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Originally Posted by The Low  Personally, the complaints about his weight are based more on 'if you say it enough, it becomes true' than his actually being the Oliver Miller of the present day NBA. People I think have this idea that Shaq is grossly overweight and it's just not true. |
Shaq definitely was overweight in his last year or two with the Lakers, so people got used to talking about it then. He slimmed back down again after he was traded to the Heat, but then he started slowing down after a year or two, even though he kept the weight off. But most of the media and other people commenting on him couldn't keep more than one thought in their heads at the same time, so they just assumed that his lower production and injury issues in the last two seasons must have something to do with him being too heavy, even though he hasn't been since he left L.A.