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When you are the most dominant player your sport has ever seen, you will seldom be outdone. Shaquille O’Neal, the Los Angeles Lakers legend, dominated every player in front of him. He always used his physicality to his advantage and bullied other players. On the defensive end too, he would block shots with ease due to his height advantage and stopped players from reaching the basket.

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Shaquille was especially famous for his dunks. Many of his signature dunks involved him receiving the basket in the low post area and then maneuvering himself towards the basket. Once he gained momentum, nothing was stopping Shaq. In a crazy fun fact, Shaq had more broken backboards due to dunking than he hit three-pointers in his NBA career.

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Shaq was only dunked on twice in his career. And in a resurfaced video, he talked about it. The video is from a basketball practice. Shaq and Shareef, his son along with his trainer, are on a basketball court.

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Shaq said, “You ain’t dunking on me. I have been dunked on twice in my whole career. Jordan and Derrick Coleman, look it up.” Shaq further said, “Michael caught me late too, cause I was right here, and I knew he was gonna go baseline. Like I met him here, and he moved that hand and he stretch out.

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When Shaquille O’Neal and Michael Jordan went against each other

After Michael Jordan achieved his first three-peat with the Chicago Bulls, he dropped a news bomb. Everybody was in shock when the NBA legend announced that he would retire effective immediately. It led to a power struggle in the Eastern Conference and for a time it looked like the Orlando Magic would emerge as the winners.

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Led by Shaq, they were a young and upcoming team. On their way to the franchise’s first NBA Finals in 1995, they defeated the Bulls. Jordan had just come out of his retirement and hence couldn’t affect the proceedings much.

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But come next time Jordan was prepared. In the 1995-96 regular season, the Bulls won, then record 72 regular-season games. They would sweep Orlando in four games en route to winning their fourth NBA title. Sometimes revenge is best served cold.

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Nirjhar Sharma is an NBA writer at EssentiallySports. He is a sports enthusiast who follows all major sports and has been watching the NBA for the past 7 years now. A firm believer in the 'Greek Freak' being the best player in the league right now, he believes that the Bucks are primed for another championship run unless the injury bug bites them. A Business Economics graduate from the University of Delhi, Nirjhar eventually dreams of working with a sports franchise either in India or abroad in a management role. He is also a die-hard MS Dhoni and Roger Federer fan and is of the opinion that Josh Allen is currently the best QB in the NFL.

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