An interesting, while brief, article by Charley Rosen of Fox Sports talking about players that are up there in age. His thought is that Shaq, Eddie Jones and T.J. Ford should retire:
FOX Sports on MSN - NBA - For his own good, Shaq should call it quits
Riley is saying that he needs that 17 and 8 that Shaq can provide, but while producing the numbers Shaq has been very ineffective and Heat's record is a proof. I haven't seen Jones play to be able to tell if he's getting there. With Ford, it's an entirely different ballgame where he could potentially be paralyzed from an injury.