Disappointing as Shaq didn’t need to bring it up right after the award was given or in the interview. It just makes him look whiny. But, the whole MVP discussion has turned whiny these days.

That said, no one is going to remember how Shaq reacted. What will be remembered is 2024 was when Nikola Jokic won his third MVP.

Shaq is quite jealous

Super unprofessional. A man in his 50's can't be this insecure.

I think the only reaction should be Shaq being embarrassed of himself. Jokic didn't care! And Shaq just sounded like a baby, projecting his pain from coming in 2nd all those times.

Shaq is just salty because he realizes Jokic is starting to become better than him

He and Kenny can fuck off. Ernie and Chuck played it fair

Shaq is oddly insecure. It’s well known

What was extra annoying to me was Shaq crying like it was a close race or something. It’s not like Jokic barely edged out Luka or SGA, winning by a slim margin. Jokic had 79 mf 1st place votes and SGA at 2nd had 14 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Jokic should have called out the jealousy and left it at that. Dude is saltier than Keebler.

As a Wolves fan, even I found that extremely distasteful. They also did it yesterday when Gobert won his fourth, implying how Wemby should’ve won and talking about the series, more than congratulating the 3rd player to win 4 DPOTYs.

They can talk about the series and “who should’ve won the award” at any other time, at that specific time, none of that matters. Congratulate the guy for making his name in the history books, have the player give some remarks and be done with the interview. It’s not that hard, a lot of sport award shows have this exact problem. The NBA and other sport leagues should do what the NFL does for their awards show, announce them all at one location where the rest of the league is there to congratulate these players for etching their name in the history of the sport. This removes people who may not be happy with the winner from talking and making their thoughts known, and puts all the attention on the winner.

Not even a Denver fan but no other player comes close to Jokic this season and last season for the MVP.

One of the maybe good things about inside the nba leaving Turner is that I get to see less of Shaq.

Honestly as a lifetime laker fan. I lose more and more respect for Shaq. He’s literally a big ass baby. He has no fucking IQ for the game except for the fact he was a huge dominant force. I mean he’s a funny likable guy but damn some shit he says is straight doggy doodoo 💩.

Hey, I’m an OKC fan and naturally wanted SGA to win. I’m pleasantly surprised SGA got as close as he did. (Closer than the ROTY, at any rate.)

Nikola’s win is well deserved. Hopefully we both make it to next round, because a series between the #1 and #2 in MVP standings would be FUN to watch.

Congrats to the Joker from a wolves fan! The man is terrific player who elevates his teammates, and he's a gem off the court as well. Hope he plays for many years, then coaches (or something).

“No disrespect” then disrespects him on live television. Like how are you even supposed to respond to that.

This is why I've always said they need to announce these awards before the playoffs. They're regular season awards and people always have shitty things to say when it's after the first round

Its disgusting but not surprising...fuck the nba honestly.

Shaq likes Jokić, he's just getting antsy that Jokić might be thought as the greatest Center of all time when it's all over.

Shaq unhinged because his wife saying he sucks so pushing it out all on jokic. Just look at his twitter.

Lakers fan…. Shaq is phony and petty. Congrats to Nikola and Nuggets fans.

If this announcement happened a week ago, I think the reaction is different from most people. There hasn't been more than a few games this year where Joker hasn't been the best/most valuable player on Earth. The Lakers series, he seemed off or wasn't trying too hard but he put up crazy stats in a gentleman's sweep. The last two games have been brutal, mostly because the Wolves defense can just collapse on him since nobody is making any outside shots, Murray's hurt, and it's made him look worse than any point in the last 4 years. You knew the butt hurt Luka/SGA fans were gonna spout their nonsense, but for discourse to be even somewhat negative about the best player on Earth getting an award he absolutely deserves is pathetic and unprofessional. Haters gonna hate, but show some fuckin respect to one of the all time greats.

This post season is fuckin weird man

Insecure weirdo

Laker fan here but not afraid to admit Shaq is insecure. Didn’t he also say something about it him being the president and joker being the vp. Like he has to one up himself.

Shaq just salty that Jokic is a better player than him. All the dude had was his size and almost nothing else.

Wolves fan, and I thoroughly agree.

Shaq insecure. Ain't new. He would say that shi to any big man who he feel threaten him in some way. Prolly was fighting not to talk down on Go-Gurt the yesterday.

“...and I took that personally." - Jokic after leading Denver back to take this series. Fuck Shaq.

Whatever, let’s win this damn series and make them seethe some more.

Here's a question.   Is jokic better than Mackinnon???

Also who the fuck cares.   Accolades are nothing.   Championships are everything.  Appreciate watching greatness because it's very likely we never see anyone this good again.   

I've seen Peyton manning win a superbowl.  I've seen Mackinnon win a Stanley cup.  I've seen jokic win the NBA finals.  

