{"id":1232,"date":"2013-06-24T18:29:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T23:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pauleide.com\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2021-06-02T22:52:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T03:52:17","slug":"today-in-nba-history-1992-shaquille-oneal-goes-1-in-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/today-in-nba-history-1992-shaquille-oneal-goes-1-in-nba-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Today In NBA History 1992: Shaquille O’Neal Goes #1 In NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Shaq

The Big Aristotle aka Shaquille O’Neal<\/a> was the first overall selection in the 1992 NBA Draft and you probably weren’t even born yet.<\/h1>\n

If you were, you couldn’t get enough of that FIRE single, Ice Ice Baby. Has there ever been a better #1 overall NBA Draft pick in history?<\/p>\n

At 20 years of age, Shaq was 7-1, 300 pounds.<\/p>\n

How big were you at 20 versus now? You haven’t gotten taller, that’s for sure, friend.<\/p>\n

All your growth has been horizontal. And I don’t mean that in a complementary Oliver Miller type of way.<\/p>\n

Keep shoveling it in with that hoof, fatty. You dominate the paint and by paint I mean your local Golden Corral buffet. I get it, you’re “bulking up” and are going to enter the “tone down phase” soon.<\/h2>\n

Anyway, this isn’t about your penchant for bread.<\/p>\n

This is about the 1992 NBA Draft and Shaq. Just look how he dwarfs David Stern in this footage:<\/p>\n