{"id":403240,"date":"2024-09-05T16:40:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T14:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=403240"},"modified":"2024-09-05T16:40:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T14:40:44","slug":"shaquille-oneal-rudy-gobert-is-the-worst-player-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/shaquille-oneal-rudy-gobert-is-the-worst-player-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaquille O&#8217;Neal: Rudy Gobert is the worst player of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shaquille O&#8217;Neal was a guest on *Complex* where he named Rudy Gobert as the worst player of all time, following a direct question.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s well known that O&#8217;Neal doesn\u2019t have much respect for Rudy Gobert, and this was confirmed once again when the Hall of Famer called the Timberwolves player the worst player in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p>When asked, &#8220;Who is the worst player of all time?&#8221; O&#8217;Neal bluntly responded: &#8220;Rudy Gobert.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The four-time NBA champion then elaborated on his statement: &#8220;If you sign a $250 million contract, show me you&#8217;re a $250 million player (Gobert&#8217;s contract is actually worth $205 million).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a reason I walk funny and can&#8217;t turn my neck, and that&#8217;s because I played for my $120 million,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are guys like him (Gobert) who break the system, make all that money, and can&#8217;t play. So I don&#8217;t respect those guys. Every time I make these comments, people think I hate him, but these are just facts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shaq concluded by saying: &#8220;There are teachers, firefighters, and doctors who do real jobs and get paid almost nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Shaq named his pick for the Worst NBA Player of All Time\u2026 \ud83d\ude36 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tsEqJFl2qP\">pic.twitter.com\/tsEqJFl2qP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Complex (@Complex) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Complex\/status\/1831364817149665591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\u00a2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaquille O&#8217;Neal was a guest on *Complex* where he named Rudy Gobert as the worst player of all time, following a direct question<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":403239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-403240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-05-alle-16.33.15.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403240"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=403240"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=403240"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=403240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}