Shaq has one-word reaction to wild Lakers snub from Jeanie Buss

One of the largest men in Lakers history could only muster one word when he saw how team owner Jeanie Buss slighted him.

In response to Buss’ ranking of the top five most important Lakers of all time — which included Kobe Bryant, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, LeBron James, Magic Johnson and Phil Jackson — all Shaquille O’Neal had was confusion.

“Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy,” he wrote on Instagram on Wednesday with a graphic of the five Lakers Buss had chosen, adding a stunned photo of himself.

Buss’ list is from a 2021 interview on the “All the Smoke” podcast with Matt Barnes and Steven Jackson, in which the two co-hosts asked a stressed-out Buss to list the five Lakers she ...
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