LSU’s Angel Reese Has The Strongest Support, One Of The Greatest NBA Player Shaquille O’Neal To Her Defence
Shaquille O’Neal, a former NBA player, claims that LSU star Angel Reese has earned the right to speak badly of others after guiding her squad to the 2023 NCAA championship victory.
“When you’re a champion, you’re allowed to TYS: talk your stuff,” O’Neal speaks of Reese, 20, after she was heavily criticized for taunting during Sunday’s title game, which LSU ultimately won 102-85.
LSU’s Angel Reese Has The Strongest Support, One Of The Greatest NBA Player Shaquille O’Neal To Her Defence
Reese’s actions angered several influential media figures. Such a f—ing moron, tweeted Keith Olbermann, a former ESPN anchor and current podcast host, with a video of Reese. Reese was referred to as a “classless piece of s—” on Twitter by Barstool Sports president Dave Portnoy.
LSU royalty Shaq showing some love to Angel Reese and Kim Mulkey 💛💜#ncaaw #geauxtigers pic.twitter.com/1QX0FRvn6P
— WNBA Got Game (@wnbagotgame) March 1, 2023
“I don’t mind people having an opinion, but you don’t call that little girl a f—ing idiot,” O’Neal said. “I don’t usually do that, but I felt some kind of way. Like bro, she’s a little girl.”
how y’all feel about this whole situation? pic.twitter.com/MBTc2Ta7df
— LakeShowYo (@LakeShowYo) April 4, 2023
“I’m not gonna be going back and forth with him but I promise you, if that was my daughter, you would have had bigger problems.”
Shaq wasn't having it with Keith Olbermann's tweet directed at Angel Reese last night 👀
He spoke with SN about why he felt compelled to respond 👇
READ: https://t.co/FDcCu0VyRH pic.twitter.com/0nLG68ur7v
— The Sporting News (@sportingnews) April 3, 2023
“Every person that wins TYS-es. Talk your s—. It doesn’t matter if you think it’s classy or not. Doesn’t matter. When I won my championships, you don’t think I was talking smack? Pointing fingers?”
Shoutout to Shaq for defending Angel Reese pic.twitter.com/Tw37LUe4Sw
— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) April 3, 2023
“I know Angel. She is a very classy, nice little girl. But hey, she plays with emotion. She’s from Baltimore. When you grow up in certain areas, you gotta grow up how you grow up. So she talks her talk.”
"But they did the same thing!"
-brain dead people #WFinalFour pic.twitter.com/Fn9XLrPtk6
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) April 3, 2023
After people started to bash Angel Reese for making a gesture that a white player was glorified for making, various sports stars came to her defense https://t.co/ZVprIBWUJL
— Black Enterprise (@blackenterprise) April 3, 2023
Jemele Hill slams Dave Portnoy for ‘classless’ take on Angel Reese: ‘F–k you’ https://t.co/oeZ2KjBwVO pic.twitter.com/649r6RpF4a
— New York Post (@nypost) April 4, 2023
O’Neal, who believes that this year’s women’s Final Four was “the finest Final Four in sports history,” claims to have personally contacted Reese to reassure her that the doubters are unfounded.
“I talked to Angel yesterday. I said, ‘Hey, you’re a champion. Enjoy being a champion and have fun.’ “
yeah my uncle shaq don’t play bout me. period. https://t.co/BnAZ5XcwWb
— Angel Reese (@Reese10Angel) April 3, 2023
O’Neal claims that the reason the NBA star has a problem with the Elon Musk-owned app is because internet trolls “are making a big deal about” Reese’s celebration taunt and Twitter users who are “calling people names.”
“That’s the problem with Twitter…Everybody gets to voice their opinion,” O’Neal says.
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