Check out some of his twitter messages:
“I need help subway or schlotsskys for lunch, big game tonite”

“This is straight from the shaqs mouth I love phil jackson Kobe bryant is the best palyer in the game And the shaq kobe, kobe shaq was the best one two punch”

You can check out Shaq’s page by clicking here:
http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ

PAUL BROGAN - NBA RAP 2008

for some reason this clip reminds me of Bogut’s ghost slapping at the free throw line from last season (click here).

from the Boston Herald

Celtics forward Kevin Garnett has been suspended one game without pay by the league for his role in Saturday night’s scuffle with the Bucks in Milwaukee.

Garnett struck Bucks center Andrew Bogut in the face with 3:58 remaining in the fourth quarter of the Celtics [team stats]’ 102-97 win at the Bradley Center.

The suspension was announced today by Stu Jackson, NBA executive vice president of basketball operations.

Mark Cuban is all over the internet at this moment - not because his Mavericks finally won a game (now 3-7 after beating the Knicks) but instead for insider trading charges.

A civil complaint was filed by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In its complaint, The government alleges that in June, 2004 Cuban sold 600,000 shares of Canadian search engine company Mamma.com after he learned it would be making a stock offering.

The SEC says when the stock offering was publicly announced, Mamma.com’s stock price dropped more than 9 percent from the previous day’s closing price. As a result, the SEC says, Cuban avoided losing more than $750,000.

Cuban made a quick post on his blog, www.blogmaverick.com. He doesn’t say much but instead paste’s a copy of a letter signed by his legal team.

I wish I could say more, but I will have to leave it to this, and let the judicial process do its job.
November 17, 2008
RE: SEC Civil Action in the United States District

for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division

Mark Cuban today responded to a civil complaint filed by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States District for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division. In its complaint, the Commission charges that Mr. Cuban engaged in violations of the federal securities laws in connection with transactions in the securities of Mamma.com Inc.

This matter, which has been pending before the Commission for nearly two years, has no merit and is a product of gross abuse of prosecutorial discretion. Mr. Cuban intends to contest the allegations and to demonstrate that the Commission’s claims are infected by the misconduct of the staff of its Enforcement Division.

Mr. Cuban stated, “I am disappointed that the Commission chose to bring this case based upon its Enforcement staff’s win-at-any-cost ambitions. The staff’s process was result-oriented, facts be damned. The government’s claims are false and they will be proven to be so.”

From Shaq’s own words.
“The law of physics states that a body in motion stays in motion,” O’Neal said. “And if you have two objects that meet in the air, the smaller object is going to fall much harder at the same rate of speed it was going. I’ve never been the type of player to take anyone out. I was going for the ball.”