Shaquille O’Neal has doubled down on his claim that the 2019-20 season shouldn’t go on and that the championship this season would mean very little to him personally, this time dragging Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs in by name to attempt to prove his point.
The Spurs won the Finals in 1999, a season that didn’t start until early February due to the collective bargaining between the NBPA and the board of governors. Players wanted raises on the league’s minimum salary, and the bartering would go on from July until January.
A 50-game regular season that started months late was agreed upon, still more than half of the standard for a normal season.