Shaquille O’Neal Snubs Niece Angel Reese, Bestows Caitlin Clark With Ultimate Honor.

If you’ve been keeping up with NCAA basketball, then you know that there’s been chatter that Angel Reese wouldn’t like. After all, her biggest rival, Caitlin Clark was close to making NCAA history. She finally did so, making the all-time NCAAW DI scoring record with 3,528 points. The record was previously held by Washington’s Kelsey Plum.

The news made it to Indianapolis where Inside the NBA is covering the All-Star game. Shaquille O’Neal had the highest praise for the Iowa star. “I’m gonna go on the record and say she’s the best female collegiate player ever,” he said even shocking his co-hosts.

Charles Barkley differed in his opinion and named other female basketball players who could contend for that title. But Shaq doubled down, “I said what I said.” To be fair, Barkley was also over the moon after Clark made that record and was heaping the praise on her.

Some predict Clark’s achievement could be a blow to Angel Reese who addresses Shaq as her uncle. He’s elevated her to LSU’s GOAT and has been a mentor to her throughout her college career. That doesn’t deter Shaq from praising Clark’s stellar achievement. Others think she might be spurred to match or break that record herself.

Eight points away from the record, Clark accomplished that early into the game against the Michigan Wolverines. Shaq said he’d been following her since last year and believes she is “phenomenal.” He’s not alone in that opinion.

Magic Johnson and Angel Reese agree with Shaquille O’Neal

Another Lakers legend, Magic Johnson has been in Caitlin Clark’s corner since last season. When she made NCAA history with her 40-point triple-double record, he proclaimed she had surpassed himself, Michael Jordan, and Larry Bird. The 5x NBA champion was ecstatically congratulating her this time too.

Some fans used this opportunity to taunt Angel Reese, assuming she’d feel salty over Clark’s accomplishment. That is far from the case. The Bayou Barbie, who was Shaq’s first signee as the new president of Reebok’s basketball division, beat ‘Uncle Shaq’ to hype her biggest rival. The Inside Guys read out Reese’s post on X during the broadcast. “Congratulations @CaitlinClark22 KEEP BREAKING RECORDS & MAKEING HER-STORY!” Reese wrote.

Almost a year after the “You can’t see me” debacle, a lot is made about Reese and Clark’s rivalry. However, both have used it to make the sport more thrilling. Reese admitted that there’s more to their rivalry than it seems. They’re able to compete and “still be cool after, regardless of the outside noise.” She might not be too hurt that Shaq has named Clark the best. He’s even said Reese is better than himself after all.

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It’s a little surprising how underreported the massive shitshow that is LSU women’s hoops is going this season. When they got one of the best players in the country Hailey Van Lith to transfer from Louisville, and retained arguably the best player in the country last year Angel Reese, LSU immediately became the favorite to repeat for the title. But we’re only a few games into this season and you could already create a reality show on the team led by Kim Mulkey who is equally as crazy and it’d be more drama than prime Hard Knocks.

Yesterday Reese wasn’t with the team against Southeast Louisiana, and Mulkey did absolutely nothing to dispel rumors that she’s suspended due to a low GPA:

So that’s where we’re at with Reese in terms of being away from the team with absolutely zero reasoning given, and now the internet sleuths are sleuthing. It’d take me 10,000 words to fully explain what’s been going on, but let’s start with Reese and Flau’jae’s mothers getting into an online feud earlier this week before this all went down:

Whoever cropped those images that are now unavailable should be sent to Bolivian, but for context Reese’s mother is on the left which seemingly came out of no where and Flau’jae’s mother responded on the right calling her and Angel out.

How did Reese respond to the suspension? With a video thanking her boyfriend for sending her flowers:

So Angel’s “carrying the weight of the world” on her shoulders, is suspended for the internet’s best guess of a low GPA after Flau’jae’s mother’s comment, Kim Mulkey is off the rails like always and won’t comment, and LSU dropped their opener to Colorado and has looked fluky at best through 5 games. Oh and Mulkey is going viral today for randomly bringing up COVID in that same presser where everyone wanted to know why she isn’t starting her best player:

Whatever the fuck is going on at LSU won’t be kept under wraps for too much longer, and I’ve taken it upon myself to be the temporary LSU women’s basketball beat reporter because Mintzy is too busy peddling Brick Watches around the country. More to come.