Shaquille O'Neal had a strange way of hazing rookies, Gary Payton says
Gary Payton, a teammate of O’Neal in both Los Angeles and Miami, sprayed the truth about O’Neal’s hazing habit during an appearance on VladTV
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If you were an NBA rookie sharing a locker room with Shaquille O’Neal, sooner or later, Shaq would leave you peed-off. Literally. The Hall of Fame center reportedly doubled as a bad plumber throughout his career, regularly bursting the pipes of unexpecting rookies with his own urine.
Gary Payton, a teammate of O’Neal in both Los Angeles and Miami, sprayed the truth about O’Neal’s hazing habit during an appearance on VladTV:
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"Shaq is a jokester. So if one of the rookies would be in the stall, he would take a bucket and use the bathroom in it for about a week."
As Payton tells it, that’s when O’Neal would dunk on the unsuspecting newbies:
"And then all of a sudden, he would pour it on them."
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Payton added that when they were teammates, Shaq wasn’t the only one who had jokes. In fact, Payton himself aided in a prank which left O’Neal exposing more than just a plumber’s crack.
Following practice one day, Payton, aka "The Glove," was able to get his hands on Shaq’s pants and underwear, forcing O’Neal to head home with only a towel between his cheeks and the seat.
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Not for long though.
"He’d get in his truck and ride around and then he would throw the towel out and then he’d be free-balling," Payton told VladTV.
Good thing he never had to snake a drain.