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Shaquille O'Neal

Before the 2010 NBA season starts, newly acquired-Cleveland Cavalier Shaquille O’Neal will star in a show entitled “Shaq Vs.,” a TV series where the 15-time All-Star center will challenge top athletes of various sports. Set to debut on August 18, O’Neal will negotiate a handicap with his opponents and train with a coach for one week until he finally faces the athelete for that episode.

In one of the episodes, Shaq will swim against Olympic superstar and record-setter Michael Phelps. O’Neal will also will try his football skills against Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, box retired world champion Oscar De La Hoya, bat against St. Louis slugger Albert Pujols, trade tennis volleys with Wimbledon champ Serena Williams, and play volleyball against Olympic gold medalists Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor.

O’Neal will use this opportunity as a way to train for the upcoming season. He boasted:

“These athletes may be on top of their game, but I am up for the challenge. I plan to train hard and win, so look out.”

Though it sounded silly for Shaquille O’Neal to do such a thing, he did obtain permission from his new team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, before signing on to do “Shaq Vs.”

Who would you like to see Shaq go up against in his new TV sports reality show?

Shaquille O'Neal. Picture courtesy of Droppingdimes.gearlive.com

It’s official. Shaquille O’Neal is now a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

In order to boost its chances of winning the much coveted NBA Championship, the Cleveland Cavaliers have executed a trade that sent Shaquille O’Neal to tandem with arguably the best player in the league today, Lebron James, in a huge trade announcement very recently. In exchange, the Phoenix Suns got former Defensive Player of the Year Ben Wallace and Sasha Pavlovic. The move seems more of a salary cap clearing activity for the Suns, who finally got rid of the huge paycheck they would have owed to Shaquille O’Neal had they kept him for next season. Moreover, they might further experience a more manageable payroll with Ben Wallace contemplating retirement.

This will be Shaq’s third team after winning three championships with the Los Angeles Lakers alongisde 2009 NBA Finals MVP Kobe Bryant. The Diesel won another in a Miami Heat jersey when he teamed up with Dwyane Wade whom he dubbed, “The Flash”.  O’Neal, a former regular season MVP and Finals MVP, was then traded to the Phoenix Suns, in the hopes of teaming up with Canadian superstar Steve Nash and All-Star big man Amare Stoudemire to bring a championship to the Valley of the Sun.

This did not transpire though and after one and a half sub-par regular season performances from the Suns, rumors arose that Shaq and his huge salary would be traded to the Cavs to join King James. After a disappointing Eastern Conference Finals exit against Orlando last season, will Shaq’s presence be the final piece of the puzzle in the Clevland Cavaliers’ hunt for championship gold? Or will they suffer a disappointing result, similar to what happened with the Phoenix Suns?

For Phoenix, will they give Ben Wallace a buyout of his contract? Or will he be left alone to retire by himself? Moreover, will he consider playing one more season, this time for the Suns, who desperately need a huge defensive presence inside, especially with Amare Stoudemire’s documented troubles playing defense? Will Pavlovic replace the aging Grant Hill in the rotation? What do you think?

The answers to these questions may very well lie with the upcoming regular season. Or for all we know, in the upcoming days leading up to bigger NBA trades.