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    Silence surpasses speech. duncan228's Avatar
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    Chinese officials dunked after taking Shaq's balls

    School officials in southwest China have been slammed for confiscating basketballs that iconic NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal signed and gave to four teenage boys, according to state press.

    The 2.16-metre (seven-foot-one) giant centre distributed the basketballs to the students on Tuesday while visiting a region in Sichuan province that was hit by a devastating earthquake in May last year, the China Daily reported.

    Officials at the school in Mianyang city later took the balls away from the boys, resulting in a confrontation with the families of the teenagers who protested unfair treatment, it said.

    "I never thought it would be like this," the paper quoted Shaq as saying.

    "I can imagine how disappointed the boys must be."

    To compensate for the unhappiness, the Cleveland Cavalier centre signed four more balls and saw to it that they were delivered to the four boys, the paper reported.

    "I want to tell them that I like them, and I don't want them to cry over this," O'Neal said.

    In an online survey by the state-run Xinhua news agency, 90 percent of 3,200 people polled said the school "had no right to confiscate O'Neal's gifts to the students."

    Online comments accused the officials of taking the balls so they could give them to their own children, an accusation the school denied, the report said.

    They insisted the balls were going to be used as exhibits for the school.

    O'Neal—who earlier this month signed a contract to play with LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers—has visited China numerous times and signed several endorsement deals here.

    During a visit this week to China's famed Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of Chinese kung fu, O'Neal said he was hoping to improve his martial arts skills and bring them to the basketball court.

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    Veteran ace3g's Avatar
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    was going to post this article, not the greatest article le of all time

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    Dude stop being a , put the le as basketballs

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    Dude stop being a , put the le as basketballs

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    Chinese officials are es.

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    Heckler in the Stands anakha's Avatar
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    Dude stop being a , put the le as basketballs
    Oy vey.

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    Dude stop being a , put the le as basketballs
    Stop being an idiot.

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    lol banned DUNCANownsKOBE2's Avatar
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    Dude stop being a , put the le as basketballs

    Stop acting like a 5 year old.

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    Money and Hoes... Double-Up's Avatar
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    I though duncan228 was a girl? Anyway spurfan, she used the actually le of the article fool.

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    Drive for Five! ambchang's Avatar
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    That was the official headline from yahoo sports.

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    Dude stop being a , put the le as basketballs
    weeellll...first off, Duncan228 is a woman, so discussing balls would not make her a . Second off, as much as she posts breaking news on here, she can say whatever she wants.

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