Shaquille O'Neal

If Michael Jordan had to retire, at least he chose the best possible time, for the NBA's sake, to announce it. After all, the league was already numb from a nightmarish off-season filled with tragic deaths, serious...

Robbie Compton, a 15-year-old basketball player at Irmo High in Columbia, S.C., dreams of filling Shaquille O'Neal's shoes—or at least the Shaq Attack Reeboks (above) that O'Neal endorses. Sadly, Robbie takes a size...

•Chris Webber, former Michigan star, relishing the prospect—if he, rather than Jamal Mashburn, is the Magic's pick—of playing alongside Shaquille O'Neal: "I can shoot an air ball and then act like it was a pass when...

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