{"id":254797,"date":"2025-11-01T05:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254797\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T05:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:36:08","slug":"shaquille-oneal-victor-wembanyama-is-redefining-what-a-big-man-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254797\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaquille O\u2019Neal: Victor Wembanyama is redefining what a big man can do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q. The Spurs are 5-0 for the first time right now. Shaquille O\u2019Neal: Listen, they&#8217;re playing great. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CJNyypKy_ZI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Victor Wembanyama is redefining what a big man can do. Joker has already redefined what big man can do, but Wemby&#039;s taking it to a different level:;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Victor Wembanyama is redefining what a big man can do. Joker has already redefined what big man can do, but Wemby&#8217;s taking it to a different level:<\/a> dribbling between his legs, stepping back, looking like Kevin Durant. He&#8217;s playing some excellent basketball right now, and I&#8217;m happy for him. I&#8217;m happy for the San Antonio organization. Q. What would your counsel to him be about a full 82-game season and how what would you tell him about? O\u2019Neal: I would tell I would tell him to pace himself. Phil Jackson, and I don&#8217;t know how he did it, but the three years we won in a row, he would come in at times and be like, \u2018Hey, sit these two games out. I need you to rest. No parties, no rap videos, no commercials, just rest. But when you come back, I need you to average 40.\u2019 Phil did a great job of managing my game time, my injury time, and he also did a great job of keeping us away from Utah. I don&#8217;t know how he did it. We always had problems with Utah earlier before he got there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CJNyypKy_ZI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Q. The Spurs are 5-0 for the first time right now. Shaquille O\u2019Neal: Listen, they&#8217;re playing great. Victor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,7216,2039,14232,85,12838],"class_list":{"0":"post-254797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-kevin-durant","12":"tag-phil-jackson","13":"tag-shaquille-oneal","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}