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Article: Heat's O'Neal Responds to Buss
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 6, 2005
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Nearly a year after the trade, the verbal jousting between
Shaquille O'Neal and the Lakers is still going strong.
One day after Lakers owner Jerry Buss said O'Neal found motivation
for losing weight only after being traded by Los Angeles to Miami,
the Heat's all-star center took issue with the remark.
"I didn't need motivation," O'Neal said. "I needed a real owner. .
. . I needed a real owner like Micky Arison. You can quote me on it."
Buss also said he doesn't regret trading O'Neal to Miami.
"And I don't regret him losing money and his not making the
playoffs," ...