The Deep 3 Podcast - We Reacted To Shaq's WORST NBA Takes Of All Time | TD3 Clips

Episode Date: January 28, 2026

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We are going to react to the funniest or worst, you might say, Shaquille O'Neill NBA takes of all time. Salah Yap. I've prepared to you the greatest, the finest grade A Yap from Shaq himself over the years on television. I want you guys to grade it from A through F on how good or bad, whatever that means to you this take is. My mind is melting already. First take, Rudy Gobert is the worst NBA player of all time.

And his reason, he gets paid $250 million. If you gave me $250 million, I would do a lot more. First of all, oh, man. The worst of all time. You've done so much damage. Peak player Hayden. I'm going in. This is perfect.

I'm going to. This is exactly what you want to see out of, out of Hayton. Because it's not like, you can look at this and be like, he's destroying the game. He should be a better commentator. That's not what this is about. This is about hating. And so I'm a grader on that scale. It's about hating.

it's about envy and it's about greed. We all know Shaq is about those bucks. He sees a lot of books in Rudy Gobert's pockets and he fucking throws up. He just hates players who get paid, right? That's why he hated Twy Howard too so much. Anybody gets paid more than him? He's like, I fucking, this guy should die actually.

Yeah, exactly. Just a bully. Send this guy to the gulag. Come on, man. And that's why on all three fronts, Shaq is presenting some of the best hating that we've seen, some of the best greed that we've ever seen.

Yeah. It's at the top of the game. So I'm going A here for Shaq. I'm going F. This is terrible. You ruin his legacy, bro. Can you imagine how Rudy O'Berrero was to look, he'll still be looked down upon? But it wouldn't be as bad if Shaq didn't exist. It wouldn't be as bad at all. I can't imagine Rudy Gobert is happy by Shack's existence. Next up. He's talking about he's never seen a guy like Wimbenyama. Yes, you have. His name is Bo Bo Bo. He thought he was cooking. He thought he was like, we're seeing some shit, right? The cadence of the take? Yes, you have. His name is Bob Wol. He thought it was a bar.

You know that I mean where the white guy's just like, just looking up in a court room? That's him. He's ridiculous. Yeah, listen, the hating is funny until you touch my Shayla. Don't you ever open your mouth about one be again? Or what? Compare anybody. What are you going to do?

Who knows who I see him? He's talking like he found his new revelation. Like he found Jesus' son or son What's going on? No, Bobo is crazy It's one of the worst takes that he's had Yeah, F. Rather than this, he was like,

Wembe's just more consistent than Bowl There's a skill set. He can do everything he can do. Yeah. I would love to see Bobo play drop coverage and block a shot like Wembe just once. Come on, man.

Also, just, I don't even care about all that. Roll the ball out one on one. He's getting fried. He's getting fried. He can't guard him. He's done up in the worst way. It's not even close.

This is terrible. Zero out of 10, man. one of the funniest things they ever said. I've seen, we've seen Wemby, take a three, missed a shot, and get a putback dunk off of his own three. That's a truly outlandish sentence.

I'm like, there's nobody in the history of the world who can do that. It's insane. Damn. That's insane. If you're not a top 10 player, I don't know who you are.

I'm not watching the bullets or the wizards. The bullets are the wizards? Now let this be known. This was 2020 by Rehachamore. the bullets have not existed in a long time. Why would he say the bullets? That's what I'm saying. Just let you know I was not watching them in 1994.

He was not watching over the last 30 years. We know that, man. If you're not a top 10 player, I do not fuck with you. Top 10 is insane, man. Come on, man. That's like 90% of the NBA. Yeah, that's like, come on, man. He just throwing shots at everybody.

Rui, die slow. Jamarie, die slow. John Murray, die slow. All you guys not top 10, I hate you. Tell me. I know if you just said top 10, It's a Ruiz. Jamal

Osse Rees. This is about Ruiz. It's only that they were in there. But also, 2020 Wizards? Fair. Fair.

If there's ever a pass, yo, man, you ain't got to watch it. I mean, on, Bradley Bill was who's hooping back then. Was he? Uh.

Or was he? Fair. Regardless of that. I think Bradley Bill average 30 in like 2018. And it was still nasty hoops. I'll give this a D

because obviously you need to be watching, but I understand. You need to be watching. It is your job. First and foremost. But I get. this time it's funny.

