Shaquille O’Neal and Dwight Howard were on a collision course 36 hours ago! The war of words on X took social media by storm, and the latter dragged old controversies. Yes, the reported the issues between Diesel and his former teammates, Kobe Bryant, Penny Hardaway, and Dwyane Wade. Not just that D12 even mentioned Charles Barkley in his tweet, which has garnered 1 million views. Chuck and Shaq were even live for TNT duties, so did the tweets affect anything?

The latest Inside the NBA show had everything the fans usually would see. The analysts taking shots at each other and the players. But in one segment during the halftime show of the Nuggets and the Celtics, the crew was having fun with the viral song, “Tweaker”. LiAngelo Ball’s song has over 4.4 million views on YouTube alone. Shaquille O’Neal was completely vibing to the song and Kenny Smith gave a shout-out to the Ball family.

“I’ve never heard a song take off that fast like the Gelo song has taken off. Shoutout to the Ball family, man.” Meanwhile, Charles Barkley looked unimpressed and disinterested during the entire song. Maybe it was the first time he had heard it. But Dwight Howard’s “insecure” jab at Shaquille O’Neal wasn’t the first time somebody stated that about the 4x NBA Champion.

In his tweet, the 3x DPOY stated, “Cuz yo insecure ass been hating and talking shit for 20 years. You to big to be this insecure. I hope you don’t bring my name up again. 52 years old tweeting me. And still hating. Now all this time you was joking. You always been jealous. Jealous of Kobe, penny, dwayde. You jealous of Charles too…” And there was another probable reason for their beef, which the 39-year-old stated in a podcast.

Apart from the stolen monicker, Dwight Howard hints about Shaquille O’Neal’s anger issues

Both former centers, who interestingly, also began their NBA careers with the Orlando Magic. Both may have failed to win a championship with that franchise but were instant fan favorites. Even everything between the two was fine until the All-Star game, where D12 wore a Superman cape. Since then reportedly Shaq got upset, but Howard thinks otherwise.

“It could have been about a girl..I dated a female a couple years ago, not a couple it was a while ago. And she said some stuff about Shaq you know telling her I’m the real super he’s a real Superman and he follow there’s a lot of stuff.” On The Gauds Show, Dwight Howard disclosed that the girl he dated previously received messages from Shaquille O’Neal.

Although he never name-dropped anyone, but he hoped it wasn’t the case. Now that their beef is on pause, Howard also tried ending the feud. However, it seems that such a long beef won’t be ending anytime soon. What do you think?