Shaq blasts Dwight Howard, Calls Houston a "Little Town"

[Pimp]

The Lakers should allow everyone that purchased a d12 jersey exchange it for another laker jersey like patriots did Hernandez.

 

[Da Jungles]

Save NFL Flims, a major city with with no affiliation with the top grossing sports league worldwide...



That's a bad look.


Stop it.

Log off and take a second to think about how a major city that doesn't have an NFL team is STILL one of the greatest cities EVER. Like I said, it's just fine.

First of all, the dude I was replying to was talking about the size of the city skyline. Can you read?

Can YOU read?

Read what I wrote and respond to that or else STFU

Secondly, some of you guys are about to be in for a rude awakening over the next several years. Lakers have traditionally drafted very well.

Stopped reading right there. They've also "traditionally" won championships. Sooooooooooo yea

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

You guys are just making excuses.

Yes, I know why the Raiders/Rams left......but the question is, what major player, in terms of cities, doesn't have an NFL team?

So there's millions of ppl in LA, OF COURSE they're gonna gravitate to the Lakers, IF they are winning. Of course they're gonna gravitate to USC IF they're winning. Even tho the team was a playoff team, LA ppl weren't as supportive during the Van Exel/Jones/Ceballos era. People in LA weren't rockin with USC like that before Carroll got there in the early 00's. If they had a successful NFL team, they'd be jocking it.

And don't start a state-wide argument b/c the 49ers, have nothing to do with LA. Also, you'e ignoring the fact that Houston LOST an NFL team, just like LA did, and still got another before LA. There's politics involved on both side there.

Point is, there's no such thing as a "little town/small market" anymore. This isn't 1995. Even Durant/Westbrook are national stars & two of teh biggest in the NBA, playing on national TV more than "big market teams", despite playing in a smaller city like OKC. The whole NY/LA pressure thing is overblown/dead and most younger ppl don't even acknowledge it.

This.

 

[jadillac]

Can YOU read?

Read what I wrote and respond to that or else STFU



Stopped reading right there. They've also "traditionally" won championships. Sooooooooooo yea

And this is how I know I've won the argument.

I addressed the stuff you said within what I wrote.

And "tradition" doesn't mean as much anymore. you're talking to a college football fan here. You have to have the talent. When Kobe leaves and you have a lineup of a bunch of nobodies, an out of place FA, and Pau, now what? Jerry Buss is gone, the other front office people who made great draft picks in the 80's/90's are gone. Some of the Lakers fans don't appreciate how great Kobe really is b/c they've been spoiled over the years.

And being spoiled is NOT a given. "Traditionally", the Lakers have also built their own stars (even Shaq/Kareem wil forever be looked at as a Laker) and acquired FA's to fill in role players.

You'll see this sooner or later.....or you'll jump ship and become a Clipper fan when they start winning.

Breh Houston will NEVER be as significant as a basketball town as LA. Never. An it all has to do with the history of the franchise. When you win as much as the Lakers consistently throughout different decades, your prestige as a basketball city grows. LA will always be the Niger basketball market and more significant basketball city. It's not even close. The culture of great basketball cities like Boston and LA actually rub off on the players IMO. It's no coincidence Boston and LA have more hall-of-famers than any other cities. Its a culture in a sense.

Yeah, I get it breh. I understand teams/culture/mystique. But look how bad the Celtics were in parts of the 90's all the way up thru the late 2000's. Where was the tradition then? Where were the players clamoring to come there in the Dino Radja/Sherm Douglas era?

Also, nobody gave a damn about that stuff when Olajuwon was dream shaking cats out of their shoes in the back-to-back run. Nobody cared about that stuff when the Spurs were running stuff in the early-mid 00's.

If you win, you create your OWN tradition.

 

[Da Jungles]

And this is how I know I've won the argument.

I addressed the stuff you said within what I wrote.

Dog, all I said was LA was big time compared to Houston when talking NBA franchises.

You didn't address a damn thing I said

That's all Shaq is saying. Yet you dudes wanna talk irrelevant shyt like the NFL

So again....CAN YOU READ????

If you can, read this.

LA is a big market city for NBA franchises in comparison to Houston. That is a FACT. Nothing you type or think will change that, so deal with it

 

[sfgiants]

Little town huh? LA aint even got an NFL team.

Shaq is a dummy. Houston is widely regarded as a big market.







Houston has more than one downtown area.

How does that change the fact that the skyline is

 

[Marvel]

Whats wrong with living in city that has...

-the 2ND MOST fortune 500 companies after NYC
-good economy, healthy job market
-better bang for your buck housing option
-better traffic
-no STATE TAX
-sizable amount of bad bytches w/o the snobbiness
-higher % of blacks
-no racist surenos poking their chest out like scrappy doo
-an NFL team....nothing like an NFL Sunday in Houston

If you like what you read so far

COME TO HOUSTON

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Naah 5th

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LOL WTF is T Dot nikka. Houston is the fourth biggest city in the US. FOH

 

[MenacingMonk]

Why don't you explain this big picture to us simpletons genius. Please show me how Houston, the fourth largest city in the fukking US is an irrelevant small town.

I'll wait.

Spoiler

You;re obviously not reading this thread cause a lot of people already broke it down.

 

[Malik]

When talking about the top NBA cities, Houston is a "little town"



Miami is the 44th largest city in the country.


Houston is the 4th largest. Phoenix is the 6th largest. San Antonio is the 7th largest.


Those three cities are 10x the size of Miami. Now how many young players do you think would chose those three locations over the Heat

 

[*Hulks Up*]

Shaq picks the worst reasons to justify his ridicule of Dwight. He could have just left it at safe move and pretty much gotten the reaction he wanted but no in his usually attention whoring he does too much and now the comment isn't even about Dwight anymore. To even think going to a team like Houston is beneath Dwight or anyone is beyond retarded and Shaq just comes off jealous.

 

[Carlos Huerta]

when he said it was a little town he wasn't referring to population or geographical size, he was referring to relevance in the sports landscape.

you really gotta spell shyt out for these cats in here.. 3 pages worth of idiots copying/pasting population numbers

 

[Carlos Huerta]

Overated as f*ck


Lets see, he make 22 Million a year...

California state tax is 7.5% ...


7.5% of 22 million = $1,650,000


Factor in half the games are AWAY (at places that DO have state tax), you divide that 1.6 mil in half...


Total savings VS Cali: $825,000




He'd make that chump change up in Merchandise / Endorsements in LA 10x Over

No one else caught this? This guy's talking about sales tax ??

 

[Lakerman0834]

lol people bringing up NFL teams and random ass facts trying to say Hou is a big city Hou in the grand scheme of EVERYTHING is useless. No one really cares about the city/dont come to visit/and dont hear about it at all.

Btw LA has won a superbowl and we dont even have a team something Hou hasnt experience

 

[dtownreppin214]

you really gotta spell shyt out for these cats in here.. 3 pages worth of idiots copying/pasting population numbers

i learned more in this thread than i did in 2 yrs of geography class in high school.