Here's a great post by Andrew Kamentezky about Shaq that pretty much sums my take on everything O'Neal. On the great Kobe-Shaq divide, it's starting to look like there is no winner: they're both assholes. The difference is that Shaq has gotten cuddly media treatment his whole career, while it's only in the last year or so that the reporters have stepped it up for Kobe.