"Daryl Morey was right. Whenever you see something going wrong anywhere in the world, you should have the right to say that's not right."
Shaquille O'Neal just went to bat for Houston Rockets' Daryl Morey over his China comments that started an NBA firestorm ... saying the heat the GM is taking ain't fair.
"We're allowed to say what we want to say and we're allowed to speak up about injustices and that's just how it goes," Shaq said on "Inside The NBA" on Tuesday.
"And, if people don't understand that, that's something that they have to deal with.