Shaq leaves LeBron James off his Mount Rushmore of former teammates

Shaquille O’Neal clearly forgot he used to play with LeBron James.

Shaquille O’Neal gave us his teammate Mount Rushmore but forgot about LeBron James.

While O’Neal’s Mt. Rushmore is certainly solid, as he has Kobe Bryant, Penny Hardaway and Dwyane Wade on it, Shaq clearly prefers his time with “Big Shot Bob” Robert Horry on the Los Angeles Lakers than he did in his brief time towards the end of his career with LeBron on the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Don’t worry. It’s cool, because he left off Steve Nash, too. Oh, Shaq…

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“Big Shot Bob” was a postseason legend, but LeBron is the King, Shaq!

While Bryant, Hardaway and Wade were no-doubt inclusions, how do you go about leaving LeBron out? He’s the only player that could have been eligible to be on this list that is, I don’t know, still playing at a ridiculously high level on a championship-contending team. Yeah, it was only for a year on a Cleveland team that was booted from the second round of the playoffs, but unless you’re counting rings, you have to go LeBron over Horry.

Bryant was posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Wade will be as soon as he’s eligible. Hardaway likely remains in the Hall of Very Good because for as spectacular as he was at the University of Memphis and with the Orlando Magic, he faded fast once Shaq left and couldn’t get right physically. Horry has a lot of rings and a great college career.

This is one of those boneheaded moves where Shaq’s Inside the NBA broadcasting partner Charles Barkley would call him a knucklehead. But if you have four rings, that’s really all that matters in Shaq’s eyes because he tells it to Barkley, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson on the TNT set ad nauseam. It’s okay, we’re used to this, but this blatant LeBron disrespect. C’mon, man!