The Basketball Gods - SHAQ
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 23 July 2021
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Summary
Many cultures throughout history believed that a collection of gods represented certain principles and governed specific domains accordingly. The God of the Sea, the Goddess of Love, the God of the Sky, etc.
Basketball is no different. While some basketball gods are more powerful than others, various players, coaches, and other figures throughout the league’s history act as emissaries who illustrate a fundamental truth about the game.
In the first episode of a series on The Basketball Gods, Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss the God of Power: the incomparable Shaquille O’Neal.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.0 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.0 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.0 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:10.0 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.0 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.0 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to Laker Film Room podcast, brought to you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And I'm very excited about today's pod. This is an idea that I've been kicking around for a while. We always talk about the basketball gods and what pleases them and what does not. And I thought it would be fun to kind of do a series on the basketball |
| 0:43.2 | gods. And I think that what that means, though, requires a little bit of explaining on the front end. |
| 0:48.2 | Today's going to be the first episode of that series. The gods in various cultures around the |
| 0:53.9 | world have always been representative of something |
| 0:56.3 | that governs the world around them, right? Like the god of the sea, the god of the sky and |
| 1:00.8 | things like that. And it doesn't mean that they're perfect and some gods are greater than |
| 1:05.7 | others, but they are representative of a place or a concept. And so in this basketball God series, we're each |
| 1:13.0 | going to rotate and pick a player that we just want to talk about for 35, 40 minutes that represents |
| 1:18.1 | an aspect of the game that we think is important. And again, some are more important than |
| 1:23.4 | others. We've been talking so much lately about this contrast between skill versus size, |
| 1:29.4 | Phoenix versus Milwaukee, the Lakers build versus the nets build, and how that is a real dynamic |
| 1:35.9 | that's happening in the NBA is that as the league has gotten smaller, there has been some |
| 1:40.9 | opportunity for the bigger, faster, stronger players to really thrive around |
| 1:44.9 | the rim. And today we talk about the god of power, right? The guy who represents this idea |
| 1:50.3 | to me more than anybody else of domination around the rim. And that is Shaquille O'Neal. I've got |
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