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how long was your dad's career? now compare that to Mikans.
"...said he wanted the Mikan family to contact the Heat so he could pay for the funeral."
Well, that tells me right there why he made a public announcment. I wondered all along if he maybe did it because he did not know how to get in touch with them. That answers my question. I am NOT a Shaq fan...however, I have to admire him for doing this...and I have to admire him for USING the media to get his message to the Mikan family. Nothing like that media grapevine...like kudzu on fire.
how long was your dad's career? now compare that to Mikans.
who cares
Well I'll give Shaq this much, he's not a complete waste of space.
Shaq is a god.
If you don't believe it just read the other thread...
did any not think they would?
Apparently, the Mikan family does.
Good.
Shaq has offered to bury DRob in the past too.
Shaq has offered to bury DRob in the past too.
Good for Shaq, good for the Mikan family. Shaq obviously has tons of respect for basketball history, and this was a first class offer. Props to him. Shaq is the Vito Corleone of the NBA. He's great for basketball, and I hope we get the opportunity to go through him for the trophy. There will be a much larger audience for a Miami-San Antonio final than a Spurs-Pistons one. If the Heat make it, we can all thank Shaq for helping to expose the brilliance of Spurs basketball to the general public. With that many people watching, our players will get a prime opportunity to strut their stuff in front of casual basketball fans who would otherwise never watch a Spurs game.
Hate on, haters...hate on...
Why does Shaq always have to announce his charitable donations?
He is an asshole. He only does this to get good publicity.
A true humanitarian does things w/o notifying the press.
How many of these "true humanitarians" were thoughtful enough to make the same offer? If someone else had, you would have heard about it, even if they weren't trying to "get good publicity".
No one did. Just Shaq. You think the E-N wouldn't have run a story if David Robinson offered to help the family? Of course they would. But he didn't offer. Shaq did. At least give him credit for thinking of the idea in the first place.
Shaq - generous
Haters - petty
This is really ignorant.
Wow, you're an idiot
how does shaq helping the mikan family make him an asshole? who cares if he made it public? he's helping them. it's not like any other nba players were jumping at a chance to do the same.
shaq also gets paid twice as much as 99.9 max players do
Nice thing to do. But I still hate you.
So he made it public, big deal.
Like it wouldn't have gotten out anyway when you're talking about someone as important to basketball/famous as Mikan.
No kidding...and also in the process maybe make the situation a little easier for his (Mikan's) family.
It's a nice thing to do regardless...there's nothing I can recall ever hearing about Shaq personally (not bball smack) that would ever lead me to believe that he wasn't sincerely trying to do something nice for Mikan's family.
Okay , add in treatments for kidney failure and diabetes and get back to me.What times are we living in when 123,000 a year is not enough to secure a living. My parents made close to 95,000 a year for most of my dad's career, and they managed to save up enough to live confortably for the rest of their lives.
Here, to help you out:
Kidney dialysis: 3 times a week for 5 years. That's roughly 60K a year in dialysis treatments (that's 300K over the length of time that he had them).
Diabetes: you're looking at a tab of about 15K a year for diabetes related health costs.
He also had a much shorter career than your dad probably had.
gg starting two threads for this worthless topic.
like anybody in SA cares about Shaq's charitable donations to someone nobody knows.
Shaq is a good man.
Off the court that is!!!
My thoughts exactly.
First thing I thought was how inappropriate that was to go through the media. If he were actually sincere he would have wished his condolences with at most some kind words. Any help offered should have been in private and if they decline you make a contribution in Mikan's name to a charity and send them flowers with that info. It reeks of an uncouth publicity hound.
edit: Didn't realize there were 2 threads about this and both started by the same myopian. Nice job. I want my two mouse clicks back.
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