There's a few more of this ilk. It's not funny. Eventually it stops being funny and just put the goddamn game on, Shaq. He's telling on himself right here. I guess it starts from here. Yeah. Coaching doesn't matter as a take. He also said there's 32 teams in the NBA.

I'm not memorizing the coaches for each one. He did say 32. I'm not memorizing the coach for each one. I will say, one of the easier things in the world to memorize. For a number of 30. Not hard to know all the coaches. Coaching doesn't matter.

Why? Like, it's so weird hearing this from somebody who won always is like the others matter. Like, like saying that it's like a team effort. And for somebody who played under Phil Jackson, like that's stuff. And those are my rings, not Phil's. Coaching doesn't matter, especially when you have a seven foot two behemoth that can dunk on everybody. Why doesn't everybody do that? He says, it's me.

Those are me and Kobe's rings. nobody else's yeah I'm giving this an F it's just a coach he doesn't matter Pat Ryan I was coaching him too right back when he was in Miami yes you have some of the greatest coaches of all time

you're saying this yeah that's why he's so privileged when it comes to the coaches no he doesn't understand Silver spoon guy yeah he doesn't he doesn't know what it's like to not have a great coach yeah he's sick

then he went to Dan Tony and Phoenix I think Doc Rivers dirty there and he went to the Celtics he played from Mike Brown and the Cavs he really doesn't never played for any shitters. Who was coaching the magic?

I don't remember. I can't remember. Maybe that's why he left. But outside, since you got to the Lakers, great coaches. Oh, no, he didn't leave because of the coach. Yeah, he's got money. Back to the greed. Any of them, doubtless.

I think it's time we consider him as the greatest of all time, talking about Steph Curry, and then proceed to leave Steph Curry off of his top ten of all time. Nah, the CT is crazy. He said, I think it's time. We started considering him the greatest of all time. did not put in top dead. I mean, listen, how big is your tier one? If you have a 12 player tier one,

12 player tier one is nasty. I got Julius Irman and Goet Talks. I can understand how this happens. I got Moses Malone and Goat Talks. We got Top 20 y'all in Goat Talks. Hey, now. Moses? Shaq, this is not fun, man.

This is not fun. You see the quote up the other day about Charles Barkley, talking about how he wasn't happy with how little air time they've been getting on. Yeah. ESPN. It makes sense too. Because like they showed them for an opening week. They showed them twice on opening week.

Then they had another time I think during like Thanksgiving and they're like, all right, well, y'all just hang out. We'll call you if we need to see in May. Yeah. That's also. Yeah, that's ridiculous. That whole thing is dumb. This is, I'm not going to lie. This is one of the hardest segments to get through because everything is so dumb.

It's mucky. It's mucky right now. Yeah. This is really tough. Because, like, I'm trying to think of, like, new things to say and everything is just like, yeah, man, it's pretty dumb. Exactly. It's a monkey right now. What's next?

Please. This is pretty tough. The time he told Yokish to his face that SGA should have gotten his MVP. Oh, yeah, he's a waste man for this. He has no awareness. What is wrong with you right now, bro? And no way, he got it. He jumped on the call.

He said, by the way, I wanted to let you know, I wouldn't give you the MVP. I would have gave it to say. Yolkich is like, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay, brother. He's just smiling. Okay.

Yeah, he legitimately sucks for this. It also just like wasn't. It was no purpose of the conversation. He was like, let it be known. You don't deserve this shit. And then talked about something unrelated. By the way, fuck you. And it's like if Shaq won MVP and got on TNT when he was accepting it and like Chris

Webber or like Magic Johnson at the time was like, was like, by the way, big fella, you don't deserve the MVP. That's Tim Duncan's award. He would have jumped through the screen to try and like strangle Magic Johnson. He would have such a big problem if anybody treated Shaq the way that he talks to anybody else. Yeah, he just always disrespecting Big Ben, bro, for no reason. And this is what happens when you're 7 to 350 pounds and you move like puck. Yeah.

