Okay, so I saw this question online the other day – how many backboards did Shaq break? Got me curious, you know? I mean, Shaq was a beast, right? So I decided to do a little digging.
First, I tried just Googling it. You know, the usual. Typed in “how many backboards did Shaq break” and boom, a bunch of stuff popped up. Some articles, some videos, the usual mess. Problem was, they all said different things. Some said three, some said more. It was a headache. I spent like an hour just sifting through the trash, and I still didn’t have a solid answer.
So, I went to YouTube next, which was slightly more helpful but still a bit confusing. I found a bunch of highlight reels of Shaq just destroying backboards. I mean, this guy was a force of nature! I watched one video where the guy claimed it was all because of the breakaway rims and something about the support, which was made of glass and couldn’t support a hanging man of Shaq’s size. But it felt like he was guessing.
Then I Tried Looking Deeper
After that, I tried looking up interviews with Shaq himself. I figured, who better to ask than the man himself, right? I spent another hour or two just digging through interviews. This part got really boring. Most of them were just about his basketball career or his life, not even mentioning backboards!
Finally, I stumbled upon this old interview where he was asked about it. It wasn’t even the main point of the interview, but he kind of mentioned it offhand.
- The interviewer asked him about his most memorable moments.
- Shaq talked about winning championships and stuff, then he casually mentioned breaking backboards.
- He said he officially broke two during NBA games.
- But then he said he broke a bunch more during practice and in college.
- He didn’t give an exact number for those, though. He just said it was “a lot”. I’m assuming that this was before the change in the support for the backboard.
So, there you have it. Officially, it’s two in the NBA. Unofficially, it’s a whole lot more. I guess the real answer depends on what you count as “official.” Anyway, it was a fun little research project. Just goes to show, sometimes the simplest questions can lead you down a rabbit hole!
This whole thing took me like half a day, can you believe it? All for a question about broken backboards. But hey, I learned something new, and it was kind of fun, in a weird way. You won’t believe how many highlight reels I watched. It was just crazy seeing him do that over and over.
