Friday afternoon marked a pretty special occasion for the Los Angeles Lakers and their larger-than-life center, Shaquille O’Neal, as they unveiled a (pretty amazing) statue in front of STAPLES Center.
There speeches, laughs, a few tears and a flat-earth theory. You know, like we all predicted there would be.
Stu Lantz was the master of ceremonies as he has been for most all of these occasions since Chick Hearn’s passing. He told a story about the big man camp he and Pete Newell would put on featuring a camera being attached to a basket Shaq would eventually dunk on.