Shaquille O'Neal won four NBA titles in his illustrious career, and apparently he's not about to let anyone diminish them.
The three-time Finals MVP fired back on social media on Sunday night after a user claimed that Shaq couldn't have won his championships without the late Kobe Bryant as his teammate.
The Big Aristotle then mentioned Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -- as well as NBA TNT cohost Kenny Smith and Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon -- in his salty reply.
"no person can win without another star big dummy how many would magic have without kareem how many would kenny smith have without hakeem wtf u talking about i hate dumb ass people enjoy my stats and stf up"
O'Neal won three of his four championships alongside Bryant in Los Angeles, but Shaq also won one after parting ways with the Lakers. His fourth and final title came with the Miami Heat in 2006, when Dwyane Wade was an ascendant superstar.
Before getting over the hump, O'Neal had appeared in one Finals, with the Orlando Magic. They were swept by the Olajuwon-led Houston Rockets in 1995. Shaq reached his second conference finals with the Magic in 1996, his final year in Orlando before departing for Los Angeles.
Like Shaq, Bryant won an additional title after their split -- two, in fact. Though the dynamic duo famously ran hot and cold during their time together, which seemingly played a role in the Lakers trading O'Neal to the Heat, they had made amends by the time Shaq retired, long before Bryant's untimely death in a helicopter crash.
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