Former Shaquille O?Neal Teammate and Opponent Reveals What He?s Like Behind the Scenes

Being on Shaquille O?Neal‘s team was the safest place in the NBA. It meant you didn’t have him as an opponent. But one NBA legend endured both sides of the coin. And he can speak from experience what kind of person Shaq was.?Big Diesel?has made him quake in his sneakers but off the court, he left this teammate impressed. It’s made him confident enough to vouch for Shaq’s authenticity even a decade after they were teammates.

Before he could be on Shaq’s good side,?White Chocolate?felt the sheer terror of the big man with his most formidable on-court partner. From the sound of it, he’s not over that fear at all.

Teammate reveals the real Shaquille O’Neal

Jason Williams was probably relieved when he came to the Miami Heat. It meant he didn’t have to worry about Shaquille O’Neal as an opponent anymore.

Their on-court history aside, J-Dub would display over the years that he loves being Shaq’s friend. As usual, he couldn’t resist revealing what the giant is like among his friends.

“Shaq’s great, bro,” Williams said on the?Flagrant podcast. “Everything you see on Shaq on TV, bro, that’s exactly how it is… not a fake at all.” Another testimony to Shaq being 100% authentic all the time.

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White Chocolate?built his brand of flashy passes while a Sacramento King. However, he would join Miami just in time to help the franchise notch their first ever title in 2006.

In Florida, he’d not only be Shaq’s teammate in Miami Heat, but they’d also live in the same neighborhood. That would result in them hanging outside the hardwood a lot. Williams admitted that he wasn’t a social person but even Shaq had a way of making him comfortable.

Shaq’s friend debunks fake claims

Williams could confidently say, “there’s not a better human being in this whole wide world than Shaq,”?for an important reason.

According to him, all those spontaneous acts of kindness are not fake even though Shaq has been accused of doing charity for publicity. “He’s just always looking out for everyone,” Williams said speaking about those anecdotes when O’Neal would pay a family’s bill at Walmart.

That kindness didn’t extend on the court where a Shaq in purple and gold was J-Dub’s nightmare. It was unthinkable to take him on one-on-one. “Then you send a double team down, which is usually a little guy like me, forget it, he’s not seeing none of that, bro,” Williams shuddered out with possible war flashbacks.

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Shaq’s personality as a whole is memorable to Jason Williams as with anyone else. Which side of the NBA legend is the more dominant – Scary Shaq or Gentle Giant?