Shaquille O’Neal was lucky or probably smart enough to land in two teams that would have two of the greatest guards ever to play the game. After playing with Kobe Bryant and the Lakers, leading them to 3 championships, he had come to the Miami Heat in 2004. Just a year prior, they had drafted Dwyane Wade. The two of them would go on to win a championship within 2 years of teaming up and build an evergreen friendship despite not playing together for too long. Recently, when The Big Aristotle paid a visit to The Flash on his game show ‘The Cube’, The Diesel who is worth a whopping $400,000,000 tried buying a “life”.
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Shaq and D-Wade played together for just 4 years. However, it was enough for them to develop a deep bond with each other, which would also reflect on the court. And despite O’Neal getting traded away after his rift with Pat Riley, the two players kept their friendship alive.
Shaquille O’Neal met ‘friend’ Dwyane Wade on ‘The Cube’ and offered him money to get a life
Dwyane Wade is hosting TBS’ ‘The Cube’ where people are put inside 15 square feet of steel-edged plexiglass to perform different tasks to win a $250,000 reward. The Heat legend recently dropped by Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast for the promotion of his show and revealed how Shaq tried to buy a life when he failed in a task.
“We had him there on his birthday. He didn’t know what was going on. He’s like, ‘Man flash what I’m doing?’ I’m like ‘Just enjoy it’. And then he didn’t wanna stop. He kept asking for more tries and more tries. And I’m like ‘Shaq you can’t keep getting more tries’. ‘I need another life, I’d buy another life’”, Wade spoke of O’Neal, on Club Shay Shay.
The 15x All-Star also broke the back of the giant plexiglass cube which didn’t even know could be broken. Listen to Wade telling the hilarious story on the following YouTube video.
It was the time with Wade when Shaq learned to take the back seat
Until the 2004-05 season, Shaq wanted to be the bus driver. He did it with Penny Hardaway and Kobe Bryant till the point where they couldn’t take it anymore. However, within his first two years in Miami, he understood he would have to play second fiddle to win a championship.
Maybe his hunger to do it before Bryant led him to it, but Shaq agreed to take a backseat to DWade at the start of the 2005-06 season, and the Heat won its inaugural championship because of it. It took Gary Payton to convince him of the same though.
Thanks to that decision, Shaq was ahead of Kobe for a while. And thanks to him wising up, he has been friends with Wade for decades.