Can you give anybody. You think he would have to Jonas? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Youngest Janus would have said something back. that the settings you probably respects you're on TV you just get drawn up

but someone said that all you can be is like okay yeah you can remember the argue it's mad awkward like off the top just see now first things first

that's not yours you're a thief the time he said you'll spend less money on gas if you put $20 in your tank every time you get halfway empty okay I have gone through this several times

because and I understand what he's saying. Okay, let me walk through his point. Yes. I'll sit those eyes as a point. I think it was Chuck, or it was Kenny, said, damn, gas is expensive.

I spent $80 on gas every time. It's getting tough. He says, you know, the trick is, you put $20 in a time every time we get down the halfway. And he's like, Kenny says, but I'm still using the same amount of gas.

What do you mean? So no, you won't. No, you won't. The average human only goes to gas station about twice every month. But $20 and it's only $40. It's like, but I have to drive the same miles. The gas isn't equal.

No, well. $20 at time. you're not going four times a month that's what he said but your shack voice is crazy i'm not even thinking all the way and i can get crazy but you can't it's halfway 50% shack voice so it sounds like you tested this no like i get what he's trying to say of like the mental idea of going of like filling up every single time and like letting your gas get to zero it would be better mentally just to see yourself only spend 20 at a time that's not what he said though rather than that's what he's trying

obviously we have established right now that Shaq and his communication skills are not the strongest. I understand what he's trying to say and from that perspective I do get that. I get it too but that's not what he said because he clarified and he straight up said he did the math

and said you will not go four times so you will not spend as much. Once again don't pay it as to what he says. There's a barrier here that we're trying to cross that I don't probably but I don't see if you try to tell him about what he meant,

who would look at you and be like, no, no, no, no, no. He would be like, you're a tripping young man. And that's what happened. That's why he clarified.

And he was like, no, no, no, no. No, he was going twice. He just kept going. He said you will, you will not go to the gas station any more than you will now if you fill it up

when it gets halfway and only put $20 in. He said, is mathematically impossible for you to spend more than any dollars a month if you do that. He tripled down several times and said,

you will go twice a month. Check is crazy. all time moment on inside the NBA it was it was fantastic he just would be leading people astray man what was funny or this or two words and he says three names

that was Chuck and that yeah that was and what did Chuck say I forget he said Chris Paul Steve Nash oh yeah two words Chris Paul Steve Nash they're like bro that's four and he's like okay

two words Nash and Paul like that's three words that's likeotic the time he called Ricky Rubio, the Italian Pete Merriman. I wouldn't be shocked

if there was a moment where people were thinking about Ricky Rubio in a crazy way. Now, I'm assuming though, that this was probably five years into Ricky Rubio's curriculum. There's no chance in hell that he knew who Ricky Rubio was in 2009.

This is not a scouting report. So at that point, what the hell are you talking about? This got to be like the Utah Jazz Days. Honestly. This is his career. He knows who... He's complimenting him, calling him Pete Marevich.

The problem is he's from Spain. I don't know if you got that. No, I caught that. Okay. He's from Spain, notably not Italian. What is wrong? I feel like one of the first things I learned about Ricky Rubio at a young age was the fact that he's from Spain. He just saw Rubio.

I just thought of Mario Luigi. He's like, okay, Rubio, Mario Luigi. What about that was that? Yeah. Rubio. He did have to put the accent on to make the joke work. It's not Italian word. I know what's not.

It probably sounded like that to him is what I'm saying. He's ridiculous. The Italian Pete Barrier. Yeah, he saw the I-O, and then he thought about Mario, so it was okay. Ah, that is what it is. It's the I-O. Yeah. All he knows is Mario.

That's Italy. Okay, Shaq. It takes us a while to get here, but I understand. Italy is Mario and Domino. Exactly. The Pistons are boring and not worth discussing because they're four, games under 500. At the time, there was six games above 500. You, he's hurting my head right now. And then a couple weeks later on TV, he was talking

about the pissing turning around, writing his wrongs, and he says, I like what Chauncey's doing with the team. Chanty Billups was a coach of the trailblazer. Bro. Then he got called out on that, and he says, first of all, I don't watch Detroit, so how about that? What are we doing? He said, I'm glad you said something. I don't watch the train. So how about that? How do you mean?

