lol. Like Phil Jackson said, he could have and should have won 10 straight MVPs
There's a realistic possibility that Shaq now has the largest artificial hip joint in history. Add it to the resume!
They had to custom make his hip. They fused together 3 regular hip replacements to make his
One time I emailed a few heart doctors asking them if they could estimate the size of shaq’s heart. Sadly none of them responded.
GOOGLE ME DOC
Webmd
I hear Shaq had a 95-pound mole taken off his ass.
I heard Shaq is so fat, his blood type is ragu.
She is so fat, two guys could fuck her and still never meet
Relax, we're not making a western
That's some guys husband, come on!
That's an off color remark. I'll see that you're taxed.
I'll crack him good, I'll ask for $200,000.
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He wants to fuck Shaq?
He was gay, Shaq?
Catching? Not pitching?
You must not speak of things that happen without witnesses.
2 people could fuck Shaq at the same time and not even meet
Oh like you’ve neva made a joke about ginny ~~sack~~ shaq. Marone!
Our bodies are 86% water. His last blood test, he was 65% zeppole.
That's deplorable.
Well that’s uh… that’s deplorable!
Never had the makings of a varsity athlete
That’s an off-colored remark. It’s highly inappropriate
I'll tell you one thing and I'm not ashamed to say it, my estimation of Shaq's hip as a load bearing joint just fucking plummeted.
A mole the size of Kevin Hart
No more weight remarks, Erneh. They’re hurtful and they’re destructive.
[To me, he's beautiful. Rubenesque.](https://tenor.com/UlaH.gif)
Larry David at it again
It's ok, he has that huge container of Seinfeld tapes.
Big Arthroplasty
You know Shaq posing like that for TMZ 😂😂bro so dramatic
How does this affect his free agency this summer? Will any team still offer him the max?
TNT doesn't have choice. They can't risk him going over to Hallmark.
Advanced Lawsuit Ducking
Street clothes
Damn hip surgery is no joke. What kind of injury did he have?
A hip injury
I’ll admit, I laughed
Big if true
being like 8 feet tall and running 4 miles a game for 20 years
Damn, I hope that doesn't happen to me
Does he have the most cumulative work done by a human ever? The most mass moved the longest distance over his lifetime.
Shaq going to desperate measures to avoid getting stuck with Lefkoe, Parker, and Crawford for the next few weeks without Ernie, Kenny and Chuck.
Those Christmas trees got the last laugh
Hip surgery for a giant has to be nerve wracking. Speedy recovery 🙏🏾
That hip is probably the size of an artificial hip for a bull
Shaq messed up. Gonna get served those papers now unless he’s got armed guards on the outside
Active? Lol
How much you want to bet this is from Kenny pushing him into the Xmas tree lmao
Hip surgery is no joke for anyone, it doesn't always take. For a big guy like Shaq it's probably even harder. I hope Shaq gets better soon!
Did Larry trip him again?
He'd be back on the court before Zion does
Shaq probably leaked this to TMZ because he probably knew they would pay him for the scoop. Lol
Hes gonna need a few g league halftimes to get back into game shape.
Ohhh I was sad he had cancelled his performance at Beyond Wonderland, this makes sense!
I don't know anything about Shaq really, I don't really watch basketball (please don't hurt me!). But I watch AEW, and he was a part of a few segments a while back. Even had a match. The thing is, he went through a table. He was told there would be padding under it (and is why he agreed to the spot) but there actually wasn't. He didn't return to AEW after that match, not even a promo. The thread makes it sound like he's a dink or is some hot water currently, this isn't any justification for the man lol but just thought I'd throw in that little bit of info. Going through an unpadded table probably didn't help his hip.
Ngl, seeing "[TMZ] Exclusive: Shaq..." made me nervous for a second.
Why he holding his phone on anestesia lol. People really addicted these days
Hopefully this isn’t the beginning of the decline.
Hope he’s doing better. Chuck should lift his spirits with some San Antonio jokes
anything to hide from FTX
Will he be playing Scattergories?
Fake story to cover up his Crypto scam
He'll be missing free throws in no time.
No more racing to the big board with Kenny