Shaq dubs Bosh the 'RuPaul' of Big Men

[T.Duncan21]

I dont get you blasted people...when Bosh never spoke out like he has now you guys used to question his passion and tell him to grow a pair...but now that CB is a bit more vocal all of you's hate him wtf? I mean what kind of logic is that? you fools deserve nothing more than a team stacked with milt palacios and rafael araujo's...jesus christ...

I'd prefer to have his game do the talking as well. No one would say anything if Bosh was leaving it all out on the court every night on BOTH ends of the court.

[theonlyeastcoastrapsfan]

Shaq pranked George Bush for god sakes. He may not be the best player of all time, but he deserves to be called the man, and to call out his doubters. Mr. Bosh is welcome to shut Shaq's mouth anytime he wants to. He won't be the first to try and he won't be the last.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66HG6lbdzJg&feature=related

[Yosemite Dan]

Trust me RuPaul will be googled to death now. You have to admit it was kinda funny. Especially when you pair it with that haunting photo on the 1st page of this thread.

I didn't laugh. I thought it was another idiotic comment by Shaq, who has always annoyed me.

Maybe my standards of comedy are higher than others.

The comedy of being a Raptors fan is not that high.

[ImissJordan]

The comedy of being a Raptors fan is not that high.

I don't know, I just find his humor very juvenile, even by children's standards.

It really does seem like the kind of insult I'd hear from a brain-dead classmate back in elementary school, not from a 37-year-old man.

[theonlyeastcoastrapsfan]

Just because people want you to be a more vocal leader and show more passion doesn't give you a pass to vocalize against your own team and the fans, and the emotions you display is utter frustration and resignation.

[Gold Chain]

So for everyone that is ready to drive Chris to the airport, is there anything in your mind that could reconcile these problems and slights you feel he has put on the team?

I mean if CB does not go this summer, is here at camp next year and is saying all the right things and looks refreshed (as he did this year) at the start, is that enough?

I am getting the feeling that no matter what he says or does over the next couple months and into next season, nothing he can do would make some fans happy? Yes? No?

[cutthroat]

Congratulations for being 7'1 and 400 pounds. That must have taken quite a bit of skill. The man has been in the league almost 20 years and he still can't hit a free throw. He has made hundreds of millions of dollars by being the biggest, strongest, fattest guy on the court. F*ck you Shaq.

Shaq talks smack about Bosh and I see 100 "Bosh sucks/Trade Bosh" threads and zero threads bashing Fat Shaqbert? What's wrong with you people?

real competitive ballers trash talk,get over it.

[StringerBell]

Bosh is the one who started it and Shaq is the baby? Bosh didn't say general comments about the officiating like "some of the calls or non-calls out there were pathetic". He specifically said "I thought there was a 3 second rule in the NBA". Who's being the baby and acting like a sarcastic punk especially a player who has absolutely no NBA cred in that he has yet to win a damn playoff series.

Lol, I thought we were on the same side? Guess not. All Bosh did was question the officiating, which happens a lot of the time in post game interviews. Big effing deal. But being the childish egotistical moron shaq is, instead of retaliating with a "well he couldn't stop me" or "whatever", he retaliates with "yeah well you're the Ru-paul of big men". It's true Bosh isn't an intimidating big, which is why he shouldn't have even been guarding him in the first place. Nowitzki, Jameson, Al Jefferson, KG- none of those "big men" would have been guarding Shaq for their respective teams.

And what does winning a playoff round have to do with anything?? T-Mac hasn't won ****, but a few years ago was being compared to Kobe and got a ton of calls. Before Cassell and Spree arrived in Minni KG didn't win **** but he had NBA cred too. So I don't really see your point.

[TheMainEvent]

Shaq is an easy-HOFer. He's arguably the most dominant big man the NBA has ever seen. But Shaq isn't all fat/height, dude had/has crazy athleticism for a man his size. The fact that he can STILL run up and down a court constantly is quite amazing. He might actually be the fastest 7'0", 350 lbs person in the world (I could be totally wrong about this, but it is rather reasonable).

Do I like him? No, not really. Can he **** on Bosh? Absolutely.

[Devon_s_biring]

So much for my attempts to be the most hated poster on realgm.

You just took the cake dude.

[xAIRNESSx]

lol, this is now PTI worthy.

Third topic too if you guys wanna catch it.

[RaptorHead]

Shaq is a great player, no doubt about it. But he is classless, and has plenty of maturity issues. You don't find many people at the age of 37 act as childish as he does.

And that soft whiny punk Bosh doesn't? Let's wrap towels around our heads on the bench and makes faces at my cousin across the floor. Like blame the fans for losing. Let's back down from Brian Cardinal. Let's make stupid youtube videos.

Get off his jock.

[Mustard_Tiger]

This is actually very funny because it actually has an element of truth in it. I was cracking up when I first saw it. Shaq is the man.

Of course you love it, you hate Bosh. Shaq could've said anything insulting about Chris and you probably would've busted a gut.

I don't hate Bosh, I just don't respect him as a professional athlete. Two completely different feelings.

[theonlyeastcoastrapsfan]

Did we really? Does Bosh take no responsibility? Has he not called out the fans. Has members of his inner circle not come here and complained about lack of visits to his posts, or his website? Has the same person not come here threatening Bosh will walk if we don't treat him better, and that was early this season, before so many people turned on Bosh. People can have a different opinion and I respect that. I give my point of view to have a discussion, not to change anyones mind. But don't blame others for having their opinions either.

Since January, around the time Bosh called out the fans, there has been a surge of anti-bosh sentiment by people who weren't anti bosh before. Doug Smith confirmed that in his comments and mail bag, around late Dec- Jan, there began a large surge of Anti bosh, that hadn't existed to that level before. Do you think a large portion just woke up one day and said let's run Bosh out of town? Or maybe they noticed his defense falling off of already pretty low levels, they notice a guy more interested in social networking sites, and taking the Raptors for granted. Maybe all the talk about how Raptors main goal is to re-sign Bosh confused him about who exactly works for who?

I had a poster say to me the other day that he used to think I was good poster until i went all anti bosh and now he finds me annoying...well I wonder what changed. Me, or my opinion of Bosh's play. You couple the drop off in play with the whole 2010 contract and with comments coming out from Jalen Rose, (who is a client of Maxdeal tech, Bosh and the alleged cb4_admin's company) and others, along with some questionable comments, such as 1) calling out the fans when the second last team in the East is in the top 10 or so in attendance. 2) saying he took no responsibility as the leader of an under performing team when the coach got fired. 3) never saying he'll stay when numerous reports come out saying he'll bolt. 4) calling out a teammate in the paper for his defense.

I'll admit there are a few here who have been anti Bosh from the jump, and now maybe circumstances have made their hater ways look a little more reasonable then they did before, but for the most part, many are just reacting to what they see, hear and read. If you see things differently, fine. But when a guy loses a whole bunch of fans, it's not usually the fans fault, it's his.

I was a Bosh fan, I often wished he was tougher, but not until this year did it go beyond that to thinking he was overrated and that the best thing for us was to move him at the deadline. Now that he's still here and it looks like the bloom is coming off the rose, I only hope we can get something of value for him in the off season. I was so happy for him during the olympics. I was getting up early in the morning to watch his games, I wish things would have been different this year. Maybe he will get over the sense of entitlement, and get back on track. All the power to him. But it seems he's either become too comfortable, or too uncomfortable here in Toronto, to be at his best anymore.

Everyone chill out and read this post. The man speaks the truth

I like the poster who posted it and I agree with a lot of his points.

I really don't think Bosh is the problem here, really do not. I just feel like we as a franchise will regret getting rid of another star player. It is almost not about the player at this point and more about what it says about the future prospects of us keeping any stars around.

Vince opened the can of doubt for us and now Bosh is taking some that panic coupled in with his own partly self-made concerns for doubt.

Whether or not we make a good trade for CB, we in the eyes of every American media will be the joke of the NBA once again. I am not looking forward to the coming ESPN, SI, NBA analysts who will tear our team to shreds should Bosh leave. Star players will think long and hard before signing here as they wonder why the "wierd" NBA team ran Carter and Bosh both out of town.

You guys make a lot of sense, but I am not ready to concede my Bosh support and most likely will never.

I'm not asking you to concede anything. But insecurity is not a business model to base our franchise on. Show me where we were so wrong about Vince? What heights has he gone on to? We are a legit market. We are not American. If we knock some teams out of the play offs, we'll become a respectable franchise. And honestly, it's understandable that a franchise needs some success to build it's reputation.

[ruckus]

Shaq is the greatest combination of size and agility I've seen in my life.

I guess you've never seen Mandingo in action.

[Mustard_Tiger]

It is possible for Shaq to have come up with something much funnier than this. I mean....RuPaul? Half of the kids nowadays don't even know who he/she is.

My guess is that he wasn't thinking about kids when he said it. He meant it to insult Bosh.

[BOSHFAN]

Shaq is a great player, no doubt about it. But he is classless, and has plenty of maturity issues. You don't find many people at the age of 37 act as childish as he does.

And that soft whiny punk Bosh doesn't? Let's wrap towels around our heads on the bench and makes faces at my cousin across the floor. Like blame the fans for losing. Let's back down from Brian Cardinal. Let's make stupid youtube videos.

Get off his jock.

Lol haha, none of that stuff even comes remotely close to what Shaq does. Its pretty pathetic that you are actually comparing the two.