SALT LAKE CITY — Shaquille O’Neal doesn’t want to hear anybody rip on the Utah Jazz’s NBA Finals team.
The Big Aristotle/Shamrock/Daddy, Diesel or whatever you want to call the Hall of Fame center posted a meme sticking up for John Stockton, Karl Malone & Co. on his Instagram account Thursday.
The post showed a photo of young NBA up-and-comers O’Neal, Kobe Bryant, Nick Van Exel and Eddie Jones next to a Finals-era photo of Stockton and Malone in purple mountain jerseys.
The meme read: “The 1998 Jazz SWEPT this Lakers squad with 4 All-Stars in the playoffs yet people still say this Jazz team was ‘weak Finals competition.