This Sportscenter Image of the New Lakers Sure Was Popular – on Shaq’s Facebook Page

All, ESPN, Facebook, NBA Jason McIntyre August 14th. 2012, 4:46pm

As an ESPN tipster points out:

Friday morning, Sportscenter’s Facebook page posted this image of the Heat’s Big 3 and the Big 3 of the Lakers. The Dwight Howard trade hadn’t officially gone through, which is why Howard and Nash are photoshopped.

A lot of people “liked” and “shared” it.

Sunday evening, Shaq – or whoever was running his Facebook page – swiped the image with nary a hint of credit, and got far more “likes” and “shares” than Sportscenter did.

That’s all.

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29 Responses to “This Sportscenter Image of the New Lakers Sure Was Popular – on Shaq’s Facebook Page”

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ms621 Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 4:47 PM
So Daryl Morey can be fired now right. For completely stripping a team in the vain hope of landing Dwight Howard…now that that’s not happening, we can fire him. Right?
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SouvenirCity Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 4:51 PM
Jeff Passan just dropped something that will get a hell of a lot more clicks than this.
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Coach Mike Woodson, Atlanta Hawks Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 4:51 PM
This is riveting shit.
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GloriousMullet Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 4:52 PM
OH SHIT MORE PEOPLE LIKED IT ON SHAQS PAGE INSTEAD OF LIKE, LIKING IT ON SPORTCENTERS PAGE OMG LOL, LIKE, WHATEVERSKIES LOL.
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HakeemtheDream Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 4:53 PM
Yeah Morey should be fired for dismantling that mediocre Rockets squad.
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YYSA Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 4:53 PM
Pau Gasol is more important than two of the three players on that ‘Big 3′ Lakers picture.
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Tim Ryan Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 4:57 PM
Jeff Passan just dropped something that will get a hell of a lot more clicks than this.
Duffman’s on it.
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YYSA Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 4:57 PM
Yeah Morey should be fired for dismantling that mediocre Rockets squad.
No, he should be praised for spending 30 million on chinese mediocrity.
/Printing Yen’d
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SouvenirCity Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 4:57 PM
ms – good read on your top draft choice this year.
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Badger Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 4:58 PM
As an ESPN tipster points out:
I can’t stop laughing.
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SouvenirCity Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 4:58 PM
Duffman’s on it.
Awesome. Thank you.
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MP III Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 4:59 PM
i think morey has to go. hell, i dont know. the rockets are such an effing mess and have been impossible to follow the past 4 years.
so now all we have is the texans, which are clearly fed malk by the training staff because the team is so brittle.
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ButtersBC Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 5:00 PM
As an ESPN tipster points out
Jay Bilas gets bored this time of year
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giggy09 Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 5:02 PM
ZOMG!
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GloriousMullet Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 5:03 PM
so now all we have is the texans, which are clearly fed malk by the training staff because the team is so brittle.
Are you referring to this “malk”?
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ms621 Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 5:04 PM
ms – good read on your top draft choice this year.
Thanks SC. I’m digging the Correa pick, but what I love about it even more is that he didn’t expect to be first and so his lower bonus allowed us to sign McCullars, who I have very high hopes for.
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ms621 Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 5:05 PM
so now all we have is the texans, which are clearly fed malk by the training staff because the team is so brittle.
I’ve got the Astros. Even if no one else does.
/going down with the ship
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MP III Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 5:18 PM
Are you referring to this “malk”?
yup
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Rodney King's Pool Cleaners Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 5:18 PM
Blaming Morey is pretty unimformed. His owner won’t allow them to tank to get the high draft picks necessary to truly rebuild, insisting that they continually try to make the playoffs. The result is picks in the 14-18 range every year and a hope of trading for a big fish. Stern nixed his Gasol trade, Dwight Howard’s team – for some dumb reason- took a lesser offer for Dwight than the Rockets were offering. I would love to hear what the Rockets should have done differently under Morey that would have made a difference. I think the McHale hire was a bad move, but other than that, he’s played the cards he’s been dealt. The Yao and TMac injuries devastated this team.
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HakeemtheDream Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 5:19 PM
What Rodney King’s Pool Cleaners said.
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ms621 Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 5:27 PM
I don’t disagree RKPC, but most reports seem to indicate that the Rockets had never more than an outside chance of getting Howard. And to take a shot at that tiny, small, insignificant chance, Morey completely blew up the team. If his thought was that he could at least put a team on the floor that would no longer be ‘middling’, that would finally secure a lower lottery pick with which to get talent, then why he did he spend $25 million on Jeremy Lin? The line of reasoning makes sense right up to that point and then it just slams into the wall of ridiculousness.
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YYSA Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 5:34 PM
I think Morey is great at mixing up a team and ending up right where it started (competitively) but by doing so has made it look a little more shiny and the gullibility of a fan base* will lead to buying in just enough. Maybe he has changed and is going for the ultimate blowup now but I wouldn’t be surprised if in 3 months they flip some of this young ‘talent’ for a middling star who a team is trying to dump(AMARE!BOOZER!).
* – It should be noted that I am totally buying into this Suns rebuild! HOPE! SPRINGS ETERNAL!…until I watch several games and realize the truth.
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jthussler Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 5:37 PM
Morey failed to get Howard but what he’s put out there now could become something – the team was going absolutely nowhere of significance before.
Lin is overpaid, but can be dynamic, and they added three interesting rookies and have another lottery pick next year. I’d wait to see what comes of the 2013 offseason before ousting Morey because he still has some other assets to put to use.
Also, this post was awesomely interesting.
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jthussler Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 5:39 PM
Maybe he has changed and is going for the ultimate blowup now but I wouldn’t be surprised if in 3 months they flip some of this young ‘talent’ for a middling star who a team is trying to dump(AMARE!BOOZER!).
Considering that he’s never really gone this route before, I don’t think this is the inevitable conclusion.
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Jay V Of Considerable Influence Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 5:42 PM
Huh?
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YYSA Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 5:43 PM
Lin is overpaid, but can be dynamic, and they added three interesting rookies and have another lottery pick next year. I’d wait to see what comes of the 2013 offseason before ousting Morey because he still has some other assets to put to use.
I would agree that you have to wait to see if one of those guys can become a player but I don’t think his last couple of first round picks in that range speak very highly of his success in the draft.
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ms621 Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 5:46 PM
I guess the other part of Morey’s rationale that I don’t understand is that if he got Howard, who was he going to surround him with? He traded away virtually everyone of value. It would have been Howard going from the Magic to a nearly identical situation in Houston. It’s the logic behind all of it that makes no sense.
But if this was just window dressing to blow up the team, that’s fine, I can recognize the need for that. But just call it what it is then and don’t spend $25 million on an overrated Chinese guy.
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Rodney King's Pool Cleaners Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 6:20 PM
“But just call it what it is then and don’t spend $25 million on an overrated Chinese guy.”
I have heard through the grapevine that Les Alexander was very involved in the Lin deal. The Rockets still have a following in China thanks to Yao. I think this is a dumb reason to sign the 35 game wonder, but at the time the idea was Dwight+Lin = fan interest. The Rockets are going to have to build through the draft, and that will take some luck. I’m actually pretty high on this last draft class and Montenjiuas.
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spencer096 Says:
August 14th, 2012 at 6:24 PM
Montenjiuas
montejiuas revenge is a real bitch…had some cranky fish tacos in tijuana once and jackson pollack’d the cantina’s loo.