What should have been an all-hands-on-deck approach from the Mavericks, especially considering the injury-ridden Luka Doncic on board, turned out to be something of a one-man show. Well, at least, for the most part. However, Dallas always had someone from the Cs that stood in their way, whether it be the star players or someone unpredictable, like Payton Pritchard. Despite Jason Kidd’s apparent ruse to shake the trust between Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, they were incredible!

Talking about Kidd’s try, Shaquille O’Neal had a few words of advice for the superstar duo of Boston. The ‘Big Diesel’ gave his own run with the Lakers as an example. From what he learned, the moment one forgets the useless titles and focuses on winning, that’s when real success happens. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter whose team it is or who is better than the other.

If a team or a player has no rings to show, it is seen by many as a failure. Especially when they are on a championship-caliber team and surrounded by such teammates. Of course, Shaq narrated this during the pregame show, and therefore chances of JB seeing this was unlikely. So when he got Brown for a post-game talk, O’Neal repeated it for his benefit.

“Jaylen, I don’t have a question, but I’m going to give you some G14 classification information because this is going to be the last time you see me. It’s a riddle. Do not get fixated on useless titles. Doesn’t matter who’s who or they say who’s what. It ain’t time for all that right now. Do what you got to do and get it done,” Shaq said to which Brown nodded, agreeing wholeheartedly.

When his co-host asked Jaylen if any of that made sense, he immediately responded ‘No,’ with a straight face, causing everyone to burst out in laughter. O’Neal then proceeded to explain what we mentioned above in a little more detail again.