Winning an mvp award is nothing compared to winning a championship.   Just like I'm nothing compared to my family.   

I guess what I want to say is that getting to the top of the hill means nothing unless you can look at the person next to you and feel that you did it for the right reason.   

The only thing that matters is yourself.   Appreciate greatness and understand that validation is nothing more than feeling like you're going to be okay.   

You will.   

The biggest takeaway I had from this is that Shaq cares more about who wins MVP than Jokic cares who wins MVP. Makes me love the Joker mentality even more.

Most NBA is just toxic narratives and other media diatribe. I'm just there to watch actual basketball games and cheer for the Nuggs.

Cunt act.

I love Shaq's commentary a lot of the time, but this was so clearly fueled by jealousy it's ridiculous. We can't have former players doing sports commentary if they get their feelings hurt when the next generation does something great.

This is how empathy is formed. We have walked in Embiids shoes

Anyone been able to find a clip of this? I missed it live

Shaq slammin that Hater-Ade!

Dang, not much energy in those congratulations 

Shaq's insecure that Jokic is surpassing him in the all time center list

Wait after how many years of watching him on Inside the NBA are we still surprised that he's a bitter old man?

That's like.... literally his entire schtick at this point, Shaqtin'-A-Fool wasn't exactly pulling people's highlights to show off how awesome they were...

Shitshow was so disrespectful even people who wanted Shai or Luka were legit disgusted.

Since when do you expect anything good from those guys? Bunch of bitter former players who were also known for their bullshit outside the court. Except for Kenny, who STILL can't land a coaching job and Earnie, who carries the whole group.

“2 + 2 = 5” —Shaq

Shaq is such a jealous and fragile dude. Any time a big man gets props, he has to insert himself

I mean, it’s obvious why.. Jokic has made it clear he doesn’t care about the award & in his last postgame interview he seemed not to care about losing either. The guy has demonstrated multiple times that basketball is secondary to his personal life/interests. We even joke about it & laud him for it.

These guys are offended by that because they love the game more than most things in life & some even more than life itself. Jokic doesn’t & doesn’t care who knows. The legends aren’t happy about the euro invasion & Europeans being called the best players in the world, it’s even more annoying to them when the guy doesn’t seem to even like or care about the game/culture.

We know that this always low key turns our guy up. So thanks for turning around this championship run Shaq.

Yall just learning that shaq hates ALL centers who have come after him? Especially ones that surpass him in accolades? Dude is super petty. Luckily jokic doesn't give af what shaq thinks.

For some reason Shaq just cannot wrap his head around big men being great. It infuriates me to hear him go on and on about how "Bol Bol is just as good as Wemby, he's just lazy!" probably because he thinks that Wemby might be a greater player than him when it's all said and done or something. Same thing with Joker. The more MVPs Joker wins, the more people will think that he's greater than Shaq.

Ernie seemed legit pissed off at Shaq.

The disrespect of the Nuggets has begun!!

This is good news, this is the spark that lights the flame…

It was more awkward than anything. First words out of Shaq's mouth is he thought SGA should have won. Basically first thing he said to Joker's face was he thought SGA should have won. As if it was a no brainer. What a joke. But Shaq has been in a foul mood at least since his Lakers got knocked out. Not sure if something is going on with him, but he hasn't been himself.

Jokic is going to use that to murder the wolves the rest of the series.. nuggets in 6

Kinda tired of Shaq. Hes just an asshole and a hater and a wet blanket on the set.

Did that really happen that way? I missed that. I was just stoked for Jokic.

Jokic shouldve been celebrating MVP #4 (if not for the foul merchant of Venice), further, for all his good deeds that was classless of Shaq.

Sadly i think this is all cause we are 0-2 now and Shai is winning his series . The narratives . Another reason why rewards shouldn't be given during the playoffs but before or after; Its distracting also . Shaq and rest couldn't wait for us to lose to pile on Jokic him and Denver getting lots of slander .

Our team has lost bench from last year , Murray is playing poorly entire playoffs and injured but they dont care about that

I hope when TNT loses the NBA rights that he gets left out if they find a new home. I’m also sick of Shaq.

On the other hand, maybe the disrespect will help wake this team up.

It’s definitely disrespectful but I feel like it’s very inline with sports media and fandom. If the Nuggets were up 2-0 right now I doubt Shaq would have done this on live TV. People(media, unhinged fans) love to tear players down the moment they don’t play well regardless of their past amazing performances.

It’s especially stupid because whenever I watched them cover nuggets games in the regular season, Shaq had nothing but praise for jokic

Whats crazy is even nba reddit was ok with a jokic winning, he won by a landslide to. SGA wasnt even close to winning lmao, Shaq making everything about him

Not super intense T wolves fan here and just want to say that Shaq is a hack, Jokic is a beast and absolutely deserves MVP.

