Shaquille O’Neal has reignited his long-running feud with Rudy Gobert after admitting he ‘f***ing hates’ the Minnesota Timberwolves star.
O’Neal and Gobert are not the best of friends after trading insults through the media for a number of years, with the NBA Hall of Famer brutally calling his fellow center ‘the worst player of all time’ last year.
And now Shaq has taken aim at his bitter nemesis once again after doubling down on the claim that he doesn’t deserve his $250million Minnesota contract.
‘I f***ing hate Rudy Gobert,’ O’Neal said on the latest episode of his ‘Big Podcast’.
‘Because that motherf***er making $250m [and] he don’t deserve it, dawg. F*** that.
‘As the president of The Big Man Alliance, you making big money, play like a f***ing big man. That’s it. Throw some [elbows], knock some people out, don’t be letting little white dudes from Denver dunk on you and talk s*** to you.’
Shaquille O’Neal has reignited his feud with Rudy Gobert after admitting he ‘f***ing hates’ him
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O’Neal made the same ᴀssessment when he branded Gobert the worst NBA player in history last year, which sparked a furious reaction from the Frenchman.
‘It is sad to see someone that has accomplished as much as you did @SHAQ both in sport and business still be triggered by another man’s finances and accomplishments,’ Gobert wrote on X.
‘I get the entertainment part but unlike other folks, you don’t need that stuff to stay relevant.’
Gobert has averaged 11.7 rebounds, 12.6 points, 2.1 blocks aqnd 0.7 steals per game over the course of his 12-year NBA career. He is also a four-time defensive player of the year.
However, O’Neal is adamant that he does not deserve a place in the history books.
‘If Rudy Gobert gets into the Hall of Fame, I’ll wear this dress to the motherf***ing ceremony,’ he joked on his latest podcast episode while holding up a picture of Charles Barkley wearing a dress in a WeightWatchers commercial.
