♣ Review of "Shaq Uncut"

Recently I have read a book about Shaquille O'Neal of the 2012 year. My sister bought it to me on a charity of England as a present for my birthday. Thanks little sister.

Probably I would never have bought it myself because although I like to read biographies of basketball players, I din't like Shaq very much as a basketball star. "Nobody likes Goliath" would say this phisically enormous player, already retired.

But I am happy of having read it because it provided me an insight in Diesel's mind. I could check that there are people that think completely different from myself, not having to be this a default (although some times it is).

In some aspects Superman's mind is ludicrous. He has been a bully most of his life, and have spoken about silly things like being The Man, that they say in America. Or when he tells this anecdote about the way he showed off the money of the scolarship that he had recived at college. He put the big bills outside to feing that he had a lot of money for being envy at the campus.

Being a bully and at the same time having a father that controlled him as if he was a baby. Saying "yes sir" to his father or to other persons that Shaq thought were of authority. That makes no sense. We wouldn't act like that in Spain.

On the other hand there are things to admire of The Real Deal. For example how he treats children, with love and sympathy always trying they to have fun; or how he does business. He is not afraid of making mistakes and rectify next time, or of haggling and negotiating to obtain a better price on the dealings.

I admire also the showman he is. He always does things in a likehearted way like when he once, for warming his biceps before a game, he got up one of the trainers of the team as if he was a cufflink. Or when he pretended that he was a statue at Harvard's University.

On the book he comments his relationship with Kobe Bryant and how he tried to haze him when he was a rookie and how Kobe obviously got rebelious, and Kobe told The Logo. Then Jerry West lectured Shaquille on such behaviour. And the funny thing is that Shaq thought that he had acted well and that The Black Mamba was  the one who did not respect the team veterans.

Finally I have to say that I would recommend the book because "The Big Daddy" seems sincere when he speaks about his life.