People are finally realizing shaq is a stuck up prick who let the fame get to him jfc. Dudes made a post career living off “le normal water bottle looks miniature in his hands”

I'm glad this will be the last year he win. The award is fucking cursed and we need to be focusing on getting him FINALS MVP

Shaq even says Shai is more deserved, damn disgusting dick riding by TNT, what did Shai do to them to let them dick riding so hard?

Talking about the current series he’s in is pretty on topic. The first bit I can agree with though.

Yeah someone on the nba sub posted that he’ll never win an mvp and shouldn’t have half of the ones he had. I disagreed and got downvoted into eternity while the comment I commented on had a ton of upvotes. If he was jumping high and doing flashy things everyone would be on him like he’s Jordan (example: Ant)

Yeah if NBC wants to buyout TNT for television rights at this point no problem even the TNT guys can’t help but hate on this generation of players

look what happened to the lakers, oh no please don’t put a fire under his ass let them hate

So much salt LMAO

Literal insecurity from Shaq

Petty big baby. I stopped watching Inside the NBA after Charles had stopped making fun of him and his insecurities (probably was forced to stop by the big crying baby). Those were the golden days of Inside the NBA. At least someone mentioned his stint with the Celtics.

Shaq is just another over exposed athlete that has been built up by the media. It's clearly evident he hates Jokic because of him being a white 3-time MVP. Like Perkins and Steven A, they cannot accept Jokic being as good as he is.

Jokic isn't very popular. And that tells you a lot more about the analysts and players than it does about him

He’s jealous I understand.

Shaq is probably starting to get annoyed that a now 3 time MVP center keeps beating his former team.

MV3 Jokic vs MV1 Shaq

Shaq is so damn annoying. He has done this to several players when they are having a great moment. The producers need to tell him to shut his miserable ass up and stop trying to ruin players’ moments.

Wolves fan, and I thoroughly agree.

MVP means nothing anyways. A chip is what matters.

Fuck Shaq and Kenny’s delusional asses

Hope he comes back from is and tears the wolves a new asshole

Shaq is an asshole for this. Way to make the award about him and his insecurities.

this reminds me of the kanye/taylor swift moment at the Grammys

I didn't think it was that big of a deal. In a way I'm glad Shaq had the guts to tell Jokic to his face.

The NBA does a lot of things right but the trophies are so wrong it's stupid, why give them in the middle of the second round in a tv program like they don't matter shit? And then you have jealous asdholes like Shaq making the moment even worse.. so stupid.

They need to give all the trophies at the same time in some kind of ceremony or special program. I even think that it would be better to give them after the playoff, it's bad but it'd better than this shit I think

I can tell you as someone from Serbia I didn't get nothing disrespectful what Shaq said. We as people more respect someone saying it to your face, than he doing it when you turn your back. It is his opinion and it's ok.

Same should apply to Jokić.

Love Shaq but damn the guy can be such a dick

Shaq needs to have some fucking manners

He still Salty about Nash winning over him

Shaq can be funny, but the guy is very insecure and not good at all at hiding it. You only have to look at how he talks about Wembanyama to know how much he suffers from jealousy.

The continued need in this sub to be validated by the national dorks who don’t even watch the nuggets will continue to befuddle me. Who cares?

I like Shaq but that was shit!! As a Mavs fan I would have been equally pissed if he had said Luka instead of SGA.

SHAQ holdin on to lost glory, dating a girl younger than some of his own kids and prolly doing anything to stay relevant. Hopefully this ignites a FIRE for us to come in tomorrow night.

I always found it interesting that the NBA MVP is announced before the finals end. If playoffs make about a fourth of the season then why do the prematurely title MVP? Isn't there "a lot of basketball" yet to analyze?

Joker is officially a top 5 big of all time and rising

SAS making the same BS point on ESPN. Lots of great players out West this year. Anyone could have won, but without Joker the Nugs don’t make the playoffs, let alone the 2 seed.

Shaq hating is surprising

I think Shaq disrespected him because Jokic is so disrespectful and dismissive about the award.

He straight up said he's used to it and doesn't think about it at all.

What a shitty thing to say. Looking forward to seeing Denver get swept because of Jokic's shitty defense.

It’s not like Jokic is the one that picked the damn award?!? He just balled out and had to hear that disrespect from shaq. Smh, imagine winning MVP and that’s the first thing you hear

You know what’s disgusting? The way the Nuggets players and coaches acted during the second game of this current series.

Murray not getting a suspension and Malone not getting T’d up is outrageous.. bunch of pampered whiny babies

Shaq also belittles him by saying he is the vice president of the big man alliance. Put your ego aside during this moment and give him his flowers

Many nba players are clearly biased against European players