He was always decent and got better as he got older. It’s just that his lowlights were spectacular lol

But yeah a lot of people really talked about him like he was straight up trash on the court.

He just showed up on shaqtn a few too many times

Shaq was and is an asshole

Glad he got his revival w/ the Dubs. Dude was crazy athletic.

I imagine seeing an all time great, someone you looked up to probably, taking shots at you on tv all of the time doesn’t feel great.

I’m glad he shut that shit down during those Finals runs

Hate to say I fell for this, I legitimately thought Javale was special needs when I was younger because of Shaqtin-a-fool

The fool is the wisest of them all

he has a point but at the same time i’m old enough to remember that he was posting the goofiest possible shit on twitter all day every day which didn’t exactly create an impression of seriousness

I get it, but the plays being shown were legitimately the worse plays of the night usually.

Revisionist history. When he played on the wizards him nick young and Andre Blanche would play like dick heads, not even care about winning and just do ridiculous stuff every game. Then people started seeing the dumb shit he would do and noticed it was at a high rate then he wanted to get his act together when he started getting embarrassed and try to act like he wasn’t intentionally out there bullshitting

He was always talented but he brought all this on himself because he thought it was fun and nobody watched the wizards

He’s right

I get his point. However, JaVale had some of the most boneheaded plays ever that were downright hilarious. If I make a wedding cake but a dog pees on it, yes, the dog peeing on it is the story.

F— Shaq.

Cut the crap he had some of the most stupid plays in the NBA that time. Thing is he was insecure about it he couldve played along with it. But him being serious about it is what also made it funny af.

I respect the hell out of JaVale for standing up to Shaq. That took some guts.

Javelle I’m a wizards fan you used to try crazy shit that you didn’t practice and got clowned for it deserved

Javale was a pretty good player back in the day it’s a shame Shaqtin is what he will be remembered as

It’s like he’s saying, once they made it a thing, anything mistake he made would be highlighted. Shaq would seem to ‘compete’ with playing centers even though he was retired. Going out of way to trash them.

By all accounts Javale always seems like the man. Shaq did him so dirty over his own insecurities. Shaq hopefully gets the opposite appreciation trajectory of Javale

Media = Shaq.

Real ones knew Javale Give em Hell McGee did a job. Sure he wasn’t always the most coordinated but he was long and awkward. Great career he carved out.

He is a 3x champion and he was excellent with the Lakers. Unironically he would be a perfect backup to play with Luka

Went to a resort last year and McGee was there. Nicest guy in the world, completely down to earth and normal. Real weird feeling standing next to him in the buffet line at breakfast though.

Bruh is still up there for the most air headed plays right next to JR 😂

He was so sick at Nevada

16 year career and made 86 mil as a backup center. seems like he got paid

Shaq is a plague to the sport of basketball in-career and post-career.

He was so good with the Lakers. I still miss his shot blocking and lob threat. He’s been very difficult to replace. Glad he got to retire a champion and a catalyst for each of them.

It got to a point where he was committing normal ass turnovers and they were lauding him as the king of buffoons. They went out of their way to have an excuse to put him on TV and do the dance for the audience.

I really dislike how shortening and editing quotes for post titles has become the norm. It’s unfortunate but a lot of people aren’t going to watch the actual video and are not going to get his full meaning here. And this might sound dumb but it violates how quotation marks are supposed to work.

16 years, 3 rings, an Olympic gold medal, nearly \(85M in career earnings (with another \~\)4.5M still due from Dallas thanks to the stretch provision). Funny lowlights notwithstanding, I would say that’s a solid career and nothing to sneeze at. Hell, he started 95 regular season games and 21 postseason games during the years he won those rings…so it wasn’t even like he was the 15th man on the roster and only played garbage time.

Both of these dudes getting dissed by Shaq yet teamed up to bring the lakers a ring

Wizards totally fumbled McGee’s potential, as they often do.

When I used to interview McGee back then you could tell he was a student of the game. He had tremendous athletic ability, he cared about the fans and he wanted to do more on the court than he was allowed to do but he was there to block shots and not much else, so when he tried something crazy it was because Washington was just a bad team and he was trying to hype things up and do SOMETHING. The Wizards were just so bad, though. Like McGee could be the last piece on a good team, but in Washington, they were so collectively bad it didn’t really matter I guess.

That was also back in the 2010s era where he and Andray Blatche (teammate) exchanged punches outside a nightclub, and then a year or so later Blatche had a mental breakdown because hometown fans started to regularly boo him. Then in 2012 McGee was traded to Denver and Blatche was the target of the amnesty clause (basically a way for a team to end a bad contract).

But here is the thing…McGee and Nick Young did knucklehead things off the court, like the cinnamon challenge. Between Nick Young sounding high all of the time and McGee being on Shaqtin’ a Fool, it’s no wonder McGee got buried while a Wizard. McGee wanted to be a viral success, and he put some of that on himself.

Funny enough, McGee and Young got the last laugh, getting championships elsewhere. Drama continued to follow Young…between Iggy, and other things…but meh, lol.

Tragic Bronson

He made a lot of mistakes his first couple years but the talent was always there

Thanks to the clowning, my team, golden state warriors, able to afford him. LMAO. He was sooo phenomenal in warriors.

Wizards ruined careers

The biggest issue for JaVale McGee was that Shaq is one of the worst bullies in the business, and he made it his mission to humiliate McGee on his segments by amplifying his early career failures to a national audience. McGee had a rough go early in his career in Washington, but he was a substantially better Nugget… only to injure his leg and regress. Shaq made sure to let everyone know what a loser and a failure he was, and made it his mission to have everyone laugh at him. Honestly, the whole Shaqtin-a-fool segment was loser shit from the onset.

McGee ended up being an important role player for two franchises and was a three-time NBA champion, for the Warriors and Lakers. Shaq is a legend and arguably a top 10 player ever, and his only way to keep relevant after he retired is to mumble incoherently through broadcasts and run bloop reels of current NBA players. McGee was content for Shaq’s clown act, and he still resents it, even though he downplays Shaq’s role in the public perception of him.

Remember Shaq mentioned one time Javale’s mom had reached out to him to cut that shit out and only then did he starting pulling back

He’s by the way a 3× NBA champion (2017, 2018, 2020)

I also blame shaq for this

javaaaaale mcgeeeeee!!!!

Swaggy p posing for a missed 3. Mcgee whiffing a lob to himself. These things will be remembered.

I get where he’s coming from but he needs to move on. Giving a reaction to it just makes it worse. I don’t think anyone took it that seriously, and clearly the general public is on your side.

I had such high hopes for Javale McGee, Andray Blatche and Nick Young 😂

Nah bro bro you earned the memes
https://youtu.be/0qLf3em1uIU?si=qGDvzmo5N5ZRh4hn

I loved having Dwight and McGee on the Lakers.

McGee was legit a good player. If you took a look at Gobert’s not soft hands plays only, you wouldn’t realize that he is one of the best defensive players of the last 15 years.

His dunk contest was pretty fun. Other than that I don’t think I can tell you a single thing about how he played.

I’m glad he was able to thrive and change all that noise with us.

Shaq shining a spotlight on it for like the 100th time was maybe a little over the line but McGee is trying to rewrite history acting like he’s some innocent victim or some BS. You made those braindead plays jackass!

All the bitches on Reddit who got bullied their whole life are going to simp for this man, but he literally has the most unbelievable, dumbass lowlight reel of anyone to play in the nba. I defy anyone to show me anything comparable. Honorable mention goes to Brandon knight, but McGee tried to ride Ty Lawson like a pony in a game.

Probably the best back up 5 at one point?

Idk man he still made a huge number of dumb plays. Still overall a positive player but low bbiq

JaVale gave us Bamonte Adebayo so I’ll always appreciate him.

Ex players get in front of podcast mics and are so self pitying. Making excuses, trying to redefine their career. So tiresome

I always loved Javale McGee the guy and the player idk I just watched what was happening on the court

I’m so sorry but there were way more than 1. Plus, they were hilarious.

JaVale was always decent. He got paid fairly, and won 3 rings and an Olympic gold. He’s just upset he happened to have a bunch of goofy plays that people made fun of???

Man made 85 million, that is clown money.

This is what happens when NBA is just seen as a “product”

Multiple time NBA Champion Javale McGee.

i think his name having a funny ring to it was also fuel on the flame. i remember watching dukethakilla playing 2k going “JAVALE MCGOO!” every time he would shoot it.

Also my friend recently cat sat for his neighbor when she went out of country, two orange cats. One named “Toast” and the other one was named “Javale McGee” and i genuinely dont think she even watched basketball, its just the name has made rounds in pop culture.

Ngl I was surprised to hear him say “15 and 6 blocks” like that was a regular game for him but he did have multiple 6-block games in his first few years and many more with 5 which is close enough. And also a 12 block game, damn

Shaq is an asshole but how many of you people commenting here being all righteous laughed at Shaqtin when you guys were children or teenagers lol bet more than half of u did

Ah yes, Shaq and his ways, still throws me off that it took his mother telling a grown ass man to stop for him to chill out. 😂

his cinnamon challenge is still his best highlight 🌬️

I respect him for speaking up, it was essentially bullying.

JaVale was robbed of his dunk contest victory because Blake Griffin dunked over the corner of the bumper of a league sponsor. And as a Wizards fan, it annoys me to this day.

“I can play the clown but you gotta pay me clown money” he acting like je just choosing to to/or to not make clown plays.

I can’t speak to Javale’s intelligence, but he had some of the most bone-headed plays of all time, at least in recent memory.

I was incredibly exited when he came to the warriors especially after seeing the lob threat from the Deandre Jordan, Tyson Chandler and Clint Capela era. He didn’t fail. Props to JaVale

I think they did him dirty. He has some ridiculous lowlights, but a lot of it was from effort plays as well. There’s a way to have a laugh at a play while still acknowledging the effort that was put in. That never happened.

I think Javale is right to still be sore about this. He got punished for trying really hard. His lowlights look so ridiculous because they were hustle plays from a guy with awkward physical dimensions.

The TV coverage isn’t supposed up trigger a dog pile on a player, and that’s pretty much what Shaqtin did. You can see they haven’t done that to any player since. They know they were wrong.

I’m just glad Javale was able to earn back some of his lost reputation late in his career. He’s not a clown. He’s just someone who has unfortunate highlights.

Dwight is surprisingly a good person to talk to about this stuff. He’s probably the most sympathetic towards bad press.

Javale was a bad starting center, and when he was getting “15 and six blocks” as he said, he was bad. He also tried legitimately dumb stuff on the Wizards, like jumping over a guy (huh?) or a free throw line dunk.

His highlight reels give pre-Wemby

He was a champion and had a real impact when he was on the court. 

Javale could never be R-truth

I remember just one ridiculous dunk attempt but I never saw him being overly foolish or outright bad. He had a better second half of his career though in limited action, albeit with proper asthma diagnosis.