I gagged a bit hearing about this.

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Shaquille O’Neal really wants a celebrity roast, but he may have second thoughts after a former teammate shared this truly disgusting story about him. Apparently, the NBA legend was also a notorious prankster, although I think readers would agree with my opinion that this alleged poop prank was a step over the line.

Jason Richardson, who briefly played with O’Neal when he was on the Phoenix Suns from 2008 to 2009, told a truly bizarre and upsetting story about his former teammate on Entirely NBA. After reading this, I’m not sure I’m going to look at the seven-foot center the same way ever again.

Shaquille O’Neal Pulled A Disgusting Prank On A Teammate While On The Phoenix Suns

Richardson’s story began by talking about a player named Lou Amundson, who would ride his bike to practice every day because he lived near the arena. Shaq would allegedly hide Amundson’s bike every practice, and the player eventually became fed up with spending close to 40 minutes searching for it before he could leave. He decided to get some revenge on Shaquille O’Neal by “popcorning” his car with packing peanuts, which led to O’Neal escalating the pranks even further.

I’m used to Shaq’s goofy antics on Inside The NBA, but what Jason Richardson went on to talk about was far from anything I thought was funny. Here’s how the legend allegedly got back at Lou Amundson in what ended up being a literal pain in the ass:

The game happened, I come in the locker room, and I see Shaq. Shaq walking around that locker room naked as nothing, real slow and tight. And he pulls a mouthpiece out his ass and puts it in a locker. He told us, ‘Y’all better not say sʜɪt either.’ He takes Lou’s toothbrush, he goes to take a sʜɪt, and he stirs it in his sʜɪt. We like ‘We ain’t into this sʜɪt, this is getting out of hand.’

I can’t imagine this is the story Shaquille O’Neal wants to be told so soon after signing that new TV deal. I also can’t stop shaking my head in disbelief about how gross this is, and how upset I would be to learn someone did this.

Unfortunately, the story doesn’t stop there and somehow gets worse. Read on as Jason Richardson talked about Lou Amundson and his unfortunate reaction to Shaq’s devious prank:

Lou Amundson checks in the game, and he puts the mouthpiece on and everybody on the bench loses it. He comes to the locker room, he takes his mouthpiece off, and someone’s like, ‘Hey Lou, don’t use your mouthpiece; Shaq put your mouthpiece in his ass.’ He said, ‘Uh, no, he didn’t,’ and puts it back in his mouth and goes out there. The bench loses it again. So Lou gets subbed out of the game, and he says, “J-Rich, are they fucking with me? What happened?” I said, ‘Shaq took your mouthpiece and put it in his ass, bro.’ He took it out, and he just looked at it. Matt Barnes said to him, ‘Anything in your locker has probably been in Shaq’s ass, throw it all away.’

There are just no words. I’m not sure if I’d be more upset about this story being told if I were Shaquille O’Neal or Lou Amundson. In any case, I think Charles Barkley is a brave man for feuding with Shaq for all these years if that’s the lengths he’s willing to go all in the name of a prank.

Shaq says Gregg Popovich gave him shoes when he was ‘growing up’ in San Antonio

Coach Pop has always been a giving person.

Shaquille O’Neal shared a story on TNT about how Gregg Popovich gave him shoes when he was a kid in San Antonio.

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The more stories that come out about Coach Pop, the more I miss seeing him at the end of the bench on any given night.

It’s been nearly four months since the San Antonio Spurs have seen Gregg Popovich on the floor of the Frost Bank Center. The NBA’s all-time winningest coach (at 1,412 wins over a nearly three-decade career, but who’s counting) has been absent from the sidelines since suffering what the team called a “mild stroke” on November 2, 2024.

And despite hope from Spurs fans that Coach Pop could make some sort of comeback before the end of the 2025 season, ESPN’s Shams Charania reported Saturday, February 22 he “is not expected to return this season, and his NBA future is uncertain.” Charania broke the news only days after the Spurs announced Victor Wembanyama had deep vein thrombosis and was ruled out for the remainder of the season.

Head coach Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs looks on against the Golden State Warriors during the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game at Chase Center on March 31, 2023 in San Francisco.

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The news on Coach Pop’s absence going forward prompted a short tribute from the TNT Tuesday night crew on Tuesday, February 25 during post game of the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks game. Host Adam Lefkoe highlighted what the Spurs coach means to the NBA and USA basketball, then talked about the “dynasty” Popovich created before he handed the baton to Shaquille O’Neal.

Shaq, who spent some his teenage years in San Antonio, said Coach Pop did something for him he never talked about when he was in high school, and at the time, Popovich was an assistant coach with the Spurs.

“Growing up, [I] couldn’t really afford a lot of shoes so my father went to the Spurs organization because they had a guy – Chuck Nevitt – who had size 20 [shoes],” O’Neal said. “My father had a conversation with Coach Popovich. Coach Popovich gave him three pairs of shoes. So I’ve always loved him and respected him for that. And I’d rather see him healthy, and alive and here on Earth rather than coaching so.”

O’Neal than finished his thought by looking at the camera and speaking to Popovich. “Coach we love you, get well soon. We respect you; we appreciate you,” he said before turning to the crew. “He’s already done enough for the game, I’d rather just see him healthy.

“I remember that day in San Antonio you gave me those shoes coach, I appreciate you very much,” O’Neal added.

Another day, another reason to love Popovich. You can see the full segment below: