In the age of screens literally everywhere, Shaquille O’Neal let the world know that he carries around a portable television.
Shaq flexed his expensive —and old school, depending on who you ask — gadget to the world on a recent episode of NBA on TNT. He pulled out what looked like a briefcase and opened it up, prompting the actual TV screen to come out of it on a separate stand.
As Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith, and Charles Barkley looked on incredulously, Shaq looked proud to have, perhaps, the most unnecessary gadget in the world.
“Who carries around a portable TV?” asked Barkley. With a goofy grin splashed across his face, Shaq proudly responded with one word: “Me.”
After Smith claimed that Shaq watches the same basketball games that the guys watch on the big screen in the studio, Shaq disagreed and let them know what’s actually on his TV. “I got Netflix, I got (Amazon) Prime, I got Disney,” he listed. “And, it’s in 8K.”
Shaq made headlines earlier this month when he roasted Nikola Jokić by suggesting the star Nuggets center wouldn’t stand a chance against him in his prime.
On NBA on TNT, Shaq was asked who’d win in a matchup between Jokić today or Shaq in 2001. Shaq is someone who never doubts his abilities, so he, of course, said he’d own Jokić. But Shaq didn’t just say he’d win, he claimed he’d turn him into food.
"Slovenian chicken," said Shaq about what he’d turn the Nuggets center into. "I'm getting 40, and they're going to have to double me, and he probably going to pick and pop and take me all that, but he probably won't be in the game awhile cause he shoot the three I'm running right to the middle lane and holding the rim [...] I'ma hit way more twos than you hit threes guarantee you that [...] and I'ma make his brothers want to fight me cause the first play of the game...elbow."
Shaq ended his hypothetical scenario by saying Jokić would be “Serbian BBQ chicken.”