How about that? He said now what? Lean forward. So how about that? What do you mean? How about that? And Candace Parker was like, what? Like, how do you work around that as a whole sex room scene?

Have you guys heard the story? Like, they've gotten on Shaq before for, like, not watching games. And, like, Kenny said that, like, they would go into the green room and watch, like, they have screens up and watch games. And, like, everybody's watching games. And Shaq is off to the side. he brings his DJ stuff and he starts working on set. They're watching game three. He's,

and he's working on mixes. He's played subway surfers. Yeah, man. He's ridiculous. This is hilarious. The culmination of all this pissing to related stuff in one week was truly the Apex Shack moment. Oh, man.

His reputation was never the same. Dude, we were in dark times as NBA fans, man. This is our, like, one of our main sources of entertainment when it comes to postgame stuff. He's on that podcast. boring and his co-hosts like what are you talking about he just kept going first of all i don't watch him and keep in mind the pigeons were anything but boring they led the league and dunks that season yeah something that shack we know he likes yeah he said that if it was a comeback i don't watch

him so how about that now what come on now man that's the funniest one you're giving him props for that i need more anybody can get 20 points now i'm not impressed by that in a game where zion will at 22, 10, and 12. Anybody can get 20 points. Show me more, such as 10 and 12. Go ahead and get 30, 10 and 10. Check, man. Come on, man.

See, if I was on, I would have 50, 50 and 50. Me personally. Jack, come on now, man. Like, this is just disgusting player eating. And on literally any other night, he could have said this, and it would have been true. But the fact that he just had a triple double, is this

one of the themes that we're seeing is that the idea of time and place has no bearing respect those things just don't matter he inputs one thing at a time and the rest of the context

gets lost in a sentence the most damning realization about a person that they can only comprehend one factor at once I'm not gonna lie when the We got to stop

I'm going through it We got to stop This is sex Oh we're not done There's more Ernie You got your eyes on Pascal Shack

Nah I got my eyes on Siakum Yo Yes Pascal Seaccom Oh I never knew his first name Yo this is painful This is actually cringed Like This is painful right now

I never do his first name I see never saw this clip This is like 2022 I never saw this clip Nah got my eyes on Siaccom Yes, Pascom. I'm not even like This was an all-star.

Dude, that's crazy. This is painful to watch right now. Yeah, I'm not in a comfortable room. No. Unrated? X-rated? I'm not normally this kind of person, but I do have secondhand embarrassment right now. Yeah.

Like, we're over here defending him talking about like Yeah, like somebody does something like, ha-ha, like I don't really care. This is legitimately like, dude, what's happening? Oh, I never do his first name. Jack. so good. I never saw this clip. I gotta end this off with the infamous Dwight Howard. This is one of the first times after he said he can't be Superman and Dwight Howard

responded a couple times. This is one of the funniest original comments. Dwight Howard, every time he steps into mine arena, well, anytime he steps into my arena that I built, his dumb ass needs to look up. Stop being so damn sensitive. We don't want no sensitive big men in L.A. His dumb asses is to look up with the Raptors and see my jersey. You should look up to me, man. What? And then he follows his head. And anytime I say something to him, he better take heed.

What the fuck? Nice little, nice a little small, small vocabulary word in heed. Good job. We're back to his wheelhouse of Hayden. So this is an A. This is the way does best. This is a good hating. Specifically, he does what he does the best is hitting on Dwight Howard.

Or maybe it should go bare. But right now I'm leaning towards Dwight Howard because it, like, you actually got under Dwight Howard's skin. There was B for years. So. And this is made up for now. But this is so funny that his dumb ass needs to look up. Which is also cool. And then he said it stopped being so sensitive.

We don't want no sensitive big man in L.A. That was painful. I'm not going to lie. I never thought about the fact that Dwight followed his lineage through two teams. How much it must have made him mad at this guy who was trying to take his crown as the magic big man came to L.A.? I never realized that. How sensitive do you have to be, like someone like him to think that he's trying to take your crown? Like there's levels clearly

I mean listen When you follow me to when you like go to LA Then it's like alright bro like what's good Now you're on dick Yeah come on now Get hop off good to leave me alone That is the one thing that I will have to side with shackle Come on following YouTube Millennia is dick riding

What's side with Shaq? Yeah bro like hop off Come on man