Shaquille O'Neal was a guest on ESPN's "First Take" Thursday morning and delved into the discussion of LeBron James potentially joining the Warriors, as was rumored a few weeks ago.
Even though the whole thing is pretty much "nonsense" as James himself said, it makes for fun hypotheticals. O'Neal joined in on the fun, and while most people think James joining the Warriors would be the end of the NBA, Shaq says his former teammate should just do it.
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It's hard to tell if O'Neal was being completely serious, but he claims he was.
"He's older. He's on his way down," O'Neal said. "He's already got [three] rings. Go get three more."
Shaq also made an interesting comment about his own playing days, saying, "I told my boy the other day, if you could do that [back in my day], I would have went to Chicago and just played with [Michael Jordan]. I didn't know [that was an option]."
On the subject as a whole, the NBA Hall of Famer ended with, "We live in a different era, I guess you can do stuff like this now."
