Your framing of this situation is amazing.

Honestly I’d just pick Herb Jones because he’d be a cool person to spend my final moments with. Because if 2000 Shaq wanted to kill you then you’d be dead.

Grand Theft Avarado is the best nickname in the NBA.

How big was he? It’s almost impossible to understand when the only world you know is one with the Internet. It was a world where high school recruiting wasn’t an established business (I think scout.com and rivals.com were both in their infancy).

So he was competing with professionals for attention - and he got it. Even when he was a sophomore, his team had to move their home games to the University of Akron. By senior year, his games were on pay-per-view and ESPN.