" [Stern] says to me, 'Hey, can't wait for you to come to the NBA ,'" O'Neal said on Ashley Nevel's podcast. "Then he pulled me off to the side. 'You want to play where it's cold or where it's hot?' He asked me that.

It can be jarring at first, realizing they’re everywhere. In the grocery store. At the gym. Living right across the street. Maybe even in your own family. You want to believe no reasonable person could be that far gone.

Shaquille O’Neal only did more to fan the flames of the NBA draft conspiracy theorists with a David Stern story around him landing first overall to the Magic in 1992.