Shaquille O’Neal was very attached to the tradition of hazing in the NBA. According to a freshly told anecdote, he would have savagely defecated in the shoes of a young teammate during his time at the Lakers. And of course, no one ever took revenge.
At the top of his game, Shaquille O’Neal was an all-powerful player in the NBA world. It must be said that he was the most physically dominant player, and his statistics gave him almost all the rights in his franchises. For example, even if he was not the one who trains the most, he was never questioned in his status as a franchise player, at least until the total emergence of Kobe Bryant in Los Angeles.
The Diesel was above it all, he knew it, and he behaved accordingly. For example, when he arrived in Orlando, he had refused to comply with the tradition of hazing, even going so far as to seriously threatening a veteran who had asked him to carry his suitcases. And where the other rookies should have suffered retaliation, he was left alone.
The wild hazing of Shaquille O’Neal in Devean George
On the other hand, he was never asked to haze others, and he often went very far in his jokes. In Miami, for example, he did not hesitate in spill buckets full of excrement on his younger teammates. And according to a new anecdote told by Tyronn Lue in the Knuckleheads Podcast, the Shaq had already done something similar in Los Angeles.
One day, Devean George was supposed to bring the donuts for the whole team or something. I don’t know why, but he didn’t. So Shaquille O’Neal calmly said, “Alright, I’m going to get revenge.” A day before a game, Devean went to the field to warm up, and when he came back to the locker room he went to get a massage and a hard-on from the staff.
At that point Shaq went to the bathroom, he took Devean’s shoe with him, and he pooped in it. He picked up the shoe, came back into the locker room with it, and dropped it off for Devean. When he came out of the treatment room, he obviously tried to put his shoe on to get ready for the game…
This is not the first anecdote about Shaquille O’Neal and his excrement, proof that he had a very particular sense of humor when it was necessary to haze young rookies… And in the NBA microcosm, disgusting jokes of the genre are obviously common, since ‘few years ago, Nick Young also recounted the nauseating welcome given to him by Gilbert Arenas in Washington.
Shaquille O’Neal was perhaps the toughest veteran when it came to hazing. He often went to great lengths in his jokes and used his excrement to terrorize his young teammates. Being drafted by the Lakers was soon to become a nightmare.
