The Shaq effect on the NBA

At first, the league saw its best point guards gravitate to one center: Chris Mahmoud Rawf Jackson, Nick Anderson, Anfernee Penny Hardaway, Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade. A center, after all, cannot make an assist to himself; unless he's Isaiah Thomas. Isaiah Thomas was not a center.

But the penultimate Shaq attack was a combination, increase the height of the goals to 12' slash make movable goals; goals that shift while you're trying to shoot. All that talk stopped once Shaq retired. Good. The league's back down to earth. Same knee meniscus injuries. Same phantom of the opera masks for broken Oculo facial bones. The only thing the NFL has the NBA doesn't is